Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Numeracy

This week we finished our work on angles. Everyone was able to identify acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles. We also worked on drawing and measuring angles as well as solving problems with missing angles.  We then moved onto coordinates and direction. We looked at coordinates in all 4 quadrants and were able to name and plot them accurately. To finish off and consolidate our learning we played battleships with a partner.

Literacy

Last week in literacy we started poems with Mrs Lawrie to demonstrate use of abstract and proper nouns. We then used this knowledge to create a poem which also included lots of figurative language. We finished our class novel “Wonder” which we all agreed was really wonderful…and we have started watching the DVD. We are taking notes and next week will write a comparative piece on the novel and film.

French

In French we looked at the names of body parts. We can all now sing “tete, epaules, genous, pieds” (head, shoulders, knees and toes) in French. We wrote a few sentences about a monster and a partner had to draw the monster, some had about 5 heads…Next week we will use our knowledge of body parts to describe when something hurts.

WWII

This week we finished our Propaganda posters where we had to choose a slogan and use persuasive language to convince the audience to do what we needed. We then went on to hear about and research the Blitz. In partners the children picked a British city that was impacted by the Blitz and used the netbooks to find out some key facts. We shall continue our research next week.

Skills for Learning, Life and Work

We had 2 visitors this week : Mr Vereker who told us about his job in rope access, and Mr Matheson who told us about his job as a software writer as well as other software related jobs. Both talks were very interesting, and as with all of these talks, gave the children an idea of the types of jobs that exist that they may not know about.

Have a wonderful weekend, looking forward to seeing you all at the Lion King next week.

Mrs Gordon and P7a

This week we were learning the number names to 20. We played number names bingo, matched the number names to the numerals, practised writing the number words, made a number names graffiti wall and made the number names with our play dough. We also played ‘Teddy Numbers’ on our new Promethean board and matched number names to numerals in our workbooks.

This week we started to learn about money. We looked at all the coins up to £2. We played ‘Dino Day Out’ on Education City, sorted coins into the correct money amounts, played coin bingo and cut out coins and matched them to the correct amount.

This week our new sound was ‘ew’. We made ‘ew’ words on our magnetic boards, made ‘ew’ words with play dough, practised writing ‘ew’ words on our whiteboards, wrote ‘oo’ and ‘ew’ sentences in our literacy jotters and played ‘Matthew’s Stew’ on Education City.

On Thursday we took part in our whole school litter pick. We worked in teams to look for any litter in our school grounds and we used litter picks and bags to collect the litter. We made sure that we washed our hands afterwards and Miss Harrison even made us use hand gel!

This week we have been learning about life cycles as part of our P1 Health and Wellbeing ‘Relationships’ trail. We looked at the life cycle of a frog. We cut out pictures to make our own frog life cycle diagrams and we wrote a sentence about the life cycle underneath. We also played ‘Roll, Say, Colour’ using the frog life cycle, coloured and labelled a diagram and played a frog life cycle game on the Promethean board. On Thursday, we looked at the human life cycle. We drew pictures of what we look like now then we drew pictures of what we think we will look like as an adult and as an elderly person! We also talked about the basic needs of a baby.

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A , Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

In Maths we have been learning how to calculate basic time intervals using the 12 and 24 hour clocks. In addition to this we have also been learning to read different types of timetables and calculating how long it takes to travel from one point to another.  We have also been looking at calendars and discovered they contain number patterns in the months and years.  On Friday we challenged ourselves by taking part in BIG Maths and Multiplication quiz.

In Literacy we wrote imaginative stories, poems, newspaper articles and cartoon strips for our entries into the West Lothian Young Writers competition. We are all keeping our fingers crossed that we will have produced some of the winning entries this year!

In Reading we launched our Literacy Circle Groups and learned about all the different types of roles we will have each week. We are all looking forward to our first circle meeting on Wednesday.

In art we used some of our writing to make fake parchment documents which date back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots.

In Science we started to investigate different types of light sources and how it can be reflected.