As you know we have been working very hard on our Scots and Burns poems. We are having our whole school Burns Assembly on Friday 27th where our winners will recite their poems to the school and an invited panel of judges. Each of our winners will receive a certificate and 3 lucky winners from P1- 3, P4 & 5 and P6 & 7 will be awarded a trophy to hold for a year.

We would invite the children to wear something tartan on Friday, if they have it, to help us celebrate Burns Day.

 We are all looking forward to the performances and pictures will be posted on the school blog next week.

 Thank you once again for your support.

Good Morning,

Here are your activities for the week ahead. If you have any problems, please let me know straight away.

Language

• Spelling – Complete Unit/List 9 in your Spelling Homework jotters for Friday 3rd February.
• Personal Reading Challenge – Throughout the year, please read extra texts on top of the class novels. Record what you have read and complete the tasks on the Personal Reading Challenge sheet.
• Burns Poetry Recital – Please practise your Burns poem for Monday 23rd Jan.   If you are our class winner, remember to practise for Friday’s whole school competition.

  Reading
  

• Purple – Black Death                                      
• Yellow – Waiting for Anya/ The card turner
• Orange – The giraffe and the Pelly and me/ Artemis Fowl
• Blue – The ultimate trainers                        
• Green – The hunger games/Down the rabbit hole

  All new books should be completed for Friday 27/1/17.

Maths

Please use a variety of websites to enhance your mental agility. This will help you prepare for our topic of number patterns and relationships.

• 72 Learn Its
• Hit the Button
• P7 Maths Weblinks
• Mangahigh
• Sumdog
• http://skoolbo.co.uk/

Other

• You will recite your poems to our class and one other on the Monday 23^rd January.
• PE will be on MONDAY (First thing) this week as we practice our Scottish Dancing with Primary 7M.
• Please practise singing Auld Lang Syne for our Burns Supper. Click here for the link to the tune and lyrics.
• We are looking for two adult helpers for a whole day trip on Thursday 2nd February. Please write a note in your child’s diary if you can help. Thank you in advance.
• Cooking on Wednesday 25th Jan. Please bring an apron for our morning cooking frenzy!
• Burns Supper – Thursday 26th January, 1.15-3.15pm: Invited guests should arrive at the Main Office for 1.15pm. Dress Code: Wear something tartan.

Hello everyone, Hope you had a lovely weekend. Here is this weeks homework📒.

Reading 📚 – New book to be read at home for next Monday. They will read in class with their reading partner everyday and I will also hear groups of children reading parts of their books. Within class we will be using novels to complete our  book detectives work and also some comprehension questions, our novels will be kept in class as our library books.

Spelling  📝

Blue – mainly, spray, crayon, layer, pancake, yesterday, animate, decade, sea and these.

Red – crayon, mail, escape, spray, layer, waiting, wanted and eat. (mainly and pancake if you would like a challenge)

Green – loud, cloud, found, sound, round, pound, house and old.

Remember to rewrite the words using Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check. Choose 3 words to write a sentence for or challenge yourself and use the VCOP helper to write a short story, underlining or using a different colour for your spelling words. Try to include ambitious vocabulary and connectives in these. Then choose a Spell Well activity to help consolidate your words.

Maths📚 – In maths this week we will be continuing 2D and 3D shapes and looking at right angles. For homework each child has a times table chart to complete at home. Once completed they have been asked to decorate it and I will laminate these for each child to keep as a helper.

Times table games –                             http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables   http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm                                                                                                    http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

Hi everyone, here is your homework for the week.

Reading –

Please read your Big Cat book at home for next Monday.  We will be reading our books in class most days too.

Spelling –

red – le

article

middle

miracle

trouble

speckled

candle

long

about

green – le

apple

table

little

cable

stable

bottle

always

made

blue – y to say ai

baby

family

happy

city

party

tasty

by

after

Maths –

Please complete the subtraction activity given.

Remember this Friday is our Burns Assembly. You are welcome to wear something tartan to school on Friday if you wish.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have any problems.

Mrs McKay

This week we had a look at the famous Robert Burns poem, Tam O’Shanter! We listened to the poem as well as watching a modern take on YouTube, which we found to be quite funny! We then completed different tasks in groups in order to explore the poem further. These tasks included: writing a sequel to the poem, doing a character study on Tam O’Shanter, creating a map showing Tam’s journey around Ayr, identifying important imagery within the poem, translating some Scottish words and creating a storyboard to illustrate the poem. Pupils extremely enjoyed learning about the story of Tam O’Shanter and were very successful with their tasks! We hope you enjoy the pictures of our finished Tam O’Shanter display!

Throughout the school Steven Brown’s artwork is proving very popular as quite a few of the classes are recreating their own versions of his coo designs. On Friday afternoon we popped down to P1H to have a look at their coo artwork …….. and we were very impressed!

