Monthly Archives: November 2018

General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 30.11.18

This has been a very busy but enjoyable week.  Thanks to all the parents who attended our PATPAL session on Tuesday, the children were so excited to be able to share their learning with you.  The children will be sharing more of their learning during our assembly next Friday (7th December), we hope to see as many of you as possible.  Jarrad said he enjoyed talking to the parents about our Wellbeing Wheel and was pleased that the parents enjoyed their visit.  Mrs Mill complimented both Jarrad and Leo on how confidently they were able to talk about the Wellbeing Wheel – well done boys!

Tomorrow sees this year’s Christmas Fair and we look forward to seeing you all there between 10am and 12:30pm.  The children have been busy making some snowmen and penguin cards to sell, these will be on sale for £1 each.  Joe and Lakshya said creating their Christmas cards was the highlight of their week.

William said he was pleased to receive his flu vaccination this week.  Hopefully this will help to keep the children fighting fit during the winter months.  As we approach the season of colds and coughs, the children and I would very much appreciate donations of tissues to help keep the bugs at bay!

Finn said his highlight this week was watching the P4 assembly about Advent.  Emma M reminded us that advent is about counting down to something and we learned that Christians use advent wreaths and candles to count down to the birth of Jesus.  Some of the children found it hard to believe that we used to have advent calendars with only pictures in them!

In maths this week we have been developing our understanding of money.  We have been learning to recognise all coins and notes to £5 and have been working out combinations of coins that can be used to pay for different amounts.  We will continue to develop our understanding of money with various Christmas themed tasks in the coming weeks.

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow at the Christmas Fair.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

It’s all about Enterprise in P7

We have been so busy this week that there wasn’t time for pupils to share their learning, so I will do it for them.

This week has been all about their enterprise project. Firstly there was lots of maths to be done in order to find out where was the best place to buy the items we needed. We had to do a lot of calculations to work out how much we needed and how many packs we would have to buy. Then we had to take account of any special offers like buy one get one half price. Next we had to work out how much each item would cost and decide on a price.

We were originally going to make papier mache pots for our bulbs but this was proving to be too time consuming to dry them out and we ran out of time.

Planting the bulbs was great fun (and messy!). We learned lots about wrapping too, including how to curl ribbon. The cellophane was quite tricky to use as it kept sliding away, so we needed teamwork and perseverance to get the wrapping looking good.

Now all we have to do is wait until the spring to see the beautiful flowers.

Our pots are £3 each and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow at the Christmas Fair.

Primary 4

This Week in P4

This has been a great week with the class.

At the start of the week Mr Boyd came to speak to the children about his life journey and the skills he felt were important to his life, learning and work. He very kindly also gave the children a chance to try some hot chocolate, which was delicious. Thank you for your time and generosity.

They have welcomed Miss Ross who was on work experience from high school, and who helped support the children in their learning.

We have completed our snow globes and they have been selling fast.

They have been continuing to learn  about multi-digit addition using carrying over and subtraction using borrowing / regrouping. They will still need lots more practice for the method to become a habit, but they are doing well. Some have been motivated to do sums just for fun!

They have been learning about the meaning and traditions of Advent, and  some traditions of Christmas time around the world for our assembly. They worked really hard and delivered a great assembly sharing their learning and having fun.

Thank you so much to all of you that made it along to support your children.

We also had some time to talk a frosty walk for our outdoor classroom, and build some awesome construction models including 3D shapes and marble runs.

 

Primary 1

P1a Learning Reflection w/e 30/11/18

Another busy work here for P1a. We have been learning the diagraphs ch and th and the tricky word all. In writing we were using our sounds to write about our favourite toy. In numeracy, we have been learning how to skip count in 10s. We have also been learning how to take away. We know that when you take away the number gets smaller. Every day we have been continuing to practise for our nativity. Our acting, singing and playing of instruments is coming along nicely. We attended a very special assembly on Thursday afternoon when the school was presented with their third gold flag. We have finished our ornaments for the Christmas fair. Our Santa ornaments are available to buy from Miss Maclachlan and our stars, Christmas trees and snowflakes ornaments will be available at the fair on Saturday 1st December. Here are some of the children’s reflections:

Leighton: ” I enjoyed learning the diagraph th and the tricky word all.”

Isaac: ” I found it tricky learning the diagraph ch.”

Ch: ” I found it tricky to make words with the diagraph th.”

Lois:” I found it tricky to learn and say the diagraph th”

Ziva:” I enjoyed learning the diagraph ch.”

Euan:” I found it tricky writing the new diagraphs.”

Coben:”I found the diagraph th tricky.”

 

 

Class Posts, Primary 2/1

P1b Learning Reflection for W/E 23.11.18

P1b brought in their favourite books from home to share with the class for Scottish Book Week. We have really enjoyed sharing our favourite stories with each other. Miss Sommerville set up some fun phonics activities this week. Everyone enjoyed the messy table activity v for volcano. We are very sad to say goodbye to Miss Sommerville, who has finished her teaching placement with us. We wish her every success with the rest of her teacher training.

Miss Sommerville, we will miss you! xxx

Highlights

Austin – I liked the volcano because they were exploding we made lava for them. Volcano starts with the v sound.

Poppy – I liked learning v, down the line up the line because it’s the same shape that you do.

Charley – I like making the penguins they were hard to cut out but they were fun to make. We are reading a story about being different and the penguins are all different on the door.

Nicholas – Volcano starts with v the volcano went splash.

Lewis – Making the volcanoes it was hard to build and get it right it was too high so we made it lower.

Solomia – Putting the shinies in the tub to get popcorn and movie.

Christian – Playing with the volcano

James – You had to build a big a triangle volcano then we put lava it it.

Challenge

Poppy – The writing in the story corner is hard because its really hard to read the print.

Charley –Trying to collect lots of shinies to get to the top. You need to do good work and good siting and listening to get up to the target.

Nicholas – Collecting shinies by being good.

James – Making the penguin it was hard to cut.

Primary 4

This Week In P4

We have been primarily putting our snow globes together for our enterprise project. We have had a few issues but have problem solved and sorted them. The results are looking lovely,  ready for sale next week.  To support their learning they have been writing to Mrs Mill for a business loan to give us the start up costs of resources,  we have developed our understanding of what a budget is, and we have been practicing addition and subtraction of money in column/ chimney sums.

We have taken a senses walk around the school as we work towards writing a description of the school setting and mood.

We have had mini lessons, exploring place value and learning coin multiplication strategies.The children have enjoyed their reading buddy sessions with P1 and their music with karen from #nycos.

They are really developing their bench ball skills and growing in awareness of the value of tactics in the game.

Nex week we are exploring the subject of Advent for our assembly on Friday, and look forward to seeing you at the PATPALS session on Tuesday too.

General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 This Week

P2 have had a busy week. In Literacy we have been learning to spell words with the ‘ur’ sound. We have been working on writing capital letters E and F as well as alphabetical order activities. As part of book week the children enjoyed sharing their favourite books from home. We also decorated our classroom door in the style of a book cover taken from the novel we are reading at the moment, ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson.

In maths we have continued our work on subtraction recording our answers on a number line. We have been measuring objects that are shorter or longer than 1 metre.

The children also had lots of fun making their hot chocolate reindeers for our Christmas Fair.