Day: January 13, 2020

Happy New Year from everyone in Primary 3! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed the holidays.

Primary 3 have been working with Mrs Hillan at the start of this week and we enjoyed sharing how we spent our Christmas holidays. We had a Circle Time and took turns to share the things we had done over the holidays as well as anything exciting we did on Christmas Day or New Year. This was a good opportunity to refresh our memories of the 4 skills from our Skills 4.0 document, focusing on Social Intelligence, using communication and being aware of our own feelings and the feelings of others. It was lovely to share what a wonderful time we all had!

We began reading the story of Greyfriar’s Bobby as a class. The children have done a super job of recalling the story so far and we have created our own versions of the cover of the book including something we heard about in the story so far. Some children chose to draw Bobby up in the Pentland Hills when he first ran away and met his new owner, Auld Jock. Others chose to draw Bobby following Jock to Edinburgh and visiting the busy city. The children came up with lots of options to choose from.

Primary 3 also revisited our Number Talks in Numeracy this week by finding out how many ways we could make the number 5. The children were keen to share all the different ways they found. Some pupils used addition skills, some used subtraction skills and a number of them used multiplication. There were a few children who even included all 3 skills in one sum!

Mrs Hillan has been very impressed with Primary 3 and looks forward to continuing to work with them whilst Mrs Buntin is absent. Well done P3, keep up the good work!

Primary 7 are back and ready for some hard work. Already we have been working on rounding decimals. To help us understand we found a clip that explained significant numbers.

Deans Travel Agents

To work on our new topic the class have split into 6 different groups and are planning a budget holiday. each group has chosen a country such as:

1. Mexico
2. India
3. Israel
4. Indonesia
5. Japan
6. A tour of the famous football stadiums in Britain

There are many skill that will be covered during this topic and each group will keep you up to date on their progress.

Some of the Primary 7’s have been selected to work together to improve the playground. Along with Mrs Wood, Mrs Rosie and Mrs Stewart they have been searching through catalogues to get ideas and implement the new look playground.

This term Primary 7 will have gym on Mondays and Tuesdays. Can they all bring a complete change of gym kit, no jewelry and a pair of indoor shoes both for gym and the classroom. We are getting new flooring in our room and we want to keep it as clean as possible.

Last week we were looking at a famous Scottish cartoon character and climate change. We have tried designing our own comic with the character about climate change. We also decided to be put forth in a big event in the Edinburgh Film Festival. We can get to make our own mini movies and if we win, we get to see our movie in a cinema! Also if we win massive film directors can get to see it on the big screen, other school pupils also get to see it! We have made letters to ask the company (for copyright reasons) if  we can use their characters.

We tried using a new genre in language, Persuasive writing. We used this genre for writing our email/letters to the company to persuade them to let us use their characters.

On the first week back we looked into a new topic for math, Division.  We have made math posters on laptops to show what we understand in math. We tried using the bus stop method when trying to do division. We have learnt what a remainder and how to use the bus stop methods. We also used fact families and used algebra.