We have continued our focus on Scottish Art and songs and music this week. We completed our Rennie Mackintosh pictures and they’re brilliant. Some budding artists in P4B. We have also designed our own tartans and used oil pastels to complete these. Then we used a stencil of a Scottish animal which we covered with zentangle patterns in black pen. We cut these out and stuck them in the centre of our tartan designs. They are very effective.
We continued our Scottish theme in our writing- we listened to a reading of “To a Mouse” and discussed the meaning behind it. Then we created our own poems about a Scottish animal, trying to use some Scots language. Some great poems – well done P4B.
We have also worked on tenses this week and the introduction of the present perfect tense.
We have completed our block on multiplication and have done an assessment on it. Some of us still need to practise the higher tables. So continue to practise in your tables booklets.
Our birds are on our classroom windows with our New Year’s Resolutions for the playground.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Love from P4B and Mrs. Burton
Snow Animals, Time and Kelpies in P3A
P3A are very much back in the swing of things this week. In maths we have begun subtraction. At the moment we are practising our mental subtraction through number talks and working hard to become more confident with missing number sums (eg, 18 – ___ = 7 or ___ – 5 = 12) as quite a few of us were finding these tricky – we’re getting good at them now though!
In outer maths we have begun ‘time.’ We are working on telling the time using an analogue clock at the moment. Focusing on half past and quarter past. We also drew the hands on a clock face to represent these times too. We have to remember that the little hand points to the hour and the big hand points to the minutes. We will continue with this topic for the next few weeks.
All classes are changing their corridor wall displays at the moment and P3A chose ‘snow animals’ as their theme. We have been learning about how some animals have adapted to survive in very cold climates, we have been learning about snow leopard, snowshoe hare, sika deer, arctic fox, bobcat and polar bear. In groups we did some reading for information, highlighting interesting facts. We then used these notes to write a fact file. These are very informative and will be great on our display. We have been enjoying watching clips from a program on BBC iplayer called ‘Stunning Survivors: The Secret Skills of Snow Animals’ It has been very interesting and we have learned a lot about how animals survive extremely cold conditions – much better than us humans can!
We also created some artwork for the display. When we were watching Stunning Survivors we saw the Northern Lights and decided to learn more about them. We then created our own interpretations using water colour paint. We also drew line drawings of a snow animal of our choice and glued them onto our Northern Lights backgrounds. They are very effective and we worked hard to look at the animals looking at the lines, shapes and features and trying to recreate them in our drawing.
We read the book The Secret of the Kelpie by Lari Don, an adaptation of a traditional Scottish folk tale. This led us to look at traditional Scottish designs. In the Secret of the Kelpies there are some drawings carved into stone – shapes to represent objects and tell a story. We decorated our own initial with Scottish patterns. We also did a ‘Spot the Silly Word’ reflective reader task on a passage from the book, we read the passage carefully, spotted the silly words and suggested more suitable words to use in their place. This really helps to increase our vocabulary as we work together, discussing possible words to use.
We now have music lessons with Ms Bain on a Thursday. This week we were singing the Scottish song – Katie Bairdie, I haven’t heard it yet but I got very good feedback from Ms Bain on how well P3A sang 🙂
In PE we have begun a block on football. We were improving our dribbling skills this week – trying to keep the ball close to our bodies and in control while we move around quickly.
Another great week, well done P3A. Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Welcome to Primary 5 week ending 17.1.20
We have had a very busy week in Primary 5/6! We are continuing to explore Scots language and created our own Scots poems about an animal of our choice. We spent time exploring a wide range of vocabulary and using this to create our poems. Mrs McVay hopes that some of us will have the confidence to recite our poems to the rest of the school next week during assembly.
We were introduced to a new maths topic this week and that was decimals. During our lessons we began to look at the place value of decimals up to 3 decimal places. To develop our understanding further we then created diagrams (that looked like chocolate bars) to understand the concepts of tenths and hundredths. Next week the class will focus on ordering and sequencing decimals up to 2 decimal places.
Mrs Tulloch and Mrs Doyle showed us how to measure angles using a protractor. We made a protractor for the classroom door and now we can measure going in and out of class.
