In Numeracy and Mathematics this week, we have been looking at adding two 2-digit numbers, using our addition facts to solve problems and finding doubles and near doubles to 100. We have also been revising how to solve missing number problems. We looked at starting with the smallest number and ‘counting on’ to the other given number to find the missing number. Missing number problems can be very tricky but we tried our best!
On Thursday we attended the P3 Benchball Festival at Linlithgow Academy. We were divided into two teams and we played games against other P3 classes in the Linlithgow Cluster. Miss Harrison was very pleased with us as we followed the rules, displayed excellent teamwork and sportsmanship and used a range of skills and techniques throughout our games. On Friday our whole class got a School Values Award for participating confidently at the festival and we also won Class of the Week.
This week was Anti-Bullying Week at Springfield and we have been really busy learning about friendship and recognising that each individual has a unique blend of abilities and needs.
This week we have been looking at being unique and recognising that each individual has a unique blend of abilities and needs. During our art lesson, we watched a Sesame Street video about what makes us special. We explored what being unique means and we took notes on our own personality and our interests. Using our notes, we thought about what makes us all unique and we created hand images to record our ideas. Every hand is unique, just like us.
We explored the theme of ‘friendship’ through Charlotte’s Web. We discussed the friendship between Charlotte and Wilbur and we listed the qualities that made both characters a good friend. We watched a clip from the film of the moment when Charlotte and Wilbur became friends and explored how to be a good friend. We played a game where we had to match qualities of a good friend and then we had an individual challenge where we had to write words and sentences to describe a good friend.
In writing this week, we learned to write recipes. We wrote recipes for a good friend. We shared our notes sheets with our learning partners and discussed what we thought made a good friend. Miss Harrison then showed us how to set out a recipe and we looked at using bullet points to make a list of ingredients, using numbers for each step, ordering our steps and using bossy verbs. We worked really hard on our recipes and if followed carefully, they would make wonderful friends!
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
In Maths we have been working on subtraction using the written method. We have also been learning that the different shapes have sides, corners and angles. In Big Maths we have moved onto the multiplication challenge sheets to help us improve our table knowledge. We have also been working on SumDog.
In handwriting we have been learning how to join letters to the letter “i”. We have also been trying our best to keep our work very neat and our letters on the line. We have also been working on our pencil control techniques to help us.
In Science we learned about the major organs of the human body and then created a picture of the body and named all the organs together with their functions.
In PE we have been working in pairs at different stations to improve our levels of fitness.
We had our final “Rugby taster” session at Linlithgow Rugby Club. This time we played an actual match against our classmates. On the way back we got soaked as we were caught in a heavy shower of rain!
In French we learned how to say the months of the year, the days of the week and also the names of some fruits. We also did some French maths using our knowledge of numbers up to twenty. In addition to this we have also been writing out the date in French.
In Drama we read a bit more of the story “The Animals of Farthing Wood” and then created a comic strip about what happened.
We have now started working on our new class novel entitled “The Firework Maker’s Daughter”. Lila has been captured by Pirates and we have created a “mind map” about the different characters in the story.
This week in Primary 5 we have looked at suspense in our story writing. We listened to spooky music and learned that short sentences can help to create suspense in our writing. We all wrote a short paragraph using this technique.
As part of our HWB this week, we explored how germs are spread. We did this using glitter – ask us about some of the facts we learned this week.
In Science, we looked at terminal velocity. Ask us what we learned!!
In grammar this week we explored adverbs and adverbial clauses. These will help to make our writing much more interesting.
In PE we have learned some new games, as well as developing our handball skills further.
In maths we’ve concluded our work on fractions and we can all now find a fraction of a number, identify equivalent fractions and put fractions in order.
We have begun to receive lots of items for our gift bags for the Day Care Centre. Many thanks if you have donated to this. The deadline for sending items into school is Friday 30th November if you would still like to donate.
In literacy this week we learnt the sounds “k” and “ck”. We found out that these both make the same sound. We have been working hard at knowing what makes a good sentence and this week did some peer and self assessment of our sentences. It was great fun to be the teacher and mark someone else’s work! We also got to fly a kite, make a kite, look at how clocks work and make a rocket….busy boys and girls.
