Another busy week of learning in p2A.  For our European Day of languages we looked at famous French landmarks and made super Sleeping Beauty castle drawings from Disneyland Paris.  We really liked watching the firework show there. We learned our colours and numbers to 10 in French too.

Thank you to everyone who made MacMillan Coffee morning a success 🙂

Kieran-I liked playing musical statues in PE

Grace-I liked doing my review jotter this week

Willow-I liked my reading book-Frisky and the Ducks

Aidan-I really liked drawing the castle

Bailey-I liked the bubble game

Robyn-I liked learning about digital time

Brooke-I liked playing new games in PE

Georgia-Playing with my friends was fun this week

Lucy-I liked our group work in PE

Devyn-I liked playing digital maths bingo

Mason-The coffee morning was fun

William-The coffee morning was great fun!

Michaela-I enjoyed writing about my favourite toy, my bike!

Ethan-I liked buying my toys at the coffee morning

Daniel-Writing about my favourite toy was fun

Tommy-Thinking about what I find difficult in my review jotter was fun but tricky

Reminder: Please book a slot online for your child’s parents night evening, many thanks.

We have been busy busy busy this week!  We have been learning to use a variety of tools in our writing and assessing our stories against our success criteria.  We used a variety of openers, connectives, alliteration and onomatopoeia. then we had to colour code our work to check if we had used everything.  Hard work but we learned lots about amazing story writing.

We also presented our powerpoints on inspiring people, it was great to share everyone’s thoughts and learn just how many of our families inspire us everyday.

P6A have had a short, fun filled week of learning.  Here are some of our highlights…

In Maths we have been continuing with fractions, learning about equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, finding a fraction of an amount and converting percentages to fractions.

Liam- I found simplifying fractions quite challenging but I really enjoyed it.

Teighan- I enjoyed learning about equivalent fractions.

Connor- I found converting percentages into fractions quite challenging but I really enjoyed it.

Mia- I enjoyed converting percentages to fractions and finding a percentage of an amount.

In Literacy we finished our newspaper reports on The Tribes of the Rainforest.  They are all looking great and we can’t wait to get some of these up on display! We have learned that newspapers need a heading that is short, too the point and something that will grab a readers attention.  We also know that these reports have to include a mixture of information in text and picture form.

We have also been continuing with our class novel ‘Kid Normal’ and this week we have been revising character descriptions.  We showed our understanding of the main character ‘Murph’ by using a range of adjectives  and drawings to describe him.

Suvi- I enjoyed doing my character description.

We have been learning our days of the week in French and we have been working really hard on this.

Sophia, Ranna, Jason and Teighan- I enjoyed learning the days of the week, especially Sunday because I like saying “dimanche”.

Megan, Skye, Miles, Sophia, Ranna, Murray and Liam all enjoyed making posters for our European Day on the 26th September.

It’s been a fun and interactive short week on our return to school in P6b!

This week, in our maths, we have been looking at decimals. We have used our prior knowledge of place value to help with this and have enjoyed using place value charts to help us locate, plot and identify place value digits. We have looked at values up to the thousandths. It was really interesting to note that this means something is one thousand times smaller than a one which we found out upon realising that moving up a place value means something is 10x bigger and, conversely, moving down one means something is 10x smaller.

In our writing we finished our newspaper reports after responding to our marking, this involved lots of dictionary work to help us with our spelling. The newspaper reports have been written out good and they look absolutely fantastic! The newspaper reports contain a: newspaper name, price, date, heading, picture, caption, paragraphs, columns and a reporter.

We have also been continuing with our reading in class. The children really enjoyed having some quiet time to sit and enjoy the books we are each reading. In addition, we brought the school library to our classroom this week with the welcome addition of a few extra books from downstairs so that we can all read for pleasure. We have all been gripped by our continuing class novel, Roald Dahl’s ‘Danny, the Champion of the World’, as we near the thrilling conclusion.

Lastly, we have been continuing with our French work and have now moved into the numbers 20-50. The children are really enjoying the songs and games which we use to help make our French learning lots of fun!

Next week we will be continuing to look at decimals in maths and we will move into learning about the tribal peoples of the rainforest as part of our topic and literacy work.

Have a lovely weekend!

So we were still enjoying Maths Week in P1 this week.  Our P7 buddies had been busy making us fantastic 2d shape jigsaw and 3d models.

I loved making my robot – Jacob

I liked it Isla – Olivia

I can’t wait to show mum – Oliwier

I liked working with my buddy – Florence

I made a nice robot – Mia

Thank you Caitlin – Ellen

I liked reminding the P7s of some of the shape’s names – Chloe

Thanks for helping me…I can’t wait to finish it – Rory

I really liked my robot – Dylan

I really liked my robot, thank ou for making it – Riley

I have two buddies so I got two robots J – Alfie

My robot was wobbly – Eoin

I would like to thank you very for the 3d and 2d shapes- Libby

Thank you for helping me to learn – Poppy

Thanks for all of you help – Hannah, Kayden and Laycee

I liked making my robot with Kayleigh – Emma

I made a robot and a robot picture – Finn

This week P2b have been reviewing the sound ‘oy’, practicing number bonds to 10, working on sequencing stories and writing about our homes.

This week’s Big Star was Daisy; well done Daisy!

Here are P2b’s favourite bits of this week.

