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P1/2a Reflection
P1/2a have been extremely busy over the past few weeks.
In literacy, we have finished learning all of our new sounds and common words for the year and have been busy consolidating this knowledge. We have also been doing lots of writing linked to our topic of journeys. We created passports, boarding passes, in-flight menus and stories about exciting journeys.
In numeracy, we have been working hard on our numbers to 20 and have also covered the topic of money. We enjoyed investigating the different types of coins and using money to buy items in our play shop.
As part of HWB, we made sandwiches for our whole school picnic. We have also been talking a lot about our feelings and emotions and have identified the many ways in which we are the same and different from one another. In PE, we really enjoyed our multi-sports sessions which had a big focus on tennis.
We also enjoyed creating paintings inspired by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and have engaged in drama activities based on the story ‘The Magical Toy Box’. Â We also enjoyed welcoming Snuggles the teddy from St. Andrews hospice into our class and have been busy learning songs about bears to make him feel welcome. We are so looking forward to our Teddy bear walk on Monday!
Our topic this term has been journeys and we have really enjoyed our play sessions based around the airport. We have enjoyed taking on the roles of pilots, flight attendants, security guards and passengers. We have also enjoyed making lego constructions of ships, planes and buses.
Primary 6/7b May 2019
May has been another very busy month for 6/7b.
Health week was jam packed with activities . We kept very active, and made ourselves some sandwiches which we had at our whole school picnic. We took part in the Big Clean Up which saw us all clear up our local area. We were really shocked at the amount of glass in the park.
P7s have had their two day visit followed by the Smoothie Challenge from the maths department.
We had a great night at Hampden Park when we went to see Scotland V Jamaica. A 3-2 win for Scotland’s ladies before they head to the World Cup in France. Go Scotland!
In class we have been learning about negative numbers and doing some algebra. We also did some persuasive writing with Mrs Henry when we were learning more about alcohol and smoking. We had a class debate on the use of these substances.
Many of our pupils have been working hard in Jungle book show practice and we have been producing some great Jungle Book art.
P7s investigated the properties of substances with Cardinal Newman High School
P6s met their Buddies who are due to start school in August, they had great fun with them.
Primary 5/6 April / May 2019 Post
As we were off for a lot of April due to our Easter holidays we have made a joint post to share our experiences during the months of April and May as part of our Reflective Friday.
H Factor was enormous fun and gave us a great opportunity to showcase our talents and develop our confidence in performing in front of an audience. There was lots of audience participation as you can see during this performance of Tsunami !
We had great fun making sandwiches using the cress we had grown in class as part of our work about food miles. It also linked well to our health week activities and our Global Picnic ( although it was indoors because of the heavy rain !!!!)
In literacy we have been studying Saving Finnegan and learning about writing for a younger audience. We wrote our stories for P1/2a and then went downstairs to pay them an author visit and read our work aloud to them.
In numeracy we have completed our work on fractions. We have  been learning a lot about money through using coins effectively as well as calculating cost and change.
In Spanish we have been learning outdoors and testing our knowledge through a variety of active games. In this photo we are playing the line up game based on our knowledge of the weather.
One person calls the weather type in Spanish  and the two contestants race to touch it first.
Preparations for the Jungle Book are going well and many members of our class have been practising with microphones and music. They are really working hard and learning when they come on and off stage as well as memorising all their lines. All of them are staying behind after school a lot. We hope it will be a great success when it takes place in St Gerard’s Primary on the 18th and 19th June. Tickets are now on sale at £4 each.
During health week we had a bouncy inflatable assault course which was great fun but really hard to climb. It was a really busy week with golf, healthy cooking and other different activities. We ended the week with Sports Day which was a bit different as we had to hold it indoors as the weather was terrible. It was still great fun though and we have the P7 sports championship race still to run on the first dry day.
Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company have been coming in to work with us as part of Developing The Young Workforce. They are explaining how many jobs are involved in the creation of a product and the challenges of getting your product just right. It has been great fun so far as you can see.
P1/2 May Reflections Mrs Stevenson/Mrs Byrne
R.E – Â P1/2 , Our Lady and First Friday Mass
P1/2 worked very hard to prepare for their First Friday Mass.  This being the Month of May, was a very special month to honour Our Lady.  The children read beautifully and all contributed to the mass very respectfully.  You should be so very pleased and proud of what you have achieved,  boys and girls especial our P1 children who have taken part in their ‘First Friday Mass’ for the very  first time.  So proud of you all, well done P1/2.
NUMERACY
and Outdoor Learning
As the weather picked, up the children looked forward to getting  outside to learn about numeracy . They used  a variety of resources to help them in their learning.  They really enjoyed being outdoors and had fun learning about number in a different way.  Great work P1/2.
   
