Primary 1

Good morning, today is Mardi!

Hope everyone is well and that you had a great day yesterday. We are still missing you all very much. Here are some suggested activities that you can do:

For reading today you could look at the common words: ‘old’, ‘do’ and ‘going’. Why might these words be a bit more tricky? Do they sound out? With an adult, you could play corners. Put a word in each corner of a room and when the adult shouts out a word you should run to the corner that has that word in it.

For maths, have a look at halves and discuss what equal means. We haven’t covered any fractions yet so this might take some time to understand. You can split objects into equal parts between two plates. For example, can you split 8 lego pieces equally between two plates?

For topic, you can design and build your own beanstalk, like the one from the fairytale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. Try be creative as you can! You could use lego or recycled materials.

Remember you can keep us updated with your learning through your online learning journals. We have seen that some of you posted on it yesterday, the work you are doing is fantastic!

Hope you all have a great day!

Thank you for your continued support.
Primary 1 teachers.

Primary 2 – 24.03.20

Good morning everyone,

Miss Pringle and Miss Rafferty here. We hope you had a productive first day working from home. Again, look at your packs and choose another literacy, numeracy and learning across the curriculum activity. We would love to hear from you so please comment on this post and let us know what you have been doing.

Make sure you are listening to your parents/carers and helping out around the house. Parents/carers feel free to comment and let us know how well they are all doing!

Remember your Education City log ins, daily Joe Wicks workouts at 9am on YouTube, Glasgow Science Centre (you can find them on Facebook) are bringing a little bit of science into your home at 10am each day. Twinkl have also made a lot of resources free for you to use.

Today we would have been visiting the Tall Ship in Glasgow. Why not visit their website and draw a picture of you at the Tall Ship? You could also write a question you would’ve asked – remember your question marks!

Stay safe and remember to wash your hands!

Love Miss Pringle and Miss Rafferty

Primary 3 Tuesday 24.3.20

Thank you so much to everyone who was working from home yesterday and was able to share some of the things they have been doing and learning about. Mr Woodward and I loved reading your comments. Hopefully today we will have less teething issues with our new way of learning, but it is quite exciting to see all of the new skills we are all learning in the process!

The word boost stories will be uploaded later today for you in the files section of teams. Turn on your speakers and enjoy a little story read by either myself of Mr Woodward.

Each day at 11am, Hobbycraft are doing a Kid’s Craft Club. Today’s craft club is colouring. They have colouring pages free to download, print and colour in. Take time out to do some mindful colouring and let us see the results if you choose to do this.

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ideas/kids/kids-craft-club

Education City had some problems yesterday too, with so many people trying to access it. Hopefully today will be better and perhaps you can try some of the multiplication and division games. Well done to Chloe who managed to send us a picture of her completed Maths sheet. It looks like you have been practising your times tables. 🙂

Your weekly spelling words were uploaded too along with the stories. Today, have someone read out the story to you and see how many words with your sound  you can hear, just as we do together in class.

Hopefully we will chat to a few of you later. Good luck today, have fun and stay safe!

Mr Woodward and Miss Smith

 

Please see the attached file for the Learning Grid sent home in the packs in digital version in the event you did not have time to pick up the physical pack.

Home Learning Grid

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are your Number Talks for today, remember to choose the set you are most comfortable with!

For your reading this week can you access this website:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

And from here the two classes have their own class log ins, there is a pink tab to class log in at the top of the page. Please copy the log ins exactly with spaces:

Mr Woodward’s class:

log in: Mr Woodward

password: Carmondean1           (the C must be a capital)

Miss Smith’s Class

log in: Miss Smith123

same password as Mr Woodward’s class

You will then need to go to your bookshelf and search for your own group’s book in the search bar. You may need to reload the page if it doesn’t work first time.

