What an exciting week! We had part of Mr. Cunningham’s class join us for the week as he went with the P7’s to Oban. We learned about topic, writing and grammar together and for maths continued with what we were already doing in our class.

This week, we have been very busy learning about the Human Skeleton. Humans have an endoskeleton because it is found in the body. We learned about the names of the different bones, their function, purpose and some facts. We also learned to keep our body strong and healthy, by drinking lots of milk, eating cheese and eating yoghurt because they contain calcium which makes our bones strong. We should also do lots of exercises to keep us fit.

In maths, we have been learning the 3 & 4 times table. In topic maths, we were learning to recognise money and add money. Mr Cunniinghams’ class was learning about telling the time.

In writing, we were writing a story about being shipwrecked. We were trying to use similes and adjectives. to make it more interesting.

Have a great weekend!

This week was our penultimate NYCoS . We have had a block of 12 sessions, teaching us about rhythm, beats, pulse and pitch. We have learnt hand signs for three different pitches and played a lot of fun games to help us learn more.
In rhythm we learnt to clap our names – Olivia
We learnt signs for the songs – mi, so and la – Eva
We learnt loads of songs and clapped the rhythm of the songs using ta and te-te – Rory
We learnt about the beat of the music – Orla
We learnt loads of new songs – about 10 which helped us with our understanding of music – Charlotte
On Thursday 26th, parents and carers are invited to our final session to see what we have been learning about. Please do join us at 11.40 if you are able.
Also a reminder that the children are having their swimming assessment on Wednesday and they will need to bring costumes, towels and £1 for the locker.
Table of the week – yellow with an amazing 1070 points!
Learning partners of the week – Liam and Kaycee
Apologies for the late posting of this blog. Technical difficulties!

It’s been a busy week back at school after a lovely holiday.
With Mrs Mackenzie, we learned about the Activator family and the Dolittle family. The Dolittle family play video games and watch TV whilst the Activator family go outside, play football, swim, garden and eat healthily.
We have started a ‘Reading Rave’ on a Monday afternoon. We can write stories, choose books to share from home and enjoy reading! We can also use the Ipads for Literacy games. We love it!
We learned how to skip count when dividing.
In Maths, we made a human graph, then a pictogram and then a block graph to show what size feet the children in P4 have. Our class have a bigger range than P4a from size 11 to size 4.5 whilst P4a’s feet are mostly in the middle of the range!
We are looking forward to a busy term and hopefully some better weather!
A reminder that we need Review Jotters back in as soon as possible please.
Learning partners of the week – Annie and Ellie-Rose.
Table of the week – yellow with 440 points!

Welcome back, Everyone!

This term we have started off with revising our times’ tables and have begun to understand how multiplication links to division. We have also started learning about the different coins we have in our monetary system.

In topic, we have been learning about different habitats and how they affect the types of animals living there.

In French, we are learning to listen to and follow instructions by playing the French version of Simon Says. Our favourite phrase is go to the toilet!

We learned about similes and then made up our own similes to write a poem about our pet or favourite animal.

Enjoy your weekend!

This week has been very busy!

We finished our topic about the Ancient Egyptians and learned about the Egyptian seasons, their calendar and why it was based on the flooding of the River Nile, the hierarchy system and also who Moses was and what happened to him and his people. We learned how the events leading up to Easter Sunday and ‘Passover’ are linked to the events at this time in history. We made our own Palm leaves in remembrance of Palm Sunday.

In maths, we have continued looking at multiplication and are now beginning linking it to division. We learned more about the area of things as well.

This week we also had a special visit from a book author who told us about the book he had written, we had Dress down/dress up day and also our last session with Relax Kids.

Congratulations to Dionne for winning the Cheer Leading Competition!

Here are some pictures:

Enjoy the Easter holidays!