 
LITERACY
Grammar in the Garden
P1/2 are having fun with their Literacy too,  particularly when they headed  outdoors to their classroom in the sunshine.  Working together in groups, pairs and individually, the children worked hard on their reading, writing, talking and listening skills and found that this kind of learning  helped them to relax,  focus and enjoy their learning even more.
 
   
   
 
STAR WRITERS
As the children look forward to summer, they’re learning reflects this and one of P1/2’s Summer topics will be ‘At the Seaside’.  The children have made their very own Passport, included important information and as the temperature gets warmer, P1/2 have made  Eco and/Sun Safety Posters to display around the school, to remind us of ways to save our planet and also of the precautions we should take to stay Safe in the Sun.
ECO/HEALTH WEEK, TOPIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARYÂ LEARNING
Literacy/Health and Wellbeing /People Place and Environment/ Â Â Â Â Â Â Expressive Arts
   
   
 H&WB  –  THE RAINBOW FISH
After hearing and discussing the story ‘The Rainbow Fish’ which is a story of friendship, happiness, morals, values and sharing, the children  made their own ‘Rainbow Fish’ and as Health Week approached,  their  discussion and active participation continued as they learned about ’emotions’ and the importance of keeping their ‘mind’ as well as their ‘body’ healthy.
Healthy Whole School Picnic
Our class had fun on Thursday as we made our ‘healthy’ corn wraps with ‘healthy’ fillings, for our Whole School ‘Healthy’ Picnic in the afternoon. We couldn’t go outside because of the rain but still had a great time with our blankets, teddies and friends, when we had our picnic in the hall instead. Â Above are some of our pictures.
…P1/2  also decided that they would like a  quick, final practise of their races before the School Sports Day on Friday.
SCHOOL SPORTS DAY
Our P1/2 School Sports Day Pictures (More to come)
 P1/2, you all had such a great time at our School  Sports Day.  In particular we had a  wonderful display of good sportsmanship.  What a fantastic way to  end Eco/Health Week.
We also did our very best to use this week to think about natural ways that we can be kinder to our environment and our planet  as we go about our daily lives.
  
  
  
    
    
   
Finally thank you to P 6/7 for supporting P1/2 and showing them how to help clean up the park in preparation for our school sports day but also to help make it a nice and clean place for our community to use.
Fantastic Job everyone (P1- 7). Well done.
P1/2 April Reflection Mrs Stevenson/Mrs Byrne
LITERACY
STAR WRITERS OF T HE WEEK
When the children returned to school in Holy Week refreshed after their holiday, they continued their learning about Jesus journey and wrote about it, in an animated picture story of  The Way of the  Cross.
The children also learned about form filling as they learned how to read and fill out their new and different Snack 2 Go forms.
NUMERACY – S.E.A.L (Stages of Arithmetical Learning) Approach and Active Learning Stations
P1/2 engaging and having fun with their learning using a variety of resources.
  
