“Welcome to our very last blog of the year! We hope you’ve had fun reading them!” Neave

“Yesterday, we went on our nature themed trip. We started with a hike around our local area, then when we arrived at the family centre field, we set up tents in groups. I had a smaller group and I enjoyed playing in the tents and taking part in the scavenger hunt.” Samarth

“We put up the tents ourselves and it was kind of tricky but we had fun!” Faiza

“We saw stick insects inside the family centre foyer and they were really camouflaged!” Amelia

“I saw my brother playing at the family centre and felt happy to see him!” Lucas

“I liked that we got to play fun games with parachute on our camping trip. My favourite game was washing machine!” Amara

“My favourite part was setting up the tents and playing inside them.” Nimit

We can’t believe it’s almost the end of P4! Here are some of our highlights…

“My favourite part of P4 was when we did our school show Spring Chicken because it was so fun, at the end I felt proud!” Waniyyah

“I liked when we did typed our Nature Reserve leaflets on chromebooks!” Hannan

“I liked when the Metaskills visitors came in and the artist was my favourite!” Zak

“My highlight of the year was during digital learning, typing on the chromebooks as well as Microbits!” Samarth

“My favourite part of P4 was learning about Titanic because at the start of the topic I didn’t know as much as I now know!” Amber

“I can’t choose my favourite parts! One of them was being Chickalita the main part in the show and my other favourite was the first day of P4 because I liked meeting my new teachers!” Isla

“My favourite part of the year was when we did our class show because it was really fun!” Kiyansh

“My favourite part of the year was when new people have joined our class and getting to make new friends!” Freya F

“My highlight  is today because we’ve had a relaxing day and will have a dance party reward this afternoon!” Lucas

Welcome back readers!

“This week, we made windsocks for the Wild Challenge. We decorated card, then we cut tissues paper into strands and glued it on. Next week, we hope to hang them outside and work out the direction of the wind!” Samarth

“I liked making them because I’m curious to see which way the wind is blowing.” Amber

“In writing we were learning about persuasive leaflets and we created a text map to help us understand more.” Lucas

“Next week we are going to create our own persuasive leaflet on a chromebook and I’m looking forward to it!” Neave

“This week there was a really big event called Sports Day and lots of parents were there.  My favourite event was the running race and the egg & spoon!” Fergus

“In the big race at the end, I came 1st out of the P4a boys and I’m really proud of myself!” Fraser

“My favourite event was the rugby race because I love running and I love doing sports!” Isla

“Tune in next week for more!” Samarth

“Welcome to our blog! We hope you have a great time reading it. ” Samarth

“On Thursday, we created bird baths for our RSPB Wild Challenge! I really hope they work!” Fraser

” We made the bird baths by using a plant saucer,  water and some pebbles. Today we checked back on them” Neave

“Some of the pebbles and water had gone out of the bird baths and this could be because something must have moved it!” Nimit

“I hope birds come and enjoy a bird bath!” Blair Alba

“A couple of days ago, we started learning about persuasive writing. We have learned R.O.E. stands for rhetorical questions, opinions and emotive language.” Isla

“Some of our discussion was to debate whether homework should be banned and whether junk food should be illegal to sell. I think homework should be banned and junk food should be legal.” Fergus

“Also in writing, we had to highlight a text with persuasive elements and then we tried to convince others that our text was more persuasive. I thought the Orlando holiday leaflet was the most persuasive!” Fraser

“Hope you enjoyed the blog, come back next week for more!” Harris

Welcome to our latest IDL Blog – apologies for the lack of photos, I’ve had an IT glitch!

We are nearly at the end of Learning Journey 3 – our board games are all created and we are at the finishing touches and testing stages.

The games are all looking great and all of the visitors to the Learning Lab have been so impressed with their development.

We are all very excited to share them with the wider school community.

The Meta Skills we have been learning about this term are Focusing and Adapting. We have been working on our active listening skills and ways to block out distractions. The Adapting Meta Skill will help with all of the transition changes over the coming weeks.

We have now started Learning Journey 4 and will be investigating the history of the local area.  Hopefully by summer we’ll all be local historians!

“Welcome back to our fabulous blog, we hope you enjoy it!” Sarah

“Today we did a table swap and saw who is sitting with us. Mrs Hobson made a game of this, she described everyone and we had to guess who the person was.” Fraser

“On Wednesday we made bird feeders, using lard and bird seeds. This will help nature and will help us achieve the RSPB Wild Challenge.” Amara

“We have also written Unbelievable Stories about Summer. Mine was one and a half pages long!” Samarth

“Also for our Wild Challenge, we went on a plant safari. We had to describe what we found. I found spiders and a few ants!” Basmah

“We have also learned more about time, like quarter past and half past. I did pretty well with this.” Lucas

Luckily, a new student joined our class this week and we are so happy she is here! She has told us she has had a nice first week at Crookfur.

Tune in next week for more!

Welcome back to our wonderful blog! This week we have been learning about Eid, read on to find out more.

