This week’s events:

 The NSPCC came to our school to talk to P6/7 and P7 about different types of child abuse and how to deal with it and who to talk to.

Lauren: We done a NSPCC workshop with 2 ladies, called “Sarah and Karen.”

Thomas: The NSPCC came in for a workshop and gave us these kits to do.

Ivana: We done a NSPCC worksheet, it was fun.

Brooke: We done our NSPCC workshop it was really fun.

Matt: This week we had the NSPCC.

Exciting things happening in the Upper Area:

We are starting a show called, “The Gospel Show.” And this Friday we are holding auditions to have different parts in it. The people judging will be, Mrs Roy, Miss McCormack and Mrs McMullen.

Toni: This week we found out that P6, P7 and P6/7 are doing a show and we got a part of the script as well.

Ethan: On Friday we’re auditioning for the Gospel Show.

Our new Block in P.E.:

We started a new block in P.E which is gymnastics and so far we have been taught to do different balances, rolls and rotations skills.

Beth: This week we have been working more on gymnastics in P.E.

Abi: This week in P.E we did gymnastics for our next block.

Spanish

This week in Spanish we learned more about our familia (family) and how to say their names in Spanish. We also did our familia tree in Spanish.

Jay: We done Spanish with Mrs McMullen about a family tree.

Ryan: We were learning about the different family member’s with Mrs McMullen in Spanish.

Writing

This week in writing we got a little creative and did imaginative piece of writing about the Stuarts and the Tudors (Mary Queen of Scots family tree.), we wrote facts sheets on more information about them.

Abi: For writing we wrote about May Queen of Scots family tree.

Haseeb: In writing we wrote an Imaginary story.

Committees

This week was our first week back at committees, and the Mini Vinnes are holding a Toys and Book donation, the deadline is Thursday the 21^st of January, it is a donation! Not something we must buy, let your child hand it in to the P4 classroom (Miss Ford) also it can be unused or old toys.

Lorena: On Friday we went to our committees, I really enjoy mines as we fulfil our roles as house and vice captains.

From P6/7 and Mrs Roy, have a good weekend!!!

It has been a busy first week back for primary 7!

Oskar – Writing was good this week I think I did a good job.

Maxx – For writing this week we had to split our paper in to 4 sections: me, my school, my local community and my world. We then had to set goals/resolutions about what we wanted for each area in the future.

Gaby – I enjoyed working with Mrs MacDonald for maths this week, we were working on fractions and percentages.

Lukasz – This week I enjoyed PE with Mr. McCurdy – We started our gymnastics block.

Viet – I enjoyed doing an art activity with Mrs Wassell about what is inside my head.

Charlie – I enjoyed doing our task map for our group novels.

Lucas – I enjoyed seeing all my friends after the Christmas holidays.

It has been a very busy week and all pupils have been working hard.
Primary 7 have a very busy term ahead and will continue to try their very best in all our school and class activities.

Happy New Year to everyone.  P2 have been thinking about their hopes for this year and we all spent some time filling in three stars, a hope at school, a hope at home and a hope for the world!  It was a lovely way to start the week.

We also revisited our class charter and reminded ourselves of the three important school rules; READY, RESPECTFUL and SAFE.  We drew new pictures to show these rules in action and these will be displayed over the next week.

P2 have started to look at how to join up our writing we are using the programme Letterjoin to help us.  If you would like to try it at home google Letterjoin and the username is ninians and the password is school.  Happy joining 🙂

In  Numeracy we are looking at groupings and repeated addition to find out how many altogether.  This will lead us into learning about multiplication.  We are also looking at time as a Maths focus.  We will be revising O’Clock and Half Past and then moving onto looking at quarter to and past.

Next week we will start our home learning again so look out for the homework bags and jotter coming home on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend.

This week was amazing for the children in p6/7 because after a long Christmas break they finally saw their friends again!

Here’s what everyone had to say about their first week back:

Ambra -This week we learned about percentages.

Ivana – We did a Mary Queen of Scots family tree.

ALL-We had Mrs Wassell for Art this week and everyone in the class loved making silhouettes and talking to her.

Ethan-Me, Kalin and Bea went to Mrs Purdie’s office to help make new school values by going to p4 –p7classes asking them what they like and dislike about our school.

Cole and Bea-Today the NSPCC came for a visit in St Ninians to tell us that we can always call Childline and that they taught us that we shouldn’t keep our worries to ourselves.

They told us if we were worried all we have to is call (0800 1111).

By Cole and Abi (Lead Learners)

Phonics

The sounds we have been learning this week are…

Anna: the ee sound and the oo sound.

Carter: both the sounds are black.

Shea: that means they come from the vowel house.

Layla: you need two ‘e’ for the ee sound.

Luke: you need two ‘o’ for the oo sound.

Lucas: the ee sound in the vowel house has a donkey.

Celine: the donkey makes the ee sound.

Rojin: the oo sound in the vowel house has a ghost.

Amelia: joining the sounds on paper – ee and oo.

Freya: we were writing names too.

Here are the ee and oo songs to help us with our learning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jj1WAkE6mQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxiRp9Vxz98

Search for ‘Geraldine the Giraffe’ on you tube to find different videos of sounds to support understanding of sounds in words.

Maths

Roma: 1p is a wee circle and has a number 1 on it and 2p is a bigger circle and has a 2 on it. They are brown.

Michelle: 5p is small and is silver. 10p is big and is silver.

Freya: I liked writing how much money there was in the piggy bank.

Olivier: I liked playing in the shop.

Jane: There is a till in the shop and money.

Igor: I was buying a pen in the shop.

Carter: I liked playing with the magnet and catch the money with the magnet because it is metal and then you say what money you catch.

Scott: I liked finding the money in the tuff tray.

Luke: On the smart board you had to put the money in the right box.

Here is the game we have been using to enhance our learning this week:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Individual Talks

All individual talks have been completed now. Over the next week, your child’s talk and feedback will be uploaded to their online journal.

Carter: I liked telling everyone about my trumpet.

Shea: I liked telling everyone about my robot.

Freya: I liked Carter’s trumpet.

Luke: I liked Carter’s trumpet.

Rojin: I liked telling people about my toy – kitten surprise.

Science

Roma: We went to the nursery to play with toys. We were looking for things that could push or pull.

Pati: In the see-saw you had to push your legs.

Anna: On a scooter you had to push.

Luke: The wheel swing – you can push and pull.

Freya: In the garden I found ice and we brought it back to the classroom. We watched the ice melt in a tub. We put the tubs back outside to see if the water would turn into ice overnight. When we checked in the morning it was still water because it wasn’t cold enough at night time.

It has been a brilliant year! These are the highlights from the children about their first half of P2;

Oliver – I love everything about P2!

Milena – I really like Science.

Chloe – I think PE is great.

Thea – The best bit about P2 is getting to learn Maths.

Micah – My favourite thing about P2 is Mrs Currie.

Cooper – i like Number Talks.

Amelia – I really like Mrs Currie.

Christopher – I really like PE.

Jack – I like PE too.

Kayla – I like doing writing.

Dani – I like PE.

Evie – I like drawing.

Leon – I love PE.

Victoria – PE is good.

Hanna – Getting prizes.

Eve – I like learning Boost Words.

Jiya – I  like learning about maths.

Hannah – I like learning with my friends.

Yasmin – I like Science.

Riley – I like Fun 31 time.

Abigail – I like writing time.

Alasdair – I like Fun 31.

Ask your child to sing you this festive song that we have learned to sing to the school during our Sing-a-long on Friday.

Have a happy, safe and fun Christmas,

Mrs Currie