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Term 4 Week 11

June 26, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Eleven

We have had another busy and exciting week packed full of learning, creativity and teamwork!

✏️ Literacy

This week, we completed our final spelling activities of the year. The children explored their spelling words in a variety of creative ways, including writing with chalk, painting, drawing and using different practical activities to help reinforce their learning.

On Monday, we enjoyed a special Rock, Paper, Scissors Day inspired by the story The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors. We began by reading the story together before creating our own Fair Play Charter, discussing what it means to be respectful, inclusive and a good sport when taking part in games and competitions.

We then held a class debate, discussing whether it is better to win all the time or to find challenge and learn from mistakes. The children shared thoughtful opinions and listened respectfully to one another’s ideas.

In the afternoon, the children became inventors, creating their own new Rock, Paper, Scissors characters. They thought carefully about the strengths and weaknesses of their creations, deciding who they could beat and who could beat them. This led to interesting discussions about fairness and balance in games.

🔢 Maths

Rock, Paper, Scissors Day also provided a fantastic opportunity for some practical maths learning.

The children played a series of Rock, Paper, Scissors games and made predictions about who might win. We discussed the language of probability, using terms such as impossible, unlikely, possible, likely and certain.

The children collected their results using tally charts before turning their data into bar graphs, helping them develop their data handling skills.

Later in the week, we completed our work on area, exploring how different shapes can have the same area despite looking very different. We also linked our learning to the World Cup by investigating the area of football pitches.

The children also completed some Sumdog assessments, giving them an opportunity to demonstrate the progress they have made throughout the year.

🌎 World Cup Learning

We have continued our daily World Cup starters, which have become a real favourite in class.

Each morning, we have listened to a story from a different country around the world before learning about its culture, capital city and interesting facts. We have located countries on our world map and continued tracking World Cup results as the tournament progresses.

The children also created some fantastic World Cup artwork, designing Highland cows dressed in football kits. Some chose Scotland, while others selected one of the countries they have been following during the tournament.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

This week was an incredibly busy and exciting one for our café enterprise project as preparations came to life.

The children spent time:

Baking and preparing café treats
Making sandwiches and waffles
Organising resources
Practising their café roles
Developing customer service skills
Learning how to work as part of a team

We discussed how to welcome customers, take orders politely and work together to ensure the café ran smoothly.

We were absolutely delighted with the success of our café and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came along to support us. The children were incredibly proud of their hard work and loved having the opportunity to put all of their learning into practice.

This project has developed a huge range of skills including communication, teamwork, organisation, problem-solving, creativity and confidence.

🏃 Health & Wellbeing

This week, we also enjoyed our annual Sports Day. The children showed fantastic enthusiasm, determination and sportsmanship throughout the event.

They encouraged one another, celebrated successes and demonstrated many of the qualities we have spoken about throughout the year, including resilience, teamwork and respect.

🎭 Wider Learning

This week, we enjoyed watching a special concert performed by the older classes, showcasing the music and performances they had been working on as part of the recent music festival.

The children thoroughly enjoyed the performance and loved seeing the confidence, talent and hard work on display. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate music and creativity across the school and to support the older pupils as they shared their achievements.

It has been another busy and exciting week, filled with debating, problem-solving, enterprise, creativity and teamwork. With our café successfully launched and the World Cup excitement continuing, we are looking forward to one more week of learning and fun before the summer holidays begin!

Term 4 Week 10

June 19, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Ten

✏️ Literacy

This week, our spelling focus was the ‘aw’ sound. In grammar, we learned about commas in a list. To make our learning memorable, we designed some very unusual pizzas! The children created lists of ingredients for both their favourite pizzas and some truly disgusting combinations, practising how to separate items correctly using commas and and.

This week also marked the final chapter of our Magical Door journey. We entered Promise World, linking our learning to Global Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

The children wrote conversations between themselves and the Keeper of the Door, who explained why the Magical Door must now leave. In response, the children reflected on everything they had learned from the different worlds they had visited throughout the year and considered how these lessons might help them in the future.

To conclude our journey, each child wrote a Planet Protector Promise, explaining what they have learned through our Global Goals work and what actions they will take to help protect our world.

🔢 Maths

This week, we continued developing our understanding of time and explored how numbers change when dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000.

We also continued our work on area, helping the children build confidence in measuring and calculating the space inside shapes.

