Last week of term

The end of Term 1 is almost upon us!  Three of our pupils shared some exciting news with us this week, so we simply had to get a photo to celebrate their achievements.

We are lucky to have such an inviting and comfortable library in our school.    What a lovely time  we had on Tuesday, relaxing with our books.  We hope that P4/5/6 continue to read over the holidays too!

Many of us enjoy being able to choose what we write about in class. It was lovely to see everyone working so hard to achieve their writing targets this week.  We sat together on Wednesday afternoon and enjoyed sharing what we had written with everyone.  It was fantastic to see how many children were excited to share their writing and give positive feedback to others.

Maths time on Wednesday morning was good fun, playing number games with our friends.  We had to remember to take turns and listen carefully to each other.

In the afternoon we spent time building jigsaws in small groups.  Some jigsaws were tricky and will need more time to complete, but I know that we have some determined pupils in P4/5/6 who will keep going , even when the task seems impossible!

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Thursday 3rd October

It’s been a busy day in class!  We started off with our Music lesson with Ms Stewart before returning to class to work on measuring with the help of Miss Newbold.  We’ve been measuring using metre sticks over the past few weeks but the children have been keen to work with smaller units of measurement too.  Today we tried drawing lines of a given length using rulers.  This is actually a tricky skill but one that they all picked up quickly.  We enjoyed playing a game of ‘Measurement Tag’ to reinforce these skills.

Today is also National Poetry Day so we listened to several poems during the day, including the Shetland dialect poem ‘Eence Apon A Time’ by Vagaland.

We then took this year’s theme of counting and tried to create a Harvest themed poem that rhymed.  We worked in pairs to support each other with that as getting a line that makes sense and rhymes is tricky!  We will continue with this on Friday!

The afternoon saw us enjoying some time outside while this beautiful weather holds!

Finally, we welcomed Michelle McAdoo into class and she talked us through what a Harvest festival in the Christian church would look like.

She told us about the importance of thanking God for everything he’s provided but also about how important it is to give and share.

At the end of the day, she gave us all some sweets that we were to give away to someone deserving.  Thank you Michelle for a wonderful visit!
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Maths Outdoors

It was too sunny to do our Maths indoors today!

We have been looking at place value and how larger numbers are constructed.  Each hoop represented a digit within a number.  We placed the correct number of objects in each hoop to show our understanding of the value of each part of the number.

There is a lot to think about when we talk about the value of each part of a number.

  • How many hundreds does your number have?
  • How many thousands?
  • Why are there 3 beanbags in the first hoop?
  • Why is one of your hoops empty?
  • Can you write the number to match your hoops?
  • How do you say the number you have made?

Making 4 digit numbers

It was fun using the hoops for adding sums too.

Rounding numbers to the nearest 10/100/100

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