Congratulations to the Bible Quiz team and their coaches Mrs Paterson and Lorna Paterson in winning the Monklands Bible Quiz at Airdrie Ebenezer Evangelical Church. For the second year running the event finished a deat heat between Plains and St David’s Primaries. When the tie-breaker failed to split the teams, the trophy was awarded to both schools.

Literacy:

Spelling bees – Practise ‘u’ ‘gn’ and ‘y’ phonemes – gym, mystery, pyramid, pull, push, awful, cushion, sign, design, gnome.

Super Spellers – ‘k’ phoneme – cabin, kangaroo, crack, school, calculator, keep, hammock, headache, kind, character.
Maths = http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3

cubes to practise o’clock and half past analogue and digital.

cones to practise o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to analogue and digital.

pyramids – practise 5 min intervals analogue and digital

Emily and Scott attended the NLC Pupil Conference today where they discussed “Healthy Food in Schools” and “Rights Respecting Schools”. Meanwhile, our new P1 pupils for August 2016 enjoyed a visit to class and tried a school lunch with their family.

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Mrs Coleman would still like the children to carry out a bit of research on ‘Plains Gala Day’. She is  looking for children to be asking parents/grandparents/other family members about their knowledge and experiences of the Gala Day, past and present. We will be using this information to widen our knowledge and look at the changes from over the years. Photographs would be greatly received too! Children should record their research in their homework jotters.

Thanks to members of the gala day committee for offering to come in and speak to the children.

Other homework

Literacy

Spelling bees – ‘gn’ phoneme – sign, gnome, design, gnaw, gnash. Common words – list, must, most, high, late.

Super spellers – spelling rule 7 – give, take, make, dance, hope, write, drive, smile, slide, bake. Add the ending using the spelling rule.

Both groups to choose one fun spelling method to practise words. Choose 4 words to write a sentence and include joining words.

Maths –

Cubes – practise o’clock and half past –

http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/interactive/halfhours/oclockhpimm/oclockhpimm.htm

Cones – practise quarter hours – http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/interactive/quarterhours/quartersdigimm/quartersdigimm.htm

Pyramids – practise 5 min intervals – http://www.snappymaths.com/other/measuring/time/interactive/fiveminutewordsint/fiveminwordsint.htm

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For homework this week Mrs Coleman would like the children to carry out a bit of research on ‘Plains Gala Day’. I am looking for children to be asking parents/grandparents/other family members about their knowledge and experiences of the Gala Day, past and present. We will be using this information to widen our knowledge and look at the changes from over the years. Photographs would be greatly received too! Children should record their research in their homework jotters.

The children in this class will be responsible for decorating the Plains Primary Gala Day float this year, and our theme will be ‘The Olympic Games’.

If possible, we are also looking for volunteer members of the Gala Day Committee to come in and talk to the class and answer some questions about the Gala Day this year.

Your child should have brought their profile home today, along with the Curriculum Newsletter for their class.

Please spend some time with your child looking at their targets, assessment sheets and work samples. It would be very helpful if, for homework, all pupils could spend some time updating their achievements. Parents should sign the profiles and return them to school by Friday. Many thanks.