This week we have been challenged to write a story using our spelling words which have the ea sound.

One day I went to the SEASIDE for some HEAT.  I saw my friend Johnny, we played in the sea for a wee while.  Then we went to get lunch, in the queue we MET a strange looking spider,  It was SPINning a WEB on a LEAF.

I said ‘Who are you?”

The spider said ‘WHICH boy are you?’

I said ‘ My name is Tobin and this is Johnny.  Would you like to join us for a cup of TEA?’

‘No thanks’  it said ‘I’m a spider.  I would prefer a fly, do you have any?’

‘No I don’t have any.’  I said and we EACH had our lunch.

By Tobin

In drama we have been performing plays in Scots.  One of the plays we worked on was Th Thee Wee Grumphies (The Three Little Pigs).  In writing we had a go at writing the story of the the three pigs in Scots!

Th’ thee wee grumphies.

Lang lang ago in the days o lang syne, there were three wee pigs.  The three wee grumphies had such braw faces.  Johnyny the Dowper was a funny pig.  Slaverie Sam was a daft pig.  Alan was a smart pig.  There was also a muckle bad wolf.  The grumphies were blethering in the ferm, they decided to leave the ferm to live their lives.

Johnny the Dowper saw a mannie wi a cairtie it was awfy full.  He said “Hey mannie wi a cairtie, can I get a daud o straw?”

The mannie said “Aye!”

Johnny the Dowper bigged his hoose in 5 hours.  Oh no the wolf came!  He said “Little grumphie, let me in.”

Johhny the Dowper said “I’m no daft!”

The wolf heched and peched and bloo the hoose doon and ate Johnny up in one gulp.

Slaverie Sam saw a mannine wi a cairtie.

He said “Hey mannie wi a cairtie, can I get a daud o widd?”

The mannie said “Aye!”  Slaverie Sam bigged his hoose in 6 hours.  The muckle bad wolf came and he said “Little grumphie, can I come ben?.”

Slaverie Sam said “I’m no daft!”

The wolf heched and peched and bloo the hoose doon and ate Sam up.

Alan saw a mannie wi a cairtie of stanes.  “Hey mannie wi a cairtie, can I get a daud o stanes?”

The mannie said “Aye!”  Alan bigged his hoose.  The wolf came!  He said “Little grumphie, can I come in?”

Alan said “I’m no daft!”

The wolf heched and peched but he couldn’t bloo the hoose doon.  The muckle bad wolf climbed up the hoose and went doon the lum.  But the wee grumphie had put a muckle pot under the lum and the fell into it.  The wee grumphie ate the wolf for his dinner!

By Archie

Miss Holwill was very impressed by the Scots we knew!  Well done to everyone 🙂

Over the last term we have been lucky enough to be taking part in some football training. We have learned and practiced different skills like ball control and accuracy when passing. This week we got to take part in a football festival which was great! We spent the first half practicing our skills and getting warmed up and then after break playing matches. We all saw a huge improvement in our skills and were good sports doing the game.

This week we have also started being Tomb Raiders. We have learned about the importance of the Nile. We have set up a research tent and even discovered an archaeological site….we are wondering what treasures we will discover!

As part of our home-learning we thought about all the different things that make Scotland great.  Here is a picture of the posters we made!

They look great….well done for all your hard work.

In class, we have been learning a lot of Scottish words and been learning in lots of different ways. Such as: using play-doh to spell our words, doing word matching games, creating our washing claes line, and so on.

We have been very busy this week with other learning going on in our class.  Here is what we have been doing: 

Sophie – We have been doing our Burns’ Poetry competition and 3 people have got through to the finals and I am one of them!!

Abbie – We have been doing times tables – 2x tables, 5x tables and 10x tables.

Tom – We have been making our “Kindness Tree”. Our “Kindness Tree” is made up of promises that we have all made about school. My promise is “I will try my hardest to never get on the sad cloud and get minutes off Golden Time”.

Ty – We have been learning our times tables. I know that 2 x 2 = 4, 
5 x 3 = 15 and 10 x 9 = 90!

Caitlin – We have been learning Scottish words! A goonie is a dressing gown, bitts are boots, a jaiket is your jacket, sannies are plimsole shoes and a sark is a shirt!

Other News:

Pupil of the week – Brooklyn -> for doing fantastic times table sums in Maths.

3 Burns poetry finalists: Sophie, Caitlin and Megan.

MVP for January – Ty.

