Month: December 2020

P5 Wish You a Merry Christmas!

We have really enjoyed our last week before Christmas.

The silent disco was a highlight!

Sophie S – I enjoyed going outside for the disco.

Anna – Miss Stanway had the best dance moves!

Bella – I enjoyed the sweets!

Kyle – I enjoyed listening to music.

Alexis – I enjoyed dancing with friends.

Bailey – I liked, ‘I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.’

Other Christmas Activities

Colin – I enjoyed filming the Christmas poem.

Sophie P – I enjoyed watching the Christmas film.

We created some Christmas optical art.

We also completed some Christmas ‘scratchy’ art.

Maths

In maths we practised making 3D shapes from nets.

We also predicted whether or not a triangular prism could be made from different arrangements of nets.

Bailey – I enjoyed making the shapes.

Construction

Using K’nex we built dinosaurs!

Personal Achievement

Jaxson has achieved his red belt in taekwondo !Well done!

 

This Week in P3/2

Literacy

This week, we were practicing our tricky words. We were using rainbow writing and quizzing a friend.

For reading this week, we were given a passage and then answered questions by finding information from within the text. One of our passages was about Christmas trees as we learned about the history of the Christmas tree and how different counties have different traditions.

Maths

In maths this week, we were using the most effective strategy to solve addition problems. During number talks, we discussed all the different strategies we could use to calculate the answer to a sum.

IDL

This week for our Viking topic, we were learning about the Battle of Largs. This was the last battle between the Scots and the Vikings. The Pencil was built to celebrate the Scots keeping the land and to remember those who lost their lives in the fight.

Christmas Activities

We really enjoyed a variety of Christmas activities. We all worked very hard to practice our Christmas poem. We also designed and decorated Christmas baubles.  At our Christmas party, we got very excited about seeing Santa’s message.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas from P3/2!

Merry Christmas from P2!

Here are some of the things we have been up to this week!

Kevin the Carrot

Charli Mae – “We watched Kevin the Carrot and had to finish the story”

Countries Around the World

Louie – “We learned about how different countries celebrate Christmas. In Australia it is really hot on Christmas Day. In one country, they hide a nut in the pudding and whoever finds the nut has good luck.”

A special visit from Santa

Euan – “When we came back from break, we saw Santa had been and left us a special letter! He wanted our help to decide if the Grinch should be on the naughty list or the nice list so we had to persuade Santa what we thought”

Making the Grinch’s heart grow

Archie M – “We were thinking of different things to make the Grinch’s heart grow 3 sizes bigger”

Grinch Art

Sophie – “We used red paper for the heart and the hat and then green paper for a body and head and we made the Grinch”

Handprints

Max – “We used blue and white paint to paint our handprints”

Andrew – “We drew snowmen on our fingers”

Tree Baubles

Jordon – “We made tree baubles with different colours”

Christmas Party

Ethan – “We made Christmas hats and other crafts for our party”

Emily – “We went outside in to the playground and listened to music and had a dance”

Layla – “My favourite song is the hippopotamus song”

Vrishti – “Santa sent us a special message and sent us a gift”

 

 

Have a safe and happy Christmas everyone. See you in the New Year for some more great learning!

Merry Christmas from P4/3

What a fun week in P4/3 as we were all feeling in the festive spirit!! We enjoyed watching Christmas movies, making crafts and spending time with our friends. We were even lucky enough to have a special visitor during our movie afternoon on Tuesday!!

Wishing everyone a safe, restful and peaceful holiday. Looking forward to seeing the children return in January 2021, Merry Christmas !!!   Mrs Morrison xx

Merry Christmas From P1A

This week the children have enjoyed taking part in a number of Christmas activities.

On Tuesday the children performed their Christmas poem “Peppermint Stick”. Mrs Wallace recorded it and it is now available for you to view. Enjoy!

On Tuesday afternoon we had our class Christmas party. The children enjoyed dancing, playing games such as – corners, musical bumps/statues, pass the parcel and pin the tail on Rudolph as well as welcoming a special visitor (who is currently in our bubble). Some Pictures below.

The children have also enjoyed taking part in a number of Christmas art activities. I hope you enjoy hanging the baubles and gingerbread men on your tree. Some images of the process below.

Some of the books we have enjoyed reading.

I would just like to say a big thank you for all the support you have given the children and school since August, it has been very different year and hopefully next year at some point, we can welcome parents back into the school building. I hope you all have a brilliant Christmas and a very happy new year and I look forward to welcoming the children back on Wednesday the 6th of January 2021. Take care and be safe!

Merry Christmas from Primary 1B

Primary 1B would like to take this opportunity in our final blog post of 2020, to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Our last week of term has flown past, filled with parties, Christmas crafts and lots of Christmas fun. Here are some pictures of what we have been getting up to.

Happy Christmas everyone!

Mrs Stevenson and Primary 1B

 

A Digital Nativity

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Nativity production this year looks very different.  All classes in the school have been involved in creating a stop frame animation of The Christmas Story.

The story was divided into scenes, with each class being responsible for a scene.  Pupils made the scenery and props, and set up the scene for their class.  Everyone in the class was involved in helping to animate their class scene, and pupils were able to work in small groups at a safe distance.

The stop frame animation involved positioning the characters in the scene, taking a photo, then moving the characters a very small distance.  Another photo taken, another tiny movement made, another photo taken, and this was repeated over 100 times for each scene.  When all the pictures are sequenced and viewed one after another, the characters appear to move by themselves.

There has been a huge amount of work from the pupils involved in creating this year’s Nativity – well done everyone.
We all hope that you enjoy watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYceZXoYX5w&feature=youtu.be

 

This Week in P3/2

Literacy

During writing this week, we were focusing on varying our sentence length when writing a Viking dairy entry. We had to include connecting words, adjectives and facts we have learned about the Vikings.

During reading, we were sounding out unfamiliar words and then answering reading comprehension questions about our text.

“We were answering questions about our reading books.”

We use the look, say, cover, write strategy to help us sound out words containing our spelling pattern. In groups, we also played a tricky word flash card game.


Maths

This week, we learned more about addition. We were learning to use column sums to help us add bigger numbers. It is very important we remember our knowledge from place value when using this method.

 

“We used Number Talks to discuss the different strategies we can use when adding.”

“This week, we were learning to add using column sums.”

IDL

This week, we were learning about the Lewis Chessmen. These were found on the Lewis Island in 1831. There were 93 gaming pieces in total. Each piece is different and you can see these today at National Museum of Scotland.

 

“The Lewis Chessmen are the game pieces that the Vikings use to play chess.”

“The game pieces were carved from walrus ivory and whales’ teeth.”

 

Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper Day

On Wednesday, we enjoyed our Christmas lunch and on Friday we liked wearing our Christmas jumpers to school to raise money for the charity Save the Children. We are getting very excited for the holidays.

 

P7/6

CW- We’ve been learning how to do a Discussion text.

LS- We’ve been learning about abbreviated words, which are words that have been shortened.

EH- We have been revising on Subtraction.

For PE, we played rounders. (KP)

DB- We also learnt to read Advertisements.

CC- We’ve been learning Time intervals.

Lastly, we have been practicing out Christmas Poem.

Update from P2

Have a read to see what we have been up to this week!

Christmas Story

Mr Welsh read us one of our favourite stories yesterday! We showed super listening skills and were paying close attention to see if we could hear our boost words!

Writing

During writing this week we wrote letters to Santa persuading him that we have been good this year. Some of our arguments include hoovering the rug, being kind and helping to do the dishes!

Christmas Lunch

We had such a delicious Christmas lunch on Wednesday! After our lunch, we wrote letters to the lunch ladies to thank them for our wonderful food. We tried super hard to use adjectives to describe our lunch.

STEM Challenge

On Tuesday, we began learning about the Christmas story. We learned that Baby Jesus was born in a stable. We had to demonstrate our collaboration, communication and leadership skills whilst working with the people next to us to build our very own stables! We had lots of materials to choose from but had to think hard about which materials should be used where. We discovered that the kitchen roll tubes were the best material to make the sides of the stable!

Salt Dough Hands

On Thursday, we each had a batch of salt dough and we had to print our hands into the dough. Once the dough has had a chance to dry over the weekend, we will paint them next week and bring them home!

Christmas Jumper Day

Look how great we all look in our Christmas jumpers!

Today we all said goodbye and good luck to Miss Hennessy as she is leaving to work in a new school. We are all very sad to see her go but wish her the best of luck and hope to see her again very soon.

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