Another busy week!
This week we focussed on our freeze frames. Mrs Ghafoor took pictures of our freeze frames and we then turned them into comics by adding in scenes and speech bubbles. They look really good.
In maths we have been practising ‘Jazz Hands’ to learn our times tables – they do work! We also played different games on the netbooks to help us with learning our times tables.
In Cool in School we have been learning about last chance warnings and how to use them effectively. We have also been learning about a cool stance – this shows how we should stand when we respond.
We were also learning about ‘Kosher’ and ‘Treifah’ foods. These are foods that Jews will and won’t eat. They have lots of different rules about what and when they can eat the foods. We impressed Mrs Ghafoor by creating a menu for a Jewish friend. We made sure that all food was ‘Kosher’ by following the rules. Did you know that Jews won’t eat a cheeseburger?! That’s because it has cheese and dairy in the same meal which is not allowed.
Enjoy your weekend.
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P4g
This week we have been looking at comics and reenacting them into freeze frames. This is quite tricky as we have to show what is happening in the scene as well as using body and facial language. Our ‘Cool in School’ knowledge has been helping us to express emotion in this task. In ‘Cool in School’ we are learning that we don’t always need to go straight to an adult but can try some strategies first. We did lots of role play in this. When we tried an ‘aggressive’ response we found this to be quite hard as we kept adding in please!! Mrs. Ghafoor said we were the nicest ‘bullies’ she had ever met!
In maths we’ve been learning our eight times table through different games.
Music with Mr. Gregory – our NYCOS Music instructor was cancelled this week but we did get a very special visit from Mathew Fitt. Mathew Fitt is a children’s author who writes books in Scots. He inspired us to make our own Scots Monster and taught us the names of different body parts – in Scots of course! Do you know what ‘wallies’and ‘knaps’ are?!
We also had a special treat from Miss Mowat’s class. They sang a song called ‘Leezie Lyndsay’and taught us the chorus. It was really fun!
Enjoy your weekend.
P4g
We’ve had a busy few weeks!
We’ve had a look at poetry over the last few weeks. We practiced our poems and had 4 class winners. They were Megan, Zoe, Sophie and Jennie. Our class winner was Zoe and the school winner was also Zoe. We all loved the twist that Zoe had at the end of ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns. Well done for your effort girls!
In class we have been learning about different types of poems and have written acrostic poems, Scots poems and preposition poems. The preposition poem was a tricky poem to write because we weren’t writing in sentences!
In maths we have been learning how to multiply by 10 and 100 and revising multiplying by 2, 3, 4 & 5. We have also been learning about money and working out how much change we would get from the shopkeeper if we gave him £1.
In topic we researched Aberdeen and made information leaflets for things to do, see and places to eat. We found that in Dundee, there is a street called ‘Bash Street’ named from the comic ‘Beano’ and there are large statues of comic characters in the city centre.
Bye for now
P4g
P4g
Happy New year!
In our short, short week we have looked at writing thank you letters to our parents. When we talked about it, we found there were so many things they did for us over the holidays which we didn’t realise! We took our thank you letters home today.
We listened to some Scots poetry by Robert Burns and other poets as we are gearing up for the competition coming up. We chose the poems we would like to learn so that we can recite them at the competition. We also looked at creating our own Scots poems about animals. we will write these next week.
Bye for now.
P4g
A very short week?!
In these two days we had so much to do!
We made a book to write Scots words in. We chose words which were funny, interesting or those which we didn’t know the meaning of. In maths we played different games, all related to what we have learnt about addition and subtraction.
We had our party on Monday and ours was the first party in the new hall. It was very exciting! We played different games and could have carried on longer but knew we had to have our party food before we went home.
Today we went to church and enjoyed the Nativity. Jennie, Zoe, Megan and Cody were the stars of P4g. Well done to everyone who took part!
We finished the day off with finishing off our Christmas cards, making angels for our Christmas trees and clearing our trays!!
Happy Holidays.
