Today P6B worked with Miss Munro to create this amazing picture for our hall way. Inspired by the work of Steven Brown and in honour of Robert Burns.

Alison from Feis was doing an incredible job of making us sound fabulous singing ‘ye banks and braes’ which we sang at assembly too.Thanks Alison!

We had a go at volleyball! Really fun but pretty hard…

Continuing our journey in maths, we had a look at percentages using one hundred of a range of things, from googly eyes to feathers!

That’s it for this week! Thank you

This week we have been lucky to have two teachers come to visit our class; Miss O’Boyle from the English and Guidance departments, and Mrs Kish from the Geography department. These are great opportunities to help give us a taster of things to come when we move up to the IRA in August.

Miss O’Boyle visited us on Thursday and was helping to continue our learning about PEAR paragraphs, the format used to write critical essays in secondary school. We looked at a short poem about a cat and analyse it by looking at the similes, metaphors and alliteration that the author used. We learnt about connotations of words to help us understand the meaning of the poem.

This morning Mrs Kish visited our class and we were using maps to identify symbols. We also learnt how to read and write grid references. We really enjoyed our morning!

Please click on the attachment to view this term’s Learning Overview

Our topic this term is China and this weekend marks the start of the new lunar year on the Chinese Calendar. This year will be the year of the rat. On the same day, here in Scotland, we will be celebrating Burns night.
This afternoon we joined with Miss MacArthur’s P5 class to have a cross cultural food tasting afternoon. We tried a selection of foods from Chinese and Scottish culture and like real food critics we rated and analysed each dish. Some people were surprised to find something new that they like. Most of us loved the Scottish Teacakes and the Chinese prawn crackers.

We have been learning about Money in maths. Today we put our skills to the test with monopoly. We identified many life skills and lessons that we learned from playing monopoly including:

cash handling and money management
luck and acceptance – staying positive and making the most of the opportunities you get.
building and maintaining relationships – monopoly can get very heated ?
negotiation skills
accepting change and taking risks

Please find attached an update of our term 3 overview including a brief overview of what we will be doing in Explore, this term.

To Celebrate Chinese New Year and Burns Night, the pupils in our class will have the opportunity to take part in a food tasting session on Wednesday afternoon, this week, where they will get to sample foods from both Chinese and Scottish culture. The children will have the choice of what they do or do not want to try. If your child has any dietry requirements or allergies, that I need to be aware of, please let me know.

Miss MacDonald

Today we created charcoal drawings inspired by our report writing on the Australian Bush fires. Don’t they look amazing?

Some of our 2D shape activities this week.

Today, we brought the musical instruments out to keep a steady beat to the music. The children played enthusiastically and really enjoyed using the instruments.

We had great fun developing our model work skills, creating our very own Terracotta Army. This term we are studying China and we are doing our Scottish opera on the Terracotta Warriors. We still have to decorate these but they are coming together.

What a busy first week and a half we have had this term! We are all working hard and learning lots of new things!

Our sound of the week is ‘oa’, and this week in maths we have been learning all about times tables. We started off learning about ‘sets’ and are now on to learning our 2 times table. If you have time at home, it would be great to practice this with your child up to ’12 x 2′.

We have had a bit of a mix up with polo shirts recently. We have had a good look in class so please do check all of your polo shirts at home to make sure you have your own, as we have had one go missing.

Thanks, Miss Cockburn

Find our overview for Term 3 below 🙂

Please find attached, the learning overview for term 3 in P1B.

Happy new year and welcome back! I hope that everyone had an enjoyable and restful break.

Term 3 has got off up a great start. Pupils have been focussed and hard working all week which has been great to see. Keep it up! I will post the term 3 learning overview on here next week so keep an eye out for that!

On Thursday morning we had Miss O’Boyle from the IRA English department come in to visit and give us a taster of critical analysis writing using the PEAR structure. We all successfully wrote a paragraph about our favourite food using PEAR. She will be back in 2 weeks time to introduce us to using PEAR to analyse poetry.

Parent appointment slips went home in school bags yesterday. Please ensure that these are returned by Tuesday 14th January indicating your appointment preferences so we can try our best to accommodate your requested day/time.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss McLean

It sounds from the children like everyone had a super time over the festive period! I will put the Termly Overview with information about our class and dates for events, on the blog next week, but meanwhile I’m putting on pictures from this week’s work.

We were really delighted to receive visitors from Feis Rois. They taught us about tone and dynamics in music. And we had a go at some fun, nonsense songs with actions.

We were working in groups to create ‘scales’ for a Chinese dragon.

Learning about equivalent fractions is really fun and we’re using a cool resource called, ‘Maths Whizz’ to see how good we are…

We did our start of unit assessment for Money ? this week. A lot of people in our class found the division questions really tricky. We started working on division practice today but If you can, please practise multiplication and division facts at home this week in order to boost confidence and understanding . #teamwork

the first Emperor of China, destined to rule his Empire forever. After all, didn’t he drink the Elixir of Life, a potion that promises immortality? Not such a great promise when that elixir turns out to be a deadly poison. Now the afterlife awaits, but even a dead Emperor needs an army. So, over many years, he’s gathered a vast hoard to watch over him after death – 8,000 soldiers, horses and chariots, all armoured and armed to the teeth. And every one of them moulded from clay…

This term we will be working alongside the other P5 and P6 pupils in partnership with Scottish Opera to tell the  true story of Emperor Qin’s incredible 2,000 year old terracotta army, and the clay warriors that continue to amaze and delight millions all over the world to this very day.

The timing of Scottish opera has worked out well for us as Our topic this term is CHINA ??. You will be able to come alongand see our performance in March. I will share dates for your Diary,in our term overview, next week.

In P6B We have been researching the Australian Bush Fires and reading news reports to help us write our own report, next week. Yesterday we made pictorial story maps to summarise one of the articles that we read .

Bushfires have been burning since September and haveintensified over the past week. People have had toevacuate dueto high temperatures and strong winds causing the fires to spread.More than 20 people havedied and habitats have beendestroyed. New South Wales has been worst affected.

Happy New Year to you all and welcome back to term 3!

We hope you all had a lovely holiday. The children have all come back refreshed after a very exhausting end to term 2! They have already been very busy and are enjoying getting back into the swing of things once more.

We are very lucky this term to be receiving some indoor tennis coaching. This will take place over the next 4 weeks, with our first session taking place this Friday. Gym kit (everything named please) will be required for this, so please remember to send this in if you haven’t already done so. Thank you.

Also, Show and Tell will begin this Friday for the Busy Bees and Clever Caterpillars. Next Friday will be the turn of the Fabulous Frogs and the Brilliant Butterflies and alternate Fridays thereafter.

Our learning overview for this term will be posted shortly. Watch this space…!

Thankyou, Mrs. McArthur and Mrs. Sutherland.