Hello P2M,

I have attached this week’s post as a Word Document (I hope you are able to access it – next week it will be back to the usual format!)

Have a lovely long weekend – see you on Wednesday,

Miss McGhee

A few reminders for next week.

Monday – HOLIDAY

Tuesday – HOLIDAY (for pupils)

Wednesday – Normal school day

Thursday – Learning Together at Home (please make sure you can still access Teams). Some hard copies of work will be sent home on Wednesday so please check school bags!

Friday- Normal school day

Here is a summary of our learning this week. The pupils created mind maps to show the skills we have been working on, the challenges they encountered and what they feel the next steps are in their learning.

Literacy 

Spelling

Listening and Talking and Writing

We looked at the #freecuthbert story that has been circulating recently. We discussed the impact of social media and wrote persuasive letters to either M&S or Aldi depending on our point of view. 

Opportunities for home learning: 

Keep an eye on current events and the way that social media can be used to influence our feelings. For example, with the upcoming election. You might see political party broadcasts on the TV or on the internet. Identify how the different parties try to persuade you to agree with their point of view. Can you use the skills from our persuasive writing this week to persuade someone to agree with your view on who should be elected? 

Maths

We began our maths lessons with core numeracy revision (multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 as well as times tables).  We talked about the importance of revisiting these key skills frequently even though our main focus is on a different area of maths.

The main area covered in maths this week was investigating how to construct triangles when you are given 3 pieces of information (SAS- Side, angle, side and ASA- Angle, side, angle). 

Opportunities for home learning: 

Here are some videos we watched in class, which you may find useful to watch again. Please only watch video 81 and 82, WE DID NOT COVER SSS triangles (video 83).

Constructing Triangles Videos

If you have a protractor and ruler at home you could try some further examples.

Remember, it is also really important to keep revising times tables and other core numeracy skills. We will be doing more of this on Thursday.

Please read our mind maps to find out about our learning in other areas of the curriculum.

This week in P2W…

Literacy: In literacy this week we have been learning our soft ‘c’ sound. We had lots of activities out in the classroom to help us learn our soft ‘c’ sound and practice out spelling of soft ‘c’ words. Have a look at the pictures below!

Numeracy and Mathematics: We have been reminding ourselves of the place value of number and have been partitioning our numbers into tens and units to help us add and subtract. We used our counting cubes to represent numbers in tens and units. We have also been learning about the fraction ‘half’ this week and using our knowledge to identify and represent a half.

Health and Wellbeing: This week we continued our focus on friendships and discussed what makes a good friend and times where we have been a good friend. We wrote about these times on a leaf to create a friendship tree in our classroom…picture coming soon!!

Other curriculum areas: This week Mr Segal from actives schools has been taking us for some fun filled P.E lessons. We have also been practicing our performance of true colours for our recording next Friday.

True colours BSL performance: next Friday we will be performing and recording our performance of ‘True Colours BSL’. The children can dress in bright clothing or their favourite colour. Permission slips for the recording have been given to all the children. Please return these if you wish you child to be involved in the recording, more details are on the permission slip. If your child has lost theirs please contact myself or the school office.

To help with home learning on Thursday next week a learning pack will be sent home with your child on Wednesday. Please look at our teams page for any further information.

Have a lovely long weekend everybody!

Ms Russell

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We read through the script for our class show today and will be having auditions on Wednesday for parts. If you weren’t here but would like to audition, I have attached a photo of one of the pages – you can choose to read one of the lines (even if that’s not the character you want to be, it will show me your acting skills).

We will be doing Literature Circles on Wednesday – please make sure you have completed week 2’s reading. Have a lovely long weekend everyone!

Miss Collyns 🙂

In literacy this week we have wrote a story about an image of a graveyard. We were aiming to use as much description as possible. We have also read a chapter of Coralline and done comprehension on it. We learned a new spelling rule, homophones which is when 2 words sound the same but are spelled differently. We also learned how to make persuasive writing about what pet to purchase. We also did Literature Circles, here is one group’s discussion:

https://videopress.com/v/kTDGyL1H?preloadContent=metadata

 In maths this week we were focusing on algebra. We did 1 step equations and 2 step equations. We also worked on creating equations with word problems and then we solved them. We created our own board game with algebra equations. We will be continuing algebra next week. 

Some other things that we have gotten up to this week is finding out what we are doing for our P7 show and  reading the script of it. Another thing we have done is topic, for our ww2 topic we made a timeline of some things that happened in the war. E.g. when the blitz began, when the battle of France began, the dam buster raid and more. 

Home learning options: 

• Something to do in home learning is to practise your algebra and times table skills 
• Another thing is to memorise your audition lines for the P7 show  
• Lastly you could play on a Sumdog or maths frame 

Happy Friday P1L!

