Primary 7P                           -06.09.19

Pupils of Primary 7P (and Mrs Patterson) have had a very busy and hard-working start to our year. Our term began learning all about Democracy and how it works. We then went on to hold our own democratic elections to select our Pupil Leadership team and House Captains. We learned about how to write a persuasive and emotive election speech and about how campaigns are run to persuade the electorate. There were lots of creative ideas used! Mr Swift made us great polling booths so our elections were as realistic as possible.

We also produced some fabulous art work, using pencil, water-colour and oil pastels to show how hands are used to convey lots of messages like peace, love, victory, strength and Democracy. We were proud of our finished art and surprised ourselves at how well they turned out. See what you think below.

Our Assembly was also to-day and we worked extremely hard writing our script to highlight how we can all make a difference to our world with inspirational stories and quotes in there to inspire us all to be the best we can be.

Can we make a difference?         Yes we can!

Lewis    We learned about democracy and how voting works and Mr swift set up a real polling station for house captain and leader ship vote. I am happy because I got picked for house captain.

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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!