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May 26, 2023
by Miss Ventisei
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P5A weekly update: 26th May 2023

Dear parents and families,

We have had yet another super week with lots of lovely sunshine!

Here are some of our class highlights from the week!

Ayden said that his favourite part of the week was going out to do the Daily Mile. It was lovely weather this week so we enjoyed running off some energy on the field! Miss Ventisei also loved racing P5A… she was (marginally!) beaten each time!

Weronika enjoyed learning about Article 15 as part of our Article of the Week. This article relates to freedom of association. We discussed what this means and arranged ourselves around the room to demonstrate our thoughts on the importance of children having plenty of opportunities to meet, spend time together and share ideas. Miss Ventisei was very impressed with the wonderful and insightful reflections offered.

Jacob said he enjoyed R.E. this week. As it is still the month of May we have continued to learn about Mary. This week, we finalised all of our discussions and learning from the month with a blether stations activity. We enjoyed working in pairs to find all of the different blether stations around the classroom.

Eilidh said she enjoyed writing this week. We finalised our exposition writing topic by choosing our favourite piece of writing from the month and typed a finalised edit with lots of uplevelled vocabulary and persuasive language. We did an excellent job!

Julia and Emili said they loved maths! We have been learning about data handling and how we might represent different types of data. We loved sharing some ideas about jobs that use data and charts on a daily basis (we discovered that even teachers use bar charts and tables!!) and created our own on an excel spreadsheet. To gather our data, we listened to a few chart songs and each chose our favourite- Harry Styles was the class winner! Emili said she loved continuing her learning within algebra. We have been solving tricky two-step problems to find ‘x’ and we have loved using games and our favourite ‘question spinning wheel’ on the iPads to help us! Some of us have even made up our own algebra question and answer sheets at home as voluntary additional homework! Well done P5A, I am so proud of you!

Leo said his favourite part of the week was science. We continued our research about the digestive system and we are now well on our way to finishing our information posters!

Lili and Farrah said that they enjoyed learning about the time in Spanish this week! We have been singing along to a very catchy song and rap to help us remember!

Vijval and Dawid enjoyed outdoor learning on Thursday. We worked really hard to prepare the soil and planted lots of wild flowers and plants in our school garden. We can’t wait to see our hard work come to life when the plants and seeds start to grow!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner was Jacob. He received lots and lots of class nominations as a pupil who was demonstrating lots of kindness and helpfulness throughout the week and Miss Ventisei noticed this too! Huge congratulations to Jacob and a big well done also to lots of other pupils who were nominated by their peers.

Thank you for another excellent week P5A, I am so proud of you. Have a lovely weekend (with hopefully more sunshine!).

 

 

May 26, 2023
by Mrs Brown
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P4b weekly blog post 26.05.23

Well done for another very productive week this week P4b.

In maths, we have worked hard with learning about the perimeter and area 0f shapes.

In our RRS lessons, we learnt about Mental health and Freedom of Association.  We some brilliant discussions about this and enjoyed completing some tasks to deepen our understanding.

In literacy, we edited and published our adventure narratives on Word.  We enjoyed typing these up, thinking about how to format our documents and printing them afterwards.

In Spanish, we learnt about different types of Spanish food, how to say these in Spanish and how to express our likes and dislikes.

Highlights:

Ashley- I enjoyed typing our stories onto the computer because we could print them out and will be able to show our parents.

Layla- I liked maths because the finding the area of shapes was easy and fun to do.

Jude- I enjoyed doing PE when we were doing the chaos tig because we were outside.

Matteo- I loved doing maths because I liked finding the area and perimeter of shapes and I also liked singing We sing together (Like the dewfall).

Well done to Layla for being our hot chocolate champion.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

May 26, 2023
by Mrs Ross
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26.05.23 P4a

We have been learning about the mysteries of the Rosary (IS) We looked at the sorrowful mysteries.

We talked about the Last Supper. (BM)

This week we looked children’s rights, we looked at article 24 ‘children should be looked after when they are ill. We looked the things children need, vaccinations, clean water and talked about what is important to live. (SoF)

Miss Kelly told us a story and we learned about Luna’s breathing technique. (EM) We also learned the lazy 8 technique. (IMS)

Miss Kelly is here to learn how to be a teacher. We are helping her when she is teaching us. (DM)

We talked about what makes us healthy and happy. (NK)

We are all excited to have got our permissions slips for the trip. We need to bring them as soon as we can. (AOD)

In PE we have moved from athletics to play summer games because it is getting hotter. (JJ)

A busy week for us all. Congratulations to all the P4 children who have now made their First Holy Communion, we will have a Thanksgiving Mass for them all in June. This week Ailsa became our Reading Champion and Emily won the Hot Choc at Home.

