Category Archives: Primary 4

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Quickest Week Ever for P4!

Lots of maths again this week. We are working on division using an exchange, partitioning, or whole-part models.

We have recapped on the information we learned about  Victorian Life from Mrs Liddel’s visit last week. We have focussed on school life in class.

We have completed a second draft of our Procedure writing, making lots of improvements.

O – I enjoyed the maths yesterday. I enjoyed how it was challenging. It was division.

L – I enjoyed the assembly to see how other people’s worries go away when you say them out loud.

H – I enjoyed when we drew a worry bag yesterday. It helped to get the worries out of your head.

L – I enjoyed the bake sale today.

F – I liked learning about Victorian Schools because I didn’t know about it before. It was interesting about the dunce hat.

L – I liked the writing we did about making a recipe for shortbread.

J – I liked the bake sale.

Class Posts, Primary 4

Exciting week in P4

We did lots of different things this week. We have begun to put our profiles on Didbook. We had the computers to do some research on Italy for our Scotland Loves Languages Week.  We have had a good think about what we want to know about the Victorians. Lots more multiplication and division in maths, focussing on column multiplication.

L – I liked the bit when we needed to write about what we know or want to know about the Victorians.

E – I enjoyed going on Didbook

J – I liked maths where we were doing it on the whiteboards and we all had to show the answers at the same time.

R – I liked when we did the posters and found out about Italy and did research.

A – I liked doing my profile on Didbook when I wrote my favourite superhero. It was fun.

S – I enjoyed to go on Didbook and fill in my details.

O – I liked when we did the research on Italy. In our group we found out that the volcano Vesuvius was over 300000 years old.

E – I liked the assembly today because I got a certificate for pupil of the week. I feel quite proud.

Please return EE2 and money for the badminton festival as soon as possible.

Class Posts, Primary 4

Welcome to the Year of the Rat!

Today we all enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year from Primary 3 who had their assembly presentation.

Going back through the week we have had a big focus on numeracy and looking at a wide variety of strategies for multiplying and dividing. Ask your children about arrays, repeated addition or subtractions, groups, sharing, using a number line or making links with times tables.

We have all completed our gymnastics routines and have peer assessed each group. There are some amazingly brave and bendy pupils in this class, and there were some super creative ideas in every routine.

In literacy we have had our first opportunity to borrow books from our new library. We are learning to write a Procedure and will be writing a recipe to begin with. We are also learning about proper nouns and present tense verbs.

With Karen from NYCOS we have been learning about ta, tete and rests and also about pitch (Soh and Mi).

D – I liked the booklet of maths because it gets me better at division.

L –  I liked the P3 assembly especially the video of the Lion Dance.

A – I enjoyed indoor break because I got to make 2 comics.

F – I like when we got the laptops out because we’ve not had much time with them before. It was good getting our own login.

J – I liked the assembly because I got a certificate and I’m proud of it.

E – I liked when we went to the library and got to choose our own book and get it scanned.

E – I enjoyed doing the routines in gymnastics.

H – I liked yesterday when we got the laptops because I have a funny password.

L – I liked the gymnastics routines because we got to peer assess them.

A – I enjoyed music when we learned a song about lemonade.

L – I liked learning how to write a recipe.

K – I liked the gymnastics when we all did our routines and it was good to hear all the feedback.

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Another Busy Week for P4

A bit of a different week this week because we are working on our Scottish Focus. We have been learning some of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson, and lots of new Scottish vocabulary. This will continue next week but we will also have our poetry recitals. Many pupils have now learned almost all of their lines – keep up the good work.

Also this week, we have started a block of music lessons with Karen from NYCoS. We did lots of singing, clapping, clicking, ball bouncing and walking around in time with the beat. Ask us if we can remember the names of Christopher Columbus’s ships. We are already excited to know what we’ll do next time.

Harris – I enjoyed today’s assembly because we were learning about how God helped a blind man and he got him to see again without even touching  him.

Emma – I enjoyed doing the gymnastics because I enjoyed doing the yoga cards. I liked a pose called the dancer.

Joe – I liked Maths today because  I learned that 38 tens is 380.

Luke – I enjoyed playing my ocarina at assembly because it is really fun.

Ethan – I enjoyed the Maths that we did yesterday. I liked the second sheet because it challenged me more. It was about dividing.

Kaitlyn – I liked doing the pictures yesterday. It was fun but challenging. It was about Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem From a Railway Carriage.

Blake – I liked writing the exposition because it really helped me get more confident with my handwriting and it helped me get pupil of the week.

Darcy – I liked the First Minister’s Reading Challenge because it encouraged me to read more books.

Kayden – I liked the maths this week because I got to learn my tables.

Rhys – I liked music this week because you had to guess who was singing.

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Happy 2020 from P4!

What a busy hardworking bunch this week.  I am very proud of P4 who, although they didn’t win the Cloakroom award this week, were a very close 2nd with 7 points. This is our record number of points, so very well done.

