November 24, 2023
by wlsofia.valente@glow
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P5A – WB 20.11.23

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

The highlights this week were the following:

Our Science lessons, during which we have been learning about the off-shore floating wind turbines as some of the best sources of renewable energy. They are becoming more and more common, particularly in Scotland, and continue being improved everyday to become even more efficient. While learning about them we have also tried to make our own wind turbines and make them float, which was quite a challenge! After many different tries, and having discussed all about the balance between the top of the wind turbine (in our case a plastic propeller), and the bottom of the wind turbine, (in our case a bit of blue-tak with some metal washers attached) we have managed to succeed! Our conclusion was that weight is of the utmost importance when balancing the blades with the structure in order for it to float so it must definitely be very hard for engineers to calculate it, but also very interesting, of course!
The learning with money continues and we are now adding different amounts of money to prepare ourselves for the Enterprise, when we will be needing to sell our products and calculate how much we have to be paid.
The writing this week was a report of the wind turbine experiment and we found it a bit hard to describe all the failed attempts so Mrs Valente has allowed us not to have to write about all the failed attempts but only about some!😄
We have started practising our Scottish dances with our friends from P5B and have had a great time! It was amazing to see how well we did with just one session!
Our RRS learning was related to the ABCDE of the Rights: All – Universal; BIRTH – inherent, CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY – inalienable; DON’T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO HAVE THEM – unconditional and EQUALLY IMPORTANT – indivisible.
We have also learned about St. Margaret of Scotland, her life as the queen of this country and why she has became a saint and one of the patron saints of Scotland. We all thought she must have been a lovely person and have very generously and kindly prayed a Novena asking her to intercede to God and cure Mrs Valente’s Mummy. 😃
We would like to congratulate Baibua for being our Rights Respecting School Poster Challenge winner with her beautiful poster against littering! Well done, Baibua!👏👏👏👏👏🏆 Baibua was also chosen as the Middle Area winner so we should congratulate her twice! Well done again!🥇
That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing all a good weekend! Mrs Valente and P5A😘

November 24, 2023
by Mrs Brand
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Week beginning 20/11/23 – P2 Weekly Highlights

Hello Families of P2

This week the children had a great time getting everything ready for their fantastic assembly. We designed kindness posters, created Scotland flags, learned some Scottish dancing and worked as a team to build St Andrew’s fishing boat.

The children were all amazing performing in the assembly. They loved taking part and were all so proud. Thank you to everyone who came along to watch and take part in the fun activities.

Highlights

Everyone – We loved doing our assembly.

Vasilisa – I liked making my kindness poster.

Faye – I loved doing my seesaw work.

Azmeer – We learned the ‘ai’ sound and practised writing words with this sound.

Cameron – I liked learning the ‘zz’ sound.

Layla – I drew a bee for ‘buzz’.

Last week we all created posters to encourage people not to litter. These were entered into our Rights Respecting School competition. Huge congratulations to Faye, who won this competition with her beautiful poster design. Well done Faye!

Huge Congratulations to Alexander, our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend!

November 24, 2023
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 1 Learning Highlights 24th November 2023

This week we have been practising for our Nativity performance. We are very good at singing all the songs and saying the lines we need to. We all now have our parts and we are looking forward to practising in the hall next week.

In maths, we have been learning different strategies for addition. We can use our finger patterns, a numberline and we have learned to keep a number in our head and count on. We also learned the number bonds for 8 and 9.

In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘h’ and ‘u’. We have been practising building words with the magnetic boards and trying hard to remember the middle sound. In writing, we wrote a sentence about a cat in a hat. We used our common words and tried to sound out and write the words.

Well done to Lewis who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winnner!

November 24, 2023
by Miss Duddy
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P4b Learning highlights 24th November

This week Primary 4 have had fun doing spelling, dancing and topic.

Our spelling pattern this week was ‘ur’ and we made sure to get lots of practice at spelling words with the ‘ur’ pattern.

For our numeracy this week we focussed on subtraction using the column method and introduced borrowing/exchanging.

We wrote spells this week for our writing which will be going into a spell book we are making for our magic castle.

In PE we have been doing party dances and country dancing. On Thursday we teamed up with p4a and learned a new dance. Everyone had lots of fun and it was great to see everyone participating.

In our RE this week, we learned a bit about St Andrew in preparation for St Andrews day this week.

We have started to create our half castle, half Christmas door for our class and the kids had lots of fun. We split up into 5 groups with each group having a group leader who took responsibility in making sure everyone in their group knew what they were doing and kept everyone busy and working hard. Making our door involves a lot of different parts which each group is responsible for making, so it is important that our group leaders keep the groups on task and working hard. They all did an excellent job of this and everyone enjoyed starting the door. I have included some pictures of the kids all working hard on each different part of it.

Our Owlry is almost done and Mrs Ross along with the kids have been working hard to make the panels for our walls.

We went to mass today with primary 3 and the children in p4b were all excellent and set a great example for Primary 3 to follow, Mrs Ross and myself were very proud of them.

Well done to our secret student winner Haadiya!

Well done to our hot chocolate winner Rowan!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and get lots of rest before our exciting week coming up,

Miss Duddy.

November 24, 2023
by Miss MacGregor
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P6A- Dynamic Earth Trip!

Hello it’s Lili and Farrah,

We all had a blast at dynamic earth. We learned lots and were involved in different activities. We touched a huge iceberg and visited a room with shaky floors which were pretend earthquakes during the formation of Earth. We even went back in time by 8 billion years! We did a workshop and got to make tornados using two bottles and some coloured water, we also had to find meteors and compare them with rocks. We explored volcanic rocks too.
We got to watch a 3D movie which took us on a journey through different climates and we saw a range of living species.

