Pupil Learning – Page 19

Primary 1 20.5.20

Happy Mercredi everyone!

We hope you are well and are enjoying the activities on the grids that were given out yesterday. We can’t wait to see what you share with us on your learning journals. Remember do what you can and also fit in time for play, relaxing and helping out around the house.

The Rights Respecting School article for this week is focusing on Article 28 – the right to education. Every child has the right to an education. Primary education must be free and different forms of secondary education must be available to every child. Discipline in schools must respect children’s dignity and their rights. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

Give yourself one minute to think of as many reasons as you can why education is important for children and young people. You can think about how it helps you! What does it help you with? What might it mean for your future?

Here are some activities you can try:

Imagine you have been asked to create your ideal lesson timetable for a day or a week at home or in school. Plan it out and decide what you would include and what you would leave out. Make sure it will provide children with a really good quality education!
What do you think makes a good teacher? This video might give you some ideas! Draw an outline of your ideal teacher and surround it with words that describe what that teacher is like.
Teachers and learners go together! So now think about what makes a good learner? Imagine you are talking to a younger brother, sister or friend who is about to start school. Describe to them how to be a really good learner! Invent a cartoon character to represent this good learner.

I like the idea of drawing and writing down what makes a good teacher and a good learner. If you have time to do this activity we would love to see your ideas on your learning journals.

Thank you for continuing to share your work with us!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Miss Cunningham, Miss Christy and Miss Daun

Primary 3 Wednesday 20th May 2020

Ca va Primary 3?

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to a quick online check-in today. I know we are! It is the highlight of our weeks! Remember to log on to Teams today at 10am to tell us your news and how you all are.

For a little bit of Science, why not get involved with Dr Chip’s Daily Dose, at 10am there is a link to follow for today for ‘Wonder Wednesday’, looking at ‘Biomimicry’ taking inspiration from nature for engineering.

Mrs Fox has also given us a little Art lesson should you wish to try it out.

Drawing a symmetrical Mask. The video guide can be accessed here: Symmetrical Mask Guide and the outline can be downloaded from here:Symmetry Mask Outline.

Word Boost Word definitions has been added to assignments in Teams. The words are as follows:

Cat’s Ahoy – Miss Smith’s Class:

Verbs: clamp, steer, quiver, abandon

Adjectives: silent, solemn

Dougal’s Deep Sea Diary – Mr Woodward’s Class:

Nouns: directions, souvenir

Verbs: drift, glisten

Adjectives: rickety, glum

Writing: For this week’s writing we are jumping back into space and we are going to spend a day on the International Space Station. Watch this short video to see 2 real astronauts on the ISS and what they get up to on board – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgRMAVoHRbk

Write a diary entry of at least half a page of A4 about a day in space. What would you do during the day, what things would you see, who would you speak to and what would you say, how would you enjoy yourselves, what would it feel like and how would a day on the ISS make you feel? Remember to SHOW the reader what you see and do, don’t just tell them. Use your descriptions and choose the best words!

Maths: For today’s maths we are looking at Tesselation. Tesselation is the creation of patterns using shapes tiled together, e.g.

Your challenge is to create your own tesselation pattern. You can draw the shapes, using a ruler for straight lines, you can use Paint or another art programme on your computer, or you could go outside and create a tesselated pattern in your garden using natural materials.

Today’s Number Talks:

3 x 8 2 x 325

2 x 6 2 x 300

8 x 6 6 x 300

Challenge Sum

362 x 28

Have a great day, and looking forward to speaking with you all.

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 2 20.5.20

Good morning Primary 2!

We hope you all managed to download the new learning grid for the next two weeks. Remember just do what you can- we suggest 3 activities a day. Also did you all enjoy watching the powerpoints with the teacher’s voices? We really hope they helped!

Wednesday is a P.E day so lets get active!

Joe Wicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKjcZ8mUr-M

Cosmic Kids yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Just dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCzgc_RelBA

Or if you have a garden: use your skipping ropes, kick a ball, through a basketball or enjoy a little golf. Any sporting activity you do, log it into the Travel Tokyo Challenge!

