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This week has been very exciting as our classroom has been freshly painted and it looks fantastic! We have all worked very hard and here are some of our comments:

Rebecca: This week we were working in the Hub because our classroom was getting painted dark purple and grey.

Bea: On Monday we met our new Deputy Head teacher and her name is Mrs Smith.  We love her very much and we will welcome her into our St. Ninian’s family!

Bea: In P.E. on Thursday people came in from The James Young high School to teach us basketball in preparation for the tournament.

Gaby: Our basketball tournament is coming up and we are very excited!

Vanessa: On Thursday we had our P.E with two basketball players and it was really fun because we played lots of fun games with them!!!!

Grace: Yesterday we made little balls the size of marbles for science.

Maxx: On Thursday we designed and created boats out of tin foil and we got playdough balls and put them inside the boats to see if they would sink or float.

Taylor: On Thursday we did a science experiment where we made boats out of tin foil and we used play dough and shaped them into marble- shapes and we had to see if the boat would sink and how much play dough we could put in. It was sooooo fun!!!!!!!

Louise: During the week we were in the hub doing Science and we were learning about rust. Into four separate jars we put tap water, boiled water, salty water, dry air and silica gel to see which ones would rust.

Kerrigan: Next week we will be doing spontaneous talks but we will not have to research in order to prepare for the talk because they are about topics we already know about.  For example, we could talk about animals or about our family.

Isla: We’re in the middle of reading our Class novel called The Desperate Journey, it’s a really interesting book!

Chi-Chi: In Drama we were doing a game called Hot Seating where you had to act like a character from The Desperate Journey and express their feelings.

Rebecca: We were preparing ourselves for the Young Writer of the Year competition and we all chose our best piece of written work.

 

Lorena and Beth: For our topic we have been making Black houses from shoe boxes it was a lot of fun.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

Louise – “This week we did food technology and made awesome oatcakes. We made these because the Vikings ate them.”

Lewis – “We used apricots, butter, oats, honey and cinnamon. I thought they tasted really nice.”

Krystian – “I thought it was great fun making the cookies. They were delicious.”

Mirren – “On Tuesday we did football with P4. We were practising our skills for the world cup next week. My team is Portugal!”

Lukasz – “On Monday we welcomed our new Depute Head Teacher Mrs Smith.”

Oliwia – “In IDL we have been learning what the Vikings ate. We learned that carrots used to be purple and white. WoW!”

Charlie – “We worked in trios to create a power point about Viking food. We learned how to put a background on the power point, insert pictures from clipart and the internet and change font size and style. I look forward to presenting my groups power point next week.”

Harley – “In Maths we have been learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We learned that 3D shapes had edges, vertices and faces. I know that a cylinder has 3 faces, 2 edges and no vertices.”

Daniel – “In literacy we have been learning how to use speech marks in our writing.”

Finlay – “In reading this week we focused on inference questions. We looked at pictures and had to think about what was happening in the picture.”

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs Wassell and P4/5

 

Primary 7 have had a very different week from normal which involved experiencing learning in the dining hall!!!!! Read on for more information.

Liam – On Monday and Tuesday we used the dining hall as our classroom as our real classroom was getting painted. It’s grey and bright purple and it’s really cool!

Joshua – On Monday we welcomed our new Acting Depute Head Mrs Smith to our school. We hope Mrs Smith has had a great first week at St. Ninian’s!

Nikki – On Tuesday we did a maths assessment on angles with Mrs Smith, our new Acting Depute Head as Miss Ford was out of school at a Pope Francis Faith Award meeting with teachers from all over Scotland.

Sally – On Tuesday we played Capture the Flag outside against P7/6. It was so much fun and we got really muddy!

Rachael – On Thursday in PE we did different circuit exercises in groups. Some of the exercises were push ups and plank.

Avelon – Today we watched P3 doing an assembly about Ancient Egypt. It was really interesting.

Matthew – In our IDL topic, WW2, we have been learning about Hitler. We learned about the concentration camps which he set up.

Lianne – In RE we read a prayer about our earth and drew a picture which showed what this prayer meant to us.

Freya – We learned about Anne Frank and made posters about Anne Frank and The Holocaust.

James – We learned about compass points in maths.

Eve McC – I found out that I had achieved a Silver award in the Scottish Mathematical Challenge. Miss Ford and I will be going to a prize giving at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 26^th May.

Natasha – In writing we wrote a diary entry as if we were in Anne Frank’s position the night before she knew she had to go in to hiding.

Rebecca – In Literacy we did a short read in groups of 3 or 4 about the persecution of Jews during WW2.

Alice – We watched the next episode of Mi Vida Loca and this helped us to practice Spanish vocabulary including the months.

Eve Mac – We have been completing our 50 point IDL homework and Freya, Nikki and Eve have brought in cakes which they baked and iced with some of the flags of countries involved in WW2.

Charlie – We worked in groups to create 5 different types of graphs which displayed information relating to WW2. We did a pictograph, a bar graph, a frequency table, a line graph and a pie chart. Some of the information included number of warships sunk, deaths per country and bombs dropped per year.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! Have a great weekend!

Good afternoon.

Thank you so much for coming along to our Egyptian Assembly, it was wonderful to see that so many of you were able to come along and share in our learning.  I’m sure you will agree that the children were fantastic in remembering all the important facts about Mummification.  Here are some pictures:

 

Here are some more of our highlights from this busy week.

Maths – Division

Cameron – We completed tests to see if we have been practising our tables – it was quite hard.

Emily – I enjoyed it because it showed what we are working on.

Money

Sophie YM – I really enjoyed adding on the money and finding out the change.

Alexis – I liked the counting out the real money and working out change from 20p.

Writing – To an imaginary friend in Egypt

Kate – I enjoyed it because we got to write about anything we wanted.

Niamh – I enjoyed choosing a girl or a boy to write to.

Richard – I liked writing where my friend was in Egypt.

Reading 

Robbie – I enjoyed reading with Mrs Chirinos and looking for adjectives.

Bartosz – I enjoyed reading my book about the lost treasure.

Egyptian Assembly.

Emma – I enjoyed it because we all got to speak and we had a fun dance at the end.

Teegan – I enjoyed doing the mummy dance.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone and have a lovely weekend, thanks again for coming along 🙂

 

We have had another busy week as usual! Here are some of our highlights:

Bea: We have been continuing our learning about the Highland Clearances in the 1800’s.

Rachel: We have been making little cottages from the 1800’s called Black houses using shoeboxes.

Vanessa and Taylor: In Writing we were developing a character and we were writing about characters from our class novel The Desperate Journey.

Beth: In Drama we were Hot-Seating and trying to get into role as different characters from our class novel.

Lorena: In Spanish we have been learning how to tell the time and in Maths we have been looking at 12 hour and 24 hour time.

Brandon: In P.E. we playing indoor hockey.

Charlie: We were making games in P.E. with Mr McCurdy.

Chloe: I really enjoyed the assembly today when pupils from St. Margaret’s came in to talk to us about SCIAF.

Have a great weekend!

From Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves