p1/2 – last week!

Some of the p1s listened to a description of a dinosaur adventure and had to draw what they had picture in their mind. Next week, we are going to use our pictures as a plan for writing about a dinosaur adventure.

We read the Gruffalo’s child with our new puppets and p1s had to write about our favourite part of the story giving a reason why and p2s had to sort some words in adjectives, nouns and verbs.

In PE we were learning about how to catch rugby balls.

In topic we were measuring the length of different dinosaurs in the playground and found out that different dinosaurs were different sizes.

In topic we also designed our own dinosaurs using our knowledge of how big real dinosaurs were and using our imagination to name our dinosaur. Our dinosaurs were called Gruffalosaurus, Pettyssaurus, Weirdosaurus, Spikeosaurus, Brownosaurus, Bad Rex and Everysaurus.

In maths some of the p1s were using there adding skills to buy toys from Miss Bredin’s toyshop. We need to do this so we know how much money to give the shopkeeper when we are buying things.

P2s have been learning about tens and units in maths. They had to look at a number and use cubes to work out how many tens and how many units in a number.

 

By Brodie, Luca, Elyse, Tom, Oliver, Maris and Christopher

 

 

 

Eco Committee need your help!

The Eco Committee (with the help of parent Helper Miss Louise Reid)  are hoping to develop the garden and courtyard to create outdoor learning environments that can be enjoyed by all. On the minutes (follow the Eco Committee tab at the top of the blog), you can see the ideas they have come up with so far. You will receive flyers soon telling you more, but please get in touch if there is anything you know you can help with.

Nursery Garden

Work on improving the nursery garden is well under way. Mrs Alexander has been extremely busy. She has already recycled some old tyres and turned them into all small wall around the vegetable patch.

The vegetable patch has also been dug over ready for planting. The children have been discussing what plants they would like to grow and will soon vote on their choices.

 

Mrs Alexander has also trimmed and reshaped  the willow dome for us.

 

Mrs Alexander has been coming in in her free time to get all this work finished. Thank you Mrs Alexander for all your hard work!

Nursery Week

Lots of diferent learning has taken place in the Nursery class this week. Some of the learning is detailed below.

Children have been continuing their learn about healthy food (see Sway for more detail).

Children have been busy enjoying learning in the messy area, the new water tray  is proving very popular.

Some children have been using colourful teddies to help them learn about repeated patterns and how they have an order, or rule, that can be followed.

Some pre-school children had vision test this week and  two pupils headed straight to the writing area and started making their own eye tests, the Optometrist was very impressed she commented that she had never known children to do that before!

The children have also been using our new wooden characters to help extend their learning. They enjoy using the characters to retell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Please remember to check out our Sway where you can find out about the children planting broad beans.

P6/7 Investigation continues!!!

This week we have bee continuing our investigation into the Kidnapping of the children from Green Manor. We have been working in our groups on tasks and solving training missions independantly before collaborating in our Investigation groups to solve the assignments sent to us by the Chief of Police. We look forward to sharing our learning at our Showcase assembly on Wednesday 8th March – where we will test your detective powers with mini assignments afterwards in class.

P7 also visited the Risk Factory in Edinburgh on Tuesday morning.

We have continued our development of aspects of story writing. Where we have looked at Characterisation.

In maths we have continued working on multiple operation problems involving decimals and rounding. One group has been exploring working with significant figures also.

In PE we have completed our block of Tennis and will be progressing onto a block of volleyball.

The next few weeks will be exciting for P6/7 with the continuation of our Kidnapped topic and also the redecoration of our learning environment.

Katie-I liked our block of tennis.

Jowita-In maths we have been doing decimals and adding and subtracting in different ways.

Wiktoria- I liked the way we are doing maths, language and writing differently with mixed groups.

Carlotta- For IDL we have been doing kidnapped and I can’t wait to investigate further.

Ryan-For kidnapped we were viewing the interviews on 6 suspects.

Abby – The P7’s went to the risk factory for a trip and it was fun!!!!

Matthew-I really enjoyed our P7 trip to the risk factory because it taught me about different risks and scenarios.

Donnie- I learned how to use significant numbers in maths.

Kai- In maths I learned how to multiply decimals.

Alice-I liked doing Kidnapped I hope we get another e-mail soon!!

Kian-At the risk factory there were so many things to do like videos and scenarios.

 

P3/4/5/ Our Week’s Learning

In maths I learned how to divide and multiply a 2 digit decimal – Lewis

I learned what a Cantilever bridge was and it is made up from steel shaped in a Diamond shape-Alex

In PE I learned how to play short tennis – Angus

I learned what the different types of bridges are and I learned what a structure is.-Ava

On Thursday my daddy came into school with real bricks and real cement and so the group that I was in got to build a stable wall and the group that I was not in got to build an unstable wall and it was lots of fun-Meah

On Thursday PE was very fun Because it was our last time doing tennis i was up against Alex and Lewis me and Toby -Kieran

In maths the triangles was doing the 8x tables and i thought it was hard but easy at the same – Chloe

In maths most of primary fives went to Mrs Browne’s to multiply and divide decimals and we had to mark it on our own I found it very very hard but just to mark it the work was complicated so i needed some help because of the first one was pretty hard to do because I am not that good at dividing but I am good at my times table-Melissa

yesterday Meah’s dad came and taught us a bit more about structures and about his -work because he builds structures he showed us pictures of some he had made then we went outside to build a wall some people built a safe wall and the other peaple built a unsafe wall – Sophie lee

In writing all of the primary fives went through to Mrs Brown’s to do  some writing unfortunately Mrs Brown was away so we did writing with Mrs Ferguson we were doing characterisation and describing what some people look like my group were describing a young boy then we changed around groups and described other charecter’s after that we described our own made up character-Tia

I enjoyed learning about Microbes because now I know all about microbes so now they will not make me ill-Toby

I liked doing math with Mrs Brown because we were doing X table and division – Cyrus

Yesterday Mrs Grant hid wallys all round the school because it was world book day it was really fun after that we had to do a quiz and Mrs Ferguson said who won-Rebecca,Amber and Jack

one of the class mates have a dad called Mr burns and he is the head of his building  firm. The houses he builds a lot of nice and really awesome. He looks so busy every day. Jamie

Our week in p1/2

As always we have had a very busy week. Here is what the boyus and girls hvae remembered learning.

We have been learning about what the land looked like when dinosaurs were around and with a partner we created a picture of this land using different materials – pencil, pen, paint and different papers. Lewis

In art, we have been making dinosaur skeletons from art straws. Maris

In maths some of us were using the Ipads to practise adding numbers together. We were trying to get as many right as we could. Kaila

Others have been using computers to add to 20 or 10. Ruby

Some of us have been learning about how we would keep ourselves safe if we went on a dinosaur adventure. We had to decide what to pack in our backpacks. Next week in writing, we are going to go on our dinosaur adventure and write all about it. Adam

In writing, some of us made our own pancakes and had to write instructions to do this. Kaila

We have also been learning to write sentences which make sense by filling in the missing word. Callum

Today, for world book day we have been finding Wally’s around the school and playground as a house competition. Tom

This morning, we read The Gruffalo together because it is Miss Bredin’s favourite book. We did 4 activities to do with the Gruffalo story:

  1. We acted out the story using our new Gruffal puppets. Oliver
  2. We drew our favourite part of the story. Christopher
  3. We completed a true and false quiz about the story with a group. Stephen
  4. We worked as a group to describe the Gruffalo and the mouse. Luca

We are looking forward to sharing our favourite book with others this afternoon.