Literacy

P7 have been reading ‘Journey to The River Sea’ as their class novel.  They have enjoyed learning about life in the Amazon and have designed their own river boats as part of their design work.

Our model short read text has been ‘Safia and the Captain’.  We have used it to study ( in depth) the structure of an action story and have planned and written our own action stories.

Wraparound spelling

The children have chosen the level of challenge they want to set themselves  this term and we have worked as a whole 2nd level area to plan for a varied set of activities for the children to meet their needs.  Some children now visit one of the other classrooms in the area to complete the activities with one of the other teachers.

Numeracy

This term we have been revisiting place value and decimal numbers.

This term we have been focussing on multiplying by 10, 100, 1000.  We have been revisiting the times tables to help us with multiplying bigger numbers and have looked at different ways of recording this, using the grid method and the column method.  We also revisited division and discussed the link between multiplication and division.

       

We have also looked briefly at algebraic equations.  The children have applied what they know about the 4 number operations to help them with this.

We have been looking at the relationships between numbers, identifying and continuing number sequences and the patterns of number.  Ask your child about the Fibonacci sequence.

End of year event and fundraising

We have spent a lot of time planning possible events for our end of year event.  This has involved members of our class helping to compose emails to enquire about costings, special packages available to us and availability of dates.  Some children also volunteered to phone some of the businesses.  Mrs Thorley is reviewing the work we have done on this.  We have also started to think of fundraising ideas and the risk assessments and health and hygiene aspects we need to consider for some of these ideas.  Listen out for an update coming soon!

 

Micro:bit training

We were lucky to have a colleague from the Moray Digital Learning team come in to provide the children with a training session on how to use the micro:bits.  The children had great fun coding these to do different things.

 

Basketball

Two weeks ago we had a team of 5 children go to the academy to participate in a fun basketball event which was co-ordinated by active schools.  The team were great ambassadors for Pilmuir and had lots of fun with teams of P7 children from the other ASG schools.

Orienteering

We had a team of P6 and P7 children attend an orienteering event at Grant Park on Friday. This was organised by some S6 Forres academy pupils with the support of Active Schools.  The teams enjoyed themselves and did well.

 

Rotary Quiz

A  small team of P7s represented the school this week at the Rotary Club quiz.   Well done to all involved for representing the school.

 

Transition academy

The  children had 2 very successful visits to the academy and have  spoken positively about these on return to school . The event this week  had a focus on getting to know staff and children from other schools by rotating round team building activities. We also had a visit last week from a member of staff who was able to answer their questions and put their minds at ease.

 

Culbin Cycle

The children enjoyed their trip to Culbin woods with Outfit Moray.  They had great fun and and were very excited to be given this opportunity.

           

 

Badminton

Angela Bell has continued to visit the school and work with the 2nd level classes to further develop their badminton skills.  The children are making great progress, improving their skills and enjoying these sessions.

We look forward to seeing you all back in term 4. Enjoy your holidays.