We are still Growing (Y)our Own Potatoes! Anshi investigated our “Under the Soil experiment” potatoes, which let us see what is actually going on in the grow bags. She saw at least four potatoes growing on each plant. Armeen cannot wait for the real potatoes to finish growing so we can all eat them.

Heather can keep the new rhythm she has learnt in Music. It is called Tiri-te. Daniel also really enjoyed composing his own music and then playing it on the glockenspiel.

Amna has been helping to teach the rest of the class about Ramadan in RME. Rhys has also enjoyed learning about the story of Joseph. It has taught him about kindness and not being mean to other people.

Ruadhan has expanded his knowledge about our five senses in Science. Ailey enjoyed smelling different scents to try to identify them. Millie loved exploring the Body Works section of the Science Centre when we went there on our trip.

Our main reason for visiting, though, was to explore the Planetarium. Sofia loved seeing the planets on the dome above our heads. Yousef enjoyed reading the information about each planet that was displayed in the exhibition.

Breac has loved reading Sleeping Beauty in French as he managed to recognise quite a few words (especially ages and number names).

In ICT we have been doing more work on coding. Erion has enjoyed that everyone in class have their own personal login so that they can work through the tasks at their own speed.

We had a great time in Art recently. We studied the work of Arcimboldo, who made portrait collages using household items like fruit, pots and fish.  Morrisons kindly gave us some out of date fruit and vegetables and Mrs Taylor brought in some plants from her garden and we made our own portraits. Amelia worked with Rio and Sofia to make a person with a body from oranges and cauliflower!

Sophie has enjoyed learning about lots of different charities and how they help people. We are going to sell ice lollies at break and give the profit we make to a charity which we will choose soon.

Marcus has loved our focus on poetry. He read a poem about pets to a group of other children and they loved it too. Callum’s favourite poem was called Eating Bananas and Ella loved the poem was The Bird on the Shore, which was about oil pollution.

Out of school, our achievements are as amazing as ever!!!

ACTIVE = Heather completed her swimming lessons and Anshi has moved up to level 4 in swimming. Callum has learnt how to dive.

ACHIEVING = Eleena and Fatima have learnt how to cycle (separately!). Lucy has completed 2 Brownie badges. Ruaridh played in an International Football Tournament in Blackpool. Sam performed at the Citizens Theatre with Gamta in The Wiz in front of an audience of 600 people.

HEALTHY = Josh wild camped with his dad and carried his own rucksack.

INCLUDED = Sofia was brave and tried indoor skydiving.

RESPONSIBLE = Amna makes her bed every day. Armeen and Musa have fasted for Ramadan. Ella has gained three new Brownie badges.

NURTURING = Millie has learnt how to do ventriloquism and looks after her puppet carefully. Ruadhan has helped his brother at his dancing show.

 

Literacy and Numeracy

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We have ‘March’ed into Spring!

 

We hope you enjoyed our amazing performance at the Church Spring Service. As Emma will tell you, we told the congregation about how things grow in Spring. Eleena really loved introducing our funny ‘Hay Fever’ song.

 

Excitingly, we are still Growing (Y)our Own Potatoes! Thank you to Sam and Lucy who looked after our bags of potato plants over the holidays. Also to Nimra and Ella who looked after the “Under the Soil experiment” potatoes, which let us see what is actually going on in the grow bags! (Thank you also to Emma, Millie, Eleena and Daniel who nurtured the other class plants).

 

Ruaridh is happy that Mrs Carey has taught us another new hand sign in Music. It is called ‘Do’. As Rio can tell you, you show it with a closed fist.

 

We are excited to have been trialling Talking Homework. Sam has loved it because he got to talk! Logan L enjoyed sharing his thoughts with his mum, dad and Apollo! For our third Talking Homework activity some of us brought in cute baby photos and we all had to guess who was who. Most people managed to recognise Lucy from her baby photo. Callum showed everyone his baby book.

 

We also used the Talking Homework discussion in RME to talk about what happens when a Muslim baby is born. As Nimra can tell us, something sweet is put on the baby’s gum, somebody whispers a prayer in the baby’s ear and then their hair is shaved off and the equivalent weight of gold or silver is given to charity. Musa also shared that the family has a party with their neighbours and friends and eat goat or lamb.

