Maths
The children have continued to work on time with Mrs Lockhart. They are working hard to identify o’clock and half past on a clock.
IDL
We have started our new IDL Topic of ‘The Body’. We have a hospital set up in the classroom and the children have enjoyed fixing broken bones and waiting to see the doctor in the waiting room!
Health and Wellbeing
We have been looking at differences and similarities we have with different people in class. We understand that it is good to be different.
Health
This week we had a visit from Mark, who through our Headstrong sessions, is helping us with our mental health.
Kyle – We learnt about how other people might see us.
PE
Cameron – I enjoyed our last week of hockey. I now feel more confident in big games.
Bella – I enjoyed the hockey.
Numeracy
This week we learnt about money. In particular we learnt about the risks, costs and benefits of using cash, credit cards and debit cards.
Bailey – I liked learning about credit cards. You can spend large amounts!
Bella – But you can get a big bill! If you forget to pay you have to pay more.
Literacy – Writing
We worked with a partner to plan an exciting science fiction story. This will be written up next week.
Coding
This week we placed a timer in our coding sequence.
Monday:
Extended writing on writers craft, continuing the narrative theme. The class created a story about “Sumo Joe”. The focus was on adverbs, similes and metaphors. EY was proud of their written work.
Maths was spent working on factors. JH excelled in this.
PE was spent working on hockey skills.
We also did a reading comprehension activity on the start of “Macbeth”.
Tuesday:
In Maths we continued work on factors and some of the class worked on prime numbers.
Literacy was spent bumping up narrative from the previous day as well as activities that will relate to world book day.
Today is internet safety day, and so we spent some time looking at how to keep ourselves safe online.
The class also really enjoyed coding with Mrs B
Wednesday:
Maths was spent working on angles. EY and MxD excelled.
Ms T worked with the class on some mental health activities.
The class were finishing their pocket garden designs with Mrs D.
Thursday:
Amazing lesson on angles and directions.
More health activities on celebrating differences and getting to know more personal details about their class mates which generated great discussion. And in the afternoon even more mental health activities with Mark
Friday: Spelling, as usual.
PE: hand/eye coordination activities, also encouraging team work. Also creating our own class game: “Ball Tig”
Ice-cream van!
SU and KH birthdays
Scotland
This week we learned all about Edinburgh Castle. We drew some great pictures and wrote some facts about the Castle.
We also created a character for our Narrative writing who visited Edinburgh Castle.
Today is the end of our Scottish topic. We looked at some different Scottish food and drink and the children enjoyed some Irn-Bru and Shortbread.
Yoga
Our interactive Yoga wall is now set up in the classroom. The children are using different strategies when they feel they need to calm down or take a minute to themselves. The children can use these strategies at home.
Hand – the children use a finger to go up and down the fingers on the other hand to breathe in as they go up and breathe out as they go down.
Here is a link as an example – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVZgpyVQ78
Spider – breathe in for four counts and out for four counts.
Cup – three part breath – 1, 2, 3 breathing in each time.
Have a lovely long weekend!
Welcome to this week’s blog. I hope you are all well. Some of this week’s highlights.
Health and Wellbeing – The Colour Monster 
As promised last week, a picture of our completed Colour Monster display which we share with P1/2.
The children put a great deal of though into what makes them happy, feel love, angry etc. and shared their thoughts on speech bubbles.
Outdoor Learning – 
Below are some pictures from this weeks outdoor learning challenge set by Mrs Dobbie. The children had to work together to find a way to cross the playground without standing on the ground.
And they made it! Challenge completed!
Writing-
As well as our weekly writing the children are encouraged daily to write independently and are becoming more confident. Some really good examples below-
Numeracy – 
This week I have been challenging the children to add 2 collections when one of them is screened (this is support counting on strategies), they have also been introduced to subtration using this method. I was so pleased to see 2 children challenging each other (with no promting at all) using screens.
The children have also been creating their own numbers talks and challenging each other.
We have been exploring how larger numbers are made using 10 as a base number and dienes base 10 blocks. Some children created very large numbers!
Art and Design
We have started creating a forest display complete with drawings of the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs.
I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to welcoming the children back on Wednesday 16th February!
We’ve had an amazing week!
