Category: Achievement

Last week we had a trip to the swimming pool at Broxburn to do our swimming assessments. We no longer get a block of swimming it is only one visit. We will keep you posted as to what will happen next.

Last week we were looking at landscape paintings and Shannon very kindly brought in a couple of paintings for us to look at. We were learning the correct vocabulary to use when discussing landscape paintings. Our next steps are to practise mixing paints and using different types of brush stokes and then we will use these skills to paint a landscape of Sierra Leone.

We were also looking at the effects of severe weather and we discussed the different types of severe weather we can get in Scotland and Sierra Leone.

We are getting trained up to be excellent scientists! Last week we were learning all about the digestive system. In a few years our NHS will be looking good once our trained scientists get out there to help!

Primary 3 have been learning how to use an Atlas this week.  The work we have completed on coordinates in Maths has really helped us with this! We located the islands we are learning about in our topic, Madagascar and the Isle of Coll. We then challenged one another to find different countries by checking the index to find the page of the country and it’s coordinates.   We have also been researching the different landscapes found in Madagascar and have discovered that it has mountains, tropical beaches, cities and rainforests.

This week, Primary 4 finished their mini-topic on climate zones. We made models of each zone in groups, as well as the plants/animals that lived there. We also made travel videos, explaining what the temperature, rainfall and land were like. Hopefully Miss McLaughlin will work out how to upload them!

For now, here are photos of each of the climate zones we studied.

Stay tuned for our travel videos,

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

 

 

For our Scottish topic P5 were learning about Charles Rennie MacIntosh. He was born in Glasgow in  1868 and he died in 1928. He was only 60 years old. He is famous for his art work and his style of art work was given the title of ‘Art Nouveau’. Attached are some of our pictures done in this style.

 

Primary Four finished up their Scots’ writing focus this week by writing more difficult descriptions about a partner. Not only did we have to describe how they look, but we had to give clues about their personality too!

See if you can guess who is being described this time..

 

Until next time..

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

Primary 3 have been busy writing letters to Magale School in Uganda this week, introducing ourselves to the children there and telling them all about our lives at Pumpherston. Susan and Robert Comrie are going to send the letters for us and organise for a child of the same age to write back to us.  We are very excited to hear about what life is like in Magale!

In maths I enjoyed multiplying a two digit number by a three digit number, for example 20 x 300. I liked this because I am getting so confident with my mental maths it is helping me in other areas of maths. Hannah, Sophie M, Callum, Kadan and Ella.

In PE I enjoyed doing gymnastics when we had all of the equipment out and we got a turn at each one. Lewis P, Julia and Louisa.

I enjoyed science because we made parachutes with our partners.(Sophie C) We were investigating friction: air resistance. This experiment was won by Angel and Aiden who designed the parachute which came to the ground the slowest.

I have enjoyed doing health and well being where we have been taking part in class discussions to learn how to be safe with drugs and alcohol.  I now know how to be safe with these when I am older. Cameron, Courtney, Jack H and Jack R.

Four people were sent to Mr Eagleson to recite their Scots poem: Shannon, Lydia, Rory and Samantha.  Well done to Shannon who is our class winner!

See you all tomorrow at our Scots Assembly at 1.30!

This week, Primary 4 have been building on the Scots’ vocabulary they learned last week.

We used Scots’ body parts, items of clothing and some adjectives to write a simple description of ourselves.

Can you guess who is being described below?

‘A hae broon een an blonde herr. Am wearin’ a yella an blue goon. A hae lang black bitts. Am a totie wee teacher.’

Five house points to whoever guesses first!

Until next time..

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