We have been having lots of Festive Fun!

At the Christmas Party Santa came to visit us.  We each got a present, Mark received a football themed book which he thought was great….thanks Santa.  Michelle enjoyed getting her dancing shoes on!

Colin enjoyed making his reindeer puppet to sell at the school fayre.  Miss holwill thought we all did an excellent job and didn’t get too m any grey hairs J

We have been busy decorating our classroom.  We were lucky enough to have family and friends come in and visit, together we made robins, reindeers, snowmen or puddings.  They make our classroom look fabulous.  We have also been making lots of crafts.  Robyn liked making an angel…will it appear on the top of her tree next year?  Archie liked making a calendar for next year.  We painted using our hands.  We had a chicken for Spring, a sunflower for Summer, a tree for Autumn and a snowman for Winter….I wonder who will be lucky enough to receive Archie’s calendar as a present?  Aidan enjoyed making his 3d Christmas tree card, I really liked all the stars.  Lewis liked making a Santa character.

We had a very yummy Christmas lunch!

We have even been having Christmas themed French.  We decorated stockings, Gary liked added all the sparkles.  Joyeux Noel everyone!

We had a big treat and went to the panto.  It was Aladin.  Harry thought it was very funny.  Stacey liked it when the genie was freed from his lamp.  We would all like to say a huge well done to Kamron and Zoe who were members of the cast, we are very proud of you both!

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Caitlin – We were having our P3 party on Tuesday this week. Santa came and we played lots of fun games!

Megan – The P3 party was great! I loved when Santa game and I also loved playing all the games.

Rhia – It was a party and Santa came.

Sophie – We saw Santa and we got presents and after that we had some ice cream! We had lots of fun. We got books as our presents.

Ty – I think Santa was really fun because I saw Santa’s sleigh going past the window!! I also saw Rudolf!!

Noah – I quite liked when we played all the games and had party food. I also liked when Mrs White and Santa Claus came up.

Tom – I liked it when we were dancing!

This week I enjoyed…

Big Start:

Megan – I liked Big Start this morning making our Christmas trees!

Rowan – I enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree in my own style.

Cole – I liked putting baubles on the tree. It is really fun decorating our own Christmas trees.

Alanna – I liked decorating the tree.

Brooklyn – We are going to add all our trees together and make a huge class Christmas tree on the wall!

Maths:

Ty – I liked doing Maths. Maths is good because I found it easy and I really want to move up a level!

Tom – I am excited because I’d like to move up a level too!

Magnetic Games:

Kirsten – I liked creating a magnetic game. It was lots of fun!

Harvey – Our game is called ‘Fishes in the net’ and I liked making the fishes and it was fun making them.

Samantha – Caitlin and I’s game was called ‘Fish collector’ and whoever can collect the most fish in 30 seconds wins!

Rhia – Me and Kirsten’s game is called ‘Fishy Fun’ and if you get the most fish you win.

Jack – Me and Rory’s game is called ‘Temple Run 2’ and to win you have to race to the cave and you only get 5 seconds.

Jennie – Me and Ty’s game is called ‘Super Racers’ and the first one to get to the magnet wins!

We had a visitor!

Dr. Pugh visited our classes to help us learn more about magnets and forces. We learnt a lot of new things and we also got to take part in lots of fun activities! 

Some of our highlights of the visit were:

• Sophie – A magnet can lift a frog!
• Cole – Magnets are stronger than the earth’s gravity!
• Rory – The visitor was my dad and I learnt that there is a world’s biggest magnet.
• Ty – A magnet can pull iron filings even through paper!
• Caitlin – Some metals are attracted by magnets.
• Ross – If you put a paperclip at the bottom of paper and you have a big magnet, the paperclip will make the paper lift up!
• Liam – A nail can be turned magnetic by rubbing it against a magnet!
• Noah – I had lots of fun with Dr. Pugh J 

Samantha – We made puppets this week!

Kirsten – We started by sewing the templates together

Liam – People had different puppets. There were Santa Claus’, reindeer, snowmen and penguins!

Sophie – First we went up with the sewing needle, then we went down through the hole. You kept doing this until it was finished.

Noah – It was kind of hard! We got help with this though from others in our class. Samantha helped me.

Ty – The sewing was really easy for me

Kate – We got to stick on the bits on our puppets – like the eyes, arms, noses…

Sophie – Then we made cards to stick on the back of our puppets to show who made them. We drew Christmas pictures!

