We finished term 3 with a block of badminton following the lessons from Badminton Scotland Curriculum for Excellence School Pack, First Level.
Term 4 Overview
We are finishing the year off with three activities for four weeks each.
1 – Athletics with Determination and Resilience
2-Skipping with Stamina
3- Rounders with Cue Recognition.
Today P4 took part in the Primary Music Festival at Mareel where they performed two songs to a packed auditorium, including an adjudicator! Their singing was fantastic and they represented Sound School brilliantly.
We await written feedback of our performance and I will share that in due course but needless to say, Miss Stewart is very proud of all the children in P4 today!
Here’s a video of our performance taken by Mrs Williamson.
This week we begin our third four‑week block of PE. So far this term, the class has enjoyed learning dance and handball, and we wanted to share what we’ve been working on.
Dance
In our dance block, pupils explored how to use movement to express ideas. We focused on:
The children had great fun experimenting with creative movement and performing short sequences.
Handball
During handball, we concentrated on building throwing and catching skills and taking part in small‑sided games. Pupils learned some of the key rules of the sport:
We also practised moving into space to make successful passes and talked about how handball is a fast‑paced, exciting team game.
We will be learning about Carroll and Venn diagrams in maths over the next few weeks. Here is a link we will use in the class to a maths game which lets us use Carroll diagrams.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/carroll-diagrams/2d-shapes
We had a really nice time today; visiting the Day Care setting and spending time with the service users. The service users were very kind and made us teddies, which we could take home. Our thanks goes out to them all! We also decorated wooden hearts and enjoyed colouring time. It was lovely to be able to have a chat with the people visiting Day Care today. They kindly shared snack with us too! Some of the service users commented on how respectful and kind our class are. Thank you to all who helped today and Shereen, Rosie, Stacey, Laina and all staff at Day Care. We shall continue to build on these links to the community.
Thank you to everyone who could join us yesterday for an afternoon of dancing. Thanks also to Miss Stewart and her brother Darren, for the live music. Fabulous to have live music. Alison from the canteen made delicious cakes/biscuits and Mrs Manson organised refreshments. Thank you ladies! Some Primary 7 pupils joined too and members from the Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Squad opened up our dance for us, which was great! Very much appreciated. We had a fun afternoon and it was just so nice to see everyone. We’re planning to learn more traditional dances in our Teacher Led P.E. time.
Following our recent visit to Montfield, Mrs Birrell has kindly uploaded videos of the children singing onto Youtube. To access, please click on the links below:
https://youtube.com/shorts/pDeirZm5fxg?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/u5KayittK1M?feature=share
We enjoyed the visit from the Jarl Squads today. We had fun singing and met some members of the Senior Jarl Squad. We also had a chance to look at the Junior Galley in our playground.