Over all we had a great time and really enjoyed ourselves!

Have a great weekend

November 23, 2023
by Mrs Lea
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Primary 4A Learning Highlights 23/11/23

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 4A have had a creative week with lots of interesting learning activities.

In Literacy, we produced some amazing descriptive writing based on ” The Magic Castle.” We plan to display it on the great wall, when our classroom is transformed into a castle!

In Numeracy, we continued to develop our knowledge of subtraction. We enjoyed sharing our strategies for subtracting two digit numbers during our number talks.

Primary 4 worked collaboratively with a partner to make owls for our Magic Castle display.

In Outdoor Learning, we made shields and coats of arms using natural materials from the woodlands.

We started learning our dances for our Christmas party with Primary 4B and we all thought it was great fun!

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 4A

November 19, 2023
by Miss Duddy
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P4b Learning highlights 17th November

This week primary 4 have had a fun and creative week!

In literacy, we have been focussing on the OO spelling pattern and did some fun active strategies to help learn them.

In numeracy, primary 4 have been focussing on the commutative law where we have learned that when we add numbers together, it doesn’t matter which order we add the numbers in, we will get the same answer every time.

In our PE we have started to prepare for our Christmas party doing party dances.

We have written invitations for our magic castle, and started making preparations to turn our classroom into a castle. The invitations were written for the children in the class as well as the kids siblings in the school and some other teachers. We wrote these on the laptops during our technology time then we used tea to stain them into looking like old parchment paper, the children did an amazing job and had lots of fun doing it. We also painted owls to carry our invitations to their recipients!

Well done to our hot chocolate winner Amelia!

Well done to our secret student winner Cohen!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Duddy

November 18, 2023
by Maria Brown
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P3A Week Beginning 13th November

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Diana and Laura said the best part of their week was making our new role-play jewellery making shop. Our previous cinema was not getting as many visitors so we decided to change it and the next most popular vote was a jewellery shop. A group who was interested in making this, including Diana and Laura, had a £10 budget. They worked together to shop on Amazon for beads and elastic string. They calculated what was too expensive and what items totalled their £10. Their shop sign looks very sparkly and I’m sure they will get lots of visitors to their shop.

Riley loved football with Miss White on Thursday.

Vivien’s highlight was teaching the class how to draw a house using one pencil movement. You were not allowed to lift the pencil from the page. She started it off as a challenge. She showed the children what she wanted them to draw and they practised it on whiteboards. It was so tricky! Even Mrs Brown could not do it! In the end, she revealed the steps. Thank you Vivien for this super problem-solving lesson!

Linda loved the story from our ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags called ‘The Worry Tiger’. In this story, Rory came out of his den to discover a jungle had grown in his bedroom! We decided we wanted to transform our classroom into a jungle too! Mrs Brown already had lots of vines so the children drew different jungle animals and put them all around the room.

Hasika said that her learning highlight was note taking. For our writing this week, we continued to examine description writing. As an extension to ‘Honey Bees’, we had a choice of writing about a ladybird or a dragonfly. The children watched a short documentary piece on each and while they did, they jotted down some notes which would support them when they came to write their own descriptive piece. What fascinating creatures these bugs are!

Aadya also enjoyed writing a descriptive piece about ladybirds. She included all of the features: title, introduction, characteristics and evaluation. Well done Aadya!

Angel absolutely loved playing bench ball! We finally moved on to playing this game after acquiring all the skills needed. The score was 3-0. We look forward to game two on Monday!

Olivia liked creating a piece of art called ‘Circles’ that Diana showed everyone how to do. It involved drawing around various sized circles that overlapped and colouring each section a different colour. Everyone managed to draw their circles and has made a start on the colouring. To be continued…

My highlight was watching the confidence of the two young ladies, Diana and Vivien as they delivered their lesson to the class. As the class carried out the tasks, they went around supporting. This has sparked the interest of some others who want to teach the class something too! Some future teachers in the making perhaps?

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Regards

Mrs Brown

November 17, 2023
by Mrs Lea
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Primary 4A Learning Highlights 17/11/23

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week has been another busy week for Primary 4! We have completed book reviews on our class novel as part of world book week. Primary 4 have been learning how to create their own questions based on the novel to ask other children in the class. Our litter posters were completed and handed into to Mrs Miller! Congratulations to Isabel who was chosen as the winner from our class, we all thought her poster was amazing! In Literacy, we have been writing our own rhyming poems and will type them up next week during technology. We have been making owls using a paper curling technique as part of our Magic Castle topic. We are all working hard to contribute to our class display.

Here are some of our learning highlights:

Emily and Julia- ” We really enjoyed making the owls for the owlery”

David S and Zosia- ” Creating our own poems was fun! ”

Kayla- ” I enjoyed are active spelling activities this week.”

Paige- ” I enjoyed learning about the good Samaritan Bible story.”

Congratulations to Joe who was our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 4

November 17, 2023
by Miss MacGregor
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P6A – Friday 17th Nov

Hi all,

This week we have a had a big focus on reading for Book Week and had purposeful discussions for Anti-Bullying week. On Monday we watched an Authors Live about World Environmental Day – we talked about the different ways we could be more sustainable. We have also written book reviews and enjoyed regular opportunities to take part in ERIC.

Our theme for Anti-Bullying week was how to stand up and make noise against bullying and we had discussions about how not to be a ‘bystander’.

For RE, we have been looking at heritage and identity and will continue this next week and create our own family trees.

Our class highlight was having the first run through of our Burns performance – we all did a fantastic job, well done again!

Have a great weekend,

Miss MacGregor