P4 had a fantastic trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. We watched the sealion show and learned all about their health and how we can help them by looking after the environment. We got to pet some goats and sheep and we loved how soft they were. We saw lions, an elephant, giraffes and camels. We had a great time playing at the large park and sliding down the bumpy chute. We had a brilliant day out.
Today we had our sports day and what a lovely day for it! We were put into house teams and we all tried really hard to win as many points for our houses as we could at each station. We then had fun taking part in the class egg and spoon and running races. Well done everyone and well done to St Ninians, the winning house.
Today we learned about different medicines and how they can help us to feel better and keep us healthy. We also learned about medicine safety and the importance of reading labels and only taking medicines that are for us. We had a fantastic football session learning to dribble, pass and shoot. We loved the game of football hungry hippos! The school nurses talked about healthy eating and teeth hygiene.
Another fantastic day.
We had a fantastic start to our Health Week. Our day began with some hip hop dancing, we loved learning a dance to Beat It! By Michael Jackson. Then we had a lovely sunny walk to the bowling club in Polbeth. The men were so patient and helped to show us how to play. Some of us found the weighted ball very difficult to use. We all did manage to give it a go. We loved our outdoor play in the trim trail and the s’mores , we had help from Mrs Watson and Miss Lindsay. They were delicious. We toasted the marshmallows over the fire pit and squished it between 2 chocolate digestives, yum! We learned about healthy eating, different food groups and how they help our bodies. In the afternoon we had fun spectating the teachers verses pupils netball game and we all had an ice lolly to top the day off. We had an amazing day.
Well done to our wonderful Primary 4 class who led Mass this morning. We are so proud of you all, you are a credit to the school! Thank you to parents, carers and parishioners who were able to come to Mass this morning, too.
Over the past few weeks P4 have been loving our sessions with the NYCOS choir. We have been learning musical skills through songs and games. We have been learning to keep the beat by singing and passing or bouncing a ball to the beat. We have been learning how to follow hand signals to sing a tune and to sing at the correct pitch. Each hand signal represents a note and we are able to sing a tune following the hand signals. We have also been learning simple note annotation and following a set of pictures. We have really enjoyed our sessions and we are learning so much.
EASTER ASSEMBLY
Thank you very much to all of the parents, grandparents and other family members who came along to our assembly on Friday. There was a fantastic turn out and it was lovely to see so many there! We are so proud of how well our children led the assembly, delivering important messages about Easter. We enjoyed a wee party back in classroom after the assembly to celebrate!
Primary 4 had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day! What a brilliant day! Some photos of us in action…
HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY – Keep reading!
SHARING THE LEARNING
On Friday, we enjoyed having our parents and carers in class to share our learning. Following our activities on World Book Day yesterday, we decided to do some reading with our parents today. So, we brought in our favourite books from home and enjoyed reading with our parents. We then completed a book review detailing our thoughts on the book (or chapter) that we read. We then designed posters for our class library and chose some book related activities.
Bonnie – I designed a character from my favourite book and my dad helped me.
Jessica – I read a chapter from my Harry Potter book and did my book review.
Hudson – I sat in the library with my mum and we read three books! I loved it and I love reading!
Bella – I like brining my favourite book from home but I only read a chapter as it had loads of pages. I’ve got loads of books at home and I liked reading with my mum.
Stella – I liked reading then doing my book review. I gave my book 5 stars because it’s so good.
Jacob – After reading, I designed a character costume.
Damon – I loved reading “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” with my mum and it’s my favourite book because it’s so funny.
Jaxon – I liked when my mum came in and we read my story together.
Ellie – I did a reading word-search with my sister and found all the words. I read a chapter of my book to Jodie.
Karlie – I brought in my favourite Harry Potter book. It’s so special and the pictures in it are so pretty and it makes me want to read it even more.
THANK YOU very much to all the parents and carers for coming along on Friday. Your support is always much appreciated and it’s fantastic for all of the children to share their learning with you.
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Money is one of the concepts we have been learning in Maths. This week, we focused on recognising coins and notes, sorting money, counting and adding amounts and discussing the importance of money and how it affects our lives. We also showed amounts of money using different combinations of coins and we all practised writing amounts of money on the whiteboard.
Next week, we will use iPads and the Smartboard to play different money games and focus on adding pounds and pence to find a total.
Bonnie – Money is really important because it helps you buy things that you want.
Karlie – We all need money to buy things that we need and things that we want.
Peter – I liked writing the pound sign.
Cody – I filled the whole whiteboard by writing lots of money amounts. You shouldn’t write ‘p’ (for pence) if you are writing an amount like £10.50, you only need the pound sign.
Jacob – I could make lots of ways to make £2.75.
Jordyn – I enjoyed sorting the coins and I did it quickly.
Rocco – You can make an amount using different coins.
Alexander – I liked adding the (total) cost of things.
What a lovely day we have had in P4 and we are very lucky to have 2 mums who work very hard in our local community. Mrs McFarlane (Luke’s mum) very kindly let us visit her at her work in the Polbeth Hub where she discussed with us all the ways the hub helps and supports people in the community. We were very jealous of the messy play which was set up for the baby sensory class. We visited the shop in the hub and learned that it is slightly cheaper than other shops and that nothing goes to waste, any leftover fresh food goes to a local farm to feed the animals. We got to choose a book to keep and take home. Thank you!
In the afternoon Miss Campbell (Kiera’s mum) came in to tell us all about her job in our local Scotmid. She explained that it is a very important resource for lots of local people in Polbeth who rely on the shop for lots of essentials and as we learned lots of children in the class regularly get a treat from Scotmid. Scotmid is also an important place where people can go and meet others and have a wee chat with the people who work there. It also advertises lots of information about local groups and things that are going on in the community. We were very interested to see all the keys that are needed to open the shop and the biggest key we have ever seen was for the safe! Miss Campbell very kindly brought us all a little sweet from her work, thank you and thank you for answering all our questions!
