Bellsquarry Primary School

Primary 4 went to the Lanthorn Centre yesterday to share their learning at a fair trade cluster assembly. The children presented the story of how chocolate is made and explained why it is important that we all buy fair trade products when possible. The presentation was so good that Ms. McMaster has asked us to share it with the rest of the school next week.

This afternoon in Primary 4 we have been designing our own robots. We started off by learning about how creative and interesting robots can be and about some of the different things that they can do. We worked in groups to complete different challenges. We made robots that could move, for example they could spin and move forwards. We also made robots that could light up and could make different noises. Then we found out that robots can be artists and can make their own interesting patterns. We thought that the robots workshop was great and incredible!

It’s been another busy week in Primary 4. As part of our maths work we have been doing division. We have been looking at the link between multiplying and dividing to help us.

As part of our Wallace and Bruce topic we have been finding out more about castles and their defences. We have started to draw labelled diagrams of old Scottish castles to show what we have learned.

In our free writing Friday time this week we are going to be writing stories that we will be able to share with our reading buddies next week. We are looking forward to writing our stories and having the chance to read these to our buddies.

Primary One has had a great week with lots of new activities and challenges to start off the new year!  We have been solving problems, working on our listening skills and learning lots of new things about Scotland.  It has been braw!   The pupils particularly enjoyed organising themselves into human number line and could do it incredibly quickly after a couple of tries.

The children have all worked very hard this week so I hope they have a fun weekend but manage to get some good sleep as well.

This week we have been learning more about William Wallace. We found out that he lived over 700 years ago and was an outlaw at the time. We have been designing our own ‘wanted’ posters for William Wallace.

We have also been using our literacy skills to help us write our own versions of a Scottish tale about a ‘wee bannock’. Some of our bannocks were a little bit naughty and got up to all sorts of mischief!

It has been a busy first week back in 2019! We have started our Wallace and Bruce topic and have been making notes and finding out more about Robert Bruce. We have also been using our creative skills to draw illustrations of Bruce.

In maths we have been developing our multiplication skills. We have been practising our times tables and even using them to help us to multiply two digit numbers!