Monthly Archives: December 2022

P7 2022, Primary 7, STEM

Term 2 in P7

Primary 7 have had an incredibly busy and fun-filled term at Pilmuir Primary School!  Here are some of the highlights from our learning journey: 

  

Learning Through Play 

The children rose to the challenge of creating their own junk model rockets, and also completed some Lego challenges, including designing and building boats that could float.  We also set up an art gallery role play area to build on our exploration of the world of work which started last term with our hairdresser’s salon role play area. Some of the children have enjoyed sewing and making things.  The loom bands have been popular this term with lots of bracelets being made.

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Numeracy 

Primary 7 have had fun completing lots of practical activities to further our understanding of measure.  We have been busy with rulers, scales, and all sorts of measuring jugs and beakers.  We have also been working on time, covering everything from reading 12 and 24 hour clocks, to converting between units of time, and using timetables. 

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Literacy 

We have continued following the weekly spelling progressions in the Wraparound Spelling programme.  In Talk for Writing, we have been using the novel, ‘Cogheart’ by Peter Bunzl, and the short story, ‘The Way Home’ by Pie Corbett to help us explore characterisation.  We’ve also been honing our listening and talking skills, and summarising lots of different texts. 

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Where do we come from?  The Bronze Age 

Primary 7 have had a fantastic time learning about the Bronze Age.  We’ve used primary and secondary sources, completed group projects, explored Bronze Age art, and shared our learning with parents and other classes. 

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RME 

This term we learned about how people celebrate St Andrews Day, and explored how people from different world religions worship.  We also looked at religious artefacts from three world religions, and thought about why they are important. 

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Science 

Primary 7 have been learning about food chains and food webs, and genetic inheritance. 

  

Art 

Throughout the term we have been investigating the visual elements of art (shape, line, tone, texture, form, space, colour) and exploring these through our work on Remembrance, RME, the Bronze Age and Christmas. 

  

Outdoor Learning 

We have completed lots of our science lessons outdoors, and have also enjoyed playing games to develop our creativity and curiosity in the outdoor classroom. 

  

Remembrance 

Primary 7 were responsible for leading the Remembrance Assembly. 

  

Bonfire Night 

We learned about staying safe around Bonfire night, and made brilliant, eye-catching posters to share our safety messages. 

       

  

 

Book Week 

The Primary 7’s headed over to the Primary 1 classroom to be shared reading buddies for the younger children. 

   

 

RAF stem ambassadors 

We had a visit from some of the team based at RAF Lossiemouth. The P5, P6 and P7 classes all enjoyed participating in the activities and workshops. 

 

 

Badminton 

All children in P7 have participated in badminton sessions with Angela. These sessions have been fast paced and full of different games and activities to allow  the children to develop their skills. 

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Netball 

Some of our class represented Pilmuir at an inter-school competition at the academy recently.  

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Christmas 

We have had lots of Christmas fun with our pantomime, Christmas jumper day, Christmas lunch, carol service at the church and making crafts for the Christmas Fayre.  We still have our Christmas party to look forward to and some more carol singing! 

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Thank you for your continued support this year.  We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes and we look forward to seeing you in 2023.

  

P6 2022

Term 2

What a fantastic term we have had in Primary 6.  We have had a term full of fun and new experiences with STEM team visitors and trips up to the church in preparation for our Christmas celebrations. 

Literacy 

 In Literacy this term we have been focusing on developing character through the genre of mystery.  Our class novel ‘cogheart’ supports this and has engaged the children beautifully in the mysterious journey of its main characters Lilly and Robert.  Using Talk for Writing methods the children have been innovating on the short story ‘The way home’ by Pie Corbett creating their own characters with a particular focus on appropriate paragraphing and developing character through exciting verbs and direct speech.

Accelerated Reader has been ongoing as an independent activity with most children working hard to read books and then complete a test.

Numeracy 

During this term primary 6 have been working on addition and subtraction of whole numbers and numbers to 2 decimal places.  Primary 6 are now fantastic at using these skills to solve multi step problems using appropriate language to share with their peers the methods they have chosen to use. Throughout the term we have also been revising our times table knowledge through active maths activities and games. 

  Health and Wellbeing 

In PE primary 6 always work extremely hard.  They have been working on Gymnastics with Miss Masson and this has been extremely popular.  They have also been working on Badminton and now the children strive to hold a successful rally with their peers.  Finally, we have been playing team games which the children particularly love, this has helped us to work on communicating with peers successfully and supporting each other.  It’s been fantastic to be a part of!

