Month: January 2022

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 have been so impressed with the class this week! They have enthusiastically participated in all our Scottish themed activities and worked brilliantly in group tasks!

A couple of reminders, we will continue not to visit the Woodland area due to the conditions and weather. Homework should be handed in on a Monday so that it can be reviewed and marked to be reissued on Tuesday morning.

 

Literacy and English

Tia – This week we have been learning about the Scots language. After doing some research we then created acrostic poems and were challenged to include 5 Scots words in them. A few of us performed our finished poems to the rest of the class.

Emma and Darcy – Before creating our poems we created a Scots language display. First we designed a tartan background and then selected a Scots word to outline in black pen. You can see our brilliant display below!

Charlie – To help write our poems we used an online Scots dictionary to translate some tricky words.

Harry and Yousaf – This week we have been learning how to peer-assess our writing by carefully checking the success criteria. We based our two stars and a wish on the criteria.

Daniel – We created fact files on Robert Burns which we shared with the class.

Numeracy and Maths 

Zak – Some of us have been learning how to solve calculations  involving the 6 timestable.

Emily –  My group have been learning to multiply 2 digit numbers by 1 digit.

Harry – We have been converting ml and L. There are 1000ml in 1 L.

Yousaf – Our group have been exploring place value with two and three digit numbers.

Health and Wellbeing

Charlie – We have started learning the Gay Gordons which is a transitional Scottish dance.

Mueez –In our Growth Mindset lesson we debated the question – are people born with talent.

Chenul – On Thursday we planned Highland Game activities and started writing instructions for them. Next week we are going to teach the rest of the class our games.

Expressive Arts

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:

Well done to everyone for your excellent efforts and hard work! Next week there will be a Scottish theme throughout the lessons.

Literacy and English

Mason – This was our last week of writing a recount. First we all chose a memorable event to write about and then we put our events in chronological order. Throughout our pieces we had to write in first person and in past tense. We were also challenged to include verbs and the 5 Ws and 1 H.

Numeracy and Maths 

Steven – We have been using greater than, less than and equal to symbols to compare different numbers.

Harry – My group has started a new topic and this has involved learning about ml and L and measuring volume with jugs.

Lauren – Our last lesson on the time topic involved researching and learning about different time devices such as egg timers, alarms and sundials.

Emily – Some groups have been rounding three digit numbers to 10 and 100.

Health and Wellbeing

Emma – With Mr McMillan we played a whole class tennis match – it was so exciting!

Expressive Arts

Ruairidh – Continuing our line focus in Art, we sketched cubes and then shaded them based on the position of where we drew our suns. This was tricky because we had to think about the shadow the sun would cast on parts of the cube.

French

Zak – We have started creating profiles about ourselves! This week we learned how to write our ages and birthday months in French.

 

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 have been so impressed with the enthusiasm and hard work the pupils have displayed over the course of this week. Once again thank you to those that donated some materials to the children to create a rib cage! You can see some photographs below and on the school Twitter page. Homework was issued this week and should be returned on the following Monday so that it can be checked over.

Literacy and English

Freya – This week we wrote a recount about our favourite birthday. Mr Atkinson encouraged us to use descriptive vocabulary, time openers and the 5 Ws.

Ruairidh – We have been learning about sequencing and the importance of ordering events. We have also been identifying time openers from our group novels.

Numeracy and Maths 

Mason –  Some of us created a hundred square which we are going to display on our Maths display.

Tia – In our maths groups we created information posters based on our recent topics.

Emily B and Maira – Our groups have been rounding three digit numbers to the nearest 10.

Yousaf – We have continued learning about about our time topic. This week we were matching analogue and digital times involving quarter to and quarter past.

Harry – My group has been learning how to recognise, record and write 3/4s.

Science 

Harry – We watched some videos about the rib cage and then we used resources and materials to create models of rib cages. These have been displayed in the science corner!

Health and Wellbeing

Charlie and Chenul – In P.E. we have been learning about the correct techniques and skills needed to throw a javelin and shot put as part of our athletics topic.

Expressive Arts

Daniel – This week in Art we have been creating famous buildings from around the world using lines and different patterns.

Sarah McCreadie – After drawing our buildings we used the Chromebooks to research and create fact files about our chosen building. Some facts we included were the locations of them, how long they took to build and their unique designs.

Emma – Whilst some of us researched famous buildings my team drew and coloured in a picture of the Earth. We then connected our drawings and fact files to their locations on the Earth display.

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:

It has been great listening to all the festive stories from the children this week! The pupils also had the opportunity to enjoy the sudden snow in the Muga. Throughout January we will not be visiting the outdoor areas around the school.

Literacy and English

Daniel –  For our writing this week we wrote a recount of our Christmas holidays. We focused on including punctuation and the 5 Ws as well as the 1 H.

Maira –  For a change we typed our recounts on the laptops. We used the listening function on the laptops to check whether our sentences were correctly structured.

Numeracy and Maths 

Mason –  My group has started learning about coordinates and how to plot use grid references.

Tia – We have been exploring place value in HTUs.

Lauren – Some of us have revisited the time topic and begun to learn about quarter to and quarter past. 

Harry – My group has been learning about halves and quarters and how to create and recognise them in shapes.

Health and Wellbeing

Isla – When we returned to school we investigated how different countries celebrate the New Year and what resolutions are. Afterwards, we created targets about what we wanted to improve upon this term, we called them ‘Rockin resolutions.’ We also designed our very own guitars to display our targets on.

 

Science 

Millie – The class have been learning about the different bones in the human body such as the rib cage and skull. We discovered that there are usually 206 bones in the adult human skeleton and that skeletons change overtime from when we are born.

Ruairidh – We spent some time identifying different types of bones in our bodies and then we used a Word bank to complete sentences about the skeleton.