February 2, 2024
by Miss Napier
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Our Week in Room 21

For languages week, the P6s looked at Piet Mondrian who was a Dutch artist. This ties in with our topic of Europe too because he is a famous European artist. We researched him and took notes about him then created our own pieces of art work inspired by him.

P7s are still working hard in their groups to create posters and presentations for their Digi-Inventors Challenge. We can’t wait to see them all finished!

It was the nurture sharing assembly today where we got to share our learning on the nurture principle we’ve been working on. Its ‘the classroom offers a safe space.’ We created mind maps of all the differents ways our classrooms make us feel safe.

We also finished our digital Anne Frank information reports. Three of us managed to get Star Writer certificates for our efforts too!

By Daisy, Jamie and Chloe

February 2, 2024
by Mr Allen
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Room 9 Opinions

This week we have been working hard on our writing. Mr Allen spoke about how important is to have our own opinions about things and that people have different opinions. We also discussed that you must always respect people’s opinions even though they might be different from our own. When we have an opinion, we must make sure that we can have a good reason to justify why we have that belief.

For the first task, Mr Allen got us to discuss with our partner about whether children should or should not have to do homework. We then repeated the task with whether children should or should not have longer break times. We then had to write our ideas on whiteboards. Mr Allen thought most children would not want to do homework but there was actually a 50/50 split in class. Some of the pupils in the class came up with very good reasons that caused some people to change their minds.

For our main task we had to write down our views on school uniform and also getting to sit next to our friends in class.

It was fun trying to persuade people in the class to change their views.

February 2, 2024
by Miss O'Brien
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Room 7’s Learning

Room 7 have had another busy week. We cannot believe it’s February already.

We have been consolidating our reading and writing of ‘ow’ and ‘ou’ phoneme words. We have continued learning about instructions. This week we focused on using clear and easy to understand language, verbally giving instructions to make chocolate covered fruit skewers. We then made our own for an afternoon snack. Next week, we will use what we have learned to write a set of instructions.

In numeracy, we have continued linking addition and subtraction.

We began our first week of fitness in P.E. Over the next 5 weeks, we will record the number of reps we can do for 6 different exercises and assess our personal progress.

We are confident logging into and signing out of Chromebooks. We added the email tile to our Glow launch pad and sent ourselves an email. We recognise when and why emails are used as communication.

We had a fabulous class discussion after beginning to read a story set at sea. The description of ‘murky depths’ prompted many questions, leading us to an interesting discussion about the depth of the ocean, the sinking of the Titanic, scuba diving and finally looking at Flightradar to track flight in real time. It is amazing what a good book can do!

I would like to introduce a ‘Mystery Reader’ session. Every Friday, a mystery reader will read a short story or a section of a book they are reading at home, to the class. I have spoken with the children about this, if your child would like to take part, please encourage them to come and speak to me or write me a note and I will add them to the calendar. We will begin with one reader a week. If this proves to be popular, we can introduce a second session. I will give each volunteer prior notice so they have time to practise reading the text they would like to share.

Have a lovely weekend!

February 2, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 5

Our Weekly Reflection

AW – Today at assembly we learned about safety. One example is no pushing.

AD – Today we learned new letters for handwriting. It was u and t.

HH – I liked learning about my common words. I made a sound poster.

JD – We have been learning about chocolate. We read a book about chocolate. We learned how chocolate is made. Mould holds it up and sugar and milk if it is a diary milk and then a chocolate bean.

LP – Yesterday we were learning steps of how to make fruit kebabs. Wash the apple, cut the fruit up, put it on the stick and that is it.

AB – We have been learning about a song called ‘I am in the Groove’ and we played it with instruments.

CG – At assembly J got the certificate for Star Writer. I feel happy for J.

GO – Today is dress down day. I love it because it is so comfy.

OW – We have been creating our own safe places.

February 2, 2024
by Miss Campbell
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Pointillism in Room 11

In Room 11 we have enjoyed exploring the work of Georges Seurat – a famous French Artist who was the pioneer of pointillism.

