We have been learning about STEM subjects – Science, Technology Engineering and Maths – and designing and building various things like spaghetti bridges and aerodynamic objects.

Lewis W – its good because it will help if you want to become an engineer

Annabelle – its good because you also learn from your mistakes.

Ben W – I like it because it grows your mind bigger and helps you when you run into situations like it.

We continued with our People Who Changed the World learning, and found out about Nelson Mandela, we even got to read the book his great grandchildren have written and it was a signed copy.  Mrs Wood interviewed the Mandela Family at the Book Festival and she talked to us about them.  We also learned about Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban for wanting an education.  She is now a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and someone who we all respect.

Best learning this week:

Sophie – I liked doing the s1 maths work as it was challenging.

James – I liked STEM because I like experimenting.

Olivia – I liked reading the Malala story because it is interesting.

Emma & Evan – We liked learning about the Mardi Gras as part of our RME.

Ben W – I liked drawing our Nelson Mandela portraits, it was really fun.

P6b have been absolutely immersed in the rainforest this week!

We began by researching and investigating key facts about specific areas of the many rainforests around the world. From the monkeys on the tree tops to the tigers on the forest floor, we thoroughly investigated the forest with a fine tooth comb!

Once we investigated we were then able to begin planning to write an information text. We were careful to ensure that we considered whether our notes were thorough or concise and precise, making sure that each specific subject was headed by a punchy sub-heading whilst using a ruler to make it legible and neat.

Presently, most of us are in the process of responding to marking so as our work is presented to the best possible standard.

In maths, this week, we have been looking at the importance of place value and using this knowledge to help us with essential arithmetic operations. We have also been looking at 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication and the many strategies which can help us with this.

We were all very excited to be given our first reading books of the new academic year; these will continue to be given as part of our home learning this coming Wednesday.

As part of our home learning, the children have been tasked with exploring why they think they’d be suited to representing their class on student council. Canvassing will begin next week as will the election.

Key information:

1. Monday and Tuesday are PE days; please bring a relevant kit and shoes.
2. Home learning will be handed out on Wednesdays to be returned the following Monday

It’s been a lovely start to the year with P6b and the children are really enjoying their learning, well done on another super week!

This week P2B have been learning adding in numeracy, the sound ‘igh’ in spelling and have discovered lots about under the sea. Our Big Star this week was Mikolaj!

Here are everyone’s favourite parts from throughout the week.

Hannah – my favourite thing has been painting the animals in the different zones of under the sea. My favourite one is a whale shark.

Hollie – my favourite thing has been reading Monty and the Ghost train. I like that book; I like the end bit when Titch sees a monster.

Kai – My favourite thing has been doing maths. We have been learning adding numbers.

Oliver – I’ve liked learning about not throwing rubbish into the sea because it can hurt the animals. The turtles and the whales and the seahorses can get hurt.

Daisy – Learning about all the different ocean zones; the sunlight zone, the twilight zone and the midnight zone.

Hope – I’ve liked learning the under the sea zones.

Sophie – I’ve liked learning about sea animals. We were learning about not putting rubbish in the sea or the sea animals will get hurt.

Anna – My favourite thing was when we learned about where the sea animals live. The turtle lives in the sunlight zone. The angler fish and the blob fish live in the midnight zone.

Lois – I’ve liked learning this week and doing maths.

Sofia – My favourite thing was painting. We learned about and painted the different zones of the ocean. My picture had a starfish on it.

Isla – My favourite thing this week has been learning to not drop rubbish in the sea so that the animals don’t get hurt and the turtles don’t eat the rubbish.

Ethan – my favourite thing was the teacher picking out names in the jar for the talking partners and being the little star with Mikolaj.

Mikolaj –My  favourite thing this week has been maths.

Murray – My favourite thing has been maths and learning adding the numbers.

Jack – I liked maths when we were using the whiteboards to do our sums.

Thomas – My favourite thing was painting the different parts of the sea and the animals.

Ben – I’ve liked drawing the midnight zone and sticking animals on.

