Last Wednesday P6 were privileged to have a visit from Rev. Povey. We had invited him along to interview him about the Bible, our current RME topic, and to find out a bit about him and his job.
Look in the comments from P6 to see what we learned!
Primary 7
P7 have been learning about the history of the First Chinese Emperor and his Terraccotta Warriors.  We are using this context to improve our art skills.  We focused on line and shape this week to begin detailed pencil drawings of the Warriors. Next week we are going to look at form when we create 3D models using clay.
Primary 1
This week Primary 1 and 1/2 went on a walk to the Post Office. We posted a letter to Postman Pat and learned about what happens to a letter at the Post Office. We bought a stamp for our letter and saw the scales that are used to weigh letters and parcels. We also saw big sacks at the back of the Post office where letters go so that they can be taken to the sorting office later.
In Art this week, we have been learning how to create observational drawings. We had to look carefully at the shape and lines of pieces of fruit and vegetables to draw them in detail. We can’t wait to practise our drawing skills again next week!
Primary 6
“ItWe can’t believe that it has been almost a fortnight since our class assembly. We had such a great time writing and performing our assembly to the audience. The class enjoyed performing our song about the Amazon called The River is Moving. We hope our audience enjoyed all the songs.
Today we should be at Broxburn Academy for a STEM day. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Because of the snow this event has been cancelled so we have been having fun with our own STEM day in class. So far we have created layered images using computer technologies and built machines using K’Nex. So far the day has been a big thumbs up. We still have a few more activities to complete.
In Maths news the Blue and Green groups have been learning about BODMAS. We know that we look for brackets first and then multiplication and division. If you don’t follow the BODMAS rules then you will get the WRONG answer most of the time. The Red group have been working on rounding. We are all very good at rounding down to the nearest 10 and will be working on rounding up.
With Mrs McCulloch we have been learning about drawing, painting and using ink. Miss Anderson can’t believe what talented artists we are. Here are a few examples of our beautiful work.
Photography by Nia and Oktawia
The Jaguars are now reading Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson. Some of the group thought that this is a book for girls only but now someone in the group is desperate to read ahead! It just goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover!
“It’s too good!” review by Ryan
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Miss Anderson and P6
Primary 5 Weekly Blog
Last week Primary 5 were very busy learning about lots of different things.
We combined Topic, Art and Technologies to design and draw our own landscape pictures. We had to search for images taken in Sierra Leone and then use our skills in drawing. Most of us enjoyed using curved and straight lines to recreate our chosen scene.
In PE with Mrs Pender we have been learning a new dance and we think that the music is really good. Unfortunately we are not allowed to share the name of the song but it is a very upbeat song and  we have lots of great moves. One of our moves is to stop with our hands pressed against a wall, another is to drop down to the floor. We can’t give away any more clues! We are looking forward to starting African Dance with Mrs Campbell.
Our Maths theme is division and each group is learning to divide numbers. It can be quite tricky to divide and learning times tables off by heart really helps to make dividing easier. We have been learning different strategies to help (but will keep learning our tables).
We all have a Didbook diary that we can add our reflections to. This means that we do not need to write in our Reflection Jotters anymore.We also have a profile that we can update to show what we want to learn in the future.
It is not long until we head off to camp. Kingswing here we come…
Until next week,
Primary 5
Primary 7
P7 started their class presentations this week. Ellie, Boyd and Jamie-lee started us off with very confident and clear talks. They were peer-assessed by 3 classmates each and self assessed their own performance.
In writing, we have been writing a discussion text about zoos.  We found that some of us had very strong arguments for and against zoos. We wrote an introduction and started a for or against paragraph. We are going to finish next week with the opposite view and our own opinions. We will try to post some good examples on here.
We are all really excited about our trip the next again week to The Risk Factory. I wonder what we will learn as it has been top secret in previous years!
After moving tables, we all created new table signs incorporating a symbol that represents each person at the table. We have new Class Dojo buttons for each of our tables and hope to win lots of points.
