The pupils in P6 are currently learning about ‘Plant Life’. In Art and Design they have been inspired by the work of several artists including Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Georgia O’Keeffe. They have been exploring the properties of different media to create their own botanical studies.
Primary 6M have settled back into school and have been getting to know Ms McKay. We have been working on our novel study ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’ by Kiran Milllwood Hargrave (a new children’s author). It is about an adventurous young girl who dreams of exploring the island Joya that she lives on. It is a tale of mystery and myth and finding out who we can be when we face our fears.
In numeracy we are learning about place value and using large numbers in real life contexts. We are also discussing and investigating the properties of 2D shapes and 3D objects, nets and angles.
We have been exploring plant life and using different media in art to create pictures of flowers and plants.
To develop our health and wellbeing we have been focussing on the topic resilience and have been playing invasion games and badminton. We are looking forward to our swimming next week.
Primary 5 has settled well into the new academic year.
Our first topic is Mary Queen of Scots and we plan to visit Holyrood Palace to learn more about her life there and have a chance to dress up in clothes of that era.
We very much enjoyed our trip to the Book Festival where we saw Chloe Daykin and Maz Evans ‘From Real to Surreal’. They inspired us to be more creative and we are thoroughly enjoying our Big Writing where we are producing very descriptive and atmospheric stories focusing on VCOP to ‘up-grade’ our writing.
However, our biggest excitement this term is winning the Mixed Touch Rugby Tournament at Murrayfield Stadium on 11th September.
I am very much looking forward to working with this lovely class and the work we are going to do this year.
Mrs Birrell
Hi everyone and welcome to P4F!
We have had a busy start to the year and we look forward to sharing our work with you. We will try to post news and photos on our page at least once a month.
In our Topic work we have been learning about worries and how to deal with them. Our unit of work has been based around the book “The Worry Website” by Jacqueline Wilson. We have had an anonymous “worry box” in the classroom and children have been trying to solve problems and think of ways to help people with their worries.
We really enjoyed our visit to the book festival. We thought the 2 authors we met (Ian Billings and Chris White) were hilarious! We heard lots of their funny poems and we have been trying to write in the same style in our writing.
Our new Home Learning is underway and we hope you are enjoying the mix of activities. The next full set of home learning will be available on the website from Tuesday 19th September.
There seems to be a lot of runny noses at the moment so any donations of tissues for the class would be greatly appreciated! Thank you 🙂
The morning nursery children had a fantastic time on their forest walk last week! They enjoyed exploring the space for the first time and had fun climbing trees, swinging from branches, balancing along logs and playing together outdoors in the lovely sunny weather!
Mr Cairney and Mrs Simpson would like to thank everyone for coming and seeing the literacy and numeracy learning that we are going to be sharing with the children over the course of the year.
If you would like to look over the slides presented, here are some links to the slideshows.
Hi and welcome to the P6R blog. As the home learning format is now different, I hope to update you regularly via this blog.
The children have settled in well to P6 and are enjoying their learning. We had a great trip to the Book Festival where the class were really inspired by Cathy MacPhail. They were keen to read one of her novels in class and they have also written a great piece following on from her work.
Please make sure your child has a coat in school at all times and also has PE kit (including shoes) left in school each term. I will send the kit home to be washed at the end of each term.
We are delighted to have just received our Green Flag for a further two years. Well done to this year’s Eco team for all their hard work and thank you to the rest of the school and local community for all the support they have shown us.
The Eco fair was a huge success and we raised £110 which will go towards new plants and vegetables for growing next year.
Our Roseburn cookbooks are now available to buy at the office for £5 each with lots of yummy healthy recipes!
Miss, Simpson, Miss Shanley, Miss Marnitz and The Eco Team J
Alfie, p3, recently attended the Modern Art Gallery to see his work on display and receive a bag of art goodies as a ‘Special Merit’ winner in the p1-3 category, ‘Pirates and Mermaids’ !
Why not pop down to the gallery over the summer to see Alfie’s wonderful ‘Merman’ on display? The free exhibition runs until September 24th.
Congratulations Alfie! It is a real honour to have your work on display in the National Galleries of Scotland!
Roseburn Primary School