Mr Woodward’s reading groups should search for:

Group 5/6 – Special Days poems

Group 8: Minibeast Poems

Group 10/11: Castle Poems

Miss Smith’s Reading Groups should search for:

Group 7: Minibeast Poems

Group 10: Castle Poems

Group 11: Pirate Poems

Can you please check the comments section of this post for your books comprehension questions.

Primary 7. 24.03.20

Tuesday 24th March 2020

Hello Primary 7.

As you know, using the TEAMS system was quite challenging for us yesterday.

We understand that sometimes you will be unable to access files and you may get a message saying ‘something went wrong’. This is due to the fact that the TEAMS system is very busy with lots of people using it.

Please know that we are doing our best to ensure you can access your work successfully.

Remember that you can complete your tasks in any order you wish. If you have completed everything for the day then you can work on the following things:

  • My Life So Far
  • Learning spelling words/ get someone at home to do speed writing with or play hangman
  • Read your book from the class library or indeed one of your own
  • Have a go at Fitness Monopoly from your packs.

 

We do not expect you to be working online all day. Some tasks should be completed in your jotter. If you cannot complete assignments online you can do these in your jotter!  It is also important that you take time to relax, play, exercise and spend time with people at home too.

 

Rules for TEAMS chat:

Please remember that this chat is designed to ensure you can access your learning and ask questions about your learning.

The chat needs to be as streamlined as possible as it can be difficult to follow everyones individual comments. Please do not reply as a new thread – instead to reply to someone click ‘reply’ to the comment you wish to reply to.

Before writing a comment in the chat please ask yourself the following questions:

  • Is my comment appropriate?
  • Has someone else already asked the same question? (If they have you may find the answer in their reply)

 

PE –

If you can, it would be great to start each day with some exercise. Joe Wicks ‘Body coach’ is running an online class every day at 9am (don’t worry if you can’t tune in at 9am – it will be available after 9 too!) Here is the link-

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

 

Health –

In such a busy, connected world. It is more important than ever to take time for yourself. Mindfulness is when we are thinking about what we are doing right now. Ignoring the past or the future, we just think about the present.

Today we would like you to try meditation.

Turn on your device speakers and find a comfortable, quiet space to complete the following task.

Click on the link, close your eyes and listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_qU7l-fcU

 

Numeracy –

Please go to your numeracy TEAM and you will be able to find out what your tasks are there.

Mrs Oliver numeracy group – you will be able to find your assignments in our P7 TEAM ‘assignments’ section.

Mrs Macaulay Numeracy Group –

Warm up – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Click on times tables and select the 6 times table. In our numeracy group you will find a comment that asks for your score – please share it with me in the comments!

Lesson – Adding and subtracting negative numbers (screen shot in comment feed/teaching information in files section)

Task – complete the following questions (worksheet in assignments/screen shot in comment feed)

Mrs Wylie Numeracy –

Ninja  – Complete Week 7 session 2  – you can share your belt colour with me .

Denominators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQlieZH1kk

We are going to continue with long multiplication, click on the link above as a reminder of what we have been working on.  Have a pencil and piece of paper ready to try the calculation along the clip. Pause when necessary. Complete the questions assigned in the files section.

Calculators

Once you have completed your Ninja session please use the link below. It’s about mixed and top heavy ( improper) fractions , a reminder of what we have been working on in class .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggYdPef3Nuk

Complete the activity in the assigned to Calculators .

Looking for more maths to do? Why don’t you log on to Education City and play live against your classmates? Learn a times table you find tricky? Create your own maths game?

 

Writing –

This task can be completed in your blue jotters .

Primary 7 , we know that you will all be very sensible and will be listening to the advice to stay at home . However, we have thought of some fantastic places you can explore:

Narnia                              A Galaxy far far away

Hogwarts                          Mars

The Secret Garden               Under the Sea

Isle of Burk (How to Train Your Dragon )

Choose one of the locations above or indeed think of your own and write a description of it.

