This week in P4a the children have been working very hard in our Maths and Numeracy lessons. Some children have been learning how to estimate the area of an irregular shape, others have been concentrating on number processes and  the Triangles group, who will feature in the blog this week, have been learning about multiplication.

They have carried out practical tasks using concrete materials to develop their understanding of their table facts. There was some excellent team work shown by the Triangles group, as seen in the photographs attached, when they worked together to display and record the 3 and then 4 times table.

      Team work!           

The children are becoming more confident with multiplication.

In Health and Wellbeing we have continued to explore strategies to develop resilience. We have looked at the positive impact that exercise can have on our bodies and minds and we also have explored how having FUN can have a positive impact on us too. The children have worked extremely hard this week in all areas of the curriculum so when we were discussing ‘fun’ on Wednesday we thought it would be a good idea to plan some Friday Fun to allow the children to build relationships and spend time doing things that they enjoy. The children came up with a good list. Some of the ideas included; listening to music, creating art, drawing, rehearsing a play, playing board games and using digital technologies to play Maths games. We had a wonderful afternoon!

We have really enjoyed the class discussions (blethers!) that we have had during our Health and Wellbeing time and the children have said how much they have enjoyed involving family at home in the discussions too…so thank you for joining in.

This week the pupils took some photographs of the wall displays in our classroom because they wanted to show family at home where they are learning during the day.

We use this wall to display work that pupils have been proud of and have put a lot of effort into. There will be work displayed from all areas of the curriculum and this wall takes pride of place at the front of the classroom.

Mrs Guy has been the first person to display a ‘favourite mistake’. This wall encourages us to recognise our mistakes as a chance to learn and do better next time…the positive

focus on my mistake took most of the frustration out of my Google Classroom error! The children have been very patient  and I hope that the next time someone makes a mistake they will choose to display it alongside the Mrs Guy entry.

 In our class we have a Maths wall and a Literacy wall that are working walls filled with prompts that help us with our learning.  We have display walls and walls to help us plan our learning and reflect on it. As a welcome, outside our class we have created a beautiful and uplifting display stating that we are all different but we grow together in P4a 🙂

                                     We have bunting around the class that has a contribution from each pupil with a piece of advice for when we feel worried or anxious. The pupils can refer to their own advice or can browse what others have to say.                                      The children have identified rights and responsibilities that they want to focus on this year and have agreed with each other to respect each others rights and help each other to be safe in class.

Do you like our homemade cacti? We have a bit of a nature/plant theme going on in P4a and this was a fun way to display our class birthdays. Can you spot a few real plants including “Wee Spiky”?

We had our first remote music lesson this week and it went really well. The technology worked for us (!) and the pupils engaged very well with the lesson which was exploring different rhythms.  

Some highlights!

Killer ten championship on Friday afternoon…

“Adapt” art activity. Showing we are able to adapt by completing tasks with our non-dominant hand. Some interesting results…

Beating PBs in Speed Tests…

Successful writing planning…

Using ICT to learn about multiplication…

Time for a well earned weekend!

We had a really fun afternoon learning about BALANCE in our Resilience topic in Health and Wellbeing. We were exploring the importance of having a good balance in life. We began with some fun challenges…

After walking the ‘tightrope’ and completing some tricky tower challenges we discussed what balance was and how it was important eg. exercise vs rest and school time vs family time. The children then discussed in groups which things they would like to do more of and which things they could do less of to ensure a good balance.

We also completed some art activities relating to our Resilience topic. We have been discussing ADAPTING to different situations in life when changes arise and to test how well we adapt physically we drew pictures with our non-dominant hand with some very interesting results!

We had a good giggle looking around and next week the children want to post photographs on the blog to show the different wall displays we have in class. So you can look forward to seeing our wonky art pieces then!