Our new topic has us travelling back in time as we discover what life was like for Super Gran (aka Nancy) when she was our age. We have explored the kitchen and were so shocked to discover she didn’t have a washing machine! Imagine it was a wet and muddy playtime? Nancy’s mummy would have been very unhappy with her!! Our friend Emma (a creative Arts specialist working with Primary One) has helped us to imagine what life was like back then. We have been on summer holidays and enjoyed recreating photographs in Nancy’s photo album of her memories.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
P5 Scots Poetry Competition
Congratulations to all the children in Primary 5 who have worked extremely hard to learn their Scots poem. You all did an amazing job.
A special congratulations and well done to our finalists – Kiera McElwee, Cameron Brydon & Evie Clarke (P5a) Jessica Heeps, Callum Telford & Libby Young (P5b). You all recited your poems tremendously well and gave our expert judges a hard decision.
Primay 5 Scots Poetry winners were –
In joint second place were Kiera McElwee & Cameron Brydon
In first place was Jessica Heeps.
Well done to all three of you.
Primary 3 Scottish Poetry Winners
Our seven class competition winners did us proud this morning at the school poetry competition. They were confident, spoke loud and clear and we heard and saw some super expression and actions from all of them! Miss Robertson, Mrs Stephen, Mrs Mayhew and Mrs Cameron and all of Primary 3 thought they did an excellent job at representing us in front of the P1-3 classes and teachers and our special competition judges.
Well done Ben, Lucy E, Morgan, Lucy L, Hamza, Andrew and Josh!
The judges said they had a very tough time choosing a top three and so they decided to award a first place and then a joint second place.
So in joint second place we have…………..
Lucy E and Morgan from P3b!! They both performed “Mince and Tatties” by J.K Annand. Well done Girls!
And in first place……………..
Hamza from P3a!! Who also performed “Mince and Tatties” Well done Hamza!
Well done to our three winners and all our other competitors – you all did a fantastic job!
Primary 3 Celtic Lettering
As part of our topic work we used our artistic skills to create examples of Celtic Lettering. We created a book for our Indian visitors. I think you’ll agree they look wonderful!
What’s on next week
Primary 3 Update
Greetings from Primary 3a and 3b!
We have had a busy week as usual and have lots of news to share.
The Numeracy team have been in Williamston this week, and we were lucky enough to have some time with them in class. We showed off our Maths skills and have been learning new strategies to help us with mental arithmetic. We are learning to be more efficient when answering a Maths question and are able to share our strategies with the rest of the class. We are trying to remember that the best strategy to use involves the least number of steps to get to the answer. In topic Maths, we have been learning about numbers from the past and have designed a product that uses Mayan, Babylonian, Greek, Arabic or Egyptian number systems. Our calculators, remote controls, clocks, phones etc were colourful and exciting and we had great fun adding our chosen symbols to represent numbers. This has been preparing us for learning about Roman numerals next week. We will be exploring numerals and using them in maths work and have been asked to bring a cardboard tube into school to turn into a Roman scroll.
On Monday afternoons, we have been taking part in dance classes with a visiting teacher. Amy has been bringing out our inner divas, and we have been strutting our stuff around the big hall. We are dancing to “Happy” to promote our Growth Mindset attitude.
Our teachers were very proud of us all for doing such a good job reciting our Scottish Poems! We have all had the chance to present our poem to the rest of the class and here are the top three who will perform at tomorrow’s School poetry competition
3a…………… Hamza Khan, Andrew Farquhar and Lucy Livie
3b……………Lucy Egan, Morgan Gess and Ben Brady
Well done, we all wish you the best of luck!
We started our new Science and RME topics this week. In Science we are identifying what objects are made from in our Materials topic. We used the “Box of Mysteries” to select objects, and then decided what we thought they were made from. In RME, we are beginning our Islam topic and revised our knowledge of the Mosque this week. We discussed the inside and outside of a Mosque.
A Vile and Vicious Victorian Day in P6
P5a visit ‘Museum on the Mound’
The P5a children had a superb trip to the Bank of Scotland’s museum. We learnt about the history of money and about different items that have been used instead of money in the past. We learnt about the history of coins and we got to make our very own coins. We learnt about bank notes and how they are designed to make it difficult to fake. A great day out and we took the train to get there. What an adventure! I wonder what did the P5a children find the most interesting?
P4 Scottish Art
In P4 we used our creative skills to create pictures of the Scottish thistle using chalk, collage and pastels. We chose some to be made into pictures and cards for our Indian visitors. Aren’t they wonderful?!
Growth Mindset in P4
In P4, we have been thinking and learning about learning! We have been thinking about how we feel when we are “stuck” and when we have learned something new. We made a list of what we can do to help ourselves get out of “The Learning Pit”. We have also been discussing attitudes to learning and sorting growth and fixed mindset statements.
