P4 Learn Scots

January 19, 2016 N Hocknull Leave a comment

P4 have been reading The Twits translated into Scots. It’s called the Eejits and Mrs Hocknull is finding it very hard to read!!

We are going to be reading a variety of Scottish books this month….

Primary 4

Learning about Length

January 19, 2016 N Hocknull Leave a comment

P4 and P4/5 have been learning about length in Maths. We have been measuring using rulers, metre sticks and trundle wheels. We have been measuring in metres, centimetres and millimetres.

Nursery

Icy Fun in Nursery

January 19, 2016 Mrs Thomson Leave a comment

Yesterday some of us wrapped up and went into the nursery garden to play in the snow. They noticed that the water in the water tray had frozen and that the birds had left footprints in the snow (before the boys and girls left theirs!).

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To extend this activity we brought some of the ice into the nursery to play with.

They managed to get some of the stones out of it and used them to help break the ice up.

Here are some of the children’s comments.

“It’s frozen water” – Chloe

“You have to carry it in a bucket or your hand will be cold” – Suman

“It’s so cold and slippery” – Marley

“Ice is frozen outside” – Noah

“The water is freezing” – Neve

“It is cold because it came from the ground” – Jenna

“It’s lots of different sizes” – Kayla (after it had been broken up)

Today we noticed that all of the ice had melted. Nathan B. said it was because it is warm in the nursery.

We were pleased to see that there was more ice outside for us to use again!

Hopefully we will be able to make our own ice soon! Watch this space!!

Primary 4

GRIT Poems

Image January 19, 2016 N Hocknull Leave a comment

We wrote acrostic poems using the word GRIT as our inspiration. This was a great word to use for our discussion on how we learn and how to get out of the Learning Pit.

Primary 4

Jack’s Animation Movies

January 19, 2016 N Hocknull Leave a comment

We have been watching Jack’s You Tube channel in class! He has been making mini animation movies using an animation kit he got during the holidays. He uploads these to his very own You Tube channel!

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P4 Pupil goes the Extra Mile!

January 19, 2016 N Hocknull Leave a comment

Carlos went the extra mile at home and designed his own Learning Pit and acrostic poem. We love your enthusiasm Carlos!

Primary 2

Primary 2 love dinosaurs!

January 17, 2016 Miss Edmond Leave a comment

P2 were very excited to find out that our term 3 topic is dinosaurs! We wrote down all of the facts that we already knew about dinosaurs and then decided what we would like to find out about dinosaurs throughout the topic. We created a new dinosaur called Barney on the laptop and started to explore facts about dinosaurs in different parts of the world.

What did we learn this week?

Kiernan: ‘Dinosaurs run very fast’.

Niamh: ‘Some dinosaurs walk on 4 legs and some can walk on 2 legs’.

Tiegan: ‘Some dinosaurs have massive tails’.

Daniel T: ‘I learnt that a verb is a doing word’

Kieran: ‘I learnt to spell ‘ea’ words like ‘tea’, ‘pea’ and ‘scream’.

Maya: ‘I learnt that 5-2=3. Subtracting is fun.’

Leo: ‘I learnt that when you subtract you need to work out the difference between the two numbers’.

Well done to Matthew Watkins who is the P2 star of the week.

Well done to the class dojo champion Kieran Mackie.

Primary 1

Fairyland Fun!

January 15, 2016 Mrs Lloyd Leave a comment

P1b have had a very exciting week. The class were shocked to find that a friendly dragon had visited the class and left a letter and some glittery footprints! The dragon was asking if we could help him to rebuild fairyland as it has disappeared and the dragon was feeling very sad.

Luckily, the children were all very happy to help and they wrote back to the dragon to tell him. After we read ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, Charley suggested that we could begin turning the classroom into by Fairyland by building our own beanstalk. The children worked with a partner to begin making the stalk and leaves and our beanstalk has been growing! We still have a few more leaves to add but it is looking great already!

Our structured play area has been turned into Fairyland and the children have had great fun dressing up, completing fairytale jigsaws, making castles out of construction materials and counting and making patterns with Jack’s magic beans.

Today we had a think about what we think the friendly dragon looks like. We discussed our ideas with a partner before we used our black pens to draw detailed pictures. Mrs Ferguson visited our classroom and said they looked fantastic. Well done everyone.

I wonder what the dragon will be up to next week! We’ll keep you posted!

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