Skara Brae

Primary 4 had a day out on Monday this week when we went to visit Skara Brae.  The morning was lovely - we had bright sunshine and it wasn't too cold.  We split into two groups - each group went on a walk to the village and watched the video in the Visitors Centre, while the other group got some hands on experience with Tony.  Unfortunately at lunch time it became a little wetter and the rain came!  Never mind, we were tough and went to the Ring of Brodgar with the Ranger, Elaine, and played some games.

Even when it was wet and windy everyone had a good time and Ms Rendall hopes they will remember the trip with happy memories!

Slideshow - Skara Brae

Number processes

This looks like a really fun website for testing your number knowledge.  Use the menus on the left - Number problems, word problems, number bond pairs and balloons - and then use the menu on the right to choose whether you want to do the activities against a timer or not!  (there are also tabs along the top for some of the activities to change from addition / subtraction / multiplication etc)

Have fun exploring this fun website - Ms Rendall has had fun!!!

Conker maths

Circuits

 

As part our project this term we have been learning about electricity and where this comes from.  We have been investigating circuits and how to make these, using wires, batteries and some light bulbs.  We also figured out how to put a switch into the circuit, using a paperclip.

                              

 

           

 

Primary 4 - if you would like to let us know about anything you learned while doing this please leave a comment!

 

Scrap Pod opening

It was a very exciting day in school yesterday, when the Scrap Pod was officially opened.  It was lovely to have Mrs Holt back to cut the ribbon as we haven't seen her since she retired.  We then had a fantastic break time using all the new things from the Scrap Pod.  Please have a look at our photos by clicking on the link below.

 

 

Slideshow - Scrap Pod opening

 

If you have an exciting adventure or story from using the Scrap Pod please let us know by writing in the comments - you don't have to be from Primary 4 to do this, but please make sure to add your name and class to the comment!

 

Handwork

We are very lucky in St Andrews that we get the chance to learn to sew, knit and crochet.  Although this is tricky, it is something we all enjoy.  Here are some photos of us in action!

 

 

Slideshow - Handwork

 

We are only able to do handwork every week because of all the people who kindly come in from the community to do help us with this, so we would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who gives up their time to help us.  If you would like to help please feel free to join us on Thursday afternoons as we can never have too many helpers!

 

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!

 

 

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

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.