As part of Health week, the pupil council asked for an Olympic inspired obstacle course.  Our obstacle course developed agility, stamina, coordination, balance and many more skills athletes need to participate at a high standard.

This term in music, P4 have been learning about how music can tell a story and the important role it plays in enhancing a story by driving the plot, revealing characters or expressing a theme. We listened and appraised four different songs from four different Disney animations and we concluded that music was an essential element in each film. Without music, there would be no story!

In the clip below, you can see the class reading and performing the rhythms of crotchets (ta), quavers (ti-ti), crotchet rests (shh) and whole rests (shh-shh-shh-shh). They not only had to understand and play the rhythms, they also had to read and perform drum notation.

Here is a link to the play along that we used:

And here is our class performance:

We have been doing athletics in PE.  We started each week with a distance run each to build up our stamina for our mini marathon at sports day.  We also worked on sprinting, throwing, hurdles and jumping.

We got the chance to use the MTA kits again and this time we built towers. We have been learning about castles as part of our IDL project. We learned that castles had to be strong to defend against attacks. We also learned that they had to be tall, so that you can see for a long distance from the top. We all came up with such different ideas!

We were very lucky to have Eleanor from the UHI visit us with her MTA kits. These are large engineering kits. We used them to make lots of different shapes. We discovered that triangles are the most structurally strong shape. We adapted other shapes we had made to include triangles to stop them collapsing. We worked in groups and used our team work skills.

P4 made candles in hot colours using oil pastels and have contrasting background landscape creations using cold colours.

P4 have been learning how to draw a face. They have made self portraits and used collage to make the facial features, hair and clothes. Can you recognise who is who?

They made  beautiful collages of poppies featured to the side of the display.

P4 have been working in small groups to make castle structures. They have drawn their creations.

We have finished the term in PE doing short tennis.  We have been focusing on developing our hitting ability both individually and with a partner.