On Wednesday the whole school went to the hall for another literacy morning. We paired up in our classes again and worked on the literacy strategy of visualisation which means drawing a picture of the information discovered in the book. The book was called “The BFG”.
On Wednesday afternoon we had Committee Groups where each Group focused on their different priorities.
Mr McGurn from the RBA spoke to the primary 7 pupils as part of their transition programme into S1.
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Lexi
In numeracy we focused on our division work, we were also doing some money maths with Mrs Govans and had to make sure we lined up our decimal points in our calculations.
We started a new book called “Divided City” and we did some work on the book. We also started our story time at Wednesday assembly and were learning about wars that took place in the past in Scotland.
In R.E we were learning about Judaism and different religions.
In PE we started doing some badminton and racket techniques.
In ICT we were making spreadsheets in Excel.
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Josh & Ryan
All pupils have been given a Scots poem to learn for the Scots Verse Celebration.
P6 pupils will be learning ‘Up in the Morning Early’ by Robert Burns.
P7 pupils will be learning ‘Mrs Nae Offence’ by Gregor Steele
Pupils should practise their poems at home and should be ready to perform their poem by Wednesday 24th January. Pupils are able to use hand gestures and props for their poem.
5 pupils from each stage will be selected to perform in front of the judges and the winner will perform at our Scots Verse Celebration.
We’ve had a busy few weeks participating in lots of Christmas activities. We’ve enjoyed a fabulous Christmas lunch, a trip to the cinema and the P1-3 Nativity.
On Tuesday we had our P6/7 Christmas Party and spent the afternoon singing, dancing and playing lots of fun games.
We hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year and look forward to seeing everyone in 2024.
P6/7
This week we finished our book study ‘Holes’. Then we watched the movie so that we could compare the story and pick out any differences.
We were extremely busy creating lots of crafts for our Christmas Fayre and thank everyone who came and bought some of our wonderful creations.
In maths we have been learning to calculate the area of a shape and revising the grid method in multiplication.
In French we were learning the days of the week and the months of the year.
Today we were learning to use Scratch in ICT to animate our names.
Next week we are looking forward to our party on Tuesday and a whole school trip to the Odeon on Thursday.
On Monday some of our class went to Sportshall Athletics and had a very high score. We scored 1506 points. On Tuesday we were learning the Gay Gordons for our Christmas party.
In maths we have been learning division & how to calculate the area of a rectangle. We have been making crafts for the Christmas Fayre.
Last night we had a Christmas disco and the P7s sold glow sticks for their leavers hoodies.
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Layla and Millie
This week for literacy we were learning about suffixes and we were also learning about bossy verbs. It was Big Talk week and we heard lots of beautiful talks that people had prepared.
In science we were learning about the effect soap has on germs and we did an experiment with pepper, water and soap.
Today the class earned themselves a YES day, for their hard work and excellent effort in class. Miss Burleigh couldn’t believe that we reached our 3000 class points already!
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Ryan
On Wednesday we had our second John Muir day, we went on a scavenger hunt around our local community and completed a game of photo bingo.
Check out our John Muir Page to see what we got up to.
On Thursday we had great fun making our lanterns for Make Catrine Sparkle. We can’t wait for you to see them all.
This week we had our final rugby session with Cumnock Rugby Club and we were learning how to play mini games of rugby. We were learning the days of the week in French and we completed a STEM challenge.
In literacy we were learning a new sound and we wrote non chronological reports in writing. We loved having some friends and family visit our class for our literacy open morning. We even had some Countdown Conundrums to try and work out, some of which were very tricky.
In maths we were learning about the grid method for multiplication, partial products and practising our times tables.
Our school football team have their first game this afternoon and we wish them luck.
Written by Lexi and Emelia
P6/7 have had a busy few weeks. Last week we took part in some Halloween activities with P5/6. We had our committee groups last Wednesday.
This week in maths we have been learning to do the formal method for multiplication. In literacy we were writing a summary about the book we have been reading. We wrote Cinquain poems and learned about different spelling rules.
We created some beautiful landscape artwork with Mrs Campbell on Thursday afternoon.
We were playing mini games of rugby. The main focus was spatial awareness and effective passing, taking into consideration the 5 passes. We had opportunities to play against all the teams and good team work and sportsmanship was promoted throughout. We also started practising for the Sports Hall Athletics in PE.
We have loved getting the opportunity to play different games in class and Layla has been teaching everyone how to play UNO. It’s quickly become a class favourite.
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