Category: Session 2020-2021

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!

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

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.

I hope you are all well and managing to get organised for Christmas. In school, the excitement is building. It began with the children’s Christmas lunch (in their bubbles of course)

Next the children wrote a letter to Santa. They decided they were all definitely on the nice list and have been good all year! The letter said “I have been good. Can I have …………………… please”. Some children are now able to write short sentences independently. So proud of them. Some examples below-

We are also busy practising a Christmas poem that will be available for you to view in the last week of term. We have been practising it everyday and making candy canes. This is the poem and some candy canes we are preparing for the performance.

Today we read the most beautiful story “Little Robin Red Vest” . It’s about a little robin who is kind and gives away his 7 vests to other animals who need them in the week before Christmas. So by Christmas eve he has nothing to keep him warm but Santa has been watching his kindness and Mrs Claus makes him a special red vest. The children absolutely loved it and wanted to make a vest for the little robin. We used a  guided draw. I think you will agree the children did really well!

Maths – Money

This week we have began looking at money. I started by asking the children what “does money mean to you and what do we use it for?” I noted down some of the responses-

For now, the children are exploring and sorting different coins. We will move onto investigating their value and how we can make different combinations. Our Dean’s Store will help.

Lastly after all the hard work we enjoyed some Yoga from Mrs Anderson via Skype.

Have a lovely weekend and I will be back with the last blog of the year next week!

Today in P6/5  we were learning how to do persuasive writing. We looked at our blog to help us think about why we need blogs. A small group of pupils are writing this for you.

We think blogs are important because it helps us know what is happening in our school and when. For example, this week we have Christmas lunch and Christmas jumper day. It helps us use computers and check our writing makes sense. We need to know about computers for now if we need to be on teams.

Some people say you might get sore eyes, get addicted to computers or be distracted from other work.

We still think we should use the blog because it can be fun and interesting for our classes and parents!

This week finished the Sharing The Learning video all of us got to see the finished product we all think its great but kind of cheesy at the same time.

Art-

In art to get us into the Christmas spirit we painted Christmas baubles to put on our tree at home. We think we done pretty well on the baubles.

Maths-

Today we looked at a test that we done at the very start of the year and we read over it and seeing what we have learned so far. re-done the ones we got wrong and see if we have learned about it or not.

Literacy-

We done the same thing in literacy but we did it again and some of us got 14+ more then last time we done it

We hope you liked learning about our week this week!