THINK YOU KNOW- an internet safety programme has released some online safety activities to complete with your family. You are probably online more than ever at the moment so it’s important that you understand how to stay safe when working or playing online. Click on the link below to explore some activities.

thinkuknow-5-7s-home-activity-sheet-5

Oxford Owl- remember to keep accessing online books through Oxford owl. Choose a book appropriate to your age and stage. You could use one of them to complete your book review from your learning grid. If you need help at choosing a level please ask your teacher.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Username: Miss Rafferty

Password: Carmondeanp2

Reminders

Please complete the lunch survey

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

Have you managed to do an activity for the Article 28? If so post pictures in Learning Journals
Have you added to the Travel Tokyo Challenge?

https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo

Stay safe,

Miss Rafferty and Mrs Oliver

Primary 2 – Tuesday 19 May 2020

Good Morning Primary 2,

How is everyone today? Did you have a nice long weekend? Miss Pringle managed out some long walks with her dog and Miss Rafferty kept up her running and virtual keep fit classes. Did you do any exercise you could add to our Travel to Tokyo challenge? The instructions are attached below if you did – every little helps!

Travel to Tokyo Challenge

This week the Rights Respecting School Article we are focusing on is Article 28 – the right to education. This Article states that:

Every child has the right to an education.
Primary education must be free and different forms of secondary education must be available to every child.
Discipline in schools must respect children’s dignity and their rights.
Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

What do you think makes a good teacher? This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p5286T_kn0 might give you some ideas! Draw an outline of your ideal teacher and surround it with words that describe what that teacher is like. Miss Rafferty and Miss Pringle would love to see these and we look forward to seeing photos on your Learning Journal. The full powerpoint with activity ideas is attached below.

Article 28

Please find below the Learning Grids for the next fortnight. As a Primary 2 stage we have tried to increase our ICT skills (!) and have recorded some audio powerpoints to support your learning. We would love to hear your feedback about if these are worthwhile or not.

Comment below and let us know how you are. Please continue to upload your photos to your Learning Journal too – it is so lovely to see you all.

Have a great day,

Miss Pringle and Miss Rafferty

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Woody Pumba Buzz Simba Fortnight Beginning 18.5.20

Primary 3 Tuesday 19th May 2020

Good morning everyone,

I hope you had a restful Monday and are ready for some new activities this week.

Reminders for this week:

We have our class online check-in tomorrow on Teams at 10am.
Carmondean Primary School have registered with Get Set. This will allow families to get active together at home and log their activity to their school team. There will be chances to win weekly prizes, for teams to beat weekly goals and also share their activity to win amazing prizes like fitness trackers. Set out below are instructions as to how to register your activity.· Click on the following link www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo· Click on the families tab· Click on Find school and enter the post code EH54 8PX. Carmondean should pop up and you should click on the name and press submit.
· You will then see a list of teams by primary stage. The school team option is for the staff and their families to log their activity too so we are all taking part! Log your activity and we are all set!
Annual Council Survey on use of school meals accessed here: WLC Survey

Article of the week:

Article 28 – The Right to an Education.

Some of the activities include watching: Be a Mr Jenson for inspiration on what makes a good teacher. Can you think of words to describe what a really good teacher would be like?

Do the same as above, but this time, think of words to describe what a really good learner would be like.

Imagine you have been asked to create your ideal lesson timetable for a day or a week at home or in school. Plan it out and decide what you would include and what you would leave out. Make sure it will provide children with a really good quality education!

Watch The Right to Education and use it to write a poem about education and learning.

Go have a look at The Book of Hopes and read through some of the poems and short stories together. Choose one you like best and teach someone else about it and why it stood out to you.

Maths: Remember there are instruction videos in the Teams Files. Please ask if you need reminders for any of the work. We would be happy to make a resource to help, or even meet online to discuss problems.

Addition Carrying 10s and 100s

Reading: There is a new Word Boost story in the Literacy file in Teams for you to listen to. Your reading task for today is the read the first half of your reading book. New books can be accessed at www.oxfordowl.co.uk Should you have any problems accessing your books, please let us know.

