This week has been a busy week this is our highlights.

Evie: Our assembly was my highlight “I liked the full thing”. I liked writing about my own Victorian invention.  As well as this I liked playing chain tig and Wizzards, Goblins and Giants.

Caitlin: I liked learning all the songs for our assembly. I also enjoyed planning my own Victorian invention.

Kayleigh: I liked learning about the Victorians because they are very interesting.

Leia: I enjoyed learning about what jobs we may have had if we had lived during the Victorian age. I also enjoyed playing hide and seek during free choose at PE.

Sophie: I liked the assembly especially when we were performing our songs. I also was happy to accidently find out I was star writer this week.

Erin: I liked doing the assembly and I liked getting a biscuit.  I also enjoyed PE particularly playing cops and robbers.

Kaitlin: I liked reading the history book yesterday it even had the beginning of the world!

Demi Leigh: I enjoyed doing writing.  I enjoyed the punishments in PE like having to sing I’m a little teapot.

David: I liked the Victorian song and all of our assembly.

Olivia: I liked writing because it got me to use my imagination to think of different things.

Grace: I liked playing chain tig and running away.

Ellis: I liked writing because I enjoyed writing instructions on how to operate my own invention.

Evan: I enjoyed rehearsing the assembly and chain tig.

Robyn: I liked performing the street children song.

Emma: I liked assembly.

Charlie: I enjoyed learning all the song in the assembly.

Ben: I liked having a juice and biscuit after the assembly.

Well done to all the pupils for their hard work this week and fabulous performance and a big thank you to all the parents, family members and carers that came along to show your support. From Mr Cunningham.

Thank you to the parents/carers who were able to come along to the meeting about Low Port 2017 for our current P4 pupils. The date for this is week beginning 4th September with pupils staying Monday – Wednesday or Wednesday – Friday.

Further information about the residential programme will be issued soon.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our first PATPAL session. The children really enjoyed sharing their learning with you.

We received lots of positive feedback:

“Enjoyed the morning and coming into class. It’s great to see all the children working in different ways. ”

“Really enjoyed seeing the different strategies at work and to be able to gauge their level of understanding. Hope the sessions continue again as found it very beneficial.”

“The children showed lots of enthusiasm and explained things well.”

“Very informative – nice to see children working and enjoying it.”

“I enjoyed learning the cross method and will try to use that at work.”

Don’t worry if you did not have the opportunity to come along. The link for the powerpoint from the session has been uploaded to this blog post. There will be a second session later on this academic year. A questionnaire will be sent out nearer the time and we would appreciate your ideas. This information will help us shape the next session.

Thank you for all your support.

P5-7 Team

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This has been a busy week in primary 5. We have been practising hard for our assembly; on the 27th in which we will share with you some interesting stories about the Vile Victorians; in maths we have had the pleasure of welcoming in some parents during the PATPAL where primary 5 shared our excellent strategies for the 4 operations and in language we have continued our block on righting instructions and created a ‘The Bedroom Tidier’.

Maths

Thanks for all that came along on Wednesday morning it was good to see so many happy faces and for the pupils to share their learning with you. We hope that you learned something new and that it gives you an insight into how we are learning maths in class. We have continue applying what we have learnt by working hard on our division skills the rest of the week.

English

As mentioned above we continued to write instructions about inventions.  Last week we created teacher pleaser machines and this week we have created bedroom tidiers (this must be useful for most of the class). The writing produced has been fantastic and star writers this week are Ellis, Lotte, Leia and Annabelle.

LAC

Our journey back in time to the Victorian era has led us to learning about the differences between poor and rich children this week. We learned how hard life was for poor Victorian children and how they did not have many toys. Most of us thought that working for a living sounded like a bad idea.  As well as this we have continued to work hard on our assembly and it is starting to sound really good! All pupils who need one have been given a costume and the girls thought they looked a little silly. All pupils should wear dark shoes and sensible clothing to wear under their costume (t shirt and tights for girls, white shirt,polo or t-shirt for boys with dark trousers, hat optional).

Finally…

Primary 5 got the opertuntity to take part in street dance on Wednesday morning below are some pictures of us busting a move!

Last Friday we took part in the second Big Balbardie Blether of the session.  We got into our vertical learning groups to discuss our views on our playground.  We shared our opinion on whether we loved, liked or disliked our playground and stated how we think we can improve it.  The adults will collate our ideas and feedback the results in due course.

In writing last week we wrote our own fable.  A fable is a short story with a moral.  (Morals teach us a lesson.) Normally in a fable the main characters are animals and the setting is outside.  Before we wrote our own, we listened to the stories ‘The Wolf and the Crane’, ‘The Ant and the Dove’ and ‘The Boy who Cried Wolf’.  We used all the information to create our own stories.  We will redraft our work and read our stories to our buddies.

Last week, we were given a series of word problems.  They were catch phrases which enabled us to develop our thinking skills.  For example, on the board the letters MCE MCE MCE were displayed.  Meadow figured out that this represented Three Blind Mice because the letter I was missing from each word!  We enjoyed this problem solving activity.  There are some examples below for you to try at home!  We will reveal the answers next week 🙂

9                     head       funny funny words words words words

cumulous            heels

secret <——–          give give give give get get get get

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is is is is is is is is is is        m1llion      vad    ers

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t v w x y z

Have fun and good luck!

Article 28- Right to an Education

Row of the week- rows 2 & 5

Class dojo winner- Millie

Pupil of the week- Zoe

Answers- On cloud 9, head over heals , too funny for words , top secret , forgive and forget , tennis , one in a million , space invaders and missing you!

We have been learning new things in P3a this week, here are some of them…

Maths

We have been learning subtraction this week and have  started this in our number talks too, we are really enjoying the challenge.

We have also been learning more about money and we really enjoy the interactive game we play to get our brains working.

Nathan has been working really hard on his numbers to 30 and can do this all by himself now!

French 

In French we have been learning all about the months of the year and also different types of weather.

Mrs Aitken worked with our class and we learned about colours and coloured in a French flag- this was really fun!

Literacy

The Tigers and Lions were working on saying and spelling words with Snake and Ladders.  The Zebras, Monkeys and Koalas started reading new passages and answering questions about them independently- we really enjoyed the challenge.

Science

In science we learned all about inheritance and we know this means that we inherit things from our parents and we have things in common with our siblings such as; hair colour, eye colour and skin colour.

Achievements

Brooke received the Star of the Month for Drama

Pupil of the week- Maisie

Table of the week- Mia, Blaire, Kai and Ellis

Further Achievements

Ellis received his black stripe from Tae Kwon Do.

Tamsyn won a football medal.

Samuel has designed a big hotel on his minecraft.

Ruby built a rocket on minecraft.

Charlie is becoming very good at playing WWE.