The squares have been learning about fractions. They had fun exploring different fractions while creating delicious pizzas.

Thet split the pizzas into different equal parts and then created a recipe for the pizza showing what fraction of toppings went on each one.

Primary 4 have enjoyed having two fantastic judo inputs at Barrhead Foundry.

The instructors taught them new judo skills and they participated in individual, pair and group activities.

Have a look at them in action !! ò

The boys and girls enjoyed a spooky Friday.

They took part in lots of Halloween challenges such as mummy making, design your pumpkin online, ghost bowling and Halloween co-ordinates.

I loved seeing all of the  super costumes.

In the afternoon we had a Halloween mask making actuvity and watched a scary  movie with spooky snacks

This week we enthusiastically took part in a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) challenge. Pupils were challenged to build a bone bridge using cotton buds, lollipop sticks, pegs, tape, string and pipe cleaners. The bridge had to hold the weight of our class spider, stand alone and be longer than 5cm. We spent all afternoon sketching out plans and building. We had so much fun whilst developing life skills such as problem solving and teamwork.

In Numeracy, we have exploring numbers and their value. We built our own place value palace using base ten materials. We then skip counted in 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s to work out it’s value. Here are some pictures below.

We have been learning about The Rainforest. We located the rainforests of the words in an atlas and could identify the different continents around the world that have rainforests.

We explored the floor layers of the rainforest and the animals that live in each one.

We created fantastic acrostic poems using our knowledge of the rainforest. We then choose an animal to investigate and created amazing fact files all about that animal. We included information and images and made our front covers attractive and bright.

Have a look at our rainforest wall with some of our brilliant work on it!

We used concrete material to build different 3D shapes.

We described the properties of the different shapes.

Have a look at some of our creations

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Primary 4 continue to explore the human body and have been learning about the heart. We discovered that the heart is responsible for pumping blood around the body to every cell. Blood travels from the heart to the lungs, where it is oxygenated, then travels back to the heart to be pumped around the body. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called arteries and mainly carry oxygenated blood. Those returning to the heart are called veins and mainly carry carbon dioxide back to the lungs.

Here are our heart models that we made using play dough.

These 3 bottles which each hold 2l represent the average amount of blood in an adult human.

Minecraft is very popular amongst our class so these Minecraft selfies were a huge hit. We combined maths and art, pupils had to count out squares to ensure their face was symmetrical. They were challenged to only use straight lines. The selfies are fantastic, well done Primary 4, very proud teacher here! 🌟

In Science, we have been learning about the human body. First we looked at the skeleton and pupils shared any information they already knew. We used videos and books in the library to learn the name of bones. Some of the names are tricky and there are lots to learn so we are going to keep practising them. Check out some of our skeleton learning below.

We were challenged to put bones together to make a skeleton and write some reasons why are skeleton is important.

In pairs or small groups, the boys and girls drew round one another with chalk and added lines and shapes to create a skeleton.

Travis drew a skeleton on his whiteboard, great job!