A huge well done to everyone for a fantastic assembly.  They all worked really hard and really enjoyed practising for the assembly.

We have learned so much about the Victorians and are looking forward to continuing our learning.

Here are some photos from the assembly.

Although it hasn’t even been a week, we have hit the ground running with our learning!

We are trying something new in the classroom to support and develop our learning.  We have ‘learning partners’.  This is someone we will sit beside all week (picked randomly using lolly sticks) and discuss our learning with.  This will change every Monday.   On a Friday we will say ‘goodbye’ to our talking partner for that week and say something positive about having them as a talking partner.  It’s been a great success so far (although makes the class a bit noisier – but it’s good noise)!

We have started our new LAC which is Victorians and will have our trip to New Lanark (date tbc).

It’s that time of year again when poems are given out to learn for our Scots Poetry Competition.  The poems chosen are; Crocodile by J K Annand, Heron by J K Annand and The Ballad of Janitor MacKay by Margaret Green.

We are finishing of our science and continuing to investigate States of Matter.  Today we investigated water changing from a solid to a liquid (ie ice melting to water) and we investigated temperatures and how we could get our ice to melt faster.

We had ‘exit passes’ (another new thing – everyone has to write what they’ve learned on a piece of paper to hand to the CT before going for break)!  Here is some of our learning…

I have learned that ice can melt faster by putting it on a warm radiator and lots of other ways.

That water needs to be heated to 100 degrees centigrade to evaporate.

If you hold ice to long it hurts!

I learned that water turns into ice when the temperature is below zero degrees centigrade.

I learned that jelly is both a liquid and a solid! (we got a bit side-tracked)

I learned that when you melt ice on a radiator it will create a beautiful pattern on the inside!

I learned that ice melts faster if you put it in warm water.

Here are some photos of us carrying out our investigations…

Have a lovely weekend!

We had a Remembrance Assembly.  Isaac

We were learning how to create fireworks in art using radial symmetry.  Emily

We practised our 4 times tables.  Rayen

We were learning at the 4 times tables.   Camaron

We were learning how to make raisins dance in Science.  Rose

We have been learning words with the spelling patter ‘igh’.  Jason

We have been learning long multiplication.  Nathan & Hope

We have been learning about solids, liquids and gases in science.  Guy

We learned that gas rises.  Katie

We learned that gas bubbles  would carry the raisins to the top and then burst and the raisins would sink.  Maisey

We have learned a lot about the 4 times tables.  Callum

We learned how to multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.  Aryan

We learned about bullying.  Hayley

We learned about feeling safe in the BBB.  Ela

We were learning how to add doing chimney sums.  Jaime-Lee

We learned about atoms and particles in solids, liquids and gases. Ben

We were writing a Halloween report.  Elliot

We’ve learned about our 3 times tables.  Skye

We learned how to multiply 4 digits by 1 digit.  Jacob

We learned how to multiply using our times table knowledge.  Luke

We learned about solids, liquids and gases.  Emma

We learned a song called As One in music.  Dani

We were creating radial patterns with our fireworks.  Owen

We heard the Rookie Rockstars in BBB.  Jack

We were learning about the Ragman Roll.  Aryan

We were learning about Robert Bruce.  Jay

We learned to multiply and divide by 10s, 100s and 1000s (and multiples of 10s, 100s and 1000s).  Maisey

We learned how to use interesting adjectives and powerful verbs in our writing. Ben

We learned about verbs.  Guy

We learned about the Battle at Stirling Bridge.  Nathan

We designed shields.  Jacob

We have been learning about William Wallace.  Emma

We were learning to answer questions in proper sentences.  Aryan

We learned about ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.  Elliot

We learned about pronouns.  Jaime-Lee

I enjoyed the PATPALS. Ela

P5b have been very busy this week.

We have learned about the Ragman’s Roll in Freedom! and have started to make our own Ragman’s Rolls in Art & Design.

In numeracy we have been learning place value to 1,000,000’s and multiplying 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers by 1 digit.   The Whizz Kids are multiplying 4 digit numbers by multiples of 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s.

