Welcome back after our October holiday. I swear the children have grown! Despite our short week, we have been busy bees! Here are our learning highlights from the Blue Table:

Blair said the best part of his week was meeting our special friend, ‘Even the Owl’. Even only likes to eat numbers that end in 2, 4, 6, 8 or 0. He thinks the others taste too odd! A bit like eating stinky socks! We sang a song to the tune of ‘Bingo’ were the lyrics were, “There was a farmer had an owl, and Even was his name oh. 2, 4, 6, 8, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 0 and Even was his name Oh!” If the children sang the song very well, then Even jumped really high at “Oh!” We had a competition to see if the girls or the boys sang it the best. It was a draw!

Karina shared that she loved the Even and Odd hunt around the school. The children worked with a partner to find numbers within their environment. They then had a chat to decide if it was Even or Odd and then wrote it in the right column on their worksheet. They discovered numbers all over the school….on microwaves, on clocks, on posters, on photocopiers, on classroom doors are to name a few. Super teamwork everyone!

Sofia enjoyed making her Morph animation on the StopMotion app. We are now concluding our topic of ‘When our Grandparents were Young’. Look out for our homework interview task on Seesaw next week where the children will be invited to interview a grandparent (or relative of that age) and learn more about life when they were young. If you need extra time for this homework task then this is not a problem. It will remain on Seesaw for a few weeks.

Lilly said her highlight was when we decorated our grandparent templates using material to give them clothes. We saw some lovely scarves and waistcoats for our grandparents!

Eli recounted that hearing ‘Stick Man’, our Word Boost story, was the best part of his week. He liked the word ‘Chuckle’ best.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was listening to some 70s music. Some songs included hits from The Bay City Rollers, The Beatles and Abba.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

October 21, 2022
by Miss Ventisei
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P5A Weekly Update: W.c. 17th October 2022

Primary 5 have had a wonderful start to the new term this week!

This term our interdisciplinary topic will be focused around Enterprise. We are all so excited to be creating our own products and selling these at our very own stalls in December. As part of this, we are currently focusing our maths topic around money. This week we had great fun engaging in lots of money games, challenges and practical activities! The children enjoyed their learning so much that they even created their own shop and gave Miss Ventisei and some other customers a set budget to spend there. We had lots of fun working together and built upon so many new skills too. During our morning challenges this week we have also been practicing our counting in steps of 12-25. Each morning our groups all had a different concrete material to work with and we’ve enjoyed watching all of the different ways that we can represent the same thing. Well done P5!

Throughout our literacy lessons this week we have been recapping and furthering our knowledge of alliteration. We started our week off by looking at some uses of alliteration in advertising (this tied in really well with our Enterprise topic!) and created our own company names and taglines for different products using alliteration. Leo was particularly proud of his tagline for a baked beans company- “the best baked beans in the beaniverse!”. On Thursday we used our knowledge of alliteration to create our own spooky Halloween poetry. We created an acrostic poem and made sure to use alliteration in every single sentence!

Whilst the weather this week hasn’t been great, we still braved some drizzle and ventured outdoors for Daily Mile and outdoor learning! We went on an autumn leaf hunt in our playground and collected at least 5 different types of leaves each. When we returned to the classroom, we used a key to figure out the type of leaves we each had and we were so shocked to discover how many different types of trees we have in our school garden! We also noticed that some leaves had some black dots on and so we researched why and how this had happened.

This week we were discussing poverty. We had lots of really mature class conversations about poverty and its impact upon mental, social and physical wellbeing, education and relationships with family and friends. Our class strongly believed that children’s rights are not being protected and respected where children are living in poverty. We decided to create our own posters to communicate our own thoughts and messages about this issue. Miss Ventisei was so proud of the empathy, maturity and kindness displayed by the pupils.

On Friday we loved playing lots of fun games with Mrs Lafferty during P.E. We also really enjoyed having some time to get creative in the creation station and construction area.

Thank you for another wonderful week P5, have a lovely weekend!

October 21, 2022
by Mrs Brown
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Primary 4B weekly blog 21st October 2022

We’ve had a very short yet lovely and productive week this week!

We played Musical Corners in PE yesterday. We love PE and this was a real highlight!