Have a good weekend
P7 and Miss McLennan
Primary 6 Meetings
This week and last we have had a Class Meeting. This is an opportunity for everyone in the class to get together and discuss issues that have been raised throughout the week. We discussed different ways to make sure that we stay on track, in terms of behaviour and work. As a class we decided to start Behaviour Buddies. Everyone will have a Behaviour Buddy and everyone will be a Behaviour Buddy. On Thursday we plan to take part in a few trust building exercises.
In Maths the Red group have been working with 3 and 4 times tables. We have been using concrete materials to help but are becoming much more able to remember out times tables facts. The Blue and Green group have been learning about Prime Numbers and Factors. So far we are all able to identify factors and we know how to explain if a number is Prime. We are nearly ready to move on to our next topic so watch this space.
We have started our Rivers topic. Each of our activity groups has chosen a river to research in preparation for our assembly (19th Feb – save the date!). We have already rewritten famous songs and have started planning and writing our Dramas. We don’t expect to need too many costumes for our assembly but will let you know if this changes.
We are really enjoying Art and are demonstrating excellent skills with paint and pencil. We will be moving onto printing next.
That’s all for now – we hope to give another update later on this week.
Miss Anderson and P6
PS Because it is our Assembly fortnight and we have  a few days off, the homework handed out tomorrow will be for the following Friday (20th Feb). This will allow all children to enjoy their time off and have a bit of spare time to learn words for our assembly.
Primary Seven
Writing
This week we have been finishing of our own comic strips. We had to peer assess them to ensure that they included captions, relevant pictures, speech and thought bubbles.
Reading
We are very close to the end of our class novel ‘Varjak Paw’. Everyone wrote a prediction for the ending of the book. Some of us have been very close so far!
Maths
In maths, we were all really interested to learn more about how time zones work. We used maps to help us estimate the times across the world. We worked out which countries celebrate New Year before and after us in the UK.
Lots of us moved up a CLIC level today.
HWB
We had a big focus on respect this week. Jammin’ Andy came in to teach us new dances and we now have a special ‘kindness cup’ in the class where we can leave kind messages for our classmates.
Primary 1
As part of our Scots week, Primary 1 have been exploring Scottish stories and singing Scottish songs.
We read ‘Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted’ and used the book to inspire our learning this week. Â We had lots of fun taking on the role of Katie Morag in Drama, showing her behaviour and emotions in different parts of the story. Â When Katie Morag’s teddy got tossed into the sea we used our writing skills to create a poster to help find him for her. Today in Art we had to look carefully at the illustrations of Katie Morag’s island to create a stormy sea picture. We had to mix lots of different colours of paint and use wavy brush strokes to make the dark sky and choppy waves.
In Maths, we have been using counters and other objects to find different ways of making 3, 4 and 5. We managed to write sums to match the number facts we found.
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Primary 7
Literacy
Literacy has been a little bit different this week as we have been writing, reading and listening in Scots. We are preparing to perform a very special dance for you all and we have had to follow the steps to the dance in Scots words. We played a fun game of ‘Simon Says’ in Scots and learned lots of new vocabulary. In writing we had to add the speech, thought and caption text to ‘The Broons or and ‘Oor Wullie’ comic strip. We are looking forward to creating our own next week.
Numeracy
In maths everyone has been focusing on the topic ‘Time’. Most of us are very confident using 24 hour time so we have started trying to solve time problems using different types of timetables. James, Finlay C, Finlay B and Kristinna got 10/10 for their CLIC challenge after a long break away from completing one. Well done! I’m looking forward to more people with full marks next week.
Expressive Arts
Our focus for Scots week is Scottish solo artists or Groups.  We researched some Scottish figures and created factfiles about them. Lots of people chose Calvin Harris or The Proclaimers.  We have been listening to a selection of music from Scottish singers and groups then we talked about how we felt about the music. Â
Miss McLennan and P7
