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Primary 3 Number Homework

Miss McLaughlin has set each Number group their very own Sumdog  challenge. This will consolidate the concepts we will be learning in Number work over the next two weeks. The challenge will be live from 9.00 tomorrow morning and end at 12.30 on Friday 12th October.

Children should try to access their challenge at home by logging in and clicking on the ‘Challenge’ button at the left-hand side of the screen. This will automatically change the focus of the games to the concepts we are practising.

Please don’t worry if you cannot access Sumdog from home – there will also be time given in class to play.

Complete the challenge and earn 400 coins!

Good luck!

Miss M 🙂

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Primary 6

As part of our Jacobites topic, Primary 6 have been learning about the equipment used by a Jacobite soldier in battle. We used our research skills to find information online and then worked in pairs to create a poster with drawings and facts about the items we had found.

We were surprised to find out that a Jacobite’s Claymore sword would have been almost 5 feet long!

Our next step is to design and create a model of a Jacobite shield or targe.

In Maths this week, we have been learning how to tell the time. We have been looking at how to convert between digital and analogue times and between 12 hour and 24 hour times.

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Active Learning in P2C!

P2C have been actively engaging with learning their spelling. We have been reading, saying and writing our spelling words in fun ways such as magnetic letters, painting letters, making sentences with blocks and beads, rainbow writing, word pyramids, colourful writing and lots more.

I was very impressed by how focused the whole class were and the many interesting words the pupils came up with.

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Fun Time Friday

Today we had our first Fun Time Friday of the school year. Fun Time Friday is an opportunity for all our children to select an activity that they are interested in and take part in it with peers across different classes. We had a range of activities to choose from which the children brainstormed at Pumphie Pals last session.

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Primary 3

What were we learning?

To build up the story of a group of people from the past.

How would we know if we were successful?

  • We would be able to talk about a group of people from the past (the Victorians).
  • We would be able to compare our lives today with life in the past.

What did we do?

  • We have been following the life of a Victorian child named William Moss through his diary entries.
  • We are learning about different aspects of Victorian life that he mentions in his entries (home life, working life, toys, his Queen).
  • We explored different library books linked to the Victorians to find out more information.
  • We built a class display to follow William’s life and made our own characters that ‘time-travelled’ back to be with him!
Our class display
Making clothes-peg dolls to play with

We will soon be learning to write diary entries like William’s, but for our own characters!

Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂

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Harvesting at Nursery

We have been harvesting our vegetables from the nursery garden over the last 2 weeks. We have used our carrots, tomatoes,  squash and onions to make healthy pizzas and we ate them for snack.  Some of us made our own pizzas at the craft table and we put them on the wall. They look just like real pizzas!!

We have shown an interest in minibeasts and in the garden we found some worms,  snails, earwigs,  woodlouse and a spider. We have drawn lots of pictures of the minibeasts for our display.

We also had a visit from our parents when we showed them all the things we enjoy doing in the nursery at our first Pop In And Play session.

 

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P5 Blog: Look out trainee scientists about!

Look out trainee scientists about!

LI: Body systems

SC: I can…. name the parts of the respiratory system

I can…. describe how the respiratory system works

This week we started our science topic. We are looking at some of the body systems. The first one we were looking at is the respiratory system. We have been learning the names of all of the parts of the respiratory system and what happens when we breathe in and breathe out.

Can you find the parts of the body which make up the respiratory system? Can you name them?
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Primary 2 S

Primary 2S have been busy this week writing penpal letters for Magale School in Uganda. On the 6th of October Mr and Mrs Comrie, who are involved with the charity “The Friends of Magale” are travelling to Uganda to visit the school and orphanage. They hope to bring back letters for us in Primary 2 and we are very excited!

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Club Wild – Autumn Harvest 

As the weather turns colder it is time to harvest our produce in the school garden.

We got a bumper crop of potatoes of all different colours, the biggest red and brown onions we have ever seen and a bucket load of broad beans. The potatoes and onions will be washed, dried and stored so that everyone in the school can use them through the winter.

We tasted fresh peas and broad beans which will make a lovely hummus.

Join us next week for more Autumn adventures.
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