A little look at the Pudsey based activities our P1, 2 and 3 pupils took part in for our Children In Need afternoon!
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Book Week Scotland
Primary 1, 2 and 3 have been doing some quiet reading this week and had a lovely end to Book Week Scotland, by being gifted their Book Bag. Activities will carry on into next week when we will have a special activity afternoon on Wednesday, based on the books in each of the Book Bags!
Primary 1
Primary 1/2
Primary 2/3
Have a great weekend!
P2/3 New Term Blog Update (27/10/01)
Hello and welcome to our second blog post of the session. Primary 2/3 have been very busy, working hard within their groups and following the new routines and class rules we have in place in class. We had a fabulous first term and the children are eager and keen to begin their new topics in our new term.
Literacy
Our class novel has been ‘The Enchanted Wood’ during term 1 and this has been well received by the children. We will continue to read this novel in class and will also read the follow-on books from the Magic Faraway Tree series. This will be for fun and to keep the excitement and enjoyment of our first text going over the coming term.
Our reading and spelling activities are continuing to be enjoyed and worked on in class, at various times throughout the week. Children are using a mixture of practical, hands on activities such as play dough, salt trays, stencils and chalk boards to practice their spelling words but are also employing strategies such as ‘rainbow spell’ and ‘pyramid spell’ to reinforce their spelling knowledge at home and in class. We are using the Active Literacy phoneme stories and word building applications to help us recognise our spelling sound and words in texts we are accessing.
In reading we will continue to work on prediction but the focus will switch to sequencing and ordering events within the text, such as beginning, middle and end and what happen first, next and last in our texts throughout this term. Our focus in writing has been descriptive writing, and this will continue this term, as well as giving the children opportunities to write scientific reports, based on findings from the experiments we carry out during out topic of ‘Energy Around Us’.
Just a reminder that homework will continue to be sent out weekly on a Monday, so please check your children’s bags for their plastic wallet. Reading books will be attached to pupils’ accounts through our online Bug Club reading programme and all homework should be returned to school on a Friday.
Maths
Our focus in maths this term will be place value and becoming more familiar with numbers to 100 with both our rectangle and triangle groups and numbers to 999 with pupils from our circle maths group. We will also have a focus on money, as well as addition and subtraction, number talks, and word problems to consolidate our strategies within these operations of number. Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and develop strategies for any number problems.
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day is continuing and our Pupil of the Day has been receiving lots of compliments and special jobs around the classroom. All children will have the opportunity to be pupil of the day for the second and third time throughout this term. We are continuing to explore emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others.
In P.E, our sessions will happen inside (Tuesday) once per week, and outside (Thursday) once per week and our focus will be on large and small ball skills, gymnastics and dance. We are building on our term 1 topics and hope to see the spacial awareness and team building skills further developed throughout this term.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on bible stories, saints and the nativity. As our Primary 3 children will be preparing for Reconciliation after the new year, the sacraments will be discussed in depth, so children fully understand each of the sacraments and their importance in their relationship with God.
Topic
Our topics over the next term will be ‘Energy Around Us’ where children will be given the opportunity to explore toys and how they move, looking at pushing and pulling and how magnets can be used to make objects move. Children will hypothesise about what force could make objects move, carry out experiments and record their findings.
In the lead up to Christmas, we will have an enterprise topic where children will work in teams to budget for and buy resources, which will then become an item they can sell at Christmas time. The children will hope to turn their budget and craft item into a profit which will be donated to charity. The focus will primarily be on the different roles within a working group, managing money and financial obligations, whilst looking at the benefits to charity, when a profit can be made.
As always, we hope this is the start of another successful term and that the pupils will enjoy all the different festivities that follow as we prepare for Christmas, celebrating Christs birth and the preparations and production of the infant Nativity!
Take care,
Mrs Travers
Primary 2/3 Blog Update Term 1
Primary 2/3 Blog Post (Monday 6th September)
Hello and welcome to our very first blog post of the new session. Primary 2/3 have been very busy settling into our new classroom and our new routines. Children have been working hard to become familiarised with their class groups, recapping previous learning and are enhancing this through our novel study and outdoor learning.