“This week, we learned how to write our names in Arabic. We made name posters. I’m really proud of mine.”  Samarth

“I put a panther and a bike on mine because I like riding my bike and I am proud of it too!” Hannan

“On Wednesday, we made acrostic poems about Ramadan. Samarth and I are going to read these at assembly!” Waniyyah

“After break, me, Mila and Hannan taught the class some Arabic words. Such as, school, hello and car. I felt confident doing this.” John

“Today I got henna put on my hands by Basmah’s mum. I think it’s really beautiful, she did a good job.” Amelia

“This is called mendhi, I picked the pattern with lots of dots and swirls. It’s really beautiful!” Amara

“Later today, we are going to be having an Eid party! I feel excited!” Sarah

“Welcome back to our fantastic blog! Get ready for your minds to be blown!” Amber

“For the past few weeks, we have been preparing for our show  Spring Chicken, that has just been.  I was little bit scared for the show but at the end was very happy I did it!” Fergus

“I played Chickalita and was very happy I got the part and I tried my best. I hope everyone enjoyed the show! My favourite song was, I’m Gonna Sing. I had a few solos and they were fun to do.” Isla

“When I came home, my parents said I did really well. My favourite bit was performing Heaven Help a Chicken Farm!” Fraser

“My favourite part was singing Number One because it was really funky and I also liked Heaven Help a Chicken Farm!” Freya F

“When I was a cockerel on stage, my parents cried! When we sang I’m Gonna Sing, my auntie almost started crying!” Lucas

“I was very happy when we finished the show and I felt proud!” John

Take a look at our cool costumes below!

“Hi there, we haven’t spoken to you in a few weeks, we have some things to catch you up on!” Samarth

“Yesterday we had visitors to tell us how they use Metaskills at work. They were an artist, a BBC News presenter and an engineer. The artist was my  favourite, as he described how he made a sculpture that is in a park in London.” Waniyyah

“My favourite visitor was the BBC News presenter because I like how she talked about how she got that position.” Amber

“Mine was the engineer because I like how he showed us how he works on aeroplanes and I also like that he brought in a mini aeroplane to talk about.” Sarah

“Recently, we have been practising songs and actions for our Spring show. I’m looking forward to the show!” Fraser

“In our Spring Chicken show, there are lots of characters, really good songs and lots of jokes! My character is Mac the collie.” Fergus

“There is main part, called Chickalita and that is my part! I was really happy to get this part!” Isla

“In P.E. we have been doing cricket and practising hitting the ball with the bat. At the end we played a match, there were fielders and batters. It was really fun and a bit hard!” Kiyansh

“In IDL with Mrs Dougall, we were designing a board game using brief number 2 and we had to fix any mistakes we made in order to make the game better. Mine is really colourful and it’s called Rainbow Rusher!” Freya F

“Come back next week for more!” Nimit

“Hello, this week, as it was just two days we have a short blog for you but we hope you still like it!” Lucas

“On Thursday morning, we learned about paragraphs and we were given sentences to match together to make a paragraph. The challenge was to create a subtitle for each one!” Fraser

“This morning, we looked at a new piece of writing called The Manor House and we highlighted words to help us with the story.” Fergus

“We had questions on the board and we worked with our partners to find the information in the text.” Amara

“I magpied some adjectives and verbs for my own spooky story, such as; dark, muttered and slammed.” Isla

“We also wrote text maps based on the spooky story we read.This will help us to write our own stories.” Freya D

“I shared my text map with my friends!” Amelia

“Recently, we also wrote a piece of instructional writing on how to cook an omelette. As a challenge, we had to include Top Tips at the bottom. Such as, serve with a salad!” Samarth

“Today in French, we learned numbers from 1-20.” Yusaf

“Soon we are going to use this information, to write our birthdays in French.” Waniyyah

“Next week, we will learn number 21-31 and learn the months of the year.” Neave

Ciao for now!

“Hi readers, let’s catch up on some big events that have happened in P4a recently!” Samarth

” On Wednesday and Thursday this week we had Open Afternoons! Parents came and joined us for a lesson.” Sarah

“When our parents came in, one of our stations was to design a mythical creature. Mine was the Mosraptis” Fergus

“My favourite station during this lesson, was the thistle art as we got to use chalk pastels and  I had fun with my friends.” Amara

“On Thursday I got to do my favourite station and it was the thistle art. I liked how mine was realistic.” Sarah

“Because of our Burns Topic near Robert Burns Day we hosted a Burns Supper where we had Scottish haggis pastry parcels. We also did some Scottish dancing.” Fraser

“We made pastry parcels with vegetarian haggis inside them. I thought mine tasted good.” Samarth

“After we had haggis, we had shortbread and apple juice. It was really good.” Neave

“When we were eating the haggis, Mrs Hobson put music on and we all sang Three Craws.” Isla

“In maths we are learning about directions like North, East, South and West.” Waniyyah

“In maths we did something called grid references. I really liked it and feel confident about it.” Fergus

“We told our partner directions to follow to see if they would end up in the correct place.” Fraser

“Today in writing we did an instructional piece of writing about how to make an omelette.” Emily