Category: Primary 4

Well done to Katie Clayton in P4 for taking part in a special charity marathon! We are all so proud of your efforts Katie!

Miss Baillie! X

We all came back to school on Tuesday well rested from our holiday. We had singing with Mrs Gray and managed to do the daily mile.

On Wednesday we began to learn about the different rules that religions have. Some of us started in the Boccia lunch club- this was great fun, but very tiring. In PE we began atheletic circuit training, this was tiring too!

Thursday was an excellent day in P4a, Kieran came to visit AND we went to the Peel. At the Peel we met 2 rangers, Gordon and Will, who taught us all about trees, what they need to grow and how important they are. We studied and drew some of the trees. We also played a number of games which helped us learn about the four things trees need to grow and why they are so important to us.

After that we came back to school and had a picnic outside, this was great as we all got the chance to talk and play in the fresh air 🙂

Next we made Quidditich hoops out of tyres- this was a great piece of combined team work. Kieran had not been able to work out how to get the hoops to school so we solved the problem using a Growth Mindset. We then made broom sticks from fallen twigs and used a football to try the new resources out.

We are super excited to start our Quidditch lessons next Thursday, we think we are the only primary school in Scotland (and possibly the UK) to have these lessons!!

Today we had an assembly on Growth Mindsets, it was very interesting and reminded us that sometimes things are hard, but if we keep trying we will succeed. 🙂

Have a lovely weekend, hopefully there will be lots of sun!

P4a

Dear All

This week is the first week of the new term.

In literacy we did the spring spelling suffix mosaic. We also got a sheet of the 200 most used words.

In numeracy we did two maths assessments. We did a work sheet about hieroglyphics.

In Health and Wellbeing we did an exercise circuit with Mrs Reid. We also did the same with Mrs McAlpine outside.

In Learning across the curriculum we learnt about the private bits of our body.

With Mrs Begarnie, we learned that rules are important. We had to play a game but we didn’t know what the rules were.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Typed by Ewan Sexton

P4B Blog Week Ending 31.3.17

Dear All

Today we went to the church for the Easter service.

This week in literacy we learned how to write newspapers.

In numeracy we did an Easter multiplication treasure hunt. We did subtraction using formal column method.

In Health and Wellbeing we did throwing and catching with bean bags and we used hoola hoops. We practiced high jump with scissor jumps and hurdles.

In Learning across the curriculum we learned that after the holidays we are going to be doing “Living and Growing!” We did Ancient Egypt’s Got Talent. We checked the results of our mummified tomatoes.

With Mrs Begarnie, on Wednesday we learned about Easter and how they celebrate it in other countries. We finished our posters or letters for Water Aid.

Hope you have a great Easter holiday!

This week we had lots of different activities.

We did a maths check up at the beginning of the week- we know lots now that we didn’t know when we started in P4!

On Wednesday the P5 classes came to visit us for a museum tour. We told them all about Ancient Egypt and then led a series of activities for them. They really enjoyed the visit and we loved teaching them.

We held the first ever Ancient Egypt’s Got Talent show. It was a very tightly fought contest, well us Gods can be tempremental you know. Our judges, Simon (Josh) Cowell, David (Kieran) Walliams, Cheryl (Mrs Hutton) Cole and Amanda (Mrs McAlpine) Holden had a tough job to do. Ant n Dec (Mrs Newton) tried hard to keep control but it was a tricky job! Our winners were Rebecca, Isla, Amelie and Freya- well done, you are great goddesses!

On Thursday we had our Easter Bonnet parade and song. We think our bonnets were the best!

We reached our Dojo target this term and got to watch The Prince of Egypt, it was a really good movie and linked our learning from RME together with our IDL theme.

Kieran (Mrs Newton’s youngest son) came into school to talk to us about Quidditch- we loved hearing about it and are even more excited about him coming back next term to teach Mrs Newton and us to play.

Today we walked to church for our Easter Service- thank you to Mrs Manlove, Mrs Rae and Mrs McFadden for walking with us. We all sang beautifully and the rain stayed away.

We  have lots of trips planned next term- on Thursday 20th April we are going to the Peel for a Ranger workshop- packed lunches are needed.

On June 5th we will be going to the Marches Book Festival and having a picnic on the way- packed lunches needed again.

On the 12th June we are going to the National Museum in Edinburgh for an Ancient Egypt tour and workshop- again we will need a packed lunch.

Full details of the last two trips will come out in May.

This weeks picture will be on Dojo later today or tomorrow. Have a great Easter break, when we come back we will only have 11 weeks left in P4 🙁

P4a 🙂

Dear All

Today is crazy hair day. We wore red noses and dressed up.

This week in literacy we learned about newspaper articles. We did the canal competition and young writer of the year. Some people did it on the computer and some people just wrote it.

In numeracy we did an assessment. The assessment was on addition. In numeracy we did column formal sums.

In Health and Wellbeing we did P.E with Mrs Reid. We did hockey and ladders. We did P.E with Mrs McAlpine. We did a game called Pac man tig and we were learning to do the high jump using scissor kicks and measuring how high we could jump.

In Learning across the curriculum we made our table posters with computers. Callum brought in marshmallows , we loved them and Gillian made a marshmallow mummy.

With Mrs Begarnie, on Wednesday we designed posters about not wasting water or you could do letters.

Hope you had a good weekend!

Typed by Sabrina

This week we have been continuing to work on using formal methods for adding and subtracting. It has been tricky but we are all getting better. Next week we will be doing check ups, we know we will do great.

In Big Writing we began to write our newspaper articles, we have finished the planning and next week we will complete the newspapers. We have all written about slightly different things so it should make a great newspaper.

In Science we made posters on Water Aid, Keeping Clean and Animals. Some of the girls raised money for Water Aid by baking, and selling, cakes around where they lived. Mrs Newton was very sad that there were none left (and none of them were gluten free 🙁 )

We have almost completed our Ancient Egypt topic. This week we have been planning our Gods- next week we will become Gods and perform at a special Ancient Egypt’s Got Talent event. Then we will become guides for P5 as we show them our museum and help them make cartouches, scarab beetles, canopic jars and mummified cats. We will also be revisiting our mummified tomatoes to see how the have changed. On Thursday afternoon we will watch “The Prince of Egypt” as our end of term movie.

Today we all had crazy hair- really crazy, and raised a total of £28 as a class for Comic Relief 🙂 Go Red Noses!

1 week to go until the holidays, we cannot believe that we have only got 12 school weeks left in P4 🙂 What a fast year!!!

Mrs Newton says the picture will be on Class Dojo later today, have  a great weekend- the sun is supposed to shine.

P4a

 

 

Blog Week Ending 17.3.17

Dear all

Last week we moved seats to tables of four. There had to be two girls and two boys at each table.

In literacy we learned about newspaper articles.

In numeracy we calculated adding and subtraction number pyramids.

In Health and Wellbeing we were doing relay races.

In Learning across the curriculum we designed an Egyptian game or a pyramid or mummy.

With Mrs Begarnie, in science we learned that we shouldn’t waste water and made posters or wrote letters.

Hope you had a good weekend!

Typed by Rebecca