Level 6 – Don’t Press the Buttons

Level 7 (Blue Group) – The Empty Palace

Level 8 – The Sands of Akwa

Level 10 (Red Group) – Tom Thumb and the Football Team

Level 11 (Yellow Group) – Stinky Street

Today’s Number Talks:

2 x 16 4 x 250

8 x 5 4 x 6

8 x 10 8 x 200

8 x 6 8 x 50

8 x 16 8 x 6

8 x 256

Challenge Sum

816 x 45

Keep working hard Primary 3, we are so proud of you,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 Home Learning 19.05.20

Good morning Primary 1!

We hope you had a lovely long weekend and enjoyed getting some fresh air. The Primary 1 teachers have been very busy. Miss Cunningham went out for some walks and spotted a few ducks and Miss Daun went out for a cycle to the reservoir. Miss Christy went for a walk in the Pentlands with her dog and she spotted some of the zebras from Edinburgh Zoo on her walk up Corstorphine hill! Here are some pictures of what we were up to:

We are all missing you all very much and it has been lovely to see how well you are all getting on at home. We are all proud of how hard you are working and thank you again for all of your lovely feedback on the Learning Journals.

This week in literacy we are having a consolidation week. This means that we will be revisiting some of the sounds we have learned already to make sure they are fully understood. We will be looking at the ee, oo and ck sounds this week and you will find the blending activity attached below. For reading we decided to create a little non-fiction book for you about farming. The comprehension questions will be attached in the messages section of the Learning Journals. Here are the literacy resources:

Literacy19.05.20

blending (1)

lifeonthefarm2 (1)

This week in maths we will be focusing on learning half past on a digital clock. Miss Christy has also created a fun video for you to learn all about odd and even numbers. Please find the maths resources for this week below:

Maths home learning grid 19.5.20 (2)

Half past digital clock worksheet

We are also beginning a new topic of interdisciplinary learning. We are going to start looking at farming (the different types of farms, the job of a farmer, products we get from farm animals and crops, and how farms in Scotland are different from farms in other countries etc). Please find the interdisciplinary home learning grid below:

IDL Week 7 (2)

Thank you again for continuing to share all of your hard work with us! It brings a huge big smile to our faces when we get to see your work at home!

Primary 1 teachers

Primary 1 World of Dinosaurs

Hi again Primary 1.
We have just found out about a Facebook live event you might be interested in watching later today.
Paradise Wildlife Park will be holding a World of Dinosaurs LIVE event at 4pm today. Follow the link and have a look to see which dinosaurs you can spot.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1026807034386821/

Primary 3 15 5 20

Bonjour et happy vendredi Primary 3! The weather has been lovely to finish the week off and I hope that for your long weekend the weather continues to stay bright and beautiful and you can all get out in your gardens or take a safe and socially distant walk around some of your favourite walking spots!

Remember that Monday is a holiday so no work will be posted and we don’t expect you to do anything work related at all, enjoy the extra day and we will look forward to hearing all about your long weekend next week when we get back!

If the weather does turn bad, or if you find yourself with some extra time on your hands and you’re feeling creative, why not try this painting and drawing activity. First take a paper and a paintbrush and a paint colour of your choice. Then just let your brush wander over the paper and for even more randomness don’t look at the paper when you are putting paint on it. Then use the random patterns you’ve made to create a picture using coloured pens/ pencils/ crayons/ different paints? The great thing is this will be different every time! Here is a few examples courtesy of Art Angel:

Mental Maths today are as follows, remember to time yourselves to see if you can beat your time taken to complete! Answers will be posted in Teams Files later on in the day.

Your new challenge this week is based on the ‘transport’ aspect of technology you chose to learn about. We will be beginning with learning about the Steam Engine and James Watt’s part in improving this. Link to Pdf is below, and has been uploaded to Teams files. Please let us know if there are any problems accessing this.

Critical Skills Challenge Steam Engine

Have a lovely long weekend everyone.

Thank you for your continued hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 2 15.5.20

Happy Friday Primary 2!