Shaun – My highlight was French because I like to learn new French words.
Kyle – I enjoyed getting my sticker for sitting nicely at assembly.
Alistair – I liked writing my story about the dragon.
Rory – I enjoyed showing my work to Mr McCabe.
Leah – I enjoyed doing Art.
Ruby – I enjoyed Art.
Charlotte – I enjoyed PE because I got to run around.
Olivia – I enjoyed Art because we got to make front covers for our folders.
Florence – I enjoyed learning about our new topic.
Noami – I enjoyed reading.
Ellie-Rose – I enjoyed doing the dragon writing.
Liam – I enjoyed the story about the dragon.
Dylan – I liked doing the dragon writing.
Owen – I enjoyed Art with Mr Bennett.
Holly – I enjoyed doing the timeline of wars of independence.
Lewis – I liked making the timeline.
Ellie – I enjoyed Maths.
Orla – I enjoyed everything. I really liked writing about the dragon.
Kaycee – I enjoyed learning about the wars of independence.
Jamie – I liked doing the dragon writing.
Jackie – I enjoyed Art with Mr Bennett.
Brooke – I enjoyed doing PE.
Eva – I enjoyed learning things with my new teacher this week.
Aaron – I enjoyed going down to the library this week.
Alfie B – I liked playing rock, paper, scissors in a PE game.
Max – I enjoyed Art.
Brandon – I enjoyed writing about the dragon.
Bryce – I enjoyed PE games.
Aaran M – I enjoyed doing the dragon story.
Alfie L – I enjoyed when Mrs Spence came to our class.

We have had a very busy week learning in P2A.  Here are some of our highlights…

Kieran- I liked playing the games outside for Outdoor PE

Grace- I had fun playing head, shoulders, knees and cones with Mr Jeffries in PE

Daniel-The Bubble game was awesome!

Tommy-I liked playing with Aidan at Golden Time

William-Tunnel Tig was my favourite this week

Willow-In writing we wrote about what we are looking forward to in P2, I am looking forward to doing exciting PE

Devyn-I liked writing in my review jotter

Georgia-Mental maths was fun this week

Robyn-Writing this week was fun

Lucy-I am pleased I am now on stage 5 books

Brooke-I loved mental maths games

Michaela-I had a fantastic lunch this week 🙂

Aidan-Playing with Toomy at Lego was great fun

Amelia-I had great playtimes this week

Ethan-Playing with my friends was good fun!

Mason-I liked showing Mr McCabe my good work

Logan-I liked playing on the tablet in class, practising my maths

Bailey-I loved playing with my friends

This week we have been thinking about our Class Charter.  In school we want to be happy, safe and learn lots.  We are all going to try our best to be:

kind

friends with everyone, we are very friendly

try our best at our jobs

share

happy, be polite and smile at people

listen to everyone

celebrate our successes

to keep people safe we are going to help each other and tidy up

You can see our Class Charter beside our board

We have really enjoyed making our new friends.

This weeks extra special stars for following the Charter are Poppy and Oliwier!

It was a busy week of getting to know you in P4a and we enjoyed bringing the children together to talk about the year ahead. With Mrs Mackenzie the children talked about what makes a good pupil and a good teacher. These ideas will help the children to formulate our class charter, ensuring that everyone enjoys a happy and secure learning environment in P4a.

We talked about the things we are looking forward to in P4. These include; science, gym, art and craft, maths, PE, achieving of their best, topic work and of course, golden time. Questions the children had to ask included the teacher’s favourite colour and subects to teach as well as what their new topic would be. Things that the children already enjoy in school are; Big Start, Science, Art and Maths. Some things the children would like to learn this year are Science, weather, earth and space, Mary Queen of Scots and history. We also talked about the ways we like to learn, how teachers can help us to learn best and the things we like to do outside school. Some of these really surprised Mrs Collings!

For information, PE will be on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please ensure that the children have appropriate indoor kit for Monday and outdoor kit for Wednesday. Thank you.

The table of the week was the blue table with 350 points and Mrs Mackenzie will announce the learning partners of the week on Monday!