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Today we held an assembly to mark UNICEF's 'Safe Internet Day.' This term all classes across school undertake a block of work on Internet safety. Today was an introduction to the work that will follow. All children learned about how they should stay safe online and to approach an adult with any worries. We take ... Continue reading "This Week's News in School and Nursery"
This week we were given our own Education City logins and passwords. Instead of being P3 Play Leaders this week, we became P3 ICT Leaders! We helped the P1 pupils to access and play games on Education City. In Numeracy this week we have been learning to subtract near multiples of 10. This can be ... Continue reading "Computers, computers, computers (P3A)"
We have been very busy working on subtraction in P1a. We really enjoyed using our number tiles to make a number line in the corridor and get our friends to jump out number sentences. We also had to do a subtraction colouring Elmer where each number had a colour, we had to work out that ... Continue reading "Subtraction Action in P1a"
Literacy We learned how to use speech marks. MC For Guided reading we focused on making inferences. We also revisited the types of story genre and the different kinds of story ending. ICT/ Literacy We were researching and taking notes about Ancient Egypt. RG Maths/ Numeracy We have been learning how to find objects in ... Continue reading "P4 Class"
This week in P6a we have been doing a lot of singing, both for the Museum Project and for the Scottish Opera. We started to write our song for the Museum and will continue this in two weeks time. For Scottish Opera we have been rehearsing in our groups. This is going well and all ... Continue reading "Singing Central in P6a!"
We are the upper school class of the week this week!! This week we learned a little bit about Charles Rennie MacKintosh. We then recreated a rose on a stained glass window in this style. In maths, some of us were adding money and others were calculating best value for money. We'll continue to explore ... Continue reading "Primary 5 w/e 1st February 2019"
On Monday we welcomed Miss Fiddes our Student Teacher from Edinburgh University. Miss Fiddes showed us how to write an acrostic poem using our names. This helped Miss Fiddes learn interesting facts about us. On Tuesday we took part in the fourth workshop provided by NYCOS (National Youth Choir of Scotland) where we learned how ... Continue reading "P4/5 Week Commencing 28th January 2019"
Well done to D in P6 who got second place in his category at the Hamilton Junior Chess Congress in Airdrie at the weekend! We are so proud of you! Miss Baillie x
Well we have certainly been busy with our Scottish focus this week. We have been learning about Kirkpatrick MacMillan who invented the bicycle. He rode the first one, made of iron, all the way to Glasgow from his home in Dumfries. What a feat! The children then designed their own bicycles and either used ... Continue reading "A very Scottish week in Primary 2B"
During reading on a Monday, while each group is getting their new book, the others have reading tasks to work on. This week we looked at identifying the main features of a story - the main characters, supporting characters, setting/s, the problem in the story and how the problem was resolved. The children worked in ... Continue reading "Busy, Busy P3B"
Our annual Scots focus ended today with children from each class presenting their learning at assembly. We listened to information about lots of famous Scots who have changed life for us today because of their inventions or actions. Primary 7 helped us to celebrate Burns Night earlier on this week by organising a fantastic Burns ... Continue reading "A Scottish Week at SPS and Bonnytoun"
In PE this week we have been continuing to develop our skills and techniques in football. We worked on different movement skills and then we went into teams and played some football matches. On Thursday afternoon we went outside with P3B and we played football together. In Numeracy this week we have been learning to ... Continue reading "Diaries and Nebulas (P3A)"
