St Kevin's Primary and Nursery

Another 7 fantastic helpers today in nursery! Our new recruits are becoming more familiar with our helper system. Good job guys!

This week Primary 5/6 enjoyed a very interesting visit from our local MSP Fulton MacGregor . It was very interesting to listen to him as he explained a typical week in the life of an MSP  and he was only to delighted to answer all of our questions .

In class we have been trying to develop our mental maths skills through completing daily maths challenges and using a variety of interactive ICT games . We have been learning how to tell the time using the 12 and 24 hour clock  and have started learning about division .

We have enjoyed using Topmarks website to develop key skills .

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This term we are learning about the planet we live on –  Earth . This week we worked collaboratively within our groups to discuss what we know already about our new topic and we also formulated some fantastic key questions about what we would like to learn.

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The Primary 4/5 pupils have started their new theme ‘The Titanic’.  The boys and girls have been listening intently to Miss Baxter’s book ‘Titanic – Death on the water’.  They have also been using this as a stimulus to produce a variety of daily writing pieces, including excellent postcards to send back to a loved one about their experience aboard the Titanic.  When they completed their postcards, the children then used teabags to stain the postcards to create an old effect.  The children have understood what the word ‘docked’ means and that the Titanic docked at France before continuing it’s journey to New York.

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This week in Primary Three we received the exciting news that we would be starting Hockey training! We met our coaches and had a great time learning how to hold the hockey stick properly, and how to control and move the ball with it. We also took part in some fun games where we had to concentrate and try to successfully move our ball around some obstacles.

We can’t wait to continue our training over the next few weeks.

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This week we also began our topic lessons on The Human Body. We concentrated on protecting our body against germs, and the human skeleton. At the start of the week, we did a fun art lesson where we had to cut and stick straws to represent what we think our skeleton looks like. Later in the week we took part in a science lesson where we studied the names and positions of the bones, and looked at what organs they protect. We finished with a group challenge, where we worked in teams to build a life size adult skeleton.

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As you can see we thoroughly enjoyed our challenge, and were all successful in working as part of a team, and using our problem solving skills.

We are looking forward to next week learning about how our major organs work.

Miss McFadyen and Primary Three

Hello from Primary 6/7,

This week we have been continuing our modelling block where we are revising the comprehension skill, Inference. We have been working alongside an English teacher, Mrs McLean from St Ambrose who has been very impressed with the work we are producing. She is working with us as part of the transition programme. Here is an example of our work where children are writing detailed answers based on their text.

As Burns night is looming, we have been learning about the life of Robert Burns. Today we will be producing portraits of Robert Burns using oil pastels and pencil.

As as our golden time activity this week we worked alongside a boxing coach to learn the skills and movements required in boxing. We had a great time and a few of us even saw ourselves as the next Charlie Flynn! We learned that boxing is not about fighting, but skill, discipline and agility.

Miss Jackson and Primary 6/7

We have had some very special investigators in our nursery helping us to make sure their friends are tidying up and sharing with each other. They received a very special certificate.