Literacy
Our class novel is ‘The Enchanted Wood’ and through this text, the context and the discovery of the lands at the top of the Faraway Tree, pupils have explored our outdoor area, looking for natural resources to create scenes from the text. Pupils have also enjoyed some imaginative writing, describing the different lands that may arrive at the top of the Faraway Tree and using fabulous descriptive words to describe characters from the novel.
Our reading and spelling activities are now underway, and children have been working within groups to revisit previous sounds and texts, ready to use their skills and strategies to tackle new and unfamiliar spelling sounds and reading books. Our focus in writing currently is descriptive writing, and ideas will be developed from our class novel and mini topic!
Homework will be sent out this week, please check your children’s bags for a plastic wallet. Reading books will be attached to pupils’ accounts through our online Bug Club reading programme, however for the first few weeks, homework will consist of spelling and maths. These will be issued on a Monday and should be returned to school on a Friday.
Maths
Our focus in maths will be multiplication and division, with our circle maths group, however we will regularly revisit addition and subtraction as well as word problems to consolidate our strategies within the 4 operations of number. Children in the rectangle and triangle groups will continue to build confidence with numbers to 20 and the addition and subtraction strategies associated with these operations. Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters as the term progresses to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and develop strategies for any number problems.
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day has now begun, and our Pupil of the Day has been receiving lots of compliments and special jobs around the classroom. All children will have the opportunity to be pupil of the day. We will begin exploring emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others.
In P.E, our sessions will happen indoors (Tuesday) once per week, and outside (Thursday) once per week and our focus will be on team games and ball skills. Children will have the opportunity to partake in some fun activities which support teamwork whilst focusing on developing their listening skills, awareness of space and ball skills.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on prayer, their meaning, the routines of the church and the celebration of Mass. As we will be beginning our preparation for Reconciliation later in the year, the sacraments will be discussed in depth, so children fully understand each of the sacraments and their importance in their relationship with God.
Mini-Topic
As the class novel is the Enchanted Wood, we will be doing a mini topic which focuses on houses and homes in both the rural and urban areas of our country. We will also focus on houses of the 1950s and compare this with housing today. As the characters in the novel have recently moved to the countryside, we will explore farming and the impact that has on our communities.
We hope this is the start of a very successful term and that the pupils are enjoying their return to school, with less restrictions in place!
Take care,
Mrs Travers
P4 First Holy Communion Party 🥳
Primary 4 had a wonderful time this morning at our special celebration to mark the 1st Holy communions that have recently taken place throughout June. It was lovely to celebrate all together in school and have some snacks and dancing in our big hall!!
And a big thank you to Mrs McConville for organising our beautiful cake and Mrs Fergusson for sorting the music!! 🎉🎉🎉
Primary 4 Fun Day (18/6/21)
Primary 4 had an absolutely fantastic fun day on Friday. The highlight of their day was the bouncy castles and inflatable fun runs, although they did enjoy the ice cream cones too!!
Primary 4 Dean Park Visit
Primary 4 had a wonderful day at Dean Park. We saw the animals, had fun at two of the park’s swing parks, had a lovely lunch and had some time for games too.
A great day was had by all!!
As a special treat for our pupils who have recently had, or are about to take part in their 1st Holy Communion, Primary 4 will have an extra special party on the morning of Wednesday 23rd June to mark this special occasion. All children can wear party clothes and we will have some treats, music and dancing in our big hall in school. It will be a lovely way to mark the end of their primary 4 year too!
Primary 4 World of Work Day
Primary 4 have had a fantastic ‘World of Work’ day and had lots of fun throughout the day doing work related activities.
We started the day writing about what we’d like to be when we are older, thinking about the skills we have that would make us the perfect candidate for the job! We also had some fun creating some poetry, again discussing the fun we’d have being able to do our ‘dream job’.
We enjoyed watching the videos that were sent in from parents and staff around the school, talking about their occupations and discussing their jobs!
Later we had the opportunity to be an ‘engineer’ and design model playground equipment we thought children would enjoy using. We also had the opportunity to be an ‘artist’ and create some ‘doodles’, getting creative with our ideas.
We finished the day with Magic Mount Carmel games and activities this afternoon. The children have enjoyed their day and the costumes were fantastic. I enjoyed learning about what pupils aspire to be.
I am having some issues uploading photos but have posted a link to a collage of some of the fun activities we had going on today.