 Other 

This term we were lucky to have a visit from the RAF Lossiemouth STEM team.  With them the children engaged in STEM activities based around the theory of flight and a construction challenge.  The children loved it!  We were even lucky enough to have a RAF Typhoon fly over the school on the same day whilst the children were perfecting their own aeroplane designs.

As well as this the children have been learning about the Iron Age this term.  They particularly enjoyed learning about the difference between farming now and then and found it fascinating that that long ago farming was even a thing!

For Christmas we have been practising our Christmas carols for our carol service at St Lawrence church, and our community carols on the last day of term.  Primary 6 have been particularly engaged with this with their favourite being ‘ O’ little town on Bethlehem’

Well done Primary 6 for a fantastic term!

 

 

P1 2022

Term 2 in P1.

What a busy term it has been. We have had Hallowe’en, Diwali, Bonfire Night and Christmas.

After a couple of years where there’s been very few opportunities to include the rest of the community, things have changed.  We have enjoyed a number of activities with people coming into school, namely: a Disco, shared learning where parents visited classrooms, a Snow White pantomime and the Coffee Morning.

We also visited St Laurence Church for a Christmas service, inviting parents to join us. Yes, it has been great having so many events this term.

Here are some photos from our shared learning with parents and grandparents.  It was a Decoration Afternoon.  If you would like to view the Sway then you will need your child’s glow login details.

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P3/4 2022

Term 2

This term is always such a busy one. There has been lots to do and learn in the lead up to Christmas.

Literacy

In reading we continue to work hard in groups and practise our skills during Reading Together times. Accelerated Reader has been ongoing as an independent activity with most children working hard to read books and then complete a test. Our writing is developing as we have had a big focus on punctuation. I hope that everyone is able to write in sentences at home. Let’s keep working on it! Google classroom contains all of our spelling words and some activities each week.

Numeracy

This term we have completed multiplication and fractions tasks. Everyone is great at explaining about “fair shares”. We have also been learning, x2 x3 x4 x5 and x10. Extra practise is always really helpful. Sumdog is really useful for practising skills.

Health and Wellbeing

In PE we have focused on several different areas. Everyone improved their skipping skills at the beginning on term. Gymnastics with Miss Masson has been very popular with all of the class. They have make excellent progress. Finally we have been learning Scottish Country dancing with P5. Everyone has enjoyed learning new dances and we are all now party ready!

Other

Many pupils enjoyed sharing the learning with their parents this term. We all learned a lot about castles. Thank you for your support. The children loved the event.

You should also be aware of our new reporting format that started this term. Each child is focus child for one week of term. I then create a Sway for the child with information and photographs about their learning for that week.

As always, the Google Classroom contains information and activities to help support children’s learning. It also contains Sways of each of out Play projects with lots of photos to show the learning.

We are excited to finish the term with parties, Christmas crafts and carol singing.  Have restful Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Thank you for your continued support of P3/4.

 

 

P2/3 2022

P2/3 Term 2 Update

Maths & Numeracy

We started the term with a focus on money. The children learned to recognise, count and make amounts, as well as calculating change. This learning has continued in our play as the children now have a weekly ‘budget’ of 50p to spend on art & craft materials and for hiring equipment such as the laptops and the Promethean Board.

We have also spent time learning about multiplication and division and strategies to help us solve calculations.

We are currently learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects.

Literacy

The children continue to read in groups every day and complete Higher Order Reading challenges on a Friday.

Our phonics group have completed their learning of all the single sounds and will be moving on to learn about digraphs – two letters that make one sound. We call these ‘special friends’.

The spelling group have continued to make great progress with their Wraparound programme and are applying this learning across reading and writing.

Spelling words and phonic sounds can be found each week on Google Classroom.

This term, our Talk for Writing unit has concentrated on creating character descriptions. The children have enjoyed creating their characters to add to out class story – ‘Finding a Friend’.

Health & Wellbeing

The children have been learning Gymnastics this term with Miss Masson. They have focused on balance, rolling and creating sequences.

We have also continued with our weekly Yoga. The children enjoy following the moves along with the story while developing their strength and flexibility.

Other Curricular Areas

This term our learning in P2/3 has been led by the events we have celebrated such as Bonfire Night, Remembrance and Christmas. Lots of our play activities have come about because of the children’s interest in these events.

We are looking forward to ending the term with our Carol services!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone!