Monthly Archives: April 2022

Primary 3

P3 This Week

Good afternoon,

I hope that you all had a pleasant Easter break.

This week P3 have been learning:

  • In Numeracy, we are finishing our learning on fractions. We learned about fractions after a whole (5/4 being the same as 1 and 1/4) and we used number lines to count up.
  • In Maths, we walked around the local area collecting data using tally marks about local housing and the different types of housing. We also looked at compass directions, placing locations on a map and using maps.
  • In Literacy (and ICT), we typed up our recount writing using Microsoft Word onto PC’s and learned how to print our work.
  • In Art, we finished painting the base of our paper mache King Tut masks.
  • In Science, we predicted the outcome of our tomato mummification experiment and wrote up our results.

Have a lovely long weekend.

 

Mrs Love

Primary 1

Primary 1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 29th April 2022

Good afternoon. P1 have had a very busy week. We have practised the split diagraph sounds, ar, ir, or sounds and red words. We have played roll and read, snakes and ladders, wrote words on whiteboards and made them on magnetic boards. In numeracy we have explored measurement. We looked at comparing objects that are bigger or smaller, measuring footprints and measuring items around the classroom using non-standard units. In IDL we have started exploring the theme of pets and are in the middle of setting up our role play area as a pet shop. Here are the children’s reflections:

Leo – “I liked playing dodgeball in gym.”

Emma – “I enjoyed starting to make our pet shop.”

David – “I liked playing dodgeball too.”

Mitchell – “Same as David.”

Angus – “I liked helping to make the pet shop and I had great fun playing dodgeball.”

Matthew- “I liked playing dodgeball.”

Lyla – “I liked making our pet shop.”

Aaron – “I loved dodgeball, making the pet shop and listening to the noises in the shells.”

Ishanvi – “I enjoyed playing corners in gym.”

Finlay – “Same as Aaron.”

Ayaat – “I liked making the pet shop.”

Gracie – “I liked making the pet shop and bringing my animals into school.”

Mia – “I enjoyed the school lunches especially the blue tray.”

Jessica – “I enjoyed dodgeball and playing corners.”

Orlaith – “I enjoyed gym.”

Have a lovely long weekend and see you Tuesday.

Miss Maclachlan

General Information, Primary 2/1

P2-1 Weekly Reflection 29.04.22

We’ve had another busy week and are looking forward to the long weekend, please remember school is closed to all children on Monday. We are also closed to school children on Thursday as staff have an in-service day.

This week P2 have begun the Read Write Inc (RWI) Spelling Pre-Programme in preparation for beginning RWI Spelling Programme in Primary 3. This week we have focused on singular and plural and consonants and vowels. We have also learned that there are 26 letters in the alphabet and 44 speech sounds in the English language. We all enjoyed singing along to this song. Primary 1 have continued to learn their set 3 sounds and are becoming much more confident with blending these sounds together to build words.

In Writing we wrote about what makes us happy and Mrs Clyne was impressed with how well we were able to self-evaluate our work and identify our next steps.

In Maths we have completed our length and height topic and have begun to investigate mass. We have been measuring the mass of different items and then comparing the mass of objects using ‘lighter’ and ‘heavier’. We have also been practising our number word sequences to 50 and enjoyed singing along to this song.

In PE this week we have been developing our fitness through mini-fitness stations and running laps of the school field.

Miss Whigham set us a challenge to build a bridge from lego. Some of the children worked co-operatively and with a very focused approach constructed a strong and stable bridge, unfortunately we missed the opportunity for a photo before someone kindly tidied away the lego!

In our Health and Wellbeing lesson we had a super discussion about People Who Help and Look After Us. We talked about all the different people who care for us and all the specific things they do to show they care for us. We remembered our Trusted Adults that we have in school for times when we are feeling worried and we linked our learning to Children’s Rights as it is our right to be cared for.

Have a lovely holiday weekend and we look forward to seeing the children back on Tuesday 3rd May.

Theo “We had fun watching the video about the Magic Key.”

Poppy “We were measuring weight and we were learning about what’s heavier or lighter.” I enjoyed using the measurement toys.”

Dexter ” I enjoyed doing the bridges contest because it was fun.”

Minny “I had fun when we had the measurement toys out.”

Kade “We learned that singular means one and plural means more than one. Me and Theo were building a Jurassic world out of lego.”

Cooper “I enjoyed helping build the Jurassic world monorail. The monorail is like a train but not a normal rail. It goes on tracks which are inside water.”

Ethan “I liked building the monorail with Cooper.”

General Information, Primary 2/1

P2-1 Weekly Reflection 22.04.22

Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely Easter break. This week the children have enjoyed sharing their news from the holidays. It has been lovely to see their confidence when talking to their peers as they shared their news. We also held spontaneous talks about our family.

In Phonics P2 have been learning about silent letters with a particular focus on w and b. Mrs Clyne was impressed when Cara spotted some silent letters during one of our reading sessions. P1 have been continuing to learn set 3 sounds and focused on oa, a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. They were successful learners when they used their knowledge of phonics to build words with these sounds.

In Maths P2 have been continuing to develop their understanding of length by measuring using centimetres and considering length within addition problems. P1 have been further developing their understanding of number bonds to 20 and enjoyed exploring these using Numicon.

As a school we have been learning about Children’s Rights and on Tuesday some of our class joined children from across the school to take part in an interview about our work on Children’s Rights. We were all delighted to hear today that the school had been awarded Silver Level accreditation for the Rights Respecting Schools Award.

Today we had a whole school assembly where we learned about Earth Day. Earth Day was founded to make people think about the Earth and how to look after it. This year’s theme is Invest in Our Planet. We talked about lots of ways we can help to look after the Earth including planting more trees, walking to school, litter picking and recycling. We also enjoyed learning a new song about how we can make a difference.

