And just like that term two is officially over. Primary four have worked so incredibly hard this term and I’m so proud of the dedication, resilience, and hard work I’ve seen throughout the term. This week has been jam packed full of Christmas fun and celebrating the end of another successful term. The children had a fantastic time at the Christmas party. I would like to say thank you to all of the children and their families for such generous gifts. I wish you all the very best over your Christmas holidays and I can’t wait to see you in the New Year. Have a great break, you deserve it!
love, Miss Mackenzie.

This week the children enjoyed a range of learning experiences themed around Christmas. We started with reading comprehension following poetry study. We planned our Character writing from a famous John Lewis Christmas advert. After watching the nativity story the children were able to create actions and pictures to identify the main points of this story, next week we will create a summary from this prior learning. In numeracy we are focused on using sharing to support division word problems and creating tally sheets and bar graphs for Data Handling. The children loved spending Thursday Morning in our playroom. This week the children all performed their solo talks accompanied by some fibulas posters showcasing all the research they did for each talk.

The boys are girls have worked very hard this week to create our collaborative Christmas tree door art! The children worked so well together to create such a wonderful piece. We have had another very busy week and everyone is very excited to go to the school Christmas Fayre tonight!

We have had a very busy week in P4. On Tuesday the children learnt about Remembrance day and created some beautiful poppies to mark this occasion. We are very interested in learning about Black History Heroes, to continue our learning from Black History Month In October. This week we learnt about Rosa Parks, we created some beautiful drawings of her and learned to write a summary of events in her life. For this weeks Recount Write the children recounted their experience during our showcase last week. Everyone has improved their writing so much already this term. In maths we have begun to count a range of values with coins, and convert these between pennies and pounds using a decimal place. This week we have also created some beautiful Christmas card designs for a competition run by Taylor Whimpey. The winning child will have their card sent out to all Taylor Whimpey residents. Permissions slips will be sent out on Monday!

This week the children has been working very hard. In maths we were using the mirrors to spot multiple lines of symmetry within different shapes and objects. After our classroom activity we took our learning outside to find natural items which are symmetrical.

In writing the children have been continuing the learn to write a recount. We have loved using our Halloween theme for this activity. In reading the children are practicing their metalinguistics. This week we have been focused on definitions of words. The children have loved using the reciprocal reading strategy to practise their reading each day.

To celebrate Bonfire night, the children learnt about The Gunpowder plot, then created some beautiful firework art using onomatopoeia to link this to our literacy learning.

Finally this week in our library committee the children were challenged with creating comic strips in partners to be displayed in our school library.

Well Done P4b!

The boys and girls have worked so incredible hard the last three weeks on their Showcase. They all performed so well and everyone gave it their all. I am so very proud of what they have accomplished this term already.

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

This week the children had so much fun creating their own superhero characters, diorama settings, and then using digital technology to make stop motion short films or comic book strips. They especially loved showing each other their finished films. Well done P4b for another very successful week.

This week the children have again worked incredibly hard. We have written another piece of procedural writing, and worked very hard on our reading comprehension using our weekly homework books and after watching a short film. In health and well-being our focus was the emotion worry, the children created a worry chain to help talk about our worry’s and support emotional regulation. In IDL this week the children created their own Superhero’s. We have begin learning about 3d shapes and all the children engaged very well in the active shape building lesson.

What a week we have had. The children have worked incredibly hard this week on listening, working as a team, and taking turns to talk. Our classroom teddy Mr Marshmallow is the classes’ chosen strategy to help us meet our weekly target!

In numeracy the children have been learning to round to the nearest 10, and they loved consolidating their learning through active numeracy coding activities. In writing we created wonderful procedural texts for our Superhero slime recipe. In reading this week we based our learning from the Pixar short film ‘The Present’ we loved answer questions about this film, ask us questions to test us!

Today the children loved learning about Rosh Hashanah and trying some traditional foods together. In the afternoon we had our first P4 library committee meeting and have come up with so many creative and brilliant ideas to get our whole school to love reading just as much as we do!