Last week we thoroughly enjoyed the snow! Despite finding it difficult to get to school once we were here we had great fun playing and building things outside.

‘Team work makes the dream work.’

In P4/5 we really hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. We are really excited to be back at school and looking forward to developing our learning in 2018.

We have been focusing on word problems within numeracy and maths recently and working hard to identify what the problem is asking us to do then completing it.
Alexander – “We all looked for key words to show us what kind of calculation we need to solve.” Beth – “altogether means add” and Aiden told us that “finding the difference means take away.” Ross – “sometimes altogether can mean multiplication you just need to look at the other words in the problem too.” Ellie M – “share between means we have to divide.” Kyle – “I really like completing word problems because we need to use our understanding to solve more difficult calculations.”

Moreover, within our IDL topic we have been learning about ‘Scottish Wars of Independence’. We now know about lots of important figures and their role within the war during the 13th century.

Kyle – “We learnt about the Battle of Stirling Bridge. This was when the Scottish army fought against the English army. It was very unfair because the Scottish army only had about 8,000 infantry but England had about 17,000!” “There was a big difference in the Calvary too because Scotland had 150 but England had 750 which is more than triple!” – Emily.
Campbell – “We watched a really good video to help us learn more about this battle. The video was made by someone using Lego so it was funny to watch too.”
Amy – “The bridge broke during the battle and it meant that lots of the English soldiers had to try and swim back to safety in the River Forth. Fortunately Scotland won even though we didn’t have many soldiers.”
Iris – “William Wallace was named a hero because Scotland won!” Alexander – “They called him the Guardian of Scotland.”