The Kirkhill Chatter

This week we have been very busy with a variety of different events.

The members of the House Team organised and ran the Potted Sports event as part of House Rally 3. Everyone really enjoyed this event and they were all impressed with the sportsmanship on display. All of Primary 7 and Primary 7/6 helped out with the running and organisation of this event. Mrs Weir & Miss Sutherland were impressed with our leadership skills and being able to adapt activities as we went.

We have now all finished our Critical Essays about the poem ‘Timothy Winters’ and these have taken up lots of our time completing and re-drafting them. We have had to write about how Charles Causley creates a good character through his use of similes, metaphors and word choice.

We have also had some problem solving this week in the form of Sudoku. Some of us found this very tricky and have had to learn to persevere with a problem. Some of us did really well with this as they have had practise whilst travelling or visiting relatives.

This morning the class have participated in the Broxburn Academy Transition Maths Challenge where they have been using their knowledge of maths concepts from throughout the year to solve problems.

Some EE2 forms for our trip to Blair Drummond are still outstanding and need to be handed in as soon as possible.

We had a shorter week than usual, but still managed to do a lot of learning. Here are some comments by the children:

“I enjoyed learning about dinosaurs. I really liked the dinosaur game on the SmartBoard. I also enjoyed drawing pictures of dinosaurs.” – Harry

“I enjoyed learning about germs and using paint to see how germs spread.” – Tiana

“I enjoyed watching the video about dinosaurs.” – Arran S.

“I enjoyed playing with the sand to find dinosaur bones. I also enjoyed throwing the beanbags in the hoop during the house rally.” – Lennon

“I enjoyed learning about germs.” – Arran B.

“I enjoyed doing gymnastics in PE. We used the climbing frame.” – Teigan

“I enjoyed our topic being dinosaurs.” – Tait

“I enjoyed the penalties at the House Rally. We did potted sports.” – Lucas

“I enjoyed the house rally.” – Arran M.

“I enjoyed the potted sports when we went through the tunnel and did skipping.” – Tyler

“I enjoyed the climbing frame during PE.” – Alan

Here are some pictures of the children enjoying their learning this week:

Have a good weekend!

This week we had the Talent Show auditions, which put Nico, Joshua and Toby through to the finals for the 20^th June. We also had a potted sports event and the Almondell House won, with Strathbrock coming 2^nd, Cardross 3^rd and Buchan 4^th. Well done everyone!

In Literacy this week, we were learning comprehension skills for fiction stories. Oscar learned that it is not only important to be able to read a story but also to understand what we are reading. Blanka enjoyed completing the comprehension task because it was fun but also challenging as the answers had to be written in full sentences. Grace enjoyed the creative writing lesson because she liked being able to use her imagination to complete the story, using the picture and opener to help. Maddison enjoyed doing the VCOP activity cards because it was a fun way to learn. Nico liked testing his spelling as he spelled 9 out of 10 words correctly.

In Numeracy and Maths we continued learning about Time and Mental Maths. Layla enjoyed completing the active maths cards. Grace S and Lewis liked playing Buzz as it was really fun and they liked working together as a class. Steven also enjoyed the Buzz game and did so well that he got a Dojo point. Jayden and Zach liked doing the Around the Class mental maths cards and we were all so proud of ourselves for beating last weeks’ time. Ryan enjoyed doing the challenge cards with Yousef and he thought that they worked well as a team.

Callie, Deryn and Kiera really enjoyed the Nursery assembly this week and they thought they were so cute! Sarah also loved the assembly, especially when they sang the Jellyfish song J We are super proud of Kiera for getting the Pupil of the Week award for her kind nature and always willing to help others.

Tia enjoyed working as a team to help design a piece of work for the Gala Day because it was fun. Joshua also liked designing the board, especially colouring in the words. Alanna enjoyed having the day of on Thursday as she relaxed and had a pyjama day!