Category: Buckstone Primary School

Reflective Friday WB 10.5.21

Well done Primary 4WL for an exciting Health Week packed full of learning opportunities and experiences! 😊 Please enjoy reading the summary about our main learning this week (and scroll to the bottom to see some pictures):

Thank you for sharing your Learning Stories at home over the last week. Thanks to everyone who has returned them to school – please ensure that you bring yours back to school as soon as possible, once you have shared the Term 3 Overview and your targets, if you haven’t already, thank you!

Literacy

We have been learning to:

• Spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule.
• Identify and spell words with closed and open syllables.
• Use accurate spelling of our new spelling rule words within sentence or story contexts.
• Identify the correct spelling of tricky words within sentences and paragraphs.
• Write an imaginative story, using a range of adjectives, and checking for the non-negotiables.
• Listen, enjoy and engage with our class novel.
• Find evidence in our class novel to describe a character.
• Use evidence from our reading to help us make (and justify) predictions.
  Understand what a simile is and what their purpose is.
  Explore and use similes to attract and engage our reader.
• Answer a variety of questions about a text, using evidence to justify our ideas.
• Read for information and use our knowledge of the context of a sentence to help us identify missing words.
• Find out information from a range of sources and technologies to help us share facts with others.
• Self- and peer-assess our learning.

Spelling for next week:

We will move onto a new spelling rule next week. This will be:

L.I We are learning to spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule.

Over the years the pronunciation of words has changed and some letters appear in the spelling of words which are no longer sounded.
We are learning to spell with a silent ‘w’ followed by ‘r’ – wr.

Daily Spelling Activity Task: choose a different spelling activity from the pack that you have at home and remember to Look, Cover, Write, Check.

Spicy – wrong wrist writing wrapped wrinkle wry wrote writer wreck 

Hot – wren wreath wrench wreckage shipwreck wretched written wrestler wrath

Tricky words – right write

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Use what you have been learning about adjectives and similes to engage the reader – and try to write your own imaginative story or character description!
• You might like to revise and practise work on similes or adjectives using one of the below activities and ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROmKMtLWY14, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc or https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zp4k3j6
• Try a comprehension task at home, here’s a link to some ideas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgwwxnb

Numeracy

We have been learning to:

• Develop our knowledge of number facts, using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Revise our learning in Maths through taking part in different challenge tasks and starter activities.
• Share why we use money, what it is and the importance of money in a real-life context.
• Identify the value of coins and notes.
• Use our knowledge of coins and notes to find a range of combinations for a total.
• Use our problem-solving skills, including logical thinking and trial and error, to find the most efficient combination of coins or notes
• Begin to solve 2-step problems, using addition and subtraction, with our knowledge of money.
• Develop our multiplication understanding, using opportunities to learn the times tables.
• Self- and peer-assess our learning.
• Continue to build speed and accuracy in our number work.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Work on your knowledge of money by trying one of these games – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money
• See if you can have a hunt at home and find different coins and notes – you might even have money from another country (a different currency) that you would like to show your class-mates.
• Continue to build on your Times Tables by choosing or creating a fun game or speed challenge for yourself or using Sumdog. https://www.timestables.co.uk/speed-test/

Across the Curriculum

 We have been learning to:

• Create, design and draw a blueprint image for a boat.
• Study a blueprint for a real boat.
• Find out about ‘Ramadan’ and ‘Eid’.
• Use outdoor materials to help us to learn.
• Try out and design our own PE fitness challenges.
• Take part in an Athletics event to develop our PE skills and work together.
• Share information about what helps us to stay healthy.
• Learn about our body parts and what makes us unique and different.

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Create your own fitness workout at home, using some of the ideas from our Health Week activities!
• Find out more about a festival you are interested in. You could even find out more about Eid and create another moon/star catcher using a paper plate and pens at home. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/assemblies-ks1-ramadan-best-eid-ever/zkdhm39

Have a great weekend everyone!
From Primary 4, Mrs Williamson, Mrs Ling and Mr Parry 😊

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Good morning!

We hope you all had a busy and healthy week as ours!

As you know this week we have celebrated Health week and we have learned lots of things.

Health week

We have been learning about how to keep ourselves safe: learning when to call 999, what is safe to eat and what is not safe to eat and touch.

We have been learning about different foods.

We have learned about the wellbeing indicators: safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, included, active, respected and responsible. Every day we have discussed a couple of the indicators, their meaning and what they mean to each of us.

We have learned about the names of different parts of our body.

And last but not least we had a fab day a Sports Day!!!