As part of our Art lesson this week, we learned about the famous Scottish artist Samuel Peploe. We looked at some of his paintings and discussed how they make us feel and how he used light and dark colours to create still life and landscapes. Using water colours and oil pastels we drew our own representation of one of his paintings called, Rocks. Our pictures have turned out very well!
P6 continue to learn their songs for the school show this week and will hopefully have the words home by the end of the week for them to memorise. P5 have been using this time to learn more about Rabbie Burns and this week created a fantastic collage of his very famous portrait.
As you walk by our classroom window have a look at our new year resolutions for in the school playground. They are there to remind us the importance of playing kindly, showing respect and being inclusive to ensure that everyone has fun during playtime and lunchtime.
In science Primary 5 have been learning about bridges and mad paper bridges. Daniel and Leith’s bridge carried 180g.
Have a lovely weekend,
Primary 5/6
Primary 6 w/e 17th January 2020
This week we have begun our rehearsals for Fame and we also had the opportunity to watch a performance of the show by another group.
Today we had a visit from Fish in the Classroom, who have told us all about the project and set a tank up within our classroom. They will return in a couple of weeks with some trout eggs, which we will care for, before releasing them into the wild.
We created our own version of Tam ‘O’ Shanter, retelling the story that was written by Robert Burns.
Our artwork this week looked at the Scottish Colourists, in particular, Samuel Peploe. We recreated some artwork of our own, based on some of his paintings.
Have a lovely weekend.
Happy song practising!!
From Primary 6 and Mrs Kerr
Subtraction, ‘sh’ and 3 Craws in P1B
What a lovely week in P1B, full of lots of learning and playing.
In Numeracy we began learning about subtraction. We ‘subtracted’ marshmellows to help us to understand the concept – this was a highlight of the week for lots of us! We will forever understand subtraction as the act of eating marshmellows and there getting ‘less’. We also explored subtraction using cubes, played subtraction games and had a go at solving some written sums.
In Maths we learned how to tell the time o’clock on an analogue clock. We were amazing at this! We know that the big hand is called the minute hand and the small hand is called the hour hand. If you have an old watch we can wear this will help us to engage with telling the time. A digital one is fine too as we will be learning how to read the time on a digital clock next week.
In Literacy we learned the digraph ‘sh’. A digraph is 2 letters combined together to make a sound. We will be learning lots of these this term. We highlighted ‘sh’ words in a story, wrote ‘sh’ words and we even made a ship!
Our IDL focus this week and next is Scots. We learned the song ‘3 Craws’, ask us to sing it to you, we’re very good. Maili and Olga helped us to make our own craws, we’re really proud of them:
If any of you are able to speak in Scots, we’d love you to come in and read us a story or poem…. Mrs Bell tries but it really is not her area of expertise!
Have a fab weekend 🙂
Love P1B and Mrs Bell x
P4B’s first week back in 2020
Happy New Year to Everyone. Hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We have started the way we mean to continue this year and have been working hard. In Literacy we have talked about our New Year’s Resolutions and reflected on 2019. Now we have lots of things to achieve in 2020. We have been entertained by Mrs.Burton attempting to read some of Robert Burn’ Poems and then have translated some of the poems into English, which we really enjoyed. In reflective reading we have learnt about the life of Robert Burns and then filled in missing words from a passage about this.
In Numeracy, we are continuing to work on multiplication to ensure that we know our table facts before progressing onto Division. We have also revised tally marks and now using these to create our tally charts on subjects of our choice. We will use the information gathered to make our own bar charts.
In Art, we have looked at the life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and created our own designs of his work. Some great work and we’re looking forward to displaying them both in the classroom and in the corridor.
French has been a revision of days of the week, months and the seasons and now we will go on to the weather.
We had P.E with Mrs.Reid this week and will continue to have a weekly session with her until the end of the term.She has started off with some circuit training so we all came back rather red faced!!
This week, also saw the start of sessions with Mrs.Curl from N.Y.C.O.S. So we had good fun demonstrating a steady beat.
New routines this term:
Monday and Wednesday P.E
Tuesday am – R.M.E/Science with Mrs.Begarnie
Thursday – N.Y.C.O.S
Date for the Diary – P4B Assembly – Vikings
Have a lovely weekend.
