P3a Update

P3a began the week creating a collaborative picture of Rabbie Burns which is now on our class door and has been getting lots of positive comments.

In maths we were learning to tell the time on both digital and analogue clocks.  We can now tell o’clock, quarter past and half past times.  We also had a look at identifying am and pm times.

In writing we began recount writing and wrote about our day off due to the storm.  We will continue with recount writing for the next few weeks.

As it was Chinese New Year we learned the story of Nian and about the different traditions that people follow when they celebrate.  We then looked to see what animal we were according to the Chinese calendar and discussed if we shared any of the animals traits.

 

Play in p1b

P1b enjoyed another week of learning about Space. They enjoyed building rockets using 3D shapes, describing space and constructing robots.

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Space exploration

Primary 1 have continued to explore space and talked about what they would need to take with them. They have written about what it would look and feel like as we look at descriptive settings.

We have continued to develop or subtraction skills and are able name, sort and discuss the properties of 2d and 3d shape.

We are working on our common words to help with improving our independent writing skills so please help your child by practising the words provided for homework.

Also please make sure that reading books are brought to school every day so that we can read together in class.

P4a’s Weekly Update

P4a have had a busy week! In maths, we explored different division strategies and practised telling the time. In literacy, we learned how to distinguish between fact and opinion, and in writing, we created detailed instructions.

As part of our topic work, we discovered Scottish inventors and famous landmarks. We also explored the Scots language and even had a go at writing a paragraph about ourselves in Scots – it was great fun!

Miss Maclennan & P4a

P5a’s week

Another busy week in p5a! We have been exploring fractions in maths, this week we were using our knowledge of common factors and division to simplify fractions, we thought it would be really hard but when we practiced we could do it!

we took part in a competition to promote ‘walking to school’ and designed our own badges. We also took part in another competition for improving our local green spaces. We were very creative with our fabulous designs!

In literacy we think we are improving our reading skills and we also produced some great writing when presenting our balanced arguments!

We have begun working in our RME Showcase and our songs are already sounding amazing! We can’t wait for you to see all our hard work.

We ended the week, by starting our next block of committees, where we have set out lots of things to achieve this term.

by Blake and Mrs Mair

 

Daily Writing

This week P2b started doing short daily writing tasks to help them build their skills in using vocabulary, connectives, punctuation and sentence structure. This has allowed pupils to further develop their already excellent writing skills.

At the science centre on Thursday First we went to go see the planetarium room we got to see a bunch of stars and planets we even got to see inside of Saturn’s rings.When we were going to another planet or star there was an orb that made it feel like we were moving.Meanwhile after that we had a snack downstairs then after that we went to floor three.There were stuff like skeletons and there was a dance room as well there was also a  little skeleton tunnel that you could crawl through.I tried the pull up thing and I tried to run as fast as a cheetah it was very cool.There was also two jumping things one was something where you try to jump as light  as you can I tried it and when I did it I jumped so lightly it said something went wrong are you there no joke the other one told you how high you jumped and I think it was rigged because it kept on saying 1m 48cm no higher.Also there was this mind set you have to relax and keep still there was this little ball that moves when you are relaxed when you get the ball to the other persons side you win but if the ball comes to your side they win.On level two there was a pattern memory game were you can pick levels like hard easy or medium so basically it made a pattern to get to the end and you step on the blocks that light up and if you step on the wrong one you lose.on level one there was a upside down room everyone loved it and there was a little room that it looked that you where big one one side and one the other side it looked like you where tiny.Then last we had some lunch went on a bridge and saw the oldest steamboat in Glasgow.

Anna and Lucy

This Week In P7a

This week we’ve been taking a lot of learning outdoors: working on our golf game at the pitch, and calculating speed, distance and time in the playground.

We successfully used S = D/T to calculate our speeds over a series of distances. We also applied this knowledge to a range of activities in the classroom.