Wow, what a range of fun and challenging activities that you have been taking part in.

I really loved the look of your Scratch Art pictures, they looked amazing. I hope you were able to get your hands clean, after all that pastel smudging, Eloise.

Your work on the human body in Science looked great and it appeared that you all really enjoyed your learning. It was great to see you placing the pictures of organs in the right places on your body outlines.

You looked brilliant on Big Me day and I really enjoyed seeing all of the great jobs careers that you hope to be involved in when you’re a bit older. Hopefully, your discussions and work that day have helped you to focus on what you need to do to achieve your goals.

Finally, what great achievements Anna and Jaime, I know everyone is very proud of you and rightly so!

Keep working hard and enjoying your learning.

Mr Masters

Anna has been competing in a tennis tournament with her tennis club Newlands Tennis Club. She came first in her group and will hopefully be moving onto orange ball in the near future. She received a trophy and a plate for this win.

Well done Anna!

  Prior to this she won a 3^rd place medal for another competition. We have a tennis star in primary 4.2!

Jaime attends a taekwon-do club twice a week. She was competing in a tournament at the weekend where she came third and won a bronze medal. Jaime is currently a blue belt.

What an amazing achievement Jaime, we are all very proud!

It has now been 2 weeks since everyone returned to school all ready to grow and learn. In primary 4.2 we have had a busy 2 weeks sharing stories form our holidays and getting to know the new teachers.

Some of the thing we have been learning so far include;

‘I have been working hard on literacy,’ Daniel.

‘I have really enjoyed maths. Learning about the properties of 3D shape,’ Millie.

‘I have been learning how to be safe on the internet.’ Scott.

I have been reading a book about a killer cat,’ Nico.

‘I like having class dojo’, Erin.

‘Growing cress seeds,’ Matthew.

As one of the teachers in 4.2 I have really enjoyed getting to know the class and learning all about these enthusiastic faces joining me in class every morning. I feel very lucky to be spending the year with them and feel confident we will learn a lot together during this exciting journey.  Miss Lowson

Some of the things the class are looking forward to are;

‘Lunches,’ Jackson

Art, maths and trips,’ Lily.

‘Art and writing,’ Sarah McNicol.

‘I like reading,’ Andrew.

Fireman Chris came to visit primary 3 who were all very excited! He brought lots of equipment and his uniform with him to show us what he needs to wear to keep him safe. Reid had great fun on his birthday modelling Chris’ cool fire suit!

We have been learning about the Solar Eclipse this week!
Today we actually got the chance to see it using our solar eclipse viewers!

Over 90% of the sun was covered by the moon!

Some of us even made our own and we were able to see the reflection of the eclipse!

‘The solar eclipse was so cool!’

‘I loved it!’ said Heather.

 
Nico said ‘I made my solar eclipse viewer with a shoe box and tin foil. It worked!
It was fantastic!’

 
Sarah thought watching the Solar Eclipse with her viewer was ‘so fun!’

The next Solar Eclipse isn’t till 2026! We will all be 18 years old!!

P2.2 have been learning all about robots.
We were given a design brief and created our own!

First of all we had to plan what our robot would look like and what junk materials we could use to create it.
We also gave our robot a purpose: what they do in the world to help us.

Then we started creating it with junk modelling.
In the design brief it says the robot cannot be bigger than 60cm! So we used our maths skills to measure and cut it to size.

Next we used paper mâché to form the shape of our robot!
We liked it because it was very messy!

After that we painted our robots using silver, bronze and white.
Through out the whole process we kept looking back at our plan to make sure we were following it.

Finally we finished it off by adding eyes and a mouth.
We hope you like our final product!

Heather and Nico’s robot is called Shiny. Her job is to help the girls tidy up their room!

Matthew and Daniel’s robot is called Superdog. The robots job is to save people
just like a superhero!

Millie, Ella and Sarah’s robot is called Katie. She plays with us!

James and Reid’s robot is called JR. He is a footballer and is able to play any position!

Andrew and Eva’s robot is called Jack. He is a teacher and is so clever!