Hello everyone and welcome to our Primary 4a blog for March!

Literacy

As a whole class, we have just finished ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. We are currently up to chapter 22! This novel was used to base many of our writing lessons, as well as our reading lessons. Pupils have learnt new reading strategies such as summarising and paraphrasing. This has helped pupils to pick out the main points of a text.

We are also continuously developing our sentence structure and learning how to use openers, connectives and punctuation effectively.

Pupils are progressing well through Nelson Spelling Book 4 and are learning new rules weekly.

Numeracy and Mathematics

Pupils have been refreshing their memory on time. Specifically, digital time and writing time in words. This has been challenging as it has been a long time since pupils last done time. Nevertheless, this refresher has been very beneficial.

Pupils’ maths starters have still been in French this month, utilising ‘Content and Language Integrated Learning’ (CLIL) to gain knowledge of another language. I have noticed pupils seem more confident with their French numbers and multiplication tables. Plus, pupils have enjoyed learning new French terminology more and more.

 

IDL topic

We have just finished our IDL topic ‘Life Beyond Land’. Our big questions were: ‘Where does weather come from?’; ‘How does pollution impact the water?’; and ‘How do different animals survive under water?’.

 

 

Pupils exhibited their learning to the pupils of 4b and shared all of their knowledge relating to these 3 bigquestions. Many pupils particularly enjoyed the pH experiments and the different layers of the ocean.

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Pupils were very prepared for making their sacrament of reconciliation on Monday 13th March. They have also learnt about Lent and will continue to learn about the Easter story in the coming week.

Thank you for taking the time to read our March b  log! We hope you have enjoyed reading about our learning and we can’t wait to share more with you next month.

Hello everyone and welcome to our Primary 4a blog for February!

Literacy

As a whole class, we are working through ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. We are currently up to chapter 22! We have been using this novel to base many of our writing lessons, as well as our reading lessons. Pupils have been learning new reading strategies such as forming different types of questions like literal questions and inferential questions.

We are also continuously developing our sentence structure and learning how to use openers, connectives and punctuation effectively.

Pupils are progressing well in spelling and are learning new rules weekly. They have completed the first unit of the Nelson Spelling Book 4.

Numeracy and Mathematics

Pupils have been covering different topics in their maths groups. We have been refreshing our memory on bus-stop calculations and multiplication tables to ensure that those skills are consistently revised. Place value was also studied to solidify pupils understanding of hundreds, tens and units. Function machines were looked at as well which tackles algebraic equations.

Pupils’ maths starters have still been in French this month, utilising ‘Content and Language Integrated Learning’ (CLIL) to gain knowledge of another language. I have noticed pupils seem more confident with their French numbers and multiplication tables. Plus, pupils have enjoyed learning new French terminology more and more.

IDL topic

Our IDL topic ‘Life Beyond Land’ has been going very well. So far, we have looked at ‘Where does weather come from?’ and ‘How does pollution impact the water?’. Pupils recently completed a science experiment involving finding the pH of different types of water and comparing the pH paper next to the guide. This has formed a good basis for looking at how the ocean has been impacted by pollution in a process called ‘Ocean Acidification’. Pupils have really enjoyed looking at this process and this will lead nicely on to our final question: ‘How do different animals survive under water?’.

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Pupils have started getting ready for their sacraments of reconciliation. We have had many full practices and they feel very prepared for making their sacrament on Monday 13th March.

Thank you for taking the time to read our February Blog! We hope you have enjoyed reading about our learning and we can’t wait to share more with you next month.