Just a wee reminder that primary 4 will be attending a church service on Monday afternoon. Could children come with a face mask as this will be required to be worn in church.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 – term 4 news letter
Hello and welcome to our blog post for term 4. Primary 4 have had a busy time since our return to school following lockdown restrictions. We have started our new topic and have settled back into our class working groups ready to move on to our new topics within each curricular area.
Literacy
Our reading and spelling activities will continue with children focusing on their Bug Club reading texts, recognising spelling sounds and phonics within these texts and using their awareness and strategies to tackle unfamiliar words. We will also be focusing on inferential questioning during comprehension activities, to gain a deeper understanding of what has been read. We will access Giglets texts to support this, as well as our usual Bug Club books.
In writing, the focus for this term will be scientific enquiry, writing scientific reports based on hypothesis then carrying out these experiments and writing up their findings. We will also look at persuasive writing during our topic of ‘charities’ and asking children to think about why people should donate money to charity and creating persuasive arguments on why people should support charities.
Maths
Our focus in maths is number and number processes, with money and angles being a focus during some maths sessions too. Those working within the circle and rectangle maths groups will be focusing on 4-digit numbers and the four number processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The children should now be familiar with formal notation in all 4 number operations. Those in the square group will continue to develop an understanding of 3-digit numbers, using their knowledge of place value to tackle addition and subtraction of larger numbers.
Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and developing strategies for any number problems. We will also encourage these skills through our daily number challenges and number target board! Please encourage your children to continue to work on the times tables to help children quickly recall facts.
Health & Wellbeing
All children have had the opportunity to be pupil of the day and enjoy the privileges that come with this. We will continue with this so as each child have the opportunity again in term 4. We have been exploring emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others. We now have a bank of strategies to support us when we feel uncomfortable, and these emotions will continue to be explored as we reach a deeper understanding of how these feelings can impact on us and how to seek help or support. We are also looking at conflict resolution and how to manage conflicts in the playground to ensure fair play.
In P.E, our sessions will continue to take place outside where possible, on a Monday and Thursday afternoon. Our focus will be on developing athletic skills, competing in hurdles, running, relay and a variety of activities to promote coordination and power skills using the javelin. We will also have a 4-week block of football to further develop our ball control skills.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be the sacraments as children prepare for their Confirmation and First Holy Communion. We have completed our booklets for Confirmation and will now focus on preparation for First Communion which will be taking place in June. For those pupils who are not participating in the Sacraments, there will be activities completed in class for all children. Parents should continue to work on the at home activities from the booklet, to help further prepare children for the upcoming celebrations.
Topic
Our topics for term 4 will be ‘Magnets’ in science and ‘Charities’. The focus in our magnets topic will be to understand the forces of not only magnets but the bigger picture of the magnetic field which surrounds our planet. Children will participate in several experiments to explore materials that magnets are attracted to and those which are repelled or have no effect when placed close to a magnet. In charities, children will look at national and local charities and the help and support they can offer people who may be in need.
We hope this is the start of another successful term as we navigate the continued impact of the pandemic on our lives. Please be assured we will continue to keep things as normal as possible for our children, despite the different restrictions still in place.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Health Week Activities!
Primary 4 have had a very busy week with all the exciting activities that have been on offer during health week. We had lots of fun on Tuesday and Wednesday with football, basketball, rugby, meditation, yoga, making fruit kebabs, discussing the dangers of smoking and a special visit from PC Dempster about the necessity to keep yourself safe online.
Today, Friday, we were busy boxing with the coach from North West club, building outdoor houses for small wildlife with the staff from Dumfries House and had an input from the staff from the local Tae Kwon Do club. We also discussed the different drugs we may need to help us feel better and those which are illegal and dangerous. We finished the day with reward play, where the children chose to use their new skills outdoors in the afternoon.
It has been a fabulous week and we would like to thank Mrs McGowan and P5 for all the hard work that went in to organising this fabulous health week. Enjoy your weekend!
Primary 4 PE days!
Primary 4 have had a great first week back. The children have started a new topic all about magnets and have enjoyed some of the experiments we have carried out so far.
I have made a change to PE days. These will be on a Monday and Thursday so children should come dressed for PE on these days.
Homework is now being attached to our TEAMS page so be sure to check for updated homework tasks/activities for the week on a Monday. Reading books will be attached on Bug Club. There will be no hard copy of the text being sent home.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Travers
P4 Dean Park Visit!