 

Ella loved hearing from our visitors from the Museum of Communications. They told us about AND SHOWED us many Scottish inventions that make a big difference in our lives.

 

Logan A has enjoyed using 2D shapes to make tiling patterns. He worked with a group to discover that circles and shapes with no flat sides do not tile, but also that not all flat 2D shapes tile with each other.

 

We have been working hard in grammar. Fatima knows that if she is asking something in writing, the sentence needs to end with a question mark.

 

We have had lots of fun with spreadsheets in ICT – Josh can even do multiplication and division calculations really easily!

 

Out of school, our achievements are wonderful as ever!!!

 

ACTIVE = Breac has learnt to do the Michael Jackson lean. Callum moved up a level at swimming. Sam moved up to Level 2 in skiing. Lucy can now do a dive.

 

ACHIEVING = Heather has learned to ride her bike with gears. Ruadhan has learned how to read complicated words in longer books. Millie has learnt ‘A Million Dreams’ on the piano. Nimra is now on the 16^th Siphara, which makes her half way through reading the Quran. Amna was Pupil of the Week twice in a row!

 

HEALTHY = Josh climbed the Cobbler. Ruaridh scored 9 goals in one football game and played at Rugby Park!

 

INCLUDED = Sofia has joined a new gymnastics club.

 

RESPONSIBLE = Armeen makes her bed every day. Ailey has been washing the dishes. Daniel helped his dad put down some new grass.

 

NURTURING = Eleena has been helping her mum with housework.

 

 

 

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Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.

 

Article 13

 

You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing unless it breaks the rights of others.

 

There will be a lot of questions with this week’s Talking Homework.

There is no need to write anything down, but it would be lovely to see a photograph or two, if you can.

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The additional focus for the children this week is to learn their words (and the songs) for the Spring Service.

Help with that is greatly appreciated!

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Sophie would like to tell you about the new hand sign we have been learning, “It shows the note ‘la'”. Erion is excited about the two new rhythms we have learned, called Tiri-te and Tiri-tiri. Millie thinks it goes really well with numeracy because the notes show quarters and that is funny! Yousef tells us that this is because the rhythms have four notes in them.

In French, Rhys is proud that he is now able to write down the question, “Quel age as-tu?” which means, “How old are you?”. Armeen is able to write the answer, “J’ai sept ans.”

On Safer Internet Day Heather learnt a lot from the story we read which showed some children getting upset at mean messages that had been posted about their pictures on the Internet. As Sofia will tell you, “You have to always be careful on the internet and be careful what you post.” Amna and the rest of the class each randomly picked the name of a classmate and then wrote kind messages about them on the class discussion list for everyone to enjoy.

We have been learning more about different Scottish inventors with Miss Dunn. Breac is proud that he is able to produce a timeline that shows what year Scottish inventions were invented. Daniel used a ruler to draw lines for his timeline and then showed all the different dates going along it.

Excitingly, we are Growing (Y)our Own Potatoes! GYOP provided us with two varieties – Rocket and the local variety called Swift. As Ailey said, “We chitted them on the window sill for two weeks.” Anshi was excited to see all the chits (shoots) that have appeared on the seed potatoes. Everyone loved the mess made by the compost as we planted them in the special Hado bags we got. We have decided that it is too cold in Glasgow to put them outside just now, as they suggested, so we are keeping them in the classroom at the moment. Watch this space as we keep track on their growth through the Beneath the Soil project.

Talking of growth, we are looking forward to exploring more about plants as part of our part in the Church Spring Service – we hope to see you there to find out all about our learning!

 

Out of school, our achievements are wonderful as ever!!!

ACTIVE = Lucy has been getting faster on her bike. Ruaridh is really good in goals at football and managed to save a great shot. Heather went to Cuningar Loop and climbed to the top of a boulder without using the hand grips.

ACHIEVING = Lucy has gone up a level in swimming and Anshi has now done three levels! Ruadhan has now learnt the note ‘d’ on his guitar. Sofia has passed her dancing exam. Logan L climbed an indoor climbing wall for the first time. Breac has learned how to do Michael Jackson’s moonwalk! Callum has been writing his very own Mr Penguin story. Sam is practising for his Grade 1 in the violin.

