Primary4 2022/2023

We were challenged by the Parent Council in our school to turn our classroom door into a Christmas door.

We worked together to decorate our door and had fun creating a Christmas look.

Our slogans were, ‘Primary 4 are cracking’ and ‘Primary 4 are a gift’.

We then had the chance to walk around the school and see all of the other amazing doors that the classes had created. Look how brilliant they are!

In primary 4, we are developing our Talking and Listening skills.

We have learned how to use the Diamond 9 approach to have conversations with our friends.

During this lesson, we used the Diamond 9 approach when looking at people who help us. As a group, we ranked people who help us in order of who we think is most important to who we think is least important.

We know we need to share our opinion and listen to the opinion of others. It was tricky getting everyone in the group to agree.

Look how beautiful our playground was in December when the weather was very cold. We took advantage of the cold weather and had fun playing on the ice with our friends while we admired the gorgeous scenery.

We were lucky enough to be invited to The Tramway to see A Christmas Carol in pantomime.

It was very exciting and we loved watching the brilliant actors, hearing the fantastic singing and seeing the amazing set – what a treat!

We are beginning to feel festive as we have had fun taking part in Christmas Jumper Day and our school Christmas Fayre.

As a class, we ran a chocolate tombola stall which was very popular. We raised over £100 for our school funds. It was great to practise our maths skills by giving people change.

We have also been learning strategies to solve subtraction sums.

We’ve been reading our new reading books and trying to read with fluency and expression.

 

We walked to Polloshields Library and browsed the amazing books they have there. We had fun reading and picking new books. Reading for enjoyment is something we are focusing on just now so it’s important we have the opportunity to choose books that we love.

Afterwards, we went to square park which was lots of fun. 

This week in number, we learned different strategies to help us solve addition sums. – Alaiyna.

We’ve been learning about the features of instructional writing. – Sahar.

We had lots of fun playing fantasy football. We chose a team from each group and will get points if our teams win and if they score goals. – Rohan Singh.

On Wednesday, we learned more football skills with Paul and played matches against each other. – Qailah.

I liked learning how to partition numbers. – Tiana.

In our writing lessons, we’ve learned what an imperative verb is and why they’re used. Am imperative verb is used to tell someone to do something. – Hassan Ahmed.

In our HWB lessons, we have learned how to use our Control Signals to react to a situation. – Pip.

For our topic, we are learning about music from the past 50 years.  We have learned different genres of music and famous artists. – Alaiyna.

 

Here are some of the things we have learned this week.

We learned the art technique Pointillism and created our own colour wheels using this technique. _ Eesa and Aiza.

We had fun comparing numbers today using maths language. – Qailah and Maaz.

We learned how to identify lines of symmetry in different shapes. – Hishaam and Tiana.

Paul our football coach taught us more football skills and we played 5 a side football matches. – Rohan.

This week, we have learned how to be healthy and what is a healthy diet during our Health and Wellbeing lessons. – Alaiyna.

When we were measuring, I learned that you need to start at the 0 to make sure the measurement is accurate. – Hannah.

We learned how to be a good friend. – Hassan Ahmed and Naba.

I learned about substances and I sorted items into what is medicine and what is not. – Saif.

I’ve learned how to stand up for my friends in a kind way. – Danny.

We’ve had fun reading with our friends. – Sahar.

We learned how to identify key words in questions and highlight them in the text to find the answer. – Hishaam.

We’ve been learning how to write in paragraphs. – Aiza.

We have had fun writing scary stories. – Hassan Ahmed.

Miss Fagan is helping us with our handwriting. – Danny.

Fun times at our Halloween disco. We loved getting dressed up and scaring our teachers and friends.

We were very kindly gifted free tickets to go to Glasglow at the Botanic Gardens. We went with some of our teachers and families, it was fantastic.

We travelled by coach from school to the Botanic Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. The lights were amazing, there was lights everywhere and we were blown away by them. We loved seeing the fire as we walked across the bridge and lots of us said our favourite part was meeting the baby dinosaurs. Another thing we enjoyed was the food. We loved the churros!

Thank you to the organisers at Glasglow for giving us this experience, we had lots of fun.