P2/1 have been successful learners this week. We have started a new phonics block and have been learning about digraphs. A digraph is two letters that make one sound. We have been busy reading, writing and building words.
Primary 7 weekly blog
Well it’s been a very busy week for us in P7. We have been preparing for the House Captain elections that are to happen next week.
As it was Children in Need, on Friday, we designed new T-shirts for the event. Have a look at our amazing designs.
We also had a fun dance-off with P6 outside in the playground. Mrs Andison was impressed with some of our dance moves. She even gave some of us a 10/10 (Strictly has nothing on us).
P5 Celebrate Children in Need Day
The children created their own designs for Children in Need t – shirts. Here were the top 4 designs! well done P5!
P4 Learning
Primary 4 have been confident individuals by using tone, pace and gesture to perform poems linked to their book study topic in front of a whole class audience.
They have also been successful learners by creating t-shirt designs for Children in Need. Here are some of their designs.
Primary 2
As part of Book Week Scotland Primary 2 received their Read, Write, Count bags. As a class we read the book the Biggest story and used this as inspiration to try and write our own imaginative stories. We were confident individuals when playing the game act it out where one person would act out an animal, object or sport and the rest of the class had to try and guess what it was.
To celebrate children in need today we took part in the live Joe Wicks work it out quiz and workout where we had to work out the answers to 20 general knowledge questions and act out the answers. We managed to get all of the questions right but we were very tired by the end of it!!
P2/1 Weekly Blog
Primary 1’s were given their Bookbug bags today and P2 received their Read,Write,Count bags as part of Book Week Scotland.
The P1 books are Arb The Lion and Inch and Grub. The P2 Â children have The Bug Collector and The Biggest Story.
All the boys and girls had great fun exploring their book bags together and trying out some of the fun activities in the bags.
Book week in P5
This week P5 have been showing how they are successful learners as they have demonstrated a good understanding of their class novel. The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie, through a variety of activities.
Primary 7 weekly blog
A fitting way for us to finish our learning about WW2. We made our own poppies for Remembrance day. We wore them to go and lay a wreath at the memorial in Pumpherston. We walked from the school to the memorial on a beautiful sunny morning to lay the wreath from the school. We spent some time there thinking about the soldiers who had given their lives for us. We also had a minute silence in remembrance of all lives lost from WW1 until today, in conflict.
P4 Learning
P4 have been successful learners by demonstrating their problem solving skills. They were each given a different word problem to solve and used their knowledge of multiplication and division strategies to solve them. They also remembered to answer in a sentence.
Primary 2
This week in Primary 2 we have been looking at our persuasive writing. We watched a reading of the book ‘Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus’ and then identified all of the ways the pigeon tried to persuade us to let him drive the bus. We then worked together to come up with a list of reasons for why we thought he shouldn’t drive the bus. #effectivecontributors
After we had our list of reasons for both sides, we had a go at being persuasive ourselves, by writing a letter to the bus driver. Our letters had to either persuade him to let the pigeon drive the bus or persuade him not to let the pigeon drive the bus. We used out knowledge of the four sections of persuasive writing (Title, Statement of Position, Series of Arguments and Concluding statement) to help us structure our letter. Here are some examples :