P4g
What a busy week!
This week we learnt how to make stained glass art based on the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We then turned them into cards and wrote card inserts for them. We also made mini Christmas trees made from magazines. These were quite easy to make but took a lot of patience to make them.
We have been listening to and singing our Christmas Carols and really enjoy them. Our favourite is the ‘Xmas Factor’.
In maths we did lots of shopping using ‘Argos’ catalogues. We had to buy things for family and friends but we had to find out how much we spent altogether. Then we found some items were faulty and had to return them – again finding out how much money we got back. Both tasks were tricky!
We have also been learning about 3D shapes and how to make them using’nets’. A net is a plan of how to cut and fold the paper into a 3D shape.
Some of us worked hard to get into the Golden Club and we had great fun today. The rest of us got to colour in a secret picture of Rudolf the reindeer – we had to find grid references and then colour the correct boxes. All in all a busy week.
Enjoy your weekend!
P4g
A fast & fun week for us!
This week we started with planning our imaginative story. It was called ‘The Three Wishes’. We had to think of two characters and then think of the three wishes they would want in the story. Most of us found this quite tricky as the three wishes had to link into each other as in the story that was read to us.
In our Topic ‘Broons Aroond Scotland’ we have looked at maps of the world, the UK and of Scotland. We found out that the canon fired at Edinburgh castle, every day at 1 o’ clock, is linked to the dropping of ‘the Time Ball’ in Nelson’s Monument on top of Calton Hill, Edinburgh. The Time Ball can be seen by ships out at sea and the gun fired can be heard by the ships at sea. This was a method of communication in the past for captains to synchronise their watches to 1 o’ clock so that they could set their chronometers to guide their ships at sea! The firing of the gun meant that even if it was misty (Haar) the captains would know the time.
We found out why it rains in Scotland so much and why Scotland is so green. We get Orographic rain! 10 house points if you can tell us what this means!
We also explored how circuits are built and how they link together to pass electricity to power a bulb or buzzer. We had great fun creating different circuits and joining groups to share resources and thus make better and bigger circuits.
In outdoor P.E we have been learning about a game called ‘Rounders’. We are now getting the hang of how to play this game as it was very confusing to begin with!
Enjoy your weekend!
P4g
Another busy week.
This week we started our new topic ‘Broons Aroond Scotland’ and have looked at maps and where Bathgate is in Scotland. We are also learning about electricity and how electrons flow around a circuit.
In maths we have been looking at grid references and coordinates and have played lots of games with this including a giant connect four game on the floor.
We made lots of baubles, stars and snowmen to sell for the Christmas Fayre -they look great!
Enjoy your weekend!
A huge thank you to Cole, Emma and Lucie, our helpers at the Christmas Fayre stall!
P4g
Another great week!
P4g
P4g
This week we have been learning about the invention of the printing press and wrote our own newspaper article based on a story on the news. We have also looked at the history and invention of postcards and will be completing them next week.
We have learnt how to end a sentence using a full stop, exclamation mark and a question mark and had fun punctuating our sentences.
In maths we have continued developing our addition skills.
We have a Handball festival coming up and have been learning how to play this game. Mrs Ghafoor has been teaching us the skills we will need to play Handball and we have had lots of fun with this. We have learnt bouncing, dribbling, different passes and marking an opponent.
Enjoy your weekend!
P4g
Welcome to our Blog. Every week we will update you with what we have been up to
In our first two weeks we have been looking at our rights, responsibilities and actions. Some of the rights we have looked at are our right to a name, to a nationality, to be heard, to our opinion, to an education, best available healthcare, nutritious food and our right to basic needs.
We have been looking at the water cycle and how water is available and used around the world. We have done some experiments including cleaning dirty water, making clouds and creating the water cycle. You can see these in the classroom. We also looked at how water moves and used paint and chalk to create giant water drops which are now dripping from a giant tap!
For maths we are looking at addition and developing our skills and also learning about dividing things or people onto groups depending on their characteristics.
