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What a week in Primary 1…

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Literacy

This week in literacy we learned about the capital letter ‘W’, recapped some sounds we learned earlier and wrote about what we did on the weekend. The friendly Dragon received some nice letters from us, explaining what the fairy-tale “The three little pigs” is about – we are sure he loved them. Throughout the whole week, we have been covering our topic of fairy tales! Our teachers were very impressed with our book reports about our favourite fairy tale.

Numeracy

We have spent the week practising counting up and down from any number from 100, counting in 2’s,3’s, 5’s and 10’s and recognising numbers above 100. As well as that, we revised telling the time using an analogue and a digital clock and a little bit about sharing things equally.

Health and Wellbeing

This week is Health and Wellbeing week, and on Thursday it was outdoor classroom day. We spent the whole day learning outside – it was great fun! Also, on Tuesday, we had a Judo session in school! As well as that, we did some mindfulness and drawing.

Topic

As we mentioned above, our topic is Fairyland. Together, we discussed our ideas on how we think the castle in fairyland would look like and drew a picture along with it. We listened to the story “The three little pigs” and talked about how each character could have felt.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P1 Teachers

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Our week in P3 and P3/2

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Another busy week in P3 and P3/2. Read all about it below.

In numeracy, we have been learning about length.  We have been measuring different objects and lines.  We know that you measure in millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres.  We know that millimetres is the smallest unit of measurement. We measured lots of art straws and tried to create a picture with them.

In literacy, we have been continuing to learn about writing narrative pieces of writing.  This week we wrote about a Pharaoh in a desert. We have also continued to learn about speech marks and when to use them.  We have also been spotting the silly word this week in a passage.

This is health week for us and we have been trying to do the daily mile. We also had a taster session of Judo which was great fun. This week we also thought about things that we are grateful for. Then we worked together to create a poster about what is most important to us in St Nicholas.

In Fun Start Fitness, we were learning about the importance of Water.  We know we need to drink 2 litres a day and that it is the most important resource on earth. We enjoyed playing team games and encouraging each other.

In RERC, we have been learning about the importance of Mary and other names that she is called.

In our Egyptian topic, we started to find out about some of the Egyptian Gods.  We also presented our group posters about the Egyptians to our class.

We are looking forward to our Monday holiday. Thank you for reading our post.

 

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Our week in P3 and P3/2

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What a busy week we have had in P3 and P3/2.  Read all about our learning below.

In literacy, we were learning about speech marks and speech bubbles.  We know only the words that a person would say out loud goes inside the speech mark.  This week we started to learn about Narrative writing.  We know that it needs a title, orientation, complication and resolution.

In numeracy, we have been learning about more about fractions.  This week we were focusing on tenths.  Lots of people think a tenth would be a bigger number but it is actually a smaller amount of an object or a number as it has to be split into ten equal parts.

In art, we created an Egyptian pyramid drawing.  We painted the background to create the sunset then we drew the pyramid following instructions.  We then stuck the pyramids onto the background.  We think they look great.

In health and wellbeing we were thinking about things that we do for ourselves.  For example, reading, drawing, going outside and playing music.

In RERC we were thinking about Mary and why she is important.

In PE this week we were doing high jumps. We had to jump very high.  P3 started Fun start fitness this week with James Pegg.  We were learning all about encouragement and the importance of team work and communication.  The games we played were fun.

In our Egyptian topic we were doing some research this week using books, Ipads and laptops.

Thank you for reading our post!

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First week back in P3 and P3/2

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We are all glad to be back at school after a lovely break. Read all about our busy week below.

In literacy, we have been making predictions. We know we might not always get it correct but we should use what we see and hear to help us with our predictions. We have been learning about the difference between fact and opinion.  We know facts are true and have evidence to back them up.  An opinion is something we feel or think.

In numeracy, we have been learning about fractions.  This week we learned about halves.  We know how to find half of a shape or number. We have also been doing some esti mystery challenges were we need to estimate what we think we can see then we get clues to help us with our answers.

In health and wellbeing, we have been talking about trusted adults.  We updated our trusted adults so that we know who we can speak to in school if we have any worries.  We also talked about who is in our ‘backup team’.  We know we can have people from our family, friends and clubs we go to.  We also made a worry box and calm corner in our classroom for us to use.

Our new topic is the Egyptians.  We talked about what we know and what we would like to learn. We can’t wait to learn all about the Egyptians.

In art, we used cotton buds to create a cherry blossom tree.  They look beautiful as we used different shades of pink.

In PE, we have been playing dodge ball and eliminator and started some races as we are doing athletics this term. In Music, we were singing a song about categories. We were learning about rhythms and using our body to make sounds.

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Our week in P3 and P3/2

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We have been learning about chance. We know when things are certain, impossible, likely or unlikely. We were thinking if things had a high chance or low chance of happening. We had to separate questions into categories if they were likely, unlikely, certain or impossible.

We were also looking at Venn and Carroll Diagrams to help us  show information more clearly. We completed lots of different activities.

We made predictions for the last chapter of The Owl Who Is Afraid of the Dark which was called Dark is Beautiful. Some of us even guessed the correct title.  We were focusing on punctuation and making sure our sentences made sense during Free Writing Friday.

We made Caution posters, after learning about our triggers which make us move away from the Green zone. Knowing our triggers help us to avoid going into the Red zone.

We were learning about expositions. An exposition is a one sided argument and you try to persuade someone to have the same point of view as you. We learnt how to structure an exposition.

We drew a pocket garden which hopefully we will get to create during outdoor learning in the next few weeks.

We learnt about Joseph and his brothers from the book of Genesis. This story was all about forgiveness and reconciling relationships. Joseph’s bothers were jealous of him and were unkind to him but Joseph forgave them.

In PE we were doing gymnastics and in Music we were singing songs and playing games.

We started our new topic which is our local community Broxburn – we spoke about what we know and what we would like to find out about during the next few weeks.

 

 

 

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Our week in P3 and P3/2

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We have working hard in P3 and P3/2 this week.

We have been continuing to learn about time.  We have been learning about quarter to and quarter past on a digital and analogue clock.  We also learned about 5 minute intervals on the clock.

We have been learning about verbs.  We know they are action and doing words, for example running, jumping and swimming.  We played some games.  We enjoyed playing verb charades.

This week we have been learning about friends.  We thought about what makes a good friend and then wrote acrostic poem.  We know acrostic poem do not need to rhyme.

In RERC, we learned about the parables stories of the lost coin, sheep and son.  We discussed how we would feel if we lost something and how we would feel when we found it.  We also thought about the message from the parable stories that God loves us all.

In outdoor learning we made photo frames using twigs.  We worked well with a partner.

In health and wellbeing we have been learning about the yellow zone of regulation.  We know we can be feeling silly, nervous, excited or frustrated. We talked about what our face and body would be doing and how people around us would be feeling.

We also learned about the phases of the moon.  We know the moon takes 28 days to change. We know the names of some of the phases of the moon.  For example, new moon, crescent, wanning gibbous and last quarter.

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Another busy week in P3 and P3/2

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We have been working hard in P3 and P3/2 this week. Read all about our learning.

Maths and Numeracy

We have been learning about time and looking at digital and analogue clocks and saying the right time we were looking at half past and o’clock.  We have played time games on the ipads and matching games. We played a board game all about time too which helped us see the time on an analogue and digital clock

We read the story Pezzettino and created creatures using blocks and squares. We had to use fractions when colouring the creatures.

Science

We have continued with Sun moon and stars . We know the moon spins around us and we spin around the sun. The moon takes one month to go around the earth, the earth takes one day to spin round. The earth and moon take one year to spin round the sun.

Literacy:

We worked on our class novel The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark; we made predictions about what we thought might happen in Chapter Two. We also created questions to ask our partner about what chapter 2 was all about. We have continued to learn about cursive script in handwriting.   We also picked new Accelerated reader books.

PE

In P.E we were skipping with ropes.  It was tricky but fun.

RERC:

This week we were learning about belonging. We belong in the school community, the church community, in our families.

Outdoor learning

We made bird feeders and hung them outside with bird food in them so that we can see the local wildlife.

Health and Wellbeing:

We checked our trusted adults in health and wellbeing. We were also learning about resilience and about trying again after making a mistake. We were also talking about our zones of regulation and how we can feel different feelings throughout the day.

Art

We added trees to our warm and cool colour landscapes using black oil pastels. They look fantastic.

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Happy New Year from P3 and P3/2

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This week P3 and P3/2 have been very busy.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about time.  We have been learning about how long many minutes/hours/days/years are in a given time.  For example we know that 1 minute is 60 seconds and there are 52 weeks in one year.

In Art, we have been learning about hot and cold colours. We know red, yellow and orange are warm colours and blue, purple and green are cold colours.  We created a background of a sky using either hot or cold colours.  Next week we will add to the background

In Literacy, we have been learning about a and an.  We know we use an when words start with a vowel – a, e, i, o and u.  We have been continuing to learn about cursive script. We have been joining letters together.  F is tricky. We started to read the owl who was afraid of the dark.  We will use this book for literacy lesson and it links to our new topic about sun, moon and stars.

We have started our new topic which is sun, moon and stars.  We thought about what we know and what we would like to learn. We can’t wait to get started next week.

We have completed some assessments this week so that we can see what we remember and what our nest steps in learning will be.

In PE we were learning about fitness.  We completed lots of circuits.

In Music, we were learning about Scottish music.  We will be singing the songs soon.  We also looked at percussion instruments.

Thank you for reading our blog.  We have enjoyed being back at school.

 

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Quick week in P3 and P3/2

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Primary 3 and Primary 3/2 have been working hard again this week.  We have been using our snapshot of learning jotters this week so that we can share our learning at home.  We can’t wait to bring our jotters home to show off our hard work.  Read all about our learning below.

In Literacy, we have using our mighty writer board to  write a story about an alien.  We have been trying to use adjectives and good openers. We have also been working on our comprehension skills after reading our class reading book.  We are working very hard on our cursive script.  We have tried to use lines in our  snapshot jotters this week so we can show our family our hard work.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about tessellation.  We know that tessellation is tiling with shapes and that there should be no gaps in the tiling. We created a tessellation using numicon, cuisenaire rods, on the laptop and on paper.

In Science, we have been learning about sound. We had to listen carefully to some sounds and guess what was making the sound.  We got some of them correct but some were tricky.

In Art, we have been learning about using line to create a pattern.  We created an image of a face with crazy hair to show all the different types of lines we could create.

In RERC we have been learning about St Andrew as it was the feast day of Saint Andrew this week.  Ask us about some facts we know about St Andrew.

In our pupil participation groups we have created a image or mascot for our group.  We had to work together to create the image.

This week we have also started to learn some new songs for a carol concert.  We are very excited as we will get to share these songs with our school community and parents.

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Catholic Education and Scottish Book week in P3 and P3/2

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We have had another busy week in P3 and P3/2. Read all about our learning below.

In Literacy, we have been making predictions.  We watched a video of a girl walking along a beach and finding bubbles then we predicted what we thought would happen next.   We thought about where she might go and who she might meet. We also read  a mystery book and we had to guess what the title and front cover would look like.

In Numeracy, we have been using our knowledge of fact families to find addition and subtraction facts.  If we know one fact we can work out the other 3 facts.  We have played different games to practise our skills.

This week is Catholic Education week and we have been learning about St Margaret whose feast day was on Tuesday.  We have also been learning about making good choices.  We made beautiful prayer cards to thank God.

In our Pupil Parliament groups we have been discussing what makes a good team, how to improve teaching and learning, how to improve the school and community and how we celebrate success and achievements. We worked hard on this task and added it to a padlet.

We have also been designing a bedroom for a book character and thinking about what they would need.  Then we designed their bed covers and wallpaper.

On Monday we took home our Read, Write Count packs and we enjoyed looking through them.

What a quick week!

