Literacy

In literacy we have been reading excerpts of books such as, ‘The Lottie Project’, ‘The Demon Headmaster’ and ‘Oliver Twist’. We use our reading skills of skimming and scanning, predicting and visualising to help us understand more about the text and what the author is telling us. We can easily identify similes and metaphors in what we read. This explains the difference between a simile and a metaphor:

 

 

In writing we wrote our own imaginative stories including ‘The Magic Ring’, ‘A Terrible Storm’ and Christmas stories for our wee buddies and friends. This coming term we will be learning how to write persuasively.

Mazie M. and Sophie McP.

 

Numeracy

Last term in maths, we learned lots of different things. We really enjoyed learning what integers are and for people who don’t know what integers are, they are negative or positive whole numbers. If a number is a fraction or decimal, it isn’t an integer. For example:

integer                     not an integer

-4                                4.5

200                          

We also have learned about the order of operations. When you get a sum that has more than one operation, you have to follow a rule.  BIDMAS it is a word that stands for the order that you do the sum in. B stands for brackets so you do that bit first. Then indices, division, multiplication, addition and finally subtraction. If you remember BIDMAS, you can’t go wrong!

 

Aiden W. and Kacie D.

 

Christmas Fayre

Last term we ran the Christmas Fayre! We had everybody in the school making different things for the stalls and we were all in charge of different classes. All the things that the classes made were sold at the stalls and we had other stalls too, like:  loom bands master class, recipe books, bottle stall, face painting, nails, tattoos, jewellery made of cereal, raffles and big popping rice balloons. We used the CCC room for Christmas games like find the elf, find the chocolate, cups game and Christmas colouring. We had a brilliant time and at the end of the day Mrs Kelly counted all of the money and we made over five hundred pounds!

Marcus M. and Callum B.

 

RME

We learned about Christmas in the Victorian times in RME. Christmas was not really celebrated like it is today until the Victorian times. The rich people in Victorian times had goose or roast beef for dinner, while poor people had rabbit.  Queen Victoria ate roast beef and swan for her Christmas dinner. On Christmas day, the richer people would wear dresses and suits and poorer people would just wear ordinary everyday clothes. Christmas trees were decorated with candles, sweets and fruits.

Nadine M. and Catherine D.

 

Reading Schools Update

Recently people have started to use the Reading Forests (upper and lower) more often and are enjoying regularly going to the Book Nooks to sit back and relax while reading with a friend, or alone! We have changed the books up so that everyone can explore different genres and types of books so that they can find a perfect fit for them. At our school we love reading so this has a great benefit for everyone.

Molly C. and Poppy A.