Hello everyone and welcome to our second Primary 4a blog! October was a fantastic month for pupils.

Literacy

This month our writing lessons have focussed in on writing instructions. Pupils are mid-way through the topic and have successfully created aims for their writing, listed resources for their instructions and put steps in a logical order. We will continue to up level our work by adding in ordinal language in the coming weeks.

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

Pupils have come to the end of our spelling book and will move on to a new book at the start of November.

Numeracy and Mathematics

We have been doing lots of work on the seven times table which has included mental maths games, counting multiples of seven, using 100-squares, oral counting and work on the chrome books.

In October we have studied division as a whole class. Pupils have been learning how to calculate the remainder from 2-digit numbers.

Health and Wellbeing

During PE we are looking at possessive games- starting off with football. Pupils have started looking at passing and dribbling.

Our health and wellbeing lessons have been based around conversations about mental health- understanding what our mental health is and ways in which we can improve/support our mental health. Moreover, with Halloween being last week we discussed Halloween safety.

IDL topic

Our IDL topic which pupils chose to study was ‘Space’. Pupils had the opportunity to look at space in a variety of different areas such as topic, writing, science, outdoor learning and art. Our new topic- The Vikings- will start next week as pupils have given plenty of suggestions of what they would like to learn!

RE

During RE we looked at the story of creation and some of the Joyful Mysteries of Mary.

Outdoor Learning 

During out outdoor learning, pupils have explored the outdoors, created constellations using natural materials and created their spelling words using natural materials.

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