Category Archives: Primary 4 23/24

Thank you for all the support, kindness and gifts this session. We have an amazing group of P4s, who have worked incredibly hard and challenged themselves to achieve all they can. They are ready for a well earned rest and lovely summer. Happy Holidays from Mrs MacRae 🙂

Over the last two weeks the class have written expositions on the benefits of school uniforms and mobile phones. It’s great to see how confident everyone is with the structure and writer techniques, which are resulting in strong arguments. The class have continued to apply knowledge and understanding to work out multi-step word problems linkedContinue reading “P4”

This week the class enjoyed participating in the P4 to 7 Sports Day. Thank you to everyone who managed to attend and cheer the children on. This week we started a block of exposition writing and the class will continue to develop a deeper understanding of the features of this type of writing over theContinue reading “Week 6 Term 4”

This week the class wrote narratives about The Little Red Hen. It’s great to see the continued progress everyone is making. Stories included adjectives, adverbs, interesting openers, varied punctuation and conjunctions! We took time to practice for the P4-7 Sports Day next week and the class worked in teams to complete different strategy games withContinue reading “Week 5 Term 4”

The class worked very hard preparing for our assembly today. They were excited about sharing their learning from term 3. Thank you to those who were able to attend. In maths we focused on explaining through pictures, diagrams and words how expressions are worked out. It’s great to see how quickly confidence in sharing strategiesContinue reading “Term 4 Week 1”

The class enjoyed the final week of tennis coaching with Steven on Wednesday. In RME we learnt about Holy Week and Christian beliefs and traditions. This afternoon we carried out a couple of science experiments for the heart and stomach. Wishing you all a lovely Easter break. Mrs E MacRae 🙂

This week the class continued to learn about fractions of shapes and numbers and applied their knowledge when answering word problems. The focus for narrative writing was on the resolution of the story. We worked on comprehension of a super hero text as well as increasing fluency and expression whilst reading. The class are enjoyingContinue reading “Weekly Post”

The class had a busy week with a trip to the cinema on Tuesday to watch The Inseparables. Everyone enjoyed the film and we hope to take different elements of it into our learning in class. The 2nd tennis lesson with Steven developed a variety of skills and the everyone had the opportunity to tryContinue reading “Term 3”

This week the class started a block of tennis lessons with Steven from Bellfield Tennis Club. They were developing a range of skills including: shots, backhand, volley, smash and forehand serve. The Wednesday morning sessions will continue until the end of term 3. The class enjoyed the opportunity to stop and read at different pointsContinue reading “Week 9 Term 3”

This week the class we’re developing their skill of writing orientations as part of narrative writing. They continued to reinforce and extend knowledge of the structure of 2,3 and 4 digit numbers through addition and subtraction and have started to prepare for next weeks P4 Assembly. Wishing you all a lovely weekend. Mrs E MacRaeContinue reading “Week 7 Term 3”