One of the highlights of the week was our Maths Whodunit Challenge. The children became maths detectives, using their skills and reasoning to solve a series of mysteries, including The Missing Pencil,and The Missing Chocolates. This was a fantastic way to apply maths in a fun and engaging context. Would you believe that they discovered it was Mrs Teale who had stolen the chocolate!!

We also completed some maths assessments, giving the children an opportunity to demonstrate the progress they have made this term.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

Our café enterprise project continued this week as we worked alongside Primary 1/2 to create decorations and displays for our café.

We also explored the importance of risk assessments, discussing potential hazards and how businesses can identify and reduce risks to keep both staff and customers safe. This helped the children understand another important aspect of running a successful business.

💻 ICT and Global Learning

As part of our World Cup learning, the children selected one of their countries from our classroom sweepstake and carried out their own research.

Using their digital research skills, they investigated:

Flags
Population
Languages
Culture and traditions
Interesting facts about their country

This provided a valuable opportunity to develop research skills while broadening our understanding of countries and cultures around the world.

🌎 World Cup Learning

We have continued to enjoy our daily World Cup activities, reading stories from different countries, learning about capitals and cultures, locating countries on our world map, and tracking tournament results on our classroom wall chart.

The children have shown great enthusiasm for learning about the wider world and making connections between geography, culture and current events.

🌟 Wider Learning

On Friday, we enjoyed Move Up Day, giving the children the opportunity to meet their new teachers and spend time in their new classrooms.

This was an exciting experience and helped everyone begin preparing for the transition into the next school year.

As we reach the end of our Magical Door journey, it has been wonderful to reflect on everything the children have learned this year. From Vikings to cafés, oceans to future worlds, and Global Goals to enterprise projects, the children have shown creativity, curiosity and enthusiasm every step of the way.

Term 4 Week 9

June 12, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Nine

✏️ Literacy

This week, our spelling focus was the ‘ey’ sound, and in grammar we explored conjunctions, learning how they help us join ideas together and improve the flow of our writing.

Our Magical Door journey took an unexpected turn this week, as the door was suddenly closed and placed under review! This sparked lots of discussion and debate in class. Linking to Global Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, the children considered whether the door should remain open or be closed permanently.

The children wrote an opinion piece answering the question: Should the Magical Door stay open? They had to think carefully about the benefits and risks of keeping the door open, considering all of the worlds we have visited this year. They used reasons and evidence to support their opinions and showed great maturity in their thinking.

We also completed our end-of-year spelling assessment, giving the children the opportunity to demonstrate all the progress they have made this year.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we continued developing our understanding of division, using multiplication squares and number lines to help us visualise how numbers can be shared equally into groups.

We also introduced area, beginning to explore how we measure the space inside shapes and objects.

Throughout the week, we continued to apply our mathematical skills in practical situations, helping the children see how maths is used in everyday life.

💻 ICT and Digital Learning

This week, we explored Artificial Intelligence (AI), discussing what AI is, how it can be used safely and responsibly, and how it links to online safety and our rights and responsibilities as digital citizens.

The children explored ways AI could support our learning and even help generate ideas for our café enterprise posters. This led to some thoughtful discussions about technology, creativity and how to use digital tools safely and effectively.

🌎 World Cup and Global Learning

As excitement builds around the upcoming World Cup, we have created a large World Cup wall chart and world map in the classroom. Each child was allocated two countries to follow as part of our class World Cup sweepstake (with no money or prizes involved!).

Each morning, we have been reading a story from a different country taking part in the tournament. Together, we have been learning about each country’s capital city, location, culture and interesting facts before finding it on our world map.

We have also enjoyed tracking match results and updating our tournament wall chart, helping us develop our geographical knowledge while following the competition.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

Our café enterprise project continues to gather momentum.

This week, the children worked alongside Primary 1/2 in their enterprise groups, developing different aspects of the café project.

The Finance Team worked on budgeting, quantities and researching products using supermarket websites. They also wrote a letter to the new café in Quarff, asking questions about running a successful business.

The Menu Team continued designing attractive and informative menus.

The Marketing Team worked on logos, branding and welcome banners to promote our café.

Meanwhile, the Barista and Cleaning Teams developed checklists and procedures to ensure the café will run smoothly and safely.