Primary 4 had a lovely morning visiting Dean Park today! The weather was good, so we managed to have a lovely walk around the park, meet some animals, play at the swing park and even had time for a few games. The children enjoyed some ball games and a blind folded animal game, which they really enjoyed!
Primary 4 Movie Choice!
The primary 4 children had a vote in class today, for the movie they would like to watch tomorrow during our movie/PJ day and have chosen the live action version of Aladdin! This is a PG, so if any parent would not like their child to watch the above movie, contact the school and we can make other arrangements for your child during our movie time.
Check back later for some photos from Dean Park today
Week Beginning 18/01/21
Good morning Primary 4.
The work you require for today has been set on our primary 4 Teams page. If you check your glow email account, you will see that I sent everyone a video last week, showing you how to access Teams and where to find the assigned daily tasks. If you haven’t watched this video yet, can I ask that you do so now as this will assist you in accessing the tasks to complete.
To access the tasks, go to files in Teams, then class materials folder. In the class materials folder, the work is broken down by curricullar area folders, then sorted into group tasks. If anyone is still not sure which group work to access, please let me know and I can remind you.
Best of luck today,
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Tasks (Friday 15th January)
Hi again Primary 4.
Here are your tasks for Friday 15th January. I would like you to do 1 spelling task, 1 listening and talking task, 1 core maths task and 1 mental maths task.
Spelling
Stars and Rainbows wordsearch 15th Jan
As well as the attached word search with your own spelling words and common words, there are a few Viking related words thrown in there too. If you are able to print this, that’s great but if not, see if you can find the words just by looking on the screen.
Listen & Talking
Maths
Circles Maths Task Fri 15th Jan
Rectangles Task Fri 15th Jan (page 2)
Squares Task Fri 15th Jan (page 2 and 3)
Mental Maths
Friday 15th January (Circles Rectangles)
IDL
Well done on all the good work you have completed so far. I am very impressed! Take care,
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 tasks (Thursday 14th January)
Hi Primary 4
Here are your tasks for tomorrow (Thurs 14th Jan). They have been assigned in our Teams page too, but I have attached a copy here for those who have any issues with Teams.
I’d like you to complete: 1 spelling task, 1 writing task, 1 maths task and 1 mental maths task.
Spelling
Writing
Core Maths
Rectangles Task Thur 14th Jan (page 1)
Squares Task Thurs 14th Jan (page 1)
Mental Maths
Thursday 14th January (Circles Rectangles)
Thursday 14th January (Squares)
Good Luck, stay safe and take care!
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Daily Teams Tasks
Hello Primary 4. Well done those of you who have been accessing work and keeping in touch with me either by email or through our Teams page. The work I have received so far has been of really good quality, so well done to all of you!
From tomorrow (Wednesday 13th January) I will be uploading daily tasks on our Teams page. It will be presented differently to the grid format you received at the start of the week. I will post instructions daily on what tasks are to be completed and where to find these tasks.
In case there are any issues with Teams tomorrow, I thought I would upload the tasks to be completed tomorrow, on our Blog so as you can easily access the work needed.
Tomorrow every pupil will complete 1 spelling and 1 reading task. These will be issued in literacy group tasks, so make sure you know which group you work with. Books have already been assigned on Bug Club.
You will also complete 1 core maths task and 1 mental maths task. These will also be issued in maths group tasks, so again make sure you know which group you work with.
There is also a whole class IDL task I’d like you to try if you complete all other maths and literacy tasks. See below for tasks:
Literacy
Maths
100 square Square Task Wed 13th Jan (to be used with square group task)
Rectangles Maths Task Wed 13th Jan (page 1 only)
Circles Maths Task Wed 13th Jan (page 1 only)
Mental Maths
Wednesday 13th January (Circles Rectangles)
Wednesday 13th January (Squares)
IDL
I am hoping to send out an email to all children via Glow this evening with a walk through video of how to access Teams and where to find the tasks once you have reached the Teams page. Please ask children to check Glow later this evening or tomorrow morning and this should support pupils in accessing all materials through our Teams page.
Thank you in advance for your patience as we navigate a new format for daily tasks. Hopefully there will not be too many teething problems and please contact me via email if you are having any issues at all.
