EWHCF Class of 2020

Happy Friday everyone.  Another week of fantastic learning in P5b.

As it was anti-bullying week we made time to stop and think very carefully about our behaviours and the behaviours of those around.  We reflected on our school values and also the Rights Respecting School agenda.   We had a very powerful circle time where pupils shared their thoughts and feelings about bullying.  The pupils spoke openly about considering others feelings, seeing past the exterior/first impressions and about how they should conduct them selves in a range of situations.   Thanks to all those who took time to speak to the children at home about respect and watched the Respect Me video.  The respect leaves are looking great and I can’t wait to see the finished product.

Across the curricular areas the children enjoyed a range of learning experiences, partaking in French conversations with one another, creating gymnastic floor routines using rolling and synchronised movements and many more.

A special thanks to Alexander Sabba who delivered an excellent presentation on Judaism and shared his own experiences so confidently with the class. 

Big congratulations to Holly Ashley who passed her dancing exams with Highly Commended.  The school Junior Road Safety Officers have helped plan and prepare for Road Safety Week which is next week.  We are looking forward to all the is in store.  We are also continuing our preparations for the school show which will be on 4th Dec 🙂

Thanks for your continuing support.

Happy Friday,

What an amazing week.  The children responded so well to the resilience homework and shared incredible, moving and emotional stories of people they know and have heard of in their lives. Thank you for all the help in putting together the presentations and getting them to the school 🙂  I have posted images of all the pupils sharing their stories on another post.

Many thanks to Naomi’s grn who came and shared lots of information with us about health and nutrition.  We loved it and learned so much.

We always welcome visitors so please be in touch if there is anything you think would add to our learning experiences and development.

Thanks for your continuing support. Have a great weekend.

Lizzie Watson

P.S Please keep handing in junk/resources for our STEM area – it’s coming together nicely.

We love creating lots of incredible models at the STEM construction area. Here is Rory building something fantastic.

Alexander shared lots of knowledge with us this week from his new book – thanks!

We enjoyed solving some tricky mathematical problems.

We had to use the four processes this week when carrying out these maths challenges.

Happy Friday 🙂

I hope you are all well and enjoyed the recent October break.  We are already full steam ahead in P5b with lots of fun and exciting learning experiences happening this week.

We are establishing a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) practical area within the class where pupils will make learning links across these areas and apply them to various problems/challenges.  If you have any spare wood,

plastic, elastic bands, straws, cardboard, batteries etc at home which may be of use, please send them our way.

As part of our health and wellbeing curriculum we have been exploring relationships and the varying intensity and nature of the relationships we have/make with those around us.  We are keen to have some photographs of our families to display in the class. Please send them in with the pupils if possible.

We are continuing our “natural wonders of the world” learning experiences and the pupils are gaining a wealth of knowledge about these.  It has been great to see them applying their literacy and numeracy skills within this context particularly when locating relevant information and note taking.  At present we have been exploring where these wonders are located in the world and extending our knowledge of geography and our place in the world.  In the coming weeks we will be moving onto to focusing on Scotland and specifically land use in our local area. We will be linking this to science and the production of energy and electricity.  We will explore renewable energy in great detail.  If you have any books/resources/links/experience that you think may benefit our learning then please let me know 🙂

The pupils have been working hard to plan and prepare their personal talks linked to resilience.  It has been amazing witnessing the children make links to their own experiences and real life circumstances.  I am really looking forward to hearing them next week.

We are always keen for family involvement in our learning experiences so if there is anything you wish to attend/contribute to then we would be really grateful.

Thanks for your continuing support,

Lizzie

ACHIEVEMENTS

• A huge well done to Alex who was moved up squads in the Boys Brigade.  He is more confident when following commands and was successful in fulfilling the requirements.  He also earned 3 badges in the process.  Fantastic!
• Well done to Naomi Ratter who gained 50 plus points – she has worked really hard and persevered when things were tricky.  Keep it up!
• Congratulations to Lucas who welcomed home his new puppy Ollie.  He is so cute 🙂
• Well done to Rebecca for moving up a group in her Drama club – I am sure we will be seeing you in the West End soon!

This week Holly had her spirit bear from Brownies with her in school he was very well behaved! We hope he learned something new.

We said goodbye to our wonderful friend Timothee before the October break. This was sad for us all but we can’t wait to hear about his adventures in France.

We explored time this week and solved some tricky time problems, working together to help one another understand the strategies.

Thomas enjoyed creating lots of different flag patterns using the peg boards this week. They were fantastic. Here he is with the Scotland Flag.

Hi all,  I am sorry that this is the first blog post of the year from myself and P5.  We will be updating our blogs weekly – I promise.  This platform is a great chance for us to share everything that goes on in P5b.   We hope you enjoy following our learning journey throughout the year.

It has been a brilliant first term and we are all looking forward to our October break.  It has been very busy to this point and everyone has been working incredibly hard.  Our class assembly was our first main event and it was great to share all our “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” learning with you. Thank you to all who attended.

We are now exploring the natural wonders of the world as a key learning theme.  This has been a super way to apply our reading, writing and talking and listening skills whilst also obtaining new knowledge about our world and its wonders.

