Category: Achievement

Primary 4 have been working very hard when learning their Scots’ poems!

We had been working on tools for listening and talking, such as volume, clarity, pace, and expression. Everyone tried really hard to use these when performing their poems.

Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Bonner were so impressed with everyone’s performances. It was SO hard to whittle the numbers down to the final three! Miss Baillie and her team of judges took Cerys, Lauren and Boe to ‘audition’ for the final.

The lucky lady to be chosen was… CERYS! The team were so impressed with how clearly she spoke and the rhythm she used. We are very proud that she will be representing our class on Thursday. Keep practising and, as the school rules state, ‘be the best that you can be’!

We are looking forward to seeing senior members of our families and local community at the service on Thursday!

Until next time…

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

This week in maths we have been learning about co-ordinates and grid references. We have been reflecting upon what we’ve learnt. Here are some of our reflections:

‘I have learnt how to plot positive and negative co-ordinates on a grid.’

‘At the start I didn’t really understand it but now if someone asked me to plot a point I would know where to put it.’

‘I’ve learnt that you can use negative numbers on a grid.’

‘Now I know that you can use letters for grid references.’

‘At the start I found it tricky to read grid references but I got there in the end.’

This week has been very busy and we have been learning more about measuring – we measured our own height and used metre sticks to measure larger items (Gillon).  We used the information we got on our height to make a table and used this to answer and ask questions about the information (Rosa).

In writing we were learning about rhyming patterns and we wrote our own class version of the ‘Three Craws’ by changing it to the ‘Three Doos’ (Summer).  We had great fun doing this!

In Art we have been using our pencil skills to draw a detailed image of an orchid – we want to use these skills to draw thistles and other Scottish wild flowers(Mia, Ellie C,Calum and Summer.

Next week we will have a Scottish twist on a lot of our learning in celebration of Rabbie Burns.

Have a great weekend and enjoy your haggis, neeps and tatties if you’re having any.

 

 

Primary 4 have been focusing on Famous Scots!

We have been exploring John Logie Baird, the man who made his own television and produced the first television pictures! We wrote short biographies about his life, explored his many businesses and inventions and made posters to inform the public about the invention of his television.

We also made our own model televisions (from across the eras) for homework. Miss McLaughlin was so impressed with our hard work and sends her thanks to the parents at home for their help. She could not pick her favourite, so she asked Mr Eagleson to judge them…

3rd place – Oliwia

2nd place – Charlie

1st place – Erin T

Well done everyone 🙂 Check out our upcoming display to showcase our learning about John Logie Baird.

 

Until next time…

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

 

 

On our walk around the school today for our daily mile, the children from P6 noticed some very peculiar ice formations. We were able to make links between what we found outside and what we have learnt about states of matter in science. Take a look at the pictures Louisa took and see if you can identify water in its liquid form and its solid form.

We are so happy to be back to school after our holidays.  We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New year.

We have been learning about Eric Liddell this week and have been writing fact files about his life.

He won the 400m race at the Paris Olympics in 1924 (Mia)

He won a gold medal and set a new world record for that race in Paris (Oskars)

He was most famous for not running his Olympic race heat on a Sunday because it was a day of rest (Abbie and Bailey)

We know lots more facts about Eric Liddell so ask us about what else we know.

In Maths this week we have been learning how to measure accurately in centimetres and to draw lines to the correct size.  We have also begun to estimate measurements of items and lines drawn.

Have a great weekend

From Mrs andison and P2/3

As part of our Scots focus Primary 1/2 and Primary 1 have been finding out about the inventor of the waterproof raincoat, Charles MacIntosh. This week we designed our own raincoats then carried out experiments with different materials to discover which were waterproof.  Here is some of what was said:

“The paper and card got really wet.” Olivia C

“The rubber and the plastic were waterproof.” Roman

“ I would like to make my raincoat from rubber.” Layla

We are busy preparing our Scottish poems at home for our forthcoming Scots assembly. We will be performing them next week and the best 3 performers will be perform their poem to Mr Eagleson. He will pick the person who will perform at our Scots assembly. Good luck!

For our Scottish topic we are learning about Robert Owen. The first thing we did was take notes about Robert Owen. Then we had to work with a partner to put our notes into sentences. Well done to Murron and Sam who worked really well together to complete their sentences. Their work was so good they went to show Mr Eagleson it.

Our next step was to use the Internet to develop our skills in reading for information to find out more facts about Robert Owen.

We will now be developing our collaborative group skills as we work together to decide which facts we will pick to present in a short talk to the class to share our learning about Robert Owen.