St Kevin's Primary and Nursery

Hello from Prinary 6/7,

This week we have been working hard as there are a lot of things to cover and we are nearing the end of term! The primary 7 children have been working hard on their reflective essays which will be sent to St Ambrose at the end of the year, we have been creating a discursive essay on the role of sustainable energy and the effectiveness of these. The children have been using their research to create their piece of discursive writing. We will also be carrying out our assessment of our fractions block which we have now completed.

The Pope Francis Faith Award will be coming to a close next week for the Primary 7 pupils as  their work will now be assessed and sent away to the diocese. The children have worked hard and put in a lot of effort into this award and I’ve seen how determined the children are to receive this award after their hard work.

The class have now been putting the finishing touches to our Caribbean sunset art today. As you can see they are very effective and vibrant! Puts us in the mood for our summer holidays!

We had a visit from TACS (Truck and Child Safety) this week where we learned about the dangers of trucks and going near them. We learned a lot and had great fun!

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

This week our Primary Three explorers have been continuing on with their investigations of Ancient Egypt.

We began with researching the Pyramids of Giza, which we were able to look at in detail through Google Maps. It made us feel like we were really there! We learned facts about the pyramids and were interested to learn that many have trap doors and secret passages, which were built to keep out intruders. This was very helpful for our Taught Writing task this week which was to write a creative diary entry imaging that we were archaeologists who have uncovered a lost tomb.

We then moved on to looking at Egyptian jewelry worn by Pharoahs, and were so inspired that we decided to create our own.

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We made our collars with the pasta donated by all of you, and the headdresses from gold paper and glitter. We had a lot of fun making them and loved wearing them!

This week we also had two birthday celebrations, which luckily for us meant two cakes! Thank you to the parents of both of these fantastic classmates.

Next Thursday our ‘Build Your Own Pyramid’ homework is due, and we can’t wait to see each others creations!

Miss McFadyen and Primary Three

This week the children have been having fun using a variety of different collage materials to create their animals in conjunction with their new topic.

This week Primary 5/6 have enjoyed learning about data handling .We have learned how to successfully gather information using tally marks  and how  to successfully interpret data from a variety of different types of graphs and charts . We are looking forward to carrying out our own surveys next week  to see if we can successfully apply our knowledge to display our findings  .

In our Vikings topic we enjoyed learning about how the Vikings travelled on longboats and used shields to defend themselves .  We learned that a Viking shield was made from wood and was usually about 80-90cms in diameter. We enjoyed learning about the Viking raids on Lindsfarne .

LIndsfarne is a small island off the North east coast of England . It is also know as the Holy Island. It was founded in the7th century by St Aidan . LIndisfarne was one of the first places in Britain to be attacked by Viking raiders . In 793AD Viking raiders attacked the monastery at Lindsfarne . They killed several of the monks , set fire to building and stole many valuable items .

In class we thoroughly enjoyed designing and creating our own Viking shields just like the ones which might have been used at Lindsfarne .

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In class we have been learning about alliteration.  We used our names to create an alliteration sentence then we read them to each other.  We used a thumbs up to show if we felt each person had achieved the alliteration challenge.

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Hello from Primary 6/7,

This week we have been working very hard, we cannot believe that we are in our final term, and for many of us we will be making that transition to high school after the summer.

We have been busy this week practicing our inference skills. We have been using different types of passages including poems and we have been practicing answering inferential and evaluative questions. Mrs McLean from the English department at St Ambrose has been very impressed with our literacy skills!

We have also been doing the dreaded maths unit, fractions. Miss Jackson has been testing us on this and she is happy with the progress we are all making.

As it is May we have been learning all about Mary our mother and the importance of the rosary that will be incorporated into our morning prayers.

“Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it, let us learn from Mary, to make decisions, trusting in the Lord” Pope Francis

We are in the midst of our topic for this term, the Caribbean. We have loved it so far, learning about the early history such as the colonisation of the islands and the influences from other countries in terms of food, music etc. We started some art today where we will be creating a Caribbean sunset with silhouettes in the background. We were learning to blend and create gradual changes in colour. Here is one we made earlier.

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

The children have been learning all about Homelife in the 80’s and how the lives of children are very different to children’s lives nowadays.  One of our written tasks was to list similarities and differences of an 80’s child in comparison to a 2017 child.  Mrs Docherty was very proud of our effort.

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P4/5 has enjoyed participating in Active Literacy rotation stations.  In class they used the I-pads to practise typing their spelling words.  They worked with a partner to dictate sentences to each other orally on their whiteboards. The children also enjoyed working with a partner to SAY, SPELL and CHECK their words Literacy i! Active Literacy is hard work but very fun!

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