Month: June 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:

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!