Monthly Archives: May 2015

Dig In Day Success

Heather’s gran kindly donated these items for us to use in the Nature Garden. Thank you very much!

Dig In Day

Primary 4 have taken on the responsibility of the school Nature Garden, along with Primary 5. So far we have been out in the garden and come up with ideas of what we would like to see there. We are very lucky to have such an area in our school and are able to use it to help with our learning. We met with a Countryside Ranger from Drumpellier Country Park and Pallacerigg Country Park to help us enhance what we already have. We know exactly what we want to achieve and Colin is the man to help us with this! helpwant[1]

The Dig In Day tomorrow will help us to get started on the plans we have made. We can’t wait to get started. If you can help in anyway we will be in the school grounds from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. We would really appreciate any help you can provide, and any time you could spend with us would be wonderful! Colin will be there with another Ranger and he will bring tools and resources we can use to cut back some trees, create clearer pathways, and clear the full garden to create specific areas. We will even be making bird boxes and unveiling the new name and sign of the garden. It’s an opportunity not to be missed!

We hope to see you all there!

Remember kids, you need to come with an adult.

‘Annie’ Rehearsals

May 28, 2015UncategorizedExpressive Arts, HEALTH&WELLBEING, School ShowUser deactivated

We have been working hard with the cast and P5 to perfect our singing and dancing for the upcoming school show.

“It has been exciting learning all the dances and P4 don’t need their words any more.” Faith

“I feel proud that I don’t need my words anymore.” Emma

“We had so much fun at the rehearsal today! We are sounding great already!” Ellie

“We will still have to rehearse more so that we get even better.” Ebony

“We are nearly there but still need to practise.” Tegan

“I think the show is going to plan.” Declan

“I like that the Waste Warrior song is in the show because P4 made it.” Hannah

Number Stories

May 27, 2015UncategorizedDivision, MATHSUser deactivated

We learned that the opposite of multiplication number stories make division number stories.

“We used different numbers to make multiplication and division number stories.” Leona

“My group and I made forty number stories.” Callum L

“Number stories are when we use our times tables to help divide.” Kyran

Walk To School Week Certificates

May 26, 2015UncategorizedHEALTH&WELLBEINGUser deactivated

It’s cool to walk to school!

We walked to school every day of Walk to School Week and got a fab certificate!

“Flat Emily”

May 26, 2015Links with other schoolsFlat EmilyUser deactivated

Flat Emily has had a very busy Bank Holiday weekend!

She visited Seton Sands Haven Caravan Park and danced with the Seaside Squad.

Then she went to Edinburgh City Centre.

She enjoyed visiting The Kelpies in Falkirk.

Emily then got to visit Briarlands Farm where she had lots of fun!

WHAT A WEEKEND!

It’s A Hard Life! :)

May 21, 2015UncategorizedUser deactivated

It’s tough being in Primary 4B when you get treats and D.V.D.’s as a way to end the week!

Unfortunately it is Miss McCafferty’s last day with us today and she wanted to reward us for our hard work with a treat. We really appreciate all of the fun opportunities you have given us during your time here.

Thank You! We will miss you!

We have been learning all about trees and how they help humans and animals breathe. Kai

I have learned how trees spread seeds to allow other trees to grow. Declan

We had homework aksing us to explore the street to find leaves and match them on our Leaf Bingo. It was good! Jay

If a tree is living and you want to find the age of it you can use an increment borer to tell it’s age. Kayleigh

I know the life cycle of a tree. Emma

Today we were talking about how seeds spread in wind and water or animals can carry them on their fur, then when they land a new tree will grow. Faith

If a tree is not living, you can tell how old it is by counting the rings inside the trunk. Taylor

Division

We have been learning about Division this week.

“I think that if you don’t know your tables you will not be able to divide.” Aiden

“This is because division is the opposite of multiplication.” Emma Louise

“I learned about grouping when working out division sums.” Eva

“We learned how to share in division by giving each person one sweet at a time until they were all finished.” Tegan

As a treat for all our hard work throughout the week, Mrs Wightman let us investigate and explore ways of dividing using sweets.

Here we are dividing sweets by ‘sharing’.

I gave everyone in the group one sweet to start with.

I shared the sweets and we all got three.

I had eighteen sweets and gave one to everyone in the group, then kept going until everyone had three sweets.

I couldn’t share my sweets equally because I had eighteen sweets and four people.

Here we are dividing sweets by ‘grouping’.

Can you believe we all had to answer questions about division before Mrs Wightman would let us eat our sweets?

Luckily we all got our questions correct!! 😀

“Flat Emily”

Primary Four have the fantastic opportunity to make links with a school in New York using the “Flat Stanley” novel by Jeff Brown as a stimulus. In the novel Stanley Lambchop has a big problem when a giant pinboard falls on top of him, leaving him completely flattened. Stanley soon finds out there can be many bonuses to being flat, such as sliding under doors to get into different rooms, and going on holiday to California in an envelope. Being flat allows him to travel easily. Today we received a “Flat Emily” through the post with a letter asking us to take pictures of her with our classes.

She had a fun day in our school and even attended her first Whitelees assembly. As I write this she is with our choir in the school hall and will be taking part in our Bikeability after school club. This evening she is also on her way to gymnastics, football and bowls with some of our P4 pupils.