This week in P4g we have been learning about india as part of our topic ’80 Days Around the World’. On Wednesday, we had an Indian afternoon. In P4g we tasted indian food; mango chutney, poppadums, raita, chapattis and saag aloo and in P4m we did Bollywood Dancing with Miss Mowat.
I enjoyed tasting the India food. I liked all of it! – Brooklyn
I really enjoyed the raita. I has mint, cucumber and yoghurt and a bit spicy – Lennox.
I loved the Bollywood Dancing. We learnt different moves that I wouldn’t have learnt at my dancing. – Sophie
I liked doing the dancing in Miss Mowat’s class. – Yasmin
I liked doing the dancing and we got to make up our own dance. Our dance was called Hot! – Abbie
I enjoyed learning about Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was a nun and a teacher in India who went to help the sick, the homeless and orphans – Lucy
In Maths we have been doing fractions. We learnt about halves and quarters. – Lennox

On Tuesday we planted tomato plants with Mrs Waddell. We took them home and are looking forward to getting delicious tomatoes later in the year. We also learnt about the life cycle of the plant.

In P.E. we are learning to play netball and we learnt about stepping and passing the ball. (Mrs Collings is very pleased as this is her sport!) We also learnt the differences between netball and basketball.

Pupil of the week – Ciaran for excellent work during problem solving bingo.

Article 28 – the right to an education

This week we have been learning about the body.
We learnt that the body has 12 different systems which work together to make a person grow, move and be healthy. – Sam
We have been learning about around the world in 80 days. We have had to find out facts about a country and I chose London. I am talking about it today – Eva
In 80 days we have moved from Africa to Asia with Phileas Fogg and Passepartout who has landed in Mumbai (Bombay). In Mumbai they celebrate the festival of Ganesh with processions and parties.
We learnt about the God Ganesha. He was a human with an elephant head and 4 arms. – Yasmin
Ganesha has an elephant head because he met up with his dad but his dad thought he was a stranger. His Dad was the sort of person who didn’t like people in his way so he chopped off his son’s head. When he realised what he had done, he replaced it with the head of the first living thing he found which was a baby elephant. – Lennox
Hindus give Ganesha sweet treats because he liked cakes! –Ty
Ganesha has an axe to cut off all attachments to life -Sam
Ganesha has a big tummy because he needs to digest the good and bad in life – Lennox

In P.E. we went outside with Mr Jeffries and we played rounders. It was fun. My team won – Ty
At assembly by P7b we learnt that we have to achieve and believe and to never give up – Lucy
We really enjoyed singing our song in Celebrating Success. We also really enjoyed listening to the other classes singing their songs. What fabulous musical talent there will be in the Upper School next year!
In celebrating success we had to sing first and it was a bit scary – Alanna
Celebrating Success Certificates
Headteacher’s Award – Jennie
Effort and Achievement – Liam
High Standard of Work – Caitlin
Demonstrating School Values – Rowan
Pupil of the week – Eva for super writing on the body
RRS – Tom for a super attitude to work and play

Article 28 – the right to an education

This week started with a couple of extra days holiday – yay!

On Wednesday we went down to Bathgate Xcite to have our swimming assessments. We had to swim one width back stroke and one width front crawl to see how well we could swim and then we had to get out. We were a little bit disappointed that we didn’t have time to play in the water!

In our topic work we continued to learn about the desert as Phileas Fogg went to Egypt on his way around the world.

We learnt that the clothes the people wear are designed to keep them cool – Alanna

Not all deserts are hot – Jennie

Antarctica is the biggest cold desert in the world – Sam

Deserts aren’t hilly like Scotland – Ciaran

The Sahara is the biggest hot desert in the world and it is the hottest desert – Sophie

In Maths we compared the annual temperatures of Edinburgh and Cai
ro. We made line graphs of the average temperatures in these places. It is much hotter in Cairo than Edinburgh!

Some children managed to plot more than one line on their graphs to show more than one set of data. Mrs Collings was very impressed!

In P.E. we played kickball which is a mixture of rounders and football. It was great fun! The orange and bibbed teams drew – Ty

I enjoyed Cool in School this week. We were learning about making cool responses when people use unkind words – Brooklyn

In spelling we had a variety of activities but the most popular was using the letter tile! Here are some examples.

This week we started learning our song for celebrating success. It’s top secret but we are enjoying it!

Mrs Collings is very pleased with our problem solving in maths. We have done really well!

We looked at the Matterhorn in Switzerland and followed Phileas Fogg across the Mediterranean to Africa!

