The Barnardos  team came in and taught us about alcohol awareness  we learned about being responsible toward drinking safely and the law against drinking.

At PE this week we learned badminton.

On Wednesday we went to pipe band and learned the drums  and flute.

In maths this week we learned multiplying  by multiples of ten.

We had a literacy morning this week and we got to a new chapter in Wonder and today we did visualisation and main ideas about Miranda’s section.

We also started practicing for our Panto Pandemonium.

By Aiden and Orren

To start off the week we had a Halloween Party with lots of different activities in each class. On Tuesday we had strings and we learned to mix classical and dance music we also read a little bit more of our class novel. In maths we were practising formal method with multiplication. On Wednesday we were playing chess with P3/4 here are some photos.

Also on Wednesday we had Pipe Band we were learning the temper drums and the chanter.

On Thursday we did free writing. We made letters, stories and all different things we also had gym.

And on Friday we read more of our novel and we did firework art for the 5th of November we had Funtime Friday and a Kahoot to finish of the week.

By Lexie

This week we were learning how to play the song Thriller at Strings. We have been revising our times tables in numeracy and have been working on our multiplication strategies.
We have been learning all about bacteria, viruses and fungi in science and completed our own science experiments.
Our P7 pupils had the Pipe band in on Wednesday afternoon and were learning to play the drums and chanter. We have started to wallpaper and carpet our model houses and are looking forward to adding the furniture and finishing touches soon.
For our writing this week, we were writing a diary entry from Auggie’s perspective, based on our book Wonder.

Have a lovely weekend!

This week a selection of pupils from Primary 6 and 7 took part in the  East Ayrshire Sportshall Athletics competition. We went to the Athletics Arena in Kilmarnock and competed against different schools in a variety of different races and events.

We’ve had a busy week in P6/7.  On Tuesday we restarted strings and a few of us have started to learn a different instrument. We continued to work on our model houses, we were focussing on our measuring skills and have been measuring and cutting the wallpaper and carpet to fit.

Today we visited the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock to view the Quentin Blake Exhibition. We were lucky enough to have an art lesson with Fiona, where we got to take it in turns to dress up and draw the different people in or groups. We also got to use different drawing materials such as Indian ink, charcoal and wax pencils.

As this week is Maths Week Scotland, we all got lovely new packs home with lots of  different resources to help us with our learning at home (only the scrapbook needs to be returned). It was so nice to welcome visitors back into our class on Wednesday & we loved sharing some of our learning with you.

We have been working on addition and subtraction as well as our place value work this week. We have also been learning our numbers on French and have been working hard to identify these.

We have also been working with P4/5 on a STEM project to create a model house. We have been learning to use lots of different joins in order to join different pieces of cardboard together.

To start of this week we were learning about respect and we all made an acrostic poem about what respect means to us. We were also summarising what we have read in our book so far as well as revising our spelling strategies.

Next in maths we were doing place value and  rounding and we were also using the base ten material to make homes, hotels and even animals.

We were also making paintbox poems we were using similes and metaphors to improve our writing, for our paintbox poems we had to think of 4 colours and things that would be that colour.

For PE we were doing basketball. We also went out for rounders and we also played some team games. The P6 pupils also started rugby training.

This week has been our first full week back at school, and what a busy week we have had.

We have started our new novel study, ‘Wonder’. We completed our prior knowledge about the book, using the front cover and blurb to help us. We also wrote down all the best advice we would give to Auggie for starting school for the very first time in 5th grade and displayed them in these balloons.

As well as this we are working on using different spelling strategies to improve our spelling. We also completed our piece of writing – The best part of me…

In maths we have been working on place value and we have been learning to round numbers.

We looked at the rights of the child to help us create our class charter and drew these wonderful portraits to put up around it.

To finish off the week we all set our literacy and numeracy targets for this term and uploaded these onto our e-portfolios.

The Primary 7s presented their captains speeches to their house this afternoon and everyone has voted. We can’t wait to find out who the new house captains will be.

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