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Classes, P3/4 2022

Term 4

It is always a time for reflection, as we reach the end of the school year.  Primary 3/4 have a achieved so much. They should all be proud of their hard work. Everyone is looking forward now to next year, with new classes and teachers.

Literacy

This term we have focused on our Talk For Writing topic – change. The class has worked hard to write their own similes, and develop alliteration skills. Everyone has enjoyed learning the Story of Pirate Tom. Independent writing skills develop, as we continue to focus on using consistent punctuation, in all of our work. in reading, each group has made progress as we explore using more expression, when reading to each other.

Numeracy

We have all worked hard, to develop our skills in several areas this term. This has included symmetry, money, shape pattern and chance. In pattern, we are all keen to identify the rule and then continue the sequence. Some children are able to make complex patterns with rules that got us all thinking. Money is another area where lots of progress has occurred.  Everyone can identify coins and give change.  It is hard to budget for the things that we need, but the children have tried hard to achieve this. Working alone and with partners has enhanced this learning.

Health and Wellbeing

The highlight of this term was Potted Sports Day ( You can catch up on photos on this website) . Primary 7 worked really hard, with their teachers, to make this a fabulous occasion for everyone. The children enjoyed all of the different activities and working as a team, with friends from different classes. In PE, P3/4 have enjoyed building skills through circuit work and hula hooping. Everyone has some amazing moves.

Other Curricular Areas

Another highlight of the term was our Pbuzz assembly, where we were able to play some songs for the whole school. We have been learning to play this amazing musical instrument with Mr Gray for the last two terms. All of that practise paid off, when we were able to demonstrate our progress.  We have also continued to work hard on our Play Projects, with May being based on swimming. You can follow our progress on our sway. (look on Google Classroom) Everyone loves to share their learning with the rest of the class.

Thank you to all of our families for supporting our learning this year. We hope that you enjoyed the Play Project Sways and also our Focus Pupil Sways, which will give parents lots of information about their child.

We now look forward to our end of term activities including The Pilmuir Picnic, where everyone will have a chance to hear us play our Pbuzzs.

Have a great summer!

 

 

 

 

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Term 3

We have had such a busy term with Play Projects, World Book Day, Parents’ Nights and our Scotland Assembly. It was great nice to see so many parents this term and share our learning with you.

Literacy

We have focused a great deal on Talk4Writing . The class has enjoyed learning stories, telling stories, drawing story maps and writing stories. What great imaginations everyone has! Our latest story, “Kasim and the Hungry Dragon” has inspired a great deal of discussion and led to lots of fabulous ideas. Everyone continues to read with their group and complete Higher Order reading activities. It is great to see the progress that children are making.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have covered a range of topics this term. These include measure, time and information handling. The children can practise all of these skills at home and demonstrate  their practical skills.  Multiplication and addition facts continue to be reinforced, as this has helped many children to develop greater confidence, and speed up their calculations.

Health

In PE we have been focused on large ball skills. Everyone has been practising throwing, catching, moving and finding space. We then worked on team skills and how to play games. It is so important to work together to try and score lots of points.

We have also spent the last two weeks participating in  “The Big Wheel and Walk”. This encourages pupils to think of the impact of travel, and to find safe healthy ways to travel where possible. Bikeability has also helped everyone to develop greater confidence in their cycling skills.

Reporting and Supporting Learners

This term  a new SWAY went out for each child focusing on a week of their learning. I’m sure that the children have enjoyed sharing these with you. You can also follow our learning through our Play Projects. Every month we publish a SWAY showing our learning. Links are in the Google Classroom or here.

Go to this Sway

Leaning can be supported by families  through our weekly Google Classroom activities and through Sumdog. Both of which can be accessed on a range of devices at home.

Thank you again for your support. We are now looking forward to warmer days and even more learning!

 

 

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.

 

 

P3/4 2022

P3/4 Term 1

P3/4 have had a great start to the year. We have settled in well and made new friends in our new class.

Numeracy

This term we have been focusing on place value and addition. We have also practised our two  and ten times tables. We can count on and back in twos and tens. Have a practise at home. Don’t forget you can also improve maths skills by working on Sumdog at home.

Literacy

Everyone is doing lots of reading using our group reading books and our individual  Accelerated Readers. In spelling, we have looked at different patterns each week a power point of words and activities is posted on to Google Classroom.  In writing we continue to practise skills through “Talk For Writing”.  Ask your child to tell you the story of Mr Bumblebee. There are words and actions.

Health

In PE we have been practising large and small ball skills.  In Health we are revising identifying emotions using Zones For Regulation.

