On Wednesday we went to our new P4 classes for a whole day. Some of us have Miss MacIntyre and some of us have Miss Mowat. In p4a we had circle time and we played some games to get to know our new teacher. We wrote about our school and what we enjoy about school. In P4b we played games to get to know our teacher and each other. We also did writing but we had to apply for what job we would like in the class. We did a treasure hunt in the classroom to find out where different things are kept. We are really looking forward to Primary 4.

We have bee learning about a healthy diet. We need to eat the correct proportions of food so we have a healthy, balanced diet. We designed menus for Augustus Gloop to help him lose weight. We then matched these foods on to the eatwell plate to make sure he would get a balanced diet.

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This Wednesday was move on day. We went to our new Primary 4 class and met our new teacher. We had a great time and can’t wait for next year.
‘Miss Mowat’s class were making booklets, played bingo and drew a portrait.’ – Olivia
‘We went a scavenger hunt so we know where everything is in the classroom. We played some games in circle time.’ – Rachael
‘Miss MacIntyre’s class was good. We did maths where we learned about area. We drew around someone’s foot and counted the boxes to find the area.’ – Grace
‘In Miss MacIntyre’s class we had circle time. We learned everyone’s names and said welcome to the people beside us.’ – Reece

Here are some things we are looking forward to next year:
‘Playing in the front playground.’ – Kaitlin
‘Making new friends and meeting the new teacher.’ – Millie
‘Having a new topic.’ – Grace
‘Learning new facts.’ – Eva

We have been learning about evolution and adaptation in P5d. We have finished creating our new species and designing habitats for them to live in. Here is some of our work …

Kari  – I created a new species called a Catara. It lives in the Rainforest.

Meg – My species is called a Hufflepuffbabbit. It lives in the forrest.

We have also been learning about food chains and the inter dependency of humans, animals and plants for survival.

Christopher – a food chain or food web will always begin with a green plant

Polina – the lion is at the top of the food chain because it does not get hunted by another animal

Ryan – if one animal becomes extinct it affects the whole food chain

James – plants are the only producers

Daniel – a consumer is something that eats other plants and/or animals

Evie – a human is a consumer.

There goes another very interesting week! Two weeks to go…..

On Wednesday P1 spent the day in their new P2 classroom. Below are some comments about what they enjoyed.

“I enjoyed making a picture” (Cameron).

“I liked making a robot, giving him a name and hearing a story about a robot” (Keilija).

“I made a rainbow fish” (Liam).

“I enjoyed drawing fish with my fingers and paint. Also making my own tiara” (Brooke).

“I enjoyed writing” (Charlotte from the nursery).

“I enjoyed making a rainbow fish” (Brandon).

“I liked meeting Miss McDougall” (Mia, Brooke and Shelbi).

“I liked lunchtime and playtime, writing and rainbow fish” (Charlotte).

“I liked seeing Miss Boyle and playing with the toys” (Jackie).

Today was our class assembly.  We were sharing all of our learning about plants and minibeasts.  We really enjoyed being the stars.  We had worked hard to learn our lines and the songs.  We enjoy singing the songs aith the actions.  We all liked our costumes.  But maybe best of all was seeing our family and friends and having juice with them.

A big thank you to Josh, Ray and Lisa for helping us!

We were all very excited on Wednesday to go to our new classes and meet our new teachers! Here are some of the things we learned and some of the things we are looking forward to in Primary 2…

Jodie – I am looking forward to learning Tricky Words in Primary 2 and the new home learning we will be getting!
Farrah – I am looking forward to making lots of stuff
Katie – I am looking forward to learning about the sea and the Amazon!
Hannah – I liked it when Mr Jeffries said “Welcome to the PE hall, Primary 2”
Shaun – I am looking forward to meeting my new friends
Lewis – I liked learning about “The Rainbow Fish”
Eva – I liked learning more about caterpillars in Mrs Gallagher’s class
Anna – I liked learning more about Elmer the elephant
Max – I liked home time!
Maisie – I liked making models with the pipe cleaners in Miss McDougall’s class
Tamsyn – I liked doing pointillism in Primary 2
Kaycee – I liked learning about The Rainbow Fish and more about mermaids when we were learning about pointillism.

We all had a fabulous time in our new classes and are really looking forward to going into Primary 2 after the summer! Miss Wilson is really going to miss all the children in our class!!!!

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Quite a short week this week, with the holiday and our moving on day.  We all loved being in P7 and are really excited by our new duties.  We have talked a lot about being responsible and being good role models as we go into P7 – all eyes are on us!

We carried on with solving equations this week and are getting on top of it.  We decided they are a bit like mysteries – and we all love a good mystery!

Talking about reading(!) we are now choosing our own novels until the end of term, and summarising and discussing them in class.

