Monthly Archives: February 2022

Class Posts, Primary 5

Children’s Mental Health Week Reflection for P5

Here are some of our thoughts about the week we have just had. It was a great week!

I hope you all have a great long weekend. See you next Wednesday.

Maizy – I liked when we did football with Davie. I liked the matches.

Caleb – I liked it when we were doing dividing in maths. I am getting much better at it now.

Holly – I enjoyed doing the writing about Mary Queen of Scots. I love writing.

Mathew – I really like the maths this week because I like working with the Teejay books. The maths really helps me with some of the video games at home.

Emma – I liked doing the French with Mme Moore. I enjoyed learning about snacks and fruits and the fruit festivals. I liked learning what they have for breakfast in France.

Zach – The extra football practice with Davie has helped me improve my skills.

Elena – I have been having fun learning French. I like learning how to say I like or don’t like different types of food.

Amelia – I am happy because I have improved in maths.

Anya – Doing the Health and Wellbeing check in was good because I got to think about who is my trusted adult.

Lewis – I liked doing gymnastics because I was finally able to do the crab.

Safia – I liked gymnastics because I got the chance to lead the class when they were doing their stretching.

Pola – I really enjoyed practising division. It is getting more fun because I’m getting better at it.

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 11th February 2022

In Literacy we have learned the ‘ir’ and ‘ou’ long vowel sounds and the red word call. We have written words with ‘ir’ and ‘ou’, built words on our magnetic boards, played roll and read and sorted real and nonsense words. In writing we wrote an adventure story featuring our superhero.

In Maths this week we have explored reading and writing half past times on an analogue and digital clock. We wrote o’clock and half past times on a digital clock, read half past times on a digital and analogue clock and in words to complete jigsaws, played an o’clock and half past board game and bingo.

For Children’s Mental Health week we listened to the story The Dot. We discussed our strengths and drew pictures of these on dots. We also watched the short film Boundin’ and explored times when we have felt up and times when we have felt down. We created hot air balloons to show the times when we have felt up.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Angus – “We have been learning about ou words. I was good at my sentences and I had fun playing my llama game in gym today.”

David “I liked eating my snack and lunch.”

Leo – “I liked building a flying saucer with the bricks”

Lyla- “I loved playing in the story corner and reading.”

Aaron- “Playing Star Wars with baby Yoda. I was Learning how to write a sentence.”

Finlay – “I liked playing with Aaron and I learned how to write things that I didn’t know how to write, by sounding them out.”

Emma “We learned about writing words today. I made a sentence.”

Mia – “We were learning the sounds ir and writing words.”

Jessica- “I liked the parachute game today for gym.”

Ayaat – “I liked writing the letters and words.”

Have a lovely long weekend.

Miss Maclachlan

General Information, Primary 6

Primary 6 Weekly Reflection – WB 07-02-22

 

This week we have been busy preparing for our assembly on children’s mental health.  We have been learning about our support networks and making connections with others. We also made colourful posters about what compassion meant to us.  The assembly went very well and we did lots of practising throughout the week. We felt very proud of our work and felt better after the stressful part was over.

Luke, Freya, Olly

Senora Gordon and Senorita Martinez have been working with us in class on our Spanish. Finn and Luke made a tortilla at home and shared their learning in class. Luke thought his tasted very nice, he added pork and cheese to his.
Luke, Finn

In maths we have been focusing on drawing angles, it was a bit tricky. but we will continue to practise. We have also been working on our fractions and we will soon be moving on to decimals.
Lakshya, Leo 

We are in the middle of our authors and illustrators project. Our stories are going well and they are going to be very good.  This week we have finished our build up sections and are now working on our dilemma.  We are starting to think about how we will present our work and are looking forward to this part of the process.
Angus, Anna

General Information

P2 Learning Reflection for W/E 11.02.22

A busy week in P2 this week. In literacy we have been spelling words with double ll, ss and ff. In numeracy we are continuing with subtraction and in number talks we have been looking for doubles and near doubles using two ten frames. The children enjoyed making self-esteem pizzas with sprinkled toppings of talents and strengths. The children have started the share their home learning, this will continue into next week as they have so much to share! Hope you all have a lovely midterm break. Please see below for your children’s learning comments:

Ella – I enjoyed gymnastics. We have been working together on floor routines. My partner was Rhy-Lee. We did rocket balance at the start and the end. Then we done moon balance and sitting star. I did a rocket roll and then I done a flying saucer and a dish. I think the last thing was a star jump and we finished with rocket balance.

Nathan – I love reading so much. I am reading a book.  The girl is trying to get the dish and the jam. The mum comes up and sees the mess. She tells the girl to tidy up!

Oliver – I liked when we were reading because I really like reading my book. It about a dog with a hurt paw and the vet fixed it. Then he jumped up on her because she fixed the paw and he was happy.

Louis – I like gymnastics. So we done stuff for gymnastics. We were doing a rocket and you jump and go into a moon and roll and go back into a rocket.

