We have had a great and busy week in P3.

It is Scottish maths week so we have done some maths and numeracy every day.

We created our own pictures out of lots of 2D shapes. We made some house pictures, mermaids, rockets, monsters and animals all from different shapes.

We have continued our work on time, learning all about quarter past and quarter to.

We used 3D objects to build models and towers.

We have been practising our spelling, especially common words and we have used these in our handwriting.

For our topic we discussed similarities and differences between island life and living in a town or city. We found a new and interesting word, population.

Big talk and numeracy homework will come home next week, spelling and reading will begin the week after.

Have a great long weekend.

Primary 3, Miss Calder & Miss Drummond

This week in P2/1 we have been learning about ‘People Who Help Us’.  We spoke about all the people we know about who can help us.

Cooper – The police can catch bad guys who try to break in to shops.

Oliver – Firefighters put out fires.

Kayleigh – Doctors and nurses look after me if I am not well.

Mackenzie – Lollipop people help us to cross the road safely.

Lucy – The dentist helps us to look after our teeth.

Brooke – A vet can look after animals that are sick.

Rhys – Mums, dads, brothers and sisters can help to look after us.

Jay – If someone is stuck up a mountain then the Mountain Rescue will save them!

Kian – If you are stuck in water then the Life Guards will come to save you.

Aaron – The dinner ladies make our lunch and put it on our tray for us.

Ally – Teachers help us learn.

Harris – Mrs Walker is charge of the school and she helps us in the playground.

Kerryn – The cleaners clean up our classroom when we have gone home.

Ruby – The janitor puts milk in the boxes for us.

Tyler – We wrote a story about when our Mummy helped us.

We were given a maths challenge from Mrs Stewart.

Calvin – we had to match up the colours to the correct number.

David – we learned about number 6 this week.

What have we been learning this week?

We were writing a Personal Account about The Weekend – Brooke

The primary 2s were doing a maths challenge to colour in the castle with numbers up to 20 – Lucy

The primary 3s maths challenge was to design and draw something from 2d shapes – Cameron

We have been learning about Katie Morag in our topic – Eva

We were counting items from Katie Morag up to 20 for our maths – Charlie

We have been practising our handwriting – William

For Roald Dahl day on Wednesday we were doing word searches, drawing Mr Twits beard and writing revolting recipes. – Kenzie

We were also given character names for the day – Miss Adam

(aka The Jumpsquiffling Humpy Rump!)

We were learning about less than/ greater than symbols using the crocodile – Cameron

We drew and coloured Granny Island and Granny Mainland and the cat and Neilly Begg – characters from the Katie Morag story – Sophie  (we  did this as group projects)

We did some great work this week and some of us got Head Teachers Awards

Cameron – for independent writing and beautiful cursive handwriting

Brooke – for independent writing and remembering punctuation

Sophie – for independent writing and trying to keep her letters on the line

Sophia – for independent writing and sounding out her words

Alicia – for independent maths – counting and writing her numbers correctly

WELL DONE EVERYONE

HAVE A LOVELY LONG WEEKEND !!!!!

Good Afternoon Parents and Carer’s,

After a wonderful day out discovering things about space, I would like to share some photographs of the class having fun and learning through different experiences at the Chamber Street Museum.

The children created a telescope with paper and a plastic lens, and studied several different rocks found on earth from space. Both classes also got to explore the museum in The Science and Animal zones.

Well done everyone for being well behaved and a credit to Murrayfield.

Miss Moir

Welcome to Maths Week Scotland, a brand new initiative to help everyone in our nation see maths positively.  The Scottish Government’s aim is for everyone to experience the benefits, joy and beauty of maths in exciting new ways. From September, they hope to see maths being explored and celebrated throughout Scotland, and very much hope that schools will participate in some way.

Maths Week has been created as a result of the Making Maths Count group’s recommendations as a way to raise the profile of maths and its importance in all aspects of our lives.  If you’d like to read more, the report of the group is here.

Murrayfield pupils will experiencing a variety of maths challenges and games throughout this week.  We will be gathering photographs of pupils/ classes participating in these activities in order to create a presentation which will be shown on our LCD screen at the main entrance.  Please look out for this presentation in the coming weeks!

Thank you to all the parents, carers and children in supporting the parent council to raise funds to buy new Murrayfield Primary school sports kits.  Primary Seven pupils proudly modelled the new kits at assembly today.  The pupils are looking foward to wearing them at sporting events.

A busy week in P6 this week.

We had the pleasure to work with Mrs Linscer from the language center this week on Visualizing and Verbalizing. Visualizing and Verbalizing will help us become better writers.

In Numeracy we are looking at place value and can read numbers up to a Million.

We are exploring measure and are excited to learn more about the different ways in which we measure.

Good Morning everyone,

We have had a few busy weeks settling into our p7/6 routine and have already been working hard on different aspects of the curriculum. We have completed some Imaginative Writing, have been working on Place Value within Numeracy and have started our new topic of The Solar System.

On Monday the children will have their first trip this year to The National Museum of Scotland for their class topic. The children are really excited. The Wednesday after the children will be completed a personal account of their trip which will co-inside with their Big Talk and Big Writing.

This week I shall be giving homework out on Tuesday and I would like it handed in on the Friday. Homework will consist of Reading, Spelling and Numeracy. I will also expect Big Talk homework to be completed for every Wednesday which will support the children’s writing.

Here us a breakdown of homework activities:

1. Spelling-sentences, copy each word 3 times and create a new way to remember how to spell spelling words.
2. Reading-set reading for each group along with a literacy circles activity.
3. Numeracy- an activity that will relate to weekly activity in class.

Homework will usually be given out on a Monday and be handed in on a Thursday but due to class trip I shall do Tuesday to Friday this week. Big Writing will take place on a Wednesday so Big Talk homework (which will relate to the genre of writing) will be given on a Friday for everyone to have plenty time to discuss or complete the activity.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Moir

This week in Primary 3, we have started learning and practising some French. We have done our class register in French, practised colours in French and counted up in French too.

Our topic this term is going to be Katie Morag and Island life. We have watched some episodes of Katie Morag and heard some stories before doing some comprehension questions.

Each day we have been writing diary entries, focussing on super sentences.

We are continuing to work on time in maths, matching analogue and digital times.

We have kept working on our learning pit and will use this to help us when we are finding something tricky.

Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 3, Miss Calder and Miss Drummond

Our Week in Primary 3

We have had a busy and fun week in class. We have been using the story Marvin Gets Mad to learn all about our emotions. We have written stories about Marvin and drawn some pictures.

For outdoor learning we discovered some apple trees in the playground. We decided to sketch them and do some paintings.

We have been practising our joined up handwriting and will continue to work on this as well as spelling practise.

In maths we have been learning about time with Miss Drummond. We know to practise this at home by looking at analogue and digital clocks.

We have a new reward system in class and we try to collect as many raffle tickets as we can by following the rules on our new class charter.

Our PE days this year will be Wednesday and Thursday.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Miss Calder, Miss Drummond and Primary 3.