Yesterday Primary 4 pupils took part in their Christmas party. We had games, dancing and lots of delicious snacks. We had a lovely morning all together.
Primary 1
Primary 1 have had a very exciting week. As well as continuing to learn new sounds, stretching out words to help us write words and learning and playing with 2D shapes, we had a visit from a local author and performed our Nativity Play!
When the author visited us we listened to 3 stories and had the opportunity to ask lots of questions.
On Thursday we performed our nativity; Baarmy Bethlehem to the whole school. Our first audience! Then today was our show. We loved being on the stage!
Five Sisters Zoo for The Hive
Eoin and Dan have had a lovely few weeks at the Five Sisters Zoo. We saw lots of animals, and even got to feed some. We have learned a lot about the animals and their habitats.
Santa Letters in The Hive
The Hive children have been getting very excited about Christmas. Our Writing lesson was writing a letter to Santa. We used the Smyths toy magazine for inspiration and ideas. Fingers crossed we get what we asked for!!
Social Studies in P6
As we complete our Social Studies context on Natural Disasters this seemed a good opportunity to share some of our displays and the fantastic work we did across the curriculum linking to this particular topic. We linked our Literacy by creating a diary entry where we used the features of the genre. We worked on our up scaled vocabulary choices so the reader could really imagine being immersed in our chosen disaster! We also wrote explanations, describing how and why different disasters happen.
As you can see we also linked our learning to our ICT outcomes by creating a PowerPoint at the start of our context highlighting what we already knew about Natural Disasters and how we would like to take our learning forward, putting the class at the centre of their learning and demonstrating pupil agency, ownership of the context. Finally, we also looked at our outcomes for Art when completing pencil drawings of a particular disaster, paying particular attention to detail.
As well as linking different curriculum outcomes to our context we were also always mindful to remember our skillset, highlighting which ones linked most closely to a particular task.
Microbit coding in P6
Much like a tiny, pocket-sized computer, the micro:bit encourages us to learn basic coding and programming skills to prepare us for today’s tech-savvy world. We were having great fun with coding using Micro:Bits. We made some flashing animations and then had a turn at coding the game ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’.
I can explore core programming language concepts in appropriate technical language TCH2-14a
TV Star in P7/6!
Our very own Erynn in P7/6 was lucky enough to audition for and get a part in the CBBC Live Saturday Mash up!
Her and her mum went on the show and had to sing songs and finish the lyrics or get slimed! Erynn won the show and even got a prize!
We are very proud of you Erynn, congratulations!
This week in P2
This week in P2 we began looking at division using sharing to help us. We used play-doh to show how to share equally. We have been discussing the skills we use in our lessons and thinking about where else we might use these. We really enjoy our handwriting lessons each week and use Ruby our noise dragon to help us focus on our learning. We have also been learning how to say Merry Christmas in a different language each day looking at the languages that people in our school speak. Lots to look forward to over the next couple of weeks!
Book Week Thanks!
A huge thank you to everyone who came along to school recently to support our learning and enjoyment of books as part of Book Week Scotland.
A very special thank you to all of our wonderful Secret Readers who volunteered to read to classes as part of our Book Week celebrations. Sometimes our lovely volunteers can feel a little daunted at the prospect of reading aloud to classes, but we would like them to know how much we value their support. It is so important that pupils can see that other adults read, not only teachers in school. The classes love having a visitor and they enjoyed a wide range of great stories.
We had many parents and carers visiting our Travelling Book Fair. Thanks to the purchases made we received commission and this will be used to buy reading resources for our learners.
We are very grateful to you all for supporting reading enjoyment and the love of books in our school.
P3 Literacy
We have been learning how to write a discussion this term. We have to think about arguments for and against a topic. We have completed several this term including ‘Should we get a class pet?’ and ‘Should children be made to wear school uniform?’. We write our plan one day and then the nest we write our Discussion text. We have been trying really hard to remember our capital letters and full stops and are getting better at using our word logs for spelling.
We have started learning about verbs. We have been copying actions in a song and coming up with actions of our own. We have worked with random partners to find verbs in a passage and come up with sentences using interesting verbs.