We hope you are successfully making your way through the learning grids. Remember just do what you can! We hope the weather will improve and get warmer over the weekend which means you can get outside for your exercise and walks with your family. Did any of your pictures make the gallery on the blog yesterday?

Spelling Test

On a Friday we normally do a little test on the phonics words you have been learning for the week. Why don’t you get an adult or older sibling to test you on your words, can you get full marks? You could also ask them to give you a sentence with some of your spelling words in it to see if you can write the whole sentence down. Let us know how you get on!

Design and Technology

On the BBC Bitesize website, there is a super lesson about simple designs. Click on the link below to learn about making simple designs and there are two activities that you can choose from. If you do complete either of the activities, remember to take pictures and post them on the Learning Journals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr3tpg8

Reminders

Please complete the lunch survey

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

Have you managed to do an activity for the Article 14? If so post pictures in Learning Journals
Have you added to the Travel to Tokyo Challenge?

https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo

Today is Friday so remember to give yourself some down time/play time as we are sure you have all been working hard. Monday 18^th May is a school holiday so enjoy your long weekend and we will post new Learning Grids on the blog and in Learning Journals on Tuesday 19^th May.

Stay safe,

Miss Rafferty, Miss Pringle and Mrs Oliver

Primary 1 15.5.20

Good Morning Primary 1s!
I hope that you are all keeping well. I have some very exciting news. This morning I came into my kitchen to make my breakfast and there was a trail of glitter and a brown letter sitting in the middle of the floor. Can you guess who the letter is from? I’ll attach a picture of it to the blog and you can read it and find out what it says…

Have a lovely weekend and remember that Monday is a holiday so there will be no new work posted until Tuesday.
The Primary 1 teachers

Primary 1 – Home Learning 14.05.20

Good morning Primary 1,

Happy Jeudi! I hope you are all having lots of fun learning from home and that you manage to get outside today for a walk in the sunshine.

Travel to Tokyo. The Tokyo 2020 Games may not be happening this year but you can still get active, stay connected and win prizes with Travel to Tokyo, Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s official, free programme for children aged 5-11 and their families. This week your challenge is to post 4 different activities. If you would like to get involved, just follow the link: https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo

There are lots of other fun resources on Get Set if you feel like getting active, creative or designing something new. Here are some great examples of some of the design challenges you can take part in:

GET DESIGNING

Design a Mascot for ParalympicsGB – take part in the Mascot Challenge for the chance to have your design displayed at the Paralympic Games!
Wearable colours design challenge – design a wearable product to show support for Team GB and ParalympicsGB!
Olympic and Paralympic Values – trace the Values written in Chinese characters and create your own Beijing 2008 inspired art!
Winter kit – research and design a piece of kit for an athlete at the Olympic Winter Games.

If you would like some more information, follow the link to the Primary Home Learning page: https://www.getset.co.uk/resources/home-learning/primaryhomelearning

Thank you for all of the lovely feedback we received on the learning journals on our personalised videos! We really appreciate all of your support at this time,

We hope to see you all soon!

Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 14 5 20

It’s nearly the end of the week Primary 3 and it has been a great week so far with some amazing work being sent in and we had some really good chat in our check ins yesterday and it was lovely to see how well you’re all getting on, although it did sound like some boredom was maybe setting in! So here are some examples of your great work to keep you inspired and to show off how amazing you all are!

We hope you managed to get outside and start getting into the Olympic spirit with the Get Set Tokyo activity log! In keeping with the sporty Olympic spirit Mrs Ferguson has created a great activity for you to try out at home:

Sock ladder Jumping

Here are your Number Talks for today:

2 x 15 8 x 100

3 x 15 8 x 10

6 x 5 8 x 2

6 x 10 4 x 100

6 x 15 4 x 12

8 x 112

Challenge Sum

482 x 56

Maths for today is the Mayan number system. They use symbols to represent numbers too. They use a shell, a dot and a bar. Please choose your level of challenge below and see if you can use the key to work out which numbers are shown by the symbols.

Mayan Spicy Mayan hot Mayan Mild

Reading can be found in assignments in Teams or below:

Yellow – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Sentence Level Activity

The following paragraph is about the book. Fill in the missing words with words that you feel make sense.

