Primary 4a Wallacewell Primary

Good afternoon,

It was lovely to see some of you yesterday at the second parents’ evening of the term. This week, the children began measure in Maths during which they had to measure the length of classroom items in cm and metres, as well as planned a new persuasive writing piece on why children should have pets. In RME, we had a great lesson surrounding International Women’s Day and discussed why this day exists and learned about an inspirational woman: Marie Curie. In reading, the children predicted what would happen in their reading books before finishing their book and reflected on how close they were to what actually happened. For our rainforest topic, we explored the four layers of the rainforest and pictured below is all of the notes the children took during their learning!

Have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Love

Hello everyone,

We have had a great week in P4a! In Writing, the children finished their first persuasive piece on why someone should go to Disney World and in Numeracy, we moved onto finding fractions of numbers using multiplication and division strategies (grouping and arrays)! In RME, we explored the Hindu festival, Holi, and in Health and Wellbeing, we explored using the language: love, hate, like, and dislike. On World Book Day, we read an interactive book in which the children could choose how the story progresses before they split into groups and reenacted their favourite part of the story!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

Good afternoon,

We began this week learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year! We had the pleasure of welcoming some experts into our classroom who told us about traditions and helped us make Chinese lanterns and write Chinese characters! We also started our first persuasive writing piece on why someone should go to Disney World, ensuring to use persuasive language such as questions and commands. We learned more about Ramadan in RME and continued with Fractions in Numeracy – more specifically, comparing fractions with different numerators and denominators. Excitingly, we started a new topic – Rainforests – and began our process of making rainforest dioramas!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

Good evening everybody,

I hope you all had a lovely February break. It was a very special (and short) week for us all as it was Diversity Day on Thursday! To celebrate diversity in our school, primary 4a and a primary 3 class collaborated on a task together – the children found other children who, for example, were born in a different country to them. Everyone enjoyed this activity and the children were able to meet new friends in the other class. The week finished on an exciting note as Primary 4 got to watch the play: Treasure Island! It was hilarious, creative, and captivating!

I am looking forward to a full week of learning and fun again next week.

Miss Love

Good afternoon,

We are halfway through Term 3! This week we continued with fractions in Numeracy but moved onto a new genre of writing from response – persuasive! For our Scotland topic, we learned about William Wallace and even walked to the Robroyston Wallace Monument where we drew a picture of the monument and discussed what is on it. Lastly, in RME, we began to learn about Ramadan.

Have a great long weekend,

Miss Love

Click on the link below to view our term 3 curriculum newsletter. 

P4a Curriculum Newsletter – Term 3 2025-26

Last week in P4a, we moved onto fractions in Numeracy, read Neeps and Tatties by Carey Morning, and wrote a response piece of writing on it with a focus on the Scots language used. We also researched Kelpies in line with our Scotland topic and created beautiful artwork of the Kelpies in Falkirk which will be going home soon! In RME, we learned about the origins of Valentine’s Day and created an acrostic poem using ‘LOVE’.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

Hello everyone,

We started this week off with some Haggis, Neeps, and Tatties tasting to celebrate Burns night and studied Robert Burns poetry, also aligning with our current Scotland topic! We went onto write a response piece of writing on this experience in which the children shared their opinions of the traditional Scottish food. In Numeracy, we continued with the box method to improve our multiplication skills and learning about telling the time in maths.

Happy weekend, everyone!

Last week in Primary 4a, we completed another response piece of writing on the book, Nessie the Loch Ness Monster by Richard Brassey, linking to our Scotland topic. In Numeracy, we began learning how to use the box method to calculate trickier 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication problems and continued to develop our scanning skills in Reading. In RME, we explored World Religion Day and recapped on all of the religions and celebrations we have learned about so far in Primary 4, as well as others we will learn about as the year progresses. Lastly, in Health and Wellbeing, we discussed positive ways to way make new friends.

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend,

Miss Love

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