P4 2024 – 2025

Today in PE we played our Christmas party games.  Here we are in action.

Primary 4 did a fantastic job of singing for the Sound Community Christmas Party last Wednesday evening. A member of the audience shared this after their performance:

‘Please pass on my Congratulations to the P4 bairns for their fantastic performance last night. I must admit I felt a bit Bah Humbug until I saw their peerie smiling faces light up the room with their excitement and then go on to sing their hearts out. It was very infectious.’

Please find below a link to their performance:

This term as part of our leadership opportunity, we took on the role of the Eco-Club.

Our focus was sustainability and we decided to organise a Christmas Jumper Swap in the school. This had worked well last year and we felt it was important to offer this again as it is important to re-use Christmas Jumpers instead of always buying a new one.

First, we had to find out when Christmas Jumper Day was and then decide on our time scales. We had to check with P3 that we could use the open area and we had to decide what would be the best day to hold the Christmas Jumper Swap. Once the class agreed on all the details, we then began to make posters to let everyone in school know what was happening. We learned how to make eye-catching posters while remembering to add all the relevant details. We displayed our posters around the school and gave a message to the school office to send an email to parents about the Christmas Jumper Swap Day as well.

On the day, everyone was busy setting out the jumpers in size order, while inviting pupils from each class to get a jumper. Everyone seemed very happy with the jumpers available and we were all pleased with the event. It was a lot of work being Eco-Club leaders but we all enjoyed it.

This term our project has been Forces and Energy. We have been learning about different types of force including pushing, pulling, twisting and stretching. We have investigated what effect forces have on objects and started to look at what balanced and unbalanced forces are. We enjoyed experimenting with different forces whilst playing with play dough and made some fantastic Nessy models!

We will continue to work on this project next term.

We had a few changes to the equipment this week.  The wide box was a section higher, the narrow beam came after the wider benches and at the frame, the ropes were out.  When discussing the equipment set up, we spoke about changes of height, direction and width.

Here we are in action.

We have been busy in the gym doing gymnastics.  We started on the mats developing our floor skills, focusing mainly on rolls, handstands and cartwheels.  We have had one week of the equipment, where we explored all the different stations.

P4 were delighted to get a visit from The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. We enjoyed time listening to stories and learning about some of the amazing and unique Scottish plants, their traditional uses and the different names they have around the country. We loved being outside in the wildlife area looking for plants. To end the visit we all listened to a story and played games linked to the outdoors. We all had a great time.

The meta-skills we focused on were communicating, collaborating and curiosity.

Please click on the link  below to view the curriculum information for Term 2.

P4 Term 2 Curriculum Info 2024-25

This term all the pupils have been working hard on their digital literacy skills. We have been learning how to open and save word documents to a specific location as well as learning how to use advanced searches when researching project work. The pupils have all enjoyed using the BBC Dance mats website to improve their typing skills. They have all worked very hard on this.  Dance Mat Typing for 7 – 11 year olds – BBC Bitesize

The pupil were all keen to use their typing skills to add the detail to blog posts and I am sure you will all be impressed with their skills.

The pupils have typed the information for the blog posts for Fun Friday, Library Time, Outdoor Space, Class Charter, Maths Week Scotland and Scotland Project.