HEALTHY = Josh has achieved more than his 120 minute active goal. Eleena is getting better at cricket, being a batsman and Erion is getting faster at swimming.

INCLUDED = Sam has got a place at GAMTA for drama, dancing and singing, following an audition.

RESPONSIBLE = Rio has been mowing the lawn. Ella has been helping out at home by putting her clothes away and keeping her room tidy. Eleena has been tidying up at home without even being told. Millie is an avid reader and has been learning life lessons from the recent books she has enjoyed.

NURTURING = Ella has shown some real responsibility by caring for her fish, feeding then and cleaning out their tank and Nimra has been a huge help with her Auntie’s new baby, Ibrheem.

 

Literacy and Numeracy

Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.

Article 13

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P3a are full of achievements this December and January.

In Music, we have completed a listening unit with Mrs Carey. We have listened to the story of Peter and the Wolf and identified which instruments represent each of the animals. This has taught us about lots of instruments in the orchestra and the musical families they are in. Sam was very excited to hear the violin’s important role – we have all heard how good he is at the violin already, so maybe one day it will be him playing the part of Peter in the orchestra.

In French, we have had fun using our excellent knowledge of numbers to 30 to ask each other how old we are. Marcus liked playing the game where we each took a random number, we chatted to each other in French and then our partner had to confirm in English how old we were supposed to be!

In ICT, we have been accessing and using information from electronic sources, like Glow. Our knowledge of software is getting wider and wider and we can even log on to our Glow accounts to open documents and click on links to get to other web pages. Rio enjoyed clicking through to some numeracy games. Not only that, every person in the class has replied to messages on a discussion list – it is so exciting when you see your message on the screen! Ella showed her personality by including a humorous response.

Our piece de resistance was our fantastic assembly in January!!!!! We had been learning in school about Scots, one of the three languages we speak in Scotland. We learnt a Scots poem – Foo Robin got his rid breest. We sang the funny song, Three Craws. Callum enjoyed depicting a crow because of his love of animals and interest in birds in particular.

We also retold the story of the wedding of Robin and Wren. Before our performance we rehearsed, knowing how important it was for us to speak clearly, loudly, slowly and enthusiastically to make sure that our audience could hear us. All those who were lucky enough to come to watch us will agree how confident and successful we were – and we had so much fun too! Logan A particularly enjoyed acting, his dramatic Pussy Baudrons entertained us all.

In addition to all of our Scots’ learning of other people’s work, we have been creating our own Scots’ poems! We discovered what makes a limerick, “It must have five lines,” says Sophie. “Lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme” Josh tells us. “And lines 3 and 4 need to rhyme with each other!” Musa won’t let us forget! Everyone then had a go at writing their own limerick, with some Scots words. Yousef enjoyed sharing his with Mrs Brown and making the class laugh – because, as Lucy will remind you, limericks are nonsense and should entertain their audience!

We have started learning about different Scottish inventors and the wonderful things they have done to make our lives better. To help us identify some inventors by name, and recognise what their individual discoveries were, we played a matching game. Amelia found it funny that the inventor of the telephone was called Alexander Graham BELL! We look forward to finding out more about Scottish inventions and discoveries.

Out of school, our achievements are wonderful again!!!

ACTIVE = Josh has achieved his 60 minute goal, Sam and Erion have been working hard in swimming, Armeen has moved on to a new wall in climbing, Amna is getting better at her different types of kicks and Ruaridh has been winning medals at football.

ACHIEVING = Anshi passed her singing exam with distinction! Amelia has won the Drama Award of 2017 at Razzamatazz! Nimra is so proud that she has managed to reach halfway through her fourth Siphara in Arabic class and Ella has read three Marge in Charge books, reading paperbacks in bed independently after reading with her mum and dad. Breac has improved his writing and drawings, Logan L, Millie and Ruadhan are getting better at the guitar and Callum and Heather are improving at the piano.

