P3b

This week we started with learning about the needs of plants. They need water. sunshine and food. We put our seeds into clear cups to start the germination process. This way we will be able to see when the seed begins to sprout. We will then transplant them into pots.

We had our Celebrating Success assembly and had great fun performing our song. Here are some pictures of us.

Thursday was Outdoor Classroom Day, so we decided to do maths outside. We learned about patterns and then made some in our jotters and in the playground using chalk. The weather was perfect for this!

Have a great weekend!

Let’s Celebrate!

This week we celebrated success with our classmates, friends and family. We were really proud to see Kyle, Eva and Lewis get our class awards. We were also really pleased to see Rory get the Sports award from all the primary 4 and 5 children.

In art most of us got up to adding the water to our pictures of the Kraken.

In cricket we are learning to bat which is quite a challenge as we have to hold the bat completely differently to most other striking and fielding games. Most of us bat right handed, even some of the left handed children!

We’ve enjoyed getting out in the sunshine and even eating outside.

Kyle, Rory, Owen and Jay were reading ravers making up a book about animals.
Table of the week – orange with 620 points
Learning partners of the week – Kyle and Noami.

P3C

This week’s highlights:

MTH/NUM

Emily: I liked doing fractions

Eden: I liked doing the minute hand of time

Lily: I liked going outside and drawing the hands on the clocks

Marley: I liked doing division and fractions

Isla: I enjoyed fractions and minute hand

Nina: I enjoyed doing the hour hand

Brandon: I enjoyed fractions and division

Luis & Sophie M: I liked doing fractions

Max: I liked learning the clock and time

Liam: I liked telling the time

 

ENG/LIT

Emily, Nina, Lily, Marley, Liam, Sophie M, Lacey, Archie, Luis, Max, Isla, Eden and Harris: I liked doing writing this week

Sophie S: I liked writing about Hamish and the World Stoppers chapter 3

Grace: I enjoyed writing about the PDF coming up with a plan

Sophie A: I enjoyed writing this week because it was Hamish’s first time to face the terribles

LAC

Grace: I liked learning Scottish seasonal foods

Lily: I’m excited for sports day

Emily: I liked designing our pizza

Isla: I’m excited for sports day too

Sophie M: I’m excited for sports day

Sophie S: I am excited for sports day

Brandon: I liked designing our pizza

Marley: I’m excited for sports day

 

 

P5a

In literacy we are continuing to focus on debates and writing persuasive arguments. This week we look at different debate topics and discussed our opinions. We then wrote arguments about the debates we were most interested in. In numeracy we are learning about length and focussed on converting different units of measurement. We also learned about eating a balanced diet and we worked in groups to create healthy breakfast and lunch meals.

We really enjoyed singing our song at the Celebrating Success assembly and want to say thank to our families for coming.

Here are some other highlights:

Amy: I enjoyed working with my learning partner to solve the maths mystery.

Connor – I really enjoyed the one-line improvisation we did for Drama.

Mia – I loved violin this week as we got to use three fingers to play.

Skye – I enjoyed drawing our mythical creatures in Art.

Kiara and Euan – We had a great time at the triathlon!

Hannah – I liked doing the mental maths.

Alfie and Jason – We really liked playing basketball in P.E.

Teighan – I liked making a song using our spelling words.

Megan – I liked learning more about healthy eating and getting to work in groups.

 

Enjoy the sunny weekend 🙂

P2A

We had a lovely time celebrating our successes with you all on Tuesday; thank you to those of you who were able to join us. Miss McKinnon was very impressed with our singing, we are all very talented! Here are some of our highlights from the week:

Jude: I enjoyed writing our plan for our non-fiction books.

Alex: I enjoyed maths because we are measuring length.

Aaron: I enjoyed maths because I like measuring length. It helps me learn.

Olivia: I enjoyed singing our celebration song.

Holly: I enjoyed music because we got to play the djembe drums.

Ethan: I enjoyed reading because I got a new book.

Shannon: I enjoyed drumming because it’s fun.

Mia: I enjoyed reading because I got my new book.

Aileigh: I enjoyed the djembe drums because it was lots and lots of fun.

Jack: I enjoyed our celebrating success assembly and reading because we got our new book about icy cold places.

Ellis: I enjoyed playing the djembe drums because I had fun.

Carley: I enjoyed playing the djembe drums because I got to do it with Miss McKinnon.

Max: I liked it when we played the rumble on the djembe drums because it was a new thing to do.

James: I enjoyed the djembe drums because it was fun.

River: I enjoyed snack time because I got to play with my friends.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P2A

Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 14.5.18

Here comes the sun…

What amazing weather we have had this week and P2/1 have been taking advantage of the sun to do lots of learning outdoors.  It just so happened that today is Outdoor Learning Day – check out the school twitter page to see what we have been up to!