We know you all have fantastic imaginations, write about what you can see, what you can hear. Try to include the following to describe the setting:

Interesting Adjectives – to describe what you can see / hear.

Simile  –        comparing ( as or like ) as soft as a pillow , as black as coal , like snow on the top of  a mountain .

Alliteration  – The shiny stars sparkled ,         the slithering,  snake cast a spell

Repetition  – Deep , deep down at the bottom of the sea

Use these as your success criteria and ‘green’ any you have included.

 

 

WWII homework –

Your WWII homework is due today. In the files section you will be able to download the homework sheet you were given at the start of the year for reference. We are hoping that we will be able to share this altogether back in school and so we would like you to make sure you have completed this. Keep it safe in the meantime.

 

 

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Macaulay, Mrs Wylie & Mrs Muir

 

 

Primary 3

Hi all, hope it’s been a good and productive day for you all and you are keeping yourselves safe! We have now uploaded Monday’s Number Talks sums (Please choose the set you are most comfortable with) and your spelling words for this week as well as the phoneme stories to go along with the Yellow and Blue Groups.

Primary 3 23/3/20

Good morning all, we hope you are well and are keeping yourselves safe! We have been so glad to see some of you being able to access Teams so far this morning and hopefully throughout the day the site will be running better to allow access to our assignments and files. We are looking forward to hearing from you and seeing the work you have produced! Remember that if work cannot be shared on Teams you can send them through Glow, going to Office 365 and selecting Outlook which will allow you to email your work to us. To access Teams go through Glow, Office 365 and select Teams. We have uploaded work there as well as the work in your work packs that were handed out last week. You can also communicate with us through the Blog by replying to this post. Although we are happy to see people doing work, remember to give yourselves plenty of breaks as we are not expecting every single piece of work to be completed, work through them in your own time.

We wish to reiterate that we do not want to put any extra pressure on children or parents as we completely understand how difficult a time this is for everybody so do what you can, when you can.

Remember, above all else, stay inside when possible, wash hands, keep clean, and stay safe. Keep up to date with how to stay safe and what the guidelines are on the NHS website.

https://www.scot.nhs.uk/

Thanks for your continued support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 23.3.20

Good morning Primary 1s! We hope that you had a lovely weekend and managed to get out in the sunshine a little. Miss Christy, Miss Daun and Miss Cunningham are missing you all and hope that you are keeping safe and well.
Today we would like you to think about setting up a routine for your time at home. We have created a suggested timetable and will attach it to this blog. We hope it helps.

Home learning routine

Why don’t you try 1 or 2 activities from your ‘home learning’ pack today? We would love it if you could show us how you are getting on by posting in your online learning journals. If you are struggling to get on please email the school office (wlcarmondean-ps@westlothian.org.uk) and we will try to assist.
Look out for our daily blog post with more ideas of how to continue your child’s learning at home. We aim to post every morning before 10am.

Thank you for all your support
The Primary 1 teachers.

P2 – 23.03.20

Good Morning P2,

It is Miss Pringle and Miss Rafferty here. We hope you are all well today and everyone is fit and healthy.

You have your home learning packs and have your week 1 sheets for literacy/numeracy and learning across the curriculum. We suggest you choose 2 activities from the literacy/numeracy sheet and 1 from the learning across the curriculum sheet each day. You have your new jotters so why not start by decorating the front cover? If you can, upload photos to the comments so we can see your creative designs!

It is a dry day today so if you have a garden or outdoor space why not go outside for some fresh air? Joe Wicks is doing a PE lesson each day at 9am – search for ‘The Body Coach’ on YouTube. You all have your Education City log ins – there are lots of games, think-its and topic tools on there to keep you amused.

Make sure you are listening to your grown ups and keep washing your hands regularly.

Speak to you all soon,

Miss Pringle and Miss Rafferty

Primary 6/7 School Show – Against All Odds!