We are learning about time still in maths. We have been converting between analogue and digital times (to the nearest minute) and we are becoming much more confident at doing this. Mrs Brown has suggested we practise this at home with our families too, particularly when converting an analogue time that is ‘to’ the hour. Today, we applied our understanding through learning about am and pm. We enjoyed our discussions about midday and midnight.

In literacy, we are continuing with our procedures work and we are continuing to learn about inventors and inventions in topic. Next week, we are going to design and construct our own invention. We have been asked to bring in clean, recyclable objects to use for this (but nothing that has held strawberries, kiwis or nuts). If we have any spare pots, tubs, boxes etc, can we please have them to share in our ‘junk bank’. Please can we bring these into school before Tuesday 25th October. Thank you!

Here are some highlights of this week:

Emily- I enjoyed maths.

Daisy Dee- I enjoyed drawing when we compared the 1920’s to today.

Matteo- I really enjoyed doing the midday and midnight work.

Markuss: I liked learning about time.

Khael: I enjoyed writing and maths.

Ishani S and M: I liked doing PE because we got to do Halloween Corners.

Daniel M: I enjoyed Free Writing Friday.

Please can the children bring their reading books back on Monday if they haven’t done so already. Please can they also bring in their homework books for Monday. Spellings will be given out on Monday and the children should be writing these into their homework books. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend everyone. I have loved seeing you all back at school again after the holidays and look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Mrs Brown

October 21, 2022
by Mrs Ross
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P4a 21.10.22

A lovely week back after our break. Everyone has been rested and ready to learn. Some great work was done over he break from a dedicated finger knitters. Please post photos on TEAMS if you can. Show off your hard work!

We have learned more about household inventions and today we decided which appliances we felt were important and why.(AM)

We learned about routine from Roger the routine rooster as part of Wellbeing Wednesday. We learned that routine helps us know what to do to get ready for the day or for night time. (SF)

We talked about our different routines for morning and night. (SF) We also talked about good and bad habits when trying to get a good nights sleep.

In PE we played musical statues and corners. Lots of dancing (JJ)

We went on the laptops to play Sumdog. (JJ)

We are hoping to have a creative day next week and use recyclables to build some inventions. If you have any spare pots, tubs, boxes etc can we please have them to share in our ‘junk bank’, then please bring into school before Wed 26th October.

We will be back to normal with homework on Monday. Reading, spelling and numeracy.

October 21, 2022
by Mrs Meikle
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P1B 21st October 2022

It was lovely to see all our friends again this week after the October holiday. Although it was a short week, we have managed to squeeze a lot of good learning and play into our days in P1B.

We have been learning the letter and sound ‘a’ this week. We started to blend our learned sounds together to make words, we were all very excited that we could sound out, build and read words.

Cameron – I liked colouring in an apple.

Owen – I liked using m to make words.

We have been adding up to 10 this week and enjoyed using the Ipads to do our task on Seesaw.

Connor – I liked using the Ipads.

Martyna/Owen – I liked counting conkers.

Outdoor learning this week was based on the book ‘Leaf Man’ because we have been learning about seasons. We collected our own leaves and made a leaf man in the playground for the wind to blow away on an adventure. We all know what trees look like in the different seasons.

Faye – I liked making leaf man.

Rhain – I liked leaf man.

Azmeer – I like it when leaves fall off trees.

Owen – I like picking leaves off the ground.

October 21, 2022
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 1A Learning Highlights 21st October 2022

This week we learned the sound ‘a’. We have been practising the vowel house story and we are getting good at remembering the sounds for each part. We were spelling out words and had to hit the sounds in the correct order. It was lots of fun!

In maths, we have been looking at facts for 5 and we were able to give lots of examples. We have also been looking at our dot patterns and had to say it quickly before it disappeared!

We have started our new Topic all about Space. We are looking forward to learning about the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets.

In Art, we made Autumn trees using paints and cotton buds. They look very beautiful. We also went outside and collected lots of leaves from the tree in the nursery garden. We then made our own leaf man and watched the wind take it away on an adventure.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joshua – I enjoyed playing with the cars.

Olga – I enjoyed writing.

Harald – I enjoyed playing with the trains.

Summer – I enjoyed hearing the Leaf Man story.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing.

Alexander – I enjoyed making the Leaf Man and it did not blow away.

Miss Stebbing – I loved reading the Leaf Man story and seeing all the wonderful Leaf Men made with the leaves outside. I was also very impressed with how hard everyone tried to read and write words during Literacy Time.