We also enjoyed an additional morning working alongside Primary 1/2 for a special Café Challenge. The children worked collaboratively in mixed-age groups to complete a range of practical maths and enterprise activities. They took part in measuring and weighing challenges using café-themed items, exploring skills that would be important when working in a real café or bakery.

The children then followed a draw-along to create beautiful rainbow cupcakes, which will be used to help decorate our Rainbow Café. We rounded off the session with some café-themed Play-Doh challenges, including creating the longest breadstick, the biggest pancake and pretzel shapes. The morning finished with a fun Dough Disco, giving everyone the chance to celebrate their teamwork and creativity.

This project continues to provide fantastic opportunities to develop communication, teamwork, organisation and problem-solving skills while applying learning in a real-life context.

🧸 Wider Learning – Squishy Day

On Friday, the children arrived to a surprise Squishy Day, with the classroom transformed into a Squishy Adoption Centre!

Each child began the day with a £5 budget and had the opportunity to adopt their own squishy pet. They created adoption certificates and character profiles before making important spending decisions. While there were essential items to purchase, such as food and adoption paperwork, the children also had to think carefully about budgeting and saving money for unexpected emergencies.

Throughout the day, surprise events occurred where some squishies became ill and needed a trip to the vet, while others required additional supplies. This encouraged the children to think carefully about managing their money, planning ahead and making sensible financial decisions.

The squishies became part of our maths learning too. The children used them to explore division, sharing and grouping, as well as data handling. We learned about what a census is, why it is important, and how it helps communities and countries gather information to make decisions. The children then collected information about the squishies and used it to create tally charts, graphs and class data displays.

In the afternoon, each group received a £3 business grant to create their own Squishy Enterprise. The children worked collaboratively to design a business, decide what product or service they would offer, and consider how they could make their enterprise successful.

The day was filled with creativity, teamwork, budgeting, problem-solving and lots of excitement!

It has been another busy and exciting week, filled with enterprise, creativity, global learning and real-world problem-solving. We are looking forward to seeing our café project continue to come to life over the coming weeks!

Term 4 Week 8

June 5, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Eight

✏️ Literacy

This week, our spelling focus was the ‘ou’ sound, and in grammar we explored contractions. The children enjoyed working with partners to identify and create contractions before building their own contraction bricks using Lego and word cards. This practical approach helped reinforce how two words can be combined to make a contraction.

Our Magical Door adventure continued as we travelled to Future World, linking to Global Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. The children imagined meeting Aila, a child from the future, and wrote conversations between Aila and a planet protector, discussing energy challenges and possible solutions. This gave the children a chance to apply both their speech mark and contraction skills in meaningful writing.

To complement this learning, we created shoebox worlds. Using small wooden doors, the children designed and decorated magical entrances before creating a world inside their shoebox. Some chose worlds we had already discovered through the magical door, while others invented entirely new worlds of their own.

🔢 Maths

This week our maths learning took the form of a Dragon Academy, with a different challenge each day!

On Monday, the children became Dragon Potion Masters, learning about volume and capacity by carefully measuring ingredients to create a range of dragon potions. After successfully completing five potions, they earned their very own Potion Master Certificate. There was great excitement as we mixed colourful potions while learning to measure accurately.

Tuesday’s Dragon Academy focused on measure. The children explored grams, kilograms, length and size through a variety of dragon-themed activities. They created dragon eggs from Play-Doh to specific measurements, measured dragon tails, and worked out the sizes of objects needed for a dragon habitat.

On Wednesday, we introduced division through an edible maths lesson. The children practised sharing sweets equally into groups and quickly discovered that division can be both fun and tasty!

On Friday, we combined maths with teacher-led PE during our Frog Olympics. Using clicker frogs, we investigated distance and measurement by comparing how far the frogs could jump and then measuring whether we could jump further ourselves.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

This week, we worked alongside Primary 1/2 as part of our café enterprise project. The children took part in café interviews, discussing the different roles available and helping allocate jobs across the various café teams.

This was a fantastic opportunity to practise communication, teamwork, confidence and decision-making skills while continuing to develop our understanding of how a business operates. The children showed great maturity when discussing which roles would best suit their skills and interests.

🌱 Wider Learning

This week also marked our final visit to the polytunnel, with the last group enjoying the opportunity to help with planting and visit the animals. The children have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in these sessions over the past few weeks and have learned a great deal about growing plants and caring for living things.