HEALTHY = Eleena visited Glencoe, Rio has been working very hard at scoring goals in football and Marcus made the most of the weather by building a snowman!

INCLUDED = Heather has been winning badges at Brownies and Amelia has just joined.

RESPONSIBLE =Ailey, Lucy, Fatima and Daniel have been helping lots at home.

NURTURING = Emma has been helping her wee brother.

 

Literacy and Numeracy

Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.

Article 13

You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing unless it breaks the rights of others.

 

November and December have been full of Nativity!! Primary Three have been absolutely amazing superstars. We were responsible for the main parts in all the scenes of the lower school Nativity performance of “It’s Chr-i-i-i-stmas!” (the Christmas Chart Show). The P2s and P1s were magnificent, but we stole the show!! They respected our fabulous performances and our singing and dancing. It was a lot of hard work, but it was great fun!

 

Watch this space, because the performing isn’t over yet for P3a – it’s our assembly in January!!!!!

 

Going back to this month, we have been listening to and speaking a lot of French as we count down the days to Christmas on our French advent calendars. It is improving our counting, our vocabulary and our listening “en francais”.

 

In ICT, we have been developing our computer programming skills by dragging instructions for the characters in Disney’s “Hour of Code”.

 

In Music, Mrs Carey is teaching us to identify the new rhythm “tiri-tiri” – it is like two te-tes stuck together! We have also been using our hand staves to show where musical notes are.

 

Out of school, our achievements are amazing!!! We found it so very hard to just choose five for the tree – listen to how good the ones are that we didn’t even choose … ACTIVE = Sam has been winning in basketball by shooting lots of baskets, Amna has achieved her green Taekwando tag, Erion has got much better at swimming, Heather got in to the next level at swimming, Ella is getting better and better at horse riding, Rio has scored loads of goals at football, ACHIEVING = Eleena is excellent at the piano and has learnt new guitar chords, Ruadhan has learned a new song on his guitar, Breac has improved his writing and drawings, HEALTHY = Nimra has been looking after her mum, INCLUDED = Fatima has been doing a lot with her family and being responsible, RESPONSIBLE = Musa has been helping lay the table at home, Ailey and Lucy made their Brownie promise and are now proper Brownies, Daniel and Sophie help to clean out their hamsters’ cage, NURTURING = Josh saved a wild seal, Logan L has been helping with his puppy and Millie has been consoling her lonely guinea pig.

 

Literacy and Numeracy

 

Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.

 

Article 13

 

You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing unless it breaks the rights of others.

 

We have been so very busy as usual! We have been making sentences in French. In ICT, we have made fun cartoon stories on the computer and drawn our own cartoons too! In Music, Mrs Carey is teaching us to identify the new rhythm “ta-a” and we have learnt about a rest. We can also sing and show the hand sign for the new note “la”.

In Science we have really loved the fascinating experiments about the human body and have even taken out organs and then fitted them back in – to plastic models of human torsos!!

We finished creating our own spectacular landscapes in Art and had an excellent visit to Giffnock Library’s Heritage Centre where we investigated old maps and photographs of the farmyards of Giffnock’s past!

Out of school, our achievements have been piling up! Josh had an incredible adventure in the holidays – he saved a seal pup! It was stuck on land and he managed to direct it back to the sea. Eleena has been practising the piano and can do 100 press ups without stopping! Callum has learnt a song on the piano and Logan L can play the drums to a beat. Sam can go down steps on his bike, Emma can ride on the road with her mum and Musa has learnt how to take his bicycle safely across the road.

Amna has achieved a green tag at Taekwando. Ruadhan, Heather, Ailey, Emma, Rhys, Yousef, Ruaridh, Marcus, Daniel and Sam have passed new levels at swimming! Millie has now started at Razmataz and Emma is practising for a gymnastics competition. Lucy, Ella, Amelia and Ailey have started a new riding club. Sophie has been active and can do a front flip on the trampoline.

Literacy and Numeracy

Our learning in these areas will draw upon the contexts listed above but will differ according to the needs of each class / group. Your support with consolidation of core learning through homework activities will be very beneficial to our children.

Article 13

You have the right to find out things and say what you think, through making art, speaking and writing unless it breaks the rights of others.