You were able to comment on the wonderful colours the P1s used and the technique they used to create their coo’s coat. Likewise, when P1H stopped by our class to have a look at our coo designs they could point out the similarities with their own designs

What a fabulous job P1H. Well done!

I hope you enjoyed your weekend.  Homework and news as follows:

P2 Homework

Spelling this week is y at the end as in holly, story, jolly.

Reading books out on Monday.

Maths homework will be looking at change to 20p.

P3 Homework

Spelling this week will be ea as in bread, spread

Reading books out on Monday.  Some pupils have also chosen a second more challenging book from the library that can be read alongside the core reader.

Maths this week can be chosen from the Maths grid.

Other news

On Monday I will be hearing all of the Scottish poems.  Pupils will then be asked if they would like to be put forward for the school competition.  These groups will be sent to other classes on Tuesday when an overall class winner will be chosen.  Good luck everyone.

On Friday we will be having our Burns school assembly in the afternoon.  Each class poem winner will perform on the stage in front of the school and poetry judges.

We will continue our ERIC (Everyone reads in class) time on Tuesday and Read and Munch on Friday.  We have also introduced simultaneous reading in class on a Thursday.  This is where everyone in class reads their core reader at the same time at their desks.  As they read I circulate and listen in to readers.  We also continue our group reading times with the teacher.  With this variety of reading styles the pupils are really enjoying reading in class and are working on the different strategies if they get stuck with a new word.  This includes sounding it out,  reading on, looking at the picture, splitting up the word, asking for help.

Have a great week

Mrs Fulton

I understand the effect that a range of substances including tobacco and alcohol can have on the body. HWB 2-38a

I know that popular culture, the media and peer groups as well as my own attitudes and values can influence how I feel about substance use and recognise the impact this may have on my actions. HWB 2-39a

I know that alcohol and drugs can affect people’s ability to make decisions. HWB 2-40a

I can identify the different kinds of risks associated with the use and misuse of a range of substances. HWB 2-41a

I know of actions I can take to help someone in an emergency. HWB 2-42a

I understand the impact that misuse of substances can have on individuals, their families and friends. HWB 2-43a

I can:

• State some of the effects that substances have on the body
• Create a list of influences
• State their feelings
• Identify some possible outcomes of specific actions resulting from outside influences
• Outline how drugs and alcohol can affect my ability to make decisions
• List different kinds of risks associated with the use and misuse of substances
• Explain and emergency situations to an operator
• Relate first aid skills to given situations
• Further develop first aid skills e.g dealing with burns
• Explain how people/ services can help in an emergency

Using the website links listed below, your task is to design and create an A3 poster using Publisher to inform your classmates of the dangers of substance misuse. You must include:

• The effects and health risks related to tobacco and alcohol misuse
• The impact of external influences/pressures and how these can affect personal decisions, actions and outcomes
• The impact and risks of misusing drugs and alcohol and how it can affect your ability to make good decisions
• The negative social side effects of substance misuse on individuals, their families and friends
• How to deal with emergencies using the operator, emergency services and first aid

http://www.quit.org.uk/PrimaryResourcePack.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/z8b97ty/resources/1

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/pshe/drugs/materials/documents/drugs_booklet.pdf

http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/alcohol

http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/tobacco

http://www.talktofrank.com/emergency-help

http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/media/143553/alcohol%20and%20the%20body%20infographic%202.pdf

You will have 4 weeks to plan and prepare your presentation and will present to the rest of the class on the 5th week.

We hope to visit Bishopton library again  on –

Friday 3rd February , Friday 3rd March and Friday 31st March.

We will leave at 11.15 and return by 12.00.

If you are able to accompany us, please put a note in your child’s homework diary.

Thanks

Please continue to practise your Scottish poem.

Homework this week is your new sound-  ie as in pie

New reading book

Blending booklet-e words

Maths activity-money

Word walls/flashcards

We have our Community Cafe on Wednesday which the children are very excited about.  Thank you to those of you who have volunteered to help.

Read and munch will be on Thursday.

Children will be watching the Burns Assembly on Friday afternoon which is always exciting!

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Hunter

Please could you send in kitchen roll tubes for an art project in P1 and 2.  Thank you for the kitchen roll tubes sent in so far!  Please continue to send them in over the next few weeks as we need 100 altogether!  We need another 15 for Monday!

Mrs Hunter

We have been learning some traditional scots songs.  If you would like to listen, and sing along to them  at home please use the link provided.

Mrs S

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOE4mMcyG68

Homework -book, wordwall (or yellow words for some people), new sounds ie as in tie, maths – money.

• find some coins around the house. Show all the different ways to make 5p and 10p.

Be ready to say your Scottish poem this week please.

On Wednesday we will entertain invited guests at the Community Café.

On Friday we will have our Burns Assembly.

Good luck to everyone with their poems.

As part of our new topic, P2/1 are looking for 14 shoeboxes with removable lids (we are NOT looking for any shoeboxes with the lids attached.)

If you able to help us, please send them into P2/1 as soon as possible.

Thank you!