It has been a delight to welcome Kalista to Primary 3 and lovely to see her receive our first Pupil of the Week certificate this session. Kalista demonstrated excellent understanding of symmetry by colouring in a beautiful butterfly. Well done Kalista.
Another busy week in Primary 3 as we continued our Road Safety learning with a focus on the Green Cross Code. The children demonstrated excellent understanding of how to use the Green Cross Code when practising on our road in the playground. It would be great if you could practise using the Green Cross Code when out and about.
This week in Maths we have been learning about symmetry and the children demonstrated their understanding by colouring in some beautiful butterflies. We also practised rounding two and three digit numbers to the nearest 10.
On Wednesday, we started to learn about germs with Mrs Fraser. When I asked the children what germs were, Luke N told me they are “little bug things”. The children drew interesting pictures of what they thought a germ looked like.
Yesterday we listened to some great speeches from the children who wanted to be considered as the class representative for the Pupil Council. It was a close call but after a class vote I am delighted to announce that Olly and Euan will be our new class reps. They are looking forward to their first meeting next Tuesday.
Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday next week at our Meet the Teacher event (Wednesday 5th September 6-8pm).
This week we have been thinking about our mindset for learning. We have been working on some positive thinking and how to change what we say to be more open to new things. For example “I can’t do it.” becomes “I can’t do it yet.” or “I’m not as good as she is.” becomes “She is good at this, maybe she can help me.”
We have also been looking at our rights and have learned many more that we didn’t know about before.
We have elected our Pupil Council representatives for the year and they are Ben and Elise. The great thing was that 8 people went for it and some had to overcome lots of nerves to stand up and say their bit. I am very proud of them.
During our reflection time this week there was a common theme around applications for House Captains and Sports Captains.
Holly – Writing my Sports Captain speech was so hard. I couldn’t decide what to say.
Emmie – I had so many things to say in my House Captain speech and it was hard to decide which ones to keep so it didn’t go on too long.
Kaitlyn – The House Captain speech was hard to write because I’ve never done anything like that before.
Katie – I feel like in my writing I don’t use big words but I did in my speech for Sports Captain and in my poem too. I am getting better at writing.
Harry – I did better than I thought I would in the basketball trials. I enjoyed writing my House Captain speech even though it took me about 4 times to get it right.
Well done P7. Your willingness to give things a go is most impressive, and also I love the way you don’t just accept ‘good enough’ and always try to improve. That’s growth mindset in action.
Another busy week for P5 as we continue to read Harry Potter. We have been writing about our own wizards, using great descriptive words to bring their character to life. The children have also been finding out about the life of JK Rowling and how she got the ideas for Harry and his friends. We have designed wands for our Class Charter display and discussed our rights and responsibilities; also revisited Little Red Riding Hood to find out if the wolf was really as bad as he was reported to be…
Yesterday we carried out our Pupil Council Class Election. The children displayed some great inspirational writing and confidently delivered their speeches! I was very proud of every single child who stepped out of their comfort zone and applied for the Pupil Council posts. The whole class voted and Michael and Lily-Rose will represent P5 for this year. Congratulations to them both.
We have finished off our week with a Lego Challenge of having to create a 3D wizard using Lego, with only 15 mins to collaborate, share resources and support each other. The Wizards were awesome.
Great job this week P5…see you all on Monday.
Mrs T
highlights
Eshal – I loved writing to Harry Potter and creating my Wizard.
Daniel – I have enjoyed havng no homework this week and reading Harry Potter!
Owen – Incredible PE learning handball
Lily -Rose – I have loved handball and finding out I was the Pupil Council representative.
We’ve had another busy week!
Newsround reported on the fact that energy drinks could soon be banned for under 18s. This caused some debate so we investigated why energy drinks are harmful to children and young people and wrote a short report on our findings.
“Energy drinks have lots of sugar and caffeine which can affect your brain negatively and also how you behave.” – Zoe
“They can make you feel dizzy, have chest pains and you can also start shaking.” – Finlay
“They can cause you to put on extra weight because there’s so much sugar.” – Leon
Miss Greig taught us how to say and order the days of the week in Spanish.
“It was really fun and I loved the games!” – Katy
“I liked the game that you had to put the post it notes on the board!” – Luke
“I enjoyed the song!” – Leon
“We all thank Miss Greig!” – Charlie
Some people delivered a short talk to the class about why they should vote for them to represent P6 in the Pupil Council. Our winners were Luke and Aiden.
