Primary 5b warmly invite our families and friends to our assembly on Friday 5th February 2016 at 10 am. Our assembly will be held in the big hall and is all about the value kindness.
Special Visit to WPS!
Representatives from Education Scotland and The British Council and a group of education delegates from the Maharastra state, India, recently visited WPS to learn about our Global Citizenship curriculum and our links with our partner school in Mumbai. Pupils and staff were delighted to showcase our learning in this area and the visitors were given a taste of our international projects, Scottish culture and education in Scotland in general. They went on a tour of the school, were given presentations by the International Group and P5 (on their previous book project), visited many classes and attended the Equality assembly. The visitors were also treated to a selection of Scottish foods in the staffroom at playtime. They were delighted with the presents and cards made by each class. Thank you to all who made the visit such a success!
P4b Achievement Awards
Congratulations to our P4b Achievement Award winners – Jack, Avia, Elliot and Amy. We all get to vote on who we think should get an award and why so these awards are special as they are chosen by our peers.
P4 Scottish Poetry Finalists
Well done to all P4 pupils who learned a Scottish Poem! (And thank you to parents who helped us learn them!) We performed the poems in class and gave each other feedback on our strengths and next steps. It was really hard to choose the finalists from so many talented performances. Chloe, Hannah and Sophie from P4b and Aimee, Caitlin and Ayanna from P4a went through to the school competition and all performed very well on the stage. Congratulations to Sophie and Caitlin who came joint Third, Ayanna who came Second and Chloe who came First.
Information Handling in P4
In P4, we have been working with a partner to collect information using tally marks and display it in bar graphs. We also collected information about our favourite Scottish Poems. We found that Street Talk was the most popular.
P4b’s Learning Pit
In P4b, we have been talking about how we feel when we are learning something new. The feelings we have as we don’t understand something or find it challenging (as we go into “The Learning Pit”) and how we feel as we make progress in our learning and eventually succeed (as we come out of “The Learning Pit”).
P4 Multiplies and Divides!
In P4, we have been busy learning more about the concepts of multiplication and division and practising our times tables (2, 4, 5, and 10). We have used lots of different materials and strategies to help us do this.
James’s story
The technology group has been researching how and why James invented the dyson vacuum and wheelbarrow ect. We went round asking some people what would life be like if we didn’t have design technology they came up with some quotes (e.g ) ‘life would be boring without designers’. ‘Design is everything’. Being a designer is an important job’. ‘ If we didn’t have designers then everything would be simple and boring’. The groups really enjoyed this task because they got to learn how designers came up with ideas and learnt this by using iPads and laptops.📷👍🏻🎶
Super Gran comes to Primary One
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.
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.
