Category: Class Learning

This week in P4!

This week has been super busy with lots going on in P4.  We have been working on our new genre of writing and learning about Explanation Texts.  We have worked on division and angles this week and enjoyed learning something new in division.  We have continued to find out about how land is used around the country and what this might have looked like in older settlements.  We learned about the NSPCC and discussed how important it is to have a trusted adult to speak to if we are worried about something.  We took part in some class presentations on what job we would like to have when we grow up and they were amazing! We had class talks, PowerPoint presentations and even some videos, great job P4!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Cameron

P7 Learner Agency

Following on from the success of our first Learner Agency task where the class  planned, evaluated and took forward our Road Safety Assembly that we shared with the whole school P7 decided to instigate another active task. We discussed what Learner Agency meant to them and they came up with words such as choice, empowered, responsible, active and independent. These are all key values of Learner Agency.

Learner Agency is more personalized learning. It empowers the children to influence their own path. By encouraging P7 to take initiative, they enhance their  ability to take control, increase motivation, and ensure they  respond to their own activities.  They develop the ability to organise themselves, employ strategies that help them to become  effective learners and how most importantly to take their learning forward. These are all skills that they  will need to develop  as they make the transition to S1.

Or current context is Charities and Communities and the class decided to use this as the basis for their Learner Agency activity. We briefly discussed possible Learning Outcomes and within their groups they created their own  Success Criteria. Each group has been allocated a display space and will present their learning here as well as using other media to share their creations! I have already witnessed ICT, Drama and Art and I cannot wait to see each groups final presentations….Watch this Space!

 

P2/1 Learning this week

Primary 2/1, it was a short week of learning but we still managed to learn lots of new things.

Primary 1s, we worked on our numbers 11-20 and we used our cubes and paired up with a partner to use lots of fingers to show different ways of making the numbers 12 and 13.  We enjoy our learning from the board that gives us lots of active learning tasks to practise our understanding and we enjoy our Numberblock videos and our discussions about where we see Numbers outside of the school (shops, buses, doors and registration plates).  In Literacy we moved onto a new reading book and practised that alongside our longer sentences from the board.  Primary 1s also carried out Class Talks this week on ‘My Favourite Animal’.  The whole class had to remember our rules about a quality audience and when presenting you had to remember to talk in a loud, clear voice whilst making good eye contact with your audience.  I was so impressed with the amount of facts you could remember and how well you answered  the three questions at the end.  Well done, Primary 1s.

Primary 2s, we progressed in our learning of the time; quarter to/past the hour and you applied this new learning to your airport/train station theme (where you are applying learning ownership).  In writing you practised more of the new phonics from last week (st, ft and mp) and you made some beautiful pyramid writing to learn your spelling words.  Primary 2s also carried out some beautiful handwriting whilst learning the spelling of words commonly used.

In our Romans topic we learned about the Roman Army and Forts.  We learned all about what they would need to survive in the fort long-term and then we created our own versions of these using card and coloured pens.  We had a lot of good discussion on why the Romans used metal in their armour and what the Roman Empire entailed (invasion of countries).  We also enjoyed a new Roman mythical story about the Goddess Juno and the Golden Chair.  Primary 2/1 are thoroughly enjoying these mythical stories and we will soon transform one of our corridor walls into a storyboard of these myths.

In French we practised our weather question ‘Quel temps fait-il?’  What’s the weather like?  We practised our answers Il fait beau, Il fait froid, Il fait gris, Il pleut and Il neige.  (It’s nice, it’s cold, it’s cloudy, it’s raining and it’s snowing).  We also reminded ourselves of our commands.  It was fun doing the actions fast for these!

Have a great weekend,

Best wishes

Mrs Meikle

P2/1 Learning This Week

Primary 2/1 – you have worked hard this week!

In Language, Primary 1 are practising their reading, writing and handwriting each week now.  The children are learning to read longer sentences using their phonics to sound out cvc and ccvc words.  Some children are also blending and reading much longer words using their phonics knowledge.  In writing we are working hard on thinking about all of the sounds in a word as we write it down.

In Language, Primary 2 practised Instructional Writing for the second time – this time we ‘walked through’ ‘How To Make A Jam Sandwich’.  The Primary 2s were very wise this week and remembered the rules from last week’s handwashing instructional writing.  Primary 2s were also practising spelling with their new phonic sounds – st, ft and mp (e.g. first, lift and bump).  They enjoyed learning to use a dictionary to look up some words as part of their Clarifying lesson in Comprehension.

In Numeracy, Primary 1 did more work on learning numbers 11-20 and Primary 2s learned their half-past times on digital.  The Primary 2s were also given some learner agency in this area and they enhanced a Time Traveller mini-whiteboard game that was introduced in the class earlier in the week.  The children went on to developing it further into an airport and train station context and one pupil created a detailed map of a train station and airport including clocks placed within it.  Some rich dialogue around time could be heard during this game.

In our Romans topic the whole class loved the Romulus and Remus mythical story about the alleged Founders of Rome who were raised by a she-wolf when they were babies.  The children made their own stick puppets and re-enacted the story through puppet drama.

In French we learned the weather and used weather sticks to interact with one another whilst asking ‘What’s the weather like?’ and to answer these : It’s a lovely day; It’s raining; It’s cloudy; It’s snowing; It’s cold.  The children also very much love when Tidot, our French mascot, visits the lesson.

In Word Boost, where we introduce four WOW words in a weekly story, the children very much loved dramatising this at the end of the week.  They were excellent at remembering their speaking parts and also used great listening skills whilst others were talking.

I hope you have a lovely holiday weekend, Primary 2/1.

Primary 1s, I look forward to hearing your class talks on your favourite animals next Tuesday.

Best wishes,

Mrs Meikle

 

 

 

 

This week in P4!

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

P2/1 Learning this week

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

Learning in P1

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!

This week in P4

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!

 

This week in 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!

Primary 1

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.

 

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