In Big Maths we have been consolidating our number bonds to 10. We have been using our workbooks to practice adding. We like to spot a switcher!
In Literacy, we have been practicing capital letters and full stops and trying to use them properly. For our writing task we wrote descriptions of some characters from Toy Story- it was very fun!
In Social Studies this week we were learning all about toys and games from around the world. We played a game from Africa called Snake. We learned the rules of the game and then we gave it a go, it was great fun!
In Art we have been learning all about pop art, specifcally looking at an artist called Andy Warhol as our stimulus. We drew our favourite toy and coloured them in using pop art colours.
In RE, we were learning all about how God made us unique and special, we drew a portrait of ourselves and wrote describing words about how God made us.
Today was the first Shiny Friday of the year and we all went to our Masterclasses and Committees, please ask us all about them! We all had great fun and learned lots!
This week in Primary 7 it has been Big Maths Week , we have been working on how to multiply 4 and 5 digit numbers by multiples of 10,100 and 1,000. We have worked on our 8 times tables and tried to beat our Big Maths scores. We have taken part in the Sum Dog Bigh Maths Challenge. We have applied our problem solving skills by completing a STEM challenge to find out if we could make a boat from tin foil to hold at least 35 marbles! We had great fun designing boats and finding out how many marbles they would hold. We then weighed our boat and out boat with the marbles to find out the weight capacity of our design! We then wrote up our experiment using scientific language and investigated the science behind floating and sinking. we found out it had a lot do with mass and density. In Writing we continued with our Titanic Fact files. In Topic we investigated life on board the Titanic. Some of us started a technology challenge to create 3D cabins. In Art we investigated the work of Modigliani and created a self- portrait in the same style. Finally w
e prepared a performance and a video for Mrs Wilson’s assembly and sadly we had to say goodbye to our lovely PT after 10 years! we wish her great luck in the future.
This week has been one of mixed emotions, we have enjoyed much of the learning that has taken place but we have also been preparing to say goodbye to Mrs Wilson. Primary 5 created a poem which we performed to her telling her how much we appreciated all that she has done for us over her time at St. Joseph’s.
In our Literacy work this week we wrote the front page of our newspaper, reporting on the discovery of King Alexander III’s body at the bottom of the cliffs at Kinghorn. We have enjoyed learning about the different features and techniques used by papers.
Maths this week saw us refine our number skills and using what we know to solve word problems.
On Wednesday me had a film crew in to film us as we tackled a challenge that Mr Reed had set us. Mr Reed had challenged us to harness the power of the wind to bring a cup from the floor up to the height of the table. We had lots of different resources which we could use. We based our designs on wind turbines which Mr Reed had talked to us about. This was a great fun task and although not every group was sucessful, we all enjoyed the challenge.
Primary 1 have had a great week! We have been creating a display for the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We have been learning the sounds r, e and h and building words using our magnetic boards. We learned to programme the Beebots to go on a journey. We have been learning a song to perform for Mrs Wilson at her Leaver’s Assembly on Friday.
Welcome back to our blog! This week we had a visit from a Theatre group and this helped us us to improve our Drama skills- we enjoyed performing dance moves from ‘Under the Sea’! In writing we completed our ‘Shape Shifter’ stories. In Maths we revised how to add and subtract numbers to millions. In topic we found out about ‘Sailing Day’ on board the Titanic – we found out about the crew on board, the class system at that time with First, Second and Third class cabins, the route the ship took and where it sopped along the way. We also found out why people were taking the trip. We create a wall display picture of the Titanic and we started to make 2D plans to help us to make 3D models of the ship.
This week began with a visit from a theatre group who introduced us to lots of fun games that help us to work better in teams. We learnt a simple dance routine that we enjoyed performing.
We have been continued to discover more and more about King Alexander III and why his death was so important for Scotland. We are close to writing a newspaper report about his sudden and dramatic death.
Through our maths this week we have continued to build up our skills in addition, subtraction and also our times tables.
Mr Reed was delighted to meet so many of the parents on Thursday and to give an overview of how our time in Primary 5 will look. If there were any parents who were unable to come along then Mr Reed is happy to arrange a time to share with you some of the messages you missed.
Primary 1 have had a great week. We have been learning to read along with ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and produced a story map to retell the events in the correct order. We have drawn a detailed drawing of a bear to add to our display. We have been counting natural materials to match numbers up to 10 in the playground. We have been continuing to learn initial sounds in the context of three letter words. We love reading stories in our library.
Our apples are ripening beautifully and looking magnificent – some young pickers got to work on those that are already ripe this week and managed a fantastic harvest, they’ll be stored for a few weeks ready for our Apple Day.
And many thanks to Ian, a farmer from Tranent who came to the rescue when we lost some of the wheat that the P7s had been growing to disease. The Royal Highland Education Trust, who provided the original seeds, put out a call to local farmers and Ian offered us some wheat which was too near a hedge for his combine harvester. It was delivered to school this week and is now drying out with the rest of the pupils’ wheat in school.
Welcome back to Primary 7! This week we had a vote to decide upon our first topic, we decided to start our exciting year in P7 with ‘The Unsinkable Ship’ …we talked about what we knew about the Titanic and what we wanted to learn this term. We started our first week finding out ‘How the Ship was built’ we completed lots of different challenges and chose to really push ourselves hard by trying some HOTS challenges! In Maths we looked at rounding and estimating and how significant figures can help us to estimate things in our daily lives. In Writing we started our first imaginative story focusing on lots of descriptive language to create a character description called ‘ The Shape Shifter’, we also revised how we can peer and self assess our own work. In RE we prepared for our first school mass. We also presented our powerpoints to others in our school to say why we wanted to be house or sports captains…we are excited to see how the vote went, when we find out at assembly on Monday!
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