Primary 2

Primary 2 have had such a busy month. Preparation has began for our Nativity show ‘A Miracle in Town’. The children have their parts and have been working hard to learn their lines and songs.

We have continued work on addition and subtraction and have also covered a topic on shape. As always, a great deal of our work is practical using Seal Maths.

Within Literacy we have been doing more work on new sounds and common words. The children are getting so good at reciprocal teaching (teaching each other) by testing each other on what we have been learning. In writing we have had a go at writing a recount and have also been writing instructions. We especially enjoyed writing about how to make a jeely piece for Katie Morag.

The children have devoted lots of their prayers this month to their deceased loved ones as part of our work on the Month of the Holy Souls. We have learned the ‘Eternal Rest’ prayer and have been saying it daily.

As part of our Emotion Works syllabus, we have been identifying emotions and linking things that happen to us with how it makes us feel. The children made their own emotions using play foam and blank faces.

We have enjoyed some S.T.E.M time within our busy class this month. We were given the challenge of designing a new bridge for the Island of Struay as part of our topic.  We made our way around a variety of stations (e.g spaghetti and marshmallows) and tried to design a safe bridge for the people on Struay to use.

Work began on our Christmas enterprise for our Christmas Fayre. The children had a ball making reindeer food and were so proud of the results.

P1/2 November Reflections Mrs Stevenson/Mrs Byrne

LITERACY

The children have embraced their new learning and have enjoyed using what they have learned in active literacy to enhance their writing lessons .

 

This month the children wrote about their Cinema Visit, learned the correct way to write a Beginning Middle and End (BME) Task and wrote out posters with visual Clues for the Christmas Fayre.  Here are some of this months star writers with their fantastic work. (Pics to come)

The children also enjoyed pairing up with their buddies during Book Week, when they came  down to P1/2 to read to them.

NUMERACY

The children continue to enjoy the progress the are making in the number prosess and their Seal  Training ,as the develop their learning in using the strategies .  They have also enjoyed learning about Measure and looking at different ways to identify Tall -Taller /Short-Shorter.  Big.-bigger/ small-Smaller etc.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING    (H&WB)                                                                 EMOTION WORKS

The boys and girls are learning about their emotions what they are, how they feel and how they are able to deal with them and use different strategies to help them to do this.

ENTERPRISE AND THE CHRISTMAS FAYRE

The children have had a fantastic time preparing for the School Christmas Fayre as they make Reindeer Food and Christmas Sweetie Surprise Bags.  The are also learning about how they can make money for charity by doing this. Here are some pictures of our little production line and one of our P1 pupils demonstrating how to seal the bags ready for display.

R.E   – Month of the Holy Souls/The Rosary and the start of Nativity Practise.

During the month of November the children have been learning about the month of the Holy Souls the Rosary , what it is and why we use this to pray, especially during the months of Our Lady and the Holy Souls.  However as we approach Advent and Christmas, with P3 and P2,  P1/2 are practising for their school Nativity and  the have all been working very hard as the look forward to their performance in December.

GOLDEN TIME

After all that hard work the children looked forward to, and enjoy their well deserved Golden Time each Friday afternoon.  Well done and keep working hard P1/2.

 

Primary 7 October

Primary 7 have been extremely busy this month and have had a range of great experiences which I am sure they have told you all about!  However, here is a short update on what has been happening this month.

We are joining Mossend Primary School each Thursday for our Daily Mile to  build positive friendships with children from other schools in our community.

We have completed our Social Studies Topic on the Scottish Parliament in anticipation of our visit to the Parliament buildings later this month.

In Maths we have worked hard on place value, weight and have started division with a focus on fractions and decimal fractions.

In Language we are continuing with our spelling programme and looking at the various strategies we have to help us spell unfamiliar words.  We have focussed on improving our comprehension skills using our class novels too.  There has been a fantastic improvement  in the quality of handwriting from all pupils in addition to improvement in the presentation of tasks, well done!

In Storywriting, we have been focussing on writing a persuasive text on the pros and cons of genetic testing. The stimulus for this is the work we have been doing in science on genetics. This will make the basis for a review of assessment and moderation of attainment across the Cardinal Newman  cluster.

We have begun our work with the charity, Nil By Mouth, an anti-sectarian charity who work with schools informing children of the detrimental impact that sectarianism has on our children and young people in our communities.  Hopefully there will be a range of events that we will work with Mossend Primary on in the coming months.  So far, all P6 and P7 children have attended interactive workshops on this project.

In P.E. we are very lucky to be working with Young Sports Leaders from S6 from Cardinal Newman each Monday.  They are delivering a series of lessons on fitness with the class which will hopefully lead  to a sports festival held in the high school in March/April of next year.  Many of the pupil in class also successfully qualified for the Sportshall Athletic competition held in the Time Capsule on the 4th November.

The pupils in P7 have been involved in lots of active learning throughout the month of October from designing and carving pumpkins to attendance at the Sky Academy in Livingston.  The pupils had the most amazing experience working in groups with Sky Staff in creating, directing and editing their own trailers for their movie ideas.  Each child was given their own copy of the work produced to keep on a pen drive as a memento of their visit.

 

Primary 6 October Reflective Post

Primary 6 have had a very exciting October, first of all we welcomed another teacher to our class for 4 weeks. Mr Ewing who has been working with the class and doing lots of exciting lessons with us.

We finished our class novel Tribes, we all loved this book and the ending was fantastic. We are now looking forward to starting 3 new novels in our different groups. We have been focusing on discursive writing in October and have been looking at some really important issues such as homework, animals in captivity and most recently fireworks. We enjoy looking at the positives and negatives of these issues and then build our own opinions on the subjects.

Lots of Halloween art and spooky stories also this month. We created our own silhouette haunted houses and made a story to go with it, this was really exciting. Mr Ewing also helped us make our own Halloween lanterns.

In Maths we have been working on addition and subtraction, using both mental and written strategies, we are working really hard with this.

We cannot wait for November as it is going to be a very busy month for our class.

Thanks for reading

Primary 6

Primary 5 are raising money again.

We have been very busy preparing for our PoppyScotland event on Friday. After raising nearly £500 for Mac Milan Cancer, the pressure is on! We also have just had our First Friday Mass. One of our pupils is showing her beautiful Celtic Cross picture which was used in the Offertory Procession. We managed to squeeze in a little bit of work on The Day Of The Dead festival.

We are still finishing of some work on Titanic and hope to soon have beautiful peg dolls to display, as well as our amazing cabins and lifeboats.

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