Category: Primary 4

This has been a very inspirational week. We worked hard on different maths and numeracy activities and enjoyed sharing these with some of our parents at Ninian’s Natter. The highlight for most of us was baking cupcakes. We were focussing on reading scales and weighing out the correct amount of ingredients.

Another activity that we enjoyed was getting the chance to play one another’s home-made maths games. We had board games, online games,  physical games and quizzes.

We have had lots of opportunities to work in groups this week. One of the challenges was to make numbers 1-20 by only using the number 4 and the four processes. This was tricky!

We loved being part of the Sumdog competition set up for Inspirational Maths week.

We have taken a new approach to the daily mile which has proved to be a huge success so far. We now have to complete as many laps as possible and record the distance in miles ran as a class.

Hannah – ‘I liked creating a diamond in art using grid references.’

Emily – ‘I liked designing my own cupcake.’

Maliha – ‘I liked using number maps to share different strategies.’

Evie – ‘I liked completing the numbers to 20 challenge only using ‘4’.

Aoife – ‘I enjoyed improving my daily mile.’

Alekander + Aaron – ‘I liked making the icing to use on my cupcake.’

Mark – ‘I liked getting to eat my own cake that I made.’

Congratulations to this week’s lead learnes, Kasia and Kacper.

Have a good weekend, P4/5 and Miss Diamond :).

This week has been amazing! We have had lots of fun learning including, learning about food safety and hygiene, learning about place value of whole numbers and decimals, exploring warm and cool colours and making up our own characters using adjectives to describe them.

‘My favourite part of the week was creating my own character and drawing a picture of it.’ – Joshua

‘My favourite part was when I wrote a description of a character.’  – Shannon

‘My favourite part was learning about warm and cool colours and drawing a sun/moon picture to demonstrate what I had learned.’ – Jan

‘We liked doing art using warm and cool colours.’ – Ethan and Aaron.

‘My favourite part of the week was when we were helping Miss Diamond plan what recipes we would like to make during food technology and learning about keeping safe when cooking.’ – Hannah

‘I enjoyed taking part in basketball matches in PE.’ – Evie

‘I liked doing handwriting using a song and we had to try and guess what song the lyrics were from and then try to sing it.’ – Kasia

‘We liked writing my own prayer about ‘starting the new term’.’ Adrin and Joseph

We would like to congratulate our first P4/5 lead learners who have been a great help and super role models this week. Well done Mark and Emily.

It has been a very busy first full week back in P4/5.  The class are all working well as a team and are enjoying learning together.   Highlights this week in our learning include learning our special prayer to St Ninian.  Using our novel Gangsta Granny by David Walliams, we have been exploring character feelings.

In Maths we have been looking at the importance of place value and we all had the chance to take part in a range of carousel activities to help us get more confident at sequencing numbers accurately.

We enjoyed Father Kenneth and Father Matthew speaking to us about what going to school is like in Malawi.   We would like to fundraise to help Father Matthew with his work and maybe write to some children in Father Matthew’s School.

Mark – I was sad when I heard that children in Malawi have classes with more than 100 pupils in them with only 1 teacher.   They also sit on rocks and don’t have chairs and desks.

Hannah –   I am enjoying reading Gangsta Granny and completing the activities that go with it.

Emily – I loved Maths this week and I am more confident with forward and backward numbers.

Evie –   I was shocked to learn that children in Malawi need to use rocks to help them count while we have lots of different things to use.

Ethan –  I loved taking part in handball this week in PE.

Aaron – I enjoyed playing buzz and shazam with Mrs Purdie on Friday.

Aoife –  We are excited that we will be researching the country of Spain for our new topic and we discussed what we would like to find out about Spain with Mrs Smith.

We have had a phenomenal first week back at school after our enjoyable summer holidays. We have all settled in well to Primary 4/5 ad are already working as a team. We certainly are ‘Superheroes in training!’