We have been learning about the body. I know that my fist is the same size as my heart. – Yasmin

We have been learning about our lungs and our heart. If we run, our heart beats faster because your body has to work harder to get more oxygen – Eva

In P.E. we had our last week of basketball and we played some games. I scored one basket – Alanna

We got new reading books from the library and from the corridor. Mine is called the Tortoise with the cracked shell – Ty

My book is Greyfriars Bobby and I really, really like it – Abbie.

We are also really listening to the class talks. Today Noah and Rowan told us about Japan and Paris. They were both reall interesting and we learn a lot about these places.

We are looking forward to a long weekend!

Our highlights of the term by P4g

Sophie – I enjoyed doing the Viking project. It was really fun!

Noah – I enjoyed making a Viking shield.

Alanna – I enjoyed the Vikings and making my shield.

Eva – I enjoyed learning about the Vikings because we got to do a project on Vikings houses.

Tom – I enjoyed doing my project with my Uncle Euan.

Harvey – I enjoyed learning about the Vikings burials.

Lennox – I enjoyed going on the trip to the Scottish Museum to learn about the Vikings.

This term has been a really busy term with a lot of really exciting learning. It started with learning about Scotland through The Broons cartoons. We then moved onto learning about the Vikings. We looked at lifestyle in Viking times, their exploration and invasion of the United Kingdom and their different traditions, including their Gods and Goddesses.

We are looking forward to better weather in the new term and all our exciting new topics, including Around the World in 80 Days!

Have a very Happy Easter and enjoy your holiday!

This week in Primary 4g we have been working hard on work for our profile jotters.

We wrote a report about Viking burials. Vikings were buried with their best belongings. These might be weapons, shields, jewellery and household tools. – Ty

Vikings believed that when they died they went to Valhalla, their heaven – Eva

Vikings only went to Valhalla if they died in battle. The Valkyries took them. If they died, not in battle, they went to Neflheim. – Sophie

The Vikings sometimes took their animals with them to the afterlife. – Ciaran

A rich or important Viking who had died would be sent into the ocean in a boat which was then shot by a fiery arrow. Poor Vikings were buried in hole in the ground with stone all around it.- Lennox

The Vikings believed that they needed to take food for their final journey. They took meat, seafood, fruit and vegetables, cheese, bread, cider, wine and beer – Eva

In Maths, we designed and painted a symmetrical Viking shield.

Here we are with our shields.

In problem solving we had to solve an Easter egg problem.

We had to buy an easter egg for £6. We could pay with any combination of a £5 note, £2 coins and £1 coins.

Can you find all the different combinations? If you can, write them down to show them to Mrs Collings and if you are the first person from your class to get the answer right, you will win a prize!

Remember Mrs Collings isn’t in on Mondays………

In P.E. we played basketball and we got to try scoring baskets. It was fun! In basketball we also played benchball.

In P.E. I scored a basket. It was tricky and I was pleased! – Alanna

And lastly…….

Well done to Liam, Tom, Eva, Noah and Abbie who joined the Golden Club this week! (picture to follow!)

This week in our topic work we have been finding out about the Viking invasion of Britain. The Vikings came to Britain in 793AD.

They wanted to fight the Britons to get their treasure – Eva

They came from Scandinavia in search of new lands – Tom

They travelled in longboats, which had massive sails. They held fifty men and each man had a chest which they sat on which held their belongings. They rowed with massive long oars. -Lennox

The long boats had dragon heads on the front to make people scared of them – Eva

They used the sun to navigate as they didn’t have any maps – Yasmin

We  also learnt about the Viking Gods. I wrote about Thor who was the God of Thunder and he was the son of Odin – Sam

Odin was the God of Gods and he rode an eight legged horse. – Ty

Odin had ravens and could change into any animal or bird – Rowan

Freya was the Goddess of love, war and death and she was a twin to Frey. Freyja could turn into a falcon.

Loki was the God of mischief – Noah

We also made a salt dough tile with Mrs Jamieson which we are going to decorate next week.

On Thursday 26^th February, P4g and P4m went to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh as part of their topic on the Vikings. They saw a Viking grave, a film about the Vikings, were able to handle some Viking artefacts and some children even dressed up as Vikings!

I enjoyed watching the Viking show because it was funny and the Viking warrior ran in roaring! Eva

I enjoyed touching the Viking sword. Ty

We saw a Viking skeleton with no feet. He had been buried with a key. Ciaran

We got to hold the head of a spear and an axe head from Viking times. Harvey

I liked seeing the logboat. They are boats made out of curved logs. They are different to Viking longboats, which are much wider. The log boats were much narrower. Sophie

I liked when Mrs Clark was chosen to be Odin, the Viking God! Jennie

I really, really enjoyed it because we got to feel what the Viking artefacts were like and we got to see the skeleton. Lennox

We saw a Viking ring which had a red stone in it. It must have been for a rich person. Lucie