Primary 6 have started French this week. We focused/refreshed our knowledge on numbers. We are looking forward to our next lesson!
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Maths Strategies
Primary 6 have been doing some independent learning for Maths. Each group are creating a power point on a specific multiplication or division strategy which will then be presented to the rest of our class.
Solar System
Primary 6 are learning about the planets of our Solar System and the characteristics of each. Here we have some of our work.
Miss Lenathen, Rugby and Basketball
P7 and Miss Lenathen, a PGDE student from Edinburgh University, have been getting to know each other this week. Miss Lenathen is working closely with myself to plan and teach a variety of lessons over the next 5 weeks.
Sport has featured widely this week. The class have been doing athletics with Mr Stewart in PE, with pupils aiming to qualify for a competition. Gavin, the development coach from Livingston RFC, held another successful training session on the field. Several of the ICHS cluster schools attended a rugby festival on Friday morning where the pupils got to show off their skills and had lots of fun doing so. Photos to follow, hopefully tomorrow.
What can I say about the basketball teams except “You are all amazing!” Very well done on your achievements. Thank you to Mrs Taylor and Abby.
Aside from the sporting events, P7 have begun learning about Pilgrimages in RME, renewable and non-renewable energy sources in Science and coordinates across 4 quadrants in maths. In Literacy we have been looking at non-fiction books.
Don’t forget our assembly is on 11th May at 9:15am.
P7 will visit The Risk Factory on Thursday 10th May.
P3 Numeracy, Maths & French
Following on from our numeracy PATPAL last week, Primary 3 have been sharing the different ways that they know to solve multiplication problems.
We worked with our talk partners to try out different strategies to help us solve some word problems:
We have also been exploring different ways to present data and used our French knowledge of numbers and colours to create class surveys. We used tally marks to gather the data and bar charts to display it.
Next week in French we will be learning more ways to answer the question: “Quel temp fait-il?”
Window into Learning – Term 4
P1M’s Learning Reflection W/E 27th April 2018
Another busy week for Primary 1 learning lots of new things. In literacy we learned the ir and ou sounds and the tricky word to. We used these new sounds to build words such bird and pound. We looked at rhyming words as quite a few of our ou words rhymed. We wrote a letter to Mrs Mill asking her if we could help the friendly dragon save fairyland by turning our classroom into the enchanted forest. We were very excited to have received a letter from the dragon. We drew illustrations of some of the fairytales that we knew of. In maths we explored weight. We used pan balance scales, play dough, classroom items and weights to explore how heavy items were and compare what was the lightest item with the heaviest item. We learned that although we changed the shape of play dough it still weighed the same. In health and wellbeing we discussed the qualities of a good friend. We then created wanted posters displaying these qualities. Next week in Literacy we will be learning the ‘oy’ sound and revising set 2 sounds. In numeracy and maths we will be focusing on exploring capacity. We are all looking forward to exploring our first fairytale and starting to create the enchanted forest in our classroom.
The Village Reporter
Another great issue of The Village Reporter! Our 3 primary 6 reporters certainly had a busy time collecting information on all of the activities at school this week.
Let’s Play Chess!
P6 learning how to play chess with Tom, our chess teacher. 
P4 learning.
As I was renewing some of the diplays in the class this week, I realised that many will not have seen the finished pieces of weaving that the children did in class at the start of the year. They look so good that I am leaving them up a little longer.
This week we have been extending our understanding of nets of 3D shape by linking our learning to our topic on flight. We have been learning about the Montgolfier brothers who developed the first hot air balloon. The children were tasked with making a cube basket and hot air balloon to build on their learning, and further develop their craft technolohy skills.
We have also been out exploring what the perimeter and area of a shape are, it was great to see them problem solve and use the skills knowledge they have to try and work out the perimeter of the football pitch.
