Hello everyone,

We have had a wonderful week at school A big highlight for us was getting the chance to meet 2 Scottish Authors. We had an online Teams session with write Tom Nicoll as he discussed with us his love for gaming that inspired his ‘Level – Up’  book series. C & A love gaming so were really inspired by this!

We also had a chance to meet in person – Paul Walsh, another local Scottish writer. He shared his story ‘The Mcscarfs’ and brought along his guitar for an enjoyable singalong. B & C were thrilled to purchase a copy of his book. Miss Purdie also got a signed book to keep in the class!

Big congratulations to B & A for getting to the finals of the Scots poetry competition and well done to B who came 3rd out of p2 – p4

Well done to K, C & F for being the top 3 in our home learning Sumdog competition 🙂

Thanks for reading!

P4p

We have been learning about Scottish inventors and this week we focussed on John Logie Baird, who invented the television. During our lessons we got to make flip books. Hopefully you will have seen the ones we brought home.

In writing, we learnt to write Haikus. Did you know a Haiku has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second line and 5 syllables in the third line? Our theme for our Haikus was winter.

As part of our PE we got to take the volleyballs out and we practised our passes and played tadpoles. We will explain the rules for tadpoles when we get home.

This week our Numeracy has focussed on dividing. The methods we were allowed to use were step sums, sharing and putting them into fractions.

We went online for the author sessions. We got to ask questions of the authors about their books and writing. There were a lot of questions.

We will be in touch soon to tell you more about our learning.

Primary 4ps have lots to say about their learning so far this term!

We have been learning about Robert the Bruce – RH

We have been learning division and times tables – LK

We are learning about Scottish poems – JJ

P4p are going to tell us about William Wallace – LG

We learned about John Comyn and how he died because of Robert the Bruce – PB

We learned the grid method strategy to help with our multiplication – CD

Paul came in to sing to us and read us one of his stories – ZY

Some of us spent time with the P7’s and they taught us the lattice method to help us with our multiplication – LT