We wrote thank you letters to the Zoo Bus who came to visit us last week to talk to us about Endangered Species in Scotland.

In grammar we were learning about pronouns and writing in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.

P5 have been creating a display about the author David Walliams for the library.

A very well done to Jaime-Lee who came first and received a gold medal in Rhythmic Gymnastics at a competition in Edinburgh.

Inspirational Maths week in P5B

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed taking part in Inspirational Maths Week. We started the week off by reinforcing the key message – everyone can do well in Maths. This message builds on our growth mind set about Maths.

We revised rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000. There were ‘mild’, ‘spicy’, ‘hot’ and ‘extra hot’ activities.  Mrs Laidlaw was impressed by the number of children willing to challenge themselves.  They were all successful learners so should feel proud of their achievements.

We know that when children think about Maths visually as well as with numbers and symbols they are crossing the brain, using different pathways.  That has been found to increase the power of Maths learning.  We enjoyed investigating a really interesting representation of numbers; to think visually about them and to explore patterns in numbers.

We watched a short video about how maths is not about speed. This was a good message to the class…it is not about who gets their work done fastest, but about understanding it!

We then did a paper folding activity. Children were given a square of paper and fold it into different shapes.   They then had to convince a sceptic that their new shape was what the said it was. Eg they were asked to make a square ¼ the size of the original square and then convince a friend that it was in fact a square that was a ¼ of the original square.  Some of the arguments were:

It has four equal sides.

It has four corners.

It has 4 right angles.

The ¼ square fits into the original square exactly 4 times.

We finished with a dot activity which demonstrated that we all work things out in different ways!

The next Inspirational maths activity was about finding patterns in maths! We watched a clip about Fibonacci’s sequence which creates a spiral and spirals can be found in nature.

We then explored Pascal’s triangle by finding the different numbers, adding the rows and colouring the odd numbers to see patterns. This was challenging but very interesting.

It has been great to look in maths in a different and interesting way. It has challenged the class and the children have learned a lot.

Here we are hard at work figuring out Pascal’s triangle!

We’ve been learning our times tables.  Callum & Lucy

We have been learning about Freedom! Nathan & Rose

We have been learning about Place Value up to thousands of millions! Maisey

We have been introduced to the new behaviour system School Champion.  Ela

We have been including capital letters and full stops in our writing.  Ben

We have learning how to multiply 4 digit number by 1.  Hope

We have been learning about a Growth Mindset.  Rayen

We have been finding out about our teachers.  Dani

We have been learning to include who, what, when and where in our sentences.  Ela

We have been learning how to draw portraits.  Ela

We have been learning to include punctuation in our writing.  Guy

We have been learning how to draw a face and put all the features on, the eyes go half way down the face.  Jaime-Lee.

Other news……

I went to NYC, Washington DC, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee during the summer.  Maisey

Emily had a wonderful time at Shambala and shared it with the class.  It sounded really fun and interesting.  Thank you for telling us about it.

Have a great weekend.

My favourite thing about P1….

Writing about Pokémon….Jack

Learning about sharing and caring…..Justin

Doing maths and learning how to add…….Shannon

Learning about dinosaurs….Holly

Playing with friends and enjoying the fun at Golden Time….Carley

Learning how to make toast……Jude

I enjoyed playing with my friends…..Aileigh

Learning about how to wash your hands……Olivia

Learning to count to 100…..James

Doing press-ups at PE….Oliver

I liked playing with Justin outside…. Mac

I enjoyed buddy time because I liked to see my buddy…..Mia

Learning how to grow a plant…. Amber

Buddy time because you get to see your buddies…..Ada

I enjoyed Golden Time and when we went to Dynamic Earth…..River

EVERYTHING!….Emily

EVERYTHING!…..Aaron

BYYYYEEEEEEEE! Have a fabulous summer!

This week….