As we approach the end of a very busy term, we have been thinking about all the things we have learnt. Our big topic this term has been the Vikings and we are now Viking experts!
These are our highlights:
Rory – I didn’t know that longhouses only had one room and that the animals slept in the house with the people!
Liam – I didn’t know that when the rich Vikings died they were put on a boat and set out to sail to Valhalla.
Aaron – I didn’t know that when Vikings died they were buried with their weapons.
Ellie-Rose – I enjoyed learning about the Viking boats.
Holly – I enjoyed learning about Viking longhouses; that some had turf rooves and some had stone.
Alfie L – I didn’t know what longhouses were made of like stone and grass for the roof.
Bryce – I liked learning about the Vikings and their longboats
Kyle – I liked learning about Viking Gods.
Charlotte – I didn’t know that the 30 days of Happiness existed and I like doing the things for it. So far, I’ve enjoyed making someone smile!
Alistair – I learnt that the Viking warrior had to honour his lord or king and was expected to battle at any moment.
Jay – I didn’t know that the Vikings invaded Scotland.
Brandon – I liked learning about the Viking boats and I didn’t know that the Viking boats were red and white.
Jamie – I liked doing division in maths.
Owen – I enjoyed learning about coordinates and how to find marks on a grid.
Lewis – I didn’t know much about longships but now I know a lot!
Brooke – I liked writing about when the Vikings died.
Max – I liked learning about dividing.
Kaycee – I liked learning in NYCoS about So and Mi.
Jackie – I liked doing my class talk because it helped me to get more knowledge about Viking gods.
Ellie – I liked watching the class talks.
Orla – I liked learning about the 30 days of happiness.
Ruby – I enjoyed doing my class talk because it was really fun.
Dylan – I liked learning about the Viking weapons.
Eva – I liked Alistair’s Viking talk about the Vikings.
Olivia – I liked learning about Odin because I never knew that he drank water from the fountain of wisdom and that he had to sacrifice an eye to do so.
Florence – I liked learning about the Viking Gods.
Noami – I liked learning about the Viking deaths.
Alfie B – I liked learning about area.
Annie – I liked learning about area and how we measure it in cm2.
Shaun – I enjoyed learning about the 30 days of happiness because I liked the smile challenge.
Our learning partners of the week are Ruby-Anne and Charlotte. Well done, girls!

This week we learned about area. We learned that area is the space that something takes up. We put what we have been learning in the last few weeks to build pyramids from sugar cubes. We measured the completed pyramids in cm and worked out the area of the base.

In topic, we were learning about pyramids. we designed our own pyramids with a burial chamber, passageways and traps to stop the robbers. We learned about the most famous Pharaoh – Tutankhamun and how his tomb was discovered.

Some of us have had a chance to talk about our shadouf and its purpose. We are recording a presentation which we will be able to share soon.

On Wednesday we had our shared start. We have been learning about VCOP and our focus was how to use speech marks. It is quite tricky!

Have a great weekend. Enjoy the pictures from our shared start and our sugar pyramids!

We have had another busy week in P4a. Here are our highlights:

Shelbi: I enjoyed writing a mini saga about the Vikings.
Maisie: I enjoyed the vocabulary table at shared start.
Erin: I enjoyed sharing my learning with my mum during the shared start morning.
Kai: I enjoyed writing the mini saga.
Mia: I enjoyed shared start at the openers table.
Ruby: I used play dough to spell my words.
Donna: I enjoyed doing my self-portrait in art.
Blaire: I enjoyed writing the mini saga. I liked the challenge of writing a story in 50 words.
Lily: I liked dong the mini saga.
Tamsyn: I enjoyed writing the mini saga. Mine was about a battle between the Vikings and the monks.
Luke: I enjoyed doing fractions. I liked figuring out what everything meant.
Amiie-Leigh: I liked writing the mini saga and I found it really hard to write it in 50 words.
Lucas He: I liked doing fractions.
Rory: I enjoyed doing fractions.
Farrah: I enjoyed number gym homework club and I did the 8, 11 and 12 times tables.
Katie: I enjoyed doing a self-portrait because I got to decorate the helmet.
Zara: I liked doing the self-portrait in art and decorating the helmet.
Ellis: I enjoyed writing my mini saga.
Brooke: I liked art and the mini saga.
Evan: I enjoyed writing my mini saga.
Ross: I enjoyed starting our learning about fractions.
Murray: I enjoyed writing the mini saga.
Cameron: I enjoyed writing the mini saga.
Arran: I enjoyed futsal. We had a tournament.
Callum: I enjoyed futsal. My team won!
Niamh: I liked doing the self-portraits in art.
Lucas: I liked futsal.