Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope that the boys and girls away at camp have a super time away and don’t miss us too much.

While they are away though, we are being busy in class sorting out our Class Enterprise….. here are some photos of the products we will be selling to all pupils in the school.

We will be selling these goodie bags for £2 each. Place your orders this week and then we can start creating.

Thanks again!

Miss Moir and P7

Anna has really enjoyed our new school focus on respect this week.  She particularly enjoyed the ‘we are all unique and individual’ drawing task where we mixed up body parts to create a new person!

Layla really enjoyed the introduction to our new topic – What’s in the News?  This week we worked in pairs to highlight the key words from newspaper articles so that we could re-tell the story in our own words to the rest of the class.  This meant that we all learned lots about what has been happening recently without having to read the whole of the children’s newspaper that the stories came from.  For anyone interested, the paper is called First News and can be bought from most newsagents and supermarkets.  It’s written especially for children and is published once per week.  Throughout the rest of this block, we will be looking at a range of ways the news is reported and we will be learning about the difference between fact and opinion.  You can help your child in this area by discussing things that come up in the news and encouraging them to watch television news bulletins.

Rachael and Neve really enjoyed creating the C.A.B. posters this week.  This year’s focus is changes and improvements to Blackburn and the children have come up with some really super designs that will go forward.  Hopefully one or more of them will be chosen to be included in next year’s calendar.

Kirstin enjoyed this week’s Drama lesson with Mr Richards as lots of games were being played and some new games were introduced.

Emma and Kaiden thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the handball festival which the p5’s took part in this week.  They said that it was exhausting but really fun (apart from if you got hit in the face by a ball!)

Liam and Josh loved taking part in some fun activities using Go Noodle.  We did this alongside the P6’s from p6/5 while the P5’s were at the handball festival.  Liam said that it was great fun doing something that he hadn’t done before that everyone joined in with.

Jack liked taking part in the daily mile as it gives everyone exercise and helps build our muscles.

Scott really liked handwriting this week as we were writing useful words instead of just letters.  This week we wrote the months of the year as well as the words Primary, school, Blackburn and Murrayfield.  This means that we can now write the full date and school address in cursive handwriting.  Why not ask your child to demonstrate this to you at home.

Next week Mrs McGlynn will be in class as I will be accompanying P6’s and 7’s to school camp.  I can’t wait to hear all about the week in P5/4 when I get back.

Homework next week will be reading and spelling which Mrs McGlynn will give out on Monday.  The maths focus will be money so make sure that you get your child to get counting from the spare change jar, if you have one!

Have a great week,

Mrs Vince

What a short / long  very busy week!

P5 attended the handball festival on Wednesday and I am proud to say the where a credit to Murrayfield Primary school through displaying great sportsmanship and being respectful Murrayfield Primary school citizens. They also gave it their all and had great fun participating.

We looked at Halloween poetry this week and used this in our handwriting.

The boys and girls all worked very hard and produced their own rhyming poems on Halloween.

A Big thank you to all the parents from the Parents council – the Halloween party was great!!

This week in primary 3T we have been learning…..

1. How to read a play script within a group.
2. How to work together as a team.
3. Cursive handwriting.
4. How to write a Halloween acrostic poem.

Primary 3T hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Please come to school on Friday 28th October dressed up as an animal or wear green to represent the trees and plants of a forest.

Deforestation of rainforests is happening now! Experts estimate that in less than 40 years, rainforests could disappear from our planet.  The pupils of Primary 6/5 and 5 would like to help save these unique places in our world, but they need your help! Planet Earth needs your help!

Dress up and bring a donation of £1 to school on Friday 28th October to help raise money for the people, who replant trees and save an acre of the rainforest.

Thank you for your support 🙂

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who took time to come to our assembly. I’m sure you will agree they sang beautifully and spoke confidently.

This week apart form practicing for our assembly we also:

• Looked at the artist Andy Wahrol  and created our own rainforest pop art.
• Did  guided reading on deforestation and its impact.
• We got stuck in the rainforest and had to write a message in a bottle.
• A big thank you for the excellent level of homework completed. The children showcased their plant / animal fact files through the use of flyers and power points.

Sorry, we forgot to let you know in the Newsletter that our joint Assembly with P2S will be on Friday 4th November.

We look forward to seeing you there.

We will be busy making some Halloween treats to sell on the first week back after the holidays.

Have a great October break.

What have we been learning this week?

We were learning how to write the letter u in our handwriting – William

We had a very special visitor this week – Kailli

The visitor was Rachel from the Dogs Trust.

We learned its important to take a dog out for a walk at least twice a day – Jase

They scan the dog looking for a chip to see if it belongs to somebody – Cameron and McKenzii

You have to pick up after your dog and always remember to wash your hands – Adriana

We learned that is important not to touch a strange dog.

If its with its owner, you must ask if you can pet it. – Alfie

We learned to do the X factor if a dog runs up to us – Jamie

Stand up with your arms across you chest.

We were making clocks from paper plates – Rhian

This was to help us tell the time.

We were reading new books – William

We went to the school library to get more books on People Who Help Us – Ethan

HAVE A LOVELY HOLIDAY AND STAY SAFE – SEE WHEN YOU GET BACK

We would like to thank everyone for coming to our assembly and for your generous donations to the RNIB and Royal Blind charities.

The lucky winners of the competitions will be announced this Friday, at assembly, where they will receive their prizes.

The grand total raised was…..£232.02!!!

We worked out that each charity will receive £116.01 to  to help those with visual impairments.

Thank you very much! 🙂