October 11, 2019
by Mrs Lea
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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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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 Mr McGurn
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This week for some of our in class maths and as our homework we have been taking part in a National Sumdog Competition.
For this competition we have to try and complete 1000 questions by the 2nd of October. So far the only person in the class that has completed 1000 questions is Andrew.
Zoe
Lead Learner
October 7, 2019
by Mrs Meikle
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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 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!
October 7, 2019
by Maria Brown
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Week Beginning 30.9.19
P1B highlights:
Paige – I liked playing in the woods. I was the ‘negro’ (black in Spanish) group so we were ‘free play this week’.
Zac – My favourite part was cutting out a snowman (linked with our ‘s’ phonics learning).
Amelia – Amelia liked learning about Tiger Ten this week. He was such a show off and thought he was much more clever than all the other animals.
Ishani S – I liked walking around the school outside. I heard cars and aeroplanes (linked to our ‘sense of hearing’ learning).
Mrs Devlin: I especially liked when we learned the actions for the Hail Mary prayer. The children loved it and wanted to say the Hail Mary a lot this week. If you wanted to practise it at home, the actions are as follows:
Hail Mary, (Lift your right hand pointing to the sky.)
Full of grace, (Lift your left hand pointing to the sky.)
The Lord is with you. (Bring your hands down folded near your heart.)
Blessed are you among women, (Take your right hand and sweep it across your body pointing to all the girls in the group around you.)
And blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus. (Pretend you are rocking a baby in your arms.)
Holy Mary, (Lift your right hand pointing to the sky.)
Mother of God, (Lift your left hand pointing to the sky.)
Pray for us sinners, (Bring your hands down folded near your heart.)
Now (Point down to the ground with both hands.)
And at the hour of our death. (Point to a pretend watch on your wrist.)
Amen. (Bring hands together folded near your heart.)
October 7, 2019
by Miss Stebbing
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This week we have celebrated Maths Week Scotland. We have been doing lots of different maths activities and thinking about how we use maths in real life. We also decorated numbers to make a display for the Creation Story as we have been looking at this during RE.
Here are some of our personal learning highlights from this week.
Caleb – I enjoyed playing the Brain Box games this week at Activity Zones.
Natalia – I liked making the pictures with the Tangrams. I made a cat.
Josh – I liked when we were doing numbers in sign language and when we made the maths fortune tellers.
Daisy – I liked making the numbers for the windows for the Creation Story.
Adam – I liked playing Sumdog on the laptops.
Marriyah – I liked when we were doing our Free Writing Friday jotters.
Patrick – I liked doing our numbers in Spanish.
Inaya – I liked going on the computer to play spin to win.
Sam – I liked when we did the fortune tellers and when we made the tangrams.
Myles – I liked when I was helping other people make the fortune tellers and the Tangrams.
Emily – I liked making the numbers for the Creation Display.
Elizabete – I liked making the numbers and fortune tellers.
Edin – I liked making the fortune tellers.
Miss Stebbing – I was proud to see all the P3A pupils working together during our Maths Week activities. Great teamwork!
October 7, 2019
by Mrs Lea
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Primary 6 participated in the Cross Country competition with enthusiasm and determination. Well done everyone!
A special congratulations to Faryl Collins who came second in the girl’s race and Elias Murphy who came third in the boy’s race.
October 7, 2019
by wlbeth.wong@glow
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In P4a, we have been working very hard.
Curriculum areas and subjects
In Maths, we were rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. Some people tried to round to the nearest 10 and 100 beyond 1000 thousand and they enjoyed the challenge.
We also measured in cm using rulers. We had the challenge of measuring the length of different sizes of leaves. We also wrote our name and had to measure the length of each line.
Interdisciplinary learning
We got to make parachutes! We had different materials to choose from to make the parachute. We had a toy figure to test out our parachute. We had to work in teams and it was a tricky challenge. We had to persevere and work well together.
The ethos and life of the school
On Friday we had Mass. We learnt about Saint Francis. We learnt that he lived in Italy 900 years ago.
Father Simon asked us to look after the world and one way we can do that is to pick up litter.
We also sang different hymns (Follow me, Colours of day dawn, Bind us together and all that I am) and prayed.
Opportunities for personal achievement
Alessio- ‘I have gotten better at measuring using a ruler. I am also proud of my story I have written this week.’
Jakub- ‘I am proud of my effort when making the parachute.’
Lily- ‘I have gotten better at handwriting as I can join letters together.’
Lastly, thank you Jaagruti, Zara and Emily for showing us your medals.
October 7, 2019
by Mrs Robson
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Last week we had a lot fun. On Monday we did some fun maths,we revised how to do chimney sums/upstairs downstairs sums. We also did super spelling and fun activities. On Tuesday we had PE to train for our Cross Country on Wednesday.
On Wednesday we did our Cross Country it was hard but we had fun. On Thursday we had PE in the afternoon,we played dodge ball and then we had Spanish.On Friday we had a school mass in the hall and after break we went out to the woodlands and did fun activities.
From the Lead learners
Carla and Viktoria
