Kirkhill Primary (P4a)

August 28, 2019

Outdoor Learning

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 of 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 amazing 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 like to ask if pupils could please bring in a named bag with old wellies, trousers (waterproof if possible but other old trousers if not) and a rain jacket. Please do not buy any new items! If you do not have any of these items which could be left in school throughout term time, please send a note to your child’s teacher and we will organise this for you. If you could please ensure that all items of clothing and wellies have your child’s name and class clearly marked, that would be fantastic. 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!

August 26, 2019

Welcome P4a!

A huge welcome to all pupils joining P4a, we have had a busy first week getting to know each other. Please have a look at our first piece of homework; we look forward to learning more about our classmates this week.

26th August

June 7, 2019

This week in P3a

We have had a very busy week in P3 but unfortunately we have had no camera.

We did some Inference Iggy. He gave us a picture and we had to use the clues in the picture to help us work out what was happening. Then he gave us a piece of text called Lily and the Tooth Fairy. After we had read it, we had a sheet of questions to answer and we had to look back in the text and inference. I found it quite easy because I followed the instructions. – Rayna

For my homework I made a rap about my year in P3 – here it is.

Hello my name is KG

It’s time to talk about Primary 3

At my table are Ben, Bruce and Ella,

Jessica, Ruby, Clementine and Sara.

Now let’s talk about history

And other subjects you will see,

There’s spelling, maths and literacy.

Wait a minute, don’t forget art,

because all I’m doing is sneaking out a …..

There was a show about climate change,

Where the penguins could talk which is rather strange!

Miss MacArthur said Noelle, I said knees

and then the primary 3s started to wheeze.

Now I’ve come to the end of my rap,

It’s soon time for you to clap.

‘Cause my name is KG

and that for me was primary 3! – by Kerr 🙂

I presented my homework. I did a powerpoint about my favourite football team. I learned about their most famous team who won the cup in Lisbon. – Louis

We have also been revising division, learning about different forms of energy and writing some fantastic simile poems.

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Homework W/C 20.5.19

Your last ever homework of P3 can be found below 🙂

20.5.19 Project Homework

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

Inference Iggy

This morning when we came into class we noticed something strange had happened. All around the classroom, there were lots of clues!

I think the Riddler has been here! – Ben

We decided we should turn into detectives and solve them. We found it really fun but we had to read all of the information carefully to make our guess.

We then found out that all of our clues had been left by Inference Iggy. He is a dog who looks like a detective! He helps us to hunt for clues and is going to help us do this when we are reading lots of different texts.

May 15, 2019

Fun in the Sun

We decided to make the most of the glorious Scottish weather and take our maths outdoors. We used chalk and also searched on the banking for natural materials to make up some of our times tables.

Some of us were sorting 3D shapes too. We had so many to look through!

We made sure we were responsible and cleaned up after ourselves at the end. We even tidied up some mess we hadn’t made. We were really sad to find lots of plastic cups and litter on the banking because we know how harmful this can be to wildlife. We brought all the plastic inside so Miss MacArthur can take it home to her recycling bin.

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019

Food Chains

As part of our new science topic we have been learning all about food chains. We found it really interesting and couldn’t believe every food chain in the world starts with a plant! We sorted a food chain in our groups and then made some of our own. We are going to go outside to see if we can spot any animals and work out a food chain they may belong to on Thursday. Here’s hoping the sun keeps shining!

May 14, 2019

Spelling

We were given the choice about how to practise our spelling words today.

Isla chose to use lego to create her words. Can you work out what it says?

Rayna, Manya, Callum and Holly chose to play beat the teacher.

Jessica, Ella and Skye chose to use paint. They even added some tints and shades to their paint! 🙂

Ruby and Ella chose to write on the desks using chalk pens.

Harris made his words out of lego too, can you work it out?

May 14, 2019

Gymnastics Fun

On Monday we were so lucky to have a special gymnastics session by Mrs Wilson. We were learning all about balancing and keeping our body steady on lots of different bits of equipment. We had great fun!