At St Mary’s we are very proud of Karlie, Jaxon, Bonnie and Jessica who made the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Saturday. It was a lovely service with Mass celebrated by Father Marcin. It was a very special night for the children and their families.
We had a party to celebrate this very special Sacrament. We had cake, sweets, dancing and games.
Children’s Mentql Health Week was 5th to 11 February.
P1 M learned how music can make us feel calm. excited , happy and sad. We listened to some exciting music and showed off our dance moves then we listened to some very relaxing music and had some lovely chill time.
We practised listening to the sound of our breath to help us relax and feel nice and calm.
This week we learned the story of Noah and the Ark and the song The Animals Went In Two by Two,
We have been very busy learning a Scots poem – My Wee Rid Motor and a song -Heid , Shooders, Knaps and Taes this week . We performed them at our Scots Poetry recitals. We were all amazing and everyone won a special certificate for taking part.
Have a great holiday everyone.
We are looking forward to our half term break after having another busy week of learning.
This week we have been using our concrete materials and blending our maths and engineering skills to revise our knowledge on place value by building the best castle using our dean’s materials. We then counted our materials to reach the total amount used.
We have finished our WW1 topic this week by completing our own projects on a specific area of WW1 (The Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II, The Battle of Marne and The Battle of the Somme). We then created a lesson to teach the rest of the class about our topic and planned a short activity to assess the rest of the class of what we had taught them. Our activities included 2 truths and a lie, a Kahoot, an interactive board game and a quiz. We were surprised how much we enjoyed hosting a lesson.
We had the pleasure of working with Primary 2 this week where we learned all about Chinese New Year which takes place on Saturday 10th February. As this year is the year of the dragons we worked together to create our own colourful dragons. We had a great time doing this. Don’t you think they are amazing? We do! We can wait to come back and work with Primary 2 again, thanks for having us Primary 2!
We have had a busy week learning and revising out burns poems in preparation for our burns competition. Well done to the Winner.
Have a great holidays Primary 7. I look forward to seeing everyone when we return. Be safe.
Well done to Aine in P6 who won the Scots Poetry Competition with her recital of The Puddock by John M. Caie. Aine won the shield and was awarded with it by the Robert Sorbie’s daughters who were the guest judges. The standard was incredibly high and everyone who made the final did a great job! It was a very enjoyable event!
This week we had the opportunity to use our problem solving and coding skills with the Bee-Bots. We gave our Bee-Bot a sequence of instructions to navigate around the classroom. We had to be confident with left and right and work out directions for the Bee-Bot to follow.
Once we were confident with the basic coding instructions we then used maps where we could navigate the Bee-Bots around the roads.
We have really enjoyed learning about famous artists this year. As our IDL topic is a Scottish focus we wanted to learn about a famous Scottish artist. We learned about Gillian Kyle who is a textile designer. She is greatly inspired by all things Scottish. We learned that she was born in Renfrewshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. She creates designs for products such as aprons, cushions and table mats. She takes her influence from lots of Scottish products such as Tunnocks Teacakes, Caramel Wafers, Irn Bru and haggis. We used Scottish products and looked at the design of their packaging and then created a piece of art in the style of Gillian Kyle.
P1 M have had another very busy week.
Our topic is’ Where we live’ so we have been learning about places in Scotland and about places in Polbeth .
Hamish Mc Haggis has been to Edinburgh so we found out where he visited and used Google Maps to take a peek at where Hamish was. He visited the castle and went to the Tattoo !
Here we are drawing our houses and painting models of them.
We are learning all about adding numbers together so we played Snakes and Ladders to help up count on and add. It was great fun !
We also jumped around to the music, then we had to land on certain numbers.
At the end of our busy week we did some Mindfulness ! We really enjoyed listening to the music, watching the lights making gentle cloud shapes and relaxing our bodies. We learned how nice it is to feel calm and relaxed.
” I like the relaxing” AB
“Listening to the sounds is good fun” JB
“I want to do the music again”
Here is a link to try out at home
Have a lovely weekend everyone
Mrs Moffat.
Another busy week in Primary 7 with lots of new learning.
We started the week with some problem solving maths challenges where we had to work in teams to solve the problems we were presented with. Some of these included
– Can you change 1 stick to solve the equation?
– Can you fill the cup up with exactly 4 litres of water. You only have a 5 litre cup and a 4 litre cup, how will you do this?
– Can you cut an A4 sheet of paper so it has a hole big enough to fit 2 people through?
We were successful in all our tasks.
We have been using digital frequently in our class for research challenges and presentations. This left us asking “What is a reliable website?”
“How can we trust this information from this website?”.
We then completed a research projected on The Pacific North West Tree Octopus which we were upset to learn was a completely fake website. This made us realise not all information we find on the internet is trustworthy. We will now be more careful with the information we read on the internet.
We have now started our new writing topic of narrative writing and poems. In preparation for this we have been looking at direct speech. We have discussed the direct speech rules and practised our direct speech skills to translate texts from some known characters. Check out our work below.
We celebrated burns day on the 25th January with some Scottish songs, poems, and art tasks. We used our digital skills to see if we had a clan tartan related to our surnames. This gave us inspiration to create our own tartan kilts.
Primary 7 you are working so hard and making great progress. You are all fabulous individuals and I am so proud of you all. I’m delighted to be teaching you. Miss Lindsay
P1 M have had a busy week learning about all things Scottish. We have been listening to Scottish songs old and new, and learning a poem in Scots language.
We listened to a Hamish McHaggis story and learned about his places he visitied in Scotland. We found the places on a map, and we used Google Maps to find Polbeth and our school. We were amazed to see familiar buildings in Polbeth and Scotland.
Here we are drawing and colouring the characters in the Hamish McHaggis stories.
Here we are enjoying haggis , neeps and tatties, shortbread and Irn Bru at our Burns Supper. We scoffed the lot , then danced it off to The Red Hot Chilli Pipers music.
Last week we learned all about adding numbers together using Numicon. We were all amazing !
Here are some photos from Christmas that you might like to see.
P1 M are so happy to be back at school and learning lots of new things.
This week we were learning all about addition
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We are starting a new topic all about ‘Where we live’ and focusing on Polbeth and Scotland. Hamish McHaggis and his friends will be helping us to learn lots about our topic.
Christmas Fun !
We had a great time celebrating Christmas time. Here are some photos of our Nativity Concert, Party and Christmas Lunch !
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More photos to follow