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Literacy

This week we have learned two final consonant blends: nk and ng. Our tricky words are over and any.

For our nk sound we had lots of pink items at the craft table, we used links to link, we used ink.

For our ng sound we made rings, we painted with string and we sang!

Our writing was ” I feel healthy when”.

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We have continued to develop our reading skills at our reading groups.

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Home learning ideas

• Ask your child to read the reading book that we have been working at home this book.
• Home learning sounds ( This week and last week’s sounds). Practice to make words using all the sounds we have learned so far.

Numeracy

We have continue to work on our numeracy skills through our SEAL programme.

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Home learning ideas

• Please continue to work on adding skills
• You could also use these websites to revise some of our learning: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition

Other areas

We have learned about Eid.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-eid

Independent learning

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We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Good afternoon. I have attached this week’s spelling words for P5M. Our spelling rule this week is the ‘ou’ sound at the beginning or in the middle of the word.

Have a great week!

Miss Mangan

Our spelling rule this week looks at words that end in ible and able.

credible

adorable

valuable

indestructible

disposable

invincible

possible

enjoyable

identifiable

responsible

enviable

tangible

terrible

manageable

miserable

legible

probable

reliable

forcible

horrible

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: revising ir and moving on to ou and oy.

For example: fir, firm, girl; out, shout, pound; boy, toy

Team Gold: adding ing endings (where you don’t need to change the root word)

For example: waiting, sailing, playing, staying, feeling, sticking, shocking

Tricky words: small, follow, picture

Team Treasure: words with the ea spelling that makes an ‘e’ sound and a variety of words that use the ea spelling (challenge list)

Core list: head, read, bread, deaf, thread, weather, feather, heather, leather, earth

Challenge list: overhead, breakfast, heave, dreaming, threading, leave, meat, screamed, reached, weak

Tricky words: very, every

This week has been short but busy as ever!

Today’s Blog was compiled together!

Spelling

Next week’s rule

Over the years, the sound of words have changed and some letters are still in the spelling of words which are no longer sounded.

Silent ‘w’ followed but ‘r’ makes ‘wr’

Core wrong, wren , wring, wrist , wrap

Challenge. Wreath, wench, wreckage, shipwreck

Tricky words Right , write

Learning stories.

We looked at the targets for this term and worked out our star steps.

Numeracy

We practised our tables

We plotted points on grids and also revised angles . We had fun with a treasure map. Some of us found countries on a world map grid.

Titanic

We looked at ship building and how and where the Titanic was built. We researched texts to find out information and how long it took to build and what it was like being a ship builder in 1911

Our new class novel is the Titanic Detective Agency by Lindsey Littleson

PE We made up our own games in groups and then it started to hail!

Loose Parts.

Here are the photos from last week’s session. We worked together sharing ideas and reflecting and modifying as we went along.

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Enjoy the weekend!

by P4H

Reflective Friday WB 3.5.21

Well done Primary 4WL for a busy and successful short week of learning – in school and at home! 😊 Thank you again to our supportive families and also for helping the pupils upload any Buckstone’s Got Talent entries (well done P4WL, we are so proud of your auditions!) in time for the final this week as well as the prompt returns of the recorded lesson permission slips for Mr. Parry too, this is much appreciated. We have been amazed at the wonderful learning from Learning Together at Home on Thursday and thank the children and families for their efforts!

Please find your child’s Learning Story in their bag today. We have added our Term 3 Overview as well as individual targets for this term in Literacy, Numeracy and Topic. Please share these with your child and return the Learning Stories as soon as you can so that we can gather evidence from our learning this term. Thank you!

Next week is Health Week across the school. All children can come dressed, every day next week, in their PE clothing. Please ensure that this is suitable for all weather (there have been four seasons in one day many days this week!), and includes warm and waterproof layers if appropriate. It might be a good idea to bring a spare bag of clothing to put in our cloakroom and a change of outdoor shoes into school in-case we are out for a longer period of time. On Tuesday morning P4WL will have the opportunity to take part in some Athletics activities as part of our Sports programme, down at the Waterboard field. Please make sure you have your water bottle and appropriate clothing and footwear for this. We are not expecting the children to wear uniform at any point next week but they can choose to if they wish to. Thank you for your support! We hope that the weather may be a little bit more accommodating to our exciting PE and Health plans!

Apologies that there have been some technical difficulties with our school blog system and it has been challenging to upload this post and especially the photos this week. Hopefully they will appear in time after many attempts!

Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a collection of photos 🙂

Literacy

We have been learning to:

• Revisit our spelling of common words (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd 100)
• Use accurate spelling of common words within sentence or story contexts
• Listen, enjoy and engage with our class novel
• Find evidence in our class novel to describe a character
• Identify information from a text to write a response
• Structure our writing to suit the purpose and format of the text (email/letter)
• Answer a variety of questions about a text, using evidence to justify our ideas
• Prepare and present a short audition for the class (Buckstone’s Got Talent entries)
• Use descriptive phrases to write a creative Spring poem
• Find out information from a range of sources and technologies to help us share facts with others
• Self- and peer-assess our learning and set next steps in our Learning Stories

Spelling for next week:

We will move onto a new spelling rule next week. This will be:

L.I We are learning to spell unfamiliar words using our spelling rule.

We are learning to identify and spell words with closed and open syllables.

Remember to listen for short  or long vowels at end of the first syllable.
Remember that each syllable must contain one vowel sound.

Daily Spelling Activity Task: choose a different spelling activity from the pack that you have at home and remember to Look, Cover, Write, Check.

Fantastic– padlock kidnap dentist goblin tiger unit pilot carpet picnic fever

Spectacular– blister mustard tunic sandwich  driver radish  robin driven napkin admit 

Tricky words – old sentence

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Practise the common word list that you have been working on using an activity of your choice or you might like to try this game –  https://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/ (Start at Year 1 for Super, Year 2 for Fantastic and Year 3&4 for Spectacular)
• Read through your Learning Story overview for this term and the targets that you have set this week with a helper at home. Please return your Learning Story next week when you have done this, so that we can begin to gather our evidence for this term, thank you 😊
• Find a poem that you like at home – online or in a book. Which adjectives or descriptive phrases are used? Here is the Children’s Poetry Archive https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-e_fkJC18AIVCLDtCh2wogFSEAAYASAAEgL44PD_BwE
• Write your own acrostic poem – could it be about a season, month of the year or something you are interested in? You might like to use this BBC Bitesize resource – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/ztdvw6f

Numeracy

We have been learning to:

• Develop our knowledge of number facts, using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Revise our place value learning through a number challenge task
• Continue to build speed and accuracy in our number work
• Identify the position of an object or symbol on a grid or map and know why co-ordinate points and grid references are important in real-life
• Show our understanding of a compass and the 4 or 8 points
• Recap and assess our knowledge of Shape, Position and Movement to show our understanding of our learning
• Develop our multiplication understanding, using opportunities to learn the times tables
• Self- and peer-assess our learning and set next steps in our Learning Stories
• Think like a Mathematician through our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Boat building co-operative task

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Work on the number facts that you find more challenging – set yourself a personal target. Here is a game that you might enjoy playing to help you – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
• Try out a problem solving task using your number fact knowledge – https://nrich.maths.org/8937 – remember your target might be to show your workings.
• We will be moving onto a new area of Maths – Money – following on from shape Position and Movement. Here are some further chances to either extend or practise different aspects of this topic – For a challenge, you might like to watch and follow this video about grid references/co-ordinate points in real-life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3RQr-NGCs
• Try this game out which helps us to know how to find co-ordinate points if you were learning about this in school or wish to try a Spectacular task – https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/coordinates/showthecoordinate/
• Here is a song you might use to remind you of the Compass Points if this is an area that you need more practise of – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2I81_BFb-s
• Can you tell someone at home what kind of Maths skills and knowledge you might use in a STEM Challenge?

Across the Curriculum

 We have been learning to:

• Use a range of materials to plan, design and construct a model
• Explore our Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths skills (STEM)
• Understand the forces on an object and share our findings from an experiment
• Name a force ‘upthrust’ and explore the concept of floating and sinking
• Work as a co-operative team, taking on a role and responsibility to work together
• Use outdoor materials to help us to learn
• Try out and design our own PE fitness challenges
• Act as a supportive audience and class community when watching auditions for Buckstone’s Got Talent

Ideas for Learning Together at Home:

• Build your own model from junk materials – you might like to try a boat, like we have been working on in class, or an idea of your own!
• Choose a STEM challenge uploaded in the Teams files to try out
• Can you explain any of the forces or floating and sinking learning to a helper at home? You might like to re-watch this BBC Bitesize video to help you – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zc89k7h/articles/zytqj6f
• Try out an experiment at home with floating and sinking – this video might help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmpCwPQdL-4
• If you did not have a chance on our Learning Together at Home day on Thursday, you could try and make your own 60-second fitness challenge card to bring into school and teach your class-mates!

