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

Happy September weekend!

I hope you have all enjoyed your weekend. Thursday’s open afternoon was a lovely way to round up last week and it was so nice to meet some of you for the first time! to summarise last week, the children performed very well in a procedural writing task during which they explained how to prepare apples and honey, relating to our lessons on Rosh Hashanah! We also moved onto addition using partitioning, which the children are becoming more confident in as every lesson passes. Finally, attached below is a picture from a Health and Well-Being lesson in which we read and discussed the book ‘Beautiful Oops’ before turning “mistakes” or “scribbles” into works of art.

Thank you for reading,

Miss Love

Hello everyone,

We have covered a lot this past week – from an introduction to Yom Kippur in RME to magnetism in Science! In Numeracy, we moved onto addition and in Literacy, we completed comprehension tasks on Piper and our reading books – as well as more procedural writing. Seen below are pictures from a talking and listening task during which pupils shared their favourite film and asked each other questions, our library committee which we participate in every Friday with Primary 4b to improve our school’s library and motivation to read more, and snippets from the playroom activities in line with our Superhero topic.

Hope you are all having the best weekend,

Miss Love

Happy Friday, everyone!

Another amazing week finished. This week, we had great daily spelling lessons every morning, had a lesson on our reading books and on the Pixar short film – ‘Piper’, and tried apples and honey during our second lesson of Rosh Hashanah. We also had an interesting investigatory social studies session in which the children, in pairs, researched local non-profit organisations and charities as part of our current Superheroes topic. Photos from these lessons have all been uploaded with this post! Importantly, we also moved onto rounding to 10s and 100s in Numeracy this week.

From next week, the children will have both of their PE sessions on Thursdays in the morning and afternoon. In the morning, they will be given a fitness session and in the afternoon, a dance session delivered by other professionals.

Many children handed in homework this week, which was great, whilst a few children did not. Please encourage your children to complete their homework at home. From next week, I will also start sending the children’s reading books home with them. The expectation is that they read every night. Can you please tell me how much or often your child read every week by leaving a written note to me in their homework jotters which are due on Thursdays.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

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P4a Curriculum Newsletter – Term 2025-26