During our assembly Mrs Smith told us about World Vision  and their Child Sponsorship programme. Over recent years, the school has been supporting a boy called Mulageta but he has now grown up and does not need our help anymore so we have a new sponsor, a 5yr old boy called Amza Augustine. We will be thinking about different ways that we can raise money to support Amza, his family and the village where he lives.

Today some children were acknowledged for their excellent treehouse designs for the Chief Forester’s Challenge STEM Competition 2022. Here is the picture of those who received certificates in our class.

We hope you have had a lovely week and enjoy a restful weekend.

Miss Whigham and Mrs Clyne

Primary 1

Primary 1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 22nd April 2022

Good Afternoon. P1 have been very busy this week. In Literacy we have been practising the ea, ee, oy, oi and split diagraphs a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. We used our magnetic letters to build words, wrote words on our whiteboards, played roll and read and snakes and ladders and sorted real and nonsense treasure.

In Numeracy we have been looking at the problem solving strategy of look for a pattern. We made peg patterns, coloured patterns to find the rule on strips, made necklace patterns and sorted out Bobbie Bear’s outfits.

On Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Smith we sorted living and non-living things into a Carroll Diagram. We have explored the story of Katie Morag and Tiresome Ted. We then drew pictures of our favourite toys and spoke about why they were our favourite toys. On Friday we went to assembly where we learned about Earth day and the charity World Vision. Here are the children’s reflections:

Emily –“ I liked listening to the story of Katie Morag and Tiresome Ted.”

Gracie – “I enjoyed listening to Katie Morag and drawing a picture of Dumbo.”

Matthew – “I enjoyed sorting living and non-living things with Mrs Smith.”

Mitchell – “I enjoyed sorting living and non-living things into Carroll diagrams.”

Finlay – “I liked using paint on the computer to make dinosaur pictures.”

Ishanvi – “I enjoyed playing tig, corners and duck duck goose in gym.”

Lyla – “I drew a picture of Dumbo.”

Orlaith – “I liked drawing Lady from the Lady and the Tramp as she is my favourite toy.”

Ayaat – “I enjoyed listening to and learning about Katie Morag.”

Aaron – “I liked talking about what we are going to learn about next. Pets had the most votes.”

Emma- “I liked drawing Skye from Paw Patrol. She is my favourite toy.”

Leo – “I enjoyed drawing my favourite toy.”

Angus – “I enjoyed solving problems by using the look for a pattern strategy.”

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Maclachlan

General Information

P2 Learning Reflection W/E 22nd April 2022

At the start of the week P2 discussed children’s rights, what these rights mean to them and how they can help others.  Well done to the two pupils who represented P2 at the RRS accreditation meeting which took place this week. A big shout out to Mrs Smith and the whole school for achieving our Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award! This week P2 have been using rulers to measure in cm the length and height of things around the classroom. The children have also been practising their numeracy targets, some have been skip counting in 4’s while others have been counting on or back from a given number. In literacy the children have been revising sounds and spelling patterns with the ire, ure, and are sounds. Today in assembly we learned about Earth Day and thought about what we could do to help the environment. Please see below for the children’s comments:

Happy Earth Day!

Elyas – I liked learning about Earth Day. We have to learn how to look after the earth, we only have one earth. I am going to eat healthy and pick up litter.

Nathan – I like reading my book. It is called Cluck. The mum gave the girl an egg and it was hot!

Ella – We were learning about Rights. A right is something that you are born with.

Thea – I enjoyed learning about Earth Day. I wrote about it in my Free Writing Friday book. I am going to recycle bottles and plant trees!

Josh – I enjoyed my holiday in South Africa I took two planes and one taxi. It was twelve hours on the second plane and the first plane was one and a half hours. The taxi was half an hour so it was probably twenty hours all together when you add in airport time and taxi! It is good to be back in school to see my friends!

Willow – I have enjoyed doing numeracy. We have done measuring and we were using rulers to measure things!

Caleb – I was making a box for the Star Wars cards.

Jack – I have enjoyed Free Play. I was making a box with Star Wars cards in it and gems!

Oliver – I enjoyed PE. We were racing with the eggs and spoons to see who could collect the most eggs. It was difficult to balance the egg and go through the hoop!

Georgia – I liked the song we sang in assembly it was about kindness I think!

Alexander – I loved doing Free Play. We were playing a game with the cards. You had to put your hand through the hole and pick out a card. If you get a good one you get a point!

Rhy-Lee – We learned about Earth Day. We need to plant trees to help the earth!

Olivia – I liked PE yesterday. I thought it was great fun when we were doing the egg race  including when we went over the benches. It reminded me of cheerleading because it has big beams you have to cartwheel across!

Louis – I love earth because I love nature and space. Today it Earth Day. I am going to pick up rubbish out off the sea!

Class Posts, Primary 5

A good start to the new term for P5

Safia – I liked going to the library and borrowing a book.

Anya – I liked doing decimals because I feel like it was something new.

Mathew – I liked the rugby. I was really looking forward to it and I did enjoy it. I liked learning about decimals too.

Rayyaan – I liked that the toys could come out at playtime again. I am quite proud because the school got a Silver Rights Award.

Sophia – I liked how we did the tournament in teams in basketball. My team were good together.

Arya – I liked the new lunches. There are some different things.

Pola – I liked getting the toys outside again. My favourite is the skipping rope.

Holly – I liked doing decimals in maths because I feel like I am improving.

Poppy – I liked doing the healthy menu because I got to add my favourite healthy foods.

Jan – I enjoyed the rugby. I always thought rugby was really rough but this wasn’t rough at all.

 

Caleb – I liked learning about time with Mr Keast because it is a really useful thing to learn.