Primary 4.1 have been busy learning through play and challenging themselves in various areas of the curriculum.

We have all set targets that we would like to work towards achieving by Christmas. We learned all about SMART targets and made sure that we picked something specific, achievable and relevant to us. We displayed our targets in balloons as a reminder to work on them every day!

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A popular choice from the pupils of P4.1 was to improve speed and accuracy of particular multiplication tables. We have been playing lots of games to help revise multiplication and related division facts. Here you can see our Tuff Tray and examples of us playing Uno Maths Games, ZAP, SumDog, Times Tables Rock Stars, Hit tbe Button and Power Towers to revise.

Primary 4.1 have been introduced to Blooket Quizzes. Pupils can be quizzed on any topic as they play together in class. The more questions they answer correctly, the more they can play the mini-games. To revise our multiplication and division facts, we played the Racing game. We LOVED watching our Blooket animals race up the track against each other and we had lots of fun whilst revising our Numeracy skills. You can watch us play here.

Every day when we come in from lunch, there is calm music playing and everyone gets comfy with their personal book. We have 10-15 minutes of just reading for enjoyment! Some of pick a book from the library, others bring some in from home and others like to listen to an audiobook. We look forward to this relaxing time every day 😊 We have been exploring the texts on Get Epic and completing comprehension quizzes online to help us apply the strategies we learn in class independently.

September 13th was Roald Dahl Day and we celebrated with puzzles and a writing activity. We chose to write character desciptions of either Miss Honey or Miss Trunchbull. We focussed on using lots of ambitious vocabulary and connectives in our writing. We were so impressed!

We were very grateful to have so many lovely family members in our classroom for Open Afternoon, even on one of the hottest days of the year! We shared what we knew about bones whilst we made a skeleton from cotton buds. We also managed to construct a working model of the lungs.

Hello and welcome to our Primary 4 blog. Here you will find photos and information about what we have been learning in school. We are not able to share photos of pupils at the moment but check back soon for a photo of everyone looking very smart on our first day in Primary 4. 

[Class photo coming soon]

We have settled into school well after a relaxing summer holiday. We are happy to see our friends and teachers everyday, and we are getting used to school routines. 

Our PE day is on a Wednesday and PE kits can be worn to school on this day. Reading and Mental Maths homework should be completed every day. Spelling is due on Friday. 

We made ‘all about me’ hearts during our P4 taster day with Mrs Denny. We shared information about ourselves, our favourite things and our families.

We worked together to make a class charter as part of our Rights Respecting School Status. We chose 6 rights from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and voted on a theme. The most popular theme was monsters. 

We loved taking part in a team STEM challenge on the first day. We worked so well together to build a big tower and we even added some extra cups sitting in different directions!

In art this term we have been exploring different techniques, including using straws to blow paint to create spring blossom trees. We also made links to maths and art creating concentric circles drawings. We explored pointillism to make personalised trees using our handprints. Thanks to all of Primary 3 this year for their hard work.  I  going to miss you and good luck in Primary 4! From Mrs Britton 🤩

What a fun afternoon. Today we had a special visit to the school from the ice cream 🚐 van!

Primary 3 had a great trip to Summerlee Museum. We were able to explore houses from different periods of time. We went down a mine and it was very dark and a little scary. We couldn’t believe that children of our age used to have to work in there. We had a workshop where we studied the 1980’s. We looked at toys form the 80’s, done a workout and even got to try on clothes from the era too.

Another brilliant Sports Day!  We had potted sports in our House teams in the morning and then the flat races and relay races in the afternoon.  Mrs Britton and Mrs McArthur even took part in the teacher/pupil race!

Well done P3/1.

We have achieved our Gold RSPB Award!!!!! We are so proud of all our hard work completing all the tasks.

On Wednesday we had Rennie the Dams for Darnley Ranger into our school to take us on a Plant Safari o help us to complete our final RSPB Wild Challenge. We identified lots of plants and in particular the tress that are in our school grounds. He told us great knowledge about the tress and helped us to identify them by looking at their leaves and their bark. It was a bit wet but still good fun. Thank you Rennie!!

We created Roman clay tiles.  We moulded the clay and created a design inspired from Roman mosaic tiles. We then painting our clay tiles and some of us decided to add beading to our final design. Have a look!

In art this month we have been learning to develop skills in mono printing through experimentation.  We used foam to create a mono print using a print roller. Our inspiration was fish patterns.