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P3 and P3/2 are working hard

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This week in P3 and P3/2 we have been working very hard on lots of different things.  Read all about our learning below:

In Literacy, we have been continuing to learn cursive script.  We even tried to join letters together this week. We have also been continuing to learn our spelling patterns.  In PM writing we have been learning about information reports.  We know that they need a title, general statement, description and evaluation.  We tried to write about fireworks after we completed some research on the laptops.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about doubles.  We know they are a quick way to add two numbers together. WE have also looked at near doubles as we know that 6+7 is the same as double 6+1.

In HWB, we have been looking at ways to make the planet happy again.  We know we should try to look after plants and animals and save water and energy. We created posters about all the different ways we can help the planet.

In RERC, we look at St Francis of Assisi and how he cared to the animals and nature.  We know that we should care for them too.  We also looked at the story of creation this.  We know God created a beautiful world for us and we should look after it.

In Art, we created firework pictures using black card and oil pastels.

We watched the Lorax theatre show on Monday. It was very good and was all about the environment and trees.  We know that COP 26 is happening in Glasgow and we climate change is important for our future.

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Short but busy week in P3 and P3/2

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This week in P3/2 and P3 we have been very busy.  Read all about our learning below.

In Literacy, this week we have been learning about writing a character description.  We know we need to use adjectives to describe what the person looks like and how they act. We made our own characters and then wrote our descriptions.  We also completed our free writing Friday task and lots of us tried to use describing words.  In P3 we also got introduced to Accelerated reader this week and we had a look at some of the books in this programme.  We continued with our cursive script handwriting this week and learned another few letters.  We also tried a spot the silly word passage this week were we had to pick out the words that did  not make sense and change them to a sensible word.

In Mathematics, we have been learning about symmetry.  We know that the picture or shape has to be identical on both sides of the line of symmetry.  We tried to create our own symmetrical pictures and played different games about symmetry.

In topic work this week we created a picture of 4 of the climate zones to show the different environments in these areas of the world. We learned about temperate climate zones and completed a quiz.

In RERC we learned about Joseph and his coloured dream coat.  We know that Joseph’s brothers were not very nice to him and that he was given a coat of many colours by his father. We listened to a story and had to colour in the stripes on his coat with the colours we heard in the story.

In PE, we were working with partners and using tennis balls and hoops. We played different games.

In Music, we were a song about pumpkin and making actions to the song.

Today we are enjoying our dress down day and are looking forward to P6’s assembly.

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A quick week in P3 and P3/2

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P3 and P3/2 have had a busy but very quick week.  Keep reading to find out what we have been up to.

In Literacy, we have been learning about alphabetical order.  We know the order of the alphabet. In writing, we wrote our learner statement. We thought about what we have learned this term so far in school and about our personal achievements.  We have added our learner statements to our profile.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about money.  We have been counting coins to find a total and also thinking how to use the least amount of coins. We have tried lots of different activities this week.  We will be continuing with money next week.  P3 made an art shop in class.

This week had our class Mass.  We learned about the archangels – we know three of them are St Michael, St Raphael and St Gabriel.  We had a lovely Mass with Father Jeremy. Thank you Father Jeremy.

This week we were learning about the tropical climate zone in our topic work.   We completed an experiment to see what happens when the rain falls and how the clouds get heavier.

In RERC, we listened to the story of the Good Smartian.  WE know that he stopped and helped the injured man when others ignored him.  We are going to try to be like the Good Smartian and be a good friend to others.

We also tried to rewrite the school aims in our own words. P3/2 made a video and P3 made a poster with the school aims.

This week we also had our learner conversations with our teachers about what we are good at and what we need to work on.  We also picked out our latest and best piece of literacy and numeracy work for our profiles.  

What a fun but busy week!

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P3 and P3/2 hard at work

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This week we have been learning lots of new things.

In Literacy, this week we were learning about a recount. We know that a recount needs to have a title, orientation, sequence of events and a personal comment.  We looked at a piece of writing about helping mum then we wrote our own recount of our morning before school.  We also completed a Fantastic Mr Fox Blankety Blank activity.  We had to think of words that would make sense in the story.  We have continued to learn how to write more letters in the cursive script. We had more time today to write on our own during Free Writing Friday.  Some people wrote a story and others wrote about their weekend.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about ordering numbers. We know that we are looking for the smallest number of ones, tens or hundreds to find the smallest number.  We have been continuing to count in 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards.

In Science, we were learning about polar animals.  Some examples of polar animals are polar bears, arctic foxes, seals and penguins.  We completed an experiment about melting ice. We found that when the ice melts the volume of water increased.

We have completed our display in the area about Noah’s Ark.  We have retold the story on a video to add to our display.

We looked at the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. We know that he used fruit, vegetables and flowers in his art work  We tried to create an image of our face using fruit and vegetables.

We have completed some daily miles this week.  We have given a high five on the daily mile and also found some wildlife.  P3 found a butterfly and a squirrel.

We also took part in the Hula Hut tournament yesterday. P3’s team name is unstoppable P3 and P3/2’s team name is Rock and Roll P3/2.  We worked very well together to create our name, flag and knock over lots of hula huts.

We also looked at the zones of regulation and how we feel at each zone.  We are going to start a daily check in to show how we feel.

 

 

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A busy week in P3 and P3/2

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This week we have been very busy learning lots of different things.  Keep reading to find out more about our learning.  

In Literacy, we have been writing predictions about a story of a girl who lives in a clock tower.  We had to predict who was in the tower, why they were in the tower and what would happen.  This week we have been continuing to learn to our cursive script and have been writing letters e and f.  F was very tricky.  We have been reading lots of different books this week and thinking about our favourite characters and parts of the story.

In Numeracy, we have been continuing to learn to about place value.  We have been learning how to make the biggest and smallest number.  We have tried lots of different activities.

In RERC, we have been learning about Noah’s Arc.  We know that God made promises to Noah.  We have started to create a display for the area about the promises we wish to make to God.

In our topic, we learned about the names of all the different climate zones.  We looked at where all the different climate zones are in the world.  We know that we live in a Temperate climate zone which means we get warmer summers and colder winters. We found where we live on a map.

In HWB, we thought about how to make ourselves feel better.  Some ideas included – going for a walk, playing with our favourite toys, listening to music and watching a film.

In Music, with Mrs Nicoll we have been learning a song and with beaters we have been keeping the rhythm.

In P.E, we were learning ball skills.  We have been using the basketballs. We played different games.  We have also completed the daily mile.

In Spanish, we have been learning some classroom instructions.  We also do our register in Spanish.

Another busy week for us.

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Good start in P3 and P3/2

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P3 and P3/2 are off to a great start this year.  We have been working very hard. Keep reading to find out what we have been learning.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about different ways to show a number – we can use numicon, rekenreks, tens frames, coins etc. We have been playing lots of different number games.  We also revised odd and even numbers.  We know even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9.

In Literacy, we have started reading Fantastic Mr Fox.  We have been drawing a character description of Boggis, Bunce and Bean. We also completed a ‘picture it’ for the setting of Mr Fox’s house.  We have also completed some spelling and reading checks to see what we can remember from before the summer holidays.

In HWB, we have completed our check in and selected our trusted adults in school and at home. We also revised SHANARRI indicators and what they all mean.  We know they are Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Responsible, Respected and Included.  We have also thought about our hopes and dreams for this term.

We have also made our class charter. P3 selected the theme of animals and P3/2 selected Minecraft. We have revised our rights as a child.

In RERC, we have read the story of Noah’ Ark and created pictures of the animals.  We have also thought about how Father Jeremy is like the Good shepherd and looks after us.  We drew pictures of Father Jeremy. We also created prayers for the year ahead.

In PE, we were playing games and learning to work together.

In Art, we created a self portrait to decorate our classroom doors so that everyone knows who is in our classroom.

We also created a welcome poster for anyone who is new to the school.  We told them about the school rules, where things are and what they need to wear to school.

We have enjoyed our first two weeks back at school and we are working hard.

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P3/2’s busy week

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This week in P3/2 we have been very busy.  Keep reading to find out more.

In Maths, we have been  have learning about capacity and volume. We know we can measure liquids in millilitres and litres. We know there are 1,000ml in 1 litre!

In Literacy, we have written recounts of our fiction books this week. We enjoyed creating these. In handwriting, we have been using the cursive script to write the days of the week.

In RERC, we have been learning about Jesus’ miracles. We have read the stories Jesus heals Peter’s Mother in Law and Jesus heals the Blind Man. We know Jesus was able to perform miracles as He is the Son of God. The people had great faith and trust in Jesus.

In Science, we have continued our Energy topic. This week we discussed light energy and why we need to look after the environment.

In Art, we have made Fathers’ Day cards this week, we enjoyed making these and following an Art Hub for Kids video. We also created a football art work where we drew different line patterns on a football using a handwriting pen. We used lots of different patterns.

In P.E, we enjoyed our potted sports events in our Sports Day. We all had lots of fun.

In STEM, we worked as a team to create a model of the Forth Road Bridge.  WE had to make it 3D.

Some highlights from the week have been the school barbeque, watching the P1 and P2/1 Assembly and watching the Scotland game on Monday.

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Fun and learning in P3/2

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Another busy week in P3/2. Keep reading to find out what we have been doing.
In literacy, we have been learning more about information reports. We know we need to use present tense when we are writing an information report. We have continued to learn more about cursive script and have been trying to write some capital letters this week. We have been learning how to use contractions.  We know you use a apostrophe to replace the missing letters. For example do not =don’t, could not = couldn’t.
In numeracy, we have been using the empty number line strategy. We have tried lots of different subtraction sums. We have been putting a 100 square together and using our knowledge of number to work out where all the parts go.
In RERC, we talked about the Eucharist and how we need to be thankful. We tried to write a thanksgiving prayer to God. We thanked him for our family, friends, nature and His love.
We have used the laptops this week to help us learn to type and find the keys on the keyboard.
We had the first part of our sports day this week.  We had to races against our year group in lots of different races. It was a fun and lovely morning. We cannot wait for part two!
We were learning about fossil fuels in our energy topic. We know that coal and oil are found underground. We use energy everyday.
In Expressive Arts, we looked at the artist Piet Mondrian. He painted pictures with lots of different squares and rectangles. He could make lots of different pictures out of the shapes. He used primary colours in his art work.  These are red, yellow and blue.  We created our own picture using a ruler and the primary colours.
In HWB, we were thinking about how we can make the world a better place to live in.  We thought about the sustainability goals and how we can help the world.
This week have been presenting to our class about our hobbies.  We have learned all about painting, football, cricket, gymnastics, roller skating, swimming and cars.  The talks were fantastic!
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Lots of work in P3/2

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P3/2  have been working hard this week. Keep reading to find out what we have been learning this week.
In Literacy,  we have been learning about the features of an information report. We know that an information report needs a title, general statement, a description and an evaluative statement at the end.  In Grammar, we have been learning about irregular past tense verbs. We know that you cannot just add ‘ed’ to the end of these verbs. An example would be swim and swam.  We are continuing to learn how to form our cursive script.
In Maths, we finished our money topic this week, rounding off by learning to use an empty number line to calculate change. We also created some money posters to show what we have learned about coins and change. We have started to learn about rounding to the nearest 10. We know that if the number has a 1,2,3,4 in the ones column we round down to the ten before the number and if there is a 5,6,7,8,9 in the ones column we round up to the next tens number. We enjoyed playing lots of rounding games such as bingo.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have continued to learn about regulation strategies which is the yellow cog. We thought about our worries (triggers – the blue cog) this week and chose a regulation strategy that we could use when we feel these worries.  We know that we can have big and small worries and we can think of different strategies to help us with these worries.

In RERC, we have learned about Pentecost. We know this is when the Holy Spirit came to the Disciples and blessed them with the gift of speaking all languages to share the good news of Jesus. We know that the disciples then spread the good news around the world.

In PE, we were playing team games to try to earn points.

In Social Studies, we have continued our learning on climate zones, focusing on the Mediterranean climate. We know about the countries, weather, food and languages that are spoken in this climate. We made tourism posters to advertise holidays in this climate. We also look at animals that live in the temperate zone and we tried to draw a picture of a hawk.

In Science, we have started a new topic about Energy. This week we have created a mindmap to show our understanding of the different types of energy we have in our world. We know energy makes things happen.

