Good evening lovely parents and carers!

We have had another jam packed day and are now sitting in our pj’s watching a movie!

We started the day with a great breakfast of cereal, juice, toast and a bacon roll! After we had finished we brushed our teeth and set off on our morning activities of either canoeing, orienteering or archery. The sun was beautifully shining for us again!

We stopped and had our lunch and then all the groups put on waterproofs and wellies and took a short mini bus to Beecraigs where we were on a forest adventure! We painted our faces with mud war paint, explored the plants, walked through the streams, completed a senses trail and played hide and seek.

We returned to the Lowport center and had showers then enjoyed our dinner of pizza, chips and ice cream!

Miss Purdie and Miss Hendrie came along to join us for our Loch walk – with Miss Purdie at the front we think we did it in record time! When we got home, we got changed into our disco clothes and came down to dance. DJ Mason from P7 came to DJ for us and it was amazing!

After our disco finished, we got into our PJs and had some toast and hot chocolate and settled down to the movie!

We are looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow and telling you all our stories 🙂

Love p5f X

This fortnight in P4Q we have been exploring fractions by finding equivalents, converting them to percentages and discovering how to find a fraction of a quantity. In maths we are continuing our investigation into data handling and have been focused on reading data and showing the range, median and mode numbers.

For literacy we have been learning about prepositions, standard English and speech marks. The boys and girls impressed me on Wednesday by writing a detailed argument between two characters, using  inverted commas to show speech. In comprehension and reading we have been taking more time to read between the lines and investigate the language and punctuation choices of the author.

In PE we have been very lucky to have Mr Barr, a PE student from Edinburgh University, in to show us new skills in athletics. We have been exploring how to prevent disease in a variety of way during our topic time and have been looking at traits that are inherited. We have been working hard on our kite design for the gala float, which is Mary Poppins themed this year. Keep an eye out for our creation at Bathgate gala day. Finally, P4 have set themselves the challenge of running a full marathon around our school pitch in just seven weeks! We have measured out the distance at 206 laps and we will keep you updated on our progress.

Quotes from P4Q:

“We have been finding out about our scientists” – Charlotte

“We have been running a marathon and I hope the parents are having a good day” – Jaysen

“We have been doing athletics and gymnastics” – Kayla W

“We have been doing throwing and catching  and running with Mr Barr” – Zak

“We had an art lesson where we learned how to create different types of cartoon drawings, we looked at imitating famous cartoons and I think the class did a good job!” – Rose

Here are the spelling words for this fortnight:

SpSpelling words 13.5.19 (pdf)

Spelling words 13.5.19 (word)

Enjoy!