Take care and stay safe
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Task Grid
Happy New Year to all our children and parents/carers. I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas break. It is unfortunate that we can not all be together in school again as this new term starts, however we will work hard to make sure all children can continue with their learning.
You will find the grid with tasks for Monday (11th January) and Tuesday (12th January) attached to this post. This will also be on our Primary 4 Teams page too.
I am available on email if you have any questions or concerns about your child or the tasks to be completed. Please email me with any questions at susan.travers@eastayrshire.org.uk
P4 School Closure 11th-12th January 2021 (task grid – Monday tasks are highlighted in blue and Tuesday tasks are in green)
Monday 11th January (mental maths questions)
Tuesday 12th January (mental maths questions)
I will attach work for subsequent days on a daily basis from Wednesday 13th January. This will be on our Teams page and children should check they know which spelling/reading and maths groups they work with, so as to know which folders to look in to find daily tasks. Please email me if your child is unsure and I can give you this information.
I look forward to hearing from you next week and seeing some of your hard work.
Take care and stay safe
Mrs Travers
Wow! What a busy few weeks Primary 4 have had. Lots of fabulous Viking topic work, creating shields and writing in Viking runes, our Christmas video preparations, Christmas crafts and Viking long boat presentations. We also had a beautiful class service with Father Martin.
I am so proud of all the hard work and fun we have had. We have been investigating the properties of 3D shape, looking at shapes we can stack and nets to create fabulous Christmas decorations. The creations have been amazing and the pupils have worked their socks off to put together some fabulous models and our Christmas video too. I can’t wait for parents/carers to see all the great work that has been done.
Here is some of the great work that has taken place. Well done Primary 4!
As always, take care and stay safe,
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 make Viking Brooches
Our Viking activities continued today, with Primary 4 getting busy designing and making their very own Viking brooches. The children took some time to think about what they wanted their brooch to look like, drawing their design and thinking about colour and pattern.
Later, we made our brooches using card and foil and applying their design to the brooch. I think Primary 4 made a fantastic job of their brooches, with lots of wonderful ideas coming to life on their hand made brooch. Well done, you are stars!!!
Some children have yet to finish their brooch and I will update with more photos once our display is complete.
We had a fabulous Rainbow Reward day with lots of bright clothing and fun activities in class and outside. Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday.
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Long Houses
Primary 4 have been enjoying our new topic of the Vikings and learning lots about where Vikings came from, where they travelled to, why they raided British towns and what life was like in a Viking village.
Our focus recently has been looking at the living conditions inside a Viking long house and the children worked in groups to design, plan and build their own long house models.
I think the results are pretty fantastic as you can see from the photographs below. The team work displayed in class was fantastic too.
I am really looking forward to seeing the results of our homework challenge, to build a Viking Long Boat at home with the family! Have fun kids and I am sure some of your parents are more excited about this challenge than some of you!!
Take Care ( and remember your rainbow colours tomorrow!)
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Term 2 overview
Hello and welcome to our blog post for term 2. Primary 4 have had a busy first term, looking at our mini topics on animal classifications and deforestation. Children have been working hard in literacy and numeracy within their group and are ready to move on to our new topics within each curricular area.
Literacy
Our reading and spelling activities from term 1 will continue as children focus on their Bug Club reading texts, recognising spelling sounds and phonics within these texts and using their awareness and strategies to tackle unfamiliar words. Reading with expression and fluency will also be a focus whilst using our skills to make appropriate predictions about the text whilst giving reasons for reaching this understanding.
Whilst children have a good grasp of the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts, children will take these skills forward, being able to use key words to locate relevant information from a range of books useful for our topic. They will be able to find, sort and organise information related to specific tasks within fiction and non-fiction texts and make notes in own words that will be used as the basis for their writing. In writing our focus will be on extending sentences and paragraph length, whilst using interesting openers and connectives to join sentences and a wide range of descriptive words.
Maths
Our focus in maths is number and number processes, focussing on place value and partitioning numbers to understand the column value. Those working within the circle and rectangle maths groups will be focussing on numbers up to 9,999 and addition and subtraction strategies when dealing with 4 digit numbers. Those in the square group will continue to develop an understanding of 3 digit numbers, whilst making the link between multiplication and division. Division will be the focus for this group and developing strategies to help with division problems.
Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and developing strategies for any number problems. We will also encourage these skills through our daily number challenges and number target board!
Health & Wellbeing
All children have had the opportunity to be pupil of the day and enjoy wearing the special sticker and privileges that come with this. We will continue with this so as each child have the opportunity again in term 2. We have been exploring emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others. We now have a bank of strategies to support us when we feel uncomfortable, and these emotions will continue to be explored as we reach a deeper understanding of how these feelings can impact on us and how to seek help or support.
In P.E, our sessions will continue to take place outside where possible, on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon, however we can now access the hall once per week and indoor sessions will commence soon. Our focus will be on developing racquet skills further through badminton/tennis and on fitness, building stamina and strength through a variety of exercises.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be the sacraments as children prepare for their Confirmation and First Holy Communion. We will look at the Sacrament of Baptism and how this is the starting point in our journey with God. The booklets which support First Holy Communion will be issued, later in term 2, to those pupils who are taking part, and there will be activities for parents to complete at home with their child. This will also be our in-class focus, so children fully understand each of the Sacraments and their importance in their relationship with God.
Topic
Our topics for term 2 will be ‘The Vikings in Scotland’ and ‘Food Chains and Webs’ in science. The focus in our Viking topic will be to look at Viking life, society, and class systems. We will explore Viking Gods as well as look at the impact of the Vikings in Scotland. In science, understanding food chains and food webs of animals from different environments and ecosystems across the globe, will be the focus. We will also examine the impacts human beings are having on food chains too.
We hope this is the start of another successful term as we navigate the continued impact of the pandemic on our lives. Please be assured we will continue to keep things as normal as possible for our children, despite the different restrictions in place.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
Primary 4 Class Novel Activities
Primary 4 have recently finished studying our class novel ‘Horton Hears a Who’. The pupils discussed the setting, the characters, and the message the novel was giving to its readers. They began to appreciate and understand that ‘a person’s a person, no matter how small.’ This was considered in relation to all of God’s living things.
The pupils created their own pieces of writing, imagining what a visit to Who-Ville would be like, considering carefully how they would shrink small enough to visit and describing well what they saw and who they met on ‘the tiny speck of dust.’
The learning continued outside, through outdoor learning opportunities, where pupils searched to identify the smallest living thing they could find in and around the school grounds. They also created their own transient art pieces, using natural materials to make beautiful scenes from Who-Ville!
Primary 4 September Update
Hello and welcome to our very first blog post of the new session. Primary 4 have been very busy settling into our new classroom and our new routines. Children have been working hard to become familiarised with their class groupings, recapping previous learning and are enhancing this through our outdoor learning activities.
Literacy
Our class novel is ‘Horton Hears a Who’ and through this text, the context and the discovery of Who-Ville, pupils have explored our outdoor area, looking for ‘tiny’ living things, whilst finding natural resources to create scenes from ‘Who-Ville’. Pupils have also enjoyed some imaginative writing, describing their visit to Who-Ville with Horton and giving detailed descriptions of their time on the tiny speck of dust! Some of their ideas on how they shrunk small enough to be able to visit Who-Ville, were very exciting!
Our reading and spelling activities are now underway, and children have been working within groups to revisit previous sounds and texts, ready to use their skills and strategies to tackle new and unfamiliar spelling sounds and reading books. Our focus in writing currently is imaginative and report writing, and ideas will be developed from our class novel and mini topic!
Homework will be sent today so please check your children’s bags for a plastic wallet. Reading books will be from our ‘Independent Readers’ section of our Bug Club Online for the first week, there after a hard copy of a banded reading book will be issued in their homework wallet. These will be issued on a Monday and should be returned to school on a Thursday.
Maths
Our focus in maths will be multiplication and division, however we will regularly revisit addition and subtraction as well as word problems to consolidate our strategies within the 4 operations of number. Children will regularly use their ‘Thinking It Through’ jotters to develop problem solving skills, applying knowledge of number to new contexts and develop strategies for any number problems. We will also encourage these skills through our daily number challenges and number target board!
Health & Wellbeing
Our Paths Pupil of the Day has now begun, and our Pupil of the Day has been receiving lots of compliments and special jobs around the classroom. All children will have the opportunity to be pupil of the day. We have been exploring emotions, comfortable and uncomfortable and how we recognise these emotions within ourselves and in others.
