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Preparation is underway for our school Christmas Fayre next week when P2/3 will have responsibility for the toy stall. We’ve been busy learning about coins and making posters for our stall. We’re still looking for donations so please hand in any toys to the office before Wednesday.

We’ve had great fun celebrating Book Week Scotland and loved our reading lunch on Thursday. P2/3 found some really creative places to cosy up and read.

Everyone loved receiving their Read, Write, Count bags and were excited to share all the literacy and numeracy gifts with their families. We had a lovely time in class sharing the stories and used the ideas to plan our Mighty Writer lesson for next week.

We’ve made the most of Book Week Scotland and everyone enjoyed cosying up in front of our (virtual) crackling fire to enjoy stories.

In writing this week we used Mighty Writer to help us to retell the story of Goldilocks. Look out for our stories on our writing jotters. In our version Goldilocks didn’t eat porridge but something else that was scrumptious! Congratulations to Abu Baker and Lloyd who were this week’s Star Writers.

Everyone is looking forward to hearing about the children’s favourite books next week and it has been lovely to read of the children’s thoughts on our school values this week in homework jotters and in online profiles.

In our topic this week we have looked at the role of the dentist in the community and thought about the skills that a dentist needs.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

 

Hi everyone

Another very busy week in Primary 3!

During Catholic Education Week which continues next week too,  Primary 3 showed great insight and maturity in their understanding of what poverty means – in terms of what you really need to survive.

We have been celebrating Book Week Scotland this week.  On Thursday we were able to ‘Bring a Book to Lunch’ on Thursday which was fun! Along with Primary 4, we were also lucky enough to attend an Author Visit event at the Lanthorn Library. We actually got to meet Badger the Mystical Muff – wow! Here are some comments:

“We love reading…” and “This was the best day ever!”

This morning it was the gifting session of our Primary 3 Bookbags as part of the Read, Write, Count nationwide initiative. Thanks so much to the parents who were able to manage along to our event. We hope it was informative as well as enjoyable for you too! The presentation powerpoint and other documents will be available via the app for you to access.

In Number, Primary 3 have begun to look at Subtraction and have really been focusing on the thinking process they use individually. To support this they have been recording their thinking on a number line – this has proven a little tricky as Primary 3 have also been challenged to create their own number lines. We have been using maths language such as to the decade, crossing the decade, multiples of ten, single digits etc. We will be continuing to build on this next week and use the context of our Enterprise topic to add/subtract money.

Next week, Primary 3 will be busy preparing for our Lollipop stall…. They will be working in teams to create the lollipop bases and make posters etc. A huge thanks to everyone who has taken the time to donate lollipops, shoe boxes and prizes – it is much appreciated!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

From Mrs Scott and Primary 3.

This week in Primary 5R:

In P.E. we played Swedish Long Ball and we had two teams, the fielders and the runners.

We also made some Road Safety Posters to enter for the school competition.

Using GLOW we have now finished our Spanish Power Points about our families and we shared them with the class.

We really enjoyed sharing our Number Talks strategies with our visitor this week.

As part of Catholic Education Fortnight we learned all about the lifestyle of people living in India. We discovered that many people have to make paper bags by hand in order to survive, so we all tried to make bags to see what it would be like.

We learnt how to write a newspaper report and we wrote about the people in India.

We identified different types of punctuation during reading.

In Spanish we revised how to say the date.

We started to learn about decimal numbers and fractions this week and we also learnt  how to divide by 10,100 and 1000.

Emma received the Praise Postcard today as she has worked very hard this week and contributed extremely well during our writing lesson discussions. Very well done!

 

By Kuba and Richard

Lead Learners

 

Have a great weekend!

P5R and Mrs Reeves

                              P6 weekly news

 

For maths this week we have been doing decimal numbers & also number talks .We are starting Financial Maths next week,  so far we have been doing addition, subtraction, multiplying and dividing using decimals. For number talks we had visitors this week, Mrs Smith and Mrs Heather. Mrs Purdie came in to tell us we had shown excellent skills and attitudes during our Number Talks.  We also had 2 children from our class to go to a maths number talks meeting also with Mrs Heather they did awesome.

In writing we have been doing an obituary writing based on John Logie Bard. We learned that John was not just an inventor but he was an engineer as well.He created the TV and also created thermal socks and also a razor that could not rust and finally soap.

In literacy we read our book The Desperate Journey.  It is about the Highland Clearances of Scotland and so far it is very good.  We also  made a prayer that we are showing to other schools at a big Assembly next week and finally we have been doing past tense.

 

Thanks for reading our weekly blog(:

by Adrin, Shannon, Zayah and Louise.

Please read about what we have been doing in Primary 4 this week!

Madison – I liked designing a poster with a road safety slogan on it.

Oma, Maeve, Ahmad, Alishba, Annayah and Ryan – We liked playing Swedish Long Ball in PE.

Ana and Alice – We liked logging on to the netbooks and using our GLOW accounts.

Zoe – I liked writing a kenning poem which uses 2 word phrases to describe something such as ‘grass-grazing’ to describe a cow.

Lennon, Marcus, Filip, Harry, Matthew, Alan and Leo – We liked going to the Lanthorn and meeting Badger from the Badger the Mystical Mutt book series.

Kayden and James – We liked going to the tennis after school club.

Angelina and Yaroslav – We liked doing a maths holistic question where we had to think about more than one thing at a time.

Wojciech, Lilly, Abdullah, Elenta and Aaron – We liked doing maths. Aaron, Abdullah and Elenta liked solving money problems and Wojciech and Lilly liked doing a maths holistic question.

Vanessa and Julia – We liked learning about Saint Francis with Mrs Howley in RE.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 4 and Miss Ford