Emma F – I enjoyed doing gymnastics in PE.

Freya – I liked the assembly today about Talk Things Over. I like the idea of the bag of worries.

Lakshya – I enjoyed the gymnastics because we learned to do the forward rolls and pencil rolls.

Joe – I liked the assembly because I liked how I got ideas to deal with the things I worry about.

Harris Si – I liked in gym when we learned how to do forward rolls and then how to make them better and more professional.

Kaitlyn –  I liked doing the New Year resolutions on rockets.

Anna – I enjoyed doing the calendars with Miss Whigham.

Luke N – I enjoyed writing about the dream present.

Darcy – I liked doing the rockets about New Year Resolutions.

Finn – I liked the maths this morning when we were learning about dividing.  I also liked the part-whole models to help with adding and taking away.

Sebastian – I liked this week’s maths because I learned more about bar models for adding and taking away.

Harris St – I liked the ERIC time because I was really wanting to finish my book Billionaire Boy. I love it.

Olly –  I enjoyed this week’s maths because I learned to do the bar model and learned what’s the differences between adding and taking away.

Kayden – I liked ERIC time yesterday because I got to finish my book about Messi. It was good and now Olly is going to read it. I don’t know whether to ready Neymar or Suarez now.

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P4 Scottish Poetry

We had a lovely start back to school today and now we’re ready to go with learning our Scottish poems.

If you are stuck with pronunciation, there are lots of YouTube videos with children reciting the poems.

Have fun learning them.

Fireworks Aff the Castle by Matthew Fitt

Hipperty Skipperty by an unknown author

My Hoggie by Robert Burns

Street Talk by JK Annand

The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate

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Busy Book Week Scotland

P4 celebrated Book Week Scotland with lots of activities about The Legend of Spud Murphy. We also watched 2 Authors Live programmes – one with Chris Hoy and Joanna Nadin who are the authors of Flying Fergus stories, and the other with David Walliams who as always, made us laugh with his funny stories.

Angus – I liked doing the Spud Murphy things like the Wanted! posters and the speech bubbles.

Lakshya – I liked when Anna, Darcy , Emma F and me were doing the Spud Murphy picture for the class door.

Kayden – I liked the maths today because it was challenging. We were adding thousands in our head.

Freya – I liked the JRSO assembly today when the P7s were talking about crossing the roads.

Jarrad – I liked Futsal because we got to play matches. I am sad because it was our last week.

Finn – I liked the after school football because there were 4 goals set up and we played it like there were 2 leagues so if you won you could go up to Premier League and if you didn’t win you went to the Championship pitch.

Luke N – I liked the after school ocarina club because we are getting on to lots of songs now. It is getting easier to know where my fingers go.

Darcy – I like the choir because I like Santa You’re too Fat and Mary’s Song.

Finally, I hope you have put Friday 6th December at 9:15am into your diary because that is the day of our class assembly. You are all welcome to come and find out a bit about what we have been learning.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 4

Late update from last week – sorry!

Well, last week was as busy as ever in Primary 4. I am always amazed by the different opinions of what we have learned and enjoyed in class.

Leo – I am enjoying the Futsal. It is fun because we were doing games this week.

Jarrad – I enjoyed learning about function machines in maths. It was quite cool.

Emma – I loved the Bookworms Club in the library at break.

Teme – I liked maths when we got to have a go straight away without any teaching first.

William – I liked the P6 assembly about the World War 2. It had good drama.

Kaitlyn – I thought it was good to discuss anti-bullying week and do a poster with school values.

Sebastian – I like the drawings of the butterflies. It was hard but good.

Joe – The songs we are singing in choir are fun. Like Santa You’re too Fat.

Rohan – I like Mary’s Boy Child that we are singing in choir.

Freya – I loved the PATPALS because my mum managed to come along It was a surprise.

Darcy – I enjoyed the spelling activities and Futsal games.

Primary 4

A Week in P4

Primary 4 have worked very hard this week. We have been focusing on learning how to give peer or self feedback that is specific and helpful so that we can improve. We have learned that re-drafting can make a big difference to our work that can make us feel proud of what we have done.

Anna – I think I have done better on the maths sheet after I had another go.

Alexander – I enjoyed all the songs in choir practice.

Jarrad – I liked the assembly, I liked the acting.

Angus – I enjoyed when everyone went to the choir and everyone left got to draw squirrels for autumn.

Freya – I liked drawing the butterflies and looking at what we could do better in the next one.

Kayden – I enjoyed assembly because it was fun how the people were acting.

Darcy – I liked the choir. I liked the tune of Mary’s Song.

Kaitlyn – I liked drawing the butterflies. I learned that you can do different drafts until you’ve got what you want.

Joe – I liked the number talks when I had the fastest strategy and Sophie had a smart one.