Please find below copies of Home Shared learning for both Primary 3 and 4.
We also have another adult within the classroom till the end of March, Miss Gaston will be assisting and leading the class in lessons. Please come in and say hello to both of us.
Happy New Year to everyone!
Mr Kerr
Please find below a copy of the Home Shared learning for both P3 and P4.
Any issues please come and speak to me.
Mr Kerr
Last week saw P3/4 have lots fun and exciting opportunities to experience reading. We had many different visitors in to see us and some even went out into the community to experience reading.
Our week started with a visit from Miss Cunningham from Cochrane Castle Primary, who chose to read one of her favourite books to us, ‘The Owl who is Afraid of the Dark’.
On Tuesday, we received a special visit from our School Education Manager, Miss Thomas. She brought in a book that was very special to her son when he was in primary three and four, called ‘Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins’. Miss Thomas also brought in a special device called a Kindle. She told us about all the books she had on it and how when on holiday, she loves to get lost reading a book and imaging all the different scenes.
Thursday saw a very special visitor, in the form of Provost of Renfrewshire, Lorraine Cameron. Provost Cameron came to visit Primary three’s to give them a ‘Read, Write, Count Book Bag’. Whilst the Provost was here, she read one of the stories to the class, it was called ‘You’re Called what?’ The story was all about real-life animals with very strange sounding names.
As a very special treat, the Provost let those of us that wanted too, try on her official chain of office.
Primary 4’s joined Miss McCann’s class and walked to Starbucks, they were read a book by the Manager. They also got a treat of some hot chocolate.
Friday saw our class get two visitors. Firstly the house captains of Cochrane Castle came and read a story to the class.
Our Final visitor of the week was Katrina McGovern, the School’s Barnardo’s PAThS Co-ordinator. Katrina brought in a book that was very special to her, ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’, she even brought in a toy rabbit! Everyone loved the story!
Book week was great and all the class thoroughly enjoyed it, and this can be summed up in a quote by one of our class members.
“Books are so important, they don’t just help my reading. It helps my spelling, my imagination, my writing and how I understand things. Reading is great!”
Primary 3/4 have had a very busy week learning about Anti-bullying week. It all started on Monday when in our PAThS lessons we were talking about how we can control our emotions using our Control Signals. We talked about how this can help us if people are being unkind to us and how it can help us make good decisions, including talking to a responsible adult.
Tuesday saw the launch our of joint campus policy, ‘Respect for All’, and our new school value of ‘Together’. We all listened to how we can work together to help both St David’s and Cochrane Castle pupils to do the best we can.
In the afternoon, both schools had assemblies from NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) to talk about what bullying can look like, it also gave children the opportunity to learn about how to be safe, whether at school, home or in public. All the children have told us (and hopefully you) about how much they enjoyed this event.
On Wednesday, Primary 4 children got the opportunity to visit the Poppy Bus (Bud Bus), where they learned about Veterans of the wars, how the poppy helps them and their families. It also gave the children the chance to create their own Poppy and to learn how they can show respect to Veterans for what they have done.
The week ended with Odd sock day to bring awareness to Anti-Bullying! Lots of people participated, which was great to see! Here are some of our crazy, odd socks below.
We then ended by designing our very own odd socks!
Next week is Book Week Scotland, so lots more exciting things to come!
Please find below the Home Shared Learning for P3/4:
Any questions please come and ask!
Mr Kerr
Last week, P3/4 visited Kelvingrove Museum to experience the Ancient Egypt exhibition. We were given a guided tour and our guide explained some of the artifacts the museum has, including a REAL Mummy!
We got to see lots of Egyptian artifacts and our guide explained lots of the different skills, we even got to dress up as an Egyptian Pharaoh and even Egyptian Gods.
Our day was made even more so, when we got the the very lucky opportunity to hold some real-life Ancient Egyptian artifacts.
We had a great day out and it helped us learn even more about our Ancient Egypt Topic!
Primary 3/4 have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes this week. They have been learning about the amount of corners, sides and even lines of symmetry. To show the knowledge we had been learning we went outside to find as many 2D shapes as we could.
We found:
Tyres and signs in the shape of circles.
We found triangles in our Tim Trail and made some out of sticks.
And we found lots of squares.
We even decided to make shapes out of our bodies:
We will continue to learn about shapes but this was a fun way for everyone to enjoy Maths Week Scotland!
Please find attached a copy of the Home Shared Learning for both P3 and P4:
Please note there are several items of lost property within the classroom, specifically several jumpers and some pairs of trousers. If you child is missing any items please come in and have a look in the classroom.
Please find attached a copy of this months home shared learning:
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to come speak to me at any time.
Mr Kerr
All of the classes in our school, recently took part in competition to create junk models with the theme to be space. This is to celebrate 50 years since Man landed on the moon. The competition is being run by Paisley First and is running alongside their ‘Bricks in Space’ showcase.
I am pleased to announce that several of our school models have made it to be displayed in and around Paisley Town Centre. In total, 6 models were selected and are on display at the following locations:
White Cart Company, High Street, Paisley.
Thomas Cook, High Street, Paisley.
Tom Baird Opticians, High Street, Paisley.
Baru Schoolwear, Moss Street, Paisley.
Morrisons Bed Centre, Lawn Street, Paisley
The school has also has a special mention and pictures of the children working on Paisley First’s website:
https://paisleyfirst.com/schools-get-involved-in-summer-trail/
The event last right through the summer holidays until the 13th August 2019.