It has been another busy and creative week, filled with dragons, future worlds, enterprise activities and plenty of practical learning!

Term 4 Week 7

May 29, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Seven

✏️ Literacy

This week, our magical door transported us to Ocean World! When the children returned from the long weekend on Tuesday, they discovered that the classroom floor had been “flooded,” with seaweed, stones, shells and beach-themed objects scattered near the magical door. This created lots of excitement and curiosity about what might have happened when the door opened.

As part of our writing, the children imagined having a conversation with a sea creature, learning about how pollution is affecting our oceans and marine life. This linked beautifully to Global Goal 14: Life Below Water.

We continued developing our understanding of speech marks, while also exploring more exciting alternatives to the word said. Our grammar focus looked at how emotions can be shown through speech and how different verbs can help bring conversations to life in our writing.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we began a new focus on measure, linking this directly to our Building a Business topic. The children recognised that running a café involves both money and measurement, from designing spaces to preparing food.

We started by exploring metres, taking our learning outdoors and around the classroom with practical measuring activities. Later in the week, we introduced centimetres, using hands-on tasks such as estimating and measuring Play-Doh snakes. These activities helped the children develop confidence in estimating, measuring accurately and comparing lengths.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

This week, our café project became even more realistic as the children completed their job application forms and began developing their interview skills in preparation for applying for roles in our class café.

This has been a fantastic opportunity to develop important real-world skills such as communication, confidence, responsibility and self-awareness, while encouraging the children to think about the qualities needed for different jobs.

💻 ICT / Global Learning

This week we explored the Earth Cubs website as part of our learning about protecting the oceans. We completed the “Plastic is Not Fantastic” lesson, which linked beautifully to both our literacy work and Global Goal 14.

The children enjoyed engaging with the songs, quizzes and activities while learning about the impact of plastic pollution on sea life. It was a fantastic way to reinforce our learning about caring for the environment.

🥔 Wider Learning – Potato Day!

Friday was our much-anticipated Potato Day, which was packed full of learning across the curriculum.

We began by exploring Global Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and 13 (Climate Action). We watched the Earth Cubs video Potato Dream, which helped us think about where our food comes from and the journey food takes from farm to table.

The children then created their own potato people, giving them names, personalities and even passports. This linked to our geography learning as we explored where people come from and different nationalities around the world.

After break, we put our new measuring skills into practice. We measured the height and circumference of our potato people and then learned about grams and kilograms, estimating and then weighing them. We also completed some fun practical challenges, including estimating how many potatoes would make a metre and guessing the combined weight of three potato people before checking our answers.

Next, we read Potato Pants and discussed how clothing is designed and made. After lunch, we linked this to sustainable fashion, exploring how our clothing choices affect the environment. The children were amazed to learn facts such as how it takes approximately 15,000 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans – roughly the amount an adult drinks in 15 years!

Using recyclable and reused materials, the children designed and created outfits for their potato people before taking them down the catwalk in our very own fashion show.

To finish the day, we learned how potatoes are turned into crisps and enjoyed a small crisp tasting session while reflecting on all the learning we had packed into one potato-filled day.

It has been another wonderfully busy week, full of creativity, practical learning, global citizenship and real-world skill building! 🌊🥔✨

Term 4 Week 5/6

May 21, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Weeks 5 & 6

As Mrs Teale was out of class from Tuesday–Friday in Week 5, this is update is a combination of the last two weeks into one update — and what two busy weeks they have been!

✏️ Literacy

Over the past two weeks, we have continued developing our literacy skills in lots of creative ways.

In grammar, our focus has been on speech marks, learning where they go and how to use them correctly. We explored this through superhero comic strips, which made the learning fun and practical, and the children have really enjoyed applying this skill in their writing.

We have also continued our Story Blast and Ninja Comprehension work, developing reading comprehension skills through a range of texts and activities.

Our Magical Door writing theme has continued too! In Week 5, the magical door took us to Tiny Village, where the children imagined what life might be like in a miniature world. They explored what jobs the tiny villagers might have and even took part in a job interview with a tiny person! We also created beautiful “Through the Keyhole” artwork inspired by this theme.

This week, our magical door brought a new frozen surprise, with animals asking for our help who had been frozen in ICE! This has inspired our writing, where the children are exploring different viewpoints through a debate-style piece between a planet protector and a business owner, linking beautifully to our global learning.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we have continued building confidence with money through a range of practical, real-life activities.

