Category: Achievement

Fractions! We have been learning all about fractions.  First of all we discussed the vocabulary of fractions.  There is quite a lot to remember. Can you remember it? numerator / denominator / whole number / mixed number fractions / improper fractions, halves,  thirds, quarters, sixteenths, twentieths.  First we were identifying fractions eg 1/4, 1/6. Then we looked at mixed number fractions eg 6 2/3 and now we are learning about improper fractions eg. 34/7. Lots of fun!

In music we have been learning how to control our breathing.  We have been lying on the floor so we can concentrate on using all of our lungs to take in air (link lizard : science!). We have been learning how to warm our voices up properly. Our main focus is to sing rounds, one group starts then another group comes in. We are making very good progress. Look out X Factor 2021!

We are very busy with our Cultural Diversity project but we are not telling you about it yet! See you on Friday at 11.30am……………………………..

Mr and Mrs Comrie came to our assembly last Thursday to collect a £700 cheque for Magale school in Uganda. Our fundraising will go towards buying beds for the children in the orphanage and to buy books for the school library. There is an article on our fundraising in the West Lothian Courier this week. Thank you to all of the children and parents for your support with our Magale fundraising initiative.

Here are some of our Nursery afternoon class- if you don’t recognise them it’s because they are in disguise! They were dressing up for fun, and giving a donation to the Nepal appeal too. Well done everyone, you look fabulous.

This week, Primary 4 were developing their writing skills…

They were truly terrific when tackling tricky alliteration!

We learned that alliteration is when a writer starts many of his/her words with the same sound. We made up our own alliterative sentences and then tried to write our own alliterative poems.

Here are two fantastic examples below…

The Teacher

The toy tickled the teacher,
The teacher was tiny,
The terrible tot took a tantrum and stole the toy,
The teacher’s tortoise when to sea to swim,
The teacher’s toy took so long to sell so they took it away.

Logan Wilson

Donut the Dog

The dog Donut liked Daniel’s friend,
Dave Dreary who lived in a dungeon down underground.
It was drippy, damp and dim,
Daniel did something that has never been done before,
He drank a witches potion because a big storm was doing things to Daly town.

Mya McPhail

Well done Logan and Mya. Everyone did really well! Miss McLaughlin had to put in her reading teeth to tackle some of your tantalising tongue twisters!

Until next time…

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

 

 

Well done to Katie and Shannon who faced their fear at camp! Neither of them wanted to do the caving as they thought it would be too scary. Then they decided they would have a little try……… then they would stay in for a little bit longer……… girls can you come out now please!