Here is the poster with the souvenirs available for Belmont Camp. Please send order and money to school asap.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Weekly Update 13.05.19
Since we last posted we have been learning about speech marks in literacy. We have been identifying speech marks in our books and also adding these to sentences to punctuate them correctly. In spelling we have learning to understand the oa/ow sound and have discussed when to use each spelling. In writing we have begun to look at writing a description and were encouraged to think about using the literacy bubble to add more detail to our writing.
In maths we have been learning about money and talking about different ways to make given totals. We talked about how to write amounts correctly using the ‘£’ and ‘p’ signs. We have also been trying to solve problems which involve money.
In Health and Wellbeing, we have been talking about the different stages of the human life cycle and we thought about why we have different nutritional requirements at these different stages.
With Mrs Stewart we have been learning the technique of paper folding which is called origami. Some of the animals we have made include a whale, a cat and a caterpillar. In drama we have been reading stories about pirates and we have been making pirate hats and acting out the stories.
The children have enjoyed several assemblies over the past few weeks including one from P6 about their residential and one from P7 about sport. Mrs Mill lead an assembly about ‘Respecting yourself’ and the children have been thinking about their own special skills and qualities that make them unique (we are looking forward to seeing the homework sheets when they are returned on Wednesday).
Lastly, we have been writing comic strips as part of the ‘Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail’ project which we are involved in. The whole school had to write a comic strip and two people were chosen from each class to have their comic strips stuck onto our ‘Oor Wullie’ sculpture. In Primary 3 the children who were lucky enough to be chosen were Emma F and Sophie. Photos of the completed sculpture will be posted soon.
P1b Learning Reflection W/E 10.05.19
It has been a short but busy week in P1b this week! In literacy we have been learning the split digraph u-e such as huge or tune, as well as our tricky word all. In numeracy we have been revising our addition and subtraction to 20 and have been enhancing our problem solving skills by investigating powerlines, you can click on the link below to have a go. Our ELC transition also started this week. The children have shown great enthusiasm and kindness to our upcoming P1’s.
Ms King & Miss Greig x
Children’s learning comments:
Austin – I was with Olly from nursery and we were building lego, we had a good time.
Kaelan – I liked assembly. The archery looked fun.
Charley – I liked learning the sound u-e. I know huge brute.
James – I liked playing with the nursery. I played with Holly. We played the rainbow game and sumdog!
Roshan – I liked the assembly this week. Archery and abseiling looked fun.
Alister – I enjoyed assembly, I liked the zip line part of the assembly.
Teria – I enjoyed having the nursery buddies. I liked playing with my buddy, we made hammabeads and my buddy made a circle. I also liked solving the powerlines.
Hiba – I liked writing the u-e sound. I know the word ruler.
Poppy – I liked the P6 assembly. Camp looked really fun. The abseiling looked fun but it was very high!
Sushanth – I loved the P6 assembly, I liked the climbing wall.
Lewis – I liked the new u-e sound. I know that it is a split digraph. I know the word dude!
Solomia – I liked the assembly. My favourite activity was the raft building. I liked learning about the u-e sound too.
P2 This Week
This week we learned about halves and took part in a quiz to identify halves in real life. We made a picture story about Mr Grinling the Lighthouse Keeper. In P.E. we continued to develop our tennis skills and in Health and Well-being we learned about respecting ourselves and created colourful pictures called ‘I am, I can’. Anya’s nana came to visit us and share what it was like for her growing up in the highlands of Scotland. She had photos of her life. Thank you so much for visiting us – we all really enjoyed it!
Well done to Maizy and Caleb for having their Oor Wullie cartoon strips chosen from P2 to be put on the School statue. 🙂
Last week and this short week in P7…
Connor – we learnt about honesty in PE because nobody was being honest when they got hit in dodgeball.
Ben Y – Michelle from WLDAS came in to teach us about the dangers of smoking.
Elise – We learned about how to find the area of a triangle. We also learned from Michelle that people spend a lot of money on cigarettes.
Ben M – We learned about how you should respect yourself as part of learning how to be resilient.
Emmie – When Michelle came in we learnt that tar fills up your lungs if you smoke.
Katie – We went out with P2 to find minibeasts.
Harry – We got our leaver’s hoodies.
Arron – We went outside to have some fun photos taken for our Year Book.
Bobby – We have learned about Roman Numerals.
Kieran – We did our sports assembly last Friday. I enjoyed it.
Jack – Last Tuesday Neil came to talk to us about the Inveralmond School of Football.
