This week has been super busy with learning! We have been involved in more learner agency lessons where we have ownership over how to present our learning this week. We wrote some amazing imaginative stories as well. We have been learning about right angles which we have really enjoyed and identifying these in shapes. We have used a lot of digital technology this week to support us in reading and health and wellbeing.
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend.
Miss Cameron
Primary 2/1 have had a great week of learning.
In Maths, Primary 1s were learning about doing a survey of information then presenting the results in a block graph. Our survey was about our eye colours. We learned that presenting it in a block graph made it much easier to see the results quickly and clearly. Primary 1s also practised counting forwards to 20 this week. The Primary 2 children are learning Time and focused on half-past on analogue clocks. They made their own clocks and then showed the Primary 1s how to place the hands to make ‘half-past’ times.
In Literacy, Primary 1s spent the week reading and writing. We read our reading books before sending these home and in writing we wrote sentences dictated by the teacher. We had a few things to remember to be successful in our writing: capital letters, full stops, finger spaces between words and sounding out all of the words and making sure to write each sound down in the right order. They then listened to my individual feedback afterwards to know how to improve the next time. Primary 2s were learning the sounds ng and nk and in writing they learned how to write an Instruction. The instruction was ‘How To Wash Your Hands’ and firstly the children had to tell the teacher each step in washing hands – at the sink the teacher followed each step literally and the children understood how important it was to make the instruction very clear. The children also learned about how to write an instruction correctly and they thought imperative verbs (bossy verbs) were funny, for example. Wash/ Rinse/ Dry/. These are verbs that tell us what to do. They also learned about using Sequencers, for example, First, Next, Last etc.
In Science we are learning all about our Senses with Mrs Beattie.
Our topic is The Romans and the children discussed what they knew already and what they’d like to learn which includes learning about transport, food, houses and wars. They also looked for Italy and Rome on a real map and made their own flag of Italy. They learned the Latin words for boy and girl – puer et puella.
Thank you for returning all the Primary 1 reading books in the book bags (which protects our books). I hope you enjoyed listening to the children sound, blend and read. Primary 2s, your reading homework starts next week in line with the other Primary 2 classes.
I hope you all had a lovely weekend and I look forward to hearing all your news tomorrow.
Best wishes,
Mrs Meikle
Hello everyone. P1 have been very busy this week. We’re very excited to see if our sunflower seeds will grow. We’ve been learning about how to plant a seed, what a seed needs to grow and talking about living and non-living things.
In maths, we have been learning to count forwards and backwards to 20, forming all our numbers correctly and sequencing.
We were excited to bring our first reading books home. (Please ensure all books are returned to school on a Friday morning).
We’re continuing to learn to write with capital letters, full stops and finger spaces for all our sentences.
We’ve enjoyed being out in the sunshine this week and hope you have a lovely weekend.
Pots of sunflower seeds in P1!
The P3 pupils have settled back in well after the Easter holidays.
Across the stage, we have been learning about fractions, finding halves and quarters, writing fractions, and finding fractions of an amount. We have been finishing off some of our writing from last term and are looking forward to doing lots of writing this term. We have also been focusing on the children’s wellbeing, discussing how to be respectful in class.
P3A have been focusing on fairytales this week, ahead of looking at creative writing this term.
P3B have been making Talking Tigers and finding new ways to discuss and share their learning and ideas!
Homework grids will be going out this week on SEESAW and will be due on Friday 7th May 2021.
Have a wonderful weekend and we are looking forward to starting our new topic, The Iron Man next week!!
Miss Reid Mrs Robertson
What a very busy first week back after the Easter holidays! It was great to see everyone back this week. We dived right into our learning and looked at column subtraction which we really enjoyed. We worked on speech bubbles to create our own comic strips, worked on homophones, angles and French amongst other things.
This week the children really enjoyed learning through Learner Agency where they are able to take more ownership of how they learn. We had a go at deciding how we wanted to represent our learning in Health and Wellbeing this week. Some children went a very creative, artistic way and others preferred to create something more structured. A fabulous job P4!
