This has been an amazing week for P4! We have had so much fun that it felt like a short week.

It kicked off with a Vicious Viking visit which we really enjoyed!! We learned so many new things and loved getting to see some of the weapons, jewellery and different animal skins.

We would like to share some of the interesting things we learned with you:

“The cheapest weapon was the club and it caused the most damage even when chainmail was involved!” – Adrin

“The Vikings washed their white clothes in ammonia (which is PEE) to keep them clean!” –  Hannah

“The sword was very rare because of how expensive they were.” – Haseeb

“It took 25,000 crushed sea snails to make enough purple dye to make a dress.” – Ailie

“The woman kept a knife in their pocket in case they were attacked at home.” – Evie

“Some of the jewellery had a cross on it but when you turned it upside down it looked like Thor’s hammer.” – Brooke

After our exciting visit we decided to use what we had learned to make our very own Viking weapons and jewellery. We wrote newspaper articles about our visit and hope to make the into a class newspaper!

In maths, we have been learning about division in the standard form. This proved to be very tricky in the beginning but we are more confident with it now! We have enjoyed using sumdog, board games and written tasks to help us learn.

In preparation for our sacraments, we were learning about different Saints including Saint Vincent De Paul, Saint Margaret and Saint Francis of Assisi.

We have been preparing for our class assembly which is next Friday morning and will be focussing on Lent.

Some of our classmates participated in World Thinking day and enjoyed wearing their Brownie uniforms to school.

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond, Miss Crookston and P4!

P7 this week had a trip to St Margaret’s High School as part of their transition programme.  It was a great success.  The children followed a timetable which involved a Social Studies lesson, Science lesson and PE lesson.  Everyone seemed to really enjoy the experience and they were a credit to the school in their manners and behaviour.

In class we have began our new topic of World War 2.  We have looked at the leaders of the countries involved and the causes for the outbreak of the war.  The children have all completed a registration card and understand why it was so important to have identification during the War time period.  Next week we are going to be learning about the Blitz and evacuations.

For our Maths work we have been continuing our work on angles.  P6 went on an angle hunt around the classroom and took photographs of different types of angles.  These will be put in our class talking book.  Next week we are moving onto looking at data handling which we will link to different aspects of WWII.

In class we have been discussing The First Ministers Reading Challenge.  This is an opportunity for the children to record the books they are reading for pleasure.  Everyone was issued with a passport for this challenge last term during Monday Circle time.  Children are welcome to bring their passport into class and they will be given an opportunity to share their reading with a friend.

On Thursday we were all treated to an amazing assembly by Fr Kenneth about his recent trip to Jerusalem.  His photographs that he shared were excellent and his stories of his trip were very interesting.  This fitted in well with our Catholic Education Week Theme of our Faith Community.  In class we discussed how a church is not the building but the people who gather together.  We found a lovely picture to show this and we have put this into our journal.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

A short but fun filled week in Primary 6.  The focus this week has been catholic education week. Ask what we have been learning about in class and what our Faith Community means to us.

Pupil Comments:

Rugare- This week was catholic education week we learned a lot about it in RE.

Erin O- this week in P.E we choreographed our own gymnastics routines to eye of the tiger and showed them to the rest of the class.

Neave – This week every class in the school got a gift!!  You are probably wondering what the gift was, well it is a kaleidoscope, a pompom  ball, an emoji pillow, a 40 page colouring book, a light up thing, a red stress ball ,a snake puzzle and a slinky. This has been added to our mindfulness area with our bean bag and growth mindset posters.

Erin r –all the toys were delivered by Erin r

Erwin – This week on Thursday we have been writing about our 40^th anniversary as a newspaper article and on Friday I have got chosen to be the prefect for the infants. AWESOME.

Amera- This week all the classes got a gift!! And our little change box is nearly filled, well done.

Emma-This week we got a basket of different things and we had priest come in to share his photographs from his trip to Israel.

We have had a short but busy week in P4 this week!

We have been celebrating Catholic Education Week and wrote a ‘Faith Community’ poem as a class. Some of us decided we would like to write our own and we have shared them on the School Twitter.

As part of our Viking topic, we have been learning about settlements, lifestyle and travel. We got to make our very own Viking and got to design our own shields.

One of the highlights of our week was participating in the Cluster Handball Festival. Everyone tried their very best and every team won a few games. The most important thing is that we all had lots of fun!

In writing this week, we were writing news reports all about our 40^th celebrations. We had to include title, pictures and quotes from members of our school community.

We have an exciting week ahead next week so stay tuned for our next blog post.