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!
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!
It has a great and very busy week in P4!
We have concentrated on Time in Maths this week and played lots of games. We have written a discussion text and made sure we argued our points for and against the issue with amazing results. We have continued to work on our community work as well and discussed the wants and needs that people would have and discussed the rights and responsibilities we have.
Everyone has worked so hard this week, well done!
It’s been another busy week in primary 1. This week and next we will learn two new sounds ‘oa’ and ‘ng’. The children have been writing the sounds and blending to read words containing the sound. We have been reading in small groups and writing sentences and small stories. Our targets are to start with a capital letter, use finger spaces and end with a full stop. We have been adding within 10 and learning about halves and quarters. We have also been learning about toys in the past.
It was lovely to catch up with you this week. Have a great weekend.
Happy Friday P3! … and Happy Red Nose Day!
We loved seeing different super heroes in our classes today and we enjoyed listening to lots of jokes. Well done to Erin and Paul for confidently reading their jokes at our assembly. Thank you very much to everyone who made a donation to Comic Relief.
We have all been working so hard in P3 this week on writing information reports. We are have been discussing our core targets and thinking about how we can improve our writing. When we assess our writing we think about… what went well and even better if…
We have also been working on division and using our multiplication facts to help us work out the answer.
Well done everyone! Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Reid P3A Mrs Robertson P3B
Wow, it has been great to have everyone back in class this week and it has been a busy one!
We have been working on writing descriptions, understanding and clarifying words in a text and working on homophones in literacy. In maths, we have worked on column addition, multiplication and time this week as well. We have continued to look at health and wellbeing and our topic looking at ‘Our Community’ where we looked at ‘wants and needs’. We had a great discussion about ‘wants and needs’.
It has been great to get back to our class and we have really enjoyed Red Nose Day today and being dressed up!
What a wonderful week of learning in P4 again this week! Well done everyone, it has been great to see examples of your learning. We have focused on spelling, writing descriptions and asking questions this week in literacy. We have continued to work on coordinates and grid references this week in Numeracy and looked at relationships in Health and Wellbeing. We have continued to learn about our community but we have also looked at different communities in Scotland and compared and contrasted these. We then designed our own communities.
Here are just some of our examples:
I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone back in school next week. You have all worked so incredibly hard.
Have a lovely weekend!
Dear Primary 2/1,
Thank you for a great week of listening and hard work. You are all very much enjoying being back and enjoying your familiar space in the classroom and seeing all of your friends.
In Literacy this week, the Primary 1s have been working hard on learning their digraphs sounds – oo, ee, ie .
Primary 2s have been learning more about what makes a sentence a question and in writing they used their success critieria list to help them write the perfect questions for Willie Wonka.
In Numeracy, Primary 1s completed more work on subtraction and were also introduced to Fractions; learning about a ‘whole’ and a ‘half’ and what makes a ‘half’ (it has to be exactly the same size as the other half’).
Primary 2s did more learning on missing subtrahends, addends and number sequencing.
On Thursday we had World Book Day activities and the children very much enjoyed listening to stories being read to them by P7 pupils via Teams. P2/1 also watched a video about a Book Cover Designer and they learned lots about what he does. P2/1 enjoyed completing his task of designing their own Book Cover and the book was to be about them. They also enjoyed making their own mini-book from paper and completing a front cover, mini-story and illustrations.
Primary 2/1 are very much enjoying their Topic – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They are also enjoying learning about Plants in Science and learning some Bible Stories in RME with links into Technology.
Thank you for sending in photos of your favourite book.
Have a great weekend, Primary 2/1.
Mrs Meikle
