Monday 15th April
Please see attached P4 Term 4 Update. Thanks
Thursday 28th March
Wishing the pupils and families of primary 4 a happy and restful Easter break. I look forward to welcoming children back for term 4.
Please see attached photos of our classroom wall displays, showcasing the fantastic work from this term.
Thursday 28th March
With today being the last day of term, pupils took part in a range of easter art activities with Mrs Granger and Mrs Campbell, followed by a film to finish off what has been a fantastic term filled with lots of brilliant work.
Wednesday 27th March
A massive well done to all pupils who made an Easter hat or accessory for our competition. All designs were fantastic and it was clear all pupils put a lot of effort into their work!
We had easter hats, earrings, hairband, necklace, glasses, light-up headband and egg trays.
Our top three winners:
1st place – Sophie
2nd place – Mia
3rd place – Heather Rose
I hope all pupils enjoyed their chocolate eggs.
Tuesday 26th March
This week pupils finished off their House and Homes/ Materials topics by researching types of houses in other countries around the world. Also, making clothing items with a patchwork design.
Friday 15th March
As part of our Houses and Homes topic, pupils created their own room within a home. They used cardboard boxes which they painted, foam and tinfoil to immitate insulation. They also decorated their room with wallpaper and used felt as carpet.
Please see photos below.
Thursday 14th March
Recently, primary 4 received a visit from QTS as part of careers week. They thoroughly enjoyed learning about the various job roles. Furthermore, they took great pleasure in trying on some of the safety uniform.
Wednesday 13th March
This year, primary 4 have certainly shown they enjoy a challenge.
Well done to all pupils who have submitted their entries for the Primary Engineer competition. Certificates are due to arrive in May.
Good Luck!
Tuesday 12th March
This week, children are participating in a variety of topic related science experiments – starting with our insulation experiment. Pupils were tasked to find out which material was the best insulator.
In groups, they discussed the everyday use of given materials, wrote a hypothesis and used a thermometer to check the starting temperature in the plastic bottles. After a few days, they retested the temperature and wrote concluding statements.
See photos below.
Monday 11th March
This term, children have worked extremely hard learning how to identify and apply similes, alliteration, onomatopoeia and personification within poetry.
Have a look at some of their good work.
Friday 8th March
What a busy day we have had in P4! Alongside delivering orders, we celebrated World Book Day 📚
Children were given the opportunity to read individually, in pairs and groups throughout the day.
Some children also participated in swapping books!
Friday 8th March
Mother’s Day enterprise complete ✅
A massive well done to all P4 pupils for their hard work in planning and delivering a fantastic project. I am so proud of their work in advertising, designing, organising and so much more!
We hope our presents are enjoyed by all 😊
Please see attached photos of pupils receiving their orders, thanks
Friday 8th March
The final Day!
Today, pupils labelled, packaged (and had a taste of) our handmade chocolates before delivering the presents.A big thank you to Mrs Campbell for helping made out chocolates and adding a little sparkle 😊
Thursday 7th March
Today, pupils began packaging our Mother’s Day orders.
Wednesday 6th March
FRUIT KEBABS ARE BACK!
P4 are excited to have received another donation from our local Tesco to help encourage healthy eating throughout the school. Again, they were devoured by the whole school 🍓🍉🍐
Tuesday 5th March
This afternoon whilst our HWB editors were working on our Spring newsletter, some pupils put their numeracy skills to the test.
Pupils expressed excitement whilst counting our takings and learned about costs and profit. Furthermore, they collated all the information onto an excel spreadsheet. Well Done!
Please see photos attached, thanks
Monday 4th March
Today, children continued exploring different jobs and discussed the difference between a role and responsibility.
Pupils were tasked with matching the correct responsibility to each job 🕵🏻♀️👷🏻♂️👩🏻🏫
Friday 1st March
We have now received our order forms back and are thrilled to have orders for:
-44 handmade chocolates
-32 cards
-30 bracelets
-40 sparkly flower pens
We will be calculating our sales and profit over the coming days 💷
Thursday 29th February
Mother’s Day Enterprise
Our creative team have been working hard making cards and bracelet cards. We have five different cards designs which we hope mum’s and our special persons’ will love! 😊
Wednesday 28th February
Pupils have been working independently using active spelling strategies to spell words with the ‘u’ phoneme!
Tuesday 27th February
Pupils are beginning to explore the skills needed to be successful in a workplace. They discussed skills, such as, time-keeping, teamwork and organisation. They worked in groups to create a diamond 9 diagram of the most and least needed key skills.
The children are now confident they can use the skills they learned about in our enterprise project!
See photos below, thanks
Monday 26th February
Today, pupils had fun in the sunshine whilst thinking of different possibilities when multiplying numbers.
See photos below, thanks
Thursday 22nd February
Pupils are continuing to show off their mathematical thinking skills in multiplication. They are enjoying working in pairs and also completing individual focus tasks.
Wednesday 21st February
Today, we completed a fun topic related science experiment!
Children were given a range of materials to test with water. In groups, they wrote a hypothesis. Secondly, they tested the materials and learned all about whether each material was elastic, durable and soluble amongst others. Lastly, they wrote concluding statements relating to their hypothesis and findings.
Please see photos attached, thanks
Tuesday 20th February
This term P4 have a fantastic opportunity to run an enterprise project!
We have decided to make and sell Mother’s Day gifts
Furthermore pupils will be learning about different job roles and the skills required to be successful. We look forward to fulfilling our orders 💐
Monday 19th February
Our wellbeing editors have been working hard gathering information and writing our first newsletter. They have done a fantastic job! Please see our winter edition below ☺️
Thursday 15th February
P4 are enjoying learning about different information handling skills and presenting graphs digitally. In groups, they created their own surveys and visited other classes in the school to collate results. Some included, favourite doughnuts and types of fruit.