  
HEALTH AND WELLBEING P.E.
P1/2 Learning About Dance…
… and Enjoying Relax Kids as they learn about the benefits of relaxation techniques and how these can inspire tranquillity and calm.
R.E. Â This Is Our Faith (TIOF)
P1/2, Â Our Lady and Practising and Preparing for their First Friday Mass in May.
P 1/2 have been working very hard  at home, (practising their readings etc) at school and in Church as they prepare to participate in their Class, School and Parish First Friday Mass  where they will honour Our Lady in her special month of May.
Here is a little picture story of their preparation so far…
Well done P1/2 keep working hard in term 3. Â Mrs Stevenson and I are so proud of all your hard work.
Primary 3/4 have loved reading their letters sent from pen friends in America. Now looking forward to writing their reply letters!
P4/5 March Reflective Friday
On the 8th of March, we released the brown trout alevins into the Calder. We each had a container of 3 or 4 fish. One of our favourite parts was pouring them into the water. It was really good to get fresh air and a chat with our friends on the way to release the fish. It was great seeing them in the river for the first time. Some of us felt it was a bit sad because we had been looking after them for 6 weeks but it was great to see them searching for – and finding – food for themselves! Some of us felt a bit nervous for them because we noticed a lot of rubbish like glass, plastic, branches, crisp packets, bottle tops, broken bikes and so on in the water.
We have been learning about plastic pollution after releasing them because we saw all that rubbish. We have watched videos about the harm that is done to fish and other creatures in the sea and we’ve been talking about how to stop using so much plastic. We have been writing persuasive letters to people to convince them to stop using single-use plastic.
Don’t use so much plastic.
Recycle plastic.
Reuse plastic.
Don’t litter.
Don’t waste plastic.
At this month’s Merit Assembly, Sophia and Logan showed everyone their presentation about the Brown Trout.
This month, we have also been learning about the church and what being an altar server means. We have prepared questions to ask existing altar servers. Oscar has even just become an altar server! Well done, Oscar!
Science Week was this month.
We did lots of experiments including:
Skittles in hot water: the Skittles melted and the water turned different colours.
Bouncy egg: we put one egg in vinegar and waited 24 hours and when we took it out, there was no shell but it was bouncy!
Bending water: we got a static charge on a ruler and put it beside running water from the tap.
Blow-up balloon: We put a balloon over a jar of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and it blew up the balloon!
We even tried some experiments that didn’t quite go to plan! It was great fun. Some of us tried them at home.
Some of us made non-fiction books about our interests such as guinea pigs, horses and Fifa.
It was also World Book Day.
We came to school in costumes or in our pyjamas and we read books and went round the classes. In our class, we read Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo about World War II and children being evacuated.
Reflective Friday March P6/7b
This has been a hectic month for P6/7b.
We have had fun whilst raising money on our Fridays in Lent so far. We have had our quiz, mad scientist/ crazy hair/odd shoe day, Pyjama and movie afternoon and today we have H-Factor, the school is buzzing!!
In maths, we have been furthering our learning in algebra and have been learning to identify, name and measure different types of angles.
In literacy, we have been continuing to use our reading strategies for comprehension and have written a persuasive letter to an engineer in the Leaders Award to promote our inventions. We have also made posters after taking part in a BBC live lesson called Blue Planet to try and warn people about the dangers of plastics in our seas. We are also now going to try to put commas in the right places. 🙂
We enjoyed science week doing a variety of experiments looking at physical and chemical changes.
The P7s took part in the Commonwealth games at Cardinal Newman with the Cluster Schools where we managed to gain the top number of points, a great effort by all.
We had a brilliant visit to Hampden Park with our friends from Mossend Primary which was a treat for us from Nil by Mouth, a huge thank you to everyone at the charity.
We had a chance to compare our work with P3/4 which was a very interesting experience for all of us, we were very impressed by P3/4’s jotter work!
We had a great day being engineers at the Forth Bridges where we built a structure which was 4.8 metres high, using individual tetrahedron shapes which we made individually then put together in groups. We were guided by a lady called Elaine Barrie who was a Civil Engineer and gave us some good advice on solving problems.
A big congratulations to Cathal and Katie for reaching the final of the Reading Quiz…good luck for the next stage.
Now we are off to enjoy our two weeks holiday…see you all in April!
P5/6 Reflective Friday Post March 2019
Welcome to our March Reflective Friday post. We have had an amazing month learning in all curricular areas. Maths has been really interesting as Mrs Cook has been using lots of fun ways to teach us about fractions using number jacks. We have enjoyed our problem solving tasks in our cooperative learning groups on a Friday morning. We have to work as a team to solve the challenge using logic and numeracy. We are learning a lot from the reporting back sessions too.
In literacy we have been studying the short novel “ Cheat “ by Judy Waite and Mrs Wilson has been teaching us about grammar when she is with us on Friday. This month we looked at homonyms and similes. Take a look at the photos we have posted here where we made up our own similes to describe our emotions in a way that was meaningful to us.
We have made our Lenten promises and checked in weekly to support one another in keeping strong.
We had our own fashion show based on recyclable objects which demonstrated our creativity, deepened our understanding of sustainability and showed we have amazing fashion sense !
We have planted seeds to find out which germinate quickly and which take longer despite being exposed to the same conditions. Our cress grew over the weekend so we are going to make sandwiches today to enjoy the fruits of our hard work, zero food miles for this snack !
Our vegetable seeds are coming on well and we will ask Mr Crielly to take care of them during the holidays so that we can plant them out in late April in the school planters and down at the allotment.
We hope to make soup with the vegetables we grow as they will also have zero food miles.
We have enjoyed learning about martial arts in PE too. What a busy month !!