The children used Lidl supermarket shopping booklets to complete challenges involving comparing prices, ordering prices, and estimating totals. This week, we extended this learning to focus on working out change from £1, helping children apply their skills in realistic contexts. And again looked at money in real life context, estimating and comparing prices on the Nando’s website – this just made us all very hungry!!

We have also continued practising our times tables to keep our number fluency developing.

💻 ICT

In ICT, we have continued using digital tools to support our learning. This week we used Blooket to practise our money skills, helping reinforce our classroom learning in a fun and engaging way.

Over the next few weeks, the children will begin presenting their PowerPoint research projects to the class, developing important CfE listening and talking and digital literacy skills, alongside key meta-skills such as confidence, communication, organisation, and critical thinking.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

Our Building a Business Together topic continues to grow!

We planted herbs for our café garden, thinking ahead to how we might use them in our business. This gave the children a hands-on opportunity to think about sustainability and growing their own produce.

We have also explored job roles in our café, and this week the children are completing job application forms to apply for the roles they would like when we begin running our café. It has been wonderful to see them thinking seriously about responsibility, teamwork and the qualities needed for different jobs and linking these to Meta Skills.

💛 Health & Wellbeing

As part of our Mental Health Awareness learning for Mental Health Awareness week(week 5), we explored feelings and regulation strategies. Using the theme of monster feelings, we talked about recognising emotions, understanding how we feel, and identifying strategies to help us regulate our emotions and support our wellbeing. We also painted some amazing giant feeling monsters

We also continued our RSHP learning, focusing on important life skills and relationships.

🐝 Wider Learning

This week we explored World Bee Day, listening to an Earth Cubs podcast called Bee Brilliant. This sparked fantastic discussions about the importance of bees and what would happen if bees disappeared.

The children then created beautiful contrasting artwork, showing a world with bees and a world without bees, helping them think deeply about biodiversity and caring for our environment.

🎨 Play Provision

Our play provision over the last two weeks has been full of imaginative learning opportunities.

This week, we created a Teddy Bears’ Café, linking beautifully with our business topic. The children took on different café roles and developed communication, role play and teamwork skills.

We also had a water tray fishing activity, where children practised working out change from £1, with each fish costing under £1.

To support our grammar learning, we also included speech mark and superhero literacy activities, helping children continue practising their skills through play.

It has been a wonderfully busy couple of weeks, full of creativity, practical learning, and lots of excitement! 😊

Term 4 Week 4

May 8, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Four

✏️ Literacy

We continued our Magical Door writing theme this week, exploring a new world: Jungle World. On Monday morning, we arrived to find sand at the bottom of the door, an animal footprint, some bananas, and a mysterious note!

This sparked lots of excitement and led to some fantastic writing. The children created fact files about the jungle and animal profiles about jungle animals, linking our learning to Global Goal 15 – Life on Land.

We have also been learning how to peer review and edit with a partner. This has been lots of fun and is a great way to spot mistakes, make improvements, and add more detail to our work.

Following our literacy focus last term, we were very excited to receive a letter back from Julia Donaldson. We had written lovely letters to her telling her all about our favourite books. She also kindly sent us some stickers!

In grammar, we continued our work on pronouns through pronoun art and a pronoun phrase mix activity. We also worked on comprehension using Story Blast and Ninja Comprehension, exploring texts about the United Kingdom and Mahatma Gandhi, with a focus on filling in missing information and checking understanding.

💻 ICT

In ICT, we finished our personal research projects. The children used Kiddle to research their chosen topics and then learned how to use PowerPoint to present their information clearly to the class.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we continued learning about money, building our understanding of coins, values, and how things are bought and sold. This links closely to our Building a Business Together topic.

We also continued working on column subtraction with exchanging, and developed our doubling and halving Speed Skills. The children created beautiful doubling flowers to help show their understanding.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

Our business topic continued through our money work, helping us understand how money is used in real-life situations such as buying and selling in a café.

🌱 Wider Learning

On Friday, we had a full David Attenborough Day to celebrate his 100th birthday. We read the Little People, Big Dreams book about David Attenborough, watched clips from some of his documentaries, and learned more about his life and work.

