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Oh my goodness where have we been ?????

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December already!! and it hit the Nursery with a bang. What have we been up to lately?

Well we had a visitor from a local Policeman to talk to us about keeping ourselves safe and how they help us. Then we had a visit from a Dentist to tell us about keeping our teeth healthy.

Scottish Dancing has started in our P.E classes with Mr McCurdy, children from the P.7 class have been working alongside our children to teach them the steps and to count to 8.

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Who could forget our Nativity performances also!! Both performances were so well attended, thank you to each and every one of you who attended.

Erin from the morning session created the most special heartwarming pictures for our songs, all on her own!!

Christmas festivities continue in the Nursery, the children have been creating the most wonderful decorations and personal items to bring home next week. This week we made Gingerbread Men and listened to the Story.

We have all had the best time this month and the festivities are set to continue into next week for our Christmas Parties !!!

NEXT WEEK IN NURSERY

MONDAY –

TUESDAY– CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR THE AM CHILDREN AND ANY FULL DAY CHILDREN NOT IN ON A TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY.

SANTA WILL BE CALLING IN AT 11.30 PLEASE COME BACK TO SEE THE JOY ON YOUR CHILD’S FACE.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT USUALLY IN ATTENDANCE FROM  A FULL DAY PROVISION MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT AT THE PARTY.

WEDNESDAY – CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR THE PM CHILDREN AND ANY FULL DAY CHILDREN WHO ARE IN ON THIS DAY.

SANTA WILL BE CALLING AT 3PM PLEASE COME BACK AND SEE THE JOY ON YOUR CHILD’S FACE.

AS ABOVE OTHER FULL DAY CHILDREN NOT IN ATTENDANCE ON EITHER OF THESE DAYS CAN CHOOSE ONE PARTY TO COME TO, BUT MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT.

THURSDAY- IS OUR LAST DAY FOR THE CHILDREN.

ALL CHILDREN WILL RETURN ON MONDAY THE 6TH OF JANUARY 2020. THE NURSERY CHILDREN WILL BE IN ON THE IN-SERVICE DAY

HAVE THE MOST AMAZING FESTIVE PERIOD AND WE ALL LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU BACK AFTER THE HOLIDAYS!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FORM ALL THE STAFF TEAM XXXX

 

Overview:

This week we have been learning how to multiply decimal fractions and how to divide whole numbers by 19, 100 and 1000. We have had some more practice with measuring angles using a protractor and we are feeling more confident with this now.

In Writing we have been looking at the structure of an exposition and we planned and wrote one about the Daily Mile.

We have spent a great deal of time preparing for the school Christmas Fayre and making our calendars, snow globe decorations and decorating the Christmas trees. We also spent some time calculating the cost of making the different items, ready to calculate the profit for the class.

Pupil voice:

Angel: I liked decorating the Christmas trees with glitter and

pom-poms for the Christmas Fayre.

Jack: I prepared my solo talk about being a footballer.

Niamh: In RE we performed dramas about St. Andrew.

Lennon: We learnt how to measure angles using a protractor.

Rachel: For Writing we wrote an exposition about running the Daily Mile.

Andrew: We all made snow globes for the Christmas Fayre.

Angel: We made advertising posters about everything we were selling for the Fayre.

Carly: We finished our Christmas Spanish calendars.

Pawel: I really enjoyed making the poster for the fayre.

Calvin: Our new PM Writing genre is Exposition.

Rachel: In PE we did Scottish dancing. We joined with the Primary 7 class for our dancing.

Kate: In Maths we were working out the cost of making our enterprise products and then we decided on the prices of our products and we will be calculating the profit later on.

Home Challenge:

Next time you are out shopping, look out for packs containing several items. See if you can calculate how much each individual item costs by dividing the cost of the packet by the number of items inside,

Look out for different angles at home. Can you find examples of right angels, acute angles or obtuse angles?

Try to practise the Primary 6 Christmas song using the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prR1rqUAOcY

 

Learning Overview

This week has been a really busy week preparing for the Christmas Fair. We have been developing our Enterprise skills. We created our Chocolate Lollipops and packaged them up to be sold.  We then created persuasive posters to advertise the Chocolate Lollipops from each of our companies.