Willow – I liked the assembly. It was about mental health week. I stood up and talked about my self-esteem pizza. The toppings have all my strengths and talents. I am kind, I am good at dancing and I am good at cycling. I am also good at gymnastics!

Thea – In free play I was playing teachers. I was teaching Willow math and she got some right and some wrong!

Jack – I enjoyed doing free play. I was making paper chains for my birthday party. You get the paper and glue it and you make a big circle and you keep on doing it. You have to put one bit through the other bit then glue it!

Olivia – I enjoyed number talks. We were doing doubles and near doubles on the ten frames. In the first one there was six dots and the second one has seven dots it’s a near double. I did double six equals twelve and one more equals thirteen.

Caleb – I enjoyed doing the pizza. We made pizza with topping and the topping were our feelings.

Kyra – I liked gymnastics. I liked doing the routines. We were doing pike alien and moon and the star jump.

Alexander – I liked doing free play. I like building the bricks. We were trying to build a stage so we can rock and sing!

Georgia – I liked reading. I am reading Tag. Pip was it, they find Tip first then they come to find Zip and Zip was in a rocket. Zip pressed the wrong button and he zoomed away!

Josh – I liked making the pizza. The toppings were what we are good at. I put on sport, swimming, running and stuff like that.

Elyas – I liked the pizza that we made. It has our feelings on it and things that we are good at. I am good at running, building and I am good at climbing.

Rhy-Lee – I liked doing the gymnastics. We were doing rocket balance and star jump. Then we done a roll and flying saucer. We were pointing our toes!

Arianna – I enjoyed reading. A little girl gets a pot and a bowl. She gets jam in it and she gets it on her leg and her chin. I like to read!

General Information, Primary 4

11.2.22 Reflections in P4

This week in P4 we learned the bus stop method for division, we thought about our support network for our mental health and created hot air balloons to share this. In poetry, we created rhyming poems which were quite funny and some were a little silly! In P.E. we developed skills in gymnastics and badminton. Here are some of our thoughts on this week’s learning;

Lewis “The bust stop method was challenging but we all persevered.”

Lois ” The hot air balloons make us respect our families and you can show your unique personality through your design.”

Sevinc “Sharing your feelings in writing is a better way to express yourself.”

Sushanth “We were improving hitting, aiming and returning skills in badminton. We learned to hold the racquet correctly…it was like shaking a person’s hand.”

To finish the week, we made magic flowers that open when they float in water! Look out for the messages inside.

Happy holiday weekend, everyone.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 5

First Week of February Reflections

This week we welcomed a new pupil, Sophie, into our class. P5 have been busy making friends and demonstrating our school value of  compassion.

It has been another busy week of learning starting with a visit from Senora Gordon and Senorita Martinez who came to teach us some Spanish greetings. We have followed the lesson up in class by watching The Gruffalo in Spanish and listening for some familiar words while trying to pick up some new ones. It was a great way to celebrate Language Week Scotland.

We have continued to prepare for our writing project by using a storyboard with 2 timelines so that we can coordinate the 2 different time periods in our stories.

Our main focus of maths has been multiplying and dividing using formal written methods. We have been building in lots of practice on the 6x and 8x tables.

Looking forward to next week, we have another Spanish lesson on Monday and we will focus on Health and Wellbeing for Children’s Mental Health Week.

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 4th February 2022

Good afternoon

In Literacy we have learned the ‘or’ and ‘air’ long vowel sounds and the red word want. We have written words with ‘or’ and ‘air’, built words on our magnetic boards, played roll and read and sorted real and nonsense words. In writing we wrote a description of our superhero.

In Maths this week we have explored reading and writing o’clock times on an analogue and digital clock. We looked at reading half past times on an analogue clock too. We found matching times, made our own clocks, solved time jigsaws and played stop the clock on the netbooks.

We have been exploring the theme of superheroes through our play. We looked at how we get day and night, sorted activities into the right category and made superhero potions in the tuff spot. We also watched Emily MacKenzie who is an author and illustrator read her story ‘There’s Broccoli in my Ice Cream’ and she taught us how to draw Granville. In P.E we have been doing gymnastics and have explored a variety of shapes and rolls.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

“I have enjoyed writing about my superhero Gorgeous Gracie.” Gracie

“I love superheroes. I am Electric Emily.” Emily

“I liked writing about my superhero. I am Marvellous Matthew.” Matthew

“I can write o’clock times on an analogue clock.” Ishanvi

“I have learned how to read and write ‘air’ words.” Angus

“I have enjoyed learning everything.” Aaron

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Maclachlan

General Information

P2 Learning Reflection W/E 4th February 2022

In literacy this week P2 have been sorting words into alphabetical order. In numeracy the children are continuing with subtraction using number lines and number tracks. The children have enjoyed playing strike it out using a number track to 20. Here is a link explaining the game, maybe you would like to play at home too! https://nrich.maths.org/10091

Josh –  I liked making the dance floor. We put lots of paper together with tape. Then we coloured in each rectangle.