We learned ‘sh’ for shush in phonics.  Oliver

In phonics I learned ‘st’ as in stop.  Holly

We learned ‘mp’ as in stomp in phonics.  Alex

We played the mummy game after phonics.  James

We learned ‘ch’ as in chilli in phonics.  Shannon

I learned ‘st’ as in stomp in phonics. Jack

At PE we played with the parachute.  Carley

We learned about healthy eating.  Ellis

I watched the Jungle Book and really enjoyed it.  Justin

We did are last review in our Review Jotters.  Max

We played a ball game on the parachute.  Megan

We were counting up to 100.  Emily

We learned healthy eating.  Ada

We learned about symmetry.  Amber

I saw Jungle Book at after school club. Aaron

Eating food for healthy eating. We had strawberries and carrots and we peeled potatoes.  Olivia S

I learned the sound ‘i’ in phonics.  Aileigh

Pupil of the week:  Alex for working really hard all year and producing a very high standard of work!

This week we learned…..

Behind, in front and in the middle.  Mac

We learned about healthy eating.  Ellis

We learned the sound ‘nk’ in phonics.   Mia

We looked at our targets in our review jotters.  River

We had a Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Oliver

We were learning odd and even numbers.  Emily

We learned the sound ‘nd’ in phonics.  Amber

We made symmetrical pictures by painting on one side of the page and folding it over.  Megan

I liked playing games during the Teddy Bear’s picnic and we had biscuits and crisps. Carley

I liked the Teddy Bear’s picnic when we went into the Telly Tubby Land.  Max & Aaron

We were learning about symmetry.  Alex

We were learning about our right and our left.  Ada

Yesterday we started our Summer booklets with lots of fun activities.  Jude

With Mrs Laidlaw we made flower pictures.  Olivia S

We learned about healthy eating.  Carrots are healthy.  Aileigh

We listened to stories at the Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Ed.

I enjoyed the Teddy Bear’s picnic.  Jack

I learned the sound ‘sh’.  James

Here we are with our symmetrical pictures.

This week…..

I learned the sound ‘nk’ as in sunk in phonics. Jack

I learned the sound ‘igh’ as in night. Mac

We went up to the big P7 classroom while the new P1s came to visit. Oliver

We found out our new teacher and went to our P2 classroom. James

I didn’t enjoy the P2 visit because it didn’t have as many toys. Ellis

I enjoyed the Haribo game with Miss Mowat. Carley, Emily, Aaron and Aileigh

I enjoyed counting up to 100 and learning odd and even numbers. Alex

I learned the sounds, ‘ang’, ‘ing’, ‘ong’, and ‘ung’. Mia

I liked the beach ball game at Move On Day. Max

I enjoyed the art, ‘taking my pencil for a walk’. Megan

I enjoyed learning about what foods are healthy. Ada

I enjoyed the new P2a class. Amber

This week in P1a…………………………

I enjoyed the running race at sports day. Shannon

I learned the sound ‘ong’ in phonics. Strong! Jack

I had a raced in the house race with Carley and Jude. Hardy was the winning house! Alex

I liked sports day because of the potato and spoon race. Holly

I liked the sack race in sports day. Carley

We were learning how to count up to 100. James

I liked running laps in sports day. Max

We learned ‘ang’ as in sang. Megan

I learned a new sound in phonics ‘oa’ as in moan. River

We learned where food comes from. Ada

While I was at home sick with the chicken pox I did some painting. Amber

I played with my toys when I was home sick. Ellis

I learned the sound ‘oi’ as in coin. Aileigh

I came second in the running race. Olivia S

I enjoyed the sack race. Aaron

I counted in 2s up to 25 backwards and forwards. Jude

We learned the ‘ang’ sound as in bang. Emily

I enjoyed the sack race. Oliver

I enjoyed the running race at sports day. Mia

I enjoyed the potato and spoon race. Mac

Well done to everyone for taking part in sports day and doing their best.

Special congratulations to Jude who won gold for the P1 boys and gold for overall P1 winner, Justin who won the boys silver medal and Olivia Swan who won the girls silver medal.

Pupil of the week: Ed for working really hard at writing sentences.

Enjoy the long weekend and Gala day! Good luck to the Balbardie Float!