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What a week in P3/2

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P3/2 have had another busy week. Keep reading to find out more:

In Numeracy,  we have been learning to calculate change. We have been using our subtraction strategies for this. We enjoyed playing lots of games to practise giving change. Our favourite game was on the laptop – it is called Toy Shop Money Game.

In Literacy, we  have  been learning about pronouns and wrote some sentences to practise using them correctly. In Writing, we have been learning about characterisation and we made a character profile for a Disney character thinking about their internal and external traits.  We have been continuing with our cursive handwriting this week.

In HWB,  we discussed all the different ways that we can keep healthy.  We know we eat healthy, drink water, sleep, brush our teeth and wash our hands. We also learned about the Yellow Cog (emotional triggers)  and identified strategies to help us.

In Science,  we have continued to learn about the skeleton and in art we made skeleton pictures using paint and cotton buds. We also tried to identify the bones as we painted.

In RERC we have been learning how to pray the Rosary this week. We have also discussed each Joyful Mystery of the Rosary.

In Social Studies,  we have been learning about desert animals and how they have adapted to live in their environment. We created a slide on our laptops about a desert animal and shared them with our class.

What a busy week.

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Another busy week in P3/2

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Primary 3/2 have been working very hard tis week.  Keep reading to find out what we have been learning.

In literacy, this week we have been creating targets for this term.  This gives us a goal to work towards and we thought about how we can achieve this goal.  We also completed a narrative story about a lost polar bear.  We know all the different features of a narrative text.  We continued to work on spelling this week.  We also learned about past tense and know how to make a verb into a past tense verb.

In maths, we have been learning about measure. We have been measuring the length of things. We know that you measure length in millimetres, centimetre, metres and kilometres.  We know that there are 10 mm in 1cm and 100cm in 1m.

We have been learning about your skeleton and the names of our bones.  Our skeleton is important because it protects the organs in our body.  Without a skeleton we won’t be able to stand up, talk, walk etc.

We have been using pattern to decorate a vase this week then we used paints to create the flowers.  They look beautiful in the area.

This week we were learning to football rounders.  We were learning to work as a team and listen carefully to instructions.

We looked a climate zone and thought about facts we know about the area.  We researched the area and found out the weather of the area and animals that live there.

This week we set targets for numeracy and mathematics too.  We thought about an area we felt we needed to improve on  and how we could achieve our target.

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First week back in P3/2

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P3/2 have had a busy first week back at school after the Easter holidays. We have been busy learning lots of new things.

In numeracy, we have been learning all about Area. We know that area is the space a shape covers. We have used counters and cubes to measure the area.  We have also counted squares to measure the area.

In Writing, we have been looking at writing a Narrative story. We know the structure of a narrative and we have used this to help us write a plan for our story. We had a go at writing a story about a lost pet. We have been learning all about fact and opinion and we know the difference between them. A fact is something that is true and can evidence to back it up.  An opinion is something you think and can change from one person to another.  We also continued to learn more about cursive script.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning about self-regulation and coming up with our own calm down strategies when our emotions don’t feel so good.

In RERC, we have been learning about Jesus’ Resurrection. We listened to the story from the Bible and discussed it.

We started our new topic ‘Climate Zones’ and completed a KWL grid about what we already know, what we want to learn and how we would like to learn about climate zones.

We have learned an artist called Romero Britto. He used bright colours and patterns in his work. We enjoyed recreating his style in a lovely Spring picture of tulips.

We also looked at internet safety and why being safe on line is a right that we have and why it is important. We know it links to our right to privacy and safety.

In STEM, we created a new transport vehicle to move people or things around.  We thought about the problem, identified solutions and materials and then designed our model.

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P3/2 hard at work

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P3/2 have had a busy term both at home and in school.  We have been working very hard since we returned to school.  Keep reading to find out what we have been doing.

In Numeracy and Mathematics, we have been learning about time over the last few weeks.  We have been reading the time on digital and analogue clocks. We took our learning outside and played times outdoors as well as indoors.  In number talks we have been trying to think of the most efficient strategy for addition problems.

In Literacy, we had been learning about poetry and the features in a poem.  We even managed to write our own poems about sounds. This week we worked with Mrs Scott to learn about Narrative story writing.  We know that you need a title, orientation, complication and resolution.  We created our own stories about a Little Hippo. We also learned more about self assessing our writing.  We know that we should check our writing targets and re-read our work to ensure we have covered all of our targets.

We have revised our class charter and discussed our rights as a child.  We know that we have rights and can list these rights. As a class we discussed Sustainable Development Goals and we decided that we would look at the Goal of Life on Land (number 15). We are going to try and make sure that we reduce litter in the playground. We thought if we continue to eat our snacks indoors that will reduce litter and we could organise a litter pick in the playground to keep the litter from building up in the playground.

We have been learning about the Egyptians this term.  We know why the River Nile is important, who Egyptian Pharaohs are, how they built pyramids and lived.  We also created a model of a pyramid and a shaduf as STEM challenges.  We have been reading books about Egyptians and mummies. We created beautiful art work of the pyramids and pharaohs.  We also learned to write our names in hieroglyphics.

In our RERC lesson we have been learning about choices, forgiveness and saying sorry.  The children in our class who are preparing for Reconciliation have been learning more about forgiveness and learning the Act of Sorrow prayer.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about friendship.  We know the good qualities friends should have and what good friendships look like.  We discussed the importance of eye contact, turn taking and listening.  We played different games to help us with turn taking.

 

 

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Another busy week in P3 and P3/2

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This week in P3 and P3/2 we have been very busy.

  • We have been learning about St Nicholas.  The feast day of St Nicholas is on Sunday 6th December.  We know St Nicholas was a kind man who left gifts to help other people.  We drew pictures of St Nicholas.
  • We learning about Advent and the advent wreath.  We know there are 3 purple candles, one rose coloured candle and a white candle.  The white candle is lit on Christmas Day.  We know advent is a time of preparation.
  • We have been learning about fractions on a number and counting up in halves and quarters.  We know a half is less than a one.  We were counting apples and lemons and trying to work out how many parts we had. We found quarters quite challenging.
  • During outdoor learning we had a scavenger hunt for things around the playground.  We then made pictures of owls using things we found in the playground.
  • We have continued to learn cursive script and have been practising the letters we find most tricky.
  • We have also been continuing to learn more about writing a detailed description and this week we were writing a description of our mum or dad.
  • We have been reading our books and answering questions in our jotters and on the laptops this week.  We are getting good at answering in sentences and remembering to answer the full question.
  • This week we looked at riddles about nocturnal animals and tried to guess which animal the riddle was about.
  • We started to create winter scenes in art using chalk and collage materials.
  • In Health and Wellbeing we were thinking more about the green cog and we tried to show our emotions with our behaviour. We are very good at using our faces to show our emotions.
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P3 and P3/2’s week

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This has been another busy week for us. Keep reading to find out what we have been up to.

  • In handwriting we have been continuing to learn how to form letters correctly for cursive script.
  • We have been learning about being kind.  This is anti-bullying week so we have been thinking about how to show other people we care and are kind.
  • We have been continuing to learn more about ten frames.  we have been trying to use the mist efficient strategy to show a number.
  • This is Maths through Story Week.  we have been reading the story Pezzettino and learning about halves and quarters.  We can find halves and quarters of a shape and number.  We also designed our own characters.
  • We have been learning more about nouns, verbs and adjectives and can identify them and write sentences with them.
  • We been continuing to learn our spelling words and looking at different sounds.
  • We have been learning about recounts and wrote a recount about tidying our bedrooms.  We shared our tips with our friends! We are experts at tidying up!
  • In RERC we have been learning more about St Francis of Assisi.  We tried to write our own prayers to thank God for all the animals and creation in the world.
  • Father Jeremy visited us this week.  He came to talk to us about God and the Church.
  • We designed a road safety poster for a competition about park smart.
  • We also discussed the special talents and gifts we have.  We created a display about the talents that St Nicholas children have.
  • This week we have also been using the laptops to complete quizzes on our Accelerated Reader books.

What a busy week!

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P3 and P3/2’s week

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This week we have been learning about:

  • In ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’ we were learning about why dark is necessary.  We looked at diurnal and nocturnal animals.  We know some animals are awake at the daytime and some at nighttime. Owls are an example of a nocturnal animals.
  • We have been learning about money.  We were looking at a restaurant menu and trying to work out what we could afford to buy.  We looked at the cost of the items and the coins we would use to pay for the items.
  • We painted a pebble for Remembrance Day and then we placed them at the  foot of the statue at the Strathbrock. we know  Remembrance Day is on the 11th November.
  • We were continuing to learn about recounts and this week we write a recount of the main events from our reading book.
  • With our rekenreks we have been using the strategy part, part, whole.
  • This week we looked at bonfire and fireworks safety and we created information posters. We know posters have to have information  and they need to be bright and colourful.
  • This week we also learned about verbs.  We know they are doing words.
  • We have been learning more about our emotions and feelings.  We tried to list all of the emotions that we know.
  • We had PE outdoors and we completed the daily mile and some games where we had to listen and follow instructions.
  • We have also been looking at different ways to show a number – we know you can use coins, tens frames, tally marks, words and pictures.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

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Busy week in P3/2

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This week in P3/2 have been very busy.

  • We have been learning all about barn owls.  We know that barn owls have fluffy wings and they are silent when they fly.  They swallow food in one gulp and they eat about 4 rodents a day.  They also do not hoot like other owls they screech.
  • We have also been learning about money.  We have been trying to make a sum of money using the least amount of coins.  We know that you can make an amount of money in lots of different ways.
  • In handwriting we have started to learn about cursive writing.
  • We designed a Christmas card for a competition for the Scottish Government and the theme was NHS.
  • In HWB we have been thinking about our emotions and thinking of things to do if we feel stressed.
  • We have been learning about a recount and learning the different features.  We know you use the words first, next, after and then. We also looked at nouns and plurals. We know plurals often  end in a ‘s’.
  • In Writing we wrote a potion for Hallowe’en. We used lots of different ingredients then wrote the instructions to help other people make our potion.
  • In PE we played some Hallowe’en themed games . It was fun.
  • This week we also said goodbye to Mrs Davis in the office.  We will miss her. We had Mass to celebrate all the work she has done in the school.
Primary 2, Primary 3

P3/2’s week

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Here is some of the things we have been about learning about this week:

  • We have started a new topic – Sun, Moon and Stars. We started to read the story of ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’. We learned about Plop the baby barn owl who is afraid of the dark.  We looked a description of him and how the author used adjectives to describe him.
  • With rekenreks we have been learning about doubles and near doubles.
  • We have been continuing to practise our handwriting. We have been revising the letters p, h, u and r.
  • We created our own characters in writing. We had to use describing words (adjectives) to describe our characters appearance and how they behave.
  • In numeracy we have been learning about adding 1 , 10 and 100 to a number. We know that adding one changes the ones number, adding ten changes the tens number and adding 100 changes the hundreds number.
  • As this October we were saying a decade of the rosary. We know October is one of the months of Mary.
  • We were using the bee bots and the ipads to do some coding this week with Miss Gibson.
  • We used oil pastels to create an owl image on black card.
  • We had some PE outside and were playing listening games. We are trying hard to improve our listening.
  • In P3 science we thought about sounds we liked and disliked.
  • In P2 science we were learning more about forces and building ramps for toys.

We are looking forward to our October holiday.

Primary 4

P4’s great week (28.9.2020)

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This is what our Primary 4s thought about their learning this week:

We were learning about Venn Diagrams. I think it was fun because it was fun go outside. I think learning about this was not tricky but not easy either.

We’ve been learning about silent texts as part of the West Lothian INspire challenge. It was fun because in writing we had to pretend that we were one of the birds in the story.

I enjoyed writing the recount about the birds because I liked the story.

I liked doing the internet safety poster.

I enjoyed logging onto Glow and exploring the different things like the mail and Sway. Our next steps are to remembering how to log onto Glow without any help.

I liked the STEM challenge – making paper aeroplanes and adding paperclips but still managing to make it fly. It was fun!