Here are our best bits:

Rio – “I enjoyed creating my own spelling game outside with Griffin”

Cameron – “I liked playing with the balls outside.  We had to bounce them and spell a word as we bounced it”

Tommy – “I liked bouncing and spelling outside too”

Griffin – “The best bit was having milk and story outside in the school garden.  I liked it because I enjoy being outside”

Regan – “I liked milk and story because it was outside for a change and Mrs Mansfield picked a good story”

Brooke – “I liked milk and story because we got to sit on the new benches and hear a story in a new place”

Breaghannon – “I liked measuring people outside.  We had to draw round the person with chalk and then we had to measure with a metre stick”

Aiden – “The bit I enjoyed most was making my own game outside.  I made an island game with my tricky words”

Leah – “I liked having milk and story outside because it was a different place and we got a lot of fresh air”

Lucy – “I liked playing with the balls outside at the side of the school because it was fun and it helped me learn my spelling words”

Ellie – “I liked making up our own games.   My game was hopscotch with tricky words”

Poppy F – “I liked bouncing the balls outside because it was good fun and I got better at my words”

Rory – “I liked the ball game too because I liked having a new way to learn your words”

Daniel – “I enjoyed playing with the balls too because I could challenge myself”

Emily – “I liked having milk and story outside because it was relaxing to listen to a story in the fresh air”

Leila – “I did my five minute box job outside.  I liked it because I could work outside and get fresh air while I did my work in the sun”

Poppy D – “The best bit was doing milk and story outside because I got fresh air and the book we read was all about the outdoors”

Teigan – “I liked bouncing the balls and doing my words on the ground”

Mason – “I did games with Mrs Mansfield.  I liked the balls and spelling my words.  My favourite spelling was c-a-t”

 

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – Thank you to the parents who were free to come to our celebrating success assembly.  The children in P2/1 are amazing and it was lovely getting the chance to celebrate this with them.  A reminder that Shared Start takes place next Wednesday morning for those who are able to make it)

P3b

This has been a short but exciting week.
As part of our topic, we have been learning about the digestive system. We learned the different parts and their functions. We then recreated the digestive system in class. It was quite gross! Here’s a link to see what we did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemI64NAK08 Digestive system

In maths, we have been trying to understand word problems. This is quite tricky as we have to know what is being asked before we can solve the problem.

We also had the fundraiser walk this week. We managed to beat our target and got over 700,000 steps! Well done everyone.

P4A

P4A

This week in maths we have been interpreting data and creating our own Venn and Carrol diagrams.

In literacy we have been working on acrostic poems about climate.  We came up with some amazing poems.

We all enjoyed the city walk and tried really hard to smash the target.

Have a lovely weekend.

A short busy week………

This week we all enjoyed a double holiday but we’ve crammed a lot into the last two and half days!
In Science we looked at our celery and flowers to see what had happened to them. We saw that the celery had sucked up the coloured water but the flowers didn’t which was a bit of a surprise! We are going to try again with some different flowers.
With Mrs Mackenzie we have practised our celebrating success song and had a final practice with the other classes. We are looking forward to performing for you all next week!
We also started learning about fractions with Mrs Mackenzie. We looked at halves, quarters, thirds and fifths. We started dividing shapes into these fractions. It was quite straightforward. Numbers might be trickier!
We also contributed to the sponsored walk which was great fun!
With Mrs Collings, we started learning about measuring length. We learnt what sorts of measurements we use for length and what we might measure with millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres.
Achievements outside school
Rory’s team won another rugby tournament. Rory tackled more than scoring this week!
Owen auditioned and was accepted into the Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band as a drummer – well done, Owen!
Table of the week – Red with 330
Learning partners of the week – Lewis and Jamie

2A

Here are some of our highlights from this week:

Ellis: I enjoyed reading because I got to read with a partner and I had lots of fun reading with them. I also enjoyed the walk because I got to run with my friends.

Jude: I enjoyed the assembly and we learned about keeping ourselves safe.

Holly: I enjoyed Big Start because I got to read the rest of my library book.

Megan: I enjoyed reading.

Mia: I enjoyed reading because I got my new book.

Amber: I enjoyed reading because we got ‘The shark with no teeth.’ In the story, he tried to eat a turtle shell for his dinner and he lost all of his teeth so the other sharks laughed at him.

Carley: I enjoyed going to the library because I got my favourite book there. I also liked doing the sponsored walk.

Aileigh: I enjoyed doing the sponsored walk because it was really fun.

Ada: I enjoyed the assembly because I learned about keeping myself safe in supermarkets. I also enjoyed reading because I got ‘The shark with no teeth’ and it’s really funny.

