Primary 5 worked very well and learned a huge amount during the climate change theme in term 1. They were very knowledgeable and could follow all topical news during COP26. They thoroughly enjoyed learning about Greta Thunberg and how young people can have their say.

This term we have made a very good start on our latest learning in maths.

I am very proud of the positive attitude and enthusiasm shown by all pupils when they worked in pairs to create their maths posters on Area. Well done you showed how to find the area of a square, rectangle, irregular shape and triangle.

Guess who is our Celebrity that we are studying this term?

To find out more please click below for our newsletter.

Newsletter-Kilmaurs-P5 Term 2

Well done everyone.

Miss Stienlet

It was wonderful to see everyone after the summer holiday. I am delighted to also welcome some new members to the class. We were busy in the first few weeks deciding how we wanted to run our class and this is what we agreed on.

 P5   Class Charter 

 Our Perfect Potion for learning.

We have :

Have excellent manners.

Follow instructions.

Listen to others without interrupting.

Give our best effort.

Are kind, friendly and play safely.

Help one another as part of our team.

 

Our Rights

In P.5 we chose these …

Article 12

You have the right to be listened to.

Article 20

You have the right to learn.

Article 28

You have the right to an education.

Article 29

You have the right to become the best you can be.

Article 31

You have the right to play and relax.

 

Reward System

In class, we have a class points system linked to our charter and the school values of Kind, Proud and Successful.

Each group is given a –

shiny green stone  – for listening attentively

wooden love heart – for being kind and helpful

rose coloured paper clip – for amazing work

button – for being safe and washing their hands.

These tokens are collected in the group jar and counted on a Friday.

The winning group receive a silver trophy as a reward to sit on their desk. Each member of the group is also given a privilege card. This card can be exchanged for a 15 minute activity for example construction with Lego or K’nex, computer time or ‘Be the Teacher’ and deliver a short lesson.

Class Responsibilities

We created a list of class jobs that makes sure our classroom runs smoothly. We work in pairs to complete these tasks.

Every week our names move down the list so that we get a different job to do. In time we will all have the experience of every job in the class.

I am delighted to see everyone giving their best effort. Well done P5! Click the link below to see what we have been learning about so far this term.

Newsletter-Kilmaurs-P5 Term1

Primary 4 looked at Mental Health this week.

We followed the advice of Five to thrive.

We learned to –

Connect – spend time with others  have fun, share                                                thoughts and feelings

Be Alert – live in the moment and enjoy 

Be Active – enjoy sport and any activity

Be Curious – challenge yourself to learn and try                                                         something new

Give – donate your time or money to others

 

We all felt good when we were filled with the excitement of giving a surprise gift to someone in the school. We realised its a lovely feeling to make someone else feel appreciated.

On Friday Primary 4 were fully prepared for Children in Need day.

We were dressed up and had made our own outfits and accessories.

The best dressed pupil judged by the P7 pupils was H.C. Well done!

Spudsey Competition

We had many different spuds that had humour, style and great design. Well done P4 for a fabulous effort.

Z.T. was the overall winner in the school with her Blush and Pudsey double sided potato. She was soooo … excited when her name was announced.

Star Pupils in P4 this week

E. S. earned one for her kindness when she went out of her way to include another pupil in a friendship task.

A. McL. was very creative when he created a challenge for staff to choose which character they were best suited to from Harry Potter.  This was a very interesting staff chat to decide. Having met the challenge and all names matched his mum kindly donated £20 to children in need. Generous and creative idea – proud of you.

Pudsey Drive

We had many Children in Need activities on Friday but the highlight had to be the Pudsey Drive everyone was so competitive and really enjoyed the challenge. Great Fun !

Well done everyone for working so hard this week.

Please click the link below to see all photographs in a power point presentation.

Children In Need 2020

Miss Stienlet

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This week we have all been busy learning about why the poppy is used as the symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers and veterans. Primary 4 became very skilled when making these lovely poppies for their class wreath and individual cross.

Mr Taylor also started his placement with us this week. He will be in the class over the next five weeks and will be gradually teaching more lessons. He is delighted to meet such an enthusiastic class and said he thoroughly enjoyed getting to know everyone.

