What have we been learning this week?

We were writing acrostic poems about mini beasts – Zoe

The poems were about slugs, caterpillars, worms and bees- Zoe

We have been learning about Data Handling with Miss Drummond – Kenzie and Kirsty

We were practising our handwriting – Millie

We did an assessment on 2D and 3D Shapes – William

We were reading our new books – Kirsty

We were answering questions about our books – Millie

We were painting stones to make ladybirds and bees – McKenzii and Hali

We were learning oy and oi sounds with Miss Akram – William

We were learning ch, sh and th sounds with Miss Adam – Kirsty

Well done to our Skillionaires – Cameron for composing an acrostic poem about a slug and Megan for designing her own mini beast.

Well done to the girls for achieving a Head Teachers Award for their acrostic poems on caterpillars – Zoe and Elsie

HAVE A LOVELY LONG WEEKEND  ( We still miss Bonzo! – hopefully we’ll find him soon)

p7 have been really enjoying their outdoor P.E sessions this term, especially with all the lovely weather we have been having recently. This terms focus has been athletics, and the children have been working on their team building skills through races and jumping. Yesterday, the focus was the long and short jump and Aaron W managed to capture some amazing action shots! Take a look and see if you recognise anyone.

We have been continuing our French topic and our Big Writing focus was the new prime minister of France-Emmanuel Macron. The children wrote reports on him, either personal or persuasive and I am impressed with standard I have seen so far. Great Job guys.

Have a lovely long weekend,

Miss Moir

This week in P3G

This week in primary 3 we have done lots of fun, challenging and exciting activities.

In literacy we have worked hard while reading our new reading books and are continuing to stop and discuss them regularly. This makes sure we know what is happening and understand the stories. We have also planned and written very detailed imaginative stories all about Roman soldiers and their adventures.

In maths and numeracy we have continued to work on counting in groups of numbers (forwards and backwards), solved some tricky number problems both individually and in groups and some of us have been practising our times tables too.

We are very proud of the hard work and effort we put in to our Romans assembly this morning. It has been a tricky but very exciting few weeks as we have had lots of words to learn, things to make and songs to sing but we have had great fun and enjoyed working closely with P3/2 to end our topic. We hope everyone enjoyed it!

Have a lovely (and hopefully sunny) weekend,

Miss Calder and P3G.

I thought I would put up some of the photos of the boys and girls of the upper school having fun while learning.

Primary 7 and P6/7 worked together in their outdoor P.E by taking part in a variety of exercises and routines before completing a running challenge in teams. The children had lots of fun and were very puffed out by the end.

The Upper school also took part in the dance competition last week, were they all danced various dance moves, non stop for 1 hour. It was brilliant fun and the teachers also had a great time showing their moves on the dance floor.

Here are some photos-some are very funny 🙂

Miss Moir

Dear Parent/ carer,

We have been given the opportunity to decorate a float again this year for Blackburn gala day and are hoping to get a small committee together who would be willing to help design, plan and decorate this.

If you would like to be part of this committee and would be free to lend a hand to draw, paint scenes/ characters etc. then please come along to our initial meeting on Tuesday 9th May 2017 at 3.30pm.

Thank you

Mrs Waugh

We have only had a short week this week, but we have still been learning!

We have been practising our handwriting with rhyming words that end in ick – McKenzii and Cameron

We were making a bar chart about shapes – Cameron

We were reading our books and writing a new ending – Millie

We had to find the missing words from our book – Kenzii

We were answering comprehension questions – Jamie

We were writing in sentences – Cameron

We were learning about some mini beasts and their habitats.

Worms live underground in the soil – Rhian

Butterflies live in flowers and trees – Rachael

Woodlice live under rocks – Zoe

Dragonflies live near ponds – Sean

Ants live in an anthill – Jack

A spider lives in a web – Kirsty

Bees live in a beehive and trees – Megan

Caterpillars live under leaves – Kailli

We have just finished our Danceathon! We all enjoyed it and raised some money for the school. Well done everyone.

• We had great fun this week using mirrors to create symmetrical pictures.
• P5 are very fortunate to be part of a 5 week project looking at sound, music and movement , through the use of technology with the help Jessica Aslan. P5 really enjoyed getting familiar with the equipment we will be using and recording sounds.
• A massive THANK YOU to all the children who have brought their human body projects into school. The amount of effort is astounding and very much appreciated. They are all fantastic.
• We have started with Division and are all very excited to learn new strategies to help us on this journey.