We enjoyed learning about patterns this week and using our knowledge to make Christmas cards.

We have been learning lots of Scottish dances with Primary 4 for our Christmas Party.

We also enjoyed developing our skills this week in the playroom. We had lots of fun using our imagination and creativity to create our own games and rules using some of the resources.

In Numeracy this week we have been learning all about money. We learned about amounts using decimal notation. We have been converting prices from £ to p and adding amounts using what we learning about addition with carrying.

In RE we were learning about the advent wreath and the meaning of each candle. The 3 purple candles symbolise Love, Peace and Hope. The pink candle symbolises Joy and the white candle symbolises the arrival of Christ.

Pupil Voice

We liked making Christmas cards this week. We enjoyed Scottish dancing with P4. We liked the IDL activities. We got to make and pack the lollies. We also enjoyed the Christmas mindfulness colouring. It made us feel calm. We liked writing this week because we got to make a poster for the Christmas Fair. We liked doing maths this week. We were learning about money. We liked our STEM smart starts this week. They stretched our brains.

Jarred and Dexter (Lead Learners)

Home Learning

This week we have been learning about money. We have been using our knowledge of addition with carrying to add amounts together. Can you find 2 items in the shops or online and add the amounts together?

We have enjoyed our STEM challenges this week. Can you have a go at solving these challenges? Put your answer in the comments.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Wassell and P3/4

 

Teacher Voice

This week has been a really busy week preparing for the Christmas Fair. We have been developing our Enterprise skills. We created our Chocolate Lollipops and packaged them up to be sold.  We then created persuasive posters to advertise the Chocolate Lollipops from each of our companies.

We enjoyed learning about patterns this week and using our knowledge to make Christmas cards.

We have been learning lots of Scottish dances with Primary 4 for our Christmas Party.

We also enjoyed developing our skills this week in the playroom. We had lots of fun using our imagination and creativity to create our own games and rules using some of the resources.

In Numeracy this week we have been learning all about money. We learned about amounts using decimal notation. We have been converting prices from £ to p and adding amounts using what we learning about addition with carrying.

In RE we were learning about the advent wreath and the meaning of each candle. The 3 purple candles symbolise Love, Peace and Hope. The pink candle symbolises Joy and the white candle symbolises the arrival of Christ.

Pupil Voice

We liked making Christmas cards this week. We enjoyed Scottish dancing with P4. We liked the IDL activities. We got to make and pack the lollies. We also enjoyed the Christmas mindfulness colouring. It made us feel calm. We liked writing this week because we got to make a poster for the Christmas Fair. We liked doing maths this week. We were learning about money. We liked our STEM smart starts this week. They stretched our brains.

Jarred and Dexter (Lead Learners)

Home Learning

This week we have been learning about money. We have been using our knowledge of addition with carrying to add amounts together. Can you find 2 items in the shops or online and add the amounts together?

We have enjoyed our STEM challenges this week. Can you have a go at solving these challenges? Put your answer in the comments.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Wassell and P3/4

 

Learning Overview

Health and Wellbeing – We have been having learning conversations in P4 this week. This is where we reflect on the goals which we set and take action by either continuing to work on them or creating new ones if we have achieved them.

Literacy – We have been doing our Procedure writing assessment where we wrote instructions of how to make a drum kit out of junk materials.

Numeracy and Maths – We have been learning about money in Maths. We have been trying to work out the change from £1 and £2.

IDL – We have been creating our products for the Christmas Fair in Food Technology. We had a great evening selling the chocolate lollies which we made on Thursday at the Christmas Fair.

Pupil Voice – Our Highlights!

Lloyd, Casper and Marcel – We liked writing a procedure about how to make a drum kit. Lloyd enjoyed picking the materials and writing them in steps for someone to follow. Marcel enjoyed writing the steps. Casper liked that he could pick what materials and how many.

Wiktoria – I liked doing Scottish Dancing in PE because I love to dance. My favourite dance is the Virginia Reel.

Mark – I enjoyed learning about our brain and talking about what we are good at and what we need to get better at. I always have a growth mindset because this helps me to improve. I coloured a jigsaw piece in to show what I need to improve and this is on our classroom window.

Next Steps – Home Learning Opportunities

Literacy – Continue to work on your Enterprise solo talk preparations. This will be shared with the class week beginning 16^th December.

