In assembly this morning we learned that there are millions of children in the world who do not get to go to school. This makes us think that we are very grateful that we have the right to an education.

We enjoyed eating lunch with our buddies and we still check up on our buddies to make sure that they are ok in the playground.

In Maths the Blue group and the Green group started to learn about FRACTIONS! Lauren U thinks that fractions are easy but quite a lot of us think that fractions are tricky. Miss Anderson is sure that by the end of next week more of us will think like Lauren. Kai managed to accurately complete 2 pages of maths in under 10 minutes. Jack was our big improver in BIG maths with 9 more correct. Jack and Antonia got our high scores with 14.

Mr Welsh joined us for our Spelling lesson on Tuesday, which was good fun. We enjoy learning our spelling words using a variety of activities. Here are a few photos of our work. ***TO FOLLOW*

We also started to learn about Space and Miss Anderson reminded us that we can find lots of information and videos using Twig on Glow. We do need to log in using our Glow Log on. Here is the link http://www.twigonglow.com/

Lauren K achieved the highest score in Class Dojo with 9 points.

*****Flyn is our Pupil of the Week*****

Have a nice weekend

Miss Anderson and P6a 8)

We have been working hard in our Potions Lab. So far we have created a Radioactive Fizz which involved mixing baking soda with vinegar. The chemical reaction between the two produced bubbles of carbon dioxide gas – the fantastic fizz!

We added a tube of Mentos to a bottle of coke and had to jump out of the way as it erupted! The eruption was caused by carbon dioxide rushing to escape.

We can’t wait to carry out some more exciting experiments!

From the Blog Post Box:

Next week I am really looking forward to…

…canoeing at Lowport.               Adam

…the talent show.            Drew

…going to Lowport because you get to go to a disco, go sailing and swimming. It will be so, so, so, so, so fun!                   Katie

…going swimming.            Leon

…going sailing.       Scott

…seeing who I am going to share a bunk with so we can goof around!    Sophie

Primary 4g…

In maths this week we have been learning about 3D shapes! This included shape properties such as vertices, edges and faces. We made 3D shapes out of art straws and also made them with paper from their nets.

In story writing, we have been writing an imaginative story called ‘The Cottage in the Woods’. We draw a mind map to plan our stories.

In art, we drew a portrait of a friend learning how to draw a face in proportion. We then made a speech bubble about our rights and actions to stick on the mouths to make our Class Charter.

In the creative area we made lots of things! The best one was when we glued down something like a star in the outline and put glitter on it and you had a glitter picture. Miss Goff said there was more glitter on us and the floor than there was on our picture!

Our Class Novel this term is ‘Georges Marvellous Medicine’. Our class loves the book. His grandma is funny!

This week’s Special Person is Annie because:

• She is astonishing
• She is kind
• She is nice and beautiful
• She is a lovely friend
• She is very helpful
• She is always having a laugh with you
• She always lets people play
• She is my superhero (Olivia)
• She is a star!
• She is funny
• She looks like a movie star
• She always helps others with their work
• She helps with arguments
• She helps people solve their problems
• She is awesome
• She isn’t fussy
• She always thinks of others feelings!

Have a lovely weekend!

Lucy and Roan

This week we have been very busy setting our goals. We have all thought about what we want to achieve over the next few weeks and are looking forward to working towards achieving them. Here is a photo with the details.

We decided on our iPad rules and have been busily creating posters to help us remember to always follow these rules. We all agree that we have to follow the rules to make sure that everyone in the class can use the iPads to support their learning.

Flynn had a super success in BIG Maths. He managed to improve his score by 9 marks. Other fantastic improvements were shown by Lauren K (5), Lauren C (4), Callum (3) and Isla (1). Hopefully this will inspire us all to practise our table facts at home.

Ellie was the first class member to get onto Step 1- Well Done Ellie! Everyone is so proud of you. By the end of the day there were more class members who had achieved this. Keep up the hard work and good behaviour.

Kendal was proud of writing 70 words during handwriting. She also used correct letter joins!

Emily was our Pupil of the Week for her hard work and diligence 😀

Class Dojo points winner was Isla with 9 points. This week we had 127 good things happen in our classroom. Fingers crossed for even more next week!

Next week we are all looking forward to having lunch with our P1 buddies and are hoping to start our weekly Buddy Time sessions.

Miss Anderson and P6a 😎

We have had a busy start back to school.  We are all enjoying meeting up with our old friends and make new ones.  We are working hard and enjoying maths especially. 

We have been learning about our rights and making our class charter.  As part of this work we designed our IDEAL TEACHER, we think they should be –  nice, good, loving, challenging, caring, cool, kind, lively, scientific and mathematical!  So not too much for Miss Holwill and Mrs Ghafoor to live up to!

We have also been writing our personal targets for this term.  These include:

*working with larger numbers.

*sounding and blending our tricky words.

*writing longer stories.

*playing with different people.

So we have set ourselves a challenge too!

Bye for this week…

P3h

We have really settled into school this week, and are making lots of new friends.

We have enjoyed singing phonics songs and following the actions.

We have practised writing the numbers 2 and 3 and have played counting and adding maths games.

We have met some of the other adults in the school and have found out about their jobs.  We have also investigated why people wear uniforms to work and school and designed some uniforms of our own.

We have visited the dinner hall in advance of starting school lunches next week, and are really looking forward to ordering school dinners and trying out our new lunch-boxes!

We are looking forward to full days in school next week.  🙂

We have had a great week in primary 2e. We have all been working very hard and are settling in to the school routine. This week we started our topic called Houses and Homes. We have been learning about different types of houses. We also read the story of the Three Little Pigs and decided to build our own houses. We used lots of different materials and used a fan to see whether or not they would blow down. Most of the houses managed to stay up!

We have also been learning about characters in stories and we read a story called the Gruffalo. It was very funny when Reece dressed up as the Gruffalo!

Let’s hear from the kids:

Rachel and Lucy: We were very proud to win table of the week last week and are going to keep trying hard to win buttons for our table!

Charlie: We have been having lots of fun this week and I have learned lots of things. I really like Golden Time too!

What have we been learning about?

Dean: I enjoyed writing the race and it helped me learn about adjectives and description.

Rabeea: I’ve enjoyed practising times tables and winning table of the week. We are improving our speed and accuracy in times tables.

Luke: We’ve been learning about times tables because we’ll need to use them in the future for lots of different things.

Zenaib: Everything has been great this week, especially maths and writing.

Christopher S: Writing out all of my times tables has helped me learn them.

Louise: I enjoyed when Mr Welsh took our class and we did a wordsearch challenge and I enjoyed working together with my table even though it was tricky.

Callum; I enjoyed everything this week, especially writing my story.

Jane: I liked writing about The Race and it was good to learn more about how to use descriptive words.

Who has impressed?

Isla: Mr Berginis impressed me with his drumming skills at assembly!

Sam: Josh has impressed me by keeping up his good behaviour.

Christopher A: I’m also impressed with Josh because he has managed not to move down our traffic light system.

Freya: I’m impressed with Dean winning pupil of the week for making a great start to p7.

Abbie: Taylor impressed me by beating her best score on Big Maths Beat That.

Alexander: Christopher S has impressed me by getting five stickers onto his chart already!

Taylor: Abbie has impressed me by beating her best score on Big Maths by 20 points!

Rabeea: Mr Berginis impressed me with his drumming and it was really funny to watch.

Louise: I’m impressed by everybody in the class because everybody has been working hard to earn so many table points.

Mr Berginis: I’m very impressed with how wonderful the class has been at supporting their p1 buddies.