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General Information

All about assembly

Wow! What a great assembly from P7 today. It was very informative about Japan and what it’s like to live there. From details like population, volcanoes, islands and where in the world it is, to what houses are like inside and manga artwork. There was also a lot of self-evaluation regarding what went well and what could have gone better. Pupils shared their writing and artwork too.

I just want to confirm that P7 arranged the whole assembly themselves. My only job was to merge all the different presentations into one. I am so proud of everyone for their input. Well done!

You can look at a pdf of the PowerPoint here: Assembly

 

General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 This Week

In Number Talks the children have been using their knowledge of doubles to solve addition problems. They went outdoors to start our learning about measure. In phonics they have continued their learning about magic ‘e’ words with a focus on the u-e sound. The children enjoyed sharing their news about their October holidays in Circle Time. In PE we played ball games. We have started practicing our parts for the class assembly on Friday 2nd November at 9:15. Come and join us if you can.

General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 26.10.18

This week saw the children enjoying their new reading area, we hope we can use this area to increase personal enjoyment in reading.  We also started our Book of the Week presentations and Darcy shared Diary of a Wimpy Kid Double Down by Jeff Kinney.  She thought this was a good choice as it is a book that is funny and will appeal to everyone.

Kayden enjoyed number work this week. Luke N enjoyed learning about the Wellbeing Indicators and having to thinking of his own images to represent these.  The children will be learning more about the Wellbeing Wheel over the coming weeks.  Finn says an easy way to remember it is by remembering the word SHANARRI which stands for Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included.

Joe said his highlight was when we wrote summaries of our learning about the Food and Farming topic.  All of the children were impressed by how much we had could remember.

Lakshya particularly enjoyed our spelling task this week when we worked with a partner to practise our words using beanbags.  The children had to pass the beanbag as they said a letter to spell out the word.  This week we have been revising rules about plurals.

Next week we will begin our new topic on Inventors and we will be thinking about some spooky writing for Halloween.

Have a lovely weekend.

General Information

This week in Primary 6…

This is the first time P6 have done the blog themselves so Miss Marnie and Miss Greig could have a break. (Just kidding!) We all enjoyed it. We also enjoyed learning how to use speech marks.

 

The basketball team have a tournament later today and I’m looking forward to it. – Logan F

In maths this week we had to multiply 2 digit and 3 digit numbers by a single digit.

“I liked the strategy we used to work it out.  We partitioned the number then multiplied the hundreds, tens and units by the single digit and added them together.” – Katy

In Spanish this week we were learning about food. We had to design our own Spanish menus.

“It was good to learn lots of different foods in Spanish!” – Lewis
“I really enjoyed it, because in my restaurant I want it to be a nice posh one.” – Katy
“I really liked designing the menu because it was challenging!” – Logan F
“I loved how we got to choose the prices, because we could make ham 6.50!” – Ainslie
“I enjoyed it because it was hard to make a name up for your restaurant!” – Calum
“I enjoyed making the Spanish menu!” – Sri

In PE we started Badminton this week.

“I liked doing the rally because it was fun!” – Zoe

Some of us went to the handball club on Wednesday.

“I liked the racing part.”-Finlay

“It was fun.”-Cade

“I liked doing the dribbling race.”-Calum

“I liked the dribbling up and down.”-Callan

“I liked dribbling backwards.”-Logan F

 

At bikeability we had to go up to roundabouts and make sure that we knew when to give way.

“We also learned how to go round the roundabout and me and Silvester went last”-Rowan

“At the roundabout we had to signal. It was really hard.”-Charlie

“At the roundabout it was really hard because there was a van behind me and a motorbike to my right and a car to my left”-Silvester

We started redrafting our letters for our penpals.

“I really enjoyed drawing my picture for my penpal.”-Natalie

“I really enjoyed writing to my penpal and getting better at joined up writing.”-Callum L

“It was really fun and I made a few mistakes once or twice.”-Ellie

 

 

 

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection 12.10.18

I can’t quite believe we’re at the end of term already, what a busy term it’s been.  This week has been no exception!  We baked bannocks and butter on Monday, had a visitor on Tuesday who was watching our Number Talks lesson, we played some great games with Miss Donald in PE on Thursday and then celebrated Harvest at the Church service.  Here are some of the children’s highlights this week:-

Kaitlyn “Making the bread on Monday and the picture we did in Art”

William “I enjoyed doing symmetry in Art when we drew the other half of our faces.”

Elisha “Making the bread and the line drawing to complete my portrait.”

Emma F “I enjoyed filling in the missing numbers on the number lines.”

Finn “I liked drawing the other part of the face and I liked Sebastian’s, it was really good.”

Harris St “Making the rest of the tractors.”

Luke N “I enjoyed going to church.”

Lakshya “I liked the symmetry.”

Joe “I liked when we were sharing our learning.”

