Category: Our Learning Stories

Primary 7 walked into school on Tuesday looking extremely smart in their new uniforms.  They have already taken on some of their new responsibilities around the school with great confidence.

Maths

Liam is Maths Champion for this week.

The Purple group were learning to add decimals and they all feel confident about doing this.

The Green group were working on adding several numbers together using different strategies. They are confident about this skill and getting better at explaining their methods.

In the Orange group they were practising to work with negative numbers linked to temperature.  They feel confident about this too.

Writing

In writing today P7 were learning to write an application form to be a wet playtime monitor.  We filled in a real form for the job and hope we are successful in our first choice of class. This is a very important skill to have for when we are applying for a job, college or university.

School Rules

We looked closely at the school rule ‘We work hard and let others learn’.  We illustrated how this rule looks in our school and thought about what might happen if it didn’t exist.

Welcome back to school!

Today we have settled back into our school routine very well. We all had a great day and hope the new P1s did too. Here are a few of our comments about the day.

It was good seeing my friends that I didn’t see in a long time. Everyone was getting on well. Ryan

It was good to see everyone at school and to see everyone work hard on the first day. Jordan

It was good to be back and good to work. Ann

It’s good to be back because I get to see all my friends again. Sophie

Typed by Shay

Today at playtime some of us held a Loom Band stall. We had made lots and lots of bands but we didn’t have enough to meet demand. We have taken orders and are going to be busy over the weekend and early next week. Everyone who ordered a band should receive their band by Tuesday at the latest.

We raised over £20! Well done to everyone involved.

Fingers crossed for a sunny weekend – remember sun cream!

Miss Anderson and P5

We have a new fruit stall on the P4 decking. Josh thinks that it is nice that we have a fruit stall. Jack H likes the fact that everyone in the class has a job. Amber likes that the fruit is juicy. Lewis P likes the green grapes. The fruit stall is getting busier and busier! The bananas are 30p, as are the oranges and apples. The grapes are 45p.

In other news we have been learning about the Commonwealth games. There are 53 nations involved, 16 of these nations share the same Queen as us! The foxes made a booklet about the Commonwealth games. We also learned a little about the World Cup and made leaflets.

In Maths we learned how to use kitchen scales and how to weigh lots of different things. We weighed potatoes and items that we found in school.

On Monday we learned how to play rugby with jack the rugby coach. On Wednesday we had Sports Day. Our class medals were won by;

Gold – Kadan and Joshua
Ella, Hannah and Courtney

Silver – Louisa, Hannah and Ella
Lewis C, Callum, Jack R

Bronze – Kadan, Callum and Craig
Louisa, Donatella and Amber

Well done to everyone who took part – we all did a super job!

In writing this week we learned how to write a CV (or a curriculum Vitae). A CV is important when you are applying for a job because the employer has to see what kind of person you are.

It was also the Beach Disco this week – most of us rated it 10/10!

A wee update on our P7 sculptures…

This week we learned about Ramadan with Mrs Hull.  We made pictures of SpongeBob playing hockey underwater for Uphall Station Gala Day.  We made pictures of our community using WordPaint on the netbooks.  In Numeracy and Maths, we counted backwards to solve mental maths subtraction questions.  Here are some of our WordPaint images.

This week we have been busy developing our skills in drama, particularly the freeze frame technique. We imagined that we were in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Here are a few examples of us in action.

We have also been learning how to reference information – it is really important that we share where we have found information that we use. We can do this by including the book title and author, as well as the page number.

We are one marble away from filling the jar. Fingers crossed for a treat next week.

We are looking forward to Sports Day next Tuesday – hope to see you then.

Miss Anderson and P5 8)

Primary 7’s final days at primary school are drawing near.  In HWB we have been discussing strategies we could use to cope with the changes and new situations high school will bring.  We decided that making friends is a good way to cope.  We created recipes to show what a good friend is. 

Our topic in maths is Algebra and everyone seems to be enjoying it!  Most of us can now use both the covering method and balancing method to solve an equation.  Blueberries can also use the function machine method and create their own equation from a word problem.  Anna and Elli designed a magic trick to link to their equation.  We are hoping to film it and put it onto the blog!

Please have a look at our sculptures.  We have been working hard in Art to make an armature from modelling wire.  This creates the structure of our figure.   We then added newspaper to show the form of the body. 

Our assembly last week was such a blast – literally as a volcano erupted halfway through our performance. Luckily it was part of the plan so we were able to carry on with a song and a dance. It was lovely to see lots of people who care about us visiting school to see us perform – thanks for coming. We are still learning about natural disasters and will keep you up to date with our learning.

We have been reading and writing poetry as part of our reading focus. Some of us have been surprised at how much we enjoy writing poems and Miss Anderson has been pleasantly surprised at how emotive our poems are. Let us know if you want to read some and we will type them up for next week.

We’ll update more later in the week.

Miss Anderson & P5