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Our week in P3/2

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In P3/2:

  • This week we have been learning about Moses and the ten commandments. We know these are important rules that God gave to Moses to share with his people.
  • This week in STEM our challenge was to build a house. We discussed what a house would need and then we worked together to try and build a house using either lego or art straws.
  • We have been learning about fact families. We know that from one addition sum we can find 2 subtraction sums and another addition fact. We have been dice to play a game and a game on the laptops.
  • We have been practising our handwriting this week and practising the letters b and p.
  • We have been counting forwards and backwards in numeracy in 2s, 5s, and 10s.
  • We been looking at a picture and writing sentences about what we thought was happening in the picture. We had to use capital letters and full stops.
  • We have been making numbers  using our rekenreks and trying to calculate sums.
  • We created our own character and then wrote sentences to describe them.  we know we use adjectives  to describe a character in more detail.
  • The P3s were outside on Monday doing a science experiment with musical instruments. We had to think about when we could hear the noise.  We discovered the further away you are from the instrument the less you hear.
  • The p2s we were learning about forces and we were learning about twisting, pushing and pulling. we were using hula hoops to learn about forces.
  • This week we have also been raising money for Macmillan.  We have been guessing the number of sprinkles on a caterpillar cake, dressing down and designing a cup or cupcake.
  • This week we also learned about road safety and that we should be safe by following the rules – stop, look, listen and think.
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P3/2’s learning this week

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This week we have reading more of Matilda.  We know about the newt and Matilda put it in a glass to frighten Miss Trunchbull. We were answering questions on the story and had to answer them in sentences.  We know that you must use a capital letter and a full stop in a sentence.  We have been making predictions and trying to guess what we thought characters were feeling in a story about a Marshmallow.

We have continued with Rekenreks and we were learning about how to show a number with 2 or 3 pushes. We are working very hard with our Rekenreks.

In art, we learned about Picasso and made a Picasso inspired face using different shapes. He used lots of shapes and ‘funny parts’ not always in the correct place in his art work. We love his pictures of faces.

We have been continuing  to learn about hundreds, tens and ones.  We were ordering numbers and can find the biggest and smallest number. We made a human number line in the correct order. We also tried to make the biggest number we could with some digits.

We have been learning about good and bad choices.  We know when we make a decision our decisions have an affect on others. We know that at times we can all make the wrong choice.

This is coding week so worked on a pirate activity were we had to create a pirate name then try to find the treasure. We then went outside and created a grid to code our classmates. It was fun to direct them to find or miss an object we found outside.

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Busy time in P3/2

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This week in P3/2 we have been:

  • doing drama outside.  We were pretending to be Miss Trunchbull and Bruce Bogtrotter and thinking about how they felt and spoke to each other.  We then created a new ending to the cake scene.

  • In Numeracy, we have been learning more about place value. We have been playing different games including guess my number. We managed to guess Mrs Canning’s number more than once.
  • In Art, we were learning about Picasso and we went outside to create our own Picasso inspired faces using leaves, twigs, stones and anything else we could find outside.  We also used chalk.

  • In Literacy, we were making predictions about a story called the Clock tower.  We had to guess who was in the tower, why the balloons changed colour and why we thought there were balloons in the town.
  • We started reading new books this week and we made a prediction about what we thought the story was about.
  • In RERC we were looking at our school values and thinking about how we show these values in St Nicholas. We know the values are respect, kindness, trust, honest, friendship and fairness.
  • With Miss Doolan we have been learning about Jack and the Beanstock. We had to make an accent, we had to clap the beat and we were making pictures.
  • We were also learning about Mary and thinking about what we think of when we think of Mary.
  • We  have been learning about our emotions and we made dream catchers and thought about our good and not so good dreams.
  • In Spanish we were learning the days of the week and months of the year.

What a busy week!

Primary 2

P2’s busy week.

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Such a lovely week in P2

  • In Maths, we were learning about Place and Value. We know now about hundreds, tens and ones. We were learning how many ones are in a ten and how many tens are in a hundred. We were recapping counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s forward and backwards. In our Maths Journals, we had some fun finding many ways to show the number 10 e.g. 5 people have 10 legs all together.
  • In Spanish we were practicing basic greetings such as: Buenos Dias, Buenas Tardes, Buenas Noches, also Como estas ?, Bien – good or Mal – bad.
  • In literacy, we were learning about proper sentences with capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, whilst neatly writing on the line from left to right. We know now that sentences need adjectives so that they are more interesting. We were also learning about predictions, which means that we were guessing what is going to happen in the story.
  • In Art we continued Wassily Kandinsky’s expressions. We made lovely pictures using circles, triangles and squares. During our art expressions, we were listening to classical music.
  • In Health and Wellbeing, as part of our SHANARRI topic we were learning about being Safe, we were talking if we feel safe at home and in school and what to do to feel safer in various situations.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday,

 

Mrs Koziel

 

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Fun in P3/2

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We have had another busy and fun week. Keep reading to find out more.

  • We have read more of Matilda. We know that she had magical super powers. We thought about what we would do with Matilda’s powers when we were feeling different emotion. For example, if we were angry we might use her powers to break something. We talked lots about different emotions and why they are important.
  • We thought about Matilda’s parents and how they were quite mean to her.  We think Matilda should be nurtured by a kind parent.  We labelled and drew pictures of Mrs Wormwood.
  • We were learning about place value.  We know that hundreds, tens and ones are.  We played different games to practise making the numbers.  We used the deans material and played a matching ice cream game.
  • We played a game to see how many words we could make from another word.  It was tricky.
  • With Ms Gilmore we created a collage using different types of paper and shapes.
  • We have been practising the Hail Mary Prayer prayer this week.
  • We looked at some tricky words and tried different techniques to spell them. We tried rainbow writing, bubble writing and dotted writing.
  • We thought about making good and bad choices and why it is important to make good choices.
  • We made predictions this week in Literacy.  We watched a clip of a boat sailing and where we thought about who we thought was in the boat and where we thought it was going.  Then we watched the end to see if we were correct. We know that when we make a prediction we might not always be correct.

What a busy week!

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P3/2 hard at work

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This week in P3/2 we have been very busy and learning lots of different things. Keep reading to find out what we have been doing.

  • We have been reading Matilda and have been drawing and writing about what makes a good and bad teacher. We would rather have Miss Honey as a teacher than Miss Trunchbull!
  • We have been learning about wants and needs.  We know that a want is something we don’t need to have but is nice to have.  Our needs are medicine, water, clean air, shelter, food and clothes.
  • We have been learning about how Father Jeremy is like the Good Shepherd and looks after us. We are like his sheep.
  • We started to think about our new science topic sound. We thought about what we know and what we would like to learn.  We would like to learn about our ear and how sounds are made.
  • We have been working on some maths and number problems to see what we can remember.
  • We have been looking at a rekenrek and using it to show numbers.
  • We have also been thinking about how we can show numbers in different ways.
  • We looked at the artist Wassily Kandinsky and tried to create our own circle art work.
  • In handwriting we have been practising forming our letters correctly.
  • We practised the Our Father prayer this week.  We know this is an important prayer to God.
  • We have been learning about describing words and how to use them in a sentence to make them more detailed.  We went outside and we were using describing words to describe a stick.

We have had a busy week!

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P3/2 have been busy this week!

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Primary 3/2 have had another busy week back at school.  To find out some of the things we have been doing keep reading!

  • we have been drawing a self portrait of ourselves to make a lovely display for our classroom door.
  • we have started reading Matilda. We made a prediction about what the story would be about and drew a labelled picture of Matilda.
  • we read the story of the Colour Monster and have been learning about our feelings.  Each day we are going to going to check in so other know how we are feelings.
  • we put our photograph on a  picture of our body for our class room display.
  • we have designed our class charter and talked about our rights,  We decided to use a Pokemon theme for our charter.
  • we have been talking about our trusted adults and have made a hand with our trusted adults for our classroom.  we know they need to be someone we can got o if we have a problem and that they will help us.
  • we have been learning about SHANARRI and know what all the indicators are – Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured,  Achieving,, Respected, Responsible and Included. WE know how e feel about each of these things.
  • we have been reading and trying to spell some Fry’s Common words.
  • we have been playing maths games outside and revising our number bonds to 20.
  • we have doing drama outside pretending to be characters from Matilda and using facial expressions to show our feelings.

What a busy week!

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P3 Schools out!

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This week Primary 3 took part in the second week of Fitness fortnight.  Here are some of the things we have been doing this week:

  • We researched the importance of exercise and made a poster.
  • In Literacy, we wrote letters to our favourite sports stars, telling them all about ourselves, why they have inspired us and asked them questions about things we wanted to know about them.
  • We continued to take part in our virtual sports day- Forth house were the winners!!
  • Using our knowledge of healthy eating we drew a healthy lunch box.
  • We made a healthy smoothie and then wrote instructions to help someone else to make the smoothie.
  • In Numeracy, we took part in lots of fun fitness e.g. roll to dice and then add the numbers together to complete the exercises set.
  • We took part in a few sumdog challenges.
  • We watched video about sun safety and then created our own video to tell others about what we knew about sun safety.
  • We also became the teacher and taught our families some new skills.

Here are some pictures of our work this week.

Primary 3,  we just wanted to thank you for all your hard work this term.  It has been very different term for us all but you have risen to the challenge and we are very proud of you.  Thank you so much for all the pictures we have received.  We have loved seeing your work and how well you are doing.

We hope you all have a great summer holiday.  Relax and have fun with your family.  We will see you in August when you are in Primary 4!

Happy holidays.

Mrs Canning and Miss McCormack

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P3’s Home Learning

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Another busy week in P3. We are so proud of you all for all your hard work during this time. Keep reading to find out about some of the things we have been learning.

  • In our Egyptian topic we have learning about mummification.  We have learned about how the Egyptians completed this task.  We even tried to mummify a piece of fruit.  It was fun!
  • In mathematics we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes.  We have been looking at the properties of the shapes and finding the edges, vertices, corners and faces on shapes.  We have played lots of different games about shapes this week. Even a sumdog challenge.
  • In RE we have been looking at stories of how Jesus healed the sick and why this is important.
  • In literacy we have been spotting the silly word in a passage about elephants. Then finding words we thought would make more sense.
  • We have also been drawing an image of a character called ‘Badjelly the witch’. We had to read the description then draw what we thought the character would look like
  • In Art, we looked at a still life picture and thought about what we liked/disliked. Then we tried to draw our own still life picture.
  • In Science, we have been learning about the skeleton and even tried to make our own from twigs and stones.
  • We also  looked at a story about ‘Oor Wullie’ in Scots and answered questions about  it.
  • We also looked at how things are made from different materials and when we recycle we need to split our rubbish into different bins.  We tried to help at home this week.  This will make us very responsible citizens by recycling correctly.

Here are some of the lovely pictures we have received this week.  Thank you P3 and well done! 

 

Primary 4

Primary 4’s weekly update

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This week Primary 4 have been busy learning lots of things on Teams. In Literacy they have been working on homophones (there, their and they’re) and practised to using adjectives, connectives and different openers to upgrade sentences. They did such a good job with this task that their teachers had a really hard time choosing the top 3 from each class! They also made some wonderful posters, SWAYs and PowerPoints describing the positive qualities of someone they admire. It was lovely to read all the nice things they had to say about their mums, dads, aunties. In Maths P4 have been working on the 6 times table and learned to use the words likely, unlikely and impossible to talk about probability and chance, for example, It is likely that it will rain tomorrow. Some of our P4s also enjoyed learning about Spanish painter Picasso and made beautiful abstract masks.

Well done Primary 4!

