Stepps Primary School

We’ve been enjoying counting and forming our numbers since the beginning of the year. Everyone is now doing really well and counting to ten and back again. Here are a few pictures of the active ways we have been practising counting.

We had lots of fun making and eating our Ghost Bananas and Halloween  Pumkins.

What a fast first term it has been in Primary 5/4 where we have been learning all about the Romans in our Social Studies topic.  We had a homework challenge to create something to share with the class to show knowledge of the Romans. What an amazing array of items to show and share.

School Trip to Motherwell Heritage Centre – Wednesday 16th November

We had such an amazing day at Motherwell Heritage Centre where we shared our Roman facts and learned even more with Hugh, our amazing Guide for the day. We got to dress up, learn about togas, Roman armour, march just like in the Roman army and learn about Roman cooking, the Bath houses and a closer look at coins. We also got the opportunity to show our artistic and design flair when we were given materials to create our own shields.  The last part of the trip was up the tower where we could see the amazing views in all directions.  An amazing school trip that everyone enjoyed and we would love to go back there again.

We are halfway through Term 2 already, and P6/5 have been hard at work.

The class is getting ready to conduct their Chemical Change experiments this week, after having spent the last few weeks designing these experiments in their science teams. After that, we are going to continue the science theme by exploring how different parts of the human body work.

We have been building on our reading skills this term, with a paricular emphasis on recognising and answering different types of questions. This is proving to be quite a challenge to many of us as we get used to the categories of questions, so pupils have been supporting each other by leaving tips in our Yammer group.

In maths, the class has worked hard at developing our division knowledge, and now we are looking at Time, focussing on analogue, digital, 12 hour and 24 hour times, as well as how Time is important in our lives. Although our main lessons are moving away from numeracy, pupils still get to keep their number skills fresh with regular mental maths sessions during the week, and we have been experimenting with some Big Maths activities to allow pupils to track their mental maths progress. Sumdog accounts remain available for P6/5 to play some games and develop their confidence at their own speed.