February 26, 2018
by Mrs Shankland
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Just a reminder to all our families that from Thursday 1st March the old paper £10 notes will no longer be accepted in shops and restaurants etc. These notes can still be exchanged in banks and at the post office.
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February 26, 2018
by Mrs Shankland
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It’s our JRSO’s and Walking Ambassador’s assembly this week -2nd March at 9.15am. All welcome.
February 24, 2018
by Miss Brown
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Primary 1 have been busy this week.
We have learnt a new sound this week, it was j. When learning about our new sound we did many activities. One included finding j’s and J’s in jelly. We used jellybeans in an experiment that the children loved.
We also have been continuing to practice blending our sounds together to make words. This is a daily practice for us.
In our writing this week we wrote about one thing we had learnt in our Scottish topic. Some of the children told me that they learnt about the flag which was clue and white. Others wrote about the national flower thistles. This week in our Vibrant Vocabulary we used the stimulus Hector and the Big Bad Knight. The words we enjoyed learning this week were bothersome, galloped, hollered, humongous and spindly.
In PE, we were learning to use our body in different ways whilst working as a team.
In Maths we began to look at direction and looked at the different language we can use. Also, we were learning to add with concentration on double number adding. We began to look at subtracting small numbers too.
Primary 1 had a special visitor get delivered this week. A friendly dragon wrote a letter telling us that Fairyland had been destroyed and we need to help rebuild it. Also, the dragon left a parcel it was her baby dragon which the children chose to call Rose. Some of you may have already met her as some children have had her home already to look after. If you haven’t she will be home with you at some point.
We were outdoors this week, we made nests from natural resources outside for our eggs. The children all enjoyed this and worked hard at finding warm material for their nest. 
Remember this Thursday is World Book day and you can dress up as your favourite character from a book you like to read.
February 23, 2018
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February 23, 2018
by User deactivated
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This week in P5 we have had fun learning lots of new things about The Romans, how to add and subtract using the chimney method and in P.E we learned new skills in basketball.
We learned about Queen Boudicca’s Rebellion in 60AD and used role play to imagine how different people from the Romans times felt and reacted to it. We also used our imagination to write a reply letter back to our Roman friend, using lots of great vocabulary and adjectives. We used our previous learning of the Roman numerals to help us solve problems in Maths. Lastly, we enjoyed learning about Roman art and making our own mosaic patterns and pictures.
In Maths we were adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 and played active games like Buzz, flash cards and mixed operation bingo. Everyone really enjoyed the online games, especially Sumdog. This week were focusing on the 6 times table and as part of our homework, we are practising the 6 and 7 times tables.
In Literacy, we really enjoyed working in our Reflective Reading groups to discuss and answer comprehension questions about the Auggie & Me: three wonder stories book trailer. The groups made excellent posters about friendship and kindness. So far we have collected 25 marbles for our class Wonder Kindness Jar J. We also enjoyed working in our active hoops and some favourite activities of the class were; silly sentences and blend dominoes.
We all have had a fantastic week of learning, working hard and having fun! We hope you all have a lovely, restful weekend.
February 23, 2018
by Mrs Weir
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This week we have been really busy getting organised for our assembly about World Book Day. We were excited to dress as some of our favourite book characters and authors. We were really excited to share all of the reading activities which have happened in Kirkhill over the last few months too. Thank you to the parents/carers who made it along this morning to see us perform.
In our context for learning we were learning about Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. We were very interested in his mission and about how it must have felt to be the first man on the moon. This linked to our writing for the week and we had to write a diary from the perspective of Neil Armstrong which we found tricky and we looked at different examples of diary entries.
In reading we have been focusing on the skill of skimming and scanning. We have completed cloze procedure activities where we need to make sure if the missing word fits into the sentence or not. We will be completing more of these over the term.
In Maths, we have started our learning about fractions. We had to tell Mrs Weir about all of the different things which we already knew about fractions. Some of us have been learning about finding fractions of amounts and some of us have been learning about equivalent fractions and using our magnetic fractions wall to help us.
Next week we will be celebrating World Book Day where we can dress up as our favourite characters on Thursday 1st March. We will also be receiving a workshop from the author Mike Nicholson. The class have got letters detailing the books which will be available to purchase and get signed on the day. Money needs to arrive before or on next Thursday.
Have a lovely weekend 🙂
February 23, 2018
by User deactivated
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This week in P4/3 we have been learning all about the Winter Olympics! We have been learning about some famous Winter Olympians and we even wrote stories about some of them. Here are some of our favourite Winter Olympians and why we like them.
“My favourite is Felix Loch because he is really good at luge.” Lucas.
“I like Elise Christie because she is a fast ice skater.” Adele.
“I like Shaun White because he does amazing tricks in half pipe.” Campbell.
“I like Shaun White because his nickname is the Flying Tomato!” Tait.
“I like Torvill and Dean because they are very good at figure skating.” Tia
“I like Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot because they do really cool tricks, like when Bruno held up Aljona with one hand!” Teigan.
We watched some medals ceremonies and we also looked at Olympic medals from the past, and we designed our own and made them from clay. Here are the medals we have made, we are going to try to add ribbons to them once they are dry.
In maths we have been learning how to do written addition sums. After working hard on our mental maths we have been learning “chimney sums” and have even started carrying! We have also been working on our understanding of time, especially quarter to which can be tricky!
Next week is World Book Day on Thursday. Remember you can dress up as your favourite character on Thursday!
February 20, 2018
by User deactivated
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World Book Day – Thursday 1st March 2018
Please click on the link below to see all of the plans we have to celebrate World Book Day 2018:
2018_03_01 World Book Day Information for Parents
February 18, 2018
by Miss Sutherland
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Numeracy
We have been working on our division skills in maths this week. We know that an important part of being able to divide is knowing our table facts. We are currently working through out tables, practising them to be able to recall facts quickly. We are using a variety of strategies to work out division problems and we are becoming more confident in our work.
Literacy
We have been working on our close reading skills by linking this in with our context for learning – the 20th Century. We read about the 100th anniversary of the Suffragette movement and analysed the text.
Health & Wellbeing
We finished off looking at dance during indoor P.E. with performances from each group on a creative dance. We saw lots of interesting dance moves and some great teamwork. We will be moving on to gymnastics from next week. It is important that everyone has the correct kit and footwear to be able to participate fully. We started looking at football skills in our outdoor P.E. slot. We are practising dribbling, passing and shooting in preparation for our football tournament in April.
Context for Learning
This week we had a visit from Ms Eastwood from Broxburn Academy who taught us about Primary and Secondary sources. Many of us worked very well in groups to identify and categorise sources and their usefulness. Some of us need to work on our listening skills when others are talking.
Miss Sutherland and P7
February 16, 2018
by Miss Brown
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This has been a short but busy week in Primary 1.
We learnt a new sound this week. It was the sound ‘w’. We recognised this sound straight away and we were using it with other sounds to blend. Also we looked at pictures and sounded out the word so we could write words with middle sound ‘o’.
For writing this week, we wrote in our Valentine’s cards for people at home. They all looked lovely.
In Maths, we were to continue to learn about number. We were learning to recognise numbers from 0-20 and challenging ourselves by going to 30.
We have been learning about Chinese New Year this week. We made Chinese lanterns and learnt about the animal race that created the Chinese zodiac. This year is the year of the dog. In Primary 1 we are the year of the dragon and the snake.
We learnt about a famous Scottish Artist, Steven Brown. We studied some of his work by telling the class how the paintings make us feel. We were learning about using different colours (we called it rainbow colours) and drawing lines. We then used oil pastels to create our own McCoos. We all gave them a special name.
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