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Parts for our show were given out today, the next challenge is to learn the lines! Learning Stories also came home today with the Term 3 Overview and Literacy and Numeracy targets for the term. Please have a look and return Learning Stories to school on Monday. Next week is Health Week, the children are welcome to wear sports clothes every day 🙂

Miss Collyns

Our spelling rule was words that end in ly, less or ful.

This week we wrote our own stories based on an image showing a scientist developing potions. We had to include correct punctuation, similes, metaphors and interesting vocabulary! 

This week we did literacy circles and got separated into groups depending on the book we chose. Everyone had to complete a task. (E.G: literacy luminary and summariser) and then we shared all our work. Here is a video of one group’s discussion:

https://videopress.com/v/ZsqBU9Ar?preloadContent=metadata

https://videopress.com/v/fYfpYw1G?preloadContent=metadata

In numeracy this week, we done some problem solving. We done a daily rigour which was about prime numbers, Italian, money and our 4 operations. We also did a maths mystery which worked on our four operations. We also played some games.

In other areas we did capture the flag in PE and we auditioned for our p7 show. We learnt all about Ramadan and we found out some interesting facts. We also did  another teamwork challenge by making a bridge with any material from the class room. We had to work together and communicate our ideas. The bridge had to be 30cm tall, hold a thesaurus and include at least 5 different materials. Only 2 groups succeeded!

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Home Learning

Learn our P7 show lines

Complete some of the tasks from the homework grid

Play Sumdog or practise our times tables

Learning Stories are being sent home today. These have the term 3 overview/newsletter along with targets for this term.

Term 2’s work was completed when Learning Together at Home. We loved seeing the photos and uploaded worksheets on Teams and know that a huge amount of effort was put into completing tasks at home. The pupils have chosen a couple of pieces of work (from school) which they are proud of but if you would like to add any worksheets or photos completed at home then please do.

Mrs McFarlane

Hello P2M and Happy Friday!

We’ve had an odd week at school this week with holidays and the school being closed yesterday! I hope you had a fun day Learning Together at Home! Don’t worry if you didn’t join the live session or complete the home learning – we understand the change in routine can make this tricky.

This week we have been exploring…….

In Literacy;

• Writing ‘All About Me’ as part of our Big Writing Programme
• Writing about Primary 3
• Reading (whole class activity)
• Reading (at home book review)
• Handwriting Practice (cursive and non-cursive)

In Numeracy/Maths;

• Fractions (halves and quarters)
• 3 Times Table (counting in and sequencing 3s)

Other Curricular Areas;

• Music – we recorded our performance today! Information of how we will share this with you will be sent home as soon as possible.
• PE. Team Tig Games

Learn Through Play Activities:

• Looking after the new pets – the snails are still a big hit!
• Marble Run
• Block Play (we have new large blocks)
• Lego/construction
• STEM activities
• Role Play
• Arts and Crafts table – free choice
• Painting station – free choice
• Literacy games
• Numeracy games
• Mindfulness colouring in
• Drawing table – free choice

Looking forward to next week:

• New sounds – soft c (continued)
• Tricky Word practice (reading and spelling)
• New reading book (new books on Monday)
• 3 Times Table
• Maths – Fractions
• P.E (Monday/Wednesday)
• Outdoor Learning
• Dictation
• Writing
• Learn Through Play
• Morning Starter/Afternoon Ender

Extra Information

• Learning Stories have been sent home today – we hope you enjoy seeing your child’s learning from last term and their targets for this term
• As we moved closer to Primary 3 we are going to start spending a little bit more time sitting at our own desk!
• We will still be learning through play, have lots of opportunity to lead our learning and make choices too
• This will help us to be ready for Primary 3 after the summer!
• Please remember to bring reading books to school every day – especially a Thursday as that’s collection day
• Some learners in the class have been asking about ‘Show and Tell’. As you can imagine this could become very time consuming and trying to get through everyone would be a tricky task! Although I don’t do ‘Show and Tell’ learners are welcome to share learning and/or achievements from home. If your child would like to do this you are welcome to provide something to display on our ‘Learning At Home’ wall.
• This term learners will be given the opportunity to do a presentation to the class – more information will be shared nearer the time.
• All learners are invited to speak and share with the class, during the ‘whole class input’ part of a lesson and during the ‘plenary’ part of a lesson, daily.
• I hope this reassures everyone that public speaking is a skill we work on daily without the pressure of it feeling like a bigger task

Enjoy the weekend – have fun and stay safe!

Miss McGhee xxx