Author: Miss McGhee

Nasim – We have had a fantastic week building the titanic together in groups. We were sent another letter from anonymous asking us to design and build the titanic.

Lukasz – This week Mrs Wassell bought us Warrick the Worry bear. We did circle time and talked about times when we felt worried. We will be able to share our worries with Warrick every day.

Abi – We were working on place value expanded form in numeracy this week. We did lots of different activities to help us learn this. I liked the writing activity with mild, spicy and hot. I challenged myself with the hot activity.

Louise – We worked on out mental maths strategies this week. I enjoyed doing this.

Lewis – This week we have been doing basketball and handball in PE. We are learning lots of new skills.

Finlay – With Mrs Steel in Music we learned some new songs. I like Mr McGrue.

Mirren – In writing we designed a poster to advertise the Titanic. We talked about the different classes of the passengers and how much tickets would be for each class.

Jay-P – This week with Mr Glen from NYCOS we played a rhythm game called ‘Hot Potato’.

Harley – In RE we have had a lot of discussion about loving our neighbour. we talked about ways to show how we love our neighbours.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5

It has been a very short week this week but we have managed to fit in lots of learning.

Abi – We went to our new committees and we had so much fun. I am in the pupil leadership committee with Miss Smyth.

Louise – We got another letter from anonymous asking us to complete a mission. The mission is to rebuild the Titanic in our classroom. We have to bring in lots of junk materials and boxes to be able to do this. We will need painting shirts to protect our clothes.

Finlay – We went to Nycos and learned lots of new rhymes. We played some fun games.

Charlie – We wrote a news report about the Titanic. We had to make sure we were using the correct layout for a news report. We had to write in columns and include a picture and a catchy title for our story.

Aria – We created a piece of artwork to represent peace. We did pointillism paintings of a dove. These were laid out in a path from our school to Dedridge for National day of peace (21st September)

Lukasz – We have been working hard on our daily mile focusing pace and stamina.

Have a great Weekend

Mrs W and P4/5

This week we got a letter from an anonymous person telling us that we have been selected to do a very important mission. We were sent badges to decorate for our mission. I feel excited to find out more clues. – Abi

We found out we have a new topic about Titanic. I think it is going to be interesting. – Oliwier

This week we have been continuing to learn all about basketball and handball. The P5 have a basketball tournament this year. I am excited about it. – Lukasz

We have been learning about St Ninian as it is his feast day today. We made beautiful and colourful St Ninian’s stained glass windows. – Aria

In writing we wrote a reply letter to the anonymous person to say thank you for the lovely letter and I felt happy. We don’t know who it is from so we couldn’t say their name. – Lewis

In Maths we have been learning about numbers to 10000. We can order big numbers from smallest to biggest. – Joshua

We have been working on our reading skills using taskmaps. I enjoyed the create something great question because I got to make a bookmark. – Marcella

We went to NYCOS to learn about beat and rhythm. We got to play some music games. – Finlay

We hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend. We will see you  next week for P4/5 weekly update.

Mrs W and P4/5 Shining Stars

This week have been learning lots of new things. Here is what the children have to say about their learning this week;

Aria – “This week we have been making dream jars. We used glass jars, glitter, food colouring and twinkly stars. We designed our own labels. It was really fun and I made a rainbow label.”

Finlay – “This week we were making birthday cards for Our Lady. It was her birthday yesterday (8th of Sept). I put flowers and a cross on mine. We also said the Rosary for Mary.”

Oliwier – ” This week we were making proper sentences. We had lots of mixed up words and had to make them into sentences with a capital letter and full stop.”

Lewis – “This week we had a great assembly all about St Ninian because it is his feast day next week.”

Abi- “On Wednesday Mrs Purdie came into our class and told us some sad news. She said she was changing break time from 15mins to 5mins. I felt shocked. Mrs Wassell then got us to write a letter to Mrs Purdie to share our views about the change.”

Charlie- “We learned how to multiply by 10 and 100. I know that when we multiply by ten we add 1 zero to the end and we multiply by 100 we add 2 zeros to the end.”

Lukasz- “This week in PE we had a game of basketball. We have been learning how to control the ball and pass to other people.”

We hope you all have a super weekend and look forward to telling all about our learning next week.

Mrs W and P4/5 shining stars

This week has been a very busy week filled with dreams. We even welcomed a new boy Maciek all the way from Poland. We have all been very kind to him and have made sure he has had a super week.

Finlay – We made dream catchers with paper plates, wool, feathers and beads. I liked doing this and it’s been my favourite thing this week.

Lukasz – This week we were reading the BFG. I like the silly nonsense words that Roald Dahl uses in his books. It is funn-a-liciousy-do!

Lewis – In the BFG story we found out that the BFG eats snozzcumbers. We then looked at healthy and unhealthy foods. We made food pyramids for our diets and some of them had many sweets and chocolate. This is something we are going to try and eat less and eat more fruit and vegetables.

Aria – In maths this week we have been learning about rounding to the nearest 10. If the unit is 0,1,2,3 or 4 we round down to the nearest 10 and if the unit is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 we round up to the nearest 10. We did a maths assessment to see what we have remembered from P3 and P4.

Tanatswa – For reading this week, we read a passage from the BFG that had some silly words in it. We had to work in trios to identify the silly words and work out what the sensible word should be.

Mirren – Father Paul has left to go to a new parish so we learned a song to sing to him. It was a lovely song and he really enjoyed it.

Charlie – We also coloured a stain glass cross and wrote many nice words to describe Father Paul. These were put into a scrap book which was presented to him during his leaving assembly.

Check us out with our fantastic dream catchers.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5 shining stars

P4/5 have had a very busy but exciting week. They have settled very well into their new shiny, colourful classroom. Here is some of the things P4/5 have been doing this week.

This has week has been awesome. We have been learning all about the BFG. (Jay-P)

We have been reading an exciting book called ‘The BFG’. We learned that the author of the BFG is Roald Dahl. It is a very special year for Roald Dahl because the 13th of September he would have been 100 if he was still alive. (Aria)

We used the description of the BFG from the book to draw a portrait of the BFG. (Finlay)

I was chosen for hot seating in drama and I took on the role of the BFG. I used a funny voice. (Nasim)

In drama I was Sophie. I answered questions from the children as Sophie. (Marcella)

On the first day of school we made superheroes and worked as a team to create a class charter. Our slogan is ‘With great power comes great responsibility’. (Lewis)

This week we did some revision maths using mild, hot and spicy. I liked that I got to chose what activity I got to do. (Abi)

We got to share with Mrs Wassell, Mrs Gardiner and our friends what we did during the summer holidays. we used describing words to describe how we felt. (Louise)

We hope you all have a super weekend and are ready for the week ahead.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5