“I’m thankful for all my votes!” – Aiden
“I’m happy to be representing P6!” – Luke
Some people tried out for the Basketball team this week and are looking forward to finding out on Monday.
In maths we spent some time exploring what is meant by place value and we worked from thousandths all the way up to billions. We got to grips with using Cuisenaire rods again and we had a go at representing 2 and 3 digit numbers using the Base 10 materials.
“We played a good game (Who Wants to be a Hundredaire?) but it was quite hard.We did it in the end!” – Rowan, Charlie & Natalie
We watched a video about Whitaugh Park (school camp) after letters were sent home this week.
“I’m really excited for all the activities!” – Rowan
“I can’t wait to see the lodges. There will be no adults in our room!” – Ainslie
“I hope we get to do the abseiling and archery.” – Charlie
“I hope we do the same activities as my sister’s year because she said it was really fun and exciting!” – Callum
“I hope we get to do the flying fox/swingy thing!” – Logan F
We also completed our Class Charter (with the exception of a few bits to finish from people who were absent). The rights we chose to be reminded of are:
Article 13 – You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people.
Article 29 – Your education should help you to use and develop your talents and abilities. It should also help you learn to live peaceful, protect the environment and respect other people.
Article 31 – You have the right to rest and play.
This week we have been very busy. In literacy we have been learning the sounds m, a and s. We have been learning how to say and write these sounds. We also did some writing. We wrote about a time when we felt happy. In numeracy we have been exploring the numbers 5, 4 and 3. We can count and write these numbers. In P.E we have been playing games and we did yoga with Ms King’s class. We took on roles of different animals and acted out the story Rumble in the Jungle. We have also been learning about road safety.
Here are the children’s reflections:
Charley: I found writing m and a tricky
Lois: I enjoyed writing my sounds
Leighton: I have enjoyed learning how to write s. I like everything.
Isaac: I enjoyed writing about when I feel happy.
Ziva: I enjoyed colouring in my pictures for story of 3.
Euan: I enjoyed learning the ‘m’ sound.
Sam: I liked learning about road safety and making my 2D vehicle.
Emma: I like everything about school
Sevinc: I found it tricky learning the words I and me
Coben: I enjoyed Rumble in the Jungle.
Rory: I liked using the play dough to make the letters and numbers
Leo: I like when it’s Friday and we get golden time.
Ayden: I found writing 3s tricky.
Murdo: I enjoyed wearing my costume on dress down day.
We have been on our first outdoor excursion! We went to the village and took the opportunity to sketch some of the houses and inn. We were taking note of the details such as drain pipes, chimneys and if the windows were in line or strange places. This work is to build the children’s awareness of houses to help them build a display in school which has been inspired by Laura Sayers’ visit.
On our return journey the children spotted berries, only one knew they were blackberries. After discussion and confirmation they were safe some of the children tucked in to a quick snack! However, close by there were also elderberries, I informed the children these were not so tasty and were best for the birds.
In maths the children are learning to break down times table questions to what they know, and to understand word problems. We have begun to explore what a legend is through work on the Dragon Slayer.
The children loved their first science lesson with Mrs Fraser on micro-organisms, and could tell me all about what they had learned. Well done P4.
It’s been a lovely start to the new school year and P2 have settled in very well to their new class. This week we have been establishing classroom routines and the children can now order their lunches independently! We began our Road Safety topic by discussing and drawing pictures of safe places to play. Next week we will explore safe places to cross the road and begin learning the Green Cross Code. In numeracy we revised number sequences to 20 and played some fun interactive maths games to help us work out the number before and after. We also enjoyed our welcome back assembly led by Mrs Mill where we discussed our school values.
We have had a busy week settling into Primary 3 and have welcomed Kalista to our class. The children are looking forward to getting to know each other over the coming weeks. On Wednesday we made a start on our Road Safety topic with some interesting discussions about how we find a safe place to cross the road. This year we will have a focus on the Green Cross Code. Working together we have created our new class charter and our new class motto will be ‘Reach out and lend a helping hand.’ We have made some colourful t.shirts to put on our class welcome display which you will see when you come to Meet the Teacher in a few weeks. Most of the children said they had enjoyed their first week in P3 and although Darcy said she was nervous on Tuesday, she said she is excited to be back and see all her friends. Rohan said he’s feeling good and has had a good week. I have enjoyed hearing all the children’s holiday stories and look forward to working with them this year. I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend.