It has been a very busy two weeks and we have really enjoyed them.
More from P4g later.
P4b
One more week to go!
This has been a very busy week again. Here’s a quick snap shot.
Some of us went along to the Queens Baton Relay on Sunday. We took part in different events and won medals.
We learnt about using speech marks using sandwiches?!
We learned how to find out the perimeter of an object.
We found out about the common wealth games.
We created posters for countries playing in the World Cup.
We found out about the different Viking Gods that Vikings believed in.
We are watching an animated series about Viking Gods and it is really funny.
We watched a video about how to make butter then we actually made butter in our teams.
Today we got to taste the butter we made and took the extra butter home.
Enjoy your weekend.
P4b
We have had an extremely busy few weeks. We had Fitness Fortnight and had the chance to enjoy lots of different activities, continuing with our Vikings topic as well as lots of testing!
Here are our highlights:
Callum: Getting into the Golden Club.
Ryan: Making my Viking Longship.
Viggo: I enjoyed rugby and making my Viking Longship.
Meg: I enjoyed gymnastics because I like gymnastics.
Millie: I enjoyed doing gymnastics.
Valerija: I enjoyed gymnastics and kick ball.
Emma: I enjoyed CEM Testing and Maths.
Polina: CEM testing and Maths too.
Christopher: I loved playing football because I learnt lots of skills from Alan Maybury.
Lucy: I liked Swiss Ball wrestling and making my Viking Longship.
Liam: Making the Viking Longships.
David: Learning about the Vikings.
Jack: I enjoyed Sports Day because I came second in the sprint race.
Aidan: Going to the Gala Day because it was great fun.
P4b
What a week!
This week was a very busy week.
In maths we have started looking at numbers and how they work. It can be a little tricky to work out the sequences. In writing we tried to improve the letter that we were given and that was challenging.
We also learnt how to be cool when an incident in the playground made us think how we could behave and respond to real life situations.
We had lots to do for assembly so we took every opportunity to rehearse the different parts. It took a lot of teamwork, cooperation and listening. In the end we got it right and it went really well. We managed to run through in the correct order, change into costumes silently and remember all the moves. Mrs Ghafoor said we were awesome!
Now we get to rest as this was a very busy week for us. Enjoy the long weekend!
P4b
P4b
We’re back!
A short but busy week. We made memory wheels – this was our way of telling Mrs Ghafoor what we did in the holidays. We edited letters which were written by members of the class. We also learned about using facial expressions to show how we feel and tried to recognise how others felt by reading their expressions. We had to draw a monster by following instructions in French – it was tricky but we got lots of clues. We played ‘Simon dit’ (Simon says) and were very good at it.
In maths we created a survey and used an ipad app to create a bar graph. Those who had more than 6 options in the survey had to make a bar graph using squared paper instead as the ipad app could only record 6 options.
We have been busy practicing for our assembly this week and it’s been great fun. We were working as independent groups and were being responsible citizens.
Enjoy your weekend!
P4b
What a busy term this been.
These are some of our highlights:
Meadow: Not getting any warnings all term!
David: Performing our French play at Broughton High School as part of the French club.
Zoe: Learning about our topic ‘Around the World in 80 Days’.
Meg: I enjoyed everything!
Emma: Doing Math with Miss Goff.
Rebecca: Cooking with Mrs Jamieson.
Valerija: Being a narrator for the church service.
Ryan & Aaron: Getting into the Golden club.
Aidan: Playing with my friends.
Callum N: Learning about the UK through our topic ‘Broons Aroond Scotland’.
Daniel: Being with my friends.
Liam, Mahad & Callum D: Having Mrs Ghafoor as our teacher!
Jamie: Learning about the different places around the world.
Millie: I liked learning Tai Chi.
P4b
Another busy week.
This week we had our profile jotters to update. We wrote an imaginative story related to people riding on top of an Indian bus! We also wrote the recipe for making Singapore noodles. We had to make sure everything was written in the correct order or we would end up writing incomplete instructions or worse, have a noodle recipe without noodles!
