September 2019 – Kirkhill Primary (P4c)

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019

Homework – Week Beginning 23rd September

Learn the un/dis words that are glued in your Literacy Jotter using one of the strategies from your sheet.

Extra Spelling task (Optional) – go to https://www.spellingcity.com/MissCharnley/

Scroll down until you find the correct sound (Book 1 List 3).
Try some games or test yourself on this week’s words.

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)

Monday 23^rd September – Family Numeracy and Maths Homework Challenge

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!

23rd September – family numeracy homework

September 20, 2019

Outdoor Learning – Science/Art

P4c have been learning about the human body. We used our sense of sight to explore the school grounds. We had great fun collecting items around the school to make a natural colour wheel. We discovered lots of red and yellow colours but it was harder to find purples and blues.

We made sure we were being safe, responsible and respectful while we worked in our natural environment.

Look at all these colours!

We enjoyed going to the science garden and the banking. Martha

It was very interesting. Naba

It was fun. Jonathan

It was easy to find different colours. Shayaan

September 19, 2019

National Coding Week

P4 have been working on our coding skills to celebrate National Coding Week. We used the website code.org. We had to programme some Angry Birds to direct them around a map. We can’t wait to continue our coding next week!

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Outdoor Learning

We will be working in the Science Garden on Fridays this term to do some outdoor learning. Please send in the equipment detailed in this previous post every Friday – https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/kirkhill23c/2019/09/02/outdoor-learning-clothing-amendment/

Thank you

September 16, 2019September 13, 2019

Homework – Week Beginning 16th September

Please open the documents below to access the homework for this week.

04 16th September 2019 word list

04 16th September 2019

September 9, 2019September 5, 2019

Homework – Week Beginning 9th September 2019

Please open the documents below to access the homework for this week.

03 9th September 2019 word list

03 9th September 2019

September 6, 2019September 5, 2019

Meet the Teacher Presentation

Please click below to see a PDF of our Meet the Teacher presentation.

Kirkhill Primary Meet the Teacher September 2019 P4c

September 2, 2019

OUTDOOR LEARNING CLOTHING – AMENDMENT

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!