“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

Hi there and welcome to the first IDL Blog of this year. It’s Mrs Dougall here, as you may know, I have a different role this year and I am now responsible for Inquiry Based Learning across P2, P3 and P4.  This means that I complete Learning Journeys with the children, starting with a problem/question and working towards them finding a solution using teacher and child led learning across different aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence.   I now teach P4a for 3 periods of IDL and on of PE each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.

We started this session with an investigation into Energy. We learned about Kinetic, Solar, Wind and Hydro Energy. Our trip to the Science Centre allowed us to apply this learning in a different setting.

We have also fitted in two short blocks of learning about Meta Skills, these are the skills that we use everyday in our learning and our Meta Skills Lessons help us to investigate the skills, apply them in practical situations and recognise the importance of them in our daily learning. These Meta Skills will help equip the children  for the World of Work.

Our first Meta Skills focus was on Creativity and Curiosity and we are currently focusing on Communicating and Collaborating.  The class teachers work with us to apply these skills in all of our learning.

Our second Learning Journey was all about Climate Change. We focused on learning about the impact of Global Warming on the seas.

We also had a visit from a Scottish Government Climate change advisor.

We are about to start a our new learning journey and are all so excited.