September 27, 2017
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Please click on following link for information regarding the new Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA) which all P1/P4/P7/S3 in Scotland will complete this session. Information from these assessments will be used to inform teacher professional judgement on children’s progress in learning.
September 26, 2017
by Miss Thomson
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Primary 4 are very busy organising their Macmillan Coffee Morning!
Thank you very much for your donations of raffle prizes and biscuits so far. All donations will continue to be gratefully received!
A quick reminder of how we will be organising our event:
Date: Friday 6th October 2017
Time: 10am – 12pm
Each class will attend the coffee morning during a timetabled slot. Tickets for this cost 50p and children will receive juice and a cake. They will also have the chance to participate in some small games and stalls during their time. Money for the tickets can be sent in to school and will be collected by P4.
To tie in with the cake theme, P4 are also holding the very first Kirkhill Bake Off!! Entry to the competition costs £1, and entries should be handed in on Thursday 5th October for our House Team to judge. The entries will then be donated to our coffee morning on Friday. The winners will be announced at our class assembly before the coffee morning.
P4 are also producing their very own ‘Cakehill Cook Book’ – full of their favourite sweet treat recipes. Order slips were sent home last week and we’ve had a few returned so far! If you would like to order a copy, please let us know.
Finally, we will be holding a Dress Down day on the date for a donation to Macmillan. The theme is ‘Wear Green for Macmillan’, but as always, no football colours please.
We look forward to seeing you for coffee, cake and a blether!
September 25, 2017
by Mrs McCann
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We are looking forward to welcoming parents and carers for the launch of our family learning packs:
P1 – Tuesday 26th September 2pm
Nursery – Thursday 28th September 10am and 2pm
September 25, 2017
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Primary 4/3 have had a very busy start to the new school year with lots of great learning taking place in our class. We have been reading, ‘Well Done, Secret Seven’ by Enid Blyton and have been enjoying learning all about the Secret Seven and the adventures that they go on. We were very excited about the Secret Seven Hut which they use for their meetings. We all agreed that we would love to have a meeting hut too in our gardens. We’ve been writing all about our own friends just like the Secret Seven who are all very good friends. Now that we are nearly finished the book, Mrs Smith has bought another Secret Seven book which we are all very excited to get started on.
Last week we were working on counting in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s in maths which some of us found very tricky and other not so tricky. We know that this will help us with our times tables.
We’ve also continued to work on our Houses and Homes context for learning where we have learned about the different types of houses there are and we labelled these to show the different types.
In French we have been learning how to greet people. Every morning we do the register in French which is helping us with our learning.
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Campbell, Jessica, Kyle & Teigan
September 25, 2017
by Mrs Hawkins
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Last week may have been a short week, but we managed to do quite a lot, from enjoying visitors to performing our assembly! Here are some comments from the children about what we got up to last week:
“We did some maths in our booklets adding up.” – Reiley
“The RZSS met with us and we played some challenges all about where animals live and what they eat and the type of houses that they live in.” – Hunfah. The RZSS is the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
“We did our assembly. My mummy came. Also, the RZSS showed us real beaver fur.” – Natalie
“We learned a song. It was Triceratops Rap.” – Summer
“Yesterday the RZSS came and we were learning about beavers. When they are in danger, they slap their tails against the water, like when there is a predator. A predator is an enemy trying to eat it. They also showed us around a bus and it was really fun because there was a lot of stuff to look at. My favourite was the big wild cat.” – Nicole
Below are some pictures of our visit with the RZSS.
Finally, here is a link to our Kirkhill Primary School YouTube account and a video of our assembly last Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf8R5sm9Sl4
September 25, 2017
by Mrs Shankland
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Hi Everyone,
The class Dojo system will be running slightly differently this year in Primary 3. The Dojo will be used as a positive behaviour incentive only and not as a form of communication with home. As always, if you wish to discuss anything regarding your child, Miss Stevens will only be too happy to do so. This can be done either at the end of the school day or through a phone call to the school office.
We will continue to keep you informed about class and school events through the monthly newsletter, blog posts,twitter and letters.
Thank you for your continued support.
September 24, 2017
by Miss Sutherland
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This week was a short but busy week for Primary 7!
It was lovely to hear about the fun things Primary 7 got up to on the long weekend – sleepovers, holidays and fun with friends. After quickly settling back in to routine, we got creative this week making our Christmas Cards. There were some very good designs and these were sent home on Friday. If anyone wishes to order the cards or gift tags – can you please do so by this Friday 🙂
We finished up consolidating our learning about place value, rounding and estimation. Many of us feel more confident in recognising and using numbers up to hundreds of millions and in using tenths, hundredths and thousandths – we are also less worried about decimals! Some of us also investigated triangular, square and prime numbers. We tried our first holistic question of the year too. We had to use a variety of skills to work out a worded problem. We had to be able to read and pick out the key words in the question and use multiplication, division and conversion of units to solve the problem.
We were very lucky to have Mr Stewart come visit and teach us some tennis skills. Everyone enjoyed this and we hope to continue learning this sport as the term progresses. It was great to see many children picking up the skills quickly and Ryan was our Pupil of the Week for using these skills to win the game.
A few reminders…
Next week we are marshalling the P6 Cross Country on Thursday morning. Please have appropriate footwear and a jacket (still school uniform please)
Christmas Card orders are due in Friday
P7 Transition Camp (deposit) due by Monday 2nd October
Miss Sutherland 🙂
September 24, 2017
by Mrs McCann
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After our exciting message in a bottle from our pirate friend last week we decided to send our own messages back. There are lots of things we want to find out about pirates and we hope they can help.
we were also lucky to have Morna from the Royal Zoological Society visit us on Thursday to help us learn about Scottish Wildlife. We learned lots about beavers, where they live, what they look like – did you know their teeth are red?!
We also learned about how they make their dams, so Mrs McCann has sent us a challenge to work in teams to be like beavers and build dams next week. We have already collected lots of stones and sticks for this.
Thank you to all the p2 parents who came along to the sharing our learning event on Friday, we hope you enjoyed seeing what we have been learning already this session.
September 22, 2017
by Miss Brown
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Even though it has been a short week, primary 1 have been busy learning. This week we have learnt a new sound a. This was exciting as this was our first vowel sound.
In maths primary 1 have been learning all about the number 5 and they are practising really hard at writing it too. Also they have been learning all about shapes. These include triangles, circles, squares and rectangles which they used to make some shape art.
We had a few special visitors in this week. In PE, Mr Stewart was teaching us all about our awareness of space and skills for catching. We all really enjoyed this and found it good fun.
Another visitor was from The Learning Zoo. They came and talked to us about animals especially beavers. We found out lots of information about them and even got to touch beaver’s fur. Here are some of the things we found out:
September 22, 2017
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This week was very busy and very quick! In maths we have been looking at 100 squares and how they can be used to aid us in counting in 10’s and 1’s. We have been practising counting in increments of 10’s and 2’s both forwards and backwards and we are getting very good at it! Soon we will be counting in increments of 3’s, 4’s and 5’s.
We have also been further investigating 2D shapes, categorizing shapes based on their properties, for example, those with 4 corners etc.
We had a wonderful visit from “Wild about Scotland” on Thursday. We learnt lots of interesting facts about beavers which we later completed a fabulous piece of writing on.
We also made beautiful Christmas cards (already!) for Cauliflower cards. These have been sent home today with the order form. If you would like to order a stash, please ensure that completed forms and exact money are returned by no later than next Friday (29th September).
Have a lovely weekend and looking forward to lots more learning and fun next week 🙂
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