Month: September 2019

All ready to go at Bikeability session 2 today! 🙂

P5C – 2 week homework

This homework will run over two weeks because of the September weekend. It will be given out today (Monday 23rd September) and brought back on Friday 4th October.

The tasks are:

1. Family Numeracy Homework

Being numerate helps us to function responsibly in everyday life and contribute effectively to society. It increases our opportunities within the world of work and establishes foundations which can be built upon through lifelong learning. Numeracy is not only a subset of mathematics; it is also a life skill which permeates and supports all areas of learning, allowing young people access to the wider curriculum.    (Education Scotland)

Families can choose one activity (or more if you wish) from the grid and work on this together over the next two weeks.  How you record and share your homework is up to you! There are some suggestions on the grid but please feel free to be as inventive as you wish.  This homework will last two weeks. On Friday 4^th October, the eldest child in each family should bring in their family homework and the pupils will get a chance to share their activity with the school community.  The homework should be carried out as a family and each activity can be simplified or extended to allow everyone to take part.  There are lots of real life challenges to allow our pupils to see the benefit numeracy and maths has on our everyday life.  These activities are designed to be fun, active and engaging for all our learners.  It will not only promote their numeracy, but it will also develop their problem solving, creativity and collaboration skills.

Please share your learning activities with us on twitter! @kirkhillPS and use our #

#kpsachievements #kpsmathsweeekscotland2019 #mathsweekscotland

Thank you for your support!

Family Numeracy Homework

 

2. Spelling Homework

Write your 5 new words in your Literacy Homework Jotter for your Chilli Challenge.

You do not need to complete any additional spelling tasks this week.

Chilli Challenge Words – ing/ed

 

I hope you all have a fantastic long weekend! 🙂

Miss Itcovitz

This term in Science we are studying different body systems.

Last week we were looking at the digestive system in more detail and to demonstrate this we carried out an experiment using tights!

We mixed cornflakes, banana, cocoa powder and orange juice in a food bag (the stomach) and mushed it up before feeding it through tights as though it was the intestine. The less said about what came out the other end the better!

Here are some photos of what we got up to 🙂

Hi everyone,

Here is the homework sheet for this week. I have attached the spelling menu again just in case you need it for your spelling tasks.

I hope you all have a fantastic week! 🙂

Task Sheet 16.09.19

Spelling Menu

Hi everyone,

It was great to meet so many of you at the meet the teacher event last week. I have attached the powerpoint which was on the screen for your information.

Kirkhill Primary Meet the Teacher September 2019

Different outdoor learning experiences offer opportunities for personal and learning skills development in areas such as communication, problem solving, information technology, working with others and thinking skills. Learning in the outdoors can make significant contributions to literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing. Therefore, outdoor learning offers many opportunities for learners to deepen and contextualise their understanding within curriculum areas, and for linking learning across the curriculum in different contexts and at all levels.

(Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2010)

At Kirkhill Primary we strive to provide regular outdoor learning experiences for all our children.  As a school we have a fantastic outdoor space which can be used across the curriculum to develop our children socially, emotionally and academically. During last session we had a super Science Garden added to our fantastic Eco garden and we can’t wait to explore here and other areas of our school grounds!

To allow all pupils to access outdoor learning in the changeable Scottish weather, we would appreciate the children bringing in outdoor clothing (wellies, rain jackets and trousers) on days they will be learning outdoors. Class teachers will let you know via the class blogs the days that these are required so that you can keep them at home on other days.  Also, if you have any spare items which your child is not using any more and you are happy to give these to the school, please put this in a bag with it clearly labelled as spare clothing for the school to allow items to be shared with our families.

Thank you in advance with your support with outdoor learning and please get in touch if you have any questions. This support will allow our children to have a fantastic time learning outdoors come rain or shine!