Christmas lunch

The dinner ladies did a fantastic job of making Christmas lunch for us yesterday (Thursday).  We all had lots to eat and really enjoyed this - even though the fire alarm went off in the middle of it!

THANK YOU DINNER LADIES for making us such a wonderful lunch!

 

Slideshow - Christmas lunch

Christmas jumpers

 

 

Did you know today is Christmas Jumper Day!

 

Primary 5 arranged a competition to design our own Christmas jumpers and we also all paid 50p to wear our jumpers to school.  There was over £93 raised altogether - well done Primary 5 for organising this!

 

 

Maths games

We have been learning our times tables in Primary 4 this term.  We were given a challenge to design our own game to help us learn our times tables.  It was fun but a little tricky!  When we had finished making our game we then all got to play each other's games.  We had to leave feedback about what we thought was good about the game and what could be done better next time - and we will make changes to our games and try playing them again.  We will let you know how they work once we have made our improvements!

Slideshow - Our Maths games

Fiddlers!

Douglas has been teaching a number of children in our class how to play the fiddle.  We were all very excited last week when we got a sneak preview of what they were going to play at the Christmas concert - but we weren't allowed to put it up here until after the show so we didn't spoil the surprise!

 

 

Unfortunately we can't add the second video to the blog page as it is too big, but you can see it by clicking on the link below:

 

 Hot Cross Buns video

Christmas Assembly

It was Primary 4's Assembly on the last Friday of November so we decided to have a Christmas theme given it would be December by Monday. 

 

We were talking about Christmas not being about getting presents and that there are children around the world who will not have any presents under their Christmas tree this year (or maybe they won't even have a Christmas tree).

 

We want everyone to be grateful for what they have and not to be unhappy if they do not get everything they have asked for at Christmas as there are many children who do not have anything at all.

 

 

Slideshow - Christmas Assembly

Prize winning guinea pigs!

Jasmin had a busy weekend two weeks ago, when she took her guinea pigs to the show in the Mart.  She had a very successful day and won several prizes - well done Jasmin! 

 

Please have a look at the photos Jasmin took, and hopefully Jasmin will leave us some comments to explain what it was she was doing and what she got her prizes for.

 

 Slideshow - Jasmin's guinea pigs

Norwegian visitors

The whole school had a treat this morning when we had three Norwegian visitors come and perform for us.  They were very funny and also played fantastic music!  Please have a look at our photos and listen to the videos of them playing.

 

Slideshow - Norwegian visitors

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurement skills

As part of our learning in Maths we have been looking at measurement and the different ways we can do this.  We have looked at measuring weight, length and area so far.

 

 

These photos show us using balances to measure weight - we were trying to find objects in the classroom that were the same weight as the weights we had.  It was fun but quite tricky to find things that made the scales balance.

Maybe Primary 4 will add some comments to tell you a bit more about this!

Rugby

We have had a lot of fun this term improving our tag rugby skills.  We were out in all weathers - even when it was pouring with rain - Ms Rendall wasn't always very fond of the smell in the classroom afterwards!

 

Please click on the link below and have a look at some photos that were taken when we were practising.

 

 

Slideshow - Rugby

Can anyone explain some of the important rules and tactics in tag rugby?  Please leave a comment if you can!

Visitors to Primary 4 ...

Hello Primary 4!  I hope you have all had a lovely holiday and are all set for coming back to school on Monday.  I have missed seeing you all, but as you can see from the pictures below, I have been in school during the holidays.  My friends from Japan came to visit and they really liked our school - I thought you might like to meet them too!

This is Kiyofumi - he is 6 months old and very cute!  He thought Haggis was very funny!

 

 These photos show Kiyofumi with his dad Hirobumi, his mum Hiroko and his granny Kayoko.  They had a nice time in Orkney I think, even though it was lots of wind and rain!  Hopefully the next time they visit the sun will shine a little more. 

We are thankful ....

As a whole school, we have been thinking about what we are thankful for in our lives.  This is something we think is very important to do as it is sometimes easy to forget the good things in life where there is so much sadness around us.  Everyone in Primary 4 thought and talked about what we are grateful for and we all agreed we are thankful for NATURE.  We each wrote a poem about this and then chose different parts from each of the poems that we wrote.  This is the joint poem from Primary 4 - we hope you like it:

Nature never wants to harm us

Animals provide us with food and medicine

Trees sucking up carbon dioxide

Utterly full of living creatures

Rain pattering against the leaves

Energy from howling wind to windmills

There is so much more that we are thankful for but we couldn't include everything!  If you have anything you are thankful for please leave us a comment.

Goodbye Mrs Ruddick!

We were very sad on Friday of last week to say goodbye to Mrs Ruddick, who has been helping us in school for 17 years.






We hope she will feel much better now that she doesn't have to run after children (and teachers!!!) and that she will come back to visit us soon. 


We will all miss you Mrs Ruddick!

First Assembly of Primary 4

We had our first Assembly two weeks ago (sorry for the delay in getting some pictures up!), where we were thinking about heroes and what it is that makes someone a hero.  When we think of heroes we often think of people having qualities such as being strong, brave, famous or rich - however this is not what we believe makes someone a hero (we also don't believe you need to wear your pants over your trousers!).

 

We think that EVERYONE can be a hero if they want to be.  We can all be heroes by doing small things for the people around us.  Here are some ideas for how we can all become heroes:

sharing with others
helping others
being kind
standing up for something we think is important
trying to make the world a better place

If you have any other ideas or suggestions, please send us a comment and we will share your ideas too.

 

 

Slideshow - Assembly

Apologies ...

Hello again!  This is a quick note to let you know that I will be sorting the blog page ASAP - I have been trying tonight but for some reason the webpage is not working so I don't know if what I am doing will appear for you to see or not.  If you can see what I have added please leave a comment so I know it is working (even if it tells me it is not!).

 I will try to get this sorted over the weekend so you can start following what we are up to in class! 

From Ms Rendall

Welcome to Primary 4!

Hello everyone!  This is just a quick note to say how excited I am about being the teacher in Primary 4 this year and how much I am looking forward to getting to know you and your parents over the next year.

I do hope you have all had a fun summer, and I can't wait to hear all about it!

From Ms Rendall