Well, I can’t believe the last day of Primary 4 is here!

Everyone has enjoyed the Big Clean, looking after our classroom and school environment. Our Countdown to Summer with a balloon burst on Teams everyday has been exciting too!

This week we have loved our treats: An outdoor disco, water fight with pistols, a slushie drink to enjoy and a delicious ice-cream from the van today which was delicious! 🍦 💧 💃🏼

It’s been an extremely tough year for all but I am so proud of each and every one of you, you have come so far this year and it’s been a privilege to teach you all. Everyone has coped and adapted to the Covid changes we have faced and above all, enjoyed your learning despite how different and challenging the year has been.

Boys and girls, School is out for SUMMER! ☀️ 😃

I hope that you all have a fantastic Summer; relax, stay safe with your families and have the best time together.

See you all when you return in August!

Mrs Maher 🍎

This week has been an exciting week in Primary 4 with all kinds going on to keep us entertained. From today, and every day until the end of next week, we are on the Countdown to Summer. Today’s whole school treat was to ‘Soak the Teacher’ and boy, did Primary 4 do a great job with those sponges!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

On Monday, we enjoyed watching the Euros, cheering on Scotland and taking part in art activities to decorate the class and posters to cheer on our team. Throughout the week, Euros has been our mini topic, focusing on countries and continents and today, everyone thought their Euros festival lunch was delicious!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

In Maths, we have been working hard completing our fractions topic, maths assessments and have been revising the four operations to keep mental maths fresh in our heads. In Health and Wellbeing, we have identified ways to look after our bodies, things that we do to keep clean and germ free and also the importance of online safety.

In Literacy, we have been developing our report writing skills, using the movie clip of Charlie finding Wonka’s last golden ticket as our writing stimulus as well as our Big Reading book. We are at the edit and publishing stages of our newspaper articles and they are looking fantastic. I can definitely see some of us being keen journalists in the future!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

This week, In P.E we have put our ball skills to good use: travelling with the ball, using a variety of passes to our teammates – most importantly looking for a team mate who is in a good space and choosing the best pass to use. Our next step in competitive games is to mark a partner and steal the ball.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

To end the busy week, everyone enjoyed the Cinema afternoon on Thursday and the Cool Class Cup treat of Nerf Wars this afternoon. Huge Thank you to Miss Ferguson, Mr Green & Mrs Thomson for the treats they have provided us with and the great fun. It’s been brilliant!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, see you on Monday and remember – its non-uniform week! 👍🏼

Mrs Maher 🍎

As part of our end of term treat, Primary 4 enjoyed a lovely walk to the Marmion Park and had brilliant fun playing there. Thanks to Mrs McLaughlin and Mrs Dickson for helping and to Miss Ferguson too. 🌲 😃 ⛅️ ☀️

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Primary 4 throughly enjoyed being outdoors for today’s active challenge on the Trim Trail. Everyone took part in some challenges, boys versus girls and had fun playing even though we had some rain. Well done to today’s winners and to all for taking part. 😃 🌲 🧗‍♀️

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

This week, maths groups have developed their knowledge and understanding of the 10, 5 and 6 times tables. Everyone has created partner flashcards to test each other on what they know. Many of us have extended our learning to formal multiplication where we have applied our knowledge from addition to complete 3 and 4 digit multiplication sums. Let’s continue to practise everyday to keep this fresh in our minds!

I have been super impressed with the improved reading this week; listening for accuracy, fluency and expression. We are enjoying learning new tricky words and giving our partner a next step. Amazingly, many dojos have gone out to boys and girls for improvements in joined handwriting, accurate spelling and great grammar work. Keep up the good work boys and girls!

Everyone has enjoyed identifying and sorting living and non-living things into groups in Science – living and growing. We are looking forward to some interesting experiments to find out what plants need in order to grow and develop. With Mrs Davidson, we have been learning about similarities and differences in living things as well as stereotypes.

Primary 4 are making good use of the outdoor space to develop their ball skills – travelling with the ball and now practising their passes to a partner. We think Basketball is BRILLIANT!

Well done to this week’s Star Pupil RA!

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Primary 4 have been practising their multiplication strategies today for the 2 and 4 times tables – making links to division. I have been amazed to see such wonderful work and testing our partners in their knowledge.

Keep practising hard boys and girls! 😁

In Literacy, we have been tackling more tricky words in our reading and developing our comprehension strategies. This week, it’s been lovely to see everyone trying so hard to improve jotter layout and presentation too. Wow! 🤩

Our Easter line drawing are coming along nicely and we are almost ready to go into the background and then add our modern twist. 🐰

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Primary 4 have been working hard on Multiplication, demonstrating counting forwards and backwards in 2’s and 4’s. We are using strategies to help us work out multiplication facts such as repeated addition. Some of us identified links to our previous learning of money where we used 2p coins to show our able facts. 😃

Everyone agreed it has been great fun taking time out of jotter work to play our times tables games – helping us improve our accuracy. Don’t forget to practise at home tonight! 👍🏼

This afternoon, we shared our highs and lows of lockdown and made a comparison to how it was different from the first. We are using good self-management to produce high quality memory jars.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Mrs Maher 🍎

Happy Monday everyone! 😃

Today Primary 4 added more detail to our Trees of life with Mrs Davidson and they are looking wonderful. 🌳

This afternoon, we enjoyed outdoor PE, practising our ball skills: dribbling, defending and trying to keep moving with increasing pace. ⚽️

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Our PE days will continue to be Monday and Thursday outside so please make sure you have your outdoor jacket and full water bottle – the weather might not be as nice this week.  Currently, we are not in the gym hall taking part in Yoga due to COVID restrictions.

Our Maths focus for the rest of the term is Multiplication and Division. To help improve our mental recall, please practise your 2, 5 and 10 tables at home as much as you can. Why not give it go: in the bath, on the way to and from school, in the car etc. – every practise helps us to improve. If you feel confident with this please go on to 4 (double the 2 times table) then the 3 times table.

These resources will help too:

• Hit the Button
• Daily 10 – Level 2 – Multiplication
• Maths Fishing – Times Tables
• Meteor Multiplication
• Coconut multiples

Today Primary 4 had fantastic fun taking part in RED NOSE DAY 2021. We focused on Article 6, 23, 29 and 32 of the UNCRC and linked this to today’s Comic Relief activities.

Many of us shared or own thoughts and opinions in how Comic Relief donations help to improve the lives of others and the great support it gives to many families.

Here are some of our highlights…

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 🙂

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

On Thursday afternoon, we enjoyed learning more about our topic Easter. 🌸  We focused on asking and answering questions – linked to communication skills, created line drawings – linked to self management skills and gave constructive feedback to others.

Check out our wonderful work! 😃

This slideshow requires JavaScript.