P4A 2021/22

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

There has been a lot of excitement in the class this week with the pupils meeting their new teachers and the winning house students going to Heads of Ayr Farm Park.

Over the course of this week and next I will be sending home some jotters, folders and worksheets and the rest will be passed onto your child’s new teacher as part of our transition process.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to all the parents and guardians for your support this year. It has been a pleasure teaching the P4A class and I am so proud of both their academic and personal achievements, of which there are many mentioned in previous blog posts.

I hope everyone has a fantastic summer holidays and I look forward to seeing all the pupils in primary 5 where I am also moving to next year!

Literacy and English

Mason and Maira – We created letters for our new teachers to read. We included information about who we are, our interests, summer plans and what we enjoyed in P4.

Numeracy and Maths 

Zak – We finished our multiplication and division topic by learning how to divide with remainders.

Harry – This week we have been learning how to use a calculator to help solve subtraction calculations.

Mueez – My group has been using our knowledge of division to find a fraction of a number. To help us with this we have been drawing circles and dots on our whiteboards.

Hadia – We finished learning about 1 and 2 lines of symmetry this week. My group applied this knowledge by drawing patterns and shapes and our friends had to determine how many lines of symmetry they had.

Health and Wellbeing

Harry – We were all so excited to open our time capsules that we created at the beginning of P4. It was funny to compare how our handwriting has improved and checking how much we have grown against the string we used to measure ourselves in August. After reading the letters that we wrote to our future selves we wrote another letter to our past selves about all the wonderful activities we have done in P4!

Expressive Arts

Freya – This week we have worked in groups to learn our lines from our Charlotte’s Web scripts. We performed our scenes in front of the class and we made sure to include different expressions, tones and gesturing to match the characters interactions.

Outdoor Learning

Ruairidh – On Friday we started to clear and empty our P4 garden area. Whilst digging we discovered that our radishes had grown so we dug them out and everyone got a couple to take home.

Other

Daniel and Ruairidh – On Friday we found out our new houses, which are based on Scottish islands, and we also voted for our new house leaders.

Millie – Everyone in the class has been secretly recording goodbye messages for Mr Atkinson! He was totally shocked when we shared it with him.

 

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Over this course of this week the pupils have been learning songs which they proudly sang at Eastwood High School for the P7 Celebration of Achievement assembly.

Literacy and English

Daniel – On Friday we watched some of the Charlotte’s Web movie to inspire us for when we act out different scenes next week.

Sarah Mc – We used dictionaries to help us to determine if a word from our class novel was a noun, verb or adjective. We also recorded the definitions of the words. Our final task was to choose a main character and describe them by using new adjectives and evidence from the book.

Numeracy and Maths 

Millie – We have been learning how to divide and multiply by 10 and 100.

Emma – My group has been learning how to draw 3D shapes such as cubes cuboids.

Isla – We have also been using the terms faces, edges and vertices to describe the 3D shapes.

Mueez – We have started our new fractions topic! We have been learning about halves and quarters and how they link with division.

Health and Wellbeing

Sarah Mc – This week we have been learning about parts of the body and what is privacy.

Maira – In P.E. we separated into two groups for our final rounders match! We all had a fantastic time!

Expressive Arts

Emily B – This week in drama we had to act and behave like one of the main characters from our class novel.

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Where to begin! The class has thoroughly enjoyed all the wonderful Health Week activities. I have been so impressed with everyone’s enthusiasm and you can probably expect to see some tired faces at the end of this week!

Thank you to those who were able to attend and cheer on the pupils during our Sports Day!

Thank you to our parent volunteers who have supported us to ensure the events could go ahead.

The class also received their certificates for winning the East Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths contest this week.

Health Week

Sarah Mc, Zak, Emma, Chloe, Harry, Tia, Hadia, Ruairidh, Emily M, Emily B and Arnav: 

Some of the activities we took part in were:

• HIIT
• Gymnastics
• Karate
• Taekwondo
• Orienteering
• Netball
• Dance
• Fitness
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Golf
• Hockey

We also visited David Lloyd club which was amazing and we competed in our houses at Sports Day!

In class we have been learning about the importance of staying safe around different types of medicine.

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into what we have been doing recently.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Despite having a couple of shorter weeks it has been very busy in P4A! The pupils have recently enjoyed the Colour Run, attending Cookfur’s Got Talent Final and celebrating at the Jubilee Tea Party.

Next week is Health Week which will result in some changes to the timetable. I have shared all the scheduled activities with the pupils so that they know what to expect.