Olivia – I liked painting the Chinese good luck symbol for Chinese New Year.

Oliver – I liked learning about Chinese New Year. They make lanterns to celebrate and they wear red for good luck.

Grace – I enjoyed learning about magnets. So when you have something metal and you put it against other metal it can sometimes connect to each other and sometimes push away. Its depends which type of metal it is. If its magnetic it can pull together.

Caleb – We were sorting the alphabet in order. It has 26 letters!

Willow – I liked doing the Chinese New Year symbol. I painted a good luck symbol.

Elyas – I liked finding out about Chinese New Year. It’s the year of the tiger!

Thea – We went to the library. I was reading The Witches with Georgia, there was two books. I like when the granny tells the boy the sentences when they little legends!

Louis – We were writing about our boats. I have cakes and a speed boost!

Arianna – We were doing the ABC’s. We were doing them on a sheet then we put them on order. I am good at it!

Nathan – For Free Writing Friday I wrote, my house is good to play in!

Rhy-Lee – I liked doing magnets. They stick to another magnet because they are magnetic!

Jack – I enjoyed making the dance floor. It took hard work and we had to use team work. I started doing it with Caleb and Josh and other people wanted to join in. We are making decorations for my party!

Ella – I liked playing with the Polly Pocket Land. We started with some rice and then we got some wood and gems. We made gardens and pools and some flowers and trees. We are going to add lego and make some other stuff. We were working together to make it!

Georgia – I liked being in the library. I was reading Charlie and Chocolate Factory and The Witches. I was reading when Charlie gets his golden ticket. I like that bit because I like the golden ticket, I would like to get one!

Primary 7

Friday 4th February – Class Blog

P7 Blog

By Rocco and Chloe

This week we have been learning:

Algebra, we started working on it on Monday and some of it can be easy but some bits of it can be a bit challenging.

Spanish, we had our first Spanish session on Monday with Mrs Gordon and Miss Martinez. We enjoyed learning new words.

Gymnastics, we have been working on Gymnastics routines the past few sessions and performed them on Wednesday in front of the class in groups and we enjoyed giving feedback to each other.

Science, we had science with Mr Keast and we were learning about the Chinese New Year on Wednesday.

French, Madame Moore came in on Thursday morning and we learnt some the words for vegetables in French. We found it fun to play the games too. We have learned 41 new words over the last 3 weeks!

Writing, we have been working on an ‘Author’s Journey’ writing piece, about someone famous or someone in the past which was fun to write about. Next we need to edit and revise our writing further to make sure we are creating a great final piece of writing for our book.

Scottish Loves Languages, for this event we have been challenged to do several different things to earn points and we have done some drawing of the Eiffel tower, we listened to The Gruffalo in Spanish and sang a French song.

We have really enjoyed this week with Mrs Taylor and other teachers, and we are looking forward for the week ahead.

General Information, Primary 2/1

P2-1 Weekly Reflection 04.02.22

ScotlandlovesLanguages - Alliance Française Glasgow

Bonjour!

What a great week we have had learning about the different countries and continents of the world and what a super response to the Cultural Challenges set for home learning, well done to everyone who completed a challenge task. Hopefully your language skills are now a little more developed than they were at the beginning of the week.

This week P1 have been learning the or and air sounds and P2 have been learning about double consonants ff, ll, ss and zz. We have had great fun playing different games to practise these sounds while also developing our observational skills and our turn taking skills. Some people were very good at spotting our focus sounds within differents texts in the classroom. I wonder how many you can spot around your home or when out and about?

In numeracy this week we have been continuing to practise our number bonds to 10 and 20 and have been using these to help us with our subtraction.  We have also been learning about o’clock times on an analogue clock. I wonder how many analogue clocks you can find around your home?

In Art, we continued to develop our observational skills as we watched a Charles Rennie MacIntosh tutorial about how to draw a Rennie MacIntosh rose. We have drawn these using black pens and will finish colouring them next week and let you see them.

In PE we have continued to work on our gymnastics skills and have been practising more rolls. Please remember that our PE days are Monday and Wednesday and children should come dressed ready for PE on those days. You might also like to provide your child with 2 water bottles on PE days so they have plenty to drink.

Yesterday we enjoyed a Digital Schools session with the National Museum of Scotland and it was very informative. We learned about the different parts of a plane and went on a journey to Australia where we met koalas, kangaroos, emus and kookaburras.

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Here are some of the children’s comments this week:-

Poppy “I liked learning about the planes and how the animals move a little bit like the aeroplane and I also liked learning the gymnastics moves.”

Dylan “I liked singing the songs about the different parts of the aeroplanes.”

Ethan “I agree with Dylan.”

Cooper “I really really liked writing.”

Minny “I liked learning about the Rennie Mackintosh rose.”

Kyle “I liked drawing the rose.”

Aylar “I liked doing the rose too.”

Rory “I liked the rose too.”

Theo “I liked learning about the guy who makes the poems – Robert Burns.”