JRSO

We have been very busy talking to all the classes about walking 🚶 to school if possible. Next week we will give out badges.
Now it is getting dark we need to start getting everyone to think about wearing brightly coloured jackets 🧥 to school.

First week back – P1c

We have had a wonderful first week back in P1c. The children have all worked incredibly hard in all areas of their learning. Everybody loves our Room on the Broom topic and the children had a wonderful time exploring forces and story through a range of play experiences.

On Friday the children really enjoyed getting to see the P2s Harvest show and all the children were a fabulous audience. We then ended our week with a wonderful workshop from Wildside with Donald. All the children loved our outdoor learning and especially loved using echo location to understand how bats catch their food.

 

Measuring Fun

Primary 1 had lots of fun measuring each other and the teacher using non standard units.

They used lollipop sticks and cubes to work out who was the tallest and shortest.

They were able to learn measuring skills and vocabulary which they can use in future activities.

Wildside Nature Workshop

Primary 1 had an amazing experience with Wildside Nature when Donald came in to deliver a workshop. The children were learning about Halloween animals such as bats, owls and spiders.

They moved around like the animals and pretended to silently hunt their prey.

The highlight was learning about how bats use echo location to fly around in the dark and having an opportunity to be blindfolded and find each other by sound alone.

Donald was very impressed with the knowledge and vocabulary that the children had when they were discussing the animals and mammals.

Another great learning day in Primary 1.

Term 2!

We have had a super busy week back after the October holidays!

Literacy – We continue to work on our class novel looking at direct and indirect speech. We used book creator to edit images from the book – adding in speech bubbles to show what the characters were saying to each other.

Maths – We have been working hard in maths this week, beginning work on shape. We were able to identify the properties of more complex shapes and were able to compare shape properties. Finding lines of symmetry in some shapes was quite tricky but we got there!

IDL – Our new topic this term is ‘Scotland’. we began by looking at a map of Scotland and identifying cities within it! we then thought about some of the famous landmarks within these cities that people go to visit!

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P5a weekly update

P5a have been learning addition and subtraction strategies and they are really good at it. They were also learning about comfortable and uncomfortable emotions in PATHS and learning about the control signals to help us calm down. They started learning about the solar system and they were learning about Diwali and Rama and Sita in RME. Also they were learning about creating descriptive settings in writing. They also did some drama this week, and that’s all they did this week and they are so good at everything! What super stars!⭐️

By Nirman Dosanjh

This week in P.E. we were doing badminton We partnered up with our friends to start the lesson we did balancing the shuttlecock then we did partners against another pair to end the lesson🏸
In maths we learned a new method of multiplication called the box method.
When we did literacy we were doing a setting description that was spooky Halloween themed 🎃 👻.
At S.T.E.M we had the options of puppets , experiment, submarines and a Lego map.
Finally in PATHS we are designing calm down posters and doing scenarios where the group has to work together to decide an emotion for it🤝.
-From Jaishan & Lewis😁

The school had a very special visitor this week and P7b’s How Good Is Our Classroom floor book was chosen for him to see. He was very impressed with the input the children have given on how we can make our classroom better.

We have been working very hard this week to complete our Scottish National Standardized Assement’s (SNSA) for reading, writing and numeracy.

We have started exploring a new writing genre of Report writing and will be continuing this over the next few weeks.

Lots of pupils indicated in their personal target setting they wanted to improve their overall fitness. This week we did a baseline fitness assessment and at the end of term we will do another to see how much we have improved.

We have started learning about Poppy Scotland and why it is still so relevant today.

This Week in P7a

P7a were chosen to demonstrate the use of our creative enquiry room to a very special visitor this week. They participated in a range of STEM activities exploring different changes that take place in our environment.

P7a have been working hard all week on their Scottish National Standardised Assessments (S.N.S.A). We’ve also developed our understanding of long division, planning a creative piece of writing and improving our swimming and badminton skills.