Category Archives: Literacy and English

Scottish Parliament

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P6 took their trip to the Scottish Parliament as part of their social studies topic on politics.  We learned all about the history of the newer Scottish Parliament as we as the longer history of Scottish politics. We also learned a lot about the design of the building and how the architects added symbolic meaning to the design. Can you spot the Saltire?

Big Talk

We get to take the start of a story home and we talk to someone in our family about what is happening and what we think the end is going to be. Big Talk is fun because we get a chance to talk about our ideas before we write our story in class. We like to get the start because it gives us the plot for the story.

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Bullying

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In circle time P4 have talked about bullying behaviour and the effect it has on people. They talked about the way different people would feel – the person who displayed  the bullying behaviour, the person who was the target of the bullying behaviour, the teachers , other children , the parents etc. They hope to use this information and create some literacy work from it.

Autumn


Primary 4 took advantage of the dry weather to go into the playground to look for signs of Autumn. They were going to create a setting in their writing and needed to use all of their senses to write their plan. While they were there they worked together to gather leaves of different colour, shape, size and texture to use in their art work later on in the day.

Social Justice

 

When P4 were doing bounce back they looked at social justice. They learned that social justice was about being fair and caring for all people in the world. They discussed the different groups who try to make sure that things are fair for all people. Save the Children was mentioned as well as many other charities.

In writing the children wrote thank you letters to Mrs. Strang for the work that she does for  Save the Children and making things fair for children across many countries.

P4 looked at some  art work that represented social justice and had an interesting discussion about how they managed this. They then used the visual elements of line, shape, colour and pattern  to create their own piece of  art work  showing the image of a handshake.

Here are two of the letters by Ruby and Rhys.

 

 

 

Pr. 3 Assembly

Pr. 3 took part in an assembly about Numeracy and Maths. We spoke about the different ways in which we used our maths skills. Through our Social Studies topic on the Rainforest we measured the length of a typical rainforest tree, we made symmetrical butterflies and we located rainforest animals in the playground using map grid references.  We were GGGRRREAT and the assembly was enjoyed by all.

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We love our p6 reading buddies!

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We (p2b) have buddied up with primary 6 to share and develop our reading skills! The buddies come into our Bloom’s book groups to listen to us read and then we go off with our buddy and listen to them read to us, although some of us like to share the reading. Some of us even like to question each other about what we’re reading to see if we’ve been paying attention!