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Primary 2 September
We have had a very successful September in Primary 2. We have finished revising Primary 1 sounds and common words and have now started brand new learning. We have been pretending to be investigators and trying to find our new sounds in books and phoneme stories. We have also been learning new Read to Write tasks. Two of our favourites are fixing jumbled sentences from our reading books, and retelling the stories we have read. We love using our magnetic boards and playing Pot Luck to practise our new words. We have enjoyed writing our exciting stories during Taught Writing, and we are always excited to find out who our Star Writers are.
Within Maths we have continued to work on Addition with lots of practical activities. We loved adding to 14 using candles on birthday cakes and sheep inside hula hoops. Mrs Simpson is very impressed by our Number talks especially when we add to numbers bigger than 10. We plan to move on to Subtraction soon.
We have been learning about our senses and have been carrying out experiments and playing games. We loved listening to sounds and playing Sound Bingo.
Our topic is Katie Morag. So far we have made our own Island of Struay for our class using a variety of art techniques. It is looking great. We are beginning to fill our island with all the things we learn about in the Katie Morag stories.
P5 update from August and September
Over the past couple of months, P5 have been learning a lot about the Titanic and have even made a huge wall display of it; each making their own cabins and/or lifeboats. Did you know, there were only 20 lifeboats on the real Titanic but it should have had 64?!
The children also took part in a STEM activity to see if they could make a tinfoil boat that floated and could carry coins. We certainly have some budding engineers in our class!
In Health and Wellbeing, we each created our own Colour Monsters to explore feelings and emotions. They’re on display outside our classroom if you’d like to come and meet them.
In RE we listened to and discussed the story of Father Damien who lived with sufferers of leprosy. He was such a kind and inspirational man; he made a real difference to this outcast community.
As part of our topic The Titanic, the children worked in groups to try to put the inventions/events in order. It should give some parents out there a wee chuckle!
The children worked in groups to demonstrate working in canon, mirroring each other and matching.
P5 have been exploring movement: balance, weight through arms, jumping, inversion and rotation.
At the beginning of the year, our P5s worked in groups on 2D Shape.
The first Golden Time in the class saw our pupils working together socially in small groups. We even had a domino rally!
Our class were given potatoes FROM OUR GARDEN!! We made 4 kinds of potato wedges from them and they didn’t last long!
We also hosted a MacMillan Coffee Morning and raised £425! Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to everyone who baked, bought or donated – we couldn’t have done it without you.
Open Evening Feedback
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Open Evening Questionnaire 12.9.19
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Thank you
Mrs Wilson
Primary 4
When we came back after the summer holidays we enjoyed seeing our friends and we made our own postcards with a recount of our summer. We have started reading The Magic Carpet Slippers by Dick King-Smith. We have read the first five chapters and we are really enjoying the story so far. We made our own book marks this week and even got them laminated. These will help us to keep our place when reading. In Maths we have been focusing on place value and addition. We are learning lots of different strategies.
Our topic for this term is The Rainforest. We have chatted about that we already know about the Rainforest and planned everything that we would like to learn in the next few weeks. We are excited about learning about all the different animals that live in the Rainforest!We have also been learning about the life cycle of plants and talking about how they grow.
We enjoyed using chalk pastels last week during our Art lesson. We explored blending various colours of pastels to colour the petals on the flowers that we drew.
In P.E. we have been focusing on ball skills and we have enjoyed playing some different games. We really liked playing dodgeball!
Mrs Le Blond and two of our P7 pupils were fortunate enough to attend Mass on Friday to welcome the relics of St Therese of Lisieux.
