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Kerr and Stuart’s Post

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This week in literacy we have been learning how to use speech marks and commas. We used a game about an ancient temple to write our stories. Click on the links below to read our writing.

Ancient temple of massacre by Jake
Temple of doom by Stuart
Ancient by Heidi
The hidden discovery of the ancient temple of Ra by Kerr
The discovery of the haunted pyramid by Isla

In maths we have learned how to use the written method for subtraction and we used the dienes blocks to help us exchange hundreds, tens and units.

In art we learned about perspective drawings and then drew the Polar Express. We used the vanishing point, horizon lines and guidelines to help us.

In PE we have been doing basketball and this week we were perfecting our passing and dribbling.

Weekly Update

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What a busy week we have had.

In maths, we’ve been practising our addition strategies and Mrs Connell was really pleased with our jotter layout.
In literacy, we have been learning how to use speech marks which we are going to use in our imaginative writing.

We have been learning how to use atlases to find different information. Mrs Connell challenged us to an atlas scavenger hunt, looking for rivers, mountains and capital cities.

Primary 7 went for their first visit to the Robert Burns Academy. Primary 6/7 attended a zoom conference on World Children’s Day to discuss climate change. Today, the whole school made lanterns for Make Cathrine Sparkle… phew!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Jake and Jackson’s Post

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The ceilidh was super fun we were having the best night of our lives.

In maths we have been learning more addition strategies and some subtraction strategies.

We were learning fact triangles.

In literacy we have been learning new phonemes and also some descriptive character writing about the Night Zoo. We had to write our own character description. We used core targets, similes, adjectives, adverbs and paragraphs.

Yesterday we went on a fun trip to the Titanic Exhibition. We met members of the crew and saw the hull, the funnel and the pulley from the ship. One woman was playing cards when disaster struck and the cards were on display. Women and children got on the lifeboats first. When it was sinking the weight of the water in the ship broke it in half. We had an excellent day and learned lots of facts about the Titanic.

Happy Pirate Day 🏴‍☠️

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Happy Talk like a Pirate Day! Arrrr… 🏴‍☠️
Look at our lovely crew of shipmates.
Here’s this week’s highlights!

Place value perfection! This week everyone completed their place value assessments and did absolutely amazing, showing Mrs Connell what they’d learned. A very proud teacher indeed.

We learned about synonyms and used a thesaurus to find words. Boiling, warm, burning and roasting are so much better than hot. Prehistoric and ancient are so much better than old.

On Tuesday, we learned about discrimination. Mrs Connell asked us to put post its on to different people. They said things like ‘I want to go university’ but we found it hard when we didn’t know the people. We learned that’s what discrimination is.

Have a lovely long weekend and see you all Tuesday.

Choosing a new book 📖

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Today, Primary 6/7 picked their favourite Celebration! We all had our own reasons for choosing our favourite and Mrs Connell even got her hands on a Malteaser. After, we had to choose a book we wanted to read and give a reason for our answer. Here’s our choices…

Reading for Enjoyment featuring Quality Street

Today, at the start of our literacy lesson, we were asked to choose our favourite Quality Street and the reason why we picked it. Some of us chose the chocolate based on having tried them before, the flavour or even the wrapper.

Mrs Connell then asked us to choose a book from a selection and give a reason why. Some of us chose a book based on the cover, blurb, author or genre.
We pick books the same way we pick our favourite sweet treats.