We have been very busy with our learning this week in Primary 4B – so busy in fact that we would like to share with you some aspects of our learning that we have been finding tricky this week and how we have overcome any difficulties!

“I have been finding subtraction difficult but I’ve been concentrating to get better at it.” (Kara)

“I have been finding reading skills tricky but I have learned that there is no limit to the number of times that I can go back and read the story and when I do this I eventually find my answer.” (Finlay).

“I have  been finding the bigger numbers in subtraction difficult. I am learning strategies to overcome this e.g. to take away 9, take away 10 and then add back 1, for example, with 43 subtract 9, subtract 10 first (33) then add back 1 (34).” (Areej).

This week in Primary 4B we have been learning about the major bodies of water around the world, as part of our water topic and we had great fun in doing so! It proved to be an interesting lesson and Mr Mackie was impressed with the atlas and mapping skills in amongst the class! We have all managed to locate the world’s five main oceans but can you identify them by name? Some of us even located other major seas and principal rivers.

Hello all. This week has been a very busy week as we prepare to deliver our assembly on Friday morning on the value of the month, ‘Patience.’ We really do hope to see as many of our friends and family there as possible! Also, we have started addition in numeracy, written a personal piece of writing about our October break, discussed needs and wants in relation to water use and we have identified the key features of a Christian Baptism. Another busy week – goodbye!

Welcome to Primary 4B and our blog page. We have enjoyed posting on Twitter this year and just love to see who has liked our posts so please check here also and leave us your feedback and comments – we are very much looking forward to reading them!

We are enjoying settling into our new class and also getting to know each other and our teacher – this is important as some of us were in a different class last year.

This year will be a busy year for us as we are now in the ‘bigger’ part of the school. We will study Water and Scotland as our topics, hopefully visit Edinburgh just like last year’s P4 did and of course end with our show, amongst many other things! We know that our year will be an enjoyable one though as long as we try our best, apply a good attitude to school and learning and participate in classroom life positively as we would be expected to do.

Thank you for reading!

Primary 4B

Thank you to all who came to watch the Primary 4 assembly on Friendship this morning, Friday 4th December.

This week, Mrs Doak and Mr Reid from The Livingston Bridge Association came to deliver their second session in Primary 4. Please don’t think we are having too much fun though! We are problem solving all the time as we play, having to come up with a strategy in teams and work out our next move together. It is certainly a challenge!

Becoming ever more musical as the weeks go on, with Mrs Poynter and NYCOS!

On Wednesday 29th April, Primary 5 had a visit from music students at Edinburgh College who kindly gave up some of their time to run a series of music performance workshops in school.

Have you seen these Wanted Superhero Villains? Primary 5 are certainly looking!