The children created fact plaques, made mini animal documentaries, and recorded a birthday message video. We also created large leaf art pieces, adding our own promises to the planet, which we hope to turn into a tree for our classroom door. The full film will be shared with families by email.

We also enjoyed attending the P4/5 assembly on Friday, and another group visited the polytunnel this week to help with planting and support our school community.

🎨 Play Provision

Our play provision this week has included lots of creativity and imagination. The children enjoyed dressing up, creating and performing with a puppet theatre, and developing their observational art skills through still life drawings of daffodils using watercolours.

Term 4 Week 3

May 1, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Three

✏️ Literacy

This week we continued our exciting Magical Door writing theme. When the children came into the classroom, they discovered that Mrs Teale’s spoon had turned into a giant spoon, leading us to imagine that the world behind the magical door was a giant world! It wasn’t so good for eating her lunch!!

This sparked lots of creativity, and the children wrote about the dangers they might face in a giant world, thinking carefully about how everyday objects might become challenges. They then wrote a diary entry titled “My First Day in Giant World,” describing their experiences and feelings as they explored this new and unusual place.

In grammar, we focused on pronouns, taking part in fun games to help us identify and use them correctly in our writing.

🔤 Spelling

Our spelling focus this week was the ‘au’ sound. Everyone is enjoying using Sumdog Spelling to consolidate their new words. Who’s been having a go at home?

🔢 Maths

At the start of the week, we continued our work on fractions, building on our understanding of parts of a whole.

We then moved on to a new topic of money, where the children explored coins and notes, looking at what they look like, how they feel, and how much they are worth. We discussed how values work (for example, 100p = £1) and took part in hands-on activities to support understanding.

The children also used Sumdog to consolidate their learning through interactive activities focused on coin recognition.

💻 ICT / Languages

This week we had fun combining movement and language through a French yoga session, helping the children practise their French in an active and engaging way.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

As part of our Building a Business topic, we focused on the skills and qualities we each have that could help us in our café.

We discussed different job roles within a café and how our personal skills could match these roles. The children began thinking about how they might apply for a job in the café and what they would need to do to be successful in that role.

🥣 Health & Wellbeing (RSHP)

We began our RSHP learning, focusing on important life skills. This included:

Recognising and understanding feelings
Learning about healthy behaviours
Exploring friendships and relationships
Knowing how to seek help and stay safe

🌱 Wider Learning

We were very lucky to enjoy a visit from the Shetland Folk Festival, where the children experienced a live concert. It was a fantastic opportunity to enjoy music and culture together.

We have also begun visiting the polytunnel, where small groups of children will take part in planting over the coming weeks. Our first group went this week and had lots of fun helping with planting and learning about how things grow. We are looking forward to everyone getting a turn!

With the lovely weather this week, we also made the most of outdoor play, enjoying time outside and staying active.

🎨 Play Provision

Our play provision this week has been very hands-on and engaging. The children explored a tinkering table using tools and an old till to investigate how things work, developing problem-solving and practical skills.

We also set up a shop role-play area, where the children used money to practise their maths skills in a real-life context. This supported their understanding of money while encouraging collaboration, communication and imaginative play.

It has been another busy and creative week, with lots of excitement and enthusiasm across all areas of learning!

Term 4 Week 2

April 24, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Two

✏️ Literacy

This week in literacy, our spelling focus has been the soft ‘g’ sound. We have also introduced Sumdog spelling, which the children have been using in class and can continue to practise at home as part of their homework.

Our writing this week has continued with our exciting Magical Door theme. The children arrived to find part of the classroom had been turned upside down, with the suggestion that gravity had been switched off when the magical door opened! Mrs Teale had had a traumatic morning when the gravity had gone off and great hilarity followed when they saw the photo Miss Hunter took of her floating around the classroom(and yes, it’s been added to the blog images as per the children’s request!)It has created lots of excitement and curiosity across the school this week.

Using images and discussion prompts, the children wrote imaginative pieces about what might happen if gravity was turned off, describing objects floating and unusual events taking place. Alongside this, they also created fact files about gravity, learning about how it works in real life. This learning has been linked to the Global Goals, particularly thinking about how our world works and how we can care for it.

We also continued developing our comprehension skills using Story Blast, with a focus on understanding and responding to texts.

