Roseburn Primary School

P7B Update

Written by: Lucy K and Lucy W

Last week P7 went to the Poppy Factory. In the first room, there was a pretend solider from World War 2 and he was very loud. It was really fun and interesting to see all of the different artefacts to help us learn about our history. We also made lots of poppies.

This week P7 went to Craigmount High School for a maths transition event. We went with the other schools in our cluster: East Craigs, Corstorphine, Hillwood and Fox Covert. P7 enjoyed doing this activity and it made them less worried about high school. We were lucky enough to have the S2s to help us. Thank you to the staff at Craigmount for organising a brilliant transition event.

P7P Update

Written by: Matthew

Recently in P7P we have been learning about the history of the poppy and WW2. To do this we visited the Poppy Factory where we talked about rationing, fighting and even got to make some poppies and take them home. We each placed a poppy into a Roseburn wreath, which our Pupil Council representatives laid at the War Memorial, within the grounds of Murrayfield Stadium, before the Scotland v Fiji match.

We also did a maths event at Craigmount High School where we won some prizes. This was one of many transition events we will attend throughout the year to help us become familiar with our high school.

P3/4 Update

We have been learning to tell the time – o’ clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.

We have been learning about poetry using Talk for Writing strategies and through the poem ‘The Magic Box’, written by Kit Wright. The poem has very imaginative items that it puts inside the box. Next week we shall be changing the poem to include some of our own imaginative items.

P3 Update

Written by: Charlize & Olivia

We got a letter from Tutankhamen and we have been studying Egyptians ever since. Now we know hieroglyphics. This is Egyptian writing and it it is like a symbol or picture. Yesterday we drew an Egyptian on sandpaper.

P2 Update

Written by: Valene

In P2 we have been learning about the months and seasons of the year. We made a calendar wheel to match the months to the season.

In art we have been learning to use wax crayons to blend colours and to create autumn pictures.

P5M Update

Written by: Alfie & Isabella

After our last update, Ms Marnitz left Roseburn. We were very sad to see her go and we gave her a great send off by singing and cheering on the stairs. We are now enjoying getting to know Ms Turek.

This week we have been learning about money and decimal points.

We are also learning about rainforests. Did you know that rainforests are on their way to becoming extcint?!

P5F Update

Written by: Joseph & Logan

In P5F, we created a PowerPoint about Mary Queen of Scots. Using Book Creator, we recorded facts about Mary Queen of Scots. Here are some of our favourite facts:

She killed 300 people.
Her full name is Mary Stuart.

In art, we did portraits of Mary Queen of Scots and Rizzo.

P6 Update

Written by: Ayaan, Gene & Rory

In P6, in the last two weeks, we have been looking at different written strategies in maths, such as chimney sums. We have also been lucky enough to welcome university students into our class to help with some tricky maths concepts. This week we explored square numbers.

Last Monday we visited Edinburgh Zoo and we learnt how to identify male and female animals by their body parts and colouring. We have been learning about puberty and the changes to the body that may occur for males and females throughout puberty.

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In reading, we have been reading a description of something or someone and we then had to visualise it and then draw it.

P4 Update

Written by: Finlay

In P4, we have been learning about advertising and media to help us prepare for the Christmas Fair. And it is very exciting, we can’t wait! We are going to use other skills too, such as language and mathematics to run our enterprise stalls. There are various things we have to do, like planning our purchasing and creating adverts.

P1/2 Update

Written by: Max L

In P1/2 we have been learning about different ways you can use line to create pictures. First we created different shaped line monsters, then we used line to create a landscape picture and finally we decorated line snakes for art. It was really fun.

We have also been learning about the weather. We made weather clocks to show the different weathers outside. Some of our class really wanted to include a sandstorm but we don’t get many of those outside our school! It was fun and cool.

For Diwali, we learnt about the story of Rama and Sita. We really enjoyed hearing about the evil king, Ravana, and his trickster ways. We wrote and illustrated our own version of the story.