I hope you have enjoyed this week of learning in school. We have had a very busy week – you have all worked really hard! Well done!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Literacy

In literacy this week we have learned four new sounds – ‘sp” ‘st’ ‘sw’ and ‘tw’. 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 continued to learn and look at the Block 3 tricky words. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. Here are some videos we use in school which you could watch again at home.Please practice learning how to read, write and use the tricky words. (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.

In writing, we wrote about a journey to a beach. We imagined what sand feels and looks like and planned what we were going to write about. We included more descriptive words into our writing, and made sure we included at least 3 points in our writing. We also practised using sentence structure correctly.

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?

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we practised our counting skills and recognising numbers up to 100. We counted screened and unscreened collections together and also practised making equal groups. We also revised our maths topic of time.

We revised days of the week, months in the year and the order they come in/what season each month is in. We also practised telling the time and writing the clock hands onto clocks. We looked and played with clocks and learned how to read o’clock times on a clock. We had lots of fun learning this! As an extra challenge we learned how to read half past times as well!

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 telling the time and looking at clocks. What hour comes next?
• Revise the days of the week and months of the year. Ask a family member if there is any special months to your family? Family birthdays etc!

Other Curricular Areas

P.E: We played some fun fitness games and practised our balancing skills. We also enjoyed our fun activities with the P.E Coach.

French: We have been learning how to count to 10 in french and basic greetings. We also have been learning the days of the week and how to say ‘Today it is..’ We also learned how to say my name is and practised introducing ourselves to a partner. We are really enjoying learning French with Ms Leach!

Next Week:

• I hope you have a lovely Monday/Tuesday holiday! Enjoy the sun and playing outdoors!
• On Thursday – we have our whole class live session at 9:00am-9:30am – I will send out a Teams link to this on Wednesday. Work for the LTAH day will be published on the blog on Wednesday evening.
• We will be continuing to work on the SNSA assessments next week. Well done to everyone! You all worked really hard and concentrated really hard whilst doing them!
• Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing as we will have one outdoor lesson per day.

I hope you have a lovely long weekend!

Miss McGillivray

Literacy

• Spelling: this week we practised our spelling words using Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check; rewrote them in our neatest cursive writing and completed some worksheet tasks
• Team Jewel- revising ar and or; introducing the sound ‘ir’
• Team Gold– working on adding ‘ing’ endings to words where you don’t need to make any changes to the root word
• Team Treasure- ‘al’ words where it makes the ‘ol’ sound
• Reading- using our skim/scan skills to look for words in our reading books; reading for information about Scottish wildlife
• Handwriting– practising formation, focusing on the correct height of letters
• Writing- beginning to look at using awesome openers to start our sentences.

At home ideas:

• Paint your spelling words on a big sheet of paper or ‘paint’ them with water outside.
• Skim and scan a book/magazine/comic from home to pick out as many words as you can with 3, 4, 5 and 6 letters in them. Record them in lists.

Numeracy/Maths

• Working on adding ten to any number (within range of 0-100, 0-1000 and beyond for some). If we found this easy, using this skill to add 9 or add 11
• Practising our speedy times tables
• Looking at position and movement- using grid references (and angles for some).

At home ideas:

• Find numbers all around you and see if you can add ten to them. Can you use this skill to add 9 or add 11?
• Continue to work on your times tables- there’s a link to a game below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Other Areas

• Science- beginning a mini project about how plants grow
• French- continuing to practise our colours
• RME– we read a story about Ramadan
• PE- we had input from Active Schools this week and played some fun games (in the rain!)

At home ideas:

• Help around your home by asking if there are plants that you can help to look after.
• Listen to the song we heard in class about how plants grow
• Make a colourful poster to show the colours in French (the link below may help you)

Have a great long weekend everyone, remember that we’re not back in school until Wednesday. Mrs Tweedie is teaching on Wednesday next week.

Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham

Good morning! We hope you all had a lovely week.

We have been very busy again this week.

Here is what we have been learning at school:

Literacy

This week we have learned three consonant blends: sp, st and sw. Our tricky words are every and two.

For the sp sound we made spiders and we played with spaghetti (we loved it!). We also looked at Mrs de Bonrostro’s Spanish flag, it was a big flag!

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For the st sound we played with the stamps and we made sticky stars. We did a sticky sticks outdoors!

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For the sw sound we did swans and sweet houses! We were great at following instructions and no eating the sweets…we think! We watched some fragments of the Swan lake ballet and we did the Swan lake dance, look at us dancing together! We were swinging outside too.

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At writing we wrote about our bedrooms. The focus was to use describing words and writing short sentences using finger spaces, capital letters at the start of a sentence and full stops at the end of a sentence.

Home learning Ideas

• We have noticed that most children can write their own names however the letter formation is not correct. The children have learned to this when they were younger so some letters are still formed incorrectly. It would be great if you can practice this at home.