In numeracy we carried on our addition journey by looking at all the different ways to make 7 and 8. We also learnt about the 4 seasons of the year and worked out which season our birthday was in.
In IDL we continued our book focus on Handa’s surprise. We read the story again and then Mrs Gordon checked if we could remember the order by getting us to sequence pictures of the story in groups. We did really well with this as it was quite tricky. We then talked about the beginning middle and end of a story and why these were important. Mrs Gordon couldn’t believe how well we were able to draw the key parts of the story and bring it to life. We then made puppets ready for tomorrow when we are going to act out the story in groups. How exciting!
Jean from Burgh Beautiful and one of our lovely grandparent helpers, Ms Tucker, helped us to plant winter pansies in the tubs at our front entrance today.
Here are some members of our school Eco Committee giving the ladies a hand!
We began our Nativity practises this week. The children really picked up the words of the songs quickly. Well done all of P1 and 2. Next week we go onto putting the words in and practising stage directions.
In P2 we have planned and written our letters to Katie Morag. Katie Morag stories are our Scottish focus this term. The children wrote great letters and remembered most of their success criteria.
The children enjoyed “Katie Morag and the 2 Grandmothers” and drew storyboards for this. They also wrote about the important parts of the story.
In Maths we have continued to work on addition and will progress onto subtraction this week.
It has been a very busy time in Primary 7, we apologies for the delay in posting our updates, but we will fill you in on what we have been doing over the last two weeks.
Literacy: It was lovely last week to have some parents come along and to take part in our active spelling activities. During active spelling we play a range of spelling games, that helps us to consolidate our knowledge on spelling rules and tricky common words that we often spell incorrectly in our spelling. During active spelling we use our weekly spelling words and we play hangman games with our partners and we play scrabble to help us to extend and build on our vocabulary. This week in active spelling we used our weekly spelling words to create a crossword puzzle, reinforcing how the words are spelt as well as testing our knowledge on the definition of the words.
A couple of weeks ago we had a lovely visit to the Poppy Factory, during literacy we consolidated our understanding of writing a recount, we used the features of recount writing and wrote about our trip to the Poppy Factory. In our recount we concentrated on our vocabulary, punctuation, the use of figurative writing, writing in past tense and first person, it was such an enjoyable visit that we all enjoyed writing about our experience and describing our emotions, sharing our opinion.
Over the last few weeks we have been reading the class novel, Holes. We are all getting really stuck into the story and with every chapter that we read we are getting more and more drawn into the story. Over the last two weeks we completed two pieces of writing which was inspired from the novel. We learnt about persuasive devices and how they can be used to persuade an audience to buy an invention that we had created. In our novel, Holes, the main character writes a letter to his mum. After discussions on different purposes and types of communication, it was very clear that letter writing was not the preferred form of communication. None the less, we stepped into the shoes of the main character, Stanley, and wrote a letter to our ‘mum’. We focused on the layout of an informal letter, the language that is used and rhetorical questions. Perhaps this will inspire more letter writing to friends and family in the future.
During guided reading we have been concentrating on punctuation. We have been identify the types of punctuation that is used in a text, why it has been used and how it can be used in our writing.
Numeracy: We have been very busy during numeracy, extending and consolidating our understanding of fractions. Over the last two weeks we have worked on identifying and simplifying fractions, we have been adding and subtracting fractions with the same and different denominator and this last week we have been multiplying fractions and calculating ratios. It has been a challenging two weeks, with a lot of different ‘rules’ and calculations that we have had to learn, but with a confident attitude and resilience we have been doing great. Please ask us to show you what we have learnt.
Enterprise: With only 3 weeks to go till the Christmas Fayre, we have been working hard on our enterprise projects. It has been challenging at times, but we have learnt the importance of patience, team work and accurate resource ordering and budgeting. Over the last two weeks, we worked with our chosen groups and decided on a product or service we would like to sell at the Christmas Fayre, we had a budget of £20 to buy all our resources. We needed to research products and their best prices, and together we needed to calculate how much we will be selling our product for, making sure that we will make a profit. We have been discussing adverting and the use of persuasive devices to help us to promote our product or service.