Literacy and English

Sarah – We have recently started our new class novel, Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White. We are all really enjoying it so far!

Zak – One of the activities we did for our class novel involved designing a new front cover by using information from the blurb, title and our own predictions from chapter 1. We also recorded notes on how the main characters interact with each other.

Millie – We have been learning how to use our non-fiction books and their sub-headings to create a Spider Diagram.

Ruairidh – After reading our non-fiction books we created our own questions for some of our friends in our groups to answer.

Emma – After reading chapter 1 of Charlotte’s Web we separated into small groups and then we debated whether the pig should be kept by Fern or not.

Numeracy and Maths 

Emma – My group has been learning how to subtract across zeros in three-digit numbers. This is also challenging us to apply our knowledge of exchanging.

Mason – Some of us have been consolidating our understanding of calculations involving three digit numbers.

Harry – My group has been learning how to carry when adding three digit numbers.

Expressive Art

Daniel – For the Jubilee Tea Party we all created bunting which we used to decorate the hallway outside our classroom.

Ruairidh – We created posters based on the Crookfur values.

Outdoor Learning

Lewis – In groups we presented our plant posters to the class. This involved selecting a plant from our P4 garden and then researching about it.

Sarah Mc – We have been watering our garden and bean plants everyday which we will eventually take home.

Health and Wellbeing

Lewis – For our final Healthy Eating lesson we created a drama whereby our groups acted out a restaurant scene by using our healthy menus that we designed.

Chenul –  All of the primary 4 pupils took part in house heat races. The winners of each heat will compete next week as part of Health Week!

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Thank you to Mrs Salim for delivering a fantastic presentation on topics related to Islam to all the primary 4 pupils. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves!

I am delighted to announce that we won the East Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths contest which is a fantastic achievement! Thank you to all the parents and guardians for allowing pupils additional time on devices at home.

The pupils have also done an outstanding job looking after their P4 garden!

Literacy and English

Freya – This week we completed a spelling check-up on some of the sounds we have been learning over the course of the year.

Zak –All of us have been reading different non-fiction texts. We have learned about what their features are and how to use them such as a glossary, index and contents page. Afterwards, we answered questions based on the texts.

Tia – Everyone created spidergrams by using the headings in our non-fiction texts. This has helped us to learn another method of how to plan and organise ideas for our writing pieces.

Numeracy and Maths 

Darcy – We won the Sumdog competition! We are all so excited and delighted with this result – well done everyone!

Daniel – Some of us have been revising how to successfully answer calculations involving carrying and exchanging with three digit numbers.

Lauren and Yousaf – Our group has been solving word problems based on all the timestables we have been learning about recently.

Harry – This week some of us revised vertical calculations with two digits. Sometimes we used a 100 square to help us check our answers.

Sarah Mit – This week our group finished learning about multiplying with two digits by completing problem solving questions.

Health and Wellbeing

Millie – Using our knowledge of the Eatwell plate, we have started to research and create a balanced menu for a café or restaurant. Mr Atkinson has challenged us to select starter, main and dessert course with appropriate prices. For challenge, some of us have listed vegetarian and gluten-free options.

Sarah Mc – With Mr McMillan in P.E. we learned how to do Scottish ceilidh dancing. It was so much fun!

Sara – We also had a rounders contest this week!

Lewis – To finish our Friendship topic we learned about the importance of respecting personal space. We played a game to help us understand what personal space looks like and then we discussed what actions can invade a persons personal space.

 

 

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into what we have been doing recently. 

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

What an incredible two weeks we have had in P4A and a lot of proud teacher moments! I’m delighted to announce that all P4A pupils received their Wild Challenge Bronze award from the RSPB. They achieved this by exploring the outdoors and participating in a wide range of activities. Well done everyone! We have also started our final outdoors project which will involve creating a P4 planter area and growing different flowers and vegetables.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank parents and guardians for supporting the children with being able to fully immerse themselves in the outdoors. Many children have come with the appropriate clothing and have brought in different items to help with our tasks. Also thank you to the pupils who donated finished food packets, these will be used to create a class Eatwell plate.

The final East Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths contest has begun! This competition is on from the 13/05/22 – 19/05/22, can we improve on 2nd place which we placed in the last contest.