• You could use the home learning sheet to make words with the sounds that we have worked on.

• Ask your child to read the read book that it went home on Thursday. We have been reading it during the week at school.

Numeracy

We have been revising our knowledge on Money ( work that we did while Learning at home). We also have started to work on measurement.

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We have continued to work on our Numeracy skills through SEAL.

Home learning Ideas

• You could use real coins to create amounts up to 10p and practice to give change within 10p. When using coins focus on colour, size and shape rather than looking at the number on the coins as some of them don’t have it and this can create confusion. Talk about value.
• You can measure items in your house/ garden using their hands, feet or any other object.
• You could do some baking and discuss about measuring while doing so.
• You could try this game at home: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/lets-compare

Other areas

PE

On Monday Mr Segall, our Active schools coordinator, worked with us and we did lots of games. We followed instructions and worked on balance and fitness.

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Independent learning

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News

• Monday 3rd May is a school holiday and Tuesday is an In Service day (only for staff). Children will be back at school on Wednesday 5th May. On Thursday we will be learning from home ( due to school be used as a polling station): work will be posted at 8.45, our online meeting will take place at 9.30 am.
• On Wednesday please check your child’s purple folder as we will be sending some work home that would be explained on Thursday’s blog.
• Please remember to send to school labelled spare clothes for your child. Please check if you have at home school sweatshirt that doesn’t belong to your child as we have one missing and it is not at school. Thank you!
• See below a photo of different items unlabelled that have not been claimed Please let us know if any of them belong to your child.

We hope you have a lovely long weekend!

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Welcome back to term 3 We have a busy term ahead but it is lovely to be working together in school.

Reminder that any entries for Buckstone’s Got Talent should be brought in school next week so the class can select who will represent us.

As usual we have been very busy working across the curriculum developing skills.

Reading

This term, we will be reading within groups but at school. There will be no reading books going home. Covid restrictions made group reading tricky so we will be reading our novels daily and working on various tasks relating to the group reader.

Today’s blog was complied by P4H who have been working hard developing our skills across the curriculum

Literacy

Our class novel is The Bolds by Julian Clary. It is about people who are not really people as they are hyenas . It is very funny because the hyenas make lots of mistakes pretending to be humans.

There are several books in the series.

Spelling

This week we revised all the tricky words from last term. Keep practising at home

Use, just, find, kind, buy, by, heard, herd, even, different, threw, through

Next week’s spelling

Super graph, sphere, phrase, physical, elephant, dolphin

Fantastic phonics, paragraph, nephew, telephone, orphan, alphabet

Spectacular photograph, autograph, atmosphere, pheasant, pharmacy catastrophe

We created our own Haiku poems .These are short poems which come from Japan We developed our knowledge of syllables from last term This is a poem that has 3 lines with 5 syllables in the first and 3rd line and 7 syllables in the 2nd. We used clapping to help us.

We thought about the signs of Spring and used our ideas to create the poems

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Similes We learned what a simile was and created our own. We listened to Roger McGough reading his poem called The Writer of this Poem

We were able to make up our own comparisons using similes. We changed traditional similes using modern comparisons.

At Home Ideas
Try making up some similes comparing things around your home

Numeracy

We revised the 3 times table and tried to speed up accurate recall with activities and games. We were making links between times tables. We worked in partners and on our own

At home ideas

Practice your 3 times table here :-

https://www.timestables.co.uk/3-times-table.html

We made a compass and went outside to plan journeys for our partner to follow. We were working out left and right turns. We found out about the points on a Compass and when we might use a Compass. We used North , South , East and West in our directions.

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At Home Ideas

Try planning a route and see if someone at home can follow it. Were your instructions clear enough? Can you use the language we have been learning in class? For example – full, half, quarter turns, right, left, anti-clockwise, clockwise, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, 360 degrees and the Compass Points for an extra challenge.

We began to look at grids and how coordinates work . We learned about the axis and how to plot points on a square in a grid . In outdoor learning we chalked our own grids and put stones and twigs down . Our partner had to work out the coordinates

We learnt to read the horizontal axis first.

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Other areas

Art We made pencil drawings of daffodils and then added detail with black pens. We followed a video to help us but created our own individual ones. We discovered there are many varieties of daffodils.

Can you retell the story form Greek mythology about Narcissus?

PE We did fitness exercises and then used basic equipment to develop our skills and work as a team.

We also developed our climbing , coordination and balance skills on the climbing frames and ropes.

We learned how to play Cat and Mouse

RME We talked about Ramadan and heard what it is like celebrating Ramadan . It was interesting and we had lots of questions. We are looking forward to hearing about Eid..

Problem Solving The Mystery of the Missing Daffodils

We had to use our problem solving skills to work out different numeracy clues to solve the mystery. Some were tricky.

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Have a lovely weekend

P4H ( and Ms Hastie)