Assembly

Today P4/5 Hosted a Talk Show themed assembly to share their learning about natural disasters.  Each group were experts on a different type of disaster and we asked questions by the three hosts. There was lots of information, fun facts, quizzes, artwork and even an exploding volcano.  Of course the funniest moment was in the rehearsal when Mrs J was very silly and shook up the volcano ingredients causing it to explode all over Mrs J’s hair, face and clothes, fair to say that the kids were no longer nervous after laughing hysterically at me!

I am so proud of each and every one of them, they did a brilliant job!

Planting with Mrs Bannister

Check out the gorgeous planters that the kids planted up, with some help from the lovely Mrs Bannister.

Discovery Club Project – The Animal Olympics

P4-6 have been working on a project this week imagining what the Animal Olympics would be like.  They have worked so hard, developing skills such as creativity, problem solving, communication and team work.

Visiting the Sumburgh Airport Fire Station

The kids had an absolute ball visiting the fire station. Thank you so much to the wonderful fire fighters and air traffic controllers who showed us around and many thanks to the lovely Trevor, Kay and Miss Baronet for accompanying us and making this trip possible.

It has been wonderful weather this week so today we have taken our learning outside! The kids had ana amazing time soaking up that vitamin D.

Maths – Blue Group

Have a look at the fantastic tiling patterns the blue maths group created.

Writing

This week the class wrote stories about Adventure Bear.  I didn’t take any photos but you can read their stories via their Office 365 on Glow.  We had two lots of visitors during writing time (One from a QIO at Hayfield and one from a QIM at Hayfield accompanied by the Head of Education Scotland) and both commented on how lovely, independent and engaged your children were in their learning.  I was really proud of them as they were all able to speak eloquently and enthusiastically about what they were learning and how it has helped them improve their writing skills.

Edinburgh Science Centre – Electricity Workshop

We had a phenomenal visit from Jamie and Teigan from the Edinburgh Science Centre.  They took P4-6 through a workshop looking at how electricity is generated. The kids got to make their own electricity, experiment with the factors that make more/ less electricity and finally use the energy they had generated to power a hex bug for a race.  It was a brilliant workshop full of fun and learning.

P.4-5 have been learning about Stave Notation in music. They made themselves into human notes on the big stave sheet and used it to spell out words using the letters in the musical alphabet. They enjoyed singing the Notation song ( Learn Notation Song! – YouTube ) and got very competitive playing the ‘mat game’ where in teams they had to find the notes on the stave quicker than their opponents could. The Stave Notation Unit concluded with a short assessment which everyone was able to complete confidently and they were able to show the knowledge that they had gained over the last few weeks.

We have had great fun trying some simple orienteering tasks in PE.  Orienteering is an activity that requires you to follow a map to navigate your way around a course in the shortest possible time.  We have learnt how to follow a map, what a key is and how to use it, keep the map orientated to the group, what a control is and how we use them, work with others and many other useful things that help us to navigate around an orienteering course.

Maths

This week the kids have done a great job doing some assessments in maths. Everyone was really focused and tried their very best which was great to see.

Writing

Our theme for writing this week was Disney.  First the kids had to write a persuasive letter to Mr Clark asking him to arrange a school trip to Disneyland Paris, unfortunately we were successful with the writing lesson but not the trip!

They then wrote cinquain poems about a Disney character, I wonder if they can tell you about the features of a cinquain poem?

Outdoor Learning

Making the most of the beautiful weather.