Keep an eye out soon for our Term 2 Sway which will be winging it’s way to you all shorty.
Great fun being had during our recent visit to the Sensory Room where some of our class decided to dramatise the story of ‘The 3 Pigs’ using soft building materials. Can you guess who had built their house out of brick?
Let’s just say, after lot’s of huffing and puffing, Miss Purves was very much needing a sit down!
We have enjoyed learning about a very famous Scottish dog, Greyfriar’s Bobby. We have used ICT to do our own research about Bobby and we found some very interesting facts. We wrote our own information reports all about Bobby.
We explored the use of line to create pencil drawings of Bobby. We used straight and wavy lines to draw his fur and features. We tried to make it look as realistic as possible.
We had the opportunity to share our learning with the whole school at assembly on Monday. We invited the school to challenge themselves to save energy. We explained that you can do simple things such as switch the lights off when you leave a room, unplug chargers when not in use, don’t leave the fridge door open for long, turn the tap off when brushing your teeth and wear warm clothes inside instead of turning the heating up. We all had our parts to say and we spoke confidently and clearly. Well done!
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.
It has been a wonderful week in P2.
We enjoyed some chocolate to celebrate the birthday of someone very special, and no, it wasn’t Rabbie Burns! Happy birthday to our wonderful Mrs Topping!
We also celebrated Burns day by making our own shortbread. No pictures were taken during the production process I’m afraid as everyone was covered head to toe in flour and butter but it was all worth it in the end! It was delicious.
We thoroughly enjoyed our fresh fruit box that was kindly delivered by the St Mary’s health and wellbeing committee on Monday. There has been a lot of eating this week!
We are now learning about shape in maths and have enjoyed exploring the properties of 2d and 3d shape and finding them in our environment.
Have a great weekend everyone and we will see you next week.
~ ROBERT BURNS ~
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and song writer. He is known around the world as Scotland’s national poet. Burns Night is celebrated every year on 25th January, Robert Burns’ birthday. Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759 in the village of Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland. Burns had a very humble start to life. He was the eldest of seven children and his father was a tenant farmer so the family often struggled for money. From a young age, Burns worked as a farmer but his father knew education was important so he taught his children how to read and write. Some of Burns’ poems were based on the things he saw whilst he was out ploughing the fields. He wrote ‘To a Mouse’ after he turned over a field mouse’s nest with his plough. He wrote his first love song at the age of 15 but it wasn’t until the age of 27 that his poems were published. Burns died on 21st July 1796 at the age of 37. One of Burns’ most famous poems is Auld Lang Syne. It is sung all over the world on 31st December.
Primary 3 enjoyed learning all about this famous Scot. We did lots of fun activities in class to celebrate him!
Karlie – He was very famous because of his poems and he worked on his dad’s farm. Everyone knows who he is.
Cody – He was a Scottish person and he wrote amazing poems.
Kiera – He is very famous for poems.
Jaxon – He had lots of children and he had brothers and sisters. He was only 37 when he died.
Bonnie – His first poem he wrote was when he was 15 and it was about a wee mouse.
Rocco – His house is a museum now.
Stella – I liked doing a fact file about him.
Jessica – We made Burns cards. There are lots of statues of him around the world.
Damon – We listened to Auld Lang Syne and sang it.
This week in Primary 1S we have been learning about tartan, Scottish 🏴 songs and Robert Burns. We will be singing our songs at our school Robert Burns celebration 🎉.
We made our own Hampshire McHaggis in a tartan bed and learned all out what a “clan” was and why there was so many different tartans. We picked colours we would like our tartan to look like.
We read the story Oliver’s fruit salad and it inspired us to make our own fruit salads. We used lots of skills chopping our fruit 🍉 and tasting new things 🍌 🥭 🍎 🍑.
We hope you have a lovey weekend.
It has been a whirl wind start to 2024 in P2. We have been learning about numbers up to 20 and exploring different ways in which we can complete addition and subtraction calculations.
We used 10 frames which helped us to split numbers in order to make 10 first. This took a bit of practise to begin with but confidence was high by the end of the week. We also used number lines and rekenreks to support our mental numeracy skills.
We concluded our weather topic by looking at how to use a thermometer and linking them to the numbers we see on the weather. We now know which numbers on the map require a coat, and which require sun cream! We looked at different cloud formations and recreated them using a variety of materials. The stratus cloud was our favourite. It is pale grey and covers the whole sky and it was very messy to make!
Have a great weekend everyone and we will see you next week.
Primary 1S have been learning all about keeping healthy with Healthy Elfie.
We made a health savoury snack, a sandwich 🥪. Some of us tried new things and we used lots of skills to butter the bread and chop up the ingredients.
We had lots of fun and some of us made a extra sandwich to take home.
Because we are looking at being healthy we have made our own doctors surgery in the classroom, it has a dentist 🦷 in it as well. We have had lots of fun playing .
We have also enjoyed lots of maths this week, using different tools and games to help us build 10.
Have a fun weekend everyone ☺️
ECO SCHOOLS
Throughout all my learning, I take appropriate action to ensure conservation of materials and resources, considering the impact of my actions on the environment. TCH 1- 02a
I can consider ways of looking after my school or community and can encourage others to care for their environment. SOC 1-08a
Primary 3 have been learning about some of the ways they can be eco-friendly. This means encouraging people to engage in their environment by allowing them the opportunity to actively protect it. It starts in the classroom, it expands to the school and eventually fosters change in the community.
Through listening to stories and carrying out research we have been finding out about how we can save energy and become more energy efficient. We shared our learning with each other and designed posters to highlight this. We have made a commitment to turn the lights off in our classroom every Friday morning after playtime to save energy.
We wondered if any other classes would like to do the same?
If you turn them off when the light is not needed, even for a short period of time, you will be saving a lot of energy and reduce electricity demand which has a rippling effect.
Karlie – You can do lots of things like switching lights off, turning taps off so you don’t waste water, recycle old things and re-use them too so you are not wasting things.
Damon – We made posters about saving energy. I’m trying to do some of the things at home like turning lights off when they are not needed.
Jaxon – Have a short shower and save electricity and water.
Jessica – Don’t use your tablet for that long because it needs to be charged up. You can play with other games instead or read books.
Rocco – Walk to school rather than the bus or car.
Bonnie – Turn the heating down in your house and wear warm clothes when it’s cold so you don’t need the heating on that long.
Cody – Close the windows when the heating is on. If it’s a sunny day you don’t need the heating on.
Ellie – If the washing machine is on, don’t have it up high (temperature).
Jacob – Turn off the TV and other things (devices) when you aren’t using them and don’t leave them on standby.
REMEMBER – Saving energy is really important to help protect the environment and save money on the household bills. Our teachers have set us a challenge to do some energy saving activities at home over the coming week!
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