Brooklyn – We put them to sleep in a box until the Christmas fayre.

Lennox – Night night!

We were lucky enough to go to the Sports Centre and try lots of different sports.

At FOOTBALL the coach had different colours which meant different activities.  The green cone was for dribbling, the yellow cone was tap the ball with each foot and the red cone was to stop.  We thought that in football there were lots of different fun activities.

At BABMINTON we practiced hitting the shuttle-cock, Cameron M thinks his went the highest.  We played shuttle-tig.  We thought badminton was really good.

At TAE-KWON DO we practiced our punches and kicks.  We had to duck really quickly so the pads did not get us.  We remember that we can only do these moves with Master Elder.

At HANDBALL we practiced passing the ball so we could score goals against another team.  We thought was fun.

At RUGBY we played touch rugby, we all had tails that we tried to steal.  It was fun and we liked doing it.

At TENNIS we got to hit our balls over the net….Miss Holwill was very impressed with the shots, Andy could have some competition soon!

My favourite thing about Term 1 has been….

• Sophie – I liked making the milkshakes in the Lidl health bus today! It was lots of fun. I also really enjoyed making my hotel for our miniature community.
• Eva – I liked doing printing in Art! I have really enjoyed doing Big Maths too.
• Tom – I really enjoyed today because I moved up to Step 2 🙂
• Abbie – I really enjoyed doing the leaf rubbings and then cutting them out for our display
• Ty – I enjoyed when I got back from my holiday to see all my friends.
• Megan – I have enjoyed our topic this term (Building our community) and talking about my favourite places, things, people and activities.
• Cole – I enjoyed the Lidl Health Bus visit and playing games with our new friend Kez!
• Rowan – I really liked seeing P7’s assembly and what they have been learning about the USA.
• Yasmin – I really liked doing judo.
• Noah – I liked going on our community walk.
• Samantha – I have liked doing outdoor PE each week.

Who has impressed you in our class this term?

• Lennox – Sophie has impressed me this term. She has been doing a lot better in her reading.
• Rhia – Abbie has impressed me because she’s been doing well in her Maths.
• Caitlin – Kirsten has been doing well in her reading.
• Kirsten – Brooklyn has been doing well in her spelling.
• Kate – Samantha has been doing well in her writing.
• Liam – Megan has been getting better at her Big Maths.
• Harvey – Eva has also been doing well in her Big Maths.
• Sam – Tom has impressed me because he did good in his topic work today.
• Rory – Lennox has impressed me also because he hasn’t been shouting out in class as much! (This has been great!)
• Jennie – Rowan has been doing well in her writing

I am very impressed with the boys and girls in P3W this term and I have really enjoyed getting to know you all 🙂 Have a great holiday during the October break! – Miss Wilson

This week we were lucky even to have a Judo taster session.  We all got to wear a special judo jacket, before we tried lots of different judo moves with our partner.  We all had lots of fun!  Thank you to everyone for organising this.

I liked doing the judo throw – Archie & Callum

It is a fun way to keep fit – Noah

I liked playing the different games because it was fun – Lewis

I thought the ‘bear hug’ was the best bit – Cameron R

It was tricky trying to block people – Amber

I liked the game when you had to get your partner out of the mat! – Harry

Kameron would like to know when we will get to do it again as it was fun…..

• Wednesday was a brilliant day because we made our miniature local community! – Tom
• On Wednesday I liked doing Reading and it was about answering questions – Megan
• I liked doing the Reading this week too because I liked making up my own questions about our book – Eva
• I liked doing Judo this week because it was fun – Samantha, Noah & Yasmin
• I liked thinking up names for our float next year. Our ideas were: Disneyland, Monsters University & Charlie and the chocolate factory – Sophie, Caitlin & Lucie
• I liked doing outdoor PE. We did dodgeball and dribbling – Jennie
• Something I really enjoyed this week was Drama. We came up with problems that happened in a community area and then the audience came up with solutions to the problems. Everybody really impressed me! – Miss Wilson

We have had another busy week….we had a visit to the library and Fiona along with some other pupils organised a bake sale today.  We tried to pick our favourite activity but it was tricky.  Here are some of our thoughts…

• maths because I was adding up
• maths because I enjoyed counting to 100 and a 1000
• library because I chose a book of facts
• art because I got to paint
• maths because I think it is fun to solve sums
• reading because I learn new words
• maths because I have learned lots and know find it easier to do

 Fiona serving us yummy cakes!