Today, just before school closes for the foreseeable future, our Primary 6 and 7 learners put on their school show for those children still at school. With so many absences, some children picked up parts this morning and ran with them. Others played more than one part and even teachers had to take parts to make the show a success – which it undoubtedly was! Well done Primary 6 and 7, you should be beaming with pride on your performance and your community attitude – we could all learn a lot form you!

https://youtu.be/4Q5qQXyV0KA

 

E Mail addresses

If you change your email address for whatever reason, can you please email wlcarmondean-ps@westlothian.org.uk or call the school office so that we can update this on the records system.  As you will appreciate this is extremely important given the current circumstances.  If you have not received email correspondence from us this week, it means we do not have an up to date contact for you.

Learning and Teaching During School Closure

Learning and Teaching will continue for children and staff at Carmondean PS during the current enforced school closure using the following platforms:

Primary 1-3 Children

Children will initially have been issued with a pack of materials to work through. Further packs wil be prepared and made available for collection from the school office on designated dates and times.

Additional learning activities can be accessed from the School BLOG. Communication with teaching staff is possible by leaving a comment on a particular post. Comments are moderated, so might not appear until they have been reviewed by the moderator (daily).

Primary 4-7 Children

Children will continue their learning online on GLOW through the Microsoft TEAMS App. All children who have been in school the week before closure know how to access their learning and chat with their teacher/s and classmates. For those who were absent, or need further guidance on usng TEAMS, you can view the information booklet by clicking the link below:

Pupil Guide To Accessing TEAMS

Any child who cannot remember their  GLOW Password and needs it reset should ask their parent/carer to email the school office, putting ‘Glow Password’ in the subject line. These messages will be reviewed and dealt with once daily.

Children have been issued with a home learning jotter ro record any work that is not expected to be submitted online. If your child was absent and did not receive one, the home learning jotter can be picked up from the school office. Deatils of dates and times to follow.

Government Announcement

We note today’s announcement by the First Minister regarding schools closing to pupils from Monday 23 March.

 We are awaiting further details from the Scottish Government, and will confirm details with pupils and parents/carers as soon as we can.

 Extensive preparations have already been made for this situation and we will work to maintain learning and to support students at this difficult time.

Primary 2 – 16.03.20

This week we have been learning about alliteration and have had lots of fun making up silly names using alliteration! See if you can make up some new names at home using your parents names.

In maths we have progressed onto working out change within £1. We have been using hundred squares and number lines to help us with this. It would be useful to use real money at home to further help with coin recognition. You could make your own shop and buy/sell items to develop your learning!

Our sound this week was ‘ll’ and we have picked this up really well. Continue to practise your ‘ll’ words at home – can you think of creative ways to practise these?

Under the current climate we have put an even bigger emphasis on handwashing and the children have been fabulous at doing this on their own accord. We now have a sign for handwashing so children can leave the class with minimal disruption to wash their hands. Well done everyone.

On Tuesday we learnt the story of Judas’ betrayal and voiced our opinions on what we feel he should have done. There were some excellent ideas shared in our classes.

Primary 5

An exciting time has been had by P5 this week.

The children really enjoyed their trip to Bannockburn despite almost being blown away when we visited the monument! When we went in to the exhibition the children got to touch weapons, armour and shields that were used during the battle. We then got to witness the battle in 3D which caught many children by surprise and the screams were not just on the screen! We then went in to the battle room and the children were divided in to English and Scottish armies. In both classes the Sottish won. Hurrah! The children had great fun trying on the different clothes that were worn by the various soldiers. They also got to touch some fearsome weapons but they all came back with 10 fingers and toes! All children impressed the staff at Bannockburn with their knowledge and interest in this part of history. They were a credit to Carmondean Primary.

In reading the children are almost finished their Scottish Wars of Independence fact file. We are very impressed by the detail the children have included and we think they are impressed at the amount of writing they have done!