Some people have lost their packing list for camp – a copy is attached here: clothing and equipment list – Belmont 2
All about school camp
Last week P6 went to school camp. Here’s what we have to say about it.
“I liked the low ropes because it was funny to watch people get muddy.” – Matthew
“My favourite activity was the abseiling because it was exciting and you can control yourself.” – Zoe
“I liked abseiling because you can go down at your own pace.” – Cade
“I really enjoyed the abseiling because it showed me to try everything you’re scared of.” – Logan F
“I enjoyed the zipwire the most because it was very fast and high.” – Aiden
“I really enjoyed the low ropes because we nearly fell in the mud and it was funny.” – Murray
“In archery we had to try and hit the arrow into the bulls-eye and I cut my finger on the bow and it really hurt.” – Ellie
“My favourite activity was the zipline because you go so fast.” – Jamie
“I liked going to the fire station and the park because I wanted to go into the town.” – Finlay
“My favourite activity was abseiling and it wasn’t that scary but the free fall as a tiny bit scary but I did it and it was very fun.” – Silvester
“I liked the zipline because it was long and tall.” – Kyle
“I enjoyed low ropes because we got to shake everybody into the mud water.” – Eesa
“My favourite activity was the zipline because it was the ufn and scary and the view was great.” – Ainslie
“We went to camp for four days it was cool and fun. I loved the zipline because it was high and fast.” – Hayley D
“I enjoyed the orienteering because we got to explore.” – Calum
“The zipwire is my favourite because it had AMAZING views, you could see for miles, and it felt like you were flying!” – Hayley B
“I loved the low ropes, it’s like an obstacle course with mud and water. I got really dirty!” – Katy
“My favourite was abseiling because I thought that I was never going to do it but I did and it was very fun.” – Lewis
“The abseiling was really fun and nervous.” – Logan Y
“My favourite activity was the zipline because it felt like being in Mission Impossible.” – Rowan
“I enjoyed the zipline. I felt scared at first but I did it.” – Charlie
“I enjoyed the orienteering because you had to work as teams to find every sign.” – Cameron
“I loved the 300m zipwire. It felt like mission impossible.” – Luke
“My favourite was the low ropes because we got muddy.” – Callum L
We had a really good time! See our Facebook page for photos/videos.
P1a Learning Reflection W/E 10th May 2019
A short but busy week this week. In Literacy this week P1 learned another split diagraph, the u-e sound as in dude. We looked for u-e or oo words in a word search, played roll and read and completed hold a sentence, where we had to listen to a sentence then write it down. In numeracy this week we have been working on our adding and subtracting within 20. We played four in a row, found the missing number bonds and played funky mummy on the I Pads where we had to add to 10 then 20. Also this week we spoke about our next wellbeing tool of respect yourself. We spoke about what makes us unique and special. We completed a flower where we drew what makes us special. We also welcomed nursery to our class for the first of their transition visits. On Friday we went to Primary 6’s assembly all about their camp. Here are a few of the children’s reflections:
Ziva: “I enjoyed playing with the children from the nursery.”
Euan: “I am the same as Ziva. I enjoyed having the nursery to play.”
Leighton: “I enjoyed P6’s assembly. I liked the videos and campfire songs.”
Ayden: “I enjoyed watching the canoeing video from P6 camp.”
Lois: “I liked P6’s assembly. I can’t wait till I can go to camp.”
Ch: “I liked everything about Primary 6’s assembly.”
Isaac: “I liked all of the assembly about P6 camp.”
Sevinc: “I liked the campfire songs sung by Logan and Calum.”
P6 Window Into Learning
P5 WiL – Term 4
P2 This Week 3.5.19
In Literacy we learned how to spell words with consonant blends. In writing we wrote descriptions of Mr. Grinling, the lighthouse keeper from the story ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. We also completed a sequencing activity re-telling the story. The children enjoyed writing comic strips about ‘Oor Wullie’ and these will now be stuck on our life size ‘Oor Wullie’, which will be part of the bucket trail this summer! The children also enjoyed having ERIC time outside in the school garden.
In Maths we have been learning to round numbers to the nearest ten and developing our knowledge of multiplication. The children have also been learning about symmetry and had fun creating colourful symmetrical butterflies.
In Science we began learning about mini beasts. As part of our outdoor learning this term, the children will be venturing outside to take part in a special mini beast hunt!
In PE we played a fun team game and also practised our tennis skills.
Have a lovely holiday weekend!