In maths everyone learned how to round to the nearest 10 some were using two digit numbers, others three digit numbers and for the biggest challenge four digit numbers.  I was delighted to see everyone try to reach the highest challenge on the Rounding Rockets game. Well done P4.

We started our new P.E. lessons in Rugby today and managed to throw and catch the ball skilfully. Please bring warmer clothing for this outdoor training like leggings and a hoodie and wear trainers on a Wednesday and Friday. Thank you.

Finally have a lovely weekend everyone .

Miss Stienlet

 

 

1. Primary 4 studied properties of a square based pyramid and a triangular based pyramid.
   The Papyrus group worked as a team to build a Lego pyramid. Great cooperation.
2. E.S. Built her pyramid from unit cubes. It was ten cubes high and perfectly formed. Her group had the smart idea to use tens to speed up the building process. Clever thinking .
3. Everyone in the class used a net to form their own paper pyramid. Inside was a mummified pharaoh. Each pyramid had hieroglyphs and images on the outside.

Everyone arrived in costume on Friday. What a fascinating bunch of characters. Some were spooky, others sporty or down right scary. There were also some delicate and beautiful creations.

I was happy to be among my fellow Egyptians and thoroughly enjoyed the day.

P 4 learned a new game Wink Murder which had some dramatic deaths.  Aargh!

We developed our teamwork skills to design then create our own Halloween windows.

In our classroom we created five windows –

• a spiders web with many dangerous looking spiders
• ghosts
• tombstones
• skeleton
• a haunted house with pumpkins

Please look up to see our wonderful designs.

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and enjoy a spooky movie and some treats with your family.

Miss Stienlet

 

 

We  researched how to mummify a person and then carried out a dramatisation of the whole process. We also focused on functional writing to write clear instructions.

Following that we carried out an experiment to mummify an apple.

Please note no child was harmed or preserved in this process!

Z.B. was the unlucky Pharaoh who died and had to be embalmed in class. She loved every minute of it.

Step 1 .

C. and L. wash her thoroughly with water  from the River Nile.

Step 2

A. and B. cut out her organs from a cut on her left hand side. Each one is placed in a canopic jar apart from the heart.

Step 3

Z.T. uses a hook up Z.B’s nose to remove the brain. She has to wiggle around  to create liquid then pour the (now liquid) brain out of her nose.  Acted out only !

Step 4

Now our mummy will be dried for 40 days.

Step 5

E. and C. have the lovely job of putting on the resin (glue) and wrapping her in linen strips.

Step 6 

Finally P4 added the Scarab beetle amulet and said a prayer for our Pharaoh that we decided should be Cleopatra. We wish her well in the afterlife.

 

Science – Mummifying an Apple 

We needed : salt, bicarbonate of soda, an apple, knife and bowls.

We carved a quarter of an apple in to a mummy shape.

We made two for our experiment.

One was preserved in natron (mix of salt and bicarbonate soda).

The other apple had nothing done to it.

We made predictions of what we think will happen to each apple.

 

Watch this space for what happens next.

We have started to look at place value..

We have been busy using our whiteboards to show a number in different ways.

B. F. was very proud of his work.

We have also been playing games.

H. N. just found a match.

We were outside being creative to build a number from natural materials.

Egyptian Number System 

We learned all about the symbols used to show a number. We enjoyed writing and working out the value of a number.

Great concentration here by C. M. and Z. T. on their Egyptian numbers.

Mummy Maths Game online

Try this out at home …. 

This has been a very busy week and we all enjoyed creating numbers. Magnificent work by everyone well done!

 

This week we have been extending our knowledge of telling the time.
We can now use 24 hr clock times.

As part of our pilot training we were able to say when a plane departed and arrived. We could work out how long a flight lasted. Some pupils even planned out several flights in a day, creating their own pilot schedule ( breaks included).

Today was our final test as we watched the live movement of planes and helicopters around Scotland using the website flightradar24.

Please look it up at home to see where people are flying tonight.

We discussed if a plane took off on time or was delayed. Our clever pilots calculated how many minutes late each plane was. We also read where they were going.

The flight on the screen was from Islay and departed at 09:15 and was due to arrive in Glasgow at 09:55. Is it on time ? 

As we could track planes from all over the world it was also fascinating seeing the flight paths. The flags of the countries were also interesting.
A new job role talked about today was an Air Traffic Controller.

Well done boys and girls.