Category Archives: Primary 4

Artist Study in P4


As part of our IDL topic of Europe we will look at some famous people from across Europe. This week we started with France and the famous painter Claude Monet. We learned he was born in Paris and was an artist from a young age. He is famous for his impressionist style and we started to study his techniques. We focused on watercolours and we learned 4 techniques which can be used with watercolour paint. Next week we will use those techniques to create a ‘Water Lillies’ picture just like Claude Monet.

Gardening 🧑‍🌾 Club

Today in gardening club we got to use the secateurs. We listened to the safety rules as they are very sharp and strong. We then listened very carefully to how we prune the trees in our school garden. An excellent job completed and the trees are now under control.

We also weeded one of the large planters……weeding again 🤯 and this made us think of how quickly the weeds grow and why it is important to keep on top of them so our vegetables 🌽 and flowers can grow.

we even managed to harvest some.

 

School values – P4

How do you know what your values are? And why bother finding out?

Our Primary 4 stars have been hard at work over the past few weeks and had fun settling into our school routines again!

We have spoken a lot about our School Values and ways that we can demonstrate these around the school and playground.  Our values are so important to every day school life and we are trying really hard to follow these and encourage others to do the same.

Friendship

Safety

Respect & Good Manners 

Perseverance

Trust & Honesty  

Here are some of our thoughts on St. Mary’s School Values

Karlie – I think they are good because they keep us safe and I know them off by heart!

Hudson – Actually, I think they are pretty good.

Bonnie – I like our values and they keep us safe.  Lots of people are good at following them.  Miss Pritchard talks about them at assembly.

Peter – I like them all and I try to do them.

Damon – Our values are good because they keep us safe and it’s a good school.

Cody – The school values are important and every class has them.

Jessica – I think all the values are important because it makes us all feel safe.  The teachers are happy when we follow them, and so are we.

Jaxon – Friendship is a good one because they make you happy.

Cooper – We should have good manners.

Iza – Perseverance is when you try your best and not give up.  It means you should keep going.

Rocco – We talk about the values lots and I try hard to follow them.