In writing the children wrote senses poems connected to a battle. These were very detailed and the children were able to capture the atmosphere in a battle very well. The children will re-draft their poem next week as we want to put them on display to showcase their talent in writing.

A big thank you to Mrs Smith and P6 who guided P5 through a session of HiiT training to celebrate Sports Relief. The children worked very hard and were exhausted by the end!

P5 visited the nursery this week to read with the boys and girls. The children read a variety of stories to the nursery pupils and enjoyed the experience greatly. They are looking forward to having this as a regular responsibility in p6.

Reminders

P5G and P5M PE- Monday and Thursday. Please bring outdoor and indoor PE kit for both days.

Spelling homework- due every Friday.

Numeracy homework- if given due every Thursday. Please practise all times tables over and above any other homework. Children can use Education City to play games.

 

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Gilmour, Miss Morris, Mr Shanks and Mrs Muir

 

Primary 7 13.03.20

Friday 13th March 2020

 

This week in spelling the Morpurgos were working on the ‘oa’ sound. The Rowlings and Walliams are focusing on words with a ‘long e’ sound spelled with y. Next week is a whole review on all the words over the last 4 weeks – so p7 get cracking!

In topic we are still working on World War II.This week we are learning about the Blitz. The name comes from a German word meaning lighting war. We came into class this morning to find our houses have been destroyed by a terrifying night of bombing! We know the Blitz lasted for many months and a lot more destruction is to come! We have learnt so much more and hoping to learn more.

In class we created a silhouette of a soldier and placed it on a rounded black piece of paper and covered in in coloured tissue paper all over the back to create really effective stain glass windows.

In maths we have be looking at areas of triangles. What you do is find the area of a rectangle and then half it.

In numeracy we have been looking at negative numbers and where we can find them. We have learnt that you can find negative numbers on a thermometer and when working with money.

Every week the show gets better and better more props have been added, more lines known and more actions for songs have been coming left, right and centre!

Blog written by Ruiri Taylor and Mrs Macaulay

Reminders:

Spelling – Due Friday

Show – continue to learn script and song words

Education city – available for literacy and numeracy tasks.

My Life So Far – continue to add more information and illustrations.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Macaulay, Mrs Wylie & Mrs Muir

Primary 4 12.3.20

Hello everyone

We have had a very busy and fun week in Primary 4. It is great to be all back together in our classes again.

This week we have been celebrating Sport Relief. Primary 6 have been coming around the school selling wristbands and we also had an excellent PE session yesterday organised by Primary 6! It really tested our endurance and stamina but it was lots of fun! Tomorrow the children can come to school dressed in their sporty clothes (please no football shirts) for a 50p donation. We will also go outside and take part in the weekly mile as part of our celebrations.

In RME this week we have been learning about the Christian celebration of Baptism. We learned why baptism is important to Christians, the important people who take part in a baptism service and what happens during the service. We created our own dramas based on baptism and performed them to the rest of the class – they were great! In writing, we wrote an explanation piece telling others everything we have learned about baptism – well done P4!

Rehearsals for our class assembly have continued this week. Thank you for all your support in helping the children to learn their lines. Our assembly will take place in the large hall at 9:10am next Tuesday 17th March. If you can attend please return the form in your child’s school bag to let us know. We look forward to seeing you then 🙂

Reminders –
Homework was given out on Wednesday and is due in on Monday 23rd March. All starred activities should be completed. This will be the last piece of homework handed out before the Easter holidays.

Our PE days are changing – Indoor PE will take place on a Monday and Outdoor PE will be on a Tuesday for P4M and a Thursday for P4C. Please ensure your child comes to school with appropriate PE kit and their own water bottle. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend. Thank you for your support.

Miss Clark & Mrs Muir

Primary 1 11.3.20

We have had a very exciting week in Primary 1 already and have more to look forward to. The museum trip was a huge success, we all had a great time and learned lots. The children behaved very well and showed great interest and insight into dinosaurs. We attended a workshop with the museum staff, explored the T-Rex exhibition and explored the gallery. I am sure your child told you all about it! Maybe they could share their favourite part with you and something that they learned.