In January we remember Robert Burns and celebrate all things Scottish! Therefore, whilst exploring pointillism we added a little Scottish twist.

February 2, 2024
by Mrs Kelly
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Room 3’s Blog

Welcome to Room 3’s blog.

M, ‘We have been learning about the Loch Ness Monster. We are hoping to learn more about animals in the sea.’

E, ‘We have been making Loch Ness Monsters.’

K, ‘We have been looking at sea creatures.’

I, ‘We are not sure if the Loch Ness Monster is real.’

L, ‘The Loch Ness Monster is in a loch.’

We hope you like our models. Thank you for reading o0ur blog!

February 2, 2024
by Mr McCourt
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Our Week in Room 16 29.01.24

Written by the class:

In Room 16 we have enjoyed making volcanoes. We have started to do the base by working together to use tape, cardboard, plastic bottles, and newspaper. We look forward to adding our paint and scientific parts next week!

We have been learning how to persuade people to learn about Japan, and we have written ‘Japanimals’ fact files all about Koi fish, black and brown bears, whales, snow monkeys , and more!

For maths, we have been learning how to use clocks and learning about half past, quarter past, quarter to, and O’clock, and clock intervals.

We have also been learning about Chinese New Year and have been practising our Hockey skills for PE.

Also, just a reminder for parents and families, our learning showcase is next Thursday 1:45pm-2:45pm and we are so excited to show off all our work.

Thank you for reading our blog.

February 2, 2024
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 1

Good afternoon everyone,

Room 1 have been learning about Data handling.

Please see some pictures below of our pictographs.

Thank you

Mrs Ventre

: We collected pictures of Room 1s favourite sea creatures.

: We created a pictograph to help us read the data.

: We used little animals to make a pictograph

: We used cubes to create a pictograph

: We used counters to create a pictograph

February 2, 2024
by Mrs Cowie
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Free Online Workshops

Dear parents/carers,

Please find below upcoming free online workshops from SAMH (Scottish Action for Mental Health).

05/02/2024 Mental Health Awareness 1.00pm

07/02/2024 Managing My Wellbeing 6.30pm

08/02/2024 Listening To & Supporting My Child 10.00am

12/02/2024 Mental Health Awareness 11.00am

13/02/2024 Understanding and Managing Stress & Anxiety 10.00am

15/02/2024 Listening To & Supporting My Child 6.30pm

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/samh-lets-connect-hamilton-69443081513

Mrs Cowie (DHT, ASN)

January 30, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Burns Day

Last week, Room 6 had a lovely time celebrating Burns Day. We enjoyed sharing our knowledge about Robert Burns and his work as a poet. We learned that his birthday was 25th January and discussed some of his famous poems, such as ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and ‘To a Mouse’. As part of our music lesson on Thursday, we looked at the famous song ‘Loch Lomond’ and were keen to learn and sing along. We focussed on the chorus of the song and made up some great actions to go along with it. We were also very interested in finding out the meaning of the song and made some predictions about this. On Friday morning, we performed this song at the P1 and P2 assembly. We sang so well and Mrs Rae was very proud!

As part of Burns Day, we also had a chat about and looked at different types of tartan. We discussed Scots words and what these meant. Using this information we started to create a mosaic featuring Scots words and our own tartan design. It looks like a visual Scottish dictionary! This mosaic is still a work in progress but we wanted to show our efforts so far.

Below are some comments on our learning this week:

SM – I liked making the tartan.

QJO, IR, RF – I liked when we sorting the making of chocolate and I liked meeting our French puppet who taught us the French months.

BlM, HG – I liked using the clocks with my partner.

BrM, HH – I 100% liked making the tartan.

ND, AbS, MM – I liked making the skeleton with Miss Smith.

EL – I liked doing the subtraction story of 13.

DM – I liked it when the skeleton scared Mrs Rae.

IW – I really liked ordering the tartan and laying it out together.

OM – I liked doing the fitness in the gym hall.

Have a super week!

Room 6 and Mrs Rae 😊