Literacy

We have been doing lots of short activities to help us identify nouns/pro nouns and verbs. Each time we practice we are getting better and better!

We continue to develop our ability to use a writing planner to help us structure our writing. This week we had to make notes in our letter writing planner then we used them to write a letter from Mary Queen of Scots to her mother. We are finding the planners really helpful.

Maths

Once again there’s been lots of hard work this week. We have been consolidating our knowledge of time and learning how to tell the time using 5 minute increments eg. 5 minutes past/to. We are beginning to get the hang of it. This week we have also been doing lots of activities to help develop our mental agility. Here are some pictures ……

HWB

This week we were focussing on friendship. We had a whole class discussion about what makes a good friend then we worked in groups to make a poster about what a good friend looks like.

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about the importance of playing safe. We played some games that helped us to identify when we are not being safe and then we worked together to make sure that when we are running at speed or changing direction quickly we do it in a controlled way.

School has started and we have been so busy. We have been doing all sorts of learning.
In Maths we are learning about number place value and also 2D shapes.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning about our rights and the rights of all children. We looked at our right to clean water and learned how to make a water filter to clean water. We have also looked at our right to an education and will be using our new Behaviour System ‘School Champions’ to help us learn.

In Literacy, We are learning to write a letter to ask that all children, all over the world can get access to an education.

In science, we were learning about the properties of different things. Our favourite thing was ‘Oobleck’. It was sticky, smooth, hard and soft all at the same time!

Have a great weekend!

We’ve been learning our times tables.  Callum & Lucy

We have been learning about Freedom! Nathan & Rose

We have been learning about Place Value up to thousands of millions! Maisey

We have been introduced to the new behaviour system School Champion.  Ela

We have been including capital letters and full stops in our writing.  Ben

We have learning how to multiply 4 digit number by 1.  Hope

We have been learning about a Growth Mindset.  Rayen

We have been finding out about our teachers.  Dani

We have been learning to include who, what, when and where in our sentences.  Ela

We have been learning how to draw portraits.  Ela

We have been learning to include punctuation in our writing.  Guy

We have been learning how to draw a face and put all the features on, the eyes go half way down the face.  Jaime-Lee.

Other news……

I went to NYC, Washington DC, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee during the summer.  Maisey

Emily had a wonderful time at Shambala and shared it with the class.  It sounded really fun and interesting.  Thank you for telling us about it.

Have a great weekend.

What a great week!

Pupil of the week – Nathan

Table of the week – Sharpeners

We have all really settled well into P4a and we are ready for a great first term. We have been discussing how a positive mindset influences how we learn and we will all try to keep a positive attitude towards our learning.

Literacy

We have been learning about the life of Mary Queen of Scots and have used this as a focus for our writing this week. We used a writing planner to record the facts that we needed. We then used the planner to help structure a newspaper birth announcement.

Maths

We have been learning how to use loop cards to help with our recall of the times tables. We will record how long it takes us to complete the loop each time and gradually get quicker. We have all made a times table helper and are looking forward to some exciting games and activities in the coming weeks that will develop our understanding and recall of the times tables.

HWB

We are very lucky to have Mrs McKenzie to teach us in Health and Wellbeing. This week we were discussing what strengths we have and here are some of our comments ….

Ellis – I am friendly to others

Donna- I am an honest person

Brooke – I am a happy person

Ross- I am kind to others

P.E

In P.E. this week we were learning about teamwork. This is important in almost everything we do in school. We played the castles game and had to work together to stop people from knocking our castle down. We are also very excited that we now get to use the changing rooms and we are learning how to behave when we use them.

Thankyou to everyone who managed to come along to meet the teacher on Wednesday.

Have a great weekend!!

We have been learning about different animals and leaves in the rainforest. It was fun.  Demi

We were learning numbers in Spanish.  I think it’s fun to write down the different numbers and say them out loud.  Karys

I liked watching Brave Wilderness, learning all about Rainforest animals.  Olivia & Baillie

I enjoyed learning about money and making our board games.  Isla & James T

I liked outdoor P.E. because we played fun games.  Grace

I liked writing about the Snow Penguin because I used my imagination.  Ava

I liked learning about the four layers of the rainforest, I learned something new! Aidan.

I enjoyed Comprehension because I found out new things.  Eva

Thanks to everyone who came along to Meet the Teacher, and have a nice weekend!

In our first week back P7b has been working hard and has some news we would like to share with you.

In P7 we have additional responsibilities throughout the school.  For example, we are buddies to the new P1 pupils.  This is a big responsibility as we have to look after them and show them school procedures.  We have been collecting them before break each day and playing with them in the playground.

We have been given a care class to attend each morning and to assist in during wet breaks and lunches.  Some care class jobs include; helping the teacher set up for the day by cleaning the board, setting up paints, sharpening pencils, handing out jotters and supervising younger pupils. In addition, some people are Office P.As, tuckshop monitors and whiteboard monitors.

‘I really enjoyed meeting our new art teacher.  I enjoyed art because you don’t need to be good at art to do the task well.’- Jack

‘I have enjoyed this week so far and I am excited to see what the new school year brings.’- Fiona

‘I’m looking forward to Oban and the sleepover.’ -Luca

‘I really enjoyed the maths assessment because it’s getting back into the swing of things.’- Archie

I learned how to tie a tie in P.E.’- Noah

‘I enjoyed writing our short stories about a day in the summer holiday.’- Luca

Have a lovely weekend everyone 😉

P7b

Article 28- Right to an education

Class dojo winners- Luca and Noah 🙂