In P.E, our sessions will happen outside, and our focus will be on team games and small ball skills. Children will have the opportunity to partake in some fun activities which support teamwork whilst focusing on developing their racquet and small ball skills.
R.E
Our focus during R.E sessions will be on prayer, their meaning, the routines of the church and the celebration of Mass. As we will soon be beginning our preparation for Confirmation and First Communion, the Sacraments will be discussed in depth, so children fully understand each of the Sacraments and their importance in their relationship with God.
Mini-Topic
As the children chose animals as the focus of our Class Charter, their interest in the animal kingdom has developed into a new mini topic! We have been researching animal classifications, looking at the 6 different animal classes and finding out some interesting facts about each of these categories. This has led to how we can look after our environment to keep animals in our community safe. We discussed and further explored how trees are the earth’s lifeline, and pupils have been learning about the impact of deforestation and harmful plastics that pollute our seas.
We hope this is the start of a very successful term and that the pupils are enjoying their return to school, despite the environment being a little different to how it was before we closed in March.
Take care,
Mrs Travers
A challenge for our brand new primary 4
Hello boys and girls,
You will by now have received Mrs McIntyre’s email about helping to create a memory wall. We hope to hear from you over the summer and will collect the memory photos, emails or videos as part of a display for our classroom. We are hoping this will be part of a show and tell activity on our return in August. This will look wonderful in our classroom. A brand new primary 4 sharing their favourite memories and creating a lovely display.
You will also have noticed the dance challenge!! We want you to have fun over the summer holidays and would love to see if you can ‘Beat the Teachers’ 😂 You can recreate our dance, create your own or do a routine you already know. Be sure to video your dance and check with parents if you can email your routine to us. We cant wait to see them. Have a look at ours:
Have the best summer. Have lots of fun and we are so looking forward to seeing you all in August. We will have so much to share and talk about. Our dancing and memory wall will be fantastic!!
Take care and stay safe
Mrs Travers and Mrs McIntyre 😃
Our New Primary 4!
A big hello to our brand-new primary 4 class. I have really missed being in school with everyone over the last few months and I am really looking forward to being back with you all in August and being your primary 4 teacher!
I thought it might be useful to have a look at what our classroom may look like come August. The classroom might look quite different to our normal classroom set up, but we will support you all on our return and make the transition back to school as easy on you as possible.
I would love to hear from you, so please send me a message and say hello. Here is a little ‘hello’ from me:
I look forward to seeing you all in August but for now, take care, stay safe and have fun over the holidays.
Mrs Travers
Emoji Code Breaker
As part of our Paths programme, we have talked a lot about the different emotions we experience, how it looks and how it feels, inside and outside our bodies.
Using our cute paths friends and some emoji’s we are familiar with, can you decode the hidden message? This is a challenge for you all to try at home and parents can help our infant pupils if they are finding this challenging.
Have fun! Can you decode the hidden message? Let me now if you managed to work it out:
susan.travers@eastayrshire.org.uk
Twiggle Misses His Friends!
It has been a difficult few months and much has changed in our ordinary, every day lives. Where once we could go to school to learn and see our friends, we now learn at home and have been unable to see our school friends.
Twiggle shares his feelings about being at home and missing school and his friends. His Grandma listens and helps him to feel a little better about it.
Like Twiggle we have had to find new ways to communicate and spend time with our friends and families. We miss them, but doing a video chat or having a chat on the phone, helps to make us feel a wee bit better.
Take care, together we are Team MC!
Willow Room Learning Grid 22 June
Hi boys and girls,
Here’s the activities I’d like you to try in our last week of term (w/b 22June):
Science activity: fireworks in a glass
I hope you have been working hard, having fun at home and most of all, keeping yourself safe.
Take care
Mrs Travers
Inside Out!
Paths Emotions
We all know we feel things on the inside, which shows on the outside. Our paths challenge this week was to try and identify some of the feelings we may experience by looking at facial expressions.
Did you manage to guess what some of our Mount Carmel Staff were feeling?
1: calm 2: angry 3: excited 4: tired
5: shocked 6: happy 7: scared 8: sad
Henrietta our PATHs Hedgehog has this lovely song about feelings. Why not try singing this with Henrietta at home?
As always, stay safe and take care. Together we are Team MC!
