This week pupils have been given a ‘Planning a trip’ task for numeracy homework. This task involves planning a day trip with a budget of £100. Please see the task below.

Homework should be returned by Monday 24th March.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs McKenna

It has been another busy week of learning in Primary 4!

Miss Kerr and Miss Black have been in our class for the whole week and have been helping us to learn about measure in maths. We have been learning to measure in centimetres and metres.

Well done to Maya who completed her times table passport in maths this week. Great work Maya!

We have been working hard on our spelling, reading and writing in literacy.

We went for a lovely walk to the river again this week to do some more exploring.

We have been practising our gymnastics skills in P.E.

We have been building bridging with lollipop sticks in technology.

This week pupils have been given a ‘TV time task’ for numeracy homework. This task involves writing a timetable of what you would watch if you could have the television to yourself for one whole day. Please see the task below.

Homework should be returned by Monday 17th March.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs McKenna

It has been a busy week in P4 with Pancake Day and World Book Day taking place this week!

On Monday afternoon we went for a lovely walk around the village to look for signs of spring. We spotted some daffodils and have been learning how to draw them in art.

We also had Discovery Dens again on Wednesday afternoon, where we got to take part in lots of different activities. Mrs McKenna’s group were learning to draw some spring animals.

We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday with lots of different activities in the class. We also got a lovely new book to take home.

Well done to Callum who completed his times table passport in maths this week. Great work Callum!

Congratulations to Adam, Rhys, Callum, Layla and Ayla who were awarded  a certification for taking part in the Active Schools Badminton Challenge last month.

It has been great to see the year timelines that you have been completing for maths homework. Remember that homework is due to be handed in on Monday.

We celebrated Pancake Day by making pancakes in class this morning. We had to use our maths skills first of all to measure out all of the ingredients. Mrs McKenna cooked the pancakes once the batter was ready and then we got to enjoy them with some strawberry jam.

They were delicious!

The focus for homework this term is numeracy.

Pupils will be given a different numeracy task to complete over the next 4 weeks. This week pupils have been given a months of the year task to complete for homework . The ‘In a year’ task involves drawing a year timeline and putting in important dates. Please see the task below.

Homework should be returned by Monday 10th March.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs McKenna

This week we have been busy working on comparing and ordering fractions in maths. We have been continuing to work on improving our writing and completing reading assessments in literacy.

It was a lovely sunny day on Monday and we went for a lovely walk to the monument.

In P.E. this week we have been practising different types of jumps in gymnastics.

In Science we have been learning about what we use water for and ways of saving water. We made some posters to encourage people to save water.

We have also been talking about bullying and the lasting effects that it can have on people.

This week in P4 we have been learning to count fractions on a number line in maths. In literacy we have been working on our spelling and continuing to  work on improving our punctuation in our written work. We have also been learning to write about ourselves in French.

We went for a lovely walk to the river on Monday and had lots of fun exploring the area.

We have been learning about the organs of the human body and their functions in Science.

Some of us have been making slime with the P7 Goo-Bros.

We have been building 3D Scottish castle models in art.

Rhys was the winner of a Ruby Reward ticket today and chose Logan B. to sit with him at the Ruby Rewad table. Well done Rhys!

It has been a short but busy week in Primary 4.

This week we have been continuing to work on improving the punctuation in our written work. We are making good progress with our targets so far! In maths we have been learning to identify fractions. We have been developing our understanding of numerators, denominators and equivalent fractions.

We have started to learn about the organs in the human body and had fun playing games in P.E. We also had Discovery Dens on Wednesday afternoon where we got to take part in lots of different activities. Mrs McKenna’s group were learning to draw Valentine’s cupcakes.

Calli was the winner of a Ruby Reward ticket today and chose Miley to sit with her at the Ruby Reward table. Well done Calli!

This week in Primary 4 we have been working really hard on our writing. We are going to be writing every day and we have been working on improving our punctuation in our written work. We have also started to learn about fractions in maths.

We went for a lovely walk to the park on Monday afternoon.

We have started our gymnastics block in P.E. and we were learning to perform different types of jumps this week.

We have been learning all about the bones in the human skeleton in Science.

On Thursday we had two student teachers in our class, Miss Kerr and Miss Black, who will be on placement in our class until the end of March. We are looking forward to working with them both.

Allan was the winner of a Ruby Reward ticket today and chose Braxton to sit with him at the Ruby Reward table. Well done Allan!

Just a wee reminder that library books are due to be returned on Wednesday.

Have a lovely long weekend!