HWB: #hecanshecan… during health and wellbeing we have been discussing gender stereotyping and respect. We all designed a poster which will be entered into the West Lothian #hecanshecan competition. Through a lot of discussion it was clear that we all agreed that gender equality is important and that all genders require the same amount of respect, but we are also very aware that gender equality is still not happening all the time and that we need to raise awareness and show our respect to all.
PE: Over the last two weeks we have been practicing our athletics skills with Mrs. Reid. Last week Thursday these skills were put to the test at the Cluster Athletics Festival. Mrs. Matos and Mr. Logan were so proud of all the Primary 7 children that took part, it was a fantastic afternoon, where everyone who took part, showed kindness, confidence and resilience. Way to go Primary 7!!
Leadership: During leadership this week we discussed the importance of planning and organization. Mrs. Matos gave each leadership group their own folders and jotters, where we will be keeping a record of all our planning and activities that we do. It is also important that to be a great leader we need to evaluate our leadership skills and activities that we have been doing. We found this a very difficult task to do, but with support from Mrs. Matos and Mr. Logan as well as good communication with our team, we identified our strengths, things that have not gone well and things we would like to improve on.
1+2 French: French with Mrs. Gordon we learnt vocabulary to use when we want to say that something is sore. We would just like to thank Mrs. Gordon for taking the time to teach us in a fun and exciting way each week.
Last week EM took part in a 5k run with her mum. EM brought along her medal and some photos and shared her experience with us. It was her first 5k run so a massive well done to EM and mum too!!
Poppy Factory visit recount writing
Active Spelling- Learning spelling rules boardgame
We’ve had another lovely week in school and nursery. Here is all of our news:
Our assembly this morning was held to celebrate World Kindness Day. We talked about how ‘being kind’ is our core value within school and nursery. We discussed our approach to including everyone and showing respect regardless of skin colour, gender, religion or belief. Anti-racism and anti-discrimination are crucial to our school belief system. We will always educate our children to celebrate differences and be kind to all. We then asked children to do a random act of kindness for another before the morning was finished. It was a day full of love! 💖
Our nursery staff are busy creating a new playroom which we are going to call ‘The Snug.’ This playroom will be like a family living room and will give children a quiet, calming space to play and learn. We are also going to be starting some mindfulness , meditation sessions with our little ones to help them to begin to identify and regulate their emotions. We will keep you posted of further news of The Snug with pictures to follow…
Pupil Achievements:
Lots of children took part in the Supernova fun run at the Kelpies last weekend and here are some of their pictures:
A brilliant effort from H for her Enjoy-a-Ball trophy!
A in P3 is competing in gymnastics at national level. She trains so hard every week (several times!) and we are so proud of her. I saw a video of her training on the bars this week and couldn’t believe that it was one of our children. Well done A!
Well done to R in P3 who came along to show me his lovely art work! What a talented soul!
We have had a lovely time over the past few weeks with Mrs Bain our music specialist.
We were really lucky to get to hold and play some pitched and unpitched percussion instruments to accompany the story of Cinderella. Mrs Bain was really proud of how confidently we did this.
Have a look at us below.
Playing guiros and agogos as Cinderella scrubs the floor.
Playing 2-tone woodblocks as the postman arrives on horseback with the invitation to the ball.
Chime bars ‘twinkle’as the Fairy Godmother turns the pumpkin into a golden coach.
Playing rhythms on tambourines as Cinderella and Prince Charming dance the night away.
This week in Primary 5 we have continued to look at fractions. We have explored equivalent fractions, improper fractions and we have compared and ordered fractions too!
In problem solving we looked at ‘Magic Squares’ and learned why they are magic and how to complete the squares. Ask us how we did this!!
We began our Enterprise Topic this week. We are responsible for making up gift bags for the adults who attend Linlithgow Day Care Centre. We have written letters to ask for donations for the gift bags – have you received yours yet?
In PE we have continued to develop our team building skills, through handball. We have developed skills and played mini-games to assist with this.
In Science, we launched our rockets, with the winning rocket being created by Eilidh O, whose rocket travelled an amazing 36m. Well done Eilidh!
Glow Blogs uses cookies to enhance your experience on our service. By using this service or
closing this message you consent to our use of those cookies. Please read our Cookie Policy.
