Another successful week in Primary 4, despite the difficult weather conditions.

Well done to Jana for being our Raffle Prize Winner.

Keep working hard on learning your words for the Burns Celebration Event on Thursday 8th February (6-7:30pm).  The song words can be found on the blog entry from P.5/4.

Have a lovely and safe weekend – looking forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Mrs Glancy

Below are the lyrics that the children of P 4 and P 5 have been practicing for, for their show. Please can you encourage your child to practice these at home.

My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose

O my Love is like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve is like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Love!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Love,
Tho’ ’twere ten thousand mile!

Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!

Chorus
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fere!
And gie’s a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne.
Chorus

Many Thanks.

Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Glancy, Miss Hanlon & Mrs. Stewart.

It’s been a spectacular week in P3.

In maths and numeracy we have continued with estimation and rounding to the nearest 10s and 100s. We are becoming more confident with this.

We started our reading groups again and have new books to read at home. We are going to focus on using expression when we are reading.

For writing, because of the weather this week we chose to write fictional (imaginative) stories about snow adventures. We tried to use lots of interesting vocabulary and practised VCOP.

Our new topic is Ancient Egypt. We learned about the Egyptian alphabet called hieroglyphs and challenged ourselves to write our names like this.

We have been doing work in health and wellbeing and PE with Mrs McGlynn. We practised skills for dodgeball in PE.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend. Remember to keep safe in the snow!

Primary 3 and Miss Calder

What have we been learning this week?

We’ve been learning lots of facts about the Egyptians – Leyla

Once a person died, the Egyptians removed all their organs except their heart and fed their brain to animals – Leyla

They made bricks from the mud of the Nile to build their houses – Noah

They made paper from papyrus reeds – Eva

The Egyptians lived near the river Nile to survive – Charlie

The rich people had beds, the poor people slept on the floor or the roof of their houses – Leyla

The slaves did not get paid in money, but food – Lewis

If you unwrapped a mummy, the bandages would be 1.6km long – Cameron & Brooke

It took them 20 years to build the Great Pyramid – Rhian

We have been learning about money – counting coins up to £5.00

–  Leyla

We have been learning about Place Value – Cameron – thousands, hundreds, tens and units

We have learning tens and units – Charlie

We were learning hundreds, tens and units – Macaulay & Jay James

We were writing a book review – Brooke

We were learning words that have a silent c – Leyla

We were doing handwriting – Leyla

We were revising sh, ch and th and wh – Jay James

We were writing a News Report about our weekend – Cameron

We were exercising in the class (as it was too snowy outside) – Cameron 

We dressed down in our pyjamas for the Nursery’s Bedtime Reading event – Rhian

Here are our three Unicorns from yesterday! Cute!

Have a super snowy weekend.

We have been loving the snow this week and have made sure to go out and have fun.

The children showed great team work in building Bob our snowman and we had some problem solving to do as well.

We found that Mrs. Sneddon (with the help of some children) were strong enough to lift Bob’s torso onto his bottom half. Who knew compacted snow can be so heavy.

Due to the snowy weather on Tuesday we had to postpone our visit to Sky Academy.  We will let you know as soon as possible when Sky can accommodate us .

Mrs Sneddon and the ladies in the nursery are supper proud of the wonderful reading P6 did with the nursery boys and girls for the Big Bedtime Read.

The children shall be practicing this song during collaboration next week. Please can you encourage your child to practice this at home.

The Eco Song

(To the tune of Wonderwall by Oasis)

Today is going to be the day that we are gonna switch off the lights

By now you should have somehow put the rubbish in the bin

I don’t believe in anybody who isn’t an eco pal, an eco pal

Back beat, the word is on the street that the eco gang is back

Our aim is to clean up the school and switch off all the lights

I don’t believe in anybody who isn’t an eco pal, an eco pal

And all the work we have to do is tricky

Watching lights and cleaning up aint pretty

There are many things we need to earn our eco flag

And we’re gonna try

Cause maybe, Murrayfield is gonna go crazy

Cause we’re a team, help the eco gang!

Miss Hanlon

Welcome back, I hope you all have had a lovely break.

Just a little reminder of some of our upcoming dates:

-Tomorrow the children can come to the school dressed in their pyjamas.

-Friday the 26th of January is our Assembly.

-Thursday the 8th of February from 6 pm until 7.30 pm will be our Burns Show.

I just want to let parents also know that there will be no reading books being sent home over the next few weeks, but I may send home some additional reading as homework to do based on our current topic, which is Burns. This week I have asked the children to concentrate on practicing their words for the show and for their assembly.

Below are the words for some of the songs which the children have been learning so far in class. Please can you encourage your child to practice these words.

Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon
How ye can bloom so fresh and fair
How can ye chant ye little birds
And I sae weary fu’ o’ care

Ye’ll break my heart ye warbling birds
That wantons thro’ the flowering thorn
Ye mind me o’ departed joys
Departed never to return

Oft hae I rov’d by bonnie Doon
To see the rose and woodbine twine
And ilka bird sang o’ its love
And fondly sae did I o’ mine

Wi’ lightsome heart I pu’d a rose
Fu’ sweet upon its thorny tree
But my false lover stole my rose
But ah! She left the thorn wi’ me

As always, if you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to come and speak to me 🙂

Many Thanks.

Miss Hanlon.