Well done to Ruby, Rebecca and Sophie from Primary 4/5 who auditioned for Woodlands Got Talent and got through to this afternoon’s show. You were superstars on the stage and your singing and dancing was amazing!
Congratulations to Sophie who was runner up in 2nd place today! She showcased her fabulous dancing in front of the entire school. We were all really proud of how well she did! 🙂
Well done Sophie!
Today was our Big Writing day and we added ambitious vocabulary to our word wall. We explored new adjectives, adverbs and similes that we could include to make our writing more exciting, capturing the reader’s interest.
We realised that our writing process takes time and it is important to experiment with moving adverbs around in a sentence, to help us make sense of our writing. It helps us to see which words fit best and where!
Our new focus is on the next aspect of starting points for stories – Setting. To describe where and when the story took place we included: Time of day, Time of year, Time in History, Scenery, Weather and Location.
Here we are at the beginning stage of being authors… 🙂
This week our class have been very busy learning to be reporters. First we gathered notes from Chapter 11 of Charlie and the chocolate Factory. Next we organised these into the main events and created our own success criteria checklist. After that we edited to up-level our vocabulary and check for VCOP. Finally we created a wonderful newspaper report based on Charlie finding the final fifth ticket!
Look out for our drama photos, coming soon! 🙂
Primary 4/5 have also been practising their Badminton skills by demonstrating: gripping technique, hand-eye co-ordination, positioning, upwards swinging action and serving the shuttlecock diagonally over to their opponents court. Our next steps are using more space and using more force and speed.
On Wednesday Primary 4 & 5 enjoyed some Snowball Madness. We enjoyed having our Snowball fight, a hot dog, snack, drink and a film to watch also.
Kung Hei Fat Choi! This week we have been extremely excited learning about Chinese New Year – it is Year of the Pig. Did you know: The Year of the Pig won’t come around for until 2031, that’s another 12 years away!
Our class have learned a lot about: Chinese traditions, horoscopes, traits, read wonderful stories, painted in Chinese and created wonderful colourful dragons.
Today we completed our week of Chinese New Years activities with having fun in our kitchen. We prepared and cooked Chinese Sweet Chilli / Hoisin and Plum Stir Fry and Noodles. Everyone demonstrated good practical skills using washing, chopping, peeling and grating.
Have a wonderful long weekend and I will see you fresh and bright for learning on Thursday morning 9am. 🙂
Primary 4/5 are learning about algorithms and are practising creating blocks of code to complete challenges and solve problems on code.org.
Welcome back to the first school week of 2019!
Primary 4/5 have been kick-started the new year with marvellous maths: position and movement. We have been learning to use a compass to find 4 or 8 compass points.
Everyone can give, follow and record directions for journeys. Well done! It has been great fun creating paths on squared paper and giving out directions. We even got to blindfold our friends and direct them to their prize.
Recently, we applied our directional learning when using Beebots and programming a character on our computer program. Well done boys and girls!
Reminder: Our PE days are Tuesdays and Fridays. Please bring your full kit and a water bottle that can be refilled.
This afternoon the Primary 4’s enjoyed their cracking Christmas Party! The children danced their socks off, played exciting games and enjoyed lots of tasty snacks and treats. Check out our moves… 🙂
This afternoon the Primary 5’s enjoyed their cracking Christmas Party! The children danced their socks off, played exciting games and enjoyed lots of tasty snacks and treats. Check out our moves… 🙂
Reminder: Tomorrow we have a pantomime in the morning, then on Wednesday afternoon it is our P4 Christmas party. Children can wear their party clothes to school or bring them in a bag to change into after lunch.
The children can contribute to the party by bringing 1 of the following to share with their class: juice, crisps, sweets, bought cakes. Thank you.
A huge well done to everyone – Primary 4 and 5 you were excellent and we are very proud of you!
Here are a few action shots… Have a lovely weekend! 🙂
Reminder of Christmas Parties
Nativity Outfits:
Primary 4 and 5 children require jeans to wear and sandshoes/ trainers for the nativity. Please bring in ASAP in a bag. We will provide accessories and name labels for all children.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Important Dates:
All children should be collected by an adult at 4.45pm from the main entrance.
Children can go home at lunch or bring and change into their outfits.
Festive Homework: All pupils have handed received their Festive Homework for the next two weeks.
First Level
Or Write your own Christmas Story using B M E.
House points will be given as follows:
Second Level
House points will be given as follows:
Please complete at least one activity per week.
The first deadline to hand in homework is Tues 11th December
The second deadline to hand in the next homework is Tues 18th December.
If there are any problems, please come and speak with the Teacher as soon as possible. 🙂
Reminder: The FINAL day for Term 1 homework and books is tomorrow. P4/5 will be given out festive homework on Monday for December.
Thank you to everyone who has handed theirs in already – this has been marked and returned to the children. 🙂
Primary 4/5 will be celebrating St. Andrews Day tomorrow. There will be a Scottish themed lunch (see main blog page) and children will be taking part in some special activities in the school hall. Please remember to bring in a gym kit, including water bottle.
Children are also welcome to wear tartan tomorrow too! 🙂