Literacy and English

Mason – This week in writing we wrote instructions for how to create a smoothie. First we looked at the different equipment and ingredients Mr Atkinson had brought in. Then we listed them in our jotters. Afterwards, we carefully watched Mr Atkinson as he added the items into the blender. We all used imperative verbs so that the instructions were clear and easy to follow! For challenge, some of us also recorded the quantity in measurements. We even got to taste some of the smoothie!

Zak and Lewis – The last question type we have learned about is deductive. To successfully answer these questions you must make conclusions based on the information given.

Numeracy and Maths 

Yousaf – My group has been learning how to divide and mutply by 7 and 6.

Emily M – We have been applying our knowledge of timestable to help us solve 2-digit multiplication questions.

Harry – We are taking part in the East Renfrewshire Sumdog Maths contest!

Lewis – My group has been revising how to subtract and add 3-digit numbers involving exchanging and carrying. We have also been learning new mental maths strategies to help with these calculations.

Health and Wellbeing

Daniel – Over the last two weeks we have played hockey and football matches. Mr Atkinson has been encouraging us to use all of our skills that we have learned this year.

Hadia and Sarah Mi– In our friendship topic we investigated different qualities. We then put the statements into two categories, “good friend” and “not a good friend.” Afterwards we scored them in order of what would be the preferred characteristics of a good friend.

Sarah Mc – As part of our Healthy Eating topic, we created a large Eatwell plate using some packets and boxes of foods that our friends had brought in. We carefully took out time to organise them into the correct categories.

R.M.E

Charlie – Using a diagram, we labelled and described certain areas in a mosque.

Mason – We learned about different artefacts related to Islam such as the Quran.

French

Tia – With Mr McMillan we learned how to ask for the time and reply in French.

Outdoor Learning

Ruairidh – We planted beans into small pots which we will care for in class and track their growth progress.

Lauren – This week we moved and set up our planter. We then filled it with soil and compost. Afterwards, we separated it into sections so that we could plant different flower seeds and vegetables.

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

The pupils in P4A have worked incredibly hard this week and, as always, I have been so impressed with their wonderful effort and use of Growth Mindset. With the recent warm sunny weather I would like to remind everyone to bring water bottles to school so that they can be used regularly and refilled. I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend!

Literacy and English

Daniel – This week our writing lesson was about learning how to write instructions for how to plant a flower. We plan to use these instructions in the next couple of weeks when we create a P4 garden.

Millie and Emily M – The first activity we did in our writing lesson was to test the instructions of how to create a daisy chain. We used Mr Atkinson’s instructions and then commented on what we could do to improve them.

Emma – When creating our instructions we made sure to include equipment and illustrations.

Tia – We also used bullet points and numbers to help create a clear order and structure.

Chenul – At the start of each instruction we used ‘bossy verbs’ and underlined them in our writing.

Ruairidh – This week in our comprehension lesson we continued our questioning series by learning how to answer evaluative questions. For these types of questions you need to write your opinion and justify it by referring to elements in the text.

Numeracy and Maths 

Lauren – This week we completed a check-up on how to divide and multiply by 2,3,4,5 and 10.

Charlie – We also did a fraction check-up on everything we have learned about fractions.

Lewis – One of our lessons involved revising how to organise, plan and structure a weekly timetable.

Harry – My group learned how to create and complete a Carroll diagram using different information.

Health and Wellbeing

Mason – In P.E. with Mr Atkinson we applied our hockey skills in matches, it was great fun!

Isla – We created short dramas for situations that demonstrated good and bad friendships. Afterwards, we discussed how these would make us feel if they happened to us.

R.M.E

Charlie – We learned about mosques and some of their important features. We then looked at some magnificent mosques from around the world which inspired us to create the art below!

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter holidays! It has been great listening to the pupils and hearing about what they did over the break.

Literacy and English

Tia – We have been learning how to structure answers to inferential questions. When answering these types of questions you need to act as a detective by identifying the hints and clues that the authors give us and then use our own knowledge. We combine these two strategies to then write an answer.

Zach –  We have also updated our VCOP wall display, this time adding “ly” openers and more exciting descriptive vocabulary.

Numeracy and Maths 

Mason – This week we have been revising fractions, such as using number lines to help us order fractions.

Lauren – My group has been learning how to divide and multiply by 10 by using different rules.

Emma – Our new topic that we have been learning about is probability. We explored different real-life situations and then discussed the chances of the event occurring by using the terms; very likely, likely, possible, impossible, certain, unlikely and very unlikely.

Harry – This week we learned how to use and sort information by using Venn diagrams. Sometimes there are similarities and differences which means things can overlap.