🌍 Global Learning

This week we also celebrated Earth Day. We read the story Michael Recycle and created some beautiful artwork linked to caring for the environment. This tied in well with our ongoing focus on the Global Goals, encouraging the children to think about how they can help look after our planet.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we have continued our work on fractions. This week we explored fractions of amounts, using practical resources such as pom-poms and counters to help us visualise and understand how to find fractions of a group. The children are developing a good understanding of how fractions apply in real-life contexts.

💻 ICT

In ICT, we continued our research projects using the Kiddle search engine. The children have been developing their skills in safe searching and using key words to find information. They are now working towards turning their research into PowerPoint presentations, which they will present to the class.

🍳 Topic – Building a Business

As part of our topic “Building a Business Together,” we have continued developing our café project. This week, we explored different job roles and responsibilities within a café and discussed what makes a café run successfully. We also looked at the different skills and abilities each job role would require.

🍰 Wider Learning

On Monday afternoons, we have been enjoying baking sessions with Miss Farmer as part of our café topic. This week the children made tiffin, following a recipe and working together in groups.

While some groups were baking, others worked with Mrs Teale on Story Blast comprehension tasks, ensuring everyone had the opportunity to develop both practical and literacy skills.

🥣 Health & Wellbeing

This week we took part in a Healthy Living Breakfast in the hall, where the children had the opportunity to try a range of foods and discuss what makes a healthy breakfast.

We also began our RSHP lessons, with a focus on keeping our bodies clean. helping to build confidence and understanding in important areas of health and wellbeing.

It has been another busy and exciting week, with lots of creativity, teamwork and curiosity across all areas of learning!

Term 4 Week 1

April 17, 2026 Mrs Teale Leave a comment

🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week One

✏️ Literacy

This week in literacy, we have been focusing on grammar, specifically proper and common nouns, and continuing to build our understanding of how these are used in our writing.

In comprehension, we began using Ninja Comprehension, with a focus on sequencing skills, helping us to order events clearly and understand the structure of texts.

Our writing focus this week has been introduced through a mysterious magical door that appeared in our classroom! The children have been full of excitement, imagining where the door could lead and what might be behind it. We have linked this to the Global Goals, encouraging the children to think about different places in the world and how we can help people and protect our planet. This has led to some very creative ideas and discussions, which we will continue to develop in our writing.

We have also continued working with the Highland Literacy approach to spelling, focusing on syllables, rhyme, parts of speech, prefixes and suffixes. This week we introduced Sumdog spelling practice, as well as more targeted worksheets, to support and challenge the children in their learning. The children can also continue practising their spelling on Sumdog at home as part of their homework, helping to reinforce what we have been learning in class.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we have continued our work on column subtraction, building on our previous learning and developing confidence in setting out our calculations clearly.

We also introduced fractions using practical resources such as pom-poms in bags to explore different parts of a whole. The children learned about numerators and denominators and began to understand where fractions are used in real-life contexts.

💻 ICT

This week in ICT, we learned about safe searching online and how to use key words effectively when researching information. Each child chose a topic to research and used Kiddle to create their own research paper. These will be used to create PowerPoint presentations, which the children will share with the class.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

We have started our new topic, “Building a Business Together.” Firstly, we started looking at hygiene and our baking skills by making chocolate crispies. We discussed the difference in making it for ourselves and the extra steps required for making for others or to sell.

We also discussed what we already know about cafés and shared our ideas as a class. We created a class mind map titled “What do we need for a café?”, thinking about elements such as food, drinks, staff, menus, money, customers and safety.

They all came up with some amazing ideas and I think they are all future business entrepreneurs!

🚢 Wider Learning

As part of our wider learning, Mrs Smith led a session on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. The children explored Morse code and created detailed drawings of the Titanic, linking history with creativity.

🎨 Play Projects

Our play project this week was inspired by the Titanic, linking to our wider learning. The children showed fantastic creativity, creating:

Games and quizzes
PowerPoints and digital images
Spot the difference activities
Junk models and block constructions of the Titanic

It was wonderful to see the children working collaboratively, sharing ideas, and applying their learning through play.

🎨 Wider Life of the School

We have also been busy creating a bright and welcoming classroom door display to start the new term. The display is based on crayons, representing a colourful and positive term ahead.

Each child designed their own unique crayon, including a self-portrait and their own personal goals for the term. This has helped set a positive tone for the term and encouraged the children to think about what they would like to achieve.