This term, our Talk for Writing text was ‘The Teacher Pleaser Machine’. We created our own story maps and recorded key vocabulary. We also acted out the machine using drama. After all of that, we completed our boxing up to prepare to write our hot task, after we wrote our hot task we had time to build our own machines and present their functions in front of the class.

In maths, we have been learning about money and budgeting. We discovered very quickly that it is important to not spend our money all at once! We have been studying different retailers, analysing the best value of things. We have started our own classroom economy where we have jobs and can spend our money in our shop at the end of the week. We can earn money and also be fined. We can only buy one thing a day and there are lots of nice things.

P7/6 have been completing the Junior Coaching Academy award with Caitlin from Active Schools. We have been learning to teach games to the younger ones and have been using our new skills at break and lunch time. We have been leading games such as golden river, toilet tig, chaos tig, basketball and so on.

We have also been busy learning new gymnastics skills. We learned to do different rolls and jumps using various apparatus.

In science, we have been learning about the rainforest. We made our own ‘Rainforest in a bottle’ and studied how an eco-system works. We have been making Venus fly traps and Pitcher plants. We have been learning about food chains and that not only animals eat things but plants do too!

Mrs Horne also worked with our class for 4 weeks this term. We are very excited for her to be back in our class again at the end of February 2024.

P7/6 have been experimenting with technology and have had the opportunity to use VR headsets! We got to know how to use the headsets, the safety guidelines and explored the Amazon Rainforest, New York and London from the comfort of our own classroom! It looks so real!

For Halloween – we hosted a community Halloween spooky walk. We started the walk at the beaver’s hall then made are way to the forest. During the walk there were spiders’ cobwebs, witches and clowns. It was also dark. Once we got back we got to enjoy a nice hot chocolate and hot roll.

We were honoured to be invited to open the Dalquharran paths. We started at DPS and watched the opening ceremony. Grace was chosen to cut the ribbon. After that, the walk started. We got to see the new paths and then we kindly got some treats to enjoy!

On the 17^th November we got involved in Children in Need activities. We worked in our houses and completed a scavenger hunt, beat the goalie, team building activities and a design your own Pudsey! Everyone had lots of fun and were very creative! Thank you everyone who donated, as a school we managed to raise £90 for Children in Need. Well done everyone!

We participated in the Girvan cluster’s Sports hall Competition on the 23^rd November. Girvan Primary vs Sacred Heart Primary vs Dailly Primary. There were running races and field events. There was a 2 by 2 race a 4 by 1 race and more. There was also an obstacle race. On the field events there was javelin, long jump and triple jump and more.

On Thursday, we had our Christmas fair at our school. There was a Christmas raffle, a firepit with hot chocolate, glitter tattoos, key chains, class crafts, games including how many sweets are in the jar and pin the nose on Rudolph. Most of our class helped at the fair and we had fun.

We are looking forward to visiting the Scottish Parliament and seeing Cinderella at the Pantomime next week!

~ Written by P7/6 ~

This term we finished off our topic on Ancient Egyptians with a showcase of our learning. We invited parents/carers to our Egyptian “museum” where we performed a song and two dances and showed off the wonderful work we have been doing, including our dioramas, Egyptian collars and papyrus paper. We managed to raise £30 through kind donations at our museum café. Thank you to everyone who came along.

In maths we have been working on data handling, addition, subtraction and multiplication. We will continue to work on multiplication and division next term and we will also be focusing on time.  We complete Barvember challenges, where we had to solve problems using bar models.

Our Talk for Writing text this term was The Multifunction Mobile Phone. We learned the text through story mapping and actions and we then turned it into a tv advert. For our innovations we created posters for next products then wrote a persuasive text about our products for our hot task.

In Science we have been learning about Space. We researched the Milky Way and made our own pictures of it.

Our teacher this year is Miss Baillie and we have 18 pupils in our class. We also have Mr Woods, Mrs Robertson and Mrs Eaglesham supporting our class throughout the week.

Our P.E. days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We have been working on our basketball and tennis skills. Our class have also started working towards our Junior Coaching Award.

We have outdoor learning every second Thursday. We have been helping to tidy up the playground by weeding, painting and digging to set up new playground apparatus.

This term our topic is the Scottish Parliament. We are very excited about going on a class trip to visit the parliament in December!

Our Talk for Writing unit this term is the warning story ‘The Canal’. We have been building upon our speech marks skills, adverbials and using similes and metaphors in our writing.

In numeracy and maths, we have been focussing on bar modelling (using concrete, pictorial and abstract methods) and angles.

P7/6 braved the weather and had a brilliant ACE day! We even spotted some seals! We spent the morning coasteering and then some fun team building activities back at the centre. Miss Baillie was so impressed with the team work she witnessed! Everyone helped and encouraged each another along the way. I am so proud of each and every one of you for pushing yourself. Well done P7/6!

Keep an eye out for all the fun we are going to get up to in Term 2!

We have had a fantastic first term in Primary 5/4. We have been learning about Ancient Egypt. We will continue this topic next term where we will prepare our museum for parents to visit! We have been learning a song to perform too. Keep an eye out for more information soon as this will also be an enterprise project for us next term.

The most exciting day was our ACE day where we got to try out paddleboarding and canoeing. All of the children were so brave and confident in the water and everyone had a great time.

We will end the term with a trip to Dumfries House to participate in a workshop about food and farming. We have been learning about food production. We will continue this topic next term as well as learning more about the zones of regulation.