Category: Buckstone Primary School

This week we have been learning:

Here is one group’s Literature Circle discussion:

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Good afternoon!

Literacy

In reading this week, we have been practising summarising and using Bloom’s questions. We focused on ‘Chloe the Creator’. We used a video to help us with this skill and we enjoyed creating our own missions for Agent Fox to go on. We also had the opportunity to create our own gadgets for Agent Fox and his new mission.

We have been practising writing persuasive letters again this week. We began with looking at where paragraphs should be, focusing on when there is a change in topic, time or place. We had a go at deciding where paragraphs should be in pairs.

P5M then went on to discuss the pros and cons of school uniform and then decided if you were for or against it. We used all of the persuasive writing techniques that we have been learning (emotive language, direct address, exaggeration, etc.) and our new knowledge of paragraphs to write our own persuasive letters for or against school uniforms.

Things to do at home –

See the progress record for this week’s reading pages. Practise the different reading skills that we have focused on in class such as: creating and answering your own questions, pick an important part of the book and illustrate it, write a short paragraph about why it is an important part of the book or use a dictionary to find the meaning of any unknown words.

Spelling words will be posted on Monday – practise writing them in sentences and use ‘look, write, check’ to test yourself.

Have a go at writing your own persuasive letter to someone at home. You could ask for a pet, a bigger room or holiday.

Maths and Numeracy

This week in numeracy we have concluded our topic of time. We continued to calculate the duration of time using an empty number line and looking at different timetables. We also went over all of the different skills we have learned during our topic, including; telling the time on digital and analogue clocks, writing the time in words and converting between 12 and 24-hour time. Some of us challenged ourselves this week by using our problem-solving skills and made up our own school timetables

Things to do at home –

Practise your problem solving – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/problem-solving

Look at any timetables you come across (bus, train, etc.) and try to calculate how long it takes to get to where you are going.

Other curricular areas

• We continued with our Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood topic this week, discussing the names and functions of parts of our bodies as well as the changes that we go through.
• We began looking at our new topic based on Scottish historical figures. We watched 2 videos about the Terrible Tudors and Mardy Mary to give us an idea of what we will be learning, in preparation of deciding what we would like to learn and coming up with our topic name next week.

Enjoy the weekend!

Miss Mangan

Literacy

• Spelling: this week we practised our spelling words in a variety of ways
• Team Jewel- working on the ea sound (eat, seat etc)
• Team Gold– continuing our work on adding ‘ing’ endings to words where you have to double the consonant at the end (e.g. fanning, binning)
• Team Treasure- plurals where you need to add ‘es’ to make the plural form (e.g. foxes, buses)
• Reading- reading aloud with fluency and expression in our reading groups; looking for words beginning with each letter of the alphabet in our books as a challenge.
• Handwriting– practising formation, focusing on the correct height of letters, starting to join script.

At home ideas:

• Write your own set of instructions using some of these openers: First, Next, Then, Finally… (It could be instructions for a recipe, how to feed a pet, how to brush your teeth- the choice is yours!)
• Choose a book (or magazine or comic) and read aloud to someone at home (parents, sibling, or even a favourite teddy or pet). Can you read fluently and add expression to your voice as you read?

Numeracy/Maths

• Continuing our work on fractions. Looking at halves and quarters and talking about how the bottom number of the fraction (the denominator) is how many equal parts that you are splitting the number or shape into.
• Continuing our focus on counting in 3s and linking this to the 3 x table.
• Continuing to work on measure: weight and capacity.

At home ideas:

• Fractions- have a look at the game below to practise your work on fractions.
• Practise your measuring skills by weighing some ingredients at home. Can you find any instruments at home that measure capacity? (Measuring jugs etc).

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/firepitFractions/index.html

Other Areas

• IDL/Topic- continuing our topic on plants and looking after our sunflowers.
• PE- sports day stations
• Days of the week in French
• Planning and organising our class assembly.

At home ideas:

• Can you remember the days of the week in French? Have a listen to this song to help you.
• Share with your family what you and your team have been learning about to share in assembly about Health.

https://video.link/w/hDExc

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

Happy Friday P1L!

You have all worked really hard this week! Well done!

Here is what we have been up to:

Literacy

In literacy this week we have learned the new sounds – ‘ft’ and ‘lt’. We enjoyed thinking of words which have the sounds in them, looking for words in our reading books and drawing pictures of words which have the sounds in them. We also enjoyed writing words with these sounds in sentences, reading texts and highlighting the new sounds and playing games! We also continued to learn and look at the Block 3 tricky words. This week we focussed on ‘would’ ‘should’ and ‘could’. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. Please practice learning how to read, write and use the tricky words at home! (Block 1-Block 3)

For reading, we each got a new ORT book and we predicted what we thought was going to happen in the story before reading, we had word hunts and we read both individually and with a partner. We also practised our comprehension skills by completing a fill in the missing word activity sheet. We enjoyed the extra challenge of reading our book backwards this week! Reading books will be sent home on a Thursday and to be returned to school on a Monday! Please feel free to write any comments in your child’s reading diary! Some of us even read our first play scripts this week of a story we already knew.

In writing this week we wrote a story using the film trailer ‘Brave’ as a stimulus. We talked about characters and setting and used our plans to help us write out story. We also ensured we were using our non-negotiables and using descriptive language.

