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

First of all we would like to say congratulations to our candidates for Head Boy and Girl who have their interviews today. We also want to say well done to everyone who applied and completed such excellent application forms. Head Boy, Head Girl and Deputies will be announced next week.

Well done to all pupils who have been appointed as Prefects. Prefect duties will begin next week.

This week we have continued to help and support our P1 buddies and have enjoyed getting to know them better.

To celebrate Roald Dahl day next week we voted for Danny Champion of the World to be read as our class novel. We are really enjoying the novel so far.

In writing we have been working on persuasive speeches and thinking about what we would do to improve the school. We have tried hard to use repetition, persuasive language and exaggeration.

In music with Ms MacDonald P7b have been working on a song with a growth mindset theme. We are enjoying being creative and applying our musical talents with some help from Gregor, Scott and their guitars!

In maths we have been exploring place value, what it means and how we can use it. We will continue working on this as well as developing our skills in rounding next week. As part of problem solving we have explored number patterns and sequences and discussed the rule the sequence follows.

Have a great weekend and we will post another update next Friday.

Miss Brown and P7

It has been a really busy but exciting week. A very important role in P7 is being a buddy to the new P1 pupils. As part of this we have created and edited a video and made posters and leaflets to help share our knowledge with the school. We want to ensure we are quality buddies!

In PE with Mr Muldoon we completed the beep test and are going to be working really hard to improve our fitness this term.

In class we have been working on putting together our class charter. This has involved deciding on articles as well as teacher and pupil agreements to ensure everyone respects these rights. We completed designs and voted for our favourite one. Kyle, Rowan, Lochlan and Finlay’s wonderful monopoly design won!

It has been a busy week completing application forms at home. To help us with this process we have reflected on our skills and qualities and thought about what positions we would like to apply for.

It has been really enjoyable spending lots of time with our P1 buddies. It is great to see them settling in so well and helping them to become more independent.

Have a great weekend, from P7b.

It has been another busy week in P3/2, with lots of fun learning.

We have enjoyed taking part in Tennis and Dance classes as part of our health week learning and made ‘perky punch’ using fresh fruit. It was delicious!

On Thursday, we celebrated the wedding of Finn and Morgan and had a wonderful day. We enjoyed the singing, dancing and speeches!

Today, we had an achievement assembly. Well done to Callum, Jean Pierre, Niamh and Aiden!

As part of our UNICEF day for change, we wore blue today and we had an ’empty classroom’. We all ate our snacks outside and had a scavenger hunt.

Have a lovely weekend!

What an exciting day we had at Deep Sea World.

We were able to show Mr Alexander how much we already knew about pollution. We loved the ‘Put it in the Bin’ Game. Touching the starfish was amazing! What was your Wow Word to describe what the starfish felt like?

We watched the seals being fed. Who knew seals were such acrobats? We learned about how seals kept in Deep Sea World are kept active and fit. A bit like us!

We went through the Shark Tunnel- ARRRRGGGHH!!!! We LOVED this. We saw some very brave divers in with the sharks too! It was great fun spotting all the different kinds of sea life.

Our last event was watching the piranhas being fed. We were fascinated to discover that the other fish waited for the King Piranha to take the first bite!

What was your favourite part of the day? Why? 

It’s ECO week and we went around the school and looked for different kinds of pollution. Oh my goodness! What a lot of pollution we saw! What can we do about all of it? We spoke about it in our classes and had some fabulous ideas! When you are out at the weekend, why not see how many different kinds of pollution you can spot!

We enjoyed being in the teepee for drama and music. It felt like being in a different world!

We loved all the wonderful animal costumes. We thought we were in the zoo today!

Mrs Logan has been making sandwiches with us. We planted cress a few weeks ago and watched it grow. We have now used this as a sandwich filling option along with tomatoes, eggs and cheese. Mmmmm, delicious! Why not make sandwiches for your family at the weekend? You can always take photos.

We are getting really excited about our trip to Deep Sea World next week! Please remember to return your lunch letter. Please do not bring any money as we will not be visiting the shop this time. There are lots of other exciting things planned!

Here are the minutes from last week’s PSA meeting.

PSA_Minutes_-_May_2016

Yesterday all the Primary One’s were given the very special job of helping to make the willow den. We each had a stem of willow which we had to push deep into the ground…it was really hard work! Over the next month the willow stems will take root and then we will be able to play in the den. As the school’s youngest pupils we will be able to watch the willows grow over the next 6 years and help take responsibility for looking after them.