Health and Wellbeing

Freya – In our friendship topic this week we took part in a circle time activity whereby we discussed how having friends make us feel.  Afterwards, we did a navigation game whereby we partnered with a friend and one of us had to close our eyes. The other pupil then guided us around a path. This helped to build trust between classmates!

Charlie – In P.E. with Mr Atkinson this week we played a couple of football matches. We all demonstrated respect, kindness and teamwork during the games.

Emily M – With Mr McMillan in P.E. we learned how to use the gymnastic apparatus.

RME

Maira – This week we have been learning about Ramadan! Some of us brought in objects and items related to Islam which we shared with our friends. Everyone was fascinated and enjoyed learning about a different religion.

Earth Day

Chloe – To celebrate and mark Earth Day we gathered resources from around the woodland and front area of the playground to recreate planet Earth. We had a lot of fun doing this outside as the weather was so sunny and wonderful!

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Once again thank you to all the families for allowing your children to bring materials to class for their spacecraft models. I have been so impressed with the teamwork, resourcefulness and dedication the groups have shown throughout the building process. Well done to everyone for meeting the design brief! Have a wonderful Easter holiday, I am looking forward to hearing your stories when you return.

Congratulations to the P4 pupils who participated in a tennis competition and won! I enjoyed watching and cheering you on!

Literacy and English

Hadia – For our grammar lesson we used adjectives to create a description of our aliens.

Numeracy and Maths 

Tia – As part of our new time topic we learned about dates, calendars and timetables. Our final activity involved creating our very own timetable and schedule based on a typical day.

Zak and Sarah Mc – Our group created fraction walls to support us with ordering fractions, this new resource was very helpful!

Yousaf – We have now progressed onto the 5 timestable. We first used concrete materials to help us solve calculations and then we moved onto problem solving questions.

Harry – My group has finished creating bar graphs and now we are learning about pictograms.

IDL (Space)

Lewis – This week we finished building our spacecrafts! We achieved this by using recyclable materials to help construct these models. It was so exciting working with friends to make these replicas and sharing them with the other P4 class. 

Freya – Some of the materials we used included cardboard, bottles and  newspapers which we turned into papier mâché. 

Darcy – After covering our spacecrafts in papier mâché we painted them to make the models more accurate. 

Health and Wellbeing

Emma – For our first lesson in gymnastics we learned different balances and then afterwards Mr Atkinson challenged us to create our own balances with the help of our friends! You can see some of our attempts below!

Expressive Arts

Freya – One of our starter tasks this week was to design an Easter egg, we all had a great time colouring these in.

Welcome to the P4A class blog! We cannot wait to share all of our learning with you and hopefully this will give you an insight into our week.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Thank you to everyone who has donated materials to help with construction of our spacecrafts. The pupils will be presenting the spacecrafts to P4B next week and pictures will be available on the blog. Over the last couple of weeks the class have had a couple of opportunities to participate in Beat the Street contest which you can see from the photographs below.

Literacy and English

Daniel – For our imaginative piece of writing this week we wrote stories about aliens. One of the key features of this was to create an exciting description of the appearance of our aliens.

Zak – The reading skill we have been developing is summarising. We looked at a text and then selected the best answers to some of the questions. We achieved this by identifying key words in the questions and disregarding overly detailed information that was irrelevant. 

Emma – We have been continuing to practice our handwriting in our booklets.

Numeracy and Maths 

Emily M – We have been learning about fifths, eighths and tenths and how to recognise equivalent fractions.

Chenul – We used our knowledge of compasses and directions outside to guide our partners to a certain place in the playground.

Harry – My group has been applying our knowledge of bar graphs to create our very own. We had to remember to include titles and an appropriate scale.

Lauren – Some of our Maths lessons involved dividing by 4 and solving word problems using the 4 times table.

 

 

Health and Wellbeing

Isla – In P.E. this week we created a new game called Space Invaders! It was so much fun and I liked that it included aspects of our Space topic. Astronauts (us) had to reach planets (different areas in the MUGA) and avoid meteorites (catchers).

IDL (Space)

Ruairidh – Using our line drawing skills and our knowledge of bird’s-eye view perspective we sketched our spacecrafts. We will use these drawings to help build replica models over the course of next week.

Millie – We used the Chromebooks to research our spacecrafts and took notes on their appearance, shape and colour.

Outdoor Learning

Charlie – This week we designed an assault course for the class to enjoy by gathering resources from the woodland!