Category: Whole School

Numeracy

This week our focus was on subtraction. We all reminded ourselves how to do the formal written algorithm for subtraction ensuring the larger number is on the top. We then worked through explaining how to exchange. This was a good reminder that 1 ten equals 10 units and 1 unit equals 10 tenths etc. We then moved on to look at negative numbers and discussed bank overdrafts, loans and temperatures as common real life scenarios when we need to use negative numbers. Everyone then had a chance to do some calculations with negative numbers and some children moved on to multiplication and division of negative numbers.

Literacy

Using the plans created last week we all wrote a letter home imagining we were an evacuee. We had to capture our emotions and think about what life would have been like as a child back then. This was another chance to use the formal layout required for letter writing. We also finished our STEM applications for Mrs Tulloch and had to draw our invention as part of the application. Fingers crossed we get a winner…

French and Spanish

In French we looked at the use of “tu” and “vous” using informal and formal language. In Spanish we finished our family trees and can now introduce all members of our extended families in Spanish.

WWII

We continued our evacuee research and in groups picked an area to research in more depth. Our sway presentations were quite good, but Mrs Gordon felt they didn’t contain enough information. We shall uplevel these after the holidays.

Church Service

A huge thanks to everyone who attended and walk with us today. The children were fabulous with their buddies and were complimented for their behaviour and the way they looked after them by teachers and parents alike. Well done P7.

Happy holidays from Mrs Gordon and P7a

Last week we visited Linlithgow Palace and were shown round by Linlithgow Primary Palace guide who were really interesting. We also had time to sketch different parts of the Palace.

Before our Bridges visit on Monday, Hector Woodhouse came and spoke to us about his work on the Forth Road Bridge almost 60 years ago. It was fascinating and we could have asked him questions for ages after the bell. The talk really helped prepare us for our visit to the new Queensferry Crossing. Also in preparation, we  made paper bridges. Arran and Shaymaa’s bridge managed to carry 600+ bricks.

 

 

We really enjoyed our visit and learned about the different kinds and bridges, their construction and safety.

Have a lovely Easter holiday!

 

In Primary 2 this week we continued with our Big Writing Adventure. We received some video messages from the Wolf asking us to listen to his side of the story. We sequenced his version of events and put them on a story mountain. We then created our own story mountains to summarise the story. Miss Mudd then gave each group a picture from the story and we had to write some sentences to go with it. We worked really hard to use WOW words and pretended to ‘jump into the picture’ so we could describe what we could see, hear, smell and touch. We then put all of our sentences back together to create a new class story! The Fairytale Times then sent us an email asking us to become reporters for the day and write an article for the newspaper. We learnt all about headlines and the features of a newspaper report. We then had a go at our own.

T and D made a theatre in their free play. They used the puppets to create an alternative ending to the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

For reading homework we have been learning about non-fiction books. One group had a book all about how to make a comic. Mrs McKay very kindly went and bought us a real comic to have a look at! We loved the pictures and enjoyed talking about the different stories.

The Finger Gym had an Easter theme this week. Here are the girls decorating their eggs with the stones and gems.

 

In Maths we have been learning about number sequences and patterns. We started to look at numbers to 1000 and talked about HTU.

In Art we were practising our drawing skills. We were thinking about people and pets that we see every day. We talked about their appearance and discussed all of the little details. We then had to have a go at using a continuous line to draw the outline. We found it tricky not to take our pen off the paper.

The Infant department have all chosen to do a book study for our displays for Term 4. We chose Dog’s Don’t Do Ballet’ as we had started to so some work on this book earlier in the year. We continued our work this week. We made a display outside our classroom. Some of the children decided to use their free play time to make a puppet show about the story. They made finger puppets and brought the characters to life. It brought in quite an audience!

Miss Baillie also asked us to produce some work on ‘The Snail and the Whale’ for the corridor display. We learnt all about the different settings in the story and worked in groups to create pictures to show the snail’s journey. We then used WOW words to describe the different environments.