We have been very busy this week…in phonics we have been learning ‘oy’ and ‘ang’ and our new tricky words are does and goes.  In numeracy we are counting and ordering to 20/100.  We have been looking at repeating shape and colour patterns. In topic we have been learning about where food comes from before it gets to the supermarket – is it a plant or an animal.

We were learning oi and oy. Megan

We played dodgeball in PE. Jude

We were learning about where food comes from – plants or animals. Alex

I liked PE and dodgeball. Holly

We were learning oy in phonics. James, Aileigh & Ellis

In our phonics group we were learning ang. Ada

We were counting up to 100 in number work. Emily

We were listening to the story of The Selfish Giant in drama. Shannon

We learned a new song All About Our Senses in music.  Mia

We had to use our bodies and movement in drama to set the scene of the Selfish Giants garden. Jack

We were learning aw in phonics. Max

Here are some pictures of our ‘Show and Tell’ and today we chose someone to ask a question.

Have a lovely weekend….enjoy the sunshine.

A sunny week in P1a

During outdoor day the P4s taught me how to play Slam. Aileigh

We played the pass the gem during outdoor day. Aaron & Amber

We got to take our bean stalks and bean diaries home. Ada

We were listening for sounds we could hear outside. Alex

The P4s taught us how to play Corners. Jack

The P4s played Piggy in the Middle with us. James

In maths we were weighing different objects. Carley

We were learning numbers to 100 and played Monster Splat! Oliver

P4s taught us how to play dodge ball. Ellis

We learned ‘qu’ in phonics. ‘qu’ is for quarry.  River

We were learning to tell the difference between ‘p’, ‘b’ and ‘d’. Mac

We painted our favourite books for the float with our buddies.   Emily

We practised out numbers to 20. Jude

We were making flowers out of tissue paper. Max

We learned how to play football with P4s. Shannon

We learned the sound ‘ew’ in phonics.   Mia

I enjoyed playing corners. Olivia S

Well done to everyone in P1a for a fantastic performance at our Celebrating Success assembly.

Well done to Jude, Mac, Holly, Ellis and Aaron who all received certificates.

This week we have been very busy….

We were learning about butterflies. James

We were measuring our bean plants. Carley

We were learning how to measure with rulers. Alex

We were learning numbers to 100. Shannon

We were ordering numbers to 20 and to 100. Jack

We were measuring the length of the floor. Ada

We learned a new sound, ‘oi’ in phonics. River

We played toilet tig in outdoor PE. Megan

We did basketball bouncing in the fundraiser. Max

We measured how long the door was. Aileigh

We did floor running in the fundraiser. Olivia

We measured the table. Mia

We learned ‘ow’ as in clown. Aaron

We did week 2 of our Bean diary. Jude

We did strike jumping in the fundraiser. Amber

We did shuttle running in the fundraiser. Justin

Working really hard. Ed

We measured our bean plants.   Oliver

We did basketball bouncing in the fundraiser. Emily

We did step-ups in the fundraiser. Ellis

We have started, ‘Show and Tell’.  The class are a brilliant audience, demonstrating excellent listening skills.

River and Ed made McDonalds out of Duplo.  Mrs McClafferty had a Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal!

Pupil the week: Megan Carey for making excellent progress in reading and recognising all her tricky words.

Well done also to Ed, Mac, Justin and James for all their hard work at Sensory Circuits.

We have been learned the sh sound in phonics. Carly

We learned oo in phonics. Holly

We learned f in phonics. James

We were learning about ankylosaurs. Alex

We were learning th in phonics. Amber

We made a fish in phonics for f. Oliver

We learned that flower starts with f in phonics. Shannon

We looked at a dinosaur timeline – during the first period there were plesiosaurs, during the second there were stegosaurus and during the third there were velociraptor (my favourite dinosaur because it can go really fast!)

We learned the tricky word love. Ellis

We learned how to count dinosaurs to 20 and write the numbers. River

Pupil of the week: Mia McGreevy for writing excellent sentences and including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops!