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This week we have been exploring our place value and learning about numbers to 10000. It has been challenging but we are enjoying learning more about numbers.

PE was great fun! We have been developing our hand ball techniques to ensure we work better as a team. This made our games more exciting. This really helped us to realise the importance of team work. Not only in sport but in all areas in our life.

Our dojo competition continues and this week Teegan has one the most points and has taken pride of place on our classroom door. Well done Teegan! Who will it be next week?

Have a lovely weekend?

Primary 4

Our first full week in Primary 6 has been really busy! Read on for more information about what we’ve been doing.

Chloe, Toni and Bea: Miss Ford read more of our class novel (Pig Heart Boy) to us. When we were listening we did some different tasks. One of these was mindfulness colouring where we coloured in pigs which had lots of really detailed designs and patterns on them. We used lots of different colours and even though it took a steady hand and lots of concentration they look lovely.  Another Pig Heart Boy task which we did was to draw an outline of the main character (Cam) and inside his body we wrote about his emotions and the way he is feelings and on the outside we wrote the advice which we would give to him. We also added a speech bubble with things which we think he would be likely to say in different situations.

Beth, Kalin and Lorena: Our new PE topic is Tennis. We really enjoyed trying to get the highest score in a rally. Brandon and Kalin won with the highest score of 35!

Brandon, Lewis and Rebecca: We have been doing lots of maths this week. We have tried some new numeracy activities like countdown and number of the day as well as number talks, CLIC and some revision in the textbook.

Vanessa: Today was a dress down day because Abigail in P2 got 14 inches cut off of her hair. The money raised is going to the Little Princess charity.

Lucas: On Monday we did handwriting. We wrote out the St. Ninian’s prayer and we are trying to learn it off by heart.

Have a great weekend!

Today I had the pleasure of teaching P4. I was so impressed by their positive attitude to learning and the amazing start they have made to the new school year as P4 pupils. The classroom is looking so bright and inviting and there is a wealth of learning already on display.

As part of our learning this morning we were looking at  the year ahead and what we would like to get from this year. We listened to the song One Moment in Time and found the lyrics really applied to how the children would like to be this year and how they would like their learning journey to be.

We wrote very reflective prayers for the year ahead and used words like inspire, guide and help when asking for support. The children really put thought and effort into the prayers and were very proud of what they produced as was I.

The children are also are very enthused by the class novel James and the Giant Peach and they laughed out loud at the style of the author.

I have to say that the children’s organisational skills, manners and focus were outstanding and I thoroughly enjoyed my morning.

Thank you P4 and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Docherty

This week in Primary 5 we have been working hard and we have been reading our class novel and using it to help us think about vocabulary and ideas for our story writing. We have based our Drama around super hero powers too! In Maths we have started to look at ordering numbers and we are going to focus on writing large numbers in words and figures next week.

Here are some of our comments:

Samuel: Today was the first day of Big Maths Beat That.

Lauren: In maths we have been learning about Place Value and we have been ordering numbers from smallest to biggest and I also enjoyed writing our Superhero stories.

Jay: I wrote a story about a Super hero called the Incredible Shark!

Vanessa: in art we all drew pictures of our Superheroes.

Kuba: In our class novel, The Astounding Broccoli Boy, we have discovered that Rory has ended up sharing a hospital room with his arch-enemy Grim Komissky!

Batshewa: We all finished making our Primary 5 birthday cards and I was able to choose one!

Aidan P: In P.E. we started to do Basketball and we are learning dribbling techniques.

Ambra: Drama was so funny. I worked in a group with Jay and Aidan and I was the person with the super power. All the class laughed!

Have a great weekend from Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves.

Good afternoon! Primary 3 have had a wonderful week and been working very hard.

We were so excited to find out from our fantastic UN Ambassadors that St Ninian’s have received Level 2 of the Rights Respecting School award. This is a huge achievement and we are delighted.

During Assembly yesterday, we had special visitors because Fr Kenneth and Fr Matthew came to see us. We played a game where we got to learn some words from Fr Matthew’s language.

As part of our IDL work, we have been learning about nocturnal animals who come out at night and diurnal animals come out during the daytime. We had to sort them into categories to show our understanding (Maeve, Matthew and Harry).

In Number, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10. If the units number ends in a 1,2,3,4 you have to round it down but if the units number ends in a 5,6,7,8,9 you round it up (Angelina, Vanessa, Annayah). We have also been learning expanded form. This is where we have been able to tell how many hundreds, how many tens and how many units are in all of the numbers up to 1000.

We loved having the chance to write our own special letters to Plop! Plop is the baby barn owl who is afraid of the dark – we loved this story (Lennon). We had to tell Plop what we thought of the dark. Here are some examples –

‘I think dark is scary sometimes. At night I can hear scary sounds when my window is opened.’ (Lilly is linking her writing to her own experiences)

‘I think dark is fascinating because nocturnal animals come out to play and you can hear animals’ (Maeve has linked her learning!).

‘I think dark is extraordinary!’ (Fabulous vocabulary Chloe!)

In PE, we have been focusing on co-operation (Oma). Co-operation means you are working together (Ryan). Co-operation means teamwork (Lennon). Co-operation means working together and helping others (Annayah).

Have a good weekend

Mrs W