 

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Ross & Miss Kelly

 

 

May 26, 2023
by Miss MacGregor
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P6B Friday the 26th of May 2023

Hello, today the lead learners (Declan and Jude) are writing this weeks blog.

P6B have had a great week, especially on Wednesday the 24th of May, when we went to the woodlands to roast marshmallows around the fire pit. This week we started writing our speeches for house and vice captains for P7. Today, we were learning about discrimination in disability design and discussed how we can be more inclusive.

Here is some highlights from some of the pupils in P6B:

I enjoyed writing an exposition about fun day -Sophia

I liked learning about the disabilities  -Niamh

I loved learning about squared numbers and exploring different patterns- Yaseen

I enjoyed learning about what alcohol can do to your body – Keaghan

I liked doing the drawing objects and making them into living things for the morning starter – Aeryn

I loved going up to the woodlands and roasting marshmallows- Zephaniah

I enjoyed doing stereotypes on the book Piggybook -Vivien

We hope you enjoyed reading this weeks blog. The lead learners and P6B hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Made by Declan and Jude

 

May 26, 2023
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 1A Learning Highlights 26th May 2023

This week we have been reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We had to make a basket with lots of healthy food for Granny so that she could get better. For writing, we made Get Well Soon Cards to cheer Granny up.  The dragon left us a task to sort medicines and things that were not medicines. We had a great discussion about keeping safe with medicines. Our castle books are getting really full now!

In maths, we have been practising our subtraction and time to half past.  We learned about quarters and we made a jam sandwich that we cut into quarters. Then we had a picnic outside. The sandwiches were delicious.

Most afternoons we have been out in the playground for Outdoor Learning and we really enjoyed playing with the bubbles and the toys.

 

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Lillian – I enjoyed making the jam sandwich.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed watching the Emoji movie with Mrs Lea.

Connor – I enjoyed making the card for Granny.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed eating the jam sandwich.

Alexander – I enjoyed playing with the lego.

Joshua – I enjoyed playing in the reading den.

Harald – I enjoyed playing with the bubbles.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of all the P1s when they were sounding out the words for the get well soon cards.

 

Well done to Vasilisa who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week and to Tiya who is our Reading Champion.

 

 

 

 

 

May 26, 2023
by Mrs Meikle
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P1B W/B 22nd May

P1B have all worked very hard this week and have been great role models to our friends in nursery visiting our classroom as part of transition.

Cameron – I liked learning about Little Red Riding Hood.

Owen – We read the story and had to remember its order.

Katie – We learned about the wolf.

Victoria – I liked writing about the wolf.

Enso – We made granny a healthy food basket.

Martyna – We made a card for Granny.

Connor – We read Fe Fi Fo Fum story.

Owen – It was about the wolf, the giant and the beanstalk.

Faye – I liked doing dividing.

Rose – Divide means sharing and they all have the same amount.

Luca – I liked choosing our own learning. I was reading books.

Victoria – I liked playing with the fiddly bands.

Martyna – We played at the MUGA for outdoor learning.

This weeks hot chocolate winner:

We have all day a fun week in school.

 

May 26, 2023
by Mr Pentland
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P6A Update

Successful Learners

Aoife – “I answered questions this week and tried really hard”

Elizabete – “I have tried hard and worked my best to make good notes and ask critical questions”

Nilaya – “I worked well as a group this week and we had fun”

Confident Individuals 

David – “I tried by best and kept my head down. I have been confident in my ability”

Myles – “I was confident when working with a partner and researching the power of yet”

Natalia – “I have asked lots of questions and given really good answers”

Responsible Citizens

Emily – “I have been motivated to learn and inspired others”

Olivier “I showed confidence in numeracy because I have kept trying”

Adam – “I have been helping people with their expositions to become school captain”

Effective Contributors

Emmanuel – “I have been working well in a team and supported people with their work”

Filip – “I worked well in a team. I communicated well and solved problems!”

Sylvia – ” I worked well as a as a partner and in teams all week”

 

Well done to Patrick for going over and above this week! You have helped many of your classmates in their writing and demonstrated your clear skills! Well done!

 

Have a lovely weekend, I’ll see you on Monday!

 

Mr Pentland

May 19, 2023
by Maria Brown
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P2B Week Beginning 15th May

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red Table:

Reesa said the best part of her week was her visit to St Peter’s Church to celebrate ‘Ascension Thursday’, when Jesus ascended into Heaven.  She enjoyed the songs.