Maths – Look out for prices if you are at the shops. Try to use the methods you have learned in school to calculate the change.

HWB – Discuss you goals with your parents and have a look at your OneNote profile where you will find your goals and learning conversations. Feel free to add to this at any time!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Mrs Brown 🙂

Teacher Voice

Literacy

This week we have been learning all about road safety as it’s Road Safety Week. We have been creating posters with our own catchy slogans to promote road safety. We have also been developing our reading skills by reading a passage all about road safety and answering some questions about what we read. We talked about why it is important to develop our reading skills and why we need to be able to read for our future. We discussed lots of jobs that require reading skills and also talked about day to day activities that also require us to read e.g. driving a car. The children were very excited about the thought of driving in the future. Yasmin cannot wait to get her Lamborghini. We have been working on writing procedures over the last few weeks. We have been exploring the structure and language features of different procedures. This week we were writing a recipe for delicious coconut truffles that we made. We enjoyed Mrs Smiths visit during our writing lesson.

Numeracy

This week we have been further developing our understanding of addition with carrying. We can now add 3 digit numbers with carrying. We have also been working on fact families and recognise relationships between addition and subtraction.

Health and Wellbeing

We have enjoyed PE this week preparing for our Christmas Party with our Scottish Dancing. We are really enjoying spreading kindness in our class with our ‘Special Person of the Day’. Check out Mrs Wassell’s twitter to see all the lovely comments from our friends about us!

Pupil Voice

Hi everyone, it’s Dawid and Kerr here with our weekly highlights! We loved PE this week learning new Scottish dances. We really enjoyed food technology making chocolate and coconut truffles and then writing our recipe for how to make them. We liked our big Topic afternoon where we get to do different activities. We learned all about melting, boiling and freezing in Science. We used our knowledge of melting to make Krispie cakes. In the Enterprise activity each group has to create a company name and logo for their products to sell at the Christmas fayre. We also love spending time with our friends in the playroom. We like playing twister and using the Lego to create different things.

Home Learning

We have been learning how to write a recipe this week. Look at some recipe books or some recipes online. Do they all have the same structure? Can you use one of the recipes to make something? Make sure you ask an adult to help. Take some pics and put them on your glow?

We have talked lots about skills this week. Think about a job you would like to do in the future. What skills would you need to do this job? Here are some examples; reading, writing, problem solving, creativity, communication, digital technology, numeracy, teamwork

 

Have a great weekend

Mrs Wassell and P3/4

Overview

Numeracy:

This week we have been learning different strategies to help with division. We have looked at dividing multiples of 10.100 and 1000. We have also looked at how to solve division problems by multiplying and partitioning.

We started trying to measure angles using a protractor and as we found this quite tricky, we shall be focusing on this a bit more next week to help us improve our measuring skills.

Literacy:

Having made our water wheels last week, this week we have been learning how energy can be harnessed by the flow of water and converted into electricity. We wrote fantastic procedures to explain how to make a water wheel in our writing lesson. Next week we will be testing our water wheels outside.

We have also researched and prepared a powerpoint to present at the Primary 6 St. Andrews Cluster Assembly next week.

Health and Wellbeing:

We have continued with our Discrimination topic and we have been learning what discrimination means and that some people are treated unfairly because of their characteristics.

 

Parental Involvement:

When reading at home, try reading aloud and pay close  attention to the punctuation to help you to improve your reading with expression. Remember to try to use your voice to make it more interesting and exciting.

Division is so much easier if you have a good knowledge of your times tables! Keep practising and use this website to help:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

 

Pupil Voice:

Angel: I enjoyed creating a poem for the road safety competition.

Michelle: I learnt how to divide big numbers using partitioning.

Cameron: I enjoyed making the St Ninian’s leaflet as part of the Pope Francis Faith Award.

Brooke: I enjoyed creating our own definition of the word Respect.

Orla: We started Scottish dancing this week.

Carly: I liked writing our procedure about the water wheel and we loved sharing our skills with Mrs Roy.

Michael: This week we learnt about discrimination and we had fun creating small drama scenarios.

Kate: I enjoyed making a Boost Word poster for our Literacy Wall.