Brer Rabbit was the most ________ rabbit. He was a _______. He tricked his enemies and ________ his friends. When he tricked his enemies, they all wanted revenge. They tried to ________ Brer Rabbit, but he was too _________. When Brer Wolf was ___________ the chickens, Brer Rabbit decided to play a trick on him. He got a lift into market on Brer Wolf’s ________. Brer Rabbit pretended that the _________ and ___________ had sunk into the ______ _______.

Red – Nelly The Monster Sitter

Sentence Level Activity

The following paragraph is about the book. Fill in the missing words with words that you feel make sense.

Nelly had no ______ there were monsters in her street. They never went out because the _________ get a baby ____________.

Nelly put an ___________ in the newspaper. She was phoned by lots of ___________ asking her to babysit. Nelly’s last family were ______________. Rowan was ____________________. Nelly asked the monsters to _______________ her. Rowan’s Mum and Dad were ___________________ when they got home.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Sentence Level Activity

Fill in the missing words with words you feel make sense in the passage.

Mrs Jones was Tiger’s ___________. He heard she has lost her ____________. Tiger turned his watch to make him ________. He was helping Miss Jones to ______ her earring. He found it in the ______ in the staff ______. He fell into a cup of ________ and was washed down the ________. He gave Miss Jones her ________. He was __________.

Group 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Sentence Level Activity

Fill in the missing words with words you feel make sense in the passage.

The friends set off to find the ______. They ended up inside a ______ crater. The deeper they went, the ______ it got. They eventually found a whirlpool. Breni calmed it by __________. The whirlpool stopped and they ________ the fragment. When they got to the top of the water, the ________ shouted at them. A ______ of Raptis carried the Krools ship away. They kept the fragment _____.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Sentence Level Activity

Fill in the missing words with words you feel make sense in the passage.

Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger flew off in ______ spaceship. They thought they were headed for ______. ________ was getting smaller and ___________. The controls didn’t work and they almost _______ into the Moon. Seven saved them just in time. Nok’s mum and Dad were on the __________. The children decided to go to planet __________ in the end.

Thank you for your continued support and hard work

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 2 – Home Learning 14.5.20

Good morning everyone!

We hope you are having a good week so far.

Today would normally be PE day with Mrs Ferguson and she has suggested the following activity for some active fun! If you are able to have a go-let us know how you get on 😊

Sock ladder Jumping

Remember the ‘Travel to Tokyo’ activity mentioned on Monday’s blog. All you have to do is log any activity you and your family do. Every little counts and remember there are prizes!

Today is also normally writing day in school. If you are planning to complete your writing today – maybe you could play some relaxing music whilst you do it. We sometimes find that in class it relaxes and focuses us.

We have loved looking at some of your activities on Learner’s Journals and here is a selection of some hard work from the past few days:

Keep up the great work Primary 2 and thank you to the adults at home for helping you learn!

Have a good day boys and girls and we look forward to hearing from you 👍.

Mrs Oliver and Miss Rafferty

Primary 3 13 5 20

Happy Wednesday Primary 3, we hope you have been having a great week so far, we have loved seeing all of your great work and the activities you have been up to. We have had pictures, paintings, videos, even a short clip of Carson doing a backflip! We are loving your creativity and it is so impressive to see how much you are doing with your time away from doing work, well done everyone!

Today we are having our check-in at 10am, we hope to speak to you all as it has become the highlight of our week getting to chat to you all and find out what you’ve been up to!

Today we have a challenge to set you all in light of not having the Olympics and Paralympics this year. The challenge is to keep active however you can and to keep a record of your activities on this website: https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo. You will need to find your school and then record what you’ve done and how long you did it for and there are possible prizes up for grabs!

