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October 25, 2019
by Miss Stebbing
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P3A Learning Highlights Week Beginning 21st October 2019

This week we have been learning about animals in the Rainforest. We were pretending to be Howler Monkeys!  We have also been learning about adding and taking away with 2 digit numbers and saying all our strategies. In PE we had a football coach to work with us.

Here are some of our learning highlights from this week.

Marriyah – I liked when we were drawing the animals from the Rainforest.  It helped me think about the layers of the Rainforest.

Grant – I liked drawing a snake.  I used the oil pastels and my hands didn’t get messy.

Aoife – I liked doing the football. I learned different exercises for listening.

Joshua – I liked when I drew my tree frog and I got to go to show Mr McGurn and P7b.  I got theee stickers.

Emily – I tried my best to draw the bird with the oil pastels.  I did a good job.

Edin – I really liked to draw my snake.

 

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of the whole class when they were drawing their Rainforest animals because everyone concentrated and tried their best.  No one gave up or said “I can’t do this!”

 

October 21, 2019
by wlbeth.wong@glow
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P4a Learning Highlights

Here is some information about what we got up to before the October holidays.

Curriculum areas and subjects   

In Handwriting, we were practising writing e, l, b and h. The lesson helps us to improve our handwriting.

In Maths, we were learning about 3D objects. We learnt the names of the 3D objects. We also did some challenges. The first challenge was to use the nets of 3D objects to create the shapes. The second was to make 3D objects out of straws and plasticine. The last one was to make 3D objects out of construction toys. It was a bit tricky but it was fun!

Interdisciplinary learning

We were learning about needs and wants. We were cutting and sticking all the things we need, e.g., education, clothes, shelter and clean water, on one page and things we want on the other, e.g., bikes and designer clothes.

The ethos and life of the school

Emily- ‘I have enjoyed our ERIC time. In the morning, we get to read a book to help us calm down so we are ready to learn.’

Alessio- ‘We won the playground reward which meant we got to play outside before break time. We got to play football, listen and dance to songs and play with the toy box.’

Riley- ‘I got to play football and I scored 10 goals! The score was 10-2.’

Opportunities for personal achievement

Nellie- ‘I am proud of my picture I drew when we were making a friendship poster.’

Lewis- ‘I am proud of my effort when rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.’

Zahra- ‘I am proud of us winning the playground reward and dancing to the Macarena.’

Millan- ‘I am proud of my maths because I am starting to get better at rounding to the nearest 100.’

 

October 11, 2019
by Miss Stebbing
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P3A Learning Highlights (w/b 7th October)

This week in maths we have been learning about the greater than, less than, equal and not equal to symbols.  Ask us all about these!  We have been doing comprehension and the story was about a birthday present.  In topic we were making Rainforest leaves and we learned the names of the four layers. They are the emergent layer, the canopy layer, the understory layer and the forest floor.

 

Here are some of our individual learning highlights from this week.

Marriyah – We learned about the Joyful Mysteries in RE.

Daisy – I liked when we made the leaves.

Sylvia – I liked when we made the leaves.  I used pink and blue to make mine.

Olivier – I liked doing the numbers in maths.

Josh – I liked when we were learning the alphabet in Spanish. It was quite tricky.

Aoife – I liked when we sang the Continents song again to help us remember.

Sam – I liked when we did the leaves.  We had to pay really close attention to the instructions.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of P3A’s writing this week. They remembered the main details of the How to be a Viking story and use great vocabulary in their work! Well done everyone.

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October 11, 2019
by Mrs Robson
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P6A Earthquake Proof buildings

This week P6A used jelly beans, toothpicks and marshmallows and we built structures to see if they could hold while we shook the table.  This was to see if the structure was strong enough to hold itself and we shook the table so it was like an earthquake.

All of the structures have successfully stood up without falling.  Primary 6A have shown they are fantastic architects!

Lead Learner – Andrew

October 11, 2019
by Mrs Lea
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P6B design earthquake proof buildings .

Primary 6 designed earthquake proof buildings as part of our Extreme Earth topic. We worked in pairs to create a design brief before building our models. The buildings had to be at least 30cm high and withstand a 30 second shake test !¬ We had great fun and everyone enjoyed working as part of a team.

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By Srikar  and Elias  Primary 6B

 

October 7, 2019
by wlbeth.wong@glow
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P4a Learning Highlights

Curriculum areas and subjects

In Maths, we really enjoyed rounding numbers. We learnt how to round to the nearest 10 and started to learn how to round to the nearest 100. We made a poster to demonstrate our understanding of how to round to the nearest 10.

Interdisciplinary learning

For our Inventors and Invention topic, we got to draw an invention which we would like to create.

Katie- ‘My invention is called Mac. It brings you your clothes to put on.’

Alessio- ‘My invention is called the Robot Sock. It helps to keep your socks tight so that you do not get bumps when walking.’

Monty- ‘My invention is Quit it! It makes your dog stop biting.’

Ruqayyah- ‘My invention is called the Blame. It helps you to stop walking to your living room to shut the blinds. You can download the app and just press the button on your phone then it will close.’

The ethos and life of the school

We had our first house group meeting. Each house had one of our school values to explore.

Katie- ‘My group, which is St. Cuthbert, made posters about teamwork. We were allowed to work on our own, twos or threes.’

Joshua- ‘I worked with Logan and we made a poster about trust.’

Jack- ‘My group, St. Cuthbert, made a poster about listening to each other.’

Opportunities for personal achievement

We had a discussion about how we have improved in our learning and skills this week.

Lewis- ‘I have gotten better at rounding to the nearest 10 this week.’

JJ- ‘I have gotten better at handwriting.’

Well done to Carmen who has gotten better at riding her bike without stabilisers.

Lastly, thank you Monty for sharing your fantastic robot that you made at home.

October 7, 2019
by Mrs Meikle
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P4B Maths Challenge Week

This week we have been undertaking lots of Maths challenges.

We had to design and make a bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross the river. We could only use 15 straws and selotape. It had to hold the weight of a rubber and cross a river that was 40cm wide.

Olly – I really liked making the bridges because it was a challenge for us.

We also learned about measure and used rulers, measuring tapes and metre sticks to measure different things around the classroom.

Liam – I liked measuring around the classroom because it was fun.

Our final challenge this week was to work in pairs to design and make a maths game. There was lots of good discussion over possible themes and great excitement when making the game board.

Sophie – I liked designing the game because I love drawing.

October 7, 2019
by Mrs McLaughlin
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P7a Maths Week Scotland

P7a had great fun during maths week Scotland. We ventured outside to take part in a numeracy scavenger hunt, build some free standing 3D structures and completed an orienteering challenge with some tricky numeracy questions at each point on the map!

Whilst in class, we took part in some problem solving and even acted as detectives and solved a murder mystery!

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