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P1 have been learning some simple Italian phrases as part of our focus on Languages this week. We also found out about popular Italian foods and made our own pizza and pasta on paper plates!
As part of our Toys topic this week, we had a special visitor in school from the Toy Museum who brought in old toys for us to learn about and play with. We had great fun!
This week, Primary 5 started their new topic – Life in a Burgh town! We built up a Burgh town on our classroom wall and used collage to create our own medieval characters.
“I enjoyed drawing and painting my character/the Burgh animals and learning the different parts of the Burgh town.” Boe
“I enjoyed learning about the Burgh town and making my character.” Oliwia
“I enjoyed making the Mercat Cross for our Burgh town.” Kristina
“My favourite part was using the different fabrics to make my character.” Lauren
“I enjoyed drawing and painting my market stall.” Cerys
We also found out about our new Technologies project from Miss McLaughlin and Sarah-Jane. We are going to build a medieval market! We worked in groups and began to plan each of our stalls (the blacksmith, the tanner/butcher, the potter/weaver, the baker and the grocer).
Keep checking in to see how we are getting on!
Until next time…
Primary 5 & Miss McLaughlin 🙂
This week we have had a focus on languages in school and in P6 we learnt Spanish. We listened to native speakers and practised saying some Spanish words. We noticed that lots of letter sounds were the same in Spanish but there were a few that we had to watch out for like z, c, rr and ll.
Then we learnt how to describe people in Spanish. When we were doing this, we had to be careful to make sure we changed the ending of our adjectives to masculine ‘o’ or feminine ‘a’ depending on who we were describing. This made a link to what we have learnt about masculine and feminine words in French.
After that, we used what we had learnt to describe famous Spanish speakers, including Pablo Picasso, Queen Letizia of Spain, Fernando Torres, Shakira and Rafael Nadal. We talked about which countries other than Spain have Spanish as their national language, for example Columbia, where Shakira is from. P6 produced some excellent pieces of writing to describe these people in Spanish!
Finally, Katie, Mya, Miai and Oskar teamed up with Boe, Lauren and Oliwia from P5 to share what they had learnt. P5 had been learning the words for family members in Italian so the P6s taught them how to describe their family members in Spanish. You can see them working together in the photographs below.
Adios,
Mrs Cullum and P6
Remember that the school will be closed on Monday and Tuesday for a local holiday and a teacher in-service day. Â Pupils in school and nursery resume on Wednesday 21 September.
Steven Eagleson
On Tuesday we offered an information evening to find out how you can work with us to help your children learn. Â The class teachers also offered information on what and how they will be teaching this session, how you can help and how you can support at home.
Unfortunately the turnout was only 22%, Â the lowest we’ve ever had for an information evening. Â Naturally, we’re asking ourselves why.
We would greatly appreciate you taking 5 minutes to complete a short survey to help us understand why this evening was unsuccessful and how we can make changes in the future to better meet all of our needs.
CLICK HERE TO ANSWER A FEW SHORT QUESTIONS
In maths we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10,100 or 1000 and using rounding to estimate the answers to calculations. Â In PE we have been playing invasion games. Â The children have been giving their opinion about what works best in the invasion games and we have adjusted how we play the game as a result. Â They are much happier with the new format of the game.
We have also been learning about WWII and enjoyed a handling session from Mrs Liddell. Â The session gave a detailed account of events during the war. Â It was presented in a way that made links to Mrs Liddell’s relatives, who experienced the war, and made links to local areas which made it more meaningful for the children. Â They also had the opportunity to try on some of the clothing.
P3 had a visit from Mrs Liddell from the Musesum Services last week. She brought lots of old toys from Victorian times. Â We enjoyed dressing up as Victorian children and playing with some of the toys they had.
We look forward to welcoming you this evening for our Families Learning Together evening. Â It’s quite a complicated evening to arrange as we have different messages to give to nursery, primary 1 and P2-P7. Â I have sent individual letters to each child explaining what is happening. Â In brief:
This week we wanted to show you some of the ways we practise our writing! We don’t always use a pen. The boys and girls here are showing you one of the fun activities we use.
Primary 1/2 have been learning about 2D shapes in Maths this week. We went on a shape walk around the school and discovered that shapes are all around us! We can also talk about the properties of shapes by describing how many sides and corners they have.
We have begun learning about toys as part of our topic for this term. This week we illustrated and labelled the toys we like to play with today and talked about the materials they are made from. We gathered up a selection of toys from the classroom and found that they were made from either plastic, wood, metal or fabric. Most of the toys we have are made from plastic but we noticed that there are different types of plastic. Next week, we are looking forward to finding out about toys from the past.
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