In the open kitchen we made and prepared a fruit salad. This is the perfect snack to help us get our 5-a-day in such a colourful way.  We practised using our practical skills such as peeling and chopping. Everyone got to enjoy tasting apples, bananas, green grapes, red grapes, oranges and strawberries. YUM!

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Today in PE we have been developing our ball skills by dribbling the ball with the inside part of our foot. After that, we practised passing the ball and trapping it with our partners. Finally we had fun dribbling the ball and aiming to score it into the net. 🙂

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Today in PE we took part in fitness stations to improve our health and well being.

“I liked the shuttle run the best because I tried to beat my score with my partner.” LB

“I liked skipping the best because it is my hobby and it is fun.” HD

“I enjoyed doing the lunges because it made my legs work hard.” RB

“It was fun doing the press-ups and burpees because it made me hot and sweaty and my heart was beating very fast.” SS

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REMINDER: Homework is due in on Monday. Please remember to bring in all of your items in the polypocket.

Today, we worked with our peer partners to assess our maths work. First, we read through the task and identified two stars – what went well and a wish – next step. We enjoyed sharing our learning with others and explaining things.

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After school, P4-7 took part in snowball madness playing different fun games and snowball fights. Everyone enjoyed a tasty cookie and hot chocolate treat! 😍

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Today we enjoyed developing our ball skills whilst taking part in PE with our coach.

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Also, we have been ‘Making Thinking Visible’ while carrying out a CSI Thinking Routine. As part of our book review on ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ we have chosen:

• Colour – what colour suits this text and why
• Symbol – what symbol would represent this text and why
• Image – create a picture to represent this text and explain it

REMINDER: Children in P4-7 who have paid £1 are invited for a special fight at ‘Snowball Madness’ tomorrow 3pm-4pm, Please remember to bring your water bottle! 🙂

Thank you to all of the parents who came into Primary 4 this morning. I’m sure you will all agree, it was great fun carrying out Burns Day activities with the children. We finished off the day with some famous Scottish poetry.

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Today we celebrated the success of ED. She won this glorious trophy for dancing at: Aladdin, The Lion King and The greatest Showman at her Musical  Theatre.

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Today, we were delighted to have a visit from the author Chris Duke, who talked about his book, “Lucy’s Blue Day”.
We learned about how different emotions affect us and that it’s ok to feel ‘Blue.’ Some of us got to meet Chris and have our books signed! 😃📚 

This afternoon, everyone took part in Social Dancing during PE. We have learned 3 dances so far to our Scottish music and with increasing confidence, we can demonstrate the correct steps in time with the music. 🎶

REMINDER: The first week of homework is due in this Monday. Please remember to keep all items in the polypocket to prevent damage. Thank you!

This afternoon in Art, we have been learning to use the technique of shading. We focused on using the correct grip with short strokes and varied pressure control. Some of us found it was more challenging to use light pressure but everyone demonstrated smooth shades with no gaps. It was also great fun using smudging to blend together the pencil lines. Well done!

Our next step is understanding light and shadow when shading in our images. 🙂

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REMINDER: Friday is our PE day, please bring in a change of clothes, shoes and a water bottle. It gets very hot in the gym hall and you can refill it as many times as you wish.

Today we enjoyed taking part in Team Games during PE with our coach. We followed the rules of the game, worked well as part of a team and improved our speed to win. Well Done! 🙂

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In Maths, we have been learning to solve formal written calculations in addition.
Top Tips: when you add your two digits together in a column and your answer is more than ten, you record the units digit and carry the 1 (Tens) to the left column.

Remember: to add on the 1 (Tens) that you carry over.

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In the afternoon, we had fun in the open kitchen, learning to make and prepare foods as part of our Health and Well being. We enjoyed learning to make cups of tea and coffee safely and sensibly. ☕️

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Today the class were introduced to the homework grid for this term.

Pupils should complete one homework task each week and hand in on a Monday. This should be checked and signed by an adult.

Homework should be completed in the Homework jotter, unless a sheet has been provided. If you would prefer to create on a computer, e.g. Burns menu, that is fine, too.

Class dojos and house points will be awarded for all completed pieces of homework. Thank you.

Today we focused on using a variety of connectives to make our sentences/ writing more interesting to the reader. We all agreed that writing becomes boring to read when we use ‘and’ too often.

At the end of the lesson we gave feedback on which connective we felt better about using and gave examples of using them in our own sentences. Our next step is using more complex connectives to link two parts of sentences together accurately.

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