Parents/carers of P4 and P5 children – if you haven’t already purchased your tickets,there is still time, but please get your order in as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!
If anyone requires additional tickets to the 2 originally allocated, these can be purchased from Wednesday morning (7th Feb) – please detail how many and include payment for the tickets you require. Please enclose this in an envelope or small bag, with your child’s name on it, and return it to the class teacher.
Look forward to seeing you all on Thursday evening!

Many thanks,

Mrs Stewart.

We have been very busy in P 5.4 over the last few weeks. Here are some of the things that we have been up to both in and out of the classroom.

I was very proud of all the children during our recent Assembly.

The children enjoyed being outside in the snow trying to build the biggest snow man, they realised that if they worked together in groups, they then could build bigger snowmen together. They then had to judge which snowman was the biggest by estimating which snowman was the biggest, without the use of a Metre stick.

We have been using lots of our new numeracy resources, during our numeracy lessons and consolidating what we have already learned.

We managed to solve Mrs. Bruce’s treasure hunt and solved the mystery word and won our class some treasure.

As well, as learning lots, we have have been researching information for our Burns topic and practicing lots for our Burns show, which is this Thursday night. (8th of February 2018, 6-7.30 pm)

I hope you all have had a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all back in the morning.
Miss Hanlon.

Another successful week in Primary 4.  We have been working very on hard on our Burns Concert with Primary 5/4 and Primary 5.  A big thank you to Mrs Stewart for playing the piano for us – it really helped us with our singing!

Last weeks raffle prize winner was Callan and this weeks raffle prize winner was Tia.

We also enjoyed the First Ministers Reading Challenge Treasure Hunt. A big thank to Mrs Bruce our Pirate and Mrs Turnbull for organising this.  Callum, Jana and Dionne helped to pick our new class novels.

Have a lovely weekend and keep working hard in Primary 4!

Mrs Glancy

What have we been learning this week?

We were learning numbers to 100 – Eva

We were reading Come on Margo – Robbie

We were reading Look at Me about Chip on his bike – Macaulay

We are reading The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl – Leyla

We were reading A New Dog – Eva

We were working out money problems – William

We were writing a story start about arriving in Egypt – Brooke

We were reading books about Egypt for our Topic – Charlie

We were making Egyptian necklaces – Kenzie

We were making Egyptian bracelets – Eva

Some of us are making a giant sarcophagus – Macaulay

The circles were doing maths up to 1000 – Cameron

We were learning about tens and units – Charlie

We were revising the ch, sh, th and wh sounds – Leyla

We were learning more word boost words – William

The whole school were exercising with Mrs Logan yesterday – Macaulay

We were doing the treasure hunt this week – Kenzie

Julia, Charlie and Alicia chose 3 books from the treasure chest

WE NEED PARENT HELPERS TO COME WITH US ON OUR TRIP TO THE MUSEUM ON 6TH MARCH.

If you are interested in coming with us (it will be for the whole school day) Please leave a comment and Miss Adam will get back to you to organise.

Below are the words to the poem we have been learning altogether in class. Please rehearse these.

To a Mouse.

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!

To A Mouse

I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
‘S a sma’ request;
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss’t!

Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!

Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell-
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.

That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men
Gang aft agley,
An’lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!

Still thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me
The present only toucheth thee:
But, Och! I backward cast my e’e.
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!

Many thanks.
Miss Hanlon, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Glancy and Mrs. Craig.

Good Morning,

P7/6 have been busy bees this term working on their multiplication knowledge and have recently been looking at long multiplication. They have been sharing their strategies and are getting more confident as the days go back. Great resilience from all the children 🙂

The upper school have also been working very hard with the school show songs and have shown some amazing talents through the auditions. We hope to let the children know who got which part this week-very exciting. Keep up the great work guys. You are doing a fabby job!

In Literacy, P7/6 will be working on science reports and imaginative writing. Their big talk homework for this week is to find specific vocabulary to help describe where their story has been set (jungle, space, desert, under the sea etc). We worked on this yesterday with a story that needed a little bit more description and some children have blown me away with their vocabulary and adjectives! I can’t wait to see the final outcome and their own imaginative stories this week.

Have a great Week

Miss Moir

What have we been learning this week?

We have been learning about money. We were doing word problems – William

We were playing money bingo – Rhian

We were designing a sarcophagus (Egyptian coffin) – Leyla

We were counting up to 100 – Macaualay

We were learning about tens and units (place value) – Charlie

The circles were doing numbers up to 1000 – Cameron

We have been reading and answering comprehension questions – Sophia & William

Some of us were making Egyptian collar necklaces – Rhian

We learned that the jars that stored the organs are called Canopic Jars – Robbie

We were learning the spelling patterns of ir, er, ur – William

We were learning the wh sound – Kenzie

We were learning how to play volleyball – Macaulay and Cameron

Some of us were with Mrs Logan doing the Fizzy programme – Brooke

Yesterday we were learning about Robert Burns – William

On Burns Night you eat haggis, neeps and tatties – Cameron

We coloured in pictures of either the red rose, the mouse or Robert Burns – William and Kenzie

We were writing fairy tales this week – Robbie

We were discussing about what makes us happy and sad in the playground with Mrs McGlynn and drawing pictures – William and Eva

Kaylin is taking part in the Parasports event in Livingston next Wednesday – WE WISH HER ALL THE BEST, and hope she wins a medal 🙂

The Jungle Book Show After School Club began today and already the team were hard at work creating scenery for the backdrop. It is shaping up to be an awesome show!