Ethan: I enjoyed going to the library because I got a book about space and it was really cool.

James: I enjoyed going to the library because I got my favourite book, ‘Mr Big’.

Max: I liked the sponsored walk because we were given pedometers to tell us how many steps we did.

Alex: I enjoyed the city walk because I ran so fast that I did 2,240 steps.

Jack: I enjoyed the walk because I was having lots of fun. I also enjoyed the assembly because it was about keeping you safe.

Aaron: I enjoyed being on outstanding because it’s my birthday.

Have a great weekend everyone!

P2A

P3C

This week’s highlights

MTH/NUM

Emily: I liked learning to tell the time

Jess: I enjoyed learning to tell the minutes

Marley: I liked doing division and telling the time using the minute hand

Nina: I liked doing division for the last week

Eden: I liked doing the hardest questions on Wednesday

Brandon: I enjoyed telling the time

Isla: I liked doing division and time

Sophie M: I liked doing division

Archie: I liked learning about analogue clocks

Kayden: I liked telling the time

ENG/LIT

Sophie S: I enjoyed the plan for Hamish and the Worldstoppers

Lily, Grace, Marley, Emily, Brandon, Sophie M, Luis & Harris: I liked writing my middle part for Hamish and the Worldstoppers

Sophie A: I liked introducing the Terribles into my story

LAC

Nearly everybody: Liked running around the playground

Sophie A: I liked beating my brothers total of steps

 

Marbles Champion: Rainbow Table

Star Writer: Lily

 

P3b

This has been a busy week again.

In literacy, we have been learning about verbs, adjectives, similes and metaphors. We have been trying to use these in our writing to make it more interesting.

In maths, we have been learning about multiplication and working out word problems. We have to read the question and try to work out what is being asked. This is quite tricky so we need to do more to get better.

In topic, we have been learning about our body. We have been learning about the body systems and major organs. We learnt about the heart and tried to find and take our pulse – very tricky! Some of us could not find our pulse – are we alive then? We also learned about the lungs and their function. We did an experiment to find out our vital lung capacity. Most of us have a one and a half litre lung capacity.

Enjoy the long weekend!

P5a

For literacy this week, we have been continuing to look at persuasive writing. We discussed why education is important and we wrote our arguments. In numeracy we have continued to look at symmetry and we made posters for our Maths Working Wall. We also started looking at negative numbers and used number lines to help us with negative number sums. We are continuing to learn about different political parties in the Scottish Parliament, and we worked in groups to create our own political parties. We decided on a name and slogan and thought of what policies and ideas we would put in our manifesto. Here are some of our favourite things this week:

Suvi – I enjoyed P.E. where we got to practice our basketball skills.

Teighan – I enjoyed making a song with my spelling words.

Alex – I am having a lot of fun at multi-sports club.

Megan – I liked creating our own parties in groups.

Hannah – I had fun designing a poster for the Toy Story float.

Lauren – I am really enjoying drawing mythical creatures in Art with Mrs Thomson.

Mia – It was really fun making our own political parties and policies.

Euan – I liked the 2D and 3D assessment.

Miles – I really enjoyed the Mental Maths.

Connor – The Loch Ness Monster reading was really interesting and I liked the challenge task.

 

Have a lovely and relaxing long weekend!

Enjoy the long weekend from P4b!

This week we’ve been busy practicing for Celebrating Success. We are looking forward to seeing as many of you there as can make it.

In maths we have been learning about Venn Diagrams and Carroll diagrams. These help us to organise data which we have collected. We have a Carroll diagram challenge which is very tricky!

In writing we wrote our own version of Kit Wright’s Magic Box. We were able to think of lots of very inventive things to put into our magic boxes.
https://www.bbc.com/education/clips/zkpmhyc

With Mrs Mackenzie, in numeracy we looked at using the four operations in word problems. Sometimes we have to think hard to know which operation we need to use.
In Science we have started an experiment to find out what the stem of the plant does – WATCH THIS SPACE! Hopefully we will have an answer next week!

[Plant pictures]
Table of the week – Green with 700 points
Learning partners of the week – Owen and Noami
Supportive friends for April – Kyle and Ruby

P3C

This weeks highlights:

MTH/NUM

Sophie M: I liked learning half past

Jess: I liked learning about the time

Marley: I liked doing division sums and learning half past and o’clock

Nina: I liked learning about quarter past

ENG/LIT

Isla: I liked writing about Hamish Ellerby

Sophie S: I liked writing Hamish and the Worldstoppers

Grace: I liked being the star writer

Sophie A: I liked writing about Hamish because I enjoyed writing my last paragraph

LAC

Emily: I liked doing the digestive system experiment

Lily: I liked outdoor PE because my team won

Archie: I liked doing Futsal because we did a tournament

Eden: I liked Futsal because it gives me energy

Luis: I liked doing Futsal because I scored the most goals.

