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Primary 3 -Guess My Number

September 8, 2016 M McDaid 2 Comments

We had great fun today playing some active maths games. We really enjoyed ‘Guess My Number’ game. Mrs McDaid wrote a 3 digit number on a piece of paper and taped it onto another pupil’s back. Then the person with the number had to walk around the classroom and ask for clues to help them to guess the number, for example is my number larger than 500, are any of the digits the same, etc. it was quite tricky as the rest of the class were only allowed to answer yes or no. The children enjoyed it so much they are planning to do it as a homework task.

* Effective contributor, Community, Enterprise, Expressive Arts, Primary 4

Glenmanor Garden Party – Primary 4

June 13, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We had a fabulous time celebrating the 50th anniversary of our school. We had great fun taking part in the scavenger hunt then had a look at all the wonderful enterprise stalls, including our own. Then we had some of the delicious cakes and refreshing drinks. We came back into the hall and worked with our parents, carers and other family members on making our newspaper plant pots. Once our pots were made, we filled them with compost and sprinkled some seeds into the soil. A fantastic time was had by all.

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Primary 4 Garden Enterprise

June 7, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We had great fun today making our bird houses for the Garden Party. First of all we had to build our bird houses, then we used acrylic paint to paint the background and then we finished them off by using glitter, sequins and gems.

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Gardening with Primary 4

June 7, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We had fun in the garden with Paula from Hidden Gardens. Some of us helped to put compost on the vegetable garden, another group raked up the grass that had just been cut and the final group watered the flowers and plants.

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Primary 4 – Going on a shape hunt!

May 16, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We took advantage of the gorgeous weather to look for 2D shapes and 3D objects around the playground. Among the shapes and objects we found were square shapes (wooden posts and drains), rectangle shapes (windows), cuboid shape (container) and a sphere (football).

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The Vikings Are Coming!

May 16, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We have been having great fun finding out about the different kinds of weapons the Vikings used. We particularly enjoyed researching the various types of shields and then we designed and created our own Viking shields.

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Theme Park Posters

May 10, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

As part of our non-fiction block, we have been finding out about the important features of posters and leaflets, looking at how organisations persuade and encourage customers to buy their good or services. We had great fun looking at examples of posters and leaflets produced by theme parks, such as Alton Towers and Thorpe Park and decided to create our own theme park, creating attractive and interesting posters.

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Primary 4 Class Cafe

April 21, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We have just started our Money topic for maths and have been having great fun ordering food and drink from our Glen’s Cosy Cafe menu, working out the total cost of our food and drink orders and finding the exact notes and coins needed to buy them. Some of us were using our numeracy skills and rounded up amounts such as £1.99 and £2.89 to the nearest pound to make our calculations a lot easier, remembering to take off the pennies that we added on to get the correct answer.

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Primary 4 – HWB/Mathematics and Numeracy

April 19, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We had great fun today doing our P.E. lessons out in the sunshine. We have just started our Athletics programme and focused today on different styles of jumps, such as long jump, standing jump and triple jump. We used our measuring skills to measure our partner’s jumps and recorded them in our maths jotters in metres and centimetres. Next time, we will estimate how far we can jump, record our jump then compare the two measurements.

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Primary 4 – Language and Literacy

April 1, 2016 M McDaid Leave a comment

We have been working really hard on our group novels and reading books. We have been using a variety of reading strategies to work out the meaning of tricky words and looking at how an author uses inference to get a message across to the reader. We had great fun using the Internet to research animals linked to our books, such as wolves (The Last Wolf), African Elephants (Poppet) and owls (The Baby Owls). Then we created our own fact files, posters and character profiles.