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.

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.

SMITHYCROFT SECONDARY SCHOOL OPEN EVENING

Important Reminder

We would like to remind families about Smithycroft Secondary’s Open Evening this week on Wednesday the 23rd October 2024 from 6pm. The event is for Primary 5, Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils and their families. This is an excellent opportunity to see the school, explore the various departments across the campus and ask any questions you may have about the transition from Primary to Secondary School.

OPEN EVENING FOR NEW P1 PUPILS STARTING IN AUGUST 2025

We are delighted to welcome all pupils, parents & carers of our
Primary 1 Open Evening on Wednesday 6th November (6-7pm).

This event is for pupils starting Primary 1 in August 2025.

At our Open Evening you will have the opportunity to tour our fabulous school and ask any questions you may have.

We look forward to welcoming you all!

P5a end of term 1

Lots of great exploration in creative enquiry this week, all about ‘changes’. We have also worked hard on our persuasive writing, we used our iPads for editing. We created some fantastic iMovie trailers to advertise our class novel; Charlottes Web. We rounded off our Romans topic this week with a taster of some Roman style nibbles. It was good fun!

 

Have a great October week holiday!