 

Primary 2

Another busy week in P2…

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Primary 2 had a very busy week. Have a look at what we have done at home…

  • We were learning about the meaning of ‘non-fiction’, we wrote interesting facts in our jotters.
  • Rainbow writing is a fun strategy that we used to make us more confident in our spelling. We used the website ‘Doorway speller’ to practice our common words.
  • Learning to describe things in writing as well as speaking is very important. That is why we practised using adjectives to describe our favourite book characters.
  • Imagine you were asked to split a pizza in half for your other friend. You would have to know how to split things in half. Luckily we know how to do this because we were practising splitting things in half all week.
  • As well as that, we made sure that we will not forget all the things that we have learnt throughout the week by playing the ‘Sumdog’ challenge and filling out a worksheet about halves and quarters that our teachers have set for us.
  • ‘Lunes, Martes, Miercoles…’ these are some days of the week in Spanish. P2 already know what they mean since we practised this by listening to a video on YouTube.
  • An international language is a language that lots of people around the world can understand at least a bit. Through expressive arts, we can talk about our feelings in a way that is easy to understand. This is why we watched a video about ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ and joined in along with our families.
  • Staying fit is key to leading a healthy life. To help us, we did a Go Noodle activity which was found on YouTube.
  • We all have most likely seen an ant before, but – how much do we know about them? Lots now! This is because we have learned about Minibeasts for science and then watched a video to learn some facts about ants! Later, we also learned about what plants need to survive.
  • For RERC, we looked at Psalm 65: 9-13 and contemplated it, praying with our family. Also, we watched a video on YouTube about how God spoke to Moses and later talked about it with our family. Next, we drew a picture of what happened. Some of us even wrote a few sentences to go along with it!

 

Primary 2

P2 Weekly Update.

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We are finishing our seventh week of home learning. We did a fantastic job as usual. Have a look at what we have done.

To broaden our knowledge of literacy we used Oxford Owl and read a book of our choice aloud with the excellent expression. Then we answered blooms questions.

We were practising our spelling words in pyramid writing. Then we logged into Sumdog and completed the spelling challenge set.

Also, we created poems about Spring, using our senses.

In addition, we were practising our handwriting by writing our addresses.

Knowing how to add numbers is a very important life skill. So for maths, we revised addition by playing games, filling worksheets and completing the Sumdog challenges the teachers had set for us.

Que clima hace hoy? What is the weather today? In Spanish, we were learning about weather vocabulary. It is good to know other languages.

We did research online about living creatures that live in our local Union Canal.

Capturing spring on a piece of paper may not be easy for everyone but for our young artistic minds it was ‘easy peasy lemon squeezy’.

May is the month of Mary so we discussed with members of our families why we honour Mary so much. As well as that we watched videos from the Bible Beginners channel on YouTube.

‘Who we are and what we are good at is not fixed.’ All of us are unique and we all have different talents but that does not mean that we cannot get better at things. We looked back at all the skills we have learnt since the time we were born.

Here is what some of our pupils said:

‘I did my missing numbers within 50 without a chart!!’

‘Still loving my sum’s more than writing but love learning different subjects’

‘Working hard in my writing, I think you will be impressed with the amount I have written and how many WOW words I’ve used during home school’

Primary 4

P4’s short week learning from home!

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Primary 4 really enjoyed the long weekend and back on Wednesday ready to learn! This week they practised spelling common words, possessive pronouns, they told us all about their weekend in their ‘weekend news’, did some work on division and explored how capacity is used around us. They have also been busy with their First Holy Communion preparation and joined the P4 Playground group on Teams, where they will be able to catch up with each other.  This is what our P4s said about their week:

– I have enjoyed finding out how many litres and millilitres something holds. I have used this to  work out how many litres of water I drink in a day.

– I learned about VE Day which stands for Victory in Europe. This is when the Second World war finished.

– Have enjoyed finding things in the kitchen cupboards for maths. I know how much is in a bottle now, because I can read the measurements on the label.

– In literacy we learned grammar and spelling which is necessary for good writing.

– I enjoyed learning spelling because I am getting better at my words.

 

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P3’s Short but Busy Week

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After a few days off to enjoy the nice weather  we went back to home learning on Wednesday.  We know it is not easy but we are so proud of you all and love seeing photographs of all your fantastic work. Thank you for sending pictures to us.

Here are some of the things we have been doing this week:

  • Learning to tell the time on a digital and analogue clock.  We even made our own clocks at home.
  • We have been writing questions that we would like to ask the author of our favourite books.
  • As May is the month of Mary we made prayers to Mary.
  • We have started to learn about the Egyptians and found Egypt on a map.
  • We have been thinking about what makes a good sentence and trying to up-level our sentences and make them even better.
  • We looked at Kandinsky’s circles in Art and tried to create our own circle art work.
  • We listened to the story of ‘Owl Babies’ then made our own wanted posters or wrote a letter to the owlets to tell them about our own fears and worries.

Here are some examples of the fabulous work taking place at home.

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Primary 2

Primary 2 have been working very hard at home. Have a look at our blog to see what we have been learning in this short week…

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In literacy, we have revised our common words to help us consistently spell them correctly.

We used the  Oxford Owl website to explore a variety of books and write a summary about what happened in the book we read.

We have also written about our feelings in our jotters. We wrote about how we feel spending so much time at home.

In maths, we have been learning about estimation. We have had some worksheets where we had to guess what number should fill the blank space on the number line. We also played some math games using the new skill of estimating.

One of the subjects in school is to learn another language. Since we are learning at home, we asked our parents for permission to have an account on Duolingo to help us uphold the knowledge of Spanish and take it to the next level.

Creativity is in everyone. It is also in all the children of P2! To use our talents and imagination, we gathered different materials and created a unique picture of what WE think spring looks like.

As May begins, we are going to try to have a better relationship with Mary the Mother of God and God himself- Our Father, by praying to them every day in our own words.

Making the right choices in our day – to – day eating can sometimes be difficult. Luckily, we know exactly what to do because we have been cutting out food and putting it on a paper plate to make a healthy meal for ourselves. This will help us to know exactly how to eat healthy in the future.

 

 

Thank you for the lovely pictures we have received so far. Remember to keep sending us pictures of your amazing work.

Take care everyone and have a nice and safe weekend

Mrs Alexander and Mrs Koziel

 

Primary 2

P2 Home Learning

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Here is what we have been up to this week…

In literacy, we have been revising sounds that we have learned so far using pyramid writing.

We were upskilling our sentences by trying to add WOW words to them and writing a letter to our teacher about what we have been doing during lockdown.

We also completed a book review on one of our favourite books from home.

In Maths, we have been practising subtraction using different materials we found at home e.g. pasta, pencils, blocks. We also completed a subtraction worksheet and played games online.

To develop our Spanish we used videos from YouTube to remind us how to say the colours, numbers and months of the year.

For science, we continued to learn about Forces. We have been exploring different objects that we can push and pull at home and at school.

In Art, we were learning to use textures by finding different materials at home e.g. wool, string, pasta, buttons, feathers etc. to create a picture.

We continued to develop our fitness by completing a Body Coach workout on YouTube.

We reflected with our families about why we should be thankful to God and wrote down 3 things we were thankful for. We also said our own prayers of thanks to God.

 

Primary 6

Primary 6 Home Learning Week

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Primary 6 have been very busy this week with our online learning.

Maths – The pupils have been learning division and how to deal with remainders.  They’ve used Division Wheels, Division Jigsaws, Division Dominoes.  They’ve also tried Division Word Problems to add breadth to their learning.  They can see the relationship between multiplication and division more clearly now.

Scottish Wars of Independence Topic – Primary 6 have done a lot of fun work with their topic this week.                                                                        Imaginative Writing – this took the form of an adventure story of a hero in the year 1315 in Bannockburn whilst a war was raging.  The pupils were given a starter idea for the story and they produced some great writing for this.                                                                                  Report Style Writing– this took the form of assuming the role of a Newsround reporter interviewing Robert The Bruce about his life.      Portrait Art– the pupils were asked to look at various images of Robert The Bruce from the internet, money, images from movies, history books and art galleries.  They then followed an online portrait art lesson to learn tips and techniques and then produced their own Robert the Bruce portraits with fantastic results.

Collage Art – the pupils were asked to create an outline profile of themselves and fill the inside of it with collage art – cut out images and words from magazines that hopefully represented themselves.  The children were given extra support by watching an online art lesson for this.  What a talented group P6 are.  The results were excellent.

Health and Wellbeing – the children used a map of Broxburn to help plan a safe cycle route.  Consideration was to be given to roads, canal and pedestrians.  Again, great ideas and problem solving from Primary 6.

Well done Primary 6! We are very proud of your dedication to completing your tasks and thank you to our supportive parents too.

Primary 6

Home Learning in Primary 6

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Primary 6 have been very busy this week with our online learning. We learned how to use brackets in numeracy to help us group numbers in order to work out the answer easily.

Our writing focus was creating a persuasive letter to the Council regarding our thoughts on graffiti. We looked at some of the debating issues around this topic and the work of the graffiti artist, Banksy.  The pupils produced very well thought out and mature opinions on the subject.

Graffiti – click this link to see our points of view.

Our Science work focused on chemical reactions as we used some household solutions to try and clean the copper oxide from some old 1p and 2p coins. The most effective solution was ketchup due to the mixture of acid and salt.

We developed our drawing skills by using a Disney animation tutorial to create portraits of Pluto and other favourite Disney characters.

In Spanish, we videoed ourselves having a conversation about our feelings and role playing two characters, it was lots of fun.

Well done Primary 6 ! We are very proud of your dedication to completing your tasks and thank you to our supportive parents too.

Primary 2

Home learning in P2…

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This week we had lots of exciting activities to do… Here are some of them…

In maths, we were learning about symmetry, we had a chance to explore symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes in our houses.

In literacy, we were revising our knowledge about question marks.

We have been reading books and then checked our understanding by completing comprehension worksheets.

We also practiced our handwriting in our jotters, writing our names and surnames.

This week we challenged ourselves by using different openers for our sentences to make our writing more interesting.

To develop our Spanish we used a video from YouTube to remind us how to say the days of the week in Spanish. Later we revised them with an adult.

For science, we were learning about Forces. We were exploring everything that you can push and pull.

Also to help relax and reduce stress, we watched a mindfulness video on YouTube and completed a mindfulness colouring sheet.

Helping our parents is just as important as learning. That is why we helped to prepare a meal with our parents by washing, peeling and cutting the food.

Thank you to all who sent photographs of their fantastic work. We are so proud of you all. Well done!!!

 

Primary 4

Cushions, inventors, recipes, digital Art and more in P4!

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Primary 4 have been working really hard from home this week learning about subtraction, weight, making plurals, using Microsoft Paint to make a painting, keeping fit with the cushion challenge and learning about Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell.  This is what P4 said about their learning:

-This week I enjoyed doing Art.

– It was fun to learn chimney subtraction.

– I can use what I learned about the past tense, for example, to say “I ate a cake.”

– I learned to do kicky upees because I practised a lot.

– I enjoyed finding out how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

– I enjoyed learning about Alexander Graham Bell in Literacy, removal strategy in Number talks and how to draw the world on MS Paint.

Primary 3, School News

P3 Home learning

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This is our third week of learning at home.  Here are some of the things we have been learning about.

We have been `researching a Mediterranean climate zone and then creating a poster or video about why we should visit this area.

We have been using money this week to practice paying for items and calculating the change.  We have tried to make our own shops at home and also used topmarks games to help us.

We have been practicing common words this week and also writing  a diary about what we have been doing during this time.

We have been practicing making tens in number talks.

We have use the art hub to complete a drawing tutorial this week.

We have also been learning about things that dissolve and completing an experiment with things we have at home to discover what dissolves and what does not.

We have also tried to use dance mat typing to help us improve our typing skills.

We have also tried some additional challenges like building a den at home, doing P.E with Joe Wicks, watching the animals at Monterey Bay Aquarium and playing sumdog.  Here are some examples of fantastic home learning in P3.