Olly enjoyed when Emma gave out sweets to celebrate her birthday.  He thought this was a good example of compassion.

This week Anna lost her tooth and the children were interested to find out what would happen if we left it in some coke.  After three days the children were horrified with the affect the coke had on the tooth.  We discussed why we should only drink fizzy drinks occasionally and why it is important to brush our teeth properly when we’ve been drinking them.  William’s tooth is getting ready to fall out and he would like to see what happens to it if we put it in iron bru.  Perhaps we can pick up on this learning after the holiday.

Thanks to everyone for their continued support in their child’s learning and for attending learning consultations this week.  I wish you all a safe and happy October break and look forward to hearing all about it when the children return on Tuesday 23rd October.

General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 – this week

In Literacy we continued our work on magic e with a focus on o-e words. We also wrote poems about our senses. In numeracy we were learning the strategy of counting on from a given number in addition. Also making links in our learning. If 7 and 2 makes 9 then 17 and 2 makes 19 and so on. We had fun creating 3D shapes.

The children also enjoyed a  yoga session in PE using Cosmic Kids yoga.  We tested our taste buds to see how good we were at detecting sweet, sour, bitter and salty flavours. On Thursday we went to the church for the Harvest Service and Arya, Poppy and Holly read the poem beautifully, while we all enjoyed singing.

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Class Posts, General Information, Primary 7

Last Week Before Holidays !

October activities

Pupils were given October home learning sheet on 1st October, here it is again in case it goes missing.

We’ve had a great week again.

Lewis – I liked the football on Tuesday. The fitness work was good. I feel I lost 10 stone

Tyler – I liked the maths when we were doing the long multiplication because it was hard but fun and worth it.

Liam – I liked drawing the manga pictures. It was quite hard but fun.

Holly – I liked the new game we played in PE with Miss Donald. It was called Duck tig.

Ben – I liked the netball tournament.

I hope everyone has a great holiday.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 3

P3 Weekly Reflection

This week in Primary 3 we have been learning about foods that can be grown at home.  The children were excited to share the foods they grow at their own homes and we went into the garden to consider the foods grown in the greenhouse.  Angus said he enjoyed this learning and told us he grows apples and pears at home.  William said he enjoyed looking at the pictures of commonly grown foods and guessing which plants they were.  Joe told us he enjoyed writing about foods that can be grown at home.

In literacy this week we have been continuing our learning about plurals and learning the rules for words that end in ‘y’.  Luke N said he enjoyed the activities we did to learn these rules.  We also learned about the layout of a formal letter when we wrote thank you letters to New Lanark for our recent visit.  Writing his thank you letter was a highlight for Harris St.  In reading we have been looking at asking good questions to encourage better discussion.

Maths this week was all about patterns with numbers and we played lots of games using number squares and loop cards.  Finn and Kayden said they enjoyed the loop card game and Mrs Clyne was impressed when we knocked 3 mins off our last time!  Rhys said he particularly enjoyed the number problems which we tackled for Smart Start.

This week saw us design our Christmas cards for the parent council’s fundraiser.  These will now be sent away and the children’s proofs will be returned in due course.  Emma F, Jarrad and Lakshya all said they enjoyed designing their own Christmas card and we look forward to seeing them when they arrive.

In drama this week we have been practising our mime skills and recreating characters from the story of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.  We learnt that it can be quite tricky to convey a message through mime alone.  Anna said she really enjoyed the drama and liked playing one of the children from the story.

In technology Kalista said it was fun making the tractors and working collaboratively with her peers.

This week sees the children bring their jotters home so you are able to discuss your child’s learning with them before you attend learning consultations next week.  I would urge you to complete the feedback form and return the jotters to school on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend.

Class Posts, General Information, Primary 3/2

P2 Learning Reflection

This week, some of the children in Primary 2 enjoyed their very first session with their Primary 7 reading buddies. The children will read on a Monday and Thursday each week. Thank you to the children in Primary 7 for doing a great job!

The class are really enjoying their science topic about the five senses and have participated well in all our activities throughout. Here are a few of the children’s reflections about their learning:

Our sense of touch helps us to feel if things are hard or soft. (Akruti)

In the middle of your eye there’s a pupil and it helps you to see. (Holly)

Your tongue helps you to taste.(Maddie)

Your senses work with your brain. (Cali)

Our senses help us to keep safe. (Arya)

In Numeracy we have counted number sequences to 50, explored place value using tens and ones and added within 20. Through Number Talks, we have been sharing the different ways we work out addition problems.

In Literacy we have been learning about ‘magic e’ with a focus on the ‘i-e’ sound. We sang the magic e song and completed some word building activities. We learned that magic e makes the vowel sound say it’s name.

In Art, we looked at and discussed pictures of Autumn scenes and colours. We then explored colour mixing to create our own Autumn paintings. We also completed our Christmas card designs.