Primary 4 enjoying an exciting game and learning new skills during their futsal sessions!
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Alli’s certificate
Alli won ‘Pupil of the week’ at her dancing last week. Well done Alli!
P1 update!
What a busy few weeks back we have had after Christmas! We have been doing lots of learning about winter and have done lots of factual writing about what we see in winter as well as an imaginative piece of writing about a snowman that melted. We used drama to ‘build’ our own snowmen and read the story Sneezy the Snowman to help us think of ideas about how our snowmen would melt. We wrote our stories then used puffy paint (glue mixed with shaving foam!) to create our melted snowmen! We enjoyed combining drama, literacy and art for our stories.
We have also been helping keep the playground tidy by litter picking!
Photos to follow!
Greenrigg Community Council Logo
The Greenrigg Community Council set the school a challenge to design a logo for them to use on any correspondence from them. Every class created logos which were then judged by the team. There was a winner from each class and an overall winner. Jason Brown from P7/6 had the winning logo which will now feature on correspondence.
Here is his winning design.
primary 7 news
What a few weeks we have had. Here are some of the highlights. We have been looking at the painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. We gave been describing the painting and have written a recount as a character in the painting, the children have produces excellent stories.
We looked at the amazing Northern Lights and have created a magical silhouette picture and a descriptive poem to complement our pictures.
In maths we have been learning about angles: how to identify, measure ans draw. We are now moving on to shape.
We loved going out in the snow and used the STEM bins in our class to challenge ourselves to create something from the snow we brought indoors.
In PE we have been doing fitness stations with Mrs Crow to dust away those January blues.
The pupils worked very well together to create a logo each for Greenrigg Community Council’s competition. We have some excellent ideas and have designed them very effectively.
Will Ogg visited our class this week to carryout a workshop with us on Growth Mindset. The pupils engaged well in this session and showed Will that they are learning to think positively about challenges they may face in their learning and in day to day activities. I think we mostly loved making an origami penguin each, which once we took our time we learned we could do it. A collection of penguins is called a raft in the sea or a waddle when on land.
Finally, on Thursday we had a very spectacular day. Firstly we had a poetry workshop with Julie Anna Douglas. We have read some of her published poems in class and were inspired by her poetry she read to us today in class. She then worked with us to create a poem for our community about the windfarms. The pupils were illustrators first and then created the words from their images. We are waiting excitedly to find out what the finished work will look like. then to finish Thurday of with a challenge, Miss Tuke taught us all (including myself) how to use Izak 9 cubes. We are going to work in teams more next week to complete more challenges and build on our team work, mental calculation and problem solving skills.
STEM Challenge Bins
Each class have a selection of 4 STEM bins. There are 8 different bins altogether. These bins are tubs that contain 1-2 materials such as lolly sticks or cubes. They also have some starter challenge cards like ‘can you build a maze’ and ‘can you create a bridge to cross a 10cm gap’. The children can then work on their own, in pairs or in small groups to use the materials to build, lay out and create something to solve their challenge. The feedback from the children is that they love these and enjoy making their own challenges. It is great to see how different children will tackle a problem in such different ways and really show off their ideas and creativity. Next time you have a few empty boxes or tubes at home, set your child a challenge to use them to make something to solve a problem. 
P2 homework challenge
The class have been set a challenge to select an object to bring in from home to put in the box. The children then have to ask questions and try to work out what the object is. This activity extends the children’s vocabulary skills and is also good fun.
Greenrigg Reporter’s Club
Happy New to everyone from the GRC. Please check out the news wall next to the dinning hall for all the updated news.
P5/4 benchball festival
Primary 5/4 had a great time at the West Lothian Benchball festival. We worked well in a team, passed to each other and encouraged everyone to do their best. Thank you to Ben Boatman and the Sports Leaders.
P7/6 table tennis tasters
The upper school has a chance to experience table tennis skills. We worked well in pairs and practiced serving and trying to bounce once on your side of the table. We had fun mostly chasing the ball everywhere.
