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Wow! What another busy week we have had. There seems to be no end to the fun we have in school.

On Monday we had a visit from Vikings who came from Scandinavia. They introduced themselves as Thorgrim, Skulkey and the lady had an unusual name which we can’t quite remember.

Finlay: ‘they introduced us to the language they spoke, called Norse, which sounded very odd to us’.

Abi: ‘Charlie from the other class was dressed up as a Konungr. Finlay, Jay, Lauren and Mrs Wassell took part in the story that the Vikings made up. It was Finlay and Jay’s birthday and they went out hunting wild boar and Jay managed to kill the wild boar but Finlay chose the wrong weapon and was struck by the wild boar in the stomach and died a slow painful death!

Joshua: ‘after the story of the wild boar the Vikings showed us their weapons and how they used them in battle’.

Marcella: ‘the Vikings were fighting with the weapons and enacted a battle’.

We had such fun and it was a great way to learn.

On Tuesday we attended our assembly at the Lanthorn which was about Fair Trade Fortnight and how we can help the farmers overseas to get a fair price for the products the grow.

Charlie: ‘I was apprehensive about singing the song and saying my words’

In writing we wrote a news report about our Viking visit. We pretended we were reporters and we tried very hard to use adjectives and interesting sentences with alliterative headlines.

In maths we have been looking at division and the process of dividing a big number into 2,3,4,5,6 and 7. We had to work hard to concentrate so we could work out the answers.

On Wednesday we made Viking weapons of our own. We looked in detail about the designs of the weapons and how the more intricate the design on the weapon, the wealthier the clan was.

On Thursday we discussed Gods creation and how He made Adam and Eve to form a relationship with one another because God did not want man to be alone. We focused on how important it is to look after one another and be kind to each other and only say nice things.  If we are kind to each other we build positive relationships which results in us being happy. We know that we work our very best when we are happiest.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

P4/5, Mrs Dunse and Mrs Wassell

This week in Primary 7 we have been assessing our Term 3 learning so far. Read on for more information.

Nikki – On Wednesday we did our functional writing assessment. It was a newspaper report about the outbreak of WW2.

Rebecca – On Wednesday we also did our termly 50 word spelling assessment!

Charlie – In PE we did Russian Longball with Mr McCurdy and the Illinois agility fitness test with Mrs Rankin.

Catherine – On Thursday we had an assembly with Mrs Roy which was about Catholic Education Week and Lent. At this assembly the house captains set a challenge for every class to fit every child inside one A4 piece of paper!!!! Watch this space to see our progress!!!

Avelon – This week we have been doing Number Talks style of mental maths with Mrs Rankin. At first we found it quite difficult but we are getting better!

Sally – In Art we looked at hot and cold colours and used paint and black paper to make a skyline scene which shows the contrasting colours.

Paris – We learned about the GIRFEC indicator ‘Active’ and researched information about ‘green exercise’. We also did some science work on Speed, Distance and Time and forces. We made rockets and launched them then used the time and distance information to work out the speed which they travelled at. The winning rocket was the fastest one and it travelled at 8m/s!!!

Rachael – We launched our new IDL topic WW2 and we learned about the reasons for WW2 starting, the key leaders from each country and we listened to Neville Chamberlain’s speech which he made to the people of Britain on 3^rd September 1939. You can listen to Chamberlain’s speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJ_zbz1NyY

Have a great weekend!

Here are our comments for this week:

Ethan: I came first in the whole school in the Bleep test with 10.3!

Brandon: We started a new maths carousel learning about finding fractions of quantities.

Thomas: We played ‘Hit the ball’ in P.E.

Rebecca: We did our spelling assessment – it was quite fun!

Cole B: We all wrote a report about the St. Ninian’s 40^th anniversary celebrations for our assessment.

Vanessa: Today some of my friends went to sing our St Ninian’s school song to some of the parents.

Matt: We started our new topic about the Highland clearances.

Charlie: We learnt that years ago many people living in the Highlands were thrown out of their houses and their farms were replaced with lots of sheep to make money.

Cole F: I learnt that the word ‘clan’ comes from the Gaelic language and it means ‘children’.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves

A short but busy week in P4/5 this week. This week we celebrated Catholic Education week. We enjoyed a very interesting assembly with Father Kenneth who shared lots of pictures and exciting information about his trip to Israel. We discussed what it meant for us to be part of a Catholic school and community.

In writing this week, we wrote a new paper report about the 40th celebrations in St Ninian’s. We looked at all of the lovely facebook and twitter posts about our celebrations to add quotes into our reports.

In maths we have been continuing to learn all about division. We have been exploring different strategies that we can use to help is e.g. grouping in arrays, repeated addion/subtraction and inverse calculations. It is very important for us to keep learning our times tables to help with division.

Mrs Dunse has been working with us in Health and Wellbeing this week. We looked at lots of different foods and drinks to see how much sugar is in them. We weighed out the sugar using scales so we could visualise how much sugar was in these products. We could not believe how much sugar was in a jar of dolmio sauce. We understand that sugar not only makes foods and drinks sweet but is also used as a preservative.

We were learning about viking raids this week and talked about the weapons the vikings used. We are currently in the process of making weapons in class. We look forward to sharing the final products with you next week.

We have also been working hard this week learning all about fairtrade to share with our cluster schools next week at the cluster assembly. We watched a video all abouta young boy called Patrick from Ghana who works on his uncles cocoa farm. It is very sad that so many farmers from third world countries work so very hard yet earn very little. It has made us think about the chocolate that we buy from the shops.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs W and P4/5