Other Areas

We have learned lots about Harvest, and enjoyed having a visit from a farmer. We also enjoyed taking part in the Harvest Assembly. Our topic was “carrots”.

We have also been doing lots of Independent Learning each week. We have completed our first Play Project and are looking forward to  a new one each month.

Have a look at the the sway to see our learning

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P3/4 2021

The end of the year

Now it is nearly the end of the year for Primary 3/4. Everyone has worked so hard  as you can see from all of our sways. Please have a look if you haven’t yet. They are also available on our Google  Classroom.

Go to this Sway

 

This term one  of our highlights was visiting the dolphin centre and seeing actual dolphins! We also loved learning to skateboard. Thank you P7 and Mrs Horne.

We are all now looking forward to more fun and learning next year.

Have a great summer!!

 

P3/4 2021

Term 4

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Last term was busy as always. The class enjoyed our Play Projects each month- Babies, McZelfs and Global Goals. Have a look at our sway to see our learning.

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We have been working hard to achieve our Bikeability awards, even in the freezing weather! Our topic was Global Goals. The class enjoyed learning about the international goals that have been set for us all. We had a lot of debate and discussion as we thought of ways that we could contribute.

Within numeracy, we have been practising addition and subtraction along with multiplication and division. Sumdog is a great way to practise those skills. Literacy skill have developed too as the children become more fluent and expressive readers. Each week our spelling powerpoint is posted into the Google Classroom.

Please have a look at our Independent Learning sway for Term 3. It will give a good picture of the childrens’ learing.

Go to this Sway

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This term we have lots to look forward to, such as our trip to The Whale and Dolphin Centre on the 10th of May. Everyone is excited to try and complete their Dolphin Defenders Award. The children are experts! We are also studying the Human Boday this term and thinking about how to stay healthy.

In Literacy we have started a new programme called, “Talk 4 Writing”. This encourages the children to deepen their understanding of the writing process, and scaffolds their ideas. It is already looking quite exciting. In Numeracy, we are focusing on measurement and data handling. These are all practical skills that the children can practise at home too.

Thank you for your support. As always, if you have any questions please feel free to phone school.

 

P3/4 2021

Term 3

Term 2 (Looking Back)

Last term was a busy one for everyone, specially in the lead up to Christmas. I hope that you have had a chance to watch our nativity play “Hey Ewe”. You can access it throught the link that you will be sent.  P3/4 really enjoyed being narrators and having the opportunity to work with the younger children in school.  Be sure to listen to their singing! They were excellent!

We continued to practise our spelling  last term,  using “Wrap Around”. Children can access  PowerPoints through their Google Classroom. They can practise their words and try the activities. Everyone has been keen to have a go.

We have continued with Independent Learning Time. The children have learned and taught lots of skills. They really enjoy working with each other. Have a look at the class Sway with your child. They can log in using their Google Classroom password. (Last term’s Sway is still available too)

Go to this Sway

Once a month we are working on “Play Projects”. There is a sway attached to show our work  so far.  Ask your child all about it. They will have lots to say. Our first two themes were “Boats” and “Dinosaurs”.

Go to this Sway

Term 3 (Looking forwards)

January is our Scotland month. We will be studying Scottish myths and stories.  We are looking forward to learning lots about Scotland.

Wrap Around spelling will continue as will our other Literacy subjects. In Numeracy we plan to look at money. This is something that children could practise at home. They could also keep working on telling the time. We did lots of work on this last term and everyone’s skills really developed.

Thank you for your support this year. We look forward to another great term in 2022!

 

P3/4 2021

Primary 3/4 Termly Update

Pilmuir Primary School HandbookWelcome to P3/4’s blog page!

Term 1 (Looking back)

Last term P3/4 were very excited to take part in Forest School which was organised by Wild Things. Each week we learned so much about the woods and the creatures that live there. Please click on the link to see the children’s learning. I’m sure that your children will be able to tell you lots about their experiences!          Forest School  Link 

You can access the Sway with your child as they will need to be logged in to their Glow account.

We have also been working hard during Independent Learning. This time, is for the children to explore, learn  and develop skills with others or on their own. The children decide what they are going to focus on. The link below will show you the huge range of learning that has occured. Your child will be able to tell you lots about what is going on.         Independent Learning Link

Term 2 (Looking forward)

This term will be a busy one as always! The children will be learning about Christmas around the World and exploring traditions from many cultures.  We will also continue with our new spelling approach – “Wrap Around Spelling”.  Ask your child how to sound out words and stretch them. You will be impressed.