Phonics

Kian: we learned the ‘t’ sound.

Harry: it’s blue because it’s like ‘s’ and comes from your tongue.

Reka: ‘t’ for tam.

Riyah: we learned the ‘a’ sound.

Mason: it comes from the tunnel. The tunnel goes to a house. The ‘a’ sound lives in the basement of the house.

Lucy: the ‘a’ sound is black.

Carly: the song is about an ant crawling on your arm.

We’ve also been blending sounds together to make words. We know that a black sound needs to go in the middle of the word (most of the time) so that it makes sense. Practise layering up your sound cards in your sounds folder to spell and read words e.g. cat, sat.

Can you listen out for the sounds we have learned in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4l4u9YaIfQ

 

Numeracy

This week we have been working on what numbers represent and showing our understanding that the numeral has a value with it.

Our first task was gluing pom-poms onto a piece of paper. We had to be careful to use the correct number of pom-poms. Did you spot these on our numeracy working wall last night?

Sophie F: we had to get pom-poms into glue and stick it on the paper. There was a number in the middle and you had to have that many pom-poms.

We completed a task where we listened carefully to an instruction e.g. draw 6 flowers, and add that detail onto our drawing.

Kian: you had to draw a number of things. You had to draw 4 clouds.

On Wednesday, we had different boxes with lots of dinosaurs in them but we only had to colour in a certain number of dinosaurs. We had to keep checking how many we had coloured in and how many still needed to be coloured.

Amelie: we had to colour the number of dinosaurs that the paper said.

We also completed a counting and recording activity.

Harry: we counted dinosaurs then wrote the number in a circle.

You could try some of these things at home using your whiteboard and pen from your maths bag.

Those who didn’t attend the meet the family event last night will be given the maths bag home on Wednesday in your child’s homework folder.

 

Our Highlights

Lennox: playing with the bricks. I built a taxi.

Amelie: playing with Carly.

Anna: playing with the blocks. I built a house.

Anaiya: playing with the house corner.

Carly: playing with Amelie because she is my best friend.

Lucy G: playing with Sophie because she is my best friend.

Sylvia: playing with Kian because he is my best friend.

Sophie F: playing in the house corner because it is my favourite bit.

Chloe: playing with the house corner.

Grace: I liked watching numberjacks.

Kian: I liked playing with the bricks. I built a Disney castle.

Mason: playing with Grace because she is my best friend.

Joanna: playing with the baby dolly.

Max: playing with the train track.

Zaki: playing with the train track with Max.

Harry: playing with the bricks and building a school.

Parker: playing with Kian because he went with each other.

Myron: playing with the blocks.

Sophie J: playing with Lucy because she is my best friend.

Riyah: playing with the bricks. I built a tower.

Reka: playing with Sylvia because she is my friend.

This Week in Primary 6/7…

P.E:  In P.E we have been doing rugby
This week we did little matches and drills.

Writing: in writing this week we were writing “I am from” poems. Inspired by the poem Where I’m from by George Ella Lyon.
We focused on emotive language and thought about our favourite memories to include in our poems.

In literacy we have been improving our figurative language and have continue reading Wonder.

Music: In music we were doing our own original piece of music In our groups using different instruments to do this task.

Today we are celebrating Saint Ninian by having a Mass with the whole school.

Pupil Voice:

Kacper: I enjoyed doing The figuritive language posters.

Oliwier : I enjoyed The mini rugby games.

Adrin: music was very fun and i really like The new teacher.

Sean: I enjoyed The poem writing it was very exhilarating

Ethan I enjoyed  music  this week

Aaron: I enjoyed writng and never expected I’d do so good.

Kasia-I enjoyed wonder the august part six.

Huda-I enjoyed improving my  language.

Emma- I enjoyed when we did a poems writing.

Hasan-I enjoyed rugby and learned new things.

Joshua- I enjoyed listening to film music and guessing the instruments and what film it was from. J

Joseph: I enjoyed hymn practice J

Robbie: I enjoyed meet the family.

Mark: I enjoyed music

Aidan : I enjoyed doing rugby and music :/

 

Miss McCormack:
Thank you to the families who came along to our meet the family evening, it was great to see you all.
Enjoy the long weekend!!

 

 

This week, P5 has been really fun!

We have been reading James and the Giant Peach and are at a really exciting stage in the story where James has met the giant bugs! We made posters to advertise the giant peach and developed our tint and shade skills to create a night sky and giant peach picture.

“I really liked doing the art and first we done the night sky and then the peach!” – Julia C

In maths, we have been learning about rounding numbers and estimating answers. We completed some written tasks as well as active tasks and our favourite activity was using the Kahoot quiz.

“Kahoot was really fun because you got to see your name, how well you were doing and how many points you had on the big screen!” – Wojtek

“Kahoot was fun trying to answer the questions! Some of them were tricky!” – Zoe

In PE, we have been developing our basketball skills. This week we were practising shooting balls into the hoop.

“I liked the part where you have to aim and shoot!” – Alan

In writing, we have been wrting a poem about James’ first encounter into the peach. We had to use a metaphor to help describe how he would have been feeling. We found this very difficult.

“I liked ding writing because it was fun and enjoyable!” – Lennon

“I liked doing the writing because we didn’t have to make the poem rhyme and I liked writing the ‘I wonder…, I worry and I hear…’ sentences.” – Harry

We are still enjoying taking part in free writing Friday. This week we had some stories, some comic strips, some recipes and some annotated diagrams.

Enjoy the long weekend, Primary 5 and Miss Diamond.

See you on Wednesday!

Primary 2 have been busy across the curriculum this week. We have been exploring shapes for mathematics and finding numbers that come before, after and in between up to 100. We watched The Lorax film and thought about things that were similar and different to the novel.

Some pupil highlights are below:

Scott – I loved playing in our play corner. I made train tracks really long and they were rectangles and triangles. We learned about shapes in maths.

Anna – We watched The Lorax. It was fun.

Freya – We got to bring our teddies to the movie and have some snacks.

Cordelle – We had to make a colourful ticket to get into the cinema in our class for the movie.

Michelle – We did writing about our book called ‘Who’s at the Door’.

Paul – We got to try our big play area with magnetic sand. I made loads of tools with it.

Lucy – We have free writing Friday jotters. I wrote about my little sister’s birthday today.

Roma – We made our brains in growth mindset and we learned to not give up and keep trying. A yucky brain means you’re not working hard and a colourful brain means you work really hard.

Joshua – Our Truffula Trees we made are now up on our window.

 

Miss Lydon

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of learning happening in primary 6/7 this week. We are all back in the swing of learning!
Primary 6 pupils have set their learning goals and primary 7 will be setting up their profiles soon! (technical difficulties!)

We have been enjoying reading more of our class novel and have focused our literacy learning around this. Hopefully we will finish the novel next week, ready to start group novels after the September weekend.

We all spoke about the Pope Francis Faith Award. P6 pupils will be starting their journey this year if they are taking part and primary 7 pupils will continue their journey. Miss McCormack aims to have this up and running by October.

Primary 6 pupils who took part in Bike Ability last year have been invited to complete level 2. Letters sent home today.

Pupil Comments:

Ethan:  I enjoyed  doing  rugby

Emma: I enjoyed when we did writing for a day with mixed emotions

Aaron: I enjoyed learning about 3D shapes

Louise: I enjoyed reading part 4 of Wonder

Joshua: The Games Rugby Games With Mr McCurdy Were Fantastic, Can’t Wait For The Weeks To Come

Hasan: I enjoyed rounding because I remember it more and I know how to work it out.

Aidan  this week I  enjoyed doing rugby with Mr Mcurdy

Sean:  I enjoyed reading about jack in wonder

Oliwier: I liked the PE lesson the games were fun I hope to do more.

Kasia- I liked writing about personal emotions I liked writing about my story

Adrin:I enjoyed  Rugby with Mr McCurdy

Joseph: I enjoyed doing the captains assembly

Mark: I really liked doing the house captain assembly

Jan: I really enjoyed doing and preparing the House Captain Assembly

Evie: This week I really enjoyed preparing & doing the House Captain assembly

Ailie: I enjoyed writing about personal Emotions

Zuzanna: I enjoyed reading wonder

Kacper: I enjoyed attending the house captain assembly

Levente I enjoyed doing Spanish and learning new words.

Huda I enjoyed free writing  Friday.

Robbie: I enjoyed music. We sang songs and played games.

 

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Pupil Voice:

Lucy G – I have enjoyed drawing pictures.

Mason – I have enjoyed drawing.

Harry – I made Mr Googly-Eyes!

Reka – I have liked drawing.

Myron – I have enjoyed playing with Max.

Riyah – I have been drawing pictures.

Sophie F – I have been learning all about the number 9.

Ollie – I have made a box to keep pencils in.

Carly – I have been learning how to write the number 5.

Grace – I made a beautiful crown for my mum I am going to put beads on it.

Anaiya – I have been drawing numbers.

Joanna – I can draw a number 8.

Sophie J – I showed everyone my cuddly toy Chloe.

Parker – I enjoyed playing with Jack in the big playground on Funky Friday.

Max- I have enjoyed playing.

Anna – I have enjoyed playing with the train track.

Lennox – I have started to make an elephant using junk material.

Zaki – I learned about the number 9, I drew the number 9 and I counted the number 9 and I sang a number song with Mrs Roy.

Kian – I have been playing with Harry outside, we like to play tig.

Chloe – I like to play with the dolls house.

Sylvia – I like to draw pictures for everyone.

Teacher voice

Mrs Stewart – I liked playing the game for the ‘p’ and ‘s’ sound.

Mrs Roy  – I enjoyed working in P1 this morning. We were learning how to write the number 9 and count up to 9. We also went to our first House Assembly led by the House Captains. Mrs Beattie came to join us after play time. It was lovely to see her!

 

This week, P5 has been very busy!

In PE we played dodgeball and started learning skills required in basketball.

“It was very fun!” – Madison

“I like doing basketball and dribbling the ball!” – Alishba

We had another Free Writing Friday slot today where we get to decided what we want to write about.

“I like doing Free Writing Friday!” – Oma

“I liked making a comic strip!” – Annayah

We have continued to work on our class novel, James and the Giant Peach! This week we had to make information leaflets to advertise the Giant Peach and encourage tourists to come along and visit the extraordinary attraction.

“I really enjoyed making the leaflet and I liked using ideas from the book to write in my persuasive leaflet to persuade tourists to come and visit the mammoth peach!” – Angelina

In maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

“We looked at the numbers and focussed on the number in the units column to decide which ten to round it to!” – Harry

“I liked rounding numbers and when we completed the written task we played a fun game with a partner. You had to have a secret number and tell your partner what the number was rounded to the nearest ten and then your partner had 3 attempts to guess your secret number!” – Wojtek

“We also completed a scavenger hunt outside and had to find examples of different maths related shoes, angles and symmetry and take a photo on a device. We are going to make posters to display our findings.” – Matthew

In art, we have developed our learning of tint and shared further by creating a pattern using one colour but added white or black to make different tints and shades.

“It was fun because there was a pattern and we had to put different tints and shades in each section!” – Julia K

“I had a lot of fun doing this and I enjoyed discovering different shades of blue!” – Maeve

During smart start we had one activity where we had to make a personal profile using Microsoft word.

“I found this really fun and added a picture of my favourite games to mine!” – Ahmad

“I enjoyed doing construction during smart start!” – Marcus

We had another look at metaphors this week as this proved to be a little trickier than similes last week.

“I enjoyed listening to lots of songs that had metaphors in them and trying to identify what metaphor was in the song!” – Angelina

“I liked doing the worksheet about metaphors where we had to draw a picture of the metaphor and explain what they mean.” – Ana

Some of our favourite metaphors that we learned this week are:

“I am titanium!” – Leo

“It’s raining cats and dogs!” – Ahmad

“He has a heart of stone!” – Filip

“Her heart was broken!” – Madison

“His mind was on fire!” – Maeve

We hope you have a great weekend, P5 and Miss Diamond.