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P3’s week

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This week in P3 we have been:

  • We have been learning to take notes.   We know you don’t need to write full sentences with capital letters and full stops. We use bullet points.
  • We have been learning the 3 times table. The pattern in the answers is odd/even. We know that you add 3 each time.
  • We have been learning about patterns.
  • In handwriting we have been joining words like quickly, skipping and jump.
  • We had Mass on Wednesday for Ash Wednesday.  We know that we get ashes on our foreheads and it is the start of Lent. Lent is when we prepare for Easter and we try to give up something, or do more of something.
  • It was pancake day on Tuesday.
  • We learned about the 10 commandments that God gave to Moses. We know the 2 most important  rules are: love God and love your neighbour.
  • In Music, we learned about on the street music. we were learning about body percussion – clicking and clapping.
  • In Spanish, we learned about colours we love and don’t like.  We know how to say this in Spanish.
  • In P.E we were learning how to do knots and crosses. We were also playing ‘King ball’ which was a Kings and Queens game.
  • Yesterday we listened to a talk from a Robotics engineer. He has designed lots of different robots.
  • We also completed our engineering competition designs.
  • For writing we were learning how to write an opening.  we had to think of different openers and remember them.
  • We were learning about poems.  We listened to the poem and then drew pictures to go with the poem.

What a busy week! We can’t wait to see what we will learn next week.

Primary 3, School News

P3’s busy week

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This week in Art we have been making pictures and using pattern and colour to make our art work beautiful.

In numeracy we have been learning our 5 times table.  we know that it is counting in 5s and each time you add another 5 on. The pattern is that the numbers end in a zero or five.  we know that 5×10=50 and that is the same as 10×5=50.  it has an even and odd pattern.

In handwriting we have been joining m, n and s. In P3a, we were writing the word grandmother without lifting our pencil from the page. Some of us were very shocked that we could write such a  long word.

We have been looking at Broxburn for our topic. We have been learning about the features of the area. We made a map to show where things are.

We were learning to take notes in Literacy. We know that you don’t need to write proper sentences with full stops and capital letters. We use bullet points to write our notes.

We had visitors from Stantec to talk to us about engineering this week.  Sam and Gil are engineers – one is a water engineer and the other is a civil engineer. We learned that they design bridges, houses and design ways to stop flooding.  They talked to us about how long projects can take. They told us about different materials that can be used. We are now going to enter an engineering competition and we need to design something to make the world a better place.

In RERC we have been learning  about the parable of the ‘Lost sheep’. The sheep are each of us and the shepherd is God. We know that God always loves us and forgives us and wants us to be happy.

 

Primary 2

Next busy week in P2…

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In maths we have been learning about movements. We know what is half turn, full turn, quarter turn in clockwise and anticlockwise- Derren

We have been practising our handwriting with letters Ww, Vv, Xx, Yy-Jannat and Ehtan

We have learnt about Litre and mililitre. We know that 1L is 1000 ml. We can estimate if the container holds more then 1L or less then 1L.- Matty

We know now that volume is how much liquid is in the bottle and capacity is how much water the bottle can hold.- Orla

We have been learning about Chinese New Year and we designed our own dragon masks- Thomas , Connor

In art, we learned how to draw a person and make a shadow.-Steffi

On Thursday it was a National Book Day and our P6 buddies came to read books for us and they helped to write a book review with us.- Niall

We made a prayer for Christian Unity Week. We wrote our prayers on a paper flowers and we made a bouquet.- Lauren

We have been doing gymnastics in PE. We have been doing to do pencil rolls, handstands, splits, cartwheels and forward rolls. – Caitlyn

We learned about the importance of a compass. It helps us to work out where North, South, East and West is- Inaaya.

We have been learning about Robert Burns. He was born on the 25th January 1759.- Jack and Zofia

We celebrate Burns night on the 25th January every year. At a Burns Supper they eat haggis, neeps and tatties- Penny

We looked at lots of different tartans and then designed our very own tartan- Murron

We decided that our new topic is going to be about Houses and Homes. We discussed what we would like to learn about Houses and Homes – Caiden and Orla

Primary 2

In this week in P2 we…

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We have been learning about 1 meter and half meter. We checked what is longer and what is shorter then 1 meter and half meter in our classes-Niall

We wrote our Learners` Statements about our  learning, Personal achievements and awards and certificates- Zofia

We have been learning how to spell tricky words like because, igloo,your etc.-Harvey L.

We have been practicing our handwriting with letters: Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr- Harvey L.

We went on the senses walk around the school  to see what we can see, taste, feel, hear- Penny

We talk and wrote about New Year Resolution, about made our own goals for this year- Caiden

In PE we played team games. We all worked well together – Leonie

Primary 2

What we have been doing this week….?

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We have been practising our handwriting, Gg and Hh-Caitlyn, Zofia

We have been learn about money- Lauren

We have been learning practising making the exact amount 26p, 20p, 5p, 1p- Arriana

We have been pretending to be shop keepers during maths- Steffi

We have been practising our Nativity Songs- Caiden

In PE we have been working on our fitness. It is important to keep fit and healthy- Inaaya

We were learning to keep safe around fireworks and created some fireworks art.- Thomas

We were learning greetings in Spanish Good night- Buenas Noches-Karel

We were learning that some people cannot use all there senses. Some people are blind or deaf-Macie

We were writing Invitation to invite our parents to our Read, Write, Count Launch- Leonie

Some of us went to Multi Sports and we did lots of different activities e.g. football, basketball, running- Harvey L.

We have been reading interesting books- Aiden

We had a Golden Time on Friday- Niall

 

 

 

Primary 3, School News

P3’s spooktacular week!

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Primary 3 have had a very busy week this week!

Emma – We learned how to make  pumpkin face using black paper and crepe paper. It was fun!

Sadie – We went to the library to borrow some books.  I picked a book about brains!

Owen – we had a hymn practise to learn hymns for Mass today for All saints Day. We learned the hymns Amazing Grace and Lord I Put Your Name on High.

Chloe – in handwriting we were learning to write the cursive letters p and q.  I think q is quite tricky.

Lena – in Music we learned the Hallowe’en song – the Witch fell in a ditch!

Andrew – we were thinking about resilience. We made resilience capes with ideas of how to make us feel better when we are having a down day. We know we can talk to others, read a book, go outside, play with toys and make a cake to feel better.

Jacob – we went to Mass on Monday. We had to sign hymns and say Mass responses and prayers.

Aroush – we have been learning about money in maths.  We have been learning to use different coins to make an amount. We can find more than one combination of coins to make a total.

Jessica Lily – in number talks we have been learning to make a friendly number to help us when adding 3 digits together.

Oliver – in Writing we were writing instructions about how to play a game of tig.    We know we have to include how to play, what you need and a title that tells us about what the instruction are for.  We also need to write them in order and use time openers like first, next, then and after that.

Chloe – in grammar we were looking at punctuation and making sure we use capital letters and full stops in all sentences!

Jessica-Lily- we also complete some Hallowe’en addition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Busy and fun week in P3!

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We have had a very busy week in P3. We have been learning lots of new things.

Logan – we have created posters about the SHANARRI indicators as part of our health and well being topic.

 

Chloe – we have been practicing the letters k and l in cursive script.  The letter was quite tricky.

Emma – in Music we have been learning to make our rhythms.  we were using the notes ta, te-te and ta rest.

Sadie, Wiktoria, Lena S and Logan- we went to the woods.  we had to find 5 natural objects that we liked.  Then in our groups we had to chose a way to sort them.  we could try size, colour and age. Then we made pictures with our objects.  It was fun! We learned to sort objects.

Weronika – we created cards for the residents of Holmesview Care Home.  We had to write about what we do and where we go to school.  Then we had to draw a picture.

Andrew – in P.E we had to throw the hoops to each other.  We also had to jump into the hoops.

Mara and Emma- in RERC we were listening to the story of Joseph and his amazing coat. We learned that his brothers were not mice to him but he was also not nice to them as he told tales on them.  WE learned not to be mean to each other.  We also learned that God looks after us all even if we are not perfect.

Elias – In Science we were thinking about sounds we liked and didn’t like.  We liked the sounds of water and wind as they are relaxing.  we didn’t like the sounds of dogs barking because it is really loud.  Most of us like relaxing sounds and don’t like loud noises.

Chloe – In Spanish we were learning about animals. We were learning a song in the wrong order to see how well we know the song.  The song was about a man and mouse and a button.

Sophie and Andrew – In Maths and Numeracy we have been learning about function machines.  We know different strategies for adding on. We can use counters, cubes, number lines, 100 squares, empty number lines and our number bonds to help us.  We have also looked at missing number sums and tried to find the answer using different strategies.

We are looking forward to our well deserved week off!

 

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P3’s Busy Week 30.9.19-4.10.19

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P3 have been very busy this week, read more to see more about what we have enjoyed.

  • We have enjoyed doing our cursive handwriting this week, we have learned to write the letters, h,i, j. (Sadie)
  • We have enjoyed practising our spelling words on the laptops. (David)
  • We have enjoyed learning how to add bigger numbers in maths this week, we have used our  number bonds to help us with this. We have also been playing a game called Num Tanga to help us to subitise bigger numbers. (Tinashe & Owen)
  • We enjoyed going to the library this week, we got to choose a couple of books to read while we were there. (Lena P)
  • We enjoyed doing some outdoor learning this week, we had to build a den that a teddy bear could fit in. We all worked together very well in our teams. We used sticks, stones, leaves and grass to build them. (Nina)
  • We have enjoyed our Number Talks this week, we used the doubles and near doubles strategy when finding a total on tens frames. (Oliver & Elias)
  • In RERC, we talked about Mary and how we could be more like her. We learned a little bit about the Rosary and the Joyful Mysteries and we looked at the story of Anna and Simeon. We know that we have to be patient for things that we really really want. (Emma, John & Rebecca)
  • We enjoyed doing a science experiment this week to help us to learn more about sound. We used beaters, buckets and rice to be able to see, feel and hear vibrations. (Leylan)
  • We had a hymn practice this week, some of the hymns we sung were Amazing Grace, Lord I Lift Your Name on High and Lord I Enter Your Gates with Pride. (Mara)
  • We have been enjoying learning more about ball skills this week, we played Hula Hut to practise these skills. (Ethan)
  • We  we were creating our own rhythmic patterns in music this week, we had lots of fun. (Kyle)
  • For writing this week, we wrote a letter to our Reading Bears (Charlie Bear & Mr Cuddles) who wanted us to teach them all about friendship. (Weronika)
Primary 2

Working hard in P2

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We have been learning about the properties of 3D shape.- Caiden

A square based pyramid has 5 vertices, 5 faces and 8 edges.- Matty

We have learned how to predict what is going to happen in the story.- Zofia

We have been learning about being nurtured. It means how is looking after us at home and at school. – Caitlyn and Lily

We were showing all the different ways to make 12 in our Maths Journals.- Jack

We learning about an artist called Piet Mondrian. – Inaaya

He paints lots of things with squares and rectangles. He only uses 4 colours which are red, blue, black and yellow.- Harvey L

Piet Mondrian was a primary teacher before he became an artist.- Alyssa

When he was older he went to art school.- Niall

We learned that John baptised Jesus in the river Jordon.- Ethan

We have been learning how to make the numbers 8, 9, 14 and 16 in the most effective way using a Rekenrek.- Freya

We learned how to edit pictures using an app on the Ipad. We changed the effects of the picture- Lauren

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P3’s busy week

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We have had a buy week in P3.

Chloe – We have been learning to do the cursive letter f.  It is very tricky.

Rebecca – We have learning how to solve conflicts.  We could share the thing we both want.

Lena – We have been learning about friendship.  We made a recipe for a good friend.  A good friend needs to be treated the way you want to be treated.

Sara – We have been doing a QR hunt to find famous friends and enemies.

Elias – We have also been practicing the letter g in handwriting.

Lena – We have made poster about how to be good friends.

Sophie – We made a friendship potion.  You need to be playful and helpful to be a good friend.

Emma – We have been learning how to count 1, 10 and 100 more than and less than a number. We have used 100 squares, deans materials and number lines.

Jacob – We have been learning how to log onto Glow.

Sadie – This week we watch the film Inside Out because we have learning about keeping our body and mind healthy.

Jessica-Lily – We have worked with our reflective reading partner s to find the silly word in a passage. We then came up with a word that would make more sense.

Lena – We have created a picture using the key information from a passage about Fantastic Mr Fox.  Some of us tried to use a green screen to create our picture!

We have had a very busy but fun week.