As you may know we have also been exploring some fantastic programmes online.  Yammer and Sway are a current hit with the pupils.  Yammer is a monitored and secure social media site and can only be accessed through GLOW.  Pupils can share ideas an information on Yammer through our page Crookfur Class of 2020.   We check in to Yammer regularly and the pupils are very away of how to be responsible on this media site.

I will leave you for now with some images that demonstrate some of the things we have been getting up to.

Mrs W 🙂

Holly was our first star writer of the term. She used incredible wow words and power openers to make her writing excellent.

Here is the second part to Holly’s amazing writing.
Well done Holly 🙂

Some of the pupils created this tower. We measured the tower and then converted the units of measurement 🙂

We have all been practising some really tricky words that many people spell incorrectly. Here is Rory using some fun materials to spell out some common words.

Here is Hugo having fun with spelling. Some words are really hard to spell – we have plenty of opportunities to spell in different ways in P5.

So far this year we have enjoyed many learning experiences. Here are some pupils hard at work.

As a privilege we can choose to be the teacher.
Here is Emily teaching us about volcanoes. It was amazing !
Well done Emily.

Here is Alexander teaching us some rugby skills. We learned to always pass backwards and how important it is to work as a team. He also impressed us with some fancy passing.
We hope to see him on the field at Murrayfield representing Scotland some point in the future !

We love to celebrate all our achievements in P5. well done to Rebecca who completed the reading challenge during summer and collected this medal recently.
Well done you wee superstar 🙂

Sports Day

This week it was sports day at Crookfur! It was really fun going round the stations and dancing to the music while we waited for our turns.

After the stations there were lots of races like class races, mum and dad races and teacher races. In the class races, we ran in heats and the first two from each race got to go into finals with the quickest boys and girls from both Primary 4 classes. Max McKie managed first for the boys and Yvie was second for the girls! There were also relay races in houses to earn house points. Fleming won the relay race with Slessor in second, Stevenson in third and Livingston in fourth.

One year time capsules

On Friday, we looked at the one year time capsules that we created exactly 10 months ago at the beginning of Primary 4. It was really weird looking at our drawing, writing and handwriting from the beginning of the year and seeing how much it had improved. We looked at the pieces of string that we had measured ourselves with and saw how much we had grown. Some of us had written funny things on our sheet that we couldn’t remember writing!

Maths

The Cubes have been learning to read information from a bar chart. At the start, before we practiced any bar charts we revised tally charts. We have done lots of fun activities with bar charts including making our own ones or finding specific information from them to help practice our data handling skills.

French

In French we have been practicing the names for different parts of the body like la jambe (leg) or la tête (head).  We sang a song in French to practice the vocabulary that we had learnt.

As we have been learning to use Sway, we decided to use it for our blog this week! You can read our Sway blog here:

Primary 4 Sway Blog

This week Google Expeditions visited our school. We went to see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). We used virtual reality goggles.The aurora was like a pretty, colourful rainbow. It was amazing to go zooming around in space! We could also see the International Space Station.

We also took a trip under the sea to visit endangered animals. We saw a shark, penguins and sea lions. The water was very clear.

This week we have also …

Worked collaboratively to solve a problem:

The Cones and Cubes have taken their learning out doors in maths!

Learning to calculate area using A = l x b

Practicising quick recall of our tables facts

Hi everyone!

We are delighted to be back at school after a wonderful Spring break.

We have returned to school this week to our new classroom  and we are delighted with it. It is wonderful to be back in the school and we are feeling at home already.

“The class is really nice and big. There is a lot of space”. (Lily)

“It is super warm”. (Corrinne).

“It is so big in here and it is cosy too! I like it. This is the first time I have been in the school as I just started in P4 – it is great!” (Lucas).

We are looking forward to spending our final term of P4 in our wonderful new surrroundings.

A massive thanks to everyone who supported our Daffodil tea last term. We hope that you all enjoyed the show. I am sure that you will agree that all  the children were fantastic. They all worked so hard and we are all very proud of them. Well done children!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McKim and P4b

Primary 4a have had a busy week. We have performed our Daffodil Tea and hope everyone who came to see it enjoyed as much as we did. We are very excited that it is the end of term and nearly the holidays. We will come back refreshed and are looking forward to learning in our new classroom!!!

Here are some of our highlights and achievements from the last term:

“I have learnt to carry out addition and subtraction with carrying and exchanging of hundreds, tens and units. We played lots of fun games and used what we had learnt to solve word problems.” – Lucy

“I have learnt to carry out addition and subtraction using numbers up to 9,999” – Olivia

“I have learnt to use a fraction wall to compare fractions.” – Sophia

“I enjoyed practicing for and performing our Daffodil Tea!” – Areeb

“I have learned to write a report. I learnt that you only include facts.” – Jessica

“I have learnt how electric circuits work with electrons travelling around. A switch works by breaking the circuit and if you put it on again the circuit is complete.” – Marcel

“In Health we made booklets about the different food groups. I learnt that potatoes and sweet potatoes are both carbohydrates.” – Holly

“We have learnt about the Easter traditions in France and make a booklet of French words used for the different traditions and drew pictures.” – Harry

Happy Holidays Everyone! from Primary 4