Your maths today is all about looking at the area of a shape. The area is the space inside a shape. So imagine that all shapes are made up of little squares, to find the area you count all the squares. When writing your answers for the area of a shape you write it as cm² – the small 2 means ‘squared’. There will be shapes in future activities that don’t have squares drawn on and then you need to use multiplication, however we will worry about that when we get there! I will also put up an area instructional video in Teams to help you! Choose your own challenge level:

Mild

Spicy

Hot

And your Number Talks for today:

2 x 7 2 x 500

4 x 7 4 x 500

4 x 8 4 x 30

3 x 8 4 x 2

8 x 7 4 x 532

Challenge Sum

348 x 53

Writing Task linked to reading book. (Please also find in Assignments)

Yellow – Brer Rabbit’s Trick Bag

Written Task

Fill in the acrostic poem to go along with the story.

Red – Nelly the Monster Sitter

Written Task

Fill in the acrostic poem to go along with the story.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Written Task

Write a short acrostic poem about the book using the letters

Group 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Written Task

Use the following letters to create an acrostic poem about the story.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Written Task

Use the following letters to create an acrostic poem about the story.

Word Boost Definitions –

Tyrannosaurus Drip

Verbs: cling, refuse, roam, scold

Adjective: thrilled, weak.

Cats Ahoy

Verbs: clamp, steer, quiver, abandon

Adjectives: silent, solemn

Thank you for your continued support and hard work,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 Home Learning – 13.05.20

Good morning Primary 1!

We hope you are all having a lovely time at home and are continuing to enjoy all of this beautiful sunshine. We hope you have all managed to access the 3 weekly learning grids and are enjoying exploring some of the activities on there. Make sure you are still leaving lots of time for relaxing, playing and helping out at home too.

We would be grateful if you could all take the time to complete West Lothian Council’s School Meal survey 2019-2020 : https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b . The survey is very short and won’t take much time to complete!

The Rights Respecting School article of the week is focusing on Article 14 – Freedom of thought, belief and religion. Have a conversation about times your views have been listened to and your choices respected. Can you name all of the places you feel welcome? Now it’s time to choose from one of the RRS suggested activities for this week:

Thoughts and beliefs are usually really important to people. Write down some things you believe in strongly. Share these with your family or discuss them with your friends.
Food choices are really important to some people. Find out about the food rules of veganism or a specific religion. If you have the ingredients at home, why don’t you have a go at making a dish with your family? Watch this video from the BBC and its humorous exploration of food and religion
List as many religions as you can think of. Do you know what symbols are linked with these religions? Have a go at drawing them if you can.
Why do you think religious buildings are important? Think of and draw a building that is important to you or make a sculpture of one of these buildings using things you can find around the house (old cereal boxes, empty toilet roll etc.). This could be a religious building like a church or a temple, or even a school or a library. Write a sentence or two about why this building is important to you.

If you would like some further information about these activities then you can download this week’s pack by following this link: https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/resources/teaching-resources/guidance-assemblies-lessons/article-of-the-week/?utm_source=Unicef_UK&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=rrsa_newsletter_rrs

Previous sets (Article 24, Article 12 and Article 7 are still available if you would prefer to choose one of these activities instead!). We would love to see some examples of your work on the Learning Journals! Thank you for continuing to share your work with us!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Primary 1 teachers

Primary 2 13.5.20

Good morning Primary 2!

We hope you are successfully making your way through the learning grids. Remember just do what you can! We hope the weather will improve through the week which means you can get outside for your exercise and walks with your family.

Art- Wednesday

Ms Fox would normally take you for your weekly art lesson. We hope you have been still practising your art/drawing skills through our topic tasks however Ms Fox has put some lesson ideas for you to try. Click on the link below to see if you would like to try one of them!

Indoor and Outdoor Activity Sheet for Art

RRSA-Article 14

How have you been getting on with learning about Article 14- Every child has the right to think and believe what they choose and also to practise their religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights. Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to guide their child as they grow up.

Here are a couple of activities you could do this week to learn more about the right to think and believe what they choose:

List as many religions as you can think of. Do you know what symbols are linked with these religions? Have a go at drawing them if you can.
Why do you think religious buildings are important? Think of and draw a building that is important to you or make a sculpture of one of these buildings using things you can find around the house (old cereal boxes, empty toilet roll etc.). This could be a religious building like a church or a temple, or even a school or a library. Write a sentence or two about why this building is important to you.