Amy has continued to enjoy learning her 5 Times Table.  The children have been learning to make links with division by 5 also.

Emily-Ann has loved art this week.  As part of our topic, Space, the children have been learning about the first moon landing.  We watched it on Youtube  and all pretended to be Neil Armstrong, saying (with an American accent), “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”  Afterwards, we created our own moon landing pictures.  We drew around a circle template, had the choice of using an oil or soft pastel to colour the moon and then using a printing technique, added craters.  Some children created their craters using scrunched up tinfoil and others using bubble wrap.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A

Georgia Rose liked learning body parts in Spanish.  We have been learning about different parts of the body and their functions this term.  The children said they would like to know the names of some body parts in Spanish.  One of these suggestions was ‘bladder’.  There was lots of giggles as they asked if they could go to the toilet to empty their ‘vejiga’ (va-he-ya).

Isabella recounted that she liked learning our new sound ‘ar’ and made links with the planet Mars.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was when we walked home from Church.  The sun was shining and the children were singing hymns.  It was very peaceful!

Congratulations to Eli, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week!

May 19, 2023
by Mrs Brown
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P4b weekly blog post 19.05.23

We’ve had another productive week.

During the first half, we finished our narratives and some of us have started presenting these to the class.  We should be really proud of ourselves for working so hard to include excellent description!!

We also enjoyed learning some more Spanish words.  We revised some greetings and then learnt some new ones.  We loved playing a memory game to help us match up and learn these.

With Mrs Lea this week, we did some art, making personality islands.  We had to draw lines and bubbles, or make family islands or hobbies you enjoyed.  We did this to create an island to build up our personalities.

In maths, we looked at 3D shapes and we learned about the faces, vertices and edges.  We used shapes to explore this information and then we wrote it up.

We were sad in PE this week because it was Miss Heggerty’s and Miss Fee’s last days with us.

Our highlights:

Jonah: I loved PE because we did running, throwing and long jump.

Zac: I liked being the chalk figure model that everyone was aiming onto when they jumped.

Layla: I liked maths because I liked getting the shapes out and investigating them and it was really fun.  I liked going to the church because we sang hymns, and I don’t go to that church so it was my first time.

Dhanvi: I liked PE because it was so fun.  I liked RE too because we learnt about the month of Mary.

Well done to Matteo, our hot chocolate winner this week!

Please remember to do your maths homework on Sumdog.  A lot of us are forgetting each week!

Have a lovely long weekend everyone,

Mrs Brown

May 19, 2023
by Mrs Russell
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P1B Learning Highlights Friday 19th May 2023

Another busy week this week in P1B.  The week started with a letter from a giant asking if we could use his footprints to do some measuring.  We measured and found things that were bigger and smaller that his footprints.  We ordered beanstalks from tallest to smallest and we measured how many beans tall the beanstalks were.  The giant knocked over tables and chairs in our classroom so we made wanted posters for him.  The giant sent us another letter to say sorry for making a mess in the classroom he didn’t mean it.  It was because he was so big.

We read the story of Cinderella.  We sequenced pictures to retell the story.  We designed a pair of shoes sharing gems and drawing items equally between the shoes.  We discussed the role of a fairy godmother and during circle time we spoke about what we would wish for if we had a fairy godmother. We made our own wands.  In writing we used adjective to write sentences about Cinderella.  We designed a ball gown for Cinderella and we made missing posters so the prince could find her.

On Wednesday we went for a visit to the library.  We got to choose our own book to look at.  We were allowed to build things with Lego and we got to draw pictures and colour in.  On the way back to school we got to play in the play park.  We had great fun.

To celebrate Ascension Thursday we went to Mass at St Peter’s on Thursday Morning.  We were celebrating Jesus going up to heaven and we were very well behaved.

This week was Mental Health Awareness week, we spoke about our feelings and how it is ok to have lots of different feelings.  We discussed ways to help us if we feel anxious, sad or worried.

In Spanish we practised counting to 10, the colours and the days of the week.

 

Our Learning Highlights:

Cameron ‘I liked choosing my own learning’

Martyna ‘I liked the story of Cinderella

Faye ‘I liked going to Mass’

Luca ‘ I liked playing in the construction’

Katie ‘I liked going to the library’

Victoria ‘I liked playing in the area’

Connor ‘I liked block play’

Enso and Aaron ‘I liked Church’

Owen ‘I liked measuring’

Rose ‘I liked doing group work’

Well done to Martyna our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely long weekend everyone.

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