Category: Primary 4

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Welcome to P4

This week we welcomed everyone back to school.  We had a lovely time getting to know each other through games such as charades and question time. We familiarized ourselves with the classroom routine and we are proud to say that we are great at following through with.

We have discussed and created our class agreement, class charter as well as individual termly jobs.  We looked into children’s rights briefly.   Next week will be learning about this in more detail.

We have also been able to share stories about what we have done during the school holidays. We made post cards as well.

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Blog week ending 22.6.18

 

In literacy this week we had discussions about the Marches .We were reading non-fiction books and playing reading games.

In numeracy we played a game using problem solving skills to find the long lost trophy.

In health and wellbeing, we played games including duck, duck, goose, tig, man hunt and jungle on fire. We played relay races and hurdles with Mrs Reid.

In learning across the curriculum we got to find out about our new teacher and class for next year. We completed our end of year booklet and made thank you letters to Mrs McAlpine.

Have a good weekend!

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P4 Blog

Numeracy-We have been learning about graphs eg: bar graphs and Venn diagram.  We also have been doing a survey around the school.

Literacy- We have been doing acrostic poems for father’s day .we have also been reading non-fiction books and putting the into a fact file.

Health and well being -we have been doing golf, football, and handball we have also been doing Gaelic football. There was a healthy tuck shop then on Wednesday it was sports day hooray!!!!! And Binns won!!!

By:CG and EC

 

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Pupil Voice Committees Assembly

We held out annual committees assembly today where our P4-7, ‘pupil voice’ groups fed back their work from this year to the wider school.

Our Pupil Council have held a variety of fundraisers to raise money to buy things for our school.

Our Rights, Respecting Schools Committee have worked to embed our Level 1 status and help us to move towards gaining Level 2 next session with a possible link with an international school being made.

Our Junior Road Safety Committee have worked hard this year to get less cars making the ‘school run’  and more children walking or cycling  to school instead.

Our Eco Committee have formed partnership links with Burgh Beautiful and the Transition Linlithgow project and have worked hard to garden, litter pick and encourage us all to reduce plastic waste.

Our Sports Commitee have helped to organise fitness week, promote sport across school and support staff to deliver P. E lessons.

Our Health and Wellbeing Committee have increased understanding of how to stay fit and active and how to promote positive mental health.

Our Digital Learning Commitee have supported the use of Education City and Sumdog across school and have recently piloted the use of ‘Scratch’ as a tool to teach coding.

We are delighted with the work that all of our children have led to improve all aspects of our school and thank our staff for supporting this.

Next session we aim to include our infants in committee groups. Watch this space for more news come next session…

Miss Baillie x💫

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P3/4 Blog WE 15.6.18

In literacy this week we learned more interesting words to use than, for example, nice, good and went.

In numeracy we have been learning about probability. We rolled a dice and kept a score of how many times it landed on each number. We worked out what the probability was for different groups in the class, for example, who had dark hair and blue eyes.

In health and wellbeing, we played potted sports including cheer leading, badminton, gymnastics, tennis, space hoppers, rugby, javelin, hurdles, egg and spoon, obstacle course, running, boules, cricket, threw bean bags and had races including the on Sports day. We played handball, golf, football, Gaelic football and had relay races. We had an active start every morning and practised yoga and mindfulness. We also made healthy smoothies.

In learning across the curriculum we learned more about farming from Springtime on the Farm.

Have a good weekend!

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JRSO’s Cycle Recycle and Dr Bike

Thank you to everyone in the school and nursery that supported the JRSO’s  Cycle Recycle and Dr Bike session this week.

We received seven bikes and stabilisers for the Cycle Recycle which have been taken away by West Lothian Bike Library to be repaired and then will be brought back to hire out to anyone that could use a bike. Vouchers will be given out tomorrow (Friday). Please check your child’s bag if you donated a bike for a £10 voucher from the bike library.  Please email Mrs McAlpine to arrange collection if you did not receive a voucher. louise.mcalpine@westlothian.org.uk

 

Dr Bike session was to make sure the bikes were safe to use. Twelve bikes were booked in to be checked over and have minor adjustments carried out. A card given to state what action was taken and any further recommended repairs.

If you would like more information please contact the bike library on www.wlbikelibrary.co.uk Tel 07724667321

Kind Regards

Louise McAlpine

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P3/4 Home Learning WB 11.6.18

Home Learning WB 11.6.18

Please see link above for this week’s home learning.

As it’s fitness week, home learning is health related with practical activities.

There’s no numeracy home learning this week, just the usual spelling and reading.

From next week to the holidays it will just be reading home learning.

Have a good week!

Kind Regards

Louise

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P3/4 Blog WE 8.6.18

In literacy this week we learned plurals and words ending in ‘s’ or ‘es’. We played comprehension games after our reading. We learned about contractions which are when two words join together to make one word e.g. ‘he has’ changes to ‘he’s’.

In numeracy we did ‘Big Maths Beat That’ and revised division and times tables with Mrs Doran. We also counted numbers back and forward in French.

In health and wellbeing, in PE with Mrs Reid we did athletics including shotput and running.

In learning across the curriculum we cut and pasted the process of farm to fork of bread and strawberries to show the order starting from the farm to eating them.

Have a good weekend!

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Home Learning WB 4.6.18

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Hi, Hope you had a lovely weekend.

Please see link above for this weeks home learning. Children have been working on fractions and realise that they need to know how to  multiply and divide to get quicker. This is a fun activity to help them to practise. They may need to look some of them up or swap the numbers round e.g if the question is 8 x 4, even if they don’t know their 8 times table, they can swap numbers to 4 x 8 which they should know.

Spelling this week is the other 2 columns from last week’s homework labelled P*s. This means plurals. Most words end in s or es when plural.

Thanks for all the creative spelling ideas. It’s great to see and inspires the other children. I m planning to make next week the last week of home learning. The following week is a short week with the Marches and then it’s the last week. What a fast year!

Kind Regards

Louise

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P4 Blog

This week we have been learning …

Maths

  • We have been learning how to put fractions on a number line.
  • We also have been learning  about equivalent fractions.
  • We also learnt to find fractions from a number/ amount.

Literacy

  • We have been learning about Root words and word families.
  • We also have been writing newspaper reports.
  • We compared the features of fiction and nonfiction book.

 

IDL

HM- I learned to follow instructions from a video tutorial ( when making a television using recyclable materials)

In Health and Well- being

We were learning about resilience and ways to cope with challenges.

Other

Miss Durano- We also submitted our poster entries for ” We support Linlithgow’s last straw” campaign.

Written by AR

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