Category: Whole School

We had a very nerve-wracking week this week as we had fifteen members of our class making presentations for the House Captain elections. Mrs Andison was very proud of all the candidates as they all spoke very well.

It was Maths week Scotland and we had some blether stations all about how Maths and Numeracy are used in our daily lives as well as how they may be used in different jobs. We really enjoyed this. We also did some learning on budgeting where we had to plan a day out for ourselves and a friend. 

This week in  Primary 4 we have been creating some scottish lanscape pictures. We learned how to create a monochrome effect by using black and white paint mixed with a base colour. We then chose a Scottish landscape/ animal or flower to draw on black paper to create a silhouette effect. Here are some pictures of our work:

We have also enjoyed taking part in the Maths week Scotland challenge on sumdog. Over 6,900 classes took part in the contest and we finished 1091st. Super job everyone!

For writing, we have been writing All About Me using descriptive writing.

In reading, we have been reading about the Talisman, book number 3 focusing on the “oe” phoneme.

We have been continuing to read The Boy at the Back of the Class – we read chapters 13 and 14 this week and did some comprehension and prediction tasks.

In numeracy, some of us have been learning about decimal place value. Other groups have been rounding up whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We went outside for some number games and consolidated our learning by using playing cards.

For PE we have been playing basketball and doing circuits.

In topic we drew posters based on what we have already learned.

We made sculptures in art.

This week in primary 4 we have been working hard on using adjectives in our descriptive writing. We took inspiration from our class novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and tried to describe some of the main characters.

We have also been learning about the different sections of descriptive writing through our PM writing big book. The text in the book focuses on the moon so we decided to link our writing to our topic by writing about the earth.

This week have enjoyed learning more about our topic – ‘On Our Doorstep’. We continued our learning from last week where we learned about the different types of house within the local area. We used our plans to help us create a model house. We explored what the term ‘renewable energy’ was and what we could add to our houses to help them become more eco-friendly.

We added wind turbines, solar panels and a well.

Here is a copy of our term 1 leaning overview and home learning choice board. I will also post both of these onto our primary 4 Teams page which is now live.

P4 termly overview term 1 PDF(August 2021)

P4 Home Learning Choice Board T1 Final

Thanks, Miss McGregor 🙂

This week in Primary 4 we have been exploring our feelings through the emotion woks programme. So far we have thought about all the different words we can use to descibe how we are feeling (the orange cog) and how certain emotions physically feel in our bodies (the red cog).

Well done to this weeks certificate winners – Alfie and Reece.

Well done to our achievement assembly winners – Lucy and Scarlett (for their fantastic SHANARRI powerpoint) and Isabella (for her fantastic piece of free writing).

 

 

This week in topic, we have been learning about the difference between refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and internally displaced  people.

In maths, we have been learning about angles with Mrs. Harrison. We learned about acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles.

In numeracy with Miss. Fleming, we have been doing place value, exploring 4, 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers and their values.

In literacy, we are learning how to write descriptively, by using PM writing. We are reading the boy at the back of the class and working on comprehension and predicting skills.