We looked at Singapore and Hong Kong this week. We recreated the Singapore skyline using chalk and a smudging technique. The skyline was of Marina Sands Bay and the Singapore Flyer. The Singapore flyer is actually on top of an F1 race track! We learnt martial arts moves with Miss Goff, we cooked ‘Singapore Noodles’ with Mrs Jamieson and Mrs Noble and learned about the different people living in Singapore with Mrs Ghafoor. Finally we researched facts about Singapore and Hong Kong for our project books.
Our Sport Relief run was cancelled due to bad weather but we still took part by completing 10 laps of the gym hall. Then on Friday we went to the cake bake sale and were able to buy yummy stuff and raise money for Sport Relief.
Enjoy your weekend!
P4b
This week was very busy!
In Maths we were able to give directions using distance and compass points. We started work on division and found that it is the opposite of Multiplcation! Some us are working on subtraction and we found that is the opposite of addition! Lots of opposites.
We have started exploring the ‘Cybercafe’in the ‘Think you Know’ weblink. We looked at how to research safely and using key words. We then also researched facts about India and added our page to our project book. In music we learnt about the beat and rhythm.
In topic we had lots of fun! We learnt some Bollywood dance moves and were able to use these with a song called ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’. We loved this and were very good at picking up the moves. Some of the moves had strange names like windscreen wiper and horse move – Mrs Ghafoor renamed it the gallop beacause that’s what it looked like!
We joined P4g and were split into three groups. Each group got the chance to do each of the following activities. With Miss Goff we learnt about the Taj Mahal, With Mrs Jamieson we learnt how to cook a chappatti and then we got to eat it with potato curry, With Mrs Ghafoor we got to dress up in traditional Indian clothes – both boys and girls clothes, we designed our own henna pattern and if we wanted we could get that on our hands or we could choose a pattern from the book. We also got the chance to speak with Mrs Ghafoor’s mum who was in Pakistan. She answered a lot of our questions about life in Pakistan. Pakistan and India share a lot of cultural aspects. Some of our questions were hilarious but completely valid.
What’s the environment like?
What’s the weather like?
What is load shedding?
What’s the capital of Pakistan?
What’s the national dance?
Have you ever ridden on the top of a train or bus?!!
Can you answer the questions?
A big thank you to Mrs Cameron, Mrs Noble, Mrs Jamieson and Mrs Clark who helped us have this fun and exciting afternoon.
P4b
Another busy and exciting week!
This week on our trip around the world we were in Saudi Arabia. We researched lots of facts about Saudi Arabia, we learnt about the different customs and culture of the Arabs. Arabs wear different clothes from us, their clothes are loose and long and we found that this was so that they don’t get hot and sweaty as Saudi Arabia is a desert and so it gets very hot. We got the chance to dress up in these clothes. We also looked at a special building for Muslims – this was a mosque in Makkah, near Jeddah. It had a black cube decorated with gold embroidery and a gold spout, in the middle of it. All Muslims face in this direction for their prayers wherever they are in the world. We used a net for a cube to build our own representation of the Kaaba and coloured in a geometric pattern to make the doorway covering for the Kaaba. Here they write from the right to the left and Mrs. Ghafoor showed us how to write our names in Arabic. It was tricky but we all did a super job!
We were given cut pieces of a picture and had to redraw this onto a larger piece of paper, using exactly what we could see, we then coloured it in. When Mrs. Ghafoor put all the pieces together we had created a mosaic picture of PC Arnott. This was very tricky as we didn’t really know what part of the picture we were recreating! It looked fab.
On Thursday we went to watch the performance of The Wizard of Oz by the Primary 6’s followed by more music with Miss Doolan. Just before lunch we went to WHS Smith to choose a book with our book token. They very kindly let us choose another book or small item for free as well. All in all an exciting week.
Enjoy your weekend.