We decided that we would like our class charter to have an ‘emoji’ theme. We all created our own emoji to represent us on our class charter. Then we spoke about our rights and used our school values to help us brainstorm and personalise our own class charter. We will use this to make sure everyone has a successful year in P4/5, feels safe and enjoys coming to school.

Our class novel is ‘Gangsta Granny’ by David Walliams which we have started doing some work on. We have had to complete a word search, write instructions, draw illustrations and make our very own self portrait of us being Gangsta Granny’s apprentice.

We have thought about our learning and have set new goals for this session. We have decided to set one goal at a time allowing us to really focus on achieving it and will regularly evaluate our learning and set our next challenge.

We look forward to what P4/5 has in store for us this session.

Have a great weekend, P4/5 and Miss Diamond.

This has been a long week and we are all exhausted. We have been finishing off assessments in preparation for our move to P5!

We had a positive start to the week when we had the opportunity to have a go on the inflatable ‘Battle Zone’ where we had to try and knock one another off of the podium with a wrecking ball! This was a huge hit! We then had a nice celebration in the afternoon where we had a party to celebrate our First Holy Communions. The cake was delicious thanks to the Parish Community. The day was rounded off with another special treat where we got to meet and handle different animals. We even got to meet Nula the Fox. She’s the only one in Scotland!

 

On Tuesday we had sports day! We were grouped into our houses and had lots of different activities to take part in.

We were very proud of our classmate Batshewa as she was the youngest member running in the relay races! Well done Batshewa, you done us proud.

In writing this week, we were reflecting on our time in P4 and wrote a prayer about our hopes and dreams for P5 and what we were thankful for in P4.

Now that everyone managed to complete their power point presentations about Food Chains, we shared them with the class. We put a lot of thought and effort into these so it took a little while but it was good.

We had our moving up morning on Thursday:-

“I am staying in the same classroom this year and I have the same teacher but this makes me happy.” – Aleksander

“I thought the moving up day was great because I got to meet lots of new friends!” – Hannah

“I thought the moving up day was good because our new teacher is really nice and she does fun activities like Miss Diamond.” – Jay

“I am super excited about going into P5 and the upper area because it makes me feel as old as my sister!” – Ambra

“I have enjoyed having Miss Diamond again and staying in this classroom for another year!” – Evie

“I am happy that I am moving into a new classroom because it is new scenery and I see lots of new faces.” – Ailie

“I really like my classroom so I am very happy that I am staying in it for another year with the same teacher.” – Jan

With only 1 week left in P4, the countdown is on! We are super excited for the holidays!

Have a great weekend, P4 and Miss Diamond.

This week has been fantastic! We took control of our own blog post this morning! Let us know what you think!

In art we have been completing our pointillism clown pictures and have been creating art work in the style of the artist Piet Mondrian.

In maths we have been learning how to measure the area of shapes and looked at different instruments to measure length.  We were using centimetres squared to record the area of shapes. We worked with a partner and measured each other’s body parts including head, neck, waist, hips etc. using a measuring tape.

In topic we have been learning about food chains as part of our endangered animals’ topic. We have also been learning about producers and consumers a producer is a living thing that gets its energy from the sun. A consumer is something that feeds from plants or living things to get its energy. We made PowerPoints to share our learning about food chains.

We had the rights respecting schools inspectors in this week to see if we had achieved level 2. We hope to have an answer on this achievement soon and can’t wait to share the result with you.

In PE, we have been learning the rules of Russian Long Ball and have had our 200m race heats for sports day. We had a focus on our health and fitness and joined I with The Body Coach, Joe Wicks, and his school HIIT session.

Jan made a contribution to the P1 bake sale this week. They were a huge hit within our class. Fidget Spinner cookies!!

We have been preparing for our Thanksgiving mass which will be held on Sunday and are really looking forward to it.

Have a great weekend :),

Miss Diamond and P4!