Love from P4B and Mrs.Burton
Primary 6 – w/e 10th January 2020
This week we have completed our Scottish Opera sessions by spending a day with a team from Scottish Opera, where we were taught actions for our songs and we performed our Opera to the rest of the school. There are videos and photos on twitter!!
In maths we have explored repeating patterns made with shapes and some of us have created equations to explain our patterns.
In Science we have begun to create a game to show our understanding of electrical circuits. When we finish these we will hopefully share them with each other and our P2 Pals.
We have looked at some traditions around the world at New Year and created some resolutions and targets for this session in school.
In literacy we have begun to look at the Robert Burns Poem – Tam ‘O’ Shanter and we have started to translate this into english so we can understand it! We will continue to look at this next week.
Have a great weekend.
Kind regards
Primary 6 and Mrs Kerr
Christmas Fun in P7b
This week we have been working on creating winter silhouette painting. We learnt to blend shades of blue. We also learnt to gradate colours in our painting to show light and dark contrast.
We enjoyed a STEM challenge as we created origami Christmas trees. Many of us demonstrated resilience by never giving up. Some us had to make 3 or more attempts to perfect the tree.
We had a great time at our disco. We played party games and Mr Wells showed us a magic trick! What a good way to end the term. There were lots of laughter and fun this week.
Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy new year!!
P7b class and Mrs Durano
P4A Blog Week Ending 20.12.19
P4A Blog Week Ending 20.12.19
Literacy and English
In literacy this week, we have been focusing on writing a thank you letter to a relative for a Christmas present we are hoping to receive if we are on the ‘nice list’. In grammar we were learning to use commas to show a breath in a sentence and also in a list. In handwriting we did a check up on our spelling, so far this year and wrote a poem by Lewis Caroll who wrote ‘Alice in Wonderland’. We also answered questions on Aesop’s fables ‘ The Tortoise and the Hare’ The moral lesson of the story is that you can be more successful by doing things slowly and steadily than by acting quickly and carelessly.
Numeracy and Mathematics
In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been learning to extend, create and explain the rules for repeating patterns involving shapes, pictures, symbols and number sequences. We created tiling patterns with different 2D shapes. We found lots of examples from our garden patios, bathrooms, kitchens and floors of shops.
Learning across the Curriculum
We have been enjoying lots of Christmas activities this week including our Christmas party on Tuesday which was great fun! We were very proud at the Christmas church service of our choir singers for their beautiful singing and for our reader who read in a loud clear voice. We enjoyed singing along with them and listening to the readings. We loved singing our Christmas carol around the Christmas tree, “All I want for Christmas is you!”
Have a great Christmas holiday!
P4A and Ms McAlpine
Merry Christmas from P3A
Wow, what a fun, busy week!
I’ll just mention some of the highlights. On Monday we had a technology afternoon. We were set two challenges – the first was to build the highest tower possible using only newspaper and cellotape. It had to stand unaided, with a platform at the top for a toy car. The car had to balance on it for 10 seconds. Every team fulfilled the brief and the winning team built a tower that was 57cm high! The second challenge was to make elf shoes that fitted someone in your group. They had to be able to come off and on and be strong enough to last in a parade around the classroom. Every team succeeded and we got two children from P3B to judge the best looking shoe to help us to decide on a winner!
Our party on Tuesday was great. It was like a real disco with cool lights and Mr Wells was our DJ, he played lots of good music and helped with instructions for the games. We played pass the parcel, musical statues, Christmas corners and had a Christmas zumba dance to finish off.
A large bag of daffodil bulbs was recently donated to the school and Mrs Tucker (who usually helps us with reading) came in to do some planting with us on Thursday. She could only stay for a while so she got us started and trained a few helpers to show the others what to do – thank you! Also, a big shout out to O, L and S who did an amazing job – helping all the children in both P3 and P1 classes to plant some bulbs – thanks boys! The plants are for the children to look after at home and hopefully they will see some flowers in Spring.
We sang so well at the Carols Around the Tree concert – especially as we we opened the show 😉 We had been practising hard and are very proud of ourselves. We hope you enjoyed it.
Have a wonderful Christmas,
P3A and Mrs Kennedy