Things to try at home;

• Practice reading your reading book which is sent home! Read the book forwards and backwards, ask your child questions about the story, the characters etc. You could extend the learning of the book and ask your child to write the next part of the story.
• Revise our new sounds and tricky words! Can you read them and write them?
• Write a story about your weekend! Can you add lots of detailed language?
• Recognise and use our non-negotiables in everything you write!

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we practised our counting skills and recognising numbers up to 100. We also looked at 100 squares and noticing patterns on them. We counted screened and unscreened collections together and also practised making equal groups. We also practiced thinking of other ways to make numbers on our fingers, sequencing numerals and identifying numbers up to 100.

We also continued our Data Handling maths topic and revised everything we had learned the previous week.

Things to try at home:

• Practice counting to 100.
• Can you notice numbers in your local environment? On buses, houses or outdoors? What number comes before or after the one you see? What is 10 more than that number?
• Practice counting items or groups of items in your house. Can you make tally marks to show how many you have?

Other Curricular Areas

P.E: We enjoyed practising our athletic skills and learning how to use our arms and looking where we are going to help us run faster.

Topic: We also continued to think about different foods which come from plants and animals.

Outdoor Learning: We had lots of fun playing with the outdoor loose parts and exploring building and making things together!

Photos of the Week:

P1L’s Highlights of the Week:

Isla – I liked learning about how much makes 10.

Lucy – I liked learning my new sounds.

Calum – I liked doing my my speedy maths challenge.

Logan – I enjoyed seeing and playing with my friends.

Next Week:

• P.E will be on Monday and Thursday.
• On Thursday – we have the performance ‘Potato Needs a Bath’ which the children are required to bring in a root vegetable to school for the performance. I would be grateful if you could bring this in on Tuesday.
• Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing as we will have one outdoor lesson per day.
• Please return your reading folder (book and reading diary inside the folder please!) on Monday!
• Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Monday.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss McGillivray

Good morning. We hope you are all well.

Another busy week for us.

Look what we have been learning this week!:

Literacy

Our sounds this week were final consonant blends st and rk, our tricky word was

why.

We have been working on our writing skills. Our focus this week was My friend.

We have continued to work on our reading skills. This week our books are fact books. We have been working on discussing new words and looking for new information. Your child took the book yesterday. This is an opportunity for you to discuss the learning.

Home learning ideas

• Practice the new sounds using the sheet below

• You could help to make the shopping list.
• Show an adult what you have learned with your reading book this week.

• Practise spelling all the tricky words so far: how many can you write from memory ? Please continue to practice these

• Be Geraldine……. ” Off she went around the house to find something ENDing with st, rk etc ” How many things can you find? You could make a list of all the things you find.

• Practise your letter formation – are there any letters you find tricky to write ?

• Learn to spell and write your surname.

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Maths

This week our focus has been subtraction from 10 ( from 20 for some).

Please continue to practice this skill at home: children can use their fingers, items and/or a number line.

Home learning ideas

• Count backwards from 30 to 10 ( or 100 – 30)

• Write all your numbers from 1-9. Are they all the right way round? If not, can you practise them.
• You could use this website to practice subtraction https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

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Other areas

We have been looking at our tadpoles that are growing legs now.

Our caterpillars have built their cocoons. We are very excited about this!

Independent learning

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News

• Next week we will be joining Potato needs a bath online show as part of the Imaginate Festival. We are looking forward to this experience. To prepare for it we are going to celebrate Potato’s birthday, We are all invited therefore we all need to bring a fruit or vegetable on Wednesday as we will make party hats for them.

• Please continue to label all your children’s items.
• If you would like to change your child’s start or finishing times (even for one day) this needs to be approved by the SMT. It should be adults who email the school to ask permission to Management, unfortunately we cannot rely on children’s messages. Thank you for your understanding on this matter.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

For the yearbook, each child has a baby photo and a photo from P7 next to each other. Please can you upload a baby picture into the file in the P7H Teams called ‘Yearbook Baby Photos’. If you are having trouble uploading, please could you send the photo into school and I will take a picture and upload it from my ipad.

Thank you!

Miss Collyns 🙂

Our spelling rule this week focuses on contractions:

You’re

We’re

They’ll

They’d

They’re

He’s

She’s

You’ll

We’ve

She’d

Doesn’t

Don’t

Haven’t

Aren’t

Couldn’t

Shan’t

Wouldn’t

O’clock

Ma’am

‘tis

Good afternoon,

Here are this week’s spelling words. We are learning the ‘i before e accept after c when the sound is ee’ rule.

Have a great week,

Miss Mangan

This week’s spelling patterns are below if you’d like to work on these at home. We do a dictation activity using these words/patterns each Friday. Please feel free to add words of your own; it isn’t just about learning a “list” of words but understanding how words are built up and spelt.

Team Jewel: the ea sound

For example: eat, seat, heat, near, fear, ear

Team Gold: adding ing endings (where you have to make a change- doubling the consonant at the end)

For example: batting, humming, rubbing, winning, jamming, setting, plotting

Tricky words: we are working on block 7 words- country, young, example (reading/recognising and spelling)

Team Treasure: adding ‘es’ to the end of words to make the plural form

Core list: boxes, foxes, dishes, benches, brushes, dresses, beaches, churches, kisses, glasses

Challenge list: churches, circuses, torches, branches, splashes, addresses, radishes, canvases, buzzes, tomatoes

Tricky words: continue to spend time revising words that you are having difficulty with

Here are the tricky words in case you need them:

Please find below a Reflective Friday for this week.