It’s hard to believe that today is the last day of term 3!

Primary 4 have been decorating eggs for our whole school Easter egg competition this week. The pupils came up with some great imaginative ideas when decorating their eggs.

Well done to Poppy who was the P4 winner for her super egg decorated as a lamb in a farm.

Have a great Easter holiday!

This week in Primary 4 we have been continuing to work on estimating and finding the area of shapes in numeracy.

In literacy we wrote a book review for our book study ‘The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster’.

We have been learning about Easter traditions in France and made our own French Easter cards.

We have been learning how to spot fake news in Social Subjects.

We have been building towers using different materials in Technology. Well done to Alfie and Cole who were the winners of the challenge, building the tallest tower at 91cm.

We went for a walk to the park.

We also had Discovery Dens again this week.

We have been investigating food labels in Health and Wellbeing and deciding if foods are healthy or unhealthy.

This week in P4 we have been continuing our work on measure in numeracy. We have been measuring and converting lengths and learning how to calculate the area of shapes.

We completed our book study ‘The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster’ and have been working on our handwriting in literacy.

We had lots of fun on the apparatus in the gym hall and went for a class walk to The Voes this week.

We tested the bridges we built in Technology last week and all of them were strong enough to hold a 1kg weight!

We have been working in groups to build 3D castle models in art. We plan to paint them next week.

Well done to Carson who represented the school at the Barony Burns Festival today and placed in the top 10. What a great achievement!

This week in Primary 4 we have been learning to measure in maths. We have  been estimating and measuring lengths to the nearest centimetre and converting between metres, centimetres and millimetres.

Harper and Harley have been working hard to learn times table facts and have now completed their times table passports. Well done!

We have been working so hard on writing targets in Literacy that we are ready to move onto a new target next week.

In French we have been learning about the festival Mardi Gras. We made our own Mardi Gras masks which look amazing!

We were given a Technology challenge this week to build a bridge using only lollipop sticks and glue. We worked well in our teams to plan and construct our bridges. Next week we will test the bridges to find out if they are strong enough to hold a 1kg weight.

We went for a class walk to the river.

Today we took part in a music workshop with Calum and Lucy from the Benedetti Foundation. We were composing and making our own song, playing body percussion, listening to live music and having lots of fun!

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 completed and returned by Monday 16th March.

We celebrated World Book Day yesterday.

Some pupils took part in a competition to decorate a lollipop stick as a book character.

Well done to Poppy who was chosen as the P4 winner. She decorated her lollipop stick as The Very Hungry Caterpillar and won a set of Michael Rosen books.

We all got to choose a book to take home from the World Book Day Book Swap.

We wrote about our favourite books and designed a new cover for our favourite book. We also made reading posters for the classroom book corner.

We had a World Book Day quiz.

Well done to Matthew and Ellie who were the winners!

Every pupil got a lovely new World Book Day book to take home and read.

This week pupils have been given a ‘Triangle test’ to complete for homework (see below). How many triangles can you see in the picture?

Homework should be completed and returned by Monday 9th March.

This week in P4 we have been learning to simplify fractions in maths.

Well done to Shaun who has been working hard to learn times table facts and has now completed his times table passport.

In literacy we have been continuing to work on our handwriting and writing targets. Cole has been working so hard to improve his handwriting and it is clearly evident in his written work.

We have been learning about digital learning and ways of keeping safe online.

We went for a class walk to the park.

Matthew was the winner of a Ruby Reward ticket and chose Allan from P5 to sit with him at the Ruby Reward table. Well done Matthew!

The focus for our homework block this term in numeracy.

Pupils have been given a ‘Cupcake recipe’ task to complete for homework this week (see below).

Homework should be completed and returned by Monday 2nd March.

It has been a very busy week with lots going on in Primary 4!

We celebrated Shrove Tuesday by making pancakes in class. We had to follow a recipe, measure out all of the ingredients needed and then we got to eat them. Some of us even had a go at flipping a pancake!

In literacy the next day we wrote a set of instructions for making pancakes.

We have been continuing our work on fractions in numeracy.

We finished our wonderful Kelpies silhouette artwork.

We went for a walk to The Voes to feed the ducks.

M&M Productions visited the school this week and performed the show ‘Oliver Twist’ for us.

Carson was the winner of a Ruby Reward ticket this week and chose Lyle to sit with him at the Ruby Reward table. Well done Carson!