Have a good day Primary 2 and if you have any questions about the work that has been set today or on the learning grids please get in touch on the blog or through Learning Journals. Continue to post what you can on the Learning Journals as we enjoy seeing you all busy at home.

Stay safe,

Miss Rafferty and Mrs Oliver

Primary 3 12 5 20

Good morning Primary 3, we hope you are well and we are excited to share some work and some of the VE celebrations pictures we have received yesterday. It is always so uplifting to see the work you’ve been doing and we would love to post every single thing you’ve sent to us, however unfortunately we cannot upload everything due to blog upload restrictions. Here is a selection of photos, including Thomas and his family’s VE celebrations which looked like so much fun and Poppy creating her potato space art, it’s out of this world!

We would also like to remind you that tomorrow at 10am we will be having our Teams check-in. We thought to change the time to the morning and see how it goes, if the afternoon suits people better we will return to the afternoon and if the morning is better we can keep it to then? We are looking forward to chatting with you all and seeing how you are getting on, we miss you all!

We would also ask your parents if it would be possible for them to follow this link and complete this short survey from West Lothian Council, this would be much appreciated!

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

Your Word Boost story for this week will be added to the Literacy folder in Teams.

Here are your Number Talks for today (the answer to yesterday’s challenge sum will be in Teams. If you have any of your own methods for solving the challenge sum that we haven’t covered please let us know and we will upload videos using your method)

4 x 5 6 x 600

4 x 10 10 x 600

4 x 50 16 x 600

4 x 49 16 x 599

Challenge Sum

385 x 46

Maths for today is written vertical addition. Please see the link below and the Teams Maths files for the sheet. These sums involve carrying. Keep your eyes peeled for the instructional video in Teams as a reminder of how to calculate this type of sum.

Addition and Carrying

Phonics stories have been uploaded into the Teams folder too.

Reading has been uploaded into Teams Assignments, however if you do not have access, please see the True / False activities below that correspond to your books on Oxford Owl.

Yellow – Brer Rabbit’s Trickbag

Comprehension: T/F – Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Brer Rabbit decided to follow Brer Wolf to see where he was getting food from.
Brer Wolf did not allow Brer Rabbit a lift to market.
Brer Rabbit cut the ears off of the horses.
Brer Wolf found the fire and got heated up.
Brer rabbit had a big party and they all ate the chickens.
Brer Wolf and Brer Fox brought Brer seagull to try to trick Brer Rabbit and they hid in the sunflower fields.

Red – Nelly the Monster Sitter

Comprehension: T/F – Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Nelly has hardly any work from the monsters. She wasn’t busy at all.
Nelly was called by humans to babysit, not monsters at Number 28.
Rowan growled like a bear, and threw a shoe at her.
Nelly phoned the monsters to help her babysit Rowan.
When Rowan’s Mum and Dad came home, Rowan threw his jigsaw at them.
Nelly blew them a monster kiss from the door.

Blue – Tiger’s Discovery

Comprehension: T/F Read the following statements and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False. If they are false, write what the truth should be.

Tiger saw something sparkly on top of a pile of papers.
Tiger climbed to the top of the papers and the sparkly thing was the earring.
He slipped into a mug of tea.
He managed to climb out of the mug.
He escaped from the staffroom by crawling under the door.
He told Miss Jones he was wet and late because he fell in a cup of tea.

Group 8 – The Secret Whirlpool

Comprehension: T/F Read the following sentences as and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False.

Breni could calm the whirlpool.
The fragment was not in the whirlpool, it was under the sand.
He put the fragment safely into his helmet.
The crater went dark when they got out of the water.
A voice shouted at them “Stay where you are”.
The Krool came to help them out of the cavern.

Group 6 – Blast Off

Comprehension: T/F Read the following sentences as and compare them to what you have read in your book. Mark them either True, or False.

They were going to crash into the Moon.
Nok put his hands over the control and two balls of pink energy formed.
The ship tilted, but it was not in enough time.
They skimmed the surface of the Moon.
Tiger’s family appeared on the screen.
Their next stop was Planet Exis.