Primary 6, School News

Re-drafting our writing in P6

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We learned how to improve on our volleyball club leaflets. Our teacher gave us some tips and showed us what a good one looks like. Here are some tips we found useful:

  1. Choose three complimentary colours to make the leaflet eye catching.
  2. Use graphics and bubbles to make the important information stand out.
  3. Bullet points help to organise information. We used them to list the benefits of the club.

We could all see an improvement in our second draft and will use these tips again.

Stephen

Primary 3, School News

P3 Weekly Update w.b. 16.9.19

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Primary Three have had a very busy short week, keep reading to find out more:

  • We enjoyed painting Autumn trees this week, we used paint brushes for our tree trunks and cotton buds for our autumn leaves. (Zuzanna and Orla)
  • We have enjoyed Spanish this week, we were playing games and sing songs. (Weronika & Andrew)
  • We have been enjoying using the Rekenrek for our Number Talks this week. We found that the most efficient strategy was the counting on strategy, we have also been making friendly numbers (Tinashe & Lena S.)
  • As part of our Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds topic, Lena S’ mum came to speak to us about Diabetes, we enjoyed learning lots more about this (Aaliyah).
  • We enjoyed going to assembly this week because we got to hear updates from the Eco, Health & Sport, Justice & Peace and the Pupil Council committees (Sadie).
  • In Music, we enjoyed learning about rhythm, we had to read the notes on the board and drum along while saying the names of the notes as well, (Sara & Daniel)
  • We have been enjoying learning about ball skills this week, we learned to bounce a ball on a bat to help us play tennis. (Sophia & Jack)
  • We enjoyed going to the library, we all chose a book to keep in our classroom until our next visit. (Sophie)
  • We enjoyed doing our Picture It activity for Reflective Reading, we had to read a text and pick out key words to help us create a picture of the main character, Blart. (Joshua)
  • We are still enjoying learning our cursive script, we are trying really hard to keep our letters the right size. (Weronika)
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P3 Weekly Update 13.9.19

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We have been super busy this week in P3, keep reading to find out more about what we have been learning!

  • We were rainbow writing our sounds this week. Word Wizards were learning the ‘ea’ as in break sound, Master Minds were learning the i_e sound and the Spelling Stars were learning the ‘sh’ sound. (Aroush)
  • We wrote Autumn Acrostic poems this week. (Orla & Lena S.)
  • We have been doing some reading this week with our groups and we have also started doing guided reading.  (Andrew)
  • In Maths, we have been learning all about Place Value. We have been looking at 1 before and after as well as 10 before and 10 after. (Samuel)
  • We have been learning about what makes us special, we completed a Pieces of Me task made up of jigsaw pieces that make us who we are. (Maisie)
  • We all had a football taster this week, we learned to dribble forwards and backwards, stop the ball, scoring a goal, toe taps and keepy uppies. (Daniel & Ethan)
  • In Art we learned all about hot and cold colours. We made pop art style pictures to practise this skill. (Julia)
  • In Science we discussed how different sounds are made. We investigated different musical instruments and sorted them into categories depending on how these sounds are made.
Primary 6

Thinking Readers in Primary 6

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Today Primary 6 were developing their literacy skills with their thinking reader partners. Our focus was a factual text about honeybees. We were given the opportunity to discover the importance of bees in our environment and how we can help them to survive. We also developed our reading skills by learning new words, using facts to create a visualizer,think about the  products we get from bees, creating questions and summarising.

“My favourite task was the summarising as I had to say what had happened in twenty words. It was fun making questions for other groups. I think doing these tasks will help me to understand the text better. I did not know that a young bee was called a larva.”

Primary 5, School News

Primary 5’s update

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This week we have been learning about fractions.  We have looked at fractions of a shape and how to find them on a number line.  We have also been comparing and ordering fractions.  It is a bit tricky.

We have also been looking at data handling.  We have been using tally marks and creating bar graphs.  We collected data about our favourite colour, eye colour, hair colour and favourite country.

 

We have been writing a recount about our favourite holiday or day. We know you have to write a recount  in the past tense, include details about who, what, where and why and how you are feeling.  We also know you need to remember punctuation!

 

We have also learned about Ascension Thursday and know this is the day when Jesus ascended into heaven.  We celebrated Mass on Thursday.

 

In Guided reading we have completed our novels and are starting new ones.  We can’t wait!

 

With Mrs Baty, we have started to make our own games for our gaming topic.  We didn’t realise how many steps are involved in making a game.

 

In Number Talks with Mrs Heather, we were looking at a sequence of numbers and trying to work out which number was the odd one out.  We discovered it could be more than one number.

 

We have created presentations about food and the calories and energy found in food.  We then presented the presentations to the class.  Some of use made a PowerPoint, while others used sway or made a video or poster.

 

In P.E we have been learning about playing different types of rounders.  It was fun!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary 2

Busy Week in P2!

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We drew self-portraits and used leaves to make our hair – Lena P

In our topic work we have learned the names for different parts of a flower- roots, petals, stem and leaf – Chloe

We have planted sunflowers and are keeping a diary about them growing- Alexsander

We have been learning to use the exact amount of money to pay for different items- Jay

We have enjoyed going to Mrs A’s shop to pay for yummy items using exact coins. The bubblegum was 17p, I used a 10p, 5p and a 2p to pay for it – Jessica- Lily

We have learned about Ascension which means that Jesus went up to heaven- Danyal

In literacy we were learning about past tense- we know that you need to add ‘ed’ on the end of the word to make it past tense- Lena S

We went to the Library to pick new books, I picked My Little Pony: Friends Forever. –Emma

We learned that Jesus grew up in a town called Nazareth- Jack

We had to predict what was going to happen in the story ‘Stuck in the Mud’. I thought Dad, Biff, Chip, Wilma and Floppy would get stuck trying to save the sheep- Zuzanna

The green group have been reading a book called ‘In the Sun’. Meg went to the beach with a bucket and got wet. – David

Primary 5, School News

P5’s week

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This week we have been very busy even though we have only been at school for 3 days!

Ellie- we designed and then made a stop and go sign.  We were only allowed to use one kitchen roll tube, 4 pieces of paper or card, 1 pair of scissors and sellotape per group. After we made the sign we had to write about how we made it.

Sam – we had visitor this week to see us complete a number talks lesson.

Connor – in Numeracy we have dividing and using the chunking method and expanded method to solve sums. I like the chunking method when dividing.

Paula – we had an author visit from David McPhail. He told us about Vikings. We had the chance to buy one of his books.

Leo – we looked at Mary and coloured in some stained glass windows and thought about we think of when we think of Mary.

Ciaran – in P.E we have been doing athletics and running races.  We have been sprinting and doping sprint starts.

Marwa – this week we did some reading routes and looked at punctuation.  we looked at why it was important and rated the authors use of punctuation.

Mirin – with Mrs Baty we started to make scratch projects and made the characters communicate with each other.

 

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P2 busy back at school!

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Primary 2 have had a very busy first week back!

Jacob- We were looking at the sound ‘qu’ and going over all of the sounds we already know.

Jessica-Lily- We wrote a ‘Recount’ of the Easter story. Jesus has now risen from the dead!

Ethan- A recount is when you are retelling a story you already know.

Wiktoria- In literacy, we were text explorers and we did a new activity called ‘Blankety Blank!’

Sophie- We have been giving people directions in maths this week! You tell them which places to go by using lots of different words.

Rory- Like forwards, backwards, left, right, clockwise and anti-clockwise.

Joshua- We did the ‘cha cha slide!’ because it gives you lots of different directions and movements to go in!

Lena- We also learned about symmetry. Asymmetric means the shape is different on both sides and symmetrical means its the same on both sides. We used mirrors on our symmetry hunt.

Leylan- We learned how to wash our hands properly for health and wellbeing. You always have to use soap and water and you don’t rush, you take your  time!

Maisie- Mrs Alexander sprayed us with a water bottle to show us how far germs travel when we don’t cover our mouths. Everyone thought it was really funny because we got soaked!

Logan M- Rory had talcum powder on his hands and we pretended that it was germs. He spread the ‘germs’ to other people and around the classroom and the talc went everywhere!

Jack- This shows us how far germs can go if you don’t wash your hands and cover your mouth when coughing and sneezing.

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Primary 5, School News

P5b’s busy fortnight

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We have been very busy the last few weeks in Primary 5.  We have covered lots of different things.

Literacy

In literacy we have been learning about different phonemes that make the ‘s’ sound. We have looked at s, ss, ce, se, and c.

Poppy – We have been learning about the story of ‘Invasion’ in Literacy. We have been looking at the character Rollo and predicting what we think might happen.

Leo – we worked with a partner and discussing the story and our predictions and what we know and want to know about the characters.

Kacper – we have been researching women in engineering  and writing about why they are important and what they invented.  I researched Victoria Drummond.  She was the first woman Marine Engineer.

 

Numeracy and Mathematics

We have been learning about compass directions and angels.  We learned some rhymes to help us remember the directions –

  • never eat smelly wellies
  • never eat shredded wheat.

We have been learning about different turns and even went outside to direct each other around the playground.

Max – we have been learning to multiply two digit numbers by two digit numbers. It is quite tricky but with practice I can do it!

 

Christy – We had visitors from Stirling council to see us doing a number talks lessons about multiplication.  We can break factors into smaller factors to help us in number talks.

Leo – We have been measuring the length of different things in and around the school.  We estimated then measured the objects.

 

 

Other areas:

Ciaran – we have been creating titanic quizzes and fact files as we are finishing the topic.

 

We had a theater production about Simon, Martin and Sharon.  It was all performed by one man. It was called Pondlife.  It was very good and entertaining.  We were amazed that the man could perform more than one character.

In Religious education we looked at the seven sacraments and when people receive them.

Max – we have been practicing the hymns for the Stations of the Cross and took our class picture for the Stations of the Cross service next Wednesday. We used the green screen.

Leo – we went to the Church and Father Frances led us through the Stations of the Cross.

Sam – in P.E we have been skipping – we have been learning jumping skipping,  running skipping and hopping skipping.  Some people tried cross over skipping.

Today was ‘Feel Good Friday’ and we designed our own happiness t-shirts.

 

 

 

Primary 2, School News

P2 have been busy!

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Sadie- We had a craft afternoon yesterday and we made something special which we are keeping a secret until Sunday.

Chloe- We had visitors from a school in Stirling who came to see our Rekenrek lesson. We did really well and the visitors were impressed!

Tinashe- We were using prediction in literacy. The book was called ‘The Storm’ and we had to predict what happened in the story.

Lena P- Our topic is called Forces and this week we did the ‘Car and Ramp’ experiment.

Joshua- We found out that building a big structure for a ramp, making it higher, made the car go faster and further.

Jacob- Friction stopped our car on the big ramp because it bumped into the carpet.

Orla- We have been working on subtraction and addition together.

Daniel- 18+2=20, 2+18=20         Sara 20-2=18, 20-18=2

Ethan- We have been learning all about the Stations of the Cross. There are 14.

 

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P5’s weekly reflection

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We have had a busy week in P5b.  This week we have been continuing with Multiplication in Number talks and in our Numeracy lessons.  In Number talks we have used the strategy partial products this week and also used friendly numbers, doubling and halving and repeated addition. Mrs Heather came into class and worked with us on Thursday. In Numeracy we have worked on the formal written method of multiplication.

Marwa – there are different ways to do the written.

Mirin – this method is easier than a vertical sum for me.

We have practiced this week and are getting really good at it. In maths with Mrs Renshaw we have started to  looked at measure and started to estimate the length.


In Literacy we have completed spot the silly word in two different pieces of writing.

Sam – one was a job advert and the other was about Harry Potter.  Phoebe – you need to read the whole piece then look for words that don’t make sense.

 

Paula – we have continued with literacy circles and are improving with our group discussions and peer assessments.

In writing we wrote a diary entry about when the Titanic hit the iceberg.

Max – In a diary you must discuss your feelings.

Connor – you must use ‘I’ when writing a diary entry. It also has to be in the present tense.

In Health and Well being we looked at advertising and how companies advertise products to get people to buy them  We discuses different strategies like buy one get one free, half price, toys in boxes and tokens to collect.

Ellie –  We then created our own cereals and next week we will create an advert for our cereal.