Today, pupils had fun using technology to create their own graphs to show their results.
See photos below, thanks
Wednesday 14th February
Pupils have been developing their knowledge of information handling.
Today we ventured out to the playground where children collected stones, leaves, sticks and feathers. Once all the totals were counted (there was LOTS of sticks), pupils created a frequency table and wrote summative statements.
See photos below, thanks
Thursday 8th February
Thank you to all pupils for showing determination and consistency in learning our Scots poem. They were all performed with great acting skills.
Congratulations to our winners:
1st: Islay
2nd: Leon T
3rd: Charlotte
Check out our colourful Burns Art display below!
Many thanks
Monday 22nd January
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Homework
Children will continue to receive weekly spelling homework on a Monday, due back on a Thursday.
They have also been given their Scots poem ‘When Granda got the Internet’ to practise in preparation for our Burns competition. Please take some time to listen to children reading their poems and add in any actions they wish to do.
Many thanks
Thursday 11th January
Welcome back!
What a quick year it has been already. There are lots of exciting things happening this term.
Please see our Term 3 update attached.
Friday 22nd December
Primary 4 had a great time at their Christmas party. They played games, danced to ceilidh music and had fun with the tinsel limbo.
Today, children have enjoyed Christmas activities and we ended the day with a Christmas film and some treats.
I look forward to welcoming children back in 2024 🥳
Wednesday 20th December
Stem Competition: Update
Well Done to children for completing their designs and making prototypes. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the winning design, however each child received feedback from the Malin Group engineers.
We also received engineering books and some sweet treats to enjoy!
Please see photos below.
Monday 18th December
Recently, children have been working with Kilmarnock Football Club during P.E, learning a variety of football skills. In addition, we had a visit from GlaxoSmithKline. The children learned about how penicillin is made and participated in an experiment.
Friday 15th December
Stem Competition: Update
Children have been working hard making prototypes of the designs. Please see photos below.
Thursday 14th December
Thank you to all family members who attended our Christmas concert. P4 children enjoyed performing to an audience. A big well done to pupils who wrote the poems: Caitlyn, Islay, Mia, Brooke, Charlotte, Heather. ✏️🎶🕺🎄
Tuesday 12th December
Children are continuing to work on leading HWB throughout the school. Our editors are currently writing our Winter Newsletter. The healthy eating team are telling fun facts in the playground and we also have an outdoor colouring group at lunchtimes.
Please see photos below.
Friday 8th December
Primary 4 have been given an exciting opportunity to participate in a STEM competition run by The Malin Engineering Group. Children are being tasked with designing a Christmas themed structure to be displayed in Glasgow. We have discussed the role of an engineer. Take a look at some of the designs.
Wednesday 6th December
In class, we have been learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects. Also, working with 2D shapes to create tessellation patterns.
Please see photos below.
Friday 1st December
Children have been continuing to explore nutrition on everyday foods as part of Health and Wellbeing this term. We have looked at food groups, food labelling and completed a taste test 🍊🥜🫑
Some children surprised themselves and now have a new favourite food!Please see photos below.
Wednesday 29th November
P4 have been working super hard making Christmas decorations and hot chocolate reindeers for our Christmas Fayre.
Thursday 23rd November
Thank you to all the family members who attended our P4 open afternoon. The children had great fun working on literacy and numeracy activities with you!
Monday 20th November
The Primary 4 HWB Leadership Group is off to a great start!
Last week, we worked in partnership with our local Tesco, enabling us to make tropical fruit kebabs.
Tesco kindly donated pineapples, watermelons and grapes amongst other fruits. 🍍🍓🍉
Please see attached photos of children making the finished product. They also made attractive posters for the lunch trolley. Children from all stages enjoyed the kebabs during Wednesday lunch service. It was a great success 😊
Friday 17th November
Christmas is coming! 🎄
Children have been working super hard to complete our class Christmas scene as part of Tesco’s (Galston) Christmas competition. Artwork from all classes will be displayed in store over the festive period – be sure to have a look. Big thanks to Mrs Campbell for helping bring our ideas to life! Below is a sneak peak…can you spot any of your favourite characters?
Wednesday 15th November
Children have been busy exploring paints, pastels, glitter and even feathers whilst making autumn art. You may have already seen our autumn display board at parents evening. Our Owls will also look fab on display in the classroom. This was an activity as part of our class novel ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. 🦉🍁🦔
Friday 10th November
Primary 4 had a spooktacular time at Halloween dressing up, writing poems and making
halloween puppets 👻 🎃. Also, children created fireworks pictures with Mrs Young to celebrate Guy Fawkes!🎆 See photos attached
Monday 6th November
To confirm, accuracy of homework words will be checked in class prior to completing at home. Please see attached a list of active spelling strategies children can choose from. If possible, please save the file for future reference. If children decide to use magnet letters, play dough, pasta etc, please note this in the homework jotter.
Thanks again, Miss Mudge
Friday 27th October
Please see attached P4 Term Two learning update 🙂
Tuesday 24th October
Please note: children have been given a different home work task this week, due Monday 30th October.
Children should write about acts of kindness in their homework jotters. This should be a short written passage. I have also stapled and highlighted the below sheet inside. Many thanks
Tuesday 24th October
Please see attached photos of the great work our learners have completed in Term One. Also, some fun activities they participated in!
Term One Update