We are very excited about our open afternoon on Thursday (tomorrow) for parents and carers to come and see what we have been learning about dinosaurs. The children have lots of work and pictures they would love to show you! This open afternoon is from 2:45-3:15pm.

In phonics we have been learning the sound ‘ng’. The children were great at coming up with ‘ng’ words, for example, stronger. They are doing very well with their new sounds. In maths we have been practising our numbers up to 30. We looked at a hundred square to see if we could identify what numbers come before, what numbers come after and any patterns. Next week we are going to start with counting in 2s.

Just a quick reminder that our PE is on Thursdays and outdoor learning is on Wednesdays.

Thank you for your continued support.

Primary 1 teachers.

Primary 2 9/3/20

A huge congratulations to Primary 2 O/P! They performed a fantastic assembly to their parents and Primary 1-3. There was super singing, dancing and acting. They shared lots of learning and the parents thought it was wonderful!

This week is Sport Relief! Primary 6 have organised a sporting event on Wednesday (Children need their p.e kits) and Primary 2 will be doing their own dancing challenge on Friday (dress down day). Primary 6 are still selling bands at £1 and the children are encouraged to bring in a donation on Friday. We are looking forward to seeing everyone in their sports clothes and ready to dance!

Our specialist timetable is changing next week. Primary 2 will have their P.E with Mrs Ferguson on a Thursday and Art with Ms Fox on Wednesday. We will move our outdoor P.E session to a Tuesday.  So children require P.E kits on Tuesday and Thursday.

New homework was issued today. Can we remind the children to complete the activities on the sheet and anything that the children do can be noted in their “share it” jotter. Please ensure that the children are doing their reading on a regular basis and completing activities on Ed City.

We are excited about our up coming trip to The Tall Ship in Glasgow! We are going on Tuesday 24th March. We have lots of pirate themed activities to do and we will get to explore a real ship!

We are moving away from Multiplying and division in maths this week and starting to learn about addition with  money. The children will be adding coins together to reach totals. We have even set up a shop in our play area to allow the children to practise!

Reminders: Indoor shoes, water bottle, homework folders, p.e kits and a snack for break.

Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Miss Rafferty, Miss Pringle and Mrs Oliver

Primary 3

It has been a hectic week this week in Primary 3 with our trip to Stirling Castle sandwiched in between assembly rehearsals and organising World Book Day. The trip was a resounding success with compliments from several people about how well the pupils behaved and how insightful and interested they were in the topics. The staff at the Castle were so good and accommodating and gave us some great activities, including dressing up as ladies, lords and a very intimidating Sir Cole as a knight. We got a chance to see the Great Hall, the Kitchens and the Palace which were absolutely stunning and the pupils were blown away by the size and grandeur and they had fun looking for secret doors and passages (which we may have found but they swore not to tell anyone!). A huge thank also to our parent helpers without whom the trip couldn’t have gone ahead and the children loved having you on board, thank you!

In other news World Book Day was a resounding success with the pupils bringing in their own books to read throughout the day. They had 4 sessions of stop and read which they thoroughly enjoyed. We also had 5 Wallys hiding around the school which created quite a buzz and we have had most of the school hunting for them, very successfully.

We have also started work on our assembly and almost all the parts and lines have been handed out now. We would ask that pupils ensure they learn the lines they’ve been given as soon as possible as this will help immensely with the preparations for assembly and will ensure we have the best assembly possible.

Reminders:

Indoor PE: Mr Woodward – Monday                                       Miss Smith – Wednesday

Outdoor PE: Mr Woodward – Thursday                                 Miss Smith – Thursday

Sport Relief bands will be being sold in the school as part of fundraising for Sport Relief and can be purchased for £1.

Thanks for your continued support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

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