Overview

This week we have been planning to make edible marshmallow snow people bags for Christmas to sell at the school Christmas fete.

We have started focusing on subtraction in numeracy. We started by having pencils and other concrete materials to help us. Now it’s the end of the week and we have looked at counting backwards, using a number line and using a rekinrek to help us.

Parental Involvement

Try this mental maths train game. Choose the subtraction function and then choose subtraction up to 20:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Pupil voice

Scott – I liked writing about our local area. It’s in Scotland.

Mara – I played with Scott and Igor in our shop in our play area.

Anna – We wrote about our local area and made leaflets and posters so that other people would want to visit.

Joshua – We started Scottish dancing in PE.

Pati – We had to dance with partners and we did skipping and turning.

Rojin – I liked doing Irish dancing this week after school. I like Irish skips and keeping my legs straight.

Emilie – I liked doing Boost Words. One of them is ‘pounce’.

Lucy – That word has the ‘ou’ sound in it which is the sound we learned.

Liam – I liked maths. We did take away and I got a challenge question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Overview

Literacy and Health and Wellbeing – We have been learning about Road Safety Week by completing a reading comprehension where we read about Road Safety and answered some questions. Then we swapped our work and peer assessed a friend’s jotter. We have also been writing instructions of how to tie a tie. This is called procedure writing. Today we did Kickstart where we up-levelled our work and made improvements.

Numeracy and Maths – In numeracy we have completed a number assessment and we have been learning different strategies in Number Talks. In Maths we have been using 2D shapes to complete tiling patterns. When we are doing tiling it is important that the shapes join together exactly.

IDL – We have been using our play area to explore and investigate through play. We have been using our knowledge of 3D objects across learning to make links between maths, expressive arts and the outdoor environment. We also learned about Enterprise and shared ideas for company names and logos for our stall at the Christmas fair.

Pupil Voice – Our Highlights!

Daniel, Tomasz and Nathan – We enjoyed using the play area to build upon our problem solving and team work skills.

Paul – I enjoyed making a logo in Enterprise.

Lloyd – I enjoyed doing food technology. We have been learning about solids and liquids and we saw the change by melting chocolate to make chocolate rice crispie cakes!

Next Steps – Home Learning Opportunities

Literacy – Think about the instructions which you have written and try to tie a tie at home!

Maths – Look out for tiling patterns at your house and in the environment.

Numeracy – We have been practicing number bonds and making friendly numbers. What two numbers can you add together to make 10? 100? 1000?

HWB – Why not try and do the daily mile or a go on a 15 minute walk this weekend?

IDL – Combine your maths, literacy and technology skills by logging on to SumDog this weekend!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Mrs Brown 🙂

Learning Overview:

Literacy: We have been continuing with our Procedural writing genre and we enjoyed discussing some new Boost Words from our class novel. We have also been practising some new Spanish Boost phrases.

Numeracy:

We have been learning to identify different angles and next week we will be drawing and measuring angles using protractors. We have been developing our multiplication skills, using times tables facts to help.

Health and Wellbeing:

We have been discussing anti-bullying as part of anti-bullying week and trying to think of things we can do and ways that we can help to prevent this in our school

 

Pupil voice:

Our highlights by Rhia and Michelle:

This week the P6 class has been working very hard.

This week in Writing, we wrote a procedure about how to access OneNote and we discussed the importance of developing our Digital Organisation skills.

On Tuesday we went to the Cinema to see the film ‘The Grinch’.  It was really fun and also some bits of the movie were quite emotional.

In Science we have been learning about how to make a water wheel.

We have been finishing our symmetry pictures to present on our Maths Working Wall.

Mrs Reeves was impressed at how well we did during Numeracy where we were multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 and we really enjoyed the Times Table activity.

 

Parental Involvement:

Encourage your child to use any of the following Boost Words in a sentence:

wailing, clutched, sagged, splendour, jutted, crimson, peered, sepia

Help your child to practice our new Spanish phrases:

Is it assembly today?

¿Hay asamblea hoy?

(Ay  as-am-blay–a  oy?)

Can I use pens?

¿Puedo usar bolígrafos?

(Pway-doh oos-ar  bol–ee–ger-a-foss?)

Ask your child to identify different angles around the house.