Primary 4/5/6 have settled well into the new school term and are already beginning to build positive relationships and slot right back into the school routines and expectations.

In literacy this term we have been continuing to build upon our imaginative story writing, fluency in reading and we have been working hard on our new spelling progression scheme.

We have been very lucky this term to have been joined by storyteller, Owen Pilgrim. Owen will be joining us throughout the year as part of an author residency and both Owen are P4/5/6 are very excited to be working together!

In the first session with Owen, we covered an introduction to stories and how they work, the lore of faeries in Scotland and the imaginative creation of folklore creatures in story-making. Along with using art to express stories. The pupils did some wonderful work. In the second session, we went into the making of story maps, as well as creating a story as a group using story cards as a prompt and following a format of a traditional story. The groups of pupils created a story map using a story of their choosing. We can’t wait to see how this project will grow!

In numeracy this term we have been revising our understanding of place value and how we can use it to round to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.  We have been working hard to develop our mental maths strategies and are growing in confidence daily with this.

We have also been working on our data analysis skills. We have been collecting data and transferring the data into bar graphs or line graphs. We are really enjoying this!

We have been part of the STEM Space Project which supports us to develop spatial reasoning skills through maths lessons. We’re enjoying the activities, and they’ve got us thinking hard!

In PE we have been working hard on our teamwork skills as well as ball kills. We have been learning through playing basketball and P4/5/6 quickly became passionate about this. 7 children were chosen to take part in a basketball tournament against the cluster schools, in which they won 4 games out of 6. We are so proud of their effort, teamwork and resilience!

Within HWB we have begun looking at Decider Skills and how this can help us identify and understand our emotions. We are growing in confidence when deciding where we are on our “Fizz Scale” and soon we will have strategies we can use to help us control our emotions.

We have really enjoyed our time visiting our school library. We have enjoyed choosing which books we would like to read and spending time reading for enjoyment.