Hello again readers, another busy week in P4a!

Read on to find out about our highlights.

This week in maths, we have been learning about different types symmetry and symmetry in the real world. We watched a video with people making symmetrical patterns outside. We also looked at pictures of the Giant’s Causeway, which has naturally occurring hexagonal pillars made of basalt!

We have also been doing lots of Spring Show prep such as decorating our daffodil pots for charity! We used paint pens for these and think they look great!

“I enjoyed decorating my plant pot!” Elay

“I loved decorating my plant, even though the pen exploded a bit!” Ruaridh

Remember readers, our Spring Showcase is Wednesday next week, so see you there! 🙂

Donations will be made to the Marie Curie charity!

Hello again reader, we have been busy this week!

Read on to find out more 🙂

We have been working hard on poetry and are looking forward to sharing some of it at our Spring Showcase. For one of these lessons we learned about haikus! A haiku is a Japanese poem which has a specific structure, often describing nature.

“We had to write only 3 lines. The first with 5 syllables, the 2nd with 7 and the last one with 5 syllables again.” Ryan

“I loved writing the haikus and completed 5 today!” Isla

“Today Ryan and I spoke to the whole school at assembly and taught everyone about an Iranian celebration, called Nowruz. This is Iranian New Year. I felt a bit nervous but also excited!” Elay

Also this week, we have been practising our showcase and it’s going really well. We can’t wait to see you at it soon!

Welcome back readers!

Recently, we have been learning about Marie Curie, the famous scientist from Poland. She discovered 2 elements called radium and polonium that changed the world! This is even more amazing because when she was alive, women were not allowed to go to university!

We made notes about Maire Curie and used these to design posters. We will share more about her, during our Spring Show. Stay tuned for details and check out some lovely photos below! 🙂

“I loved learning about Marie Curie and am SO excited for our Spring Show!” Isla

“Marie Curie was very fun to learn about!” James

Hi readers,

Recently we have been learning how to write instructions and have been making some tasty recipes. We made empire biscuits for our Scotland topic because the shortbread and the jam are Scottish.

We also went to the hall and made vegetarian haggis pastry parcels, with Slyvia our head cook! We got to shape the pastry ourselves and decide how much haggis to put inside.

The haggis was for our Burns Supper, which we had later in the day. First we decorated the hall, then we had our food, some people recited poetry, we sang 3 craws and then went into the hall for a ceilidh! We learned the Canadian Barn and had lots of fun!

Check out some pictures below! 🙂

“I enjoyed my empire biscuit. I think it had the right amount of jam it it!” Hugo

“I showed the class some Highland dancing, it was the first step of the Sword dance!” Jura

“I loved doing the ceilidh dancing!” Jovie

Our highlight of the week was reading and writing poetry in the style of Robert Burns. We learned about ode poems, these describe something you love such as…”Oh chocolate!” They were invented by the ancient Greeks and Robert Burns wrote them too!

“My ode poem was all about shortbread because I love it so much!” Elay

“Mine was about books because I love to read!” Jovie

Have a look at our work below 🙂

Happy New Year everybody! Welcome back to our first blog of 2026!

We have started a new topic in P4a, read on to find out more!

We will focus on exploring the question – What influences the food we eat in Scotland?

Today we started off by learning mini things about Robert Burns, Scottish food and celebrations. For example, shortbread is  a Scottish product (it’s also tasty!)

We learned a little about Robert Burns and then used iPads to research information about him, this was fun! Robert Burns wrote lots of poems and he was from Scotland. We are looking forward to making our own Scottish recipes and having our very own Burn’s Supper!

“I found this really fun and found out lots of facts about Robert Burns!” Elay

“It was fun to work with my partner Christopher, we were an excellent team!” Ruaridh

“Did you know that Robert Burn’s favourite food was haggis, neeps and tatties with some whiskey!” Isla

Stay tuned for more updates!

This week we’ve been very busy creating Christmas products and selling them to make money! Before this, we learned what ‘Enterprise’ is, we got into groups and made business names, logos and slogans. For example,

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Team Tinsel – It’s Tinsel Time!

MAEJT – MAEJT is maejtical!

Christmas Spirit – Crafts so good, Santa would be jealous!

Team Christmas – Click & Collect Christmas!

We had a £50 budget to start with and we bought items from Mrs Hobson’s ‘shop, made products such as cards and decorations and sold them to Mr Chrystal and Mrs Orr. We had to persuade them that our products were worth the money!

“My team won as we made the biggest profit!” Jovie

“I loved getting to make all the crafts and getting to sell them, as I have a creative side!” Isla

“I think it was hard creating products but we managed to do it!” Maryam

This week in Maths, we learned all about the calendar and also about Advent in RME. These  link because it is coming up to Christmas and we have lots  of Advent Calendars in our homes. We were also learning about what other countries and cultures do to celebrate Advent.

In Mexico they have a 9 day festival called Las Pasadas, which is when they reenact the nativity and also hit pinatas , children share the treats and sing songs. In Denmark, on 1st December they light a special candle to countdown to Christmas.

Today in Maths, we had  stations . We played an ipad game, made a poster about the months of the year and we also added important dates to a December calendar to help us learn how to use a calendar.

“I liked the IPad station, it was fun!” Elay

“I loved the calendar sheet and I liked the questions.” Ryan

This week our highlight was a special Taekwondo PE session! We had a nice instructor from a local club. We did a warm up first then learned some moves. In pairs, we had to put on a special arm pad, run up to our partner and kick it 1,2,3,4 then 5 times in a row! Some people even wore their own martial arts kit, for the session!

“I felt good learning some taekwondo!” Olivia W

“I really enjoyed doing something we don’t usually do and now I know another type of martial arts!” Ruaridh

Our highlight of the week were the two open afternoons! Lots of parents came in, as we designed rainforest dioramas. We used shoeboxes, tissue paper for the background, pipe cleaners to make things stand up also to represent vines and pictures of rainforest animals. We also labelled  the four layers of the rainforest, these are: emergent, canopy, understorey and forest floor. We will finish them today, have a look at our amazing work so far!

“I loved making the dioramas of the rainforest because there were lots of animals, vines and water to add!” Isla

“I loved it when we were making our dioramas. I like that mine has a little monkey swinging from a vine.” Ryan