This week we have been busy with Christmas crafts. The children have made their own Christmas place mats which they will bring home. We have also been busy practising for The Nativity.
Primary 2
Primary 2 have been working hard with Mrs McConville learning about shapes. This week they have been successful learners by looking at 3 different pieces of artwork by Wassily Kandinsky, who is thought to be the first abstract artist using only colours and shapes in his work. They looked at his painting ‘squares with concencentric circles’ and used this as inspiration for their own artwork. They created christmas trees with concentric baubles and they look fantastic.
In numeracy we have been practising our addition and have been using our rekenreks to help us count. We have worked together as a whole class using a digital rekenrek, and have also worked in pairs to use them at our tables to help us complete our maths workbooks.
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P4 Learning
As part of our Christmas fun week, pupils have been drawing snowmen using oil pastels. They used a smudging technique to show shading and shadows. Here are their super snowmen drawings.
P5 Christmas Crafts
This week we have been busy with Christmas crafts. The children have been creating a Christmas decoration for them to take home. Also the children have been effective contributors because they have been making sheep for the Nativity display.
Primary 4
As part of our focus on writing a narrative, we have been working on adverbs. We have explored how to change adjectives to adverbs, complete sentences using them and then created sentences using adverbs. Here is an example.
Primary 7 Weekly update
Well it’s been another busy week in Primary 7. We continue to learn more about different types of discrimination and the impact it can have on individuals and families. We are currently using our own research, on two different types of discrimination, to create Power Point presentations to share with others in the class. Our research skill are improving every week.
We are looking forward to our Christmas lunch on Wednesday.
Winter Calendar
Please click on the following link to view our calendar for December with details of Christmas lunch, parties and school events.
Click on this link to see December newsletter.
Primary 2
This week we have been successful learners when looking at estimating and subitising in numeracy. We have been challenging ourselves to estimate quantities and have had a go at daily esti-mysteries where we have to use the clues to help us make a more accurate estimate.
We have also been working in small groups where one person put out a handful of counters and everyone then had to estimate how many counters were laid out. We then worked together to check our estimates by counting, thinking about how to arrange the counters (in rows of 5 or 10) to then get the total amount by skip counting.
To test our knowledge of climate zones and animal habitats we all worked together to sort animals into their climate zone based on what their habitats are like. We noticed how most of our polar zone animals were white and discussed why we thought they all had this in common.
P6 Weekly Update
Physical Education – Volleyball
This week in PE we have been developing our knowledge of Volleyball and introduced the underarm serve. Once we practised this skill, we moved on to using this in small games. We are improving our skills every week and we are enjoying trying a different sport. Next week we will be moving on to learn the overarm serve.
Modern Languages – Polish
This week we have been learning more Polish vocabulary. We have been learning how to say basic greetings, colours and recapping our knowledge of the alphabet. We want to say thank you to Ola for sharing all of her knowledge with us, creating resources for us to use and we can’t wait to use this on a daily basis.
We are looking forward to the next couple of weeks where we get to take part in lots of Christmas based activities alongside our learning.
P5 Multiplying
LI: Multiply
SC: I can.. x a 3 digit number by a single digit
I can… lay my work out correctly
This week in P5 we have been learning to multiply a 3 digit number by a single digit. We started by using concrete materials to see what was happening. Then we moved onto writing it out using the grid method. We used our estimating skills first to estimate what we thought the answer should be. This gave the children the opportunity to recap their estimating skills. By regularly revisiting our maths skills it gives the children the opportunity to see the links within maths and embed them allowing them to become confident individuals.