We have also made the most of the good weather by taking our learning outdoors and practicing spelling, maths and doing some art.

Have a good weekend, hope the weather stays good!

from P6H

This week we have been working hard on our CEM tests. In between testing we have enjoyed learning lots of other things!

Tobin, Fiona, Murray and Luca: we enjoyed painting  a Cherry Blossom Tree as part of our learning about China.

Gary, Noah, Dasha and Michelle: we liked learning about area in maths. We can now find the area of different shapes.

Emma: I enjoyed choir this week as we got to watch a performance of Greece.

Lauryn: I liked handwriting this week. I think my writing is getting much neater.

Gabriel: I enjoyed the class talks this week. We learned about Japan and American sports.

This week in class we have been exploring money. We looked at coins beyond £1 and had the opportunity to count and make different coin collections. We had lots of activities to practise this including; bingo with Miss Bollen, games on the iPad and stamping specific amounts into money bag templates. We also looked at different coin combinations to make £1 and made a toy shop booklet which illustrated this.

In writing we used the Ipads to research a farm animal of our choice. We made notes under given headings then transferred the information we collected into fact files. We learned lots of new and fun information!

Enjoy the long weekend,
Miss Bollen and P3b

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This week one of the things we were learning to do in Maths was to divide.  The children were fabulous at sharing out pretend sweets and compare bears or counters equally.  Below are a few photos from one of our activities.

Enjoy the long weekend.

Hi everyone!

In maths this week we have been learning about function machines and equations.  We have really had to use all our mental maths skills and have been sharing our learning with each other.

Rachel – I liked learning about function machines, I am now really good at it but you have to know your times tables as well and counting.

Emma – I really like equations, I enjoy maths in p6.

Eve – I liked learning about function machines and equations because it was something I caught onto really quickly.

In Art we looked at texture and used our new skills to create wands for Harry Potter.

Adam – My wand is called ‘The Dragon Choker.’

Lucy – Mine was called ‘The Paintbrush’.

Carter – I made ‘The Dragon Slayer!’

We are going to use our wands next week in writing to create magical stories.

We also shared our stories from ‘Danger Night’ and scared Mrs Haddifon!

Good luck to Rachel Ava at the procession and Happy Newlands Day to everyone!

Health

In health this week we have been learning about drugs:

Paul: “I’ve learned that drugs are classed depending on how dangerous they are. They are class A, B or C. For example heroin is class A which is the most dangerous.”

Isla: “There are three main groups of drugs which are hallucinogenic, depressant and stimulants which all have different effects.”

Emily: “I learned that most illegal drugs can kill you the first time you use them.”

Lauren U: “I learned that depressant drugs make your heartbeat go slower and they slow down the speed of messages between your brain and body.”

Nathan: “I learned that cannabis is illegal in the UK but is not in Holland and they sell it in cafes.”

Jay: “Dealing illegal drugs can get you a prison sentence of between 14 years and life. Being caught with illegal drugs can give you four years in jail.”

Flyn: “Not all drugs are illegal, for example paracetemol. However you have to be careful with them and follow the instructions or they can be harmful. Some illegal drugs might be prescribed by a doctor too.” 

Reading Routes

This week we have been learning about figures of speech:

Declan: “I’ve learned what a metaphor is. It’s when we say one thing is another thing. An example would be ‘give me a hand’ which isn’t actually asking the person to cut their hand off and give it to you.”

Chloe: “I’ve learned what repetition is. That is when an author repeats a word over and over to highlight that word.”

Harry: “I learned about personification. That is when we make something that isn’t alive sound alive. An example would be ‘the wind was howling.’ “

Lauren K: “I learned that a simile is when we say that something is like something else and we have to use ‘as’ or ‘like’. An example would be ‘the bird was as colourful as a rainbow.’ “

Adam: “We also learned about alliteration which is when you repeat a sound or letter at the start of words. An example would be ‘Peter pepper picked perfect pickles.’ “

Maths

We’ve been learning all about decimals:

Lauren C: “The link between fractions, decimals and percentages is that they are all ways of describing part of something.”

Antonia: “After a decimal point the further to the right you go the smaller the amount means. The place value columns for decimals are tenths, hundredths and thousandths.”

William: “For numbers after a decimal point you have to remember t say them individually and not as one number.”

Kendal: “To change from a fraction to a decimal you can use a calculator and divide the numerator by the denominator.”

Who has impressed?

Paul: “Adam has impressed with his art this week. He has taken his time and made it really neat.”

Lauren C: “The netball team impressed me because we were unbeaten for most of the games.”

Jay: “I’m impressed with everyone and the level of effort they have put into their Aztec god work in art.”

Mr Berginis: “I was really impressed with the p1w assembly this morning. I loved the songs and the crayon sketch was a great way of showing how to be friends.”