Thank you for your continued hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 2 – 12.05.20

Good Morning Primary 2,

How is everyone today? We hope you are managing to work through your learning grid activities. There were some lovely uploads over the weekend and we enjoyed catching up on those yesterday.

There are some fabulous lessons available on BBC Bitesize if you are looking for more ideas. Click the link below to take you to the correct page:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zjpqqp3/year-1-and-p2-lessons/1

This week our Rights Respecting School article is Article 14 – Freedom of thought, belief and religion. This article guarantees every child’s right to think and believe what they choose and to practice their religion, as long as they are not stopping others from enjoying their rights.

Click below for the powerpoint that supports Article 14. Once you have explored the powerpoint complete the following task:

Imagine you have discovered a new planet to live on. What ideas do you have about how you would want all the people who live there to treat each other and their planet?

Please continue to send photos of you working on the articles – we collate all of these as evidence which will go towards our school accreditation.

West Lothian Council have also asked all our parents/carers to complete a short questionnaire about school lunches. We would really appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to complete the survey to support the council in improving our catering service:

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/890ff1b

As always, please upload a few photos to your Learning Journal letting us know what you have been doing. Comment below or email the school if you need your username/password reset.

Have a lovely day,

Miss Pringle and Miss Rafferty

Primary 1 12.5.20

Good morning Primary 1s

Today is Mardi. Can you say that? Have a look outside the window and see if you can describe the weather in French. Here are some helpful phrases:

Quel temps fait-il? (What is the weather like?)

Il fait beau (It is nice)

Il fait froid (it is cold)

Il fait gris (it is grey)

Il fait chaud (it is hot)

Il pleut (it’s raining)

Il neige (it’s snowing)

If you want a reminder of how to say some of these words and some alternative phrases, this video will help

There are a lot more phrases in this video than we would normally teach, but it is helpful to listen to French being spoken to understand pronunciation. Have a go repeating the French phrases and don’t worry if you can’t remember them all!

Today, if you have time, we would like you to have a look at this video

It is a super music lesson where you will learn to create different rhythms. The teachers had a go and found it really tricky! Hopefully you can do better than us!

We hope that you have a lovely day. Please remember that although school work is important, it is more important that you are keeping happy and safe.

Thank you for all your continued support.

The Primary 1 teachers

Primary 3 11 5 20

Happy Monday Primary 3! We hope you have had a fantastic weekend and you made the most of it. Did you celebrate VE day? If you did let us know how you celebrated, we’d love to get some photos up on the blog to show off! Thank you for all of your hard work it has been great to see all the work you have been sending us in, we couldn’t be prouder of all of you!

For today how about creating a space scene using paint, paper and potatoes. If you have any potatoes that you aren’t going to eat, cut the potatoes into a range of shapes (with adult help!) that are space themed and you can design a planet and some aliens that could live on your potato are planet. Here is a short video to show you how to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2JQvRvlBs

Here are today’s Number Talks:

4 x 11 10 x 15

4 x 9 12 x 25

4 x 21 14 x 54

13 x 42

Challenge Sum

547 x 65

Reading

Please read the second half of your books. For the list of books, please see Wednesday 6th May’s Blog post.

Problem Solving

Please visit Four Triangles problem to try this problem out. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the 4 triangles back together?

Spelling words for this week

Spelling Words Week Beginning Monday 11th May

Rights Respecting Schools

Article 14 – Freedom of Thought.

Every child has the right to think and believe what they choose and also to practise their religion, as long as they are not stopping other people from enjoying their rights. Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to guide their child as they grow up.

Watch Article 14

Additional Tasks

Poppy gave us a great competition idea should you choose to take part. Visit Design a Book Token to download the template, then draw your design idea and send it to

World Book Day Design a Book Token Competition,
Book Tokens Ltd,
6 Bell Yard,
London WC2A 2JR

If you’re unable to post your entry, you can email a scan or photo to competitions@booktokens.co.uk with ‘World Book Day Design a Book Token Competition’ in the subject line. Please remember to attach both your entry and contact details (on the second page of the template).

Thank you for all your continued hard work and dedication,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward