The following link will give guidance to parents about the Pokemon Go app, and how to ensure their children are safe if engaging with this highly popular game.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/pokemon-go-parents-guide/

We have been very busy this week welcoming the p1s into school and helping the p2s settle back into the classroom routines. Our p2s have been very helpful showing the new p1s what to do when they come in in the morning and what to do at the end of the day when we are getting ready to go home as well as helping throughout the day.

Here is a little snap shot of some of the learning we have been doing:

We read ‘The Rainbow Fish’ story and used it to think about how to treat of friends in class. We decided on our class rules and created a class charter which we all agreed to. Elyse enjoyed decorated her own scale to add to our class rainbow fish which will be our charter display. Maris thinks we have been following our class charter well by being kind to each other in the class and in the playground.

P1 have been busy practicing their forming their name and Callum enjoyed using pegs with letters on to make his name and the names of his friends. We have been thinking about the sounds in their own names and their friends names. We have all enjoyed drawing a picture of ourselves and writing our names in our big alphabet book, thinking about the first sound in our names.

P2 have been practicing the maths the learnt last year using laptop and group games which Josh has enjoyed. P1 have been practising their number recognition and counting skills through playing games in small groups.

We have all enjoyed the opportunity to work together and get to know each other more – Oliver has enjoyed creating things from Lego and learning how to use the iPads and laptops.

We are looking forward to a busy term learning lots of new things!

Miss Bredin and P1/2

This week because of the lovely weather our class went outside and  calculated fractions on the playground instead of our jotters.

We used sticks and stones to recreate a skeleton from a worksheet guide on the playground in groups of 4. We enjoyed this activity and had to work together to achieve the goal.

We exercised and took our pulse after exercising to  discuss the difference. We completed circuits, star jumps and burpees and another exercise of our choice and recorded our pulse rate after each exercise. We discovered our pulse rate increased as we exercised.

The P7s visited to the Risk Factory on Tuesday  in Edinburgh. This showed presented pupils with different scenarios to risk assess and react. They also watched a video of the dangers of throwing stones at vehicles and safety around transport.

As this week as been sunny, we have done some of our learning outside.

I enjoyed doing our Art outside – Meah, Melissa

For one PE lesson we played rounders outside which was fun – Amber, Daniel

We did one of our shared learning times outside which was good – Chloe, Kelsey

In Maths we have been finding information from tables and graphs which was fun and easy – Toby, Kieran

Fractions was our topic in Maths and I enjoyed it – Bryan

I enjoyed how to learn to divide by 6 with no remainders – Angus

AT ICT I enjoyed learning how to set solid colours as a background – Cyrus, Alexander

In writing, we wrote biographies of Olympic athletes. I wrote about my favourite Jessica Ennis Hill – Tia

I wrote a biography about Andy Murray who’s my favourite – Jamie

With Mr Cox we practised long jump and high jump whicg was good fun – Lewis

This week in maths we have been looking at fractions. We have been working on different aspects of fractions like simplifying, equivalent fractions and fraction identification. We have also been looking at how fractions relate to percentages and decimals.

We have been discussing relationships and respect for everyone.

We have started working on athletics in PE with Mr Cox and have been carrying out sprints and both standing and running long jumps.

In art we have been working with tone to create landscapes of varying tones.

We have been working to create an information book on Amazon Rainforest animals for the P1-2 class in writing. We have to make sure that the language we use is appropriate for their age and reading ability. We have also be looking at how to use direct speech properly in our writing.

We are continuing to work in groups to practice our chosen songs in music, which we will perform to the rest of the class.

Weekly catch up on what we have been doing in class.

I enjoyed learning about different kinds of speeds in PE – Angus

This week’s maths on fractions was good – Bryan

Learning about equivalent fractions was easy – Cyrus, Lewis

I enjoyed learning about 3D shapes in maths – Kieran. Toby

Class talks about Brazil were good to listen to – Melissa, Alexander

In art we worked in pairs to design our own Olympic stadium – Tia

I enjoyed colouring in all the Brazil pictures – Chloe

We do cooking on Thursday and today we made sausage rolls. Delicious!! – Jamie

I enjoyed the playtime at the end of PE – Kelsey

We played rounders outside and played well together – Amber , Cyrus

I enjoyed giving my class talk on Brazil – Meah, Daniel

We all enjoyed eating the sausage rolls.

Primary 5,6,7 have been working on personal projects on a famous person such as Manuel Neuer, Steven Hawkins, Frida Kahlo and Akira Toriyama .We have been finding information like where they where born, there history, family tree and their personality.

I created a power point about Brazil for my class talk – Meah

I enjoyed learning the 7 times table – Melissa, Daniel

I enjoyed making my spiral snake in art – Tia ,Lewis

I was learning about fractions in math and found it easy – Chloe, Kelsey

I enjoyed working with a partner to create a Brazilian carnival float – Angus

In PE it was fun playing with the frisbee – Cyrus

As it was a sunny day we went outside to play rounders which was good – Amber/Jamie

I enjoyed running at PE – Bryan

I enjoyed all the things during PE – Kieran

We took advantage of the sunny weather and took the whole school outside for a collaborative art lesson. The pupils were set a challenge to create a piece of Brazilian art in small groups using only natural materials. We were impressed with the way the pupils worked together and even more impressed with the artwork produced!

This week our learning has included division in math, adverbs in language, rain forest animal movements and sounds in drama and drawing Christ the Redeemer as part of our RME.

I have learned how to divide by 2 with and without remainders – Toby, Kieran

I have enjoyed learning different types of shots in tennis during PE – Cyrus, Daniel, Lewis, Bryan, Angus

My favourite part was reviewing all the maths we have done so far in P4 – Melissa

Learning more about Brazil has been fun – Jamie, Tia

I enjoyed drawing and colouring the rain forest picture – Kelsey, Alexander, Meah

I have learned how to make a Timeline in ICT – Chloe, Amber

I also enjoyed painting the rain forest for our class wall display – Lewis, Meah