Welcome to our first blog! We have all settled in very well in our new Primary 1 classroom. We have been learning all about life in school and have been getting to know our classroom routines. We have started learning different sounds in literacy (a, t, s, i, and p). We have also been listening to the number zoo stories in numeracy. We know all about penguin one, ticklish two, butterfly three and feathery four! We have been practising writing the sounds we have learned and the numbers 1 – 4. Primary 1 have been learning all about our school and had lots of great suggestions about what we could find out about our school.

We would like to share with you what we have enjoyed about school so far:

 

Charlie – I like drawing things and colouring them in.

Caitlin – I like cutting out.

Aleena – I like drawing and cutting.

Cole – I like playing on the bikes in the playground.

Aria – I like drawing and doing ‘p’.

Keeva – I like painting and the puppies in the library.

Grace – I like ‘s’ for snake.

Kasey – I like playing with story dices.

Olivia – I like finding the letters in the sand.

Robyn – I like playing with number ducks and magnets in the water.

Millie – I like playing with Keeva in the playground.

Mace – I like playing with Sam outside.

Sam – I like penguin one.

Lewis – I like doing the puzzles.

Archie – I like playing at the water.

Riley – I like playing ladybird spots on the smartboard.

Daniel – I like playing with my friends.

Antoni – I like learning about feathery four.

Blair – I like writing the number 4.

 

Miss Johnstone and P.1j

Hello everyone!

Welcome to our first blog of Primary 5. Here is a little snapshot of our learning so far…

In Numeracy, we have been working hard to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We have then been using these rounded numbers to solve tricky sums mentally.

I feel really confident rounding numbers now – Murray

I enjoyed rounding in Numeracy as it made adding sums much easier – Travis

 

We have also been practising telling the time on an analogue clock. Some of us found this tricky at first, but we have been working hard to improve.

I feel really confident telling the time now – Ryan

I’ve enjoyed learning how to tell the time a bit better – Lucy C

I’ve enjoyed spending time with Miss Hesp. I’m getting much better at telling the time – Ailis

 

This week we were lucky enough to watch a live performance of ‘The Railway Children’ in the hall. Here are some of our thoughts:

I liked the pantomime of The Railway Children as I’d never seen that show before and it was very creative – Lucy C

I liked The Railway Children because it was funny. Some of the actors played more than one part – Aiden

I liked The Railway Children as I’d never seen it before either and it was really good – Ryan

I really enjoyed The Railway Children as it was a very good story – Brandon

Parts of The Railway Children were quite dark but everything worked out OK in the end. I enjoyed the performance – Murray

 

Our first topic in P5 is The Americas. So far on our journey we have explored the landscapes and wildlife of Canada and the USA, as well as some famous landmarks. We have also begun to look at Maya culture from Central America.

I enjoyed learning about Canada in our Americas topic. My favourite Canadian animal is a bear – Olivia

I have enjoyed Art in P5. My favourite was making Inukshuk pictures in the style of Ted Harrison – Darcie

I enjoyed making Maya masks yesterday. I got to be really creative with it – Alice

Some final comments:

I got my new Pupil Council today. I went up on stage and got it in front of the whole school – Angus

I have liked everything we’ve done in P5! – Daniel

We hope you have enjoyed reading about the fantastic learning that has been going on in our classroom!

Hello this our first P7 blog.

It has been very fun having Mrs Hastings again she just is the best teacher EVER and I have been given the opportunity of House Captain – Josh

In P7 we have been doing our assembly first for the school year. We wrote our own scripts. – Jack B

We done a House Captain and Pupil Leader election where we had a polling station where we signed in our real name. It was like real life thanks to Mr Swift and I also got the opportunity to be a House Captain. – Jack C

I wanted to be a prefect and was happy to be chosen. Jay

In P7 we have been talking about Politics and it is our new topic. We were talking about Brexit and what we thought. – Brooke

I have liked the assembly work that we did. I liked learning the song. – Amy

I have enjoyed being in the assembly and I really liked having Mrs Hastings as my teacher. – Jessica

I am proud to be Birniehill’s House Captain this year. – Abbie

P7 has been very fun and last night we went to the Armadale Academy meeting to learn about the High School. – John

We learned how to be good buddies and still need to keep learning to be super buddies! – Nimi

P7 has been really good because it is very different from P6 because you get to do more things and have more responsibility. – Ellie

In P7 we have been looking forward to monitoring and helping classes in the morning and at indoor play times. – India

This week we have been busy practising for our assembly and we have enjoyed it. – Murray

We have made QR codes around the full hall about our assembly and our inspirations. I am also proud to be pupil council – Ryan

We have been given our roles and I am a monitor for Term 3. I am looking forward to it. – Michael

We have been learning how to use our Digital Classroom and now we have learned that more than one person can edit a power point. – Tyler

We have been making democracy hands and writing words on them such as kind, helpful and careful. We are putting them on the display outside our classroom. – Liam

We have made pictures out of splashing paint onto paper and it’s an animal in front of the sun at night. We created silhouette images using cut out paper techniques. – Ben

P7 has been fun so far because of what we have been doing in our assembly. – Jackson

After the Railway Children the P7 classes got to stay behind and do a drama workshop. We learned skills to make the setting and they told us how to make our voices go high and low to change character. – Beth

Jack B and I made a tarzia puzzle using our maths knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages. We looked at tenths, hundredths and wholes. – Anthony

We were completing a workbook page to work on our knowledge of place value. – Logan

We have been doing place value up to 816 000 000. I can find the value of numbers. – Ewan

We did a manifesto writing for our writing lesson. We used persuasive vocabulary. – Hannah

I’m really enjoying P7 because I feel like I am at the top of the school and I am responsible for everybody as a role model. – Eva

I am enjoying P7 so far and I am enjoying having a buddy. – Oliver