Oliver – Pick up a pair,. You had to add up to ten and get the numbers partner.

Kai – Learning about growth mind set

Daisy – Being big star because I got to choose a little star.

Anna – Doing Jack and the Beanstalk. I liked that story. I liked that when the Giant was going down the Beanstalk, Jack cut down the beanstalk and he’ll never see the giant again.

Ethan – Growth mind set and fixed mind set. When you’ve got a growth mind set you always try your best.

Isla – Pick up a pair. We had to find the numbers that made 10.

Jack – Growth mind set because we got to know about if you give up you’ll have a fixed mind set.

Sophie – My favourite thing was when I helped people and held the door.

Sofia – Being little star on Wednesday because we got the beanbags.

Hollie – Writing about our houses with Mrs Laidlaw.

Hannah – My favourite part was doing the Jack and the Beanstalk cut and stick, I liked that one.

Lois – Doing Jack and the Beanstalk trying to put them together.

Thomas – Playing the cards game.

Murray – Jack and the Beanstalk cutting out the story and putting it in the right order.

Ben – Jack and the Beanstalk cutting and sticking in the right order.

Mikolaj – Jack and the Beanstalk

*Next Wednesday we have European Day of Languages in which children can dress up wearing the colours of a European country’s flag!*

Miss Cowan

Aaron T – I got a superhero pack on Roblox
Shaun – I am proud learning about the Scottish wars of independence
Jay – I am proud that I play Roblox and have lots of friends
Eva – I am proud because I got to the last level of swimming levels
Charlotte – I am proud of me in swimming
Noami – I am proud of my writing
Jamie – I got a solo win on an xbox game
Annie – I learned to canter in horseriding
Ruby – I am proud because I also learned to canter in horseriding
Ellie – I am proud of my maths and my writing because I tried my hardest
Orla – I am proud that I got chosen to be in the opening dance for our show
Alistair – I am proud because I tried my hardest in band
Max – I am proud of the crossword I did about William Wallace
Leah – I am proud of my maths work
Aaran – I am proud of my maths work this week
Kaycee – I am proud of myself because I won a medal in Judo
Alfie B – I am proud of getting 25 Dojos this week
Brandon – I was proud when Mr Erskine said I worked hard
Brooke – I am proud of myself this week because when I was on holiday I finally went on a water rollercoaster
Dylan – I am proud of getting into the last stage of dirt-biking
Kyle – I am proud teaching about William Wallace
Rory – I am proud of my writing and my story
Owen – I am proud of my writing
Ellie-Rose – I am proud of being in my first dance show
Florence – I am proud learning more of the piano
Jackie – I am proud of learning how to edit stairs on an xbox game
Holly – I am proud that I know my dances off by heart
Liam – I am proud winning on an PS4 game with a friend
Alfie L – I am proud of getting 16 solo wins on an xbox game

So the biscuits were yummy!

We continued the week exploring shape with the help of the Mr Men.  We have been exploring the properties of 2d shapes and went on a shape hunt around school to see real life examples.  We were even spotting shapes in the books that the maths’ fairy kept sending us, through the week we learned about money and days of the week.

This is what we thought:

I enjoyed making squares and rectangles on the peg boards – Libby

I loved having the MR Men help us – Hannah

I made Mr Strong, he is a square.  He has 4 sides. – Laycee

I made a triangular biscuit – Mia

I had fun spotting shapes in our classroom – Isla

We got a square book – Jacob (It was about money)

We saw lots of rectangles – Dylan

Mr Rush is a triangle – Rory

We read the Hungry Caterpillar, it was about days too – Kayden

Well done to Libby who won the Maths certificate this week and to Iris who won the School’s Values certificate, and is getting to have hot chocolate with Mrs Johns 🙂

Lastly, thank you for everyone who made meet the teacher this week….if you have any other questions please just ask at the end of the day.

It’s been a week of fun and challenge in P6b for Maths Week!

We’ve been looking at fractions in our mathematics learning with a particular focus on being able to find equivalence and simplification. In addition to this, we’ve been working on finding fractions of a quantity with a numerator greater than one.

Towards the end of the week, Mark from the bank came in to help the children with an exciting money-based learning activity. The children were divided into groups of four and were tasked with preparing, planning and financing a birthday party before presenting their unique and original ideas to the rest of the class. We thoroughly enjoyed this activity and Mark was really impressed with the questions the children posed to him, demonstrating a clear interest and enjoyment in the subject at hand.

In our literacy, this week, we have been continuing our learning with the rainforest. We finished our plans for our newspapers and are now in the process of writing out drafts and/or responding to marking. The newspapers are really taking shape, looking really impressive, and we hope to be writing them out good next week.

Over the course of the week, in P6b, we have been continuing our French learning. We are continuing to look at: the days of the week, the months of the year, colours and numbers. The children are really enjoying the songs and games we have been looking at within language lessons.

Before I sign off this week’s blog, I just want to say a massive thank you to all of the parents and carers who were able to make it to our ‘Meet the Teacher’ event on Thursday evening. It was a pleasure meeting you all and hearing all of the lovely learning that your children are sharing with you at home!

Everyone in P6b has been working hard and taking pleasure from their learning; please enjoy the well deserved break during the long weekend. See you all on Wednesday 19^th!

Mr. Erskine