 

Table Champions – Rainbow Table

Star Writer – Grace Marshall

P2b

What another busy week in P2b! Here are some of the things we enjoyed…

 

Literacy

This week we finished our story all about ‘The Magic Hat’.  They are all super stories and we are really proud of our work.

We learned about alliteration and we know that these are words close together or next to one another that start with the same letter.

We also made posters for the float which are all about Toy Story.

 

Maths and Numeracy

We are nearly finished multiplication and we continued our topic about measurement.  We learned how to estimate length and also how to check if our estimates were right.  We really enjoyed this and we got to use non standard units to measure such as cubes, dice and paper clips to measure them.

 

Learning across the curriculum

In drumming we enjoyed learning new rhythms and I like when Mrs Palmer  taught us new songs to sing along with the rhythms.  We did it all about African animals.

We have been learning all about what makes a healthy meal and we split up into groups to sort foods into different categories.

 

Other news

Pupil of the week- Evie

Dojo winner-Marcus

Table of the week- Clever Crocodiles

Playground star- Kaiden

 

Marcus came 2nd place in the Tesco Art Competition.  This is a great achievement as there were more than 8000 entries.  His picture will go on display in the National Gallery.  Well Done Marcus!

 

Finally …

 

**Next Friday (11th May) we will begin an Xcite programme within the school running for 3 Fridays from 11am to 12pm. For this, the children will require sports clothing. They can either wear their P.E. kit or they can bring in something else on the day. However, due to the timing, the children will not be able to change back into their school uniform before being collected at 12.10pm. Therefore, if they choose to wear their P.E. kit, please ensure they return it on the following Monday, thank you. Also, for these 3 weeks we will have our golden time on Thursday. **

Primary 2/1 Blog – Week Beginning 30.4.18

What a week we have had! It was fun to have Mrs Mansfield back from Oban and we even learned about all of the ways she had challenged herself last week. We thought the most exciting bit was the story about the waterfall.

We had our own excitement this week as we went to the Botanic Gardens on Thursday – please see our tweet on the school twitter account. We learned about S.W.A.F and ways to survive in the outdoors, it was lots of fun.  Here are our best bits from the trip:

Mason – “I liked the picnic with my bear.  My mummy asked me to eat my food”

Breaghannon – “I liked the teddy bear’s picnic because we got to have lots of fun with our teddy bears”

Poppy D – “I liked when we hunted for the bears that were hiding in Botanic Gardens.  We got lots of different clues that helped us find out information about SWAF”

Leila -“I enjoyed it when we got to learn about how our teddy bears survive in the wild.  They need shelter, water, air and food”

Tommy – “I liked my first school trip because we got to build a shelter and a SWAF island”

Sarah – “I liked the picnic because we got to give our teddies a cuddle”

Ellie – “I liked learning the word SWAF so we can keep all our animals safe and protected”

Emily – “I liked making the SWAF island because I now know what an island needs for animals to survive.  We used leaves to pretend they were salmon in the water”

Poppy F – “I liked when we played the games.  The best one was the tree game to show us that people are cutting down trees and bears find it tricky to live”

Daniel – “I liked making the island because I liked running around to gather all the stuff”

Lucy – “I liked when we had the games to play.  I liked chopping the trees down and liked the teddy bear picnic too”

Rory – “I liked having the picnic because I liked what my mum gave me for lunch”

Cameron – “I liked playing the tree game because I liked when the trees got cut down and the bears had to squeeze under them”

Aiden – “I liked the game where there were little bears and they had to get the shelter, water, air and food”

Rio – “I liked seeing all the wildlife.  I saw a squirrel, a magpie, a duck, a wood pigeon, a bee, a robin and a wee black bird with a red beak”

Teigan – “I liked the games that we played”

Brooke – “I liked the games too.  My favourite was the tree one”

Griffin – “I liked the bus journey the best because I got to have a rest”

P4A

We have had lots of highlights this week.

On Thursday we had our final NYCoS session where we got to vote on our favourite games from the 12 sessions and play the most popular.

We have started our new topic on climates and we have been learning about the different climate zones around the world.  We all shared our experiences of holidays in different climates.  Some of us have been to some very exotic places!

We wrote Haiku poems in writing.  A haiku is a poem which has 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.  To start with we played a fun game on the smart board to make sure we all knew how to count the syllables in words.  Some of them were really tricky but we got there in the end. We then all made our own poems which are so fantastic they are going to go up on the wall!

We all earned our full golden time this week and some of chose to make squishies (sorry parents if some of them burst and leave a floury mess on your floors).

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

 

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