Sam – we also discussed what makes a good friend and created a ‘wordle’ about friends. Some of the things we think they need to be are- kind, caring, honest and trustworthy.

In our Titanic topic we created adverts for Titanic. We talked about communication on board the Titanic and how important it was. We also looked at the technology on the Titanic. We also completed a cross section of what was inside the Titanic looked like and looked at where things were placed for first and third class passengers.

We also visited the library this week and had a look for Titanic books.

These are only some of the things we have covered this week.  What a busy week!

 

 

 

 

Primary 5, School News

P5b’s week

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We have had a busy week in class learning lots of new things.

 

Marwa – we have been learning about Fair trade as this is Fair trade overnight

Christy – if you put Fair trade banana skins on mosquito bites they go away.

Ellie – I learned that in the UK people eat over 5 billion bananas in a year.

Max – over 1.66 million farmers and workers produce Fair trade products.

Ciaran – there are over 100 billion different Fair trade bananas produced a year.

Paula – we learned about the grid method of multiplication

Mirin – we made a Titanic display.

Max – we drew pictures of first and third class passengers from the titanic

Kacper – we have been researching facts about the Titanic

Phoebe– we completed our well being check in.

Cerys –  for homework we researched a language

Charlie – we have been learning bout Michelangelo and his image of God.

We have been using our own devices to complete research and find out more about Fair trade and the Titanic.

 

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P5b’s week

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Primary 5 have had a busy week.  Here are some of the things we have been doing and learning.

Mirin – this week we made an emotions timeline thinking about how we felt at different points in our lives.

Marwa – we started to learn about the Titanic.

Ciaran – we learned that the Titanic was on her the first trip from Southampton to Nee York.

Daniel – we thought about we what know and what we want to learn during the topic.

Lucas – we have continued to practice our cursive script.

Max – we started to look at the timeline of events that led to the sinking of the Titanic.

Mirin – we typed our learners statements and shared them on Teams for our parents to see.

Sam – we reviewed our guided reading books.

Phoebe – we went to the library and read to the nursery children.

Marwa – we completed our entries for the engineering competition. Good luck everyone!

Paula – we went to Broxburn Academy to play Handball.

Leo – we were learning how to use the halving and doubling strategy in number talks.

 

 

Primary 2

Busy week in primary 2!

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‘In Maths we have been learning about duration of time’- Jessica-Lily

‘We have been getting really good at telling the time quarter past the hour’- Leylan

‘There are 60 minutes in an hour.’- Neave

There are 30 minutes in half an hour’- Zuzanna

‘We are learning to take notes during literacy time.’- Sadie

‘Notes is when you write small things rather than big sentences’- Logan M

‘We have been doing lots of independent writing’- Wiktoria

‘We learned how to use Glow.’- Joshua

We learned how to use computers safely.’- Rebecca

‘Don’t click on the pop-ups.’- Jacob

‘Tell an adult if you feel unsafe using tablets, iphones and computers.’- Ethan

‘Don’t talk to strangers online.’- John

‘Mrs Baty told us that some games aren’t for our age group like Fortnite. You are supposed to be 12 to play this and some children are playing it in P2.’- Logan P

‘ In RE we were learning about important festivals and celebrations like Easter Sunday, Epiphany and Christmas.’ – Daniel, Weronika and Max

Primary 5, School News

P5’s busy week

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We have had a busy week in Primary 5.  Here are some of the things we have been learning  this week.

Leo – We have been learning about storytelling as this is NAtional Storytelling Week and we watched David Walliams talking about his novels.

Ellie – We have been learning about the 7 times table and practicing our other times tables.

Cerys – We have drawing entries for the art competition and also designing inventions to make life easier for the engineering competition.

Paula – We have been learning about the brain.  Your brain connects to your nerves and tells you what to do.

Ciaran – We have been practicing our tables and looking at different strategies for learning the facts we find tricky.

Mirin – We have photographed our latest and best pieces of Numeracy and Literary and tried to use teams to post them.

Poppy and Leo- We have been talking about our reflexes and we were holding each others’ shoulder to see how quick our hand reacted and squeezed the other person’s shoulder.  We also tried this with hands so see if it was quicker than our shoulders.  Shoulder reflexes were quicker as the shoulder is closer to our brain.

Erin – We worked on our estimation skills with Mrs Heather.  We learned that our guesses have to be reasonable.

Alexander – We have been thinking about our learning and completed our learners statements.

Leo – We were having learners conversations and talking about what we are good at and what we need to work on.

Ciaran – we have been completing our health and well-being check in and today is feel good Friday.

Phoebe – Mr Menzies came into school to read us a story for storytelling week.

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P5 Burns’ celebration

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Primary 5B enjoyed a Burns’ celebration today.  We had shortbread and oatcakes.  Kai’s dad very kindly gave us the oatcakes. Thank you! They were delicious!

 

 

This week we have researched Robert Burns using our own devices and school i-pads and laptops.  We created a profile of Robert Burns.  We also learned some Scots words. For homework we also learned a few verses of a Burns’ poem or song and recited them to the class. Well done everyone!

Some facts we have learned about Robert Burns.

Ellie -He was very famous for his poetry and songs.

Mirin – He died because of a heart condition.

Paula – He wrote so many poems and songs for example ‘To a mouse’

Szymon – He was born in a farm in Alloway, in Ayrshire.

Christy – He was also called Rabbie Burns.

Max – He originally spelled his name BURNES.

Sam and Leo – He had a wife called Jean Armour.

Marwa – He had 9 children.

Tomasz – He was born on 25th January 1759.

Charlie – His last resting place is in Dumfries.

Max – He died 21st July 1796.

Sam – He was 37 years old when he died.

 

 

 

Primary 5, School News

Busy first week back in P5

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Primary 5 have had a busy first week back at school.

In Literacy,  we have been learning about poetry and metaphors and similes. We have worked very hard to create our own metaphors and similes and added them to a poem about dogs.

In Numeracy, we have been continuing to work on money.   We have been working on subtraction number talk strategies and also using our number bonds knowledge to add and subtract multiples of 10.

We have been learning about the 10 Commandments and came up with our own commandments that we felt were important.

This week we have continued with our science topic about our body systems.  We have looked at our respiratory system and also our circulatory system.  We have been working together to research body organs and locate them in our bodies.

We have also been making new year resolutions and looking at making targets for ourselves this term.

What a busy first week back!

 

 

 

Primary 5

P5 Literature Circles

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After a few weeks of becoming familiar with the various roles required to run our literature circles, on Tuesday we had the launch of our first ever Literature Circle gathering. Each child in the group had a different role to complete and each  group leader made sure that everyone was on task and had the resources that they required. At the end of the session the group leader would peer assess the work and then feedback to the rest of the class.

Here are our thoughts after our first session:

This is a good way to get along with your friends. It was fun to work with the group leader. – Lewis

I think you concentrate more as you have a job to do for your group. – Ava

I really liked it because everyone had a different job to do. I liked being the group leader because it was like I was the teacher. – Rayyan

We can be individuals. – Sophie

It allows us to work together as a group. – Natalia A

It helps your concentration as you have to complete your task. – Aimee

The group leader has to check the content of your work before they give you a traffic light colour. – Thomas

Working as a group can improve our writing. – Patryk

I like how we will get a different job to do every week. – Cameron H

I liked being peer assessed and it helped me to understand the book better. – Esme

Well, after all those positive reviews we are looking forward to our next session on Tuesday.

Remember to complete your reading homework in preparation for the tasks.

Primary 6

This week in P6 by Ollie and Sophie Mc

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Maths 

Last week we learned about BODMAS (Brackets Order Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction). It was important to do our problems in this order because otherwise we could all have different answers! In Number Talks this week our strategy was ‘Adding up in chunks’. When we break down our calculations, it makes it easier to solve difficult problems.

This week we also did rounding to the nearest ten, hundred and  thousand. We also challenged ourselves by rounding to the nearest ten thousand and hundred thousand. Furthermore, we took a look at decimals. This was tricky and it is something we will work on again in our next maths focus, which is money.

Language and literacy

In language and literacy we revised similes and metaphors. We also learnt about personification which is when you describe an object or thing with human characteristics. For example:

The wind whistled through the valley.

The trees whispered secrets.

Last week, we learned all about synonym and antonyms.

PSD

In PSD, we have been learning about gender inequality and we have made posters of what people think girls should like and another one that they think boys should like. We also wrote a traditional fairytale but we changed the gender! We are learning to respect each other and not to show discrimination.

Assembly

We have  recently been learning about the Victorians so we are doing an assembly to show you what we have been learning and we found out that we are doing a local show and it’s Oliver Twist!

 

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Primary 6

Special Surprise for P6 Letter Writers!

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Last month Primary 6 sent letters to inspirational Scottish people. Our aim was to get a reply from them and for them to answer our questions and send us their favourite Scottish recipe for our class cookbook. Today we received our first reply!

Michael and Nicole wrote to Hibs and Celtic player (and Saint Nicholas pupil!) Liam Henderson, and lucky for us when he read their wonderful letters he decided to pop in and answer their questions in person! It was very very exciting and a great surprise! Everyone got a chance to ask questions and we learned a lot about what life is like as a football player! A huge ‘Thank You’ to Liam for taking the time to visit our children! Nicole and Michael were over the moon!

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Perfect Popping in Primary 6!

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Last week we were practicing using ‘an’ and ‘a’ in sentences based on words with vowel sounds. Some of it was quite tricky because we thought it only mattered if the next word began with a,e,i,o or u, but ACTUALLY be discovered that words with any vowel sound would have ‘an’ for example….

‘An honest man’ would have an instead of a because the h is silent and the word starts with a ‘o’ sound!

Once we finally got to the bottom of it we worked in teams to complete a quick assessment of what we had learned. We worked in 2 teams in a race against time! We had to read a sentence with ‘a’ or ‘an’ missing then put it into the correct category… sounds easy? Well the trick was the sentences were inside balloons! We had to pop the balloon first! As soon as Miss Miller and Miss King said ‘Go!’ the classroom turned into a frenzy of cheering and excitement! At the end we made sure everyone had placed their sentence in the correct category and it showed us that most people had really grasped using a and an properly! We are looking forward to using this game to assess our learning in other areas soon!

 

 

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The Anaconda’s Feast in Primary 2 and 2/1

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Last week, Primaries 2 and 1 met a very sneaky snake! It was an Anaconda snake and we learnt some very interesting facts about this snake.

Christy- They live in South America.

Lucas- I reminded Mrs Dymock that the Anaconda swallows its feast whole.

Bella-Rose- It can grow as long as a school bus!

Harry- I’ve held an Anaconda round my neck when I was on holiday in Spain.

We decided to create our own Anacondas! We used different materials including coloured paper, cardboard, crayons, pencils, glue, glitter and scissors.

We have displayed our artwork on our classroom doors, ENTER IF YOU DARE!

Speak to you again soon.

All the boys and girls in Primaries 2 and 1.

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Cool Caterpillars

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Primary 2 and 2/1 are really excited to welcome new guests to their classrooms….caterpillars! As part of our topic ‘Living Things’ we are going to be following the life cycle of a caterpillar as it grows into a beautiful butterfly then we will set it free.  We devised our own questions that we would like to find out about the creatures and hope to be able to answer them by the end of the topic.  We have learned so many facts already!

I learned that caterpillars have holes on their bodies to breathe. – Natalia.

I know that caterpillars have spiky hairs to stop them from being eaten. – Emily

I learned that caterpillars shed their skin. – Megan

I didn’t know that mummy butterflies lay caterpillar eggs. – Nia

I learned that caterpillars go into a J-shaped cocoon. – Archie

I learned that caterpillars have different kinds of legs. – Katie

Primary 3

Primary 3 Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

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Today we had a great day celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! We learned about the life of St. Patrick in Literacy, Maths and R.M.E lessons. We read all about the symbols of St. Patrick’s day then answered comprehension questions. We used our knowledge of times tables to create a picture of a leprechaun and we learned how St. Patrick used a shamrock to tell people about God and the Holy Trinity. After looking at symbols of luck, we discussed how we are all lucky in different ways.