For Numeracy, we have been learning to read and tell the time. For Maths, we have been learning to find factors and multiples of a number.
For PE, we practiced our aim and attacking skills during Dodgeball. We also started performing Ceilidh dance.
We have been exploring ways to keep safe online and we have been leaning about gender equality. We wrote a story about the Loch Ness and monster and read the myth of Ghillie Dhu. We researched facts about Scottish clans and then we made our own personal crests.
Our stationery station enterprise is a hit! Thank you all for your support. Have fantastic long weekend!
Outdoor Learning!
One of our favourite activities this week was Green Gym outdoor learning with Alice. It was our last session so as a special treat we had a fire and ate toasted marshmallows and popcorn!
We even had a go at starting our own fires by using flint and steel and cotton covered with vaseline.
This was really tricky!
Anton, Kyle, Hope and Emily were great fire starters!
The marshmallows were delicious.
Bella – My mouth was covered in cream!
Hope – It looked like a meteroid!
Alexis didn’t like marshmallows so Miss Stanway got hers!
The popcorn was also tasty.
Kykle – The popcorn was very good!
Coding
Bailey – Learning to make sounds was fun!
Participation Friday!
We are painting rocks to sell and hide in the community. They have a positive message on them.
Hope – My rock turned out better than I thought! It was a bee and it says BEE HAPPY!
As part of LGBTQ+ month we discussed the importance of respect and tolerance.
Anton used the Kepla in friendship time to spell this out:
This week in P5 we have continued our coding activities in Digital Learning. Here are some quotes from the children explaining what they were doing:
Summer – We were coding things to make them race.
Sophie C – We got to play this game called ‘Up in the air’ and we got to code the planes to go up in the sky and go around in circles.
Ariah – We were using the keys on the keyboard instead of tapping the screen.
In Numeracy we had a focus on Multiples, Factors and Primes. We learned that:
-Multiples are really just extended times tables.
-Factors are numbers that divide exactly into another number.
-Prime numbers are special numbers, greater than 1, that have exactly two factors, themselves and 1.
We used online videos and games to learn about these, including BBC Bitesize and Topmarks – both of which we can access at home too!
In Spelling this week we wrote out our spelling words and then circled the vowels in each word in one colour and then the consonants in each word in another colour.
In Reading we discussed our predictions from last week, looked at the comments Mrs Hillan made, and created new predictions for the next part of our stories, trying to see if we could improve on last week’s. If we can show we have made improvements, our pieces may go up on our Bump It Up wall.
In Writing this week, we used pictures for inspiration. We discussed the pictures and possible adventures/stories that could come from this. We noted down some good ideas and vocabulary that we could possibly use. After this, we each created our own plans for our stories and thought about a title for our piece. We will write our stories next time.
Here are the pictures we looked at and then some of our ideas:
Erin R – A girl will find a dying alien in a UFO. She will get a magic bike that will take her into space.
Kayleigh – A little girl will go for a walk and she will see a tiger who will put her into a house which is on fire.
Chloe – A little girl goes into the woods and finds a shape-shifter that can turn into lots of things, including a tiger.
Ariah – A girl goes a walk in the woods and finds someone who is trapped in a house. She tries to save the person, but can’t because there is a tiger guarding it.
This week is Internet Safety Week, so we have been discussing staying safe online, creating posters to encourage this, looking at potential dangers online and discussing scenarios we might come across.
Remember we are off on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th February and we will be back on Wednesday 16th. Have a lovely long weekend!!
We are focusing on internet safety this week in school.
There are lots of resources available from the saferinternetday.org.uk website
including:
1) Learn more and get involved – Safer Internet Day 2022
5) Organisations and Resources for Parents and Carers
Literacy
In writing this week, we continued to develop our storyline during our narrative writing. We were writing about a winter story. We had to develop our setting and a character.
We continued to develop our reciprocal reading skills by summarising our text. We had to only write about the most important details.
Maths
In maths, we continued to develop our subtraction skills. We were looking at worded problems and had to use our critical thinking skills to understand what the question was asking.
IDL
For our Christianity topic, we were learning about the bible story of Adam and Eve. Christians believe these were the first humans and they lived in the garden of Eden until they ate the forbidden fruit.
