Happy New Year!

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful time over the holidays and welcome to Term 3! Since returning to Primary 4a, the children have learned about the festival of Lohri in RME, multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 in Numeracy, time in Maths, and skimming and scanning techniques in Reading! In Writing, we have moved on to the Response genre for which the children have written two full pieces so far in response to a book and a short film. Also, we have focused on the differences between fact and opinion and have applied our learning to talking and listening, reading, and topic tasks. Our first topic of the term is Scotland and the children have learned about the meaning of myths and legends and the Loch Ness Monster so far. Pictured below is our second lesson on Lohri during which the children were building “bonfires” outside using sticks and leaves, as well as a reading lesson.

Thank you for reading,

Miss Love 

Good afternoon, everyone!

December is upon us! Last week, the children wrote a recount piece of writing with an introductory, main, and concluding paragraph about their pantomime trip. Also, we moved onto the arrays strategy to calculate multiplication problems in Numeracy and began learning about the Bethlehem story in RME. In a Talking and Listening activity, the children had to carefully listen to their partner to draw exactly what and where they described on their paper – some are pictured below! We also created Christmas themed lollipops using paper plates, paint, glitter, and skewers which is also pictured below!

Good afternoon,

What a week we have had in Primary 4a! We continued with Money in Maths and moved onto Multiplication in Numeracy, recounted Alexander Graham Bell’s life and the invention of the telephone in Writing, and completed comprehension and summary tasks in Reading on our reading books. We also learnt about another inventor – John Logie Baird and the invention of the Television which the children completed a fact file about!

This was an especially exciting week because we went to the Christmas Pantomime on Thursday which was a thrilling experience with some children pictured below during that experience!

This week, the children were also given home a project to complete at home by 5th December – a poster about an invention and the inventor they are curious about or cannot live without (you may have noticed them returning home with a big piece of rolled up paper and information sheet)! General questions to consider for their project are:

What is the invention?

Who invented it?

Why did they invent it?

Why is this invention important?

Is this invention used today?

Pictured below are the children during an active Multiplication lesson, showing their grouping skills to calculate multiplication problems.

Hello everyone,

To recap on last week in Primary 4a, we moved onto Money in Maths, focused on the components of a summary in Reading and summarised a short film, and discussed inventions that we are curious to know more about in Talking and Listening in line with our Inventors topic!  As Primary 4 are the Library Committee, the children collected all of the entrees to the school book cover competition and selected winning candidates for that. Excitingly, we also went on our Library visit Monday afternoon (pictured below) during which the children picked a book to take back to school and read!

Those who still have Snapshot jotters, please return them to school ASAP.

Hello everyone,

It was lovely to properly meet some of you last week at parents’ evening and I’m looking forward to meeting the rest of you this Thursday!

We moved onto a new topic last week – Inventors! The children enjoyed learning about Alexander Graham Bell and the invention of the telephone, as well as choosing an inventor to research themselves on the iPads and trying to match old inventions with modern items. In Writing, we completed a setting description of Bonfire Night with a focus on the 5 senses. In Reading, we have been continuing to find the meaning of unknown words using context clues and the dictionary, as well as becoming more comfortable in identifying adjectives.

Snapshot jotters went home today with a letter – just want to note that some children’s Term 2 work may be mixed in a bit with Term 1 if children filled old blank pages (before the Term 2 targets). So, have a look and if you see any October/November dates, they are from this Term’s snapshot work.

Friendly reminder that the children have Spelling homework to complete in their home jotters and Sumdog homework to complete on a device. Reading books will go home tomorrow.

Have a good week,

Miss Love

Good afternoon, everyone!
With our Primary 4 Showcase coming up, the past week has been full of practices along with our usual learning. In writing, the children wrote great pieces on a haunted house setting with a focus on our 5 senses. In Numeracy, we moved onto subtraction and had our open afternoon, and in RME, we had a great lesson surrounding Diwali during which the children loved learning about Rama and Sita. We have been improving our meta-linguistic skills in reading by picking out words that we do not know the meaning of from non-fiction books and using the context around the word to make an educated guess regarding the word’s meaning before looking it up in the dictionary. Today, we applied our talking and listening skills to a spooky activity in which the children asked yes or no questions to figure out what spooky character their partner had! We finished off today with some Halloween art using crayons and the blending technique which the children are holding in the pictures below.

Our Showcase is on Thursday 6th November 09:30-10:00 and we can’t wait for you to see what we have been practicing (I know a lot of you have already had glimpses at home).

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

Two years ago, our school community came together to raise funds for the Beatson Cancer Charity. Cancer impacts countless lives in different ways, and the Beatson continues to make an incredible difference through its compassionate care and unwavering support.

The Beatson Cancer Charity works alongside the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre – one of the leading cancer care facilities in the UK – providing vital funding for specialist staff, innovative research, and improved patient wellbeing. From emotional support and complementary therapies to cutting-edge treatments and clinical excellence, the charity ensures that patients and their families receive the best possible care at every stage of their journey.

We are proud to continue supporting the Beatson and the life-changing work they do for so many across Scotland.

This year, some of our amazing staff will be taking part in the Glasgow Santa Dash 2025 with Beatson Cancer Charity on Sunday the 7th December at Glasgow Green. Please help us to raise our fundraising target by donating to our Just Giving fundraising page. Click on the link below to access –

https://www.justgiving.com/page/miss-d-ht-8?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

Every little counts and everything is very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance. 🧑‍🎄🎅🏻

From Miss D (HT) & Team Wallacewell

Good evening everyone,

What an amazing first week back we have had after the October break! Continuing with our Black History Month topic in RME, we learnt about Rosa Parks and even wrote a recount piece in Writing about her story (our focused writing genre for this term). In Numeracy, we finished learning about addition using the number line strategy and are ready to move onto subtraction next week. Below are pictures from our active spelling lesson, a Numeracy lesson, and the last picture is from song practice for something very special coming up…

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

Good afternoon,

This has been a short but packed week! The children moved onto Black History Month in RME in which we explored Harriet Tubman, created and described a robot helper in Writing (linking to our STEM topic), and continued to practice addition using an open number line with one lesson requiring the children to apply their knowledge to complete a treasure hunt in the classroom and receive a prize!
I hope you all have an amazing October break and feel refreshed come Monday the 20th.

Miss Love

Good morning everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready for the week ahead!

I faced some technical issues on my iPad last week and only back on today. So, last week, we moved onto our new topic – STEM – and the children have been loving their new playroom activities. We also dived deeper into Yom Kippur in RME, practiced procedural writing further using the goal to make a paper chain (which the children constructed during their time in the playroom), and moved onto addition using a number line in Numeracy. I have attached pictures from a spelling lesson in which the children put their weekly words into Elkonin boxes using their knowledge of phonemes, as well as a lesson from Numeracy!

Best wishes for this week,

Miss Love