This week P.4/5 have been continuing to work on Data Handling. We have looked at Venn Diagrams and taken part in lots of active maths in this area. Our Learning Intention was to know how to sort a range of numbers and shapes into the appropriate sections of Venn diagrams. We worked cooperatively to achieve this and really enjoyed these activities. With Miss Muir we decided on our Success Criteria and these helped us to evaluate our learning against the Learning Intentions.

To celebrate World Thinking Day on Thursday 22^nd February some of our class and children in other classes of the school swapped school uniform for their Cubs, Brownies and Boys Brigade uniforms.

P.4/5 Authors.

P.4/5 have started to write their own books which they’ll read and present to P.1 children on World Book Day, Thursday 1^st March. The children are writing about a variety of stories, designing front covers and working on illustrations. An important target for P.4/5 is to remember that the audience they are writing for is P.1.

More about this in next week’s blog.

Please remember that children are invited to come to school next Thursday dressed as their favourite character from a book.

Having fun on the Sponsored Assault Course!

P.4/5 are really enjoying our Mindfulness Programme led by Mr. McCann. We covered lesson 6 this week and looked at willpower.

Here are some of our thoughts on ‘Mindfulness’.

‘I think that mindfulness is good for stimulation of the brain’.   Ava Mc.

‘Mindfulness is good for calming me down’.   Andrew.

‘I think mindfulness is good because it’s great fun.’   Anna

‘I really enjoy mindfulness. It helps me to concentrate’.   Faith.

‘ I think mindfulness id relaxing and fun and I want to do more of it’.

Well done Andrew. Inspired by our topic on Malawi he and his gran have given a £15 loan to ‘Lend with Care’ to support a group of Malawians set up their own small business.

Some of our project work on Malawi. We hope to invite you to come in and see our work during a Malawi Coffee Afternoon. More details to follow.

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Primary 4/5 enjoying learning basketball skills! They are so competitive.

P.4/5 are researching African landscapes as they create some ‘ Sunset over Malawi’ artwork.

We really like writing letters. These letters are to our Malawian pen friends . We are exchanging information about life in Malawi and Scotland.

Rohan’s gran visited us on Friday to tell us all about her visit to Malawi. She shared lots of interesting information and this will really help us with our topic. It was really kind of her to spend time with us.

We were delighted to take this cheque to St. Andrew’s Hospice earlier this week. The money was part of what we raised during our carol singing at Tesco at Christmas. We hope to become business partners with the hospice and participate in their fundraising events from time to time. In the next few weeks staff from the hospice will join us at assembly to tell us about the important work they do and how we can all help. In the picture our beaming P.4/5 choir members are presenting the cheque to two members of hospice staff.