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!
Primary 2/1 you have worked hard this week!
In Literacy, Primary 1s were learning the sounds ‘oi’ as in coin and ‘ng’ as in sing and practised lots of lovely handwriting for these. They also practised reading simple sentences from the board and even writing one sentence on their own in their new writing jotters – “See a cat.” They are also enjoying their new reading groups and read their second reading book this week.
Primary 2s are also reading well and enjoying their reading group time together. They have been practising reading with more fluency (faster). In writing they were practising their writing skills by creating a word bank of Easter words before writing three of their own Easter sentences. Primary 2s were learning new sounds of ng and nk and practising their spelling words for these. Our Friday handwriting lesson is much enjoyed by Primary 2 and they listen to gentle Minecraft relaxing piano music to help slow down the pace of writing to help improve it.
In Numeracy Primary 1s and Primary 2 have been learning Time and completed lots of great work on that on both analogue and digitial clocks. Primary 2s also spent time practising some of their division again whilst Primary 1s practised more addition.
In Science the whole class worked with Mrs Beattie to create great diagrams of the class plant growing experiments.
In Topic the children continue to enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story book by Roald Dahl and any associated activities with that. They recently enjoyed making the chocolate waterfall and lollies and sweetie decorations for the role play corner.
In RME the children learned about the bible story of Easter with Mrs. Turner.
Thank you for all of your hard work and enjoy the weekend, boys and girls.
Best wishes,
Mrs Meikle
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
Happy Red Nose Day! We loved seeing your costumes and hearing all the jokes in class and assembly.
In class, we have recently been learning some new sounds: oo, ee ai. ie, ou and oi. We have also been learning about Spring with Mrs Turner. We are beginning to learn about halves in Maths and have been practising our addition and subtraction.
We have been continuing to develop our reading skills and reading in small groups. Please look at Seesaw for more information.
As the weather gets warmer, please can you ensure that the children bring enough water to school.
Due to current covid restrictions, it is essential that personal items are kept at home. Children are not able to share with classmates.
Have a lovely weekend.
The P1 teachers
