Stoneyhill Primary School

Primary 4

Friday 5th December

This week we have continued our work on our link with Makabe Primary School, Tanzania.  We have been busy finalising our class visits and plan to visit other classes in the school early next week.  We have also continued our research for our Scottish brochure by finding out about attractions, sport, beaches, castles, rivers, famous Scots and Scottish stories. Remember, you can still hand in any of your favourite Scottish recipes for our Scottish recipe book!

In maths we have have applied for jobs and worked out our weekly, monthly and annual wages and are now looking forward to spending some of our hard earned wages from our various jobs - waiter, childminder, bank manager, financial advisor, policeman to name a few! In RME we have been learning more about the life of Muhammad.

Friday 21st November

Our Assembly input with P4/5 last week was very successful. We informed the rest of the school all about our plans to create a link with Makabe Primary School, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The children told everyone about Makabe Primary School, shared some facts about Tanzania, showed them some photos, sang a traditional African song and some children even spoke some Swahili! Over the next couple of weeks children from P4 and P4/5 will visit each class to tell them even more and answer their questions. We are currently putting together a welcome pack to send to Tanzania with information about Stoneyhill, Musselburgh and Scotland and we hope to create a Scottish recipe book…

We have also been busy learning about newspapers and newspaper articles including how headlines give us information about an article and looking at different opinions and how they are included in news articles. In maths, we are beginning to explore real life spending, budgeting and saving.

Friday 7th November

This week P4 have continued our Global Citizenship work by collaborating with P4/5 and learning more about Tanzania. We have been finalising plans for our Global Citizenship Assembly next Friday. This week we have started our work on newspaper articles by writing catchy headlines about a football match, a cat stuck up a tree and children finding treasure! We have also continued to make our Roman inspired mosaics and in PE we have enjoyed taking part in unihoc and indoor athletics.

Friday 31st October

We have continued our citizenship work this week by working hard in our groups to make flags, leaflets, posters and plan class visits, assembly and a Global Citizenship board. We have learned lots about Tanzania, for example how long people live for, class sizes in schools (up to 100 children!!), the games children play, the currency is Tanzanian shillings, they speak swahili, the population is 40 million people. Over the next few weeks we hope to learn lots more information.

Also this week we have been busy making mosaics. The Romans used Mosaics in baths and important buildings for decoration. When we finish our mosaics we will put some photos on the website…

We have also enjoyed the beginning of Fantastic Mr Fox, our new class novel!

by Erin, Daniel, Jamie, Alex, Lewis, Blair A, Emma, Aimee, Sammy, Katie, Sarah, Kirsty Su, Ryan S, Blair O and Ross

Friday 24th October

P4 have had a busy first week back!

This week we have been working very closely with the pupils from P4/5. Collaboratively we have been learning about Global Citizenship, in particular the formation of a link with Makabe Primary School, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The children have been working in various groups to develop this link. The children decided on the following group; assembly information, class visits, Global Citizenship notice board, flag designing and posters/leaflets on Stoneyhill and Tanzania. Over the coming months we hope to strengthen this link with the assistance of the British Council and to form a Global Citizenship Committee made up of pupils, parents and teachers. Watch this space…

Thursday 2nd October

This week we have enjoyed writing Imagined Personal Responses in role as Roman soldiers. We have also begun to research aspects of the Five Pillars of Islam with each group researching one of the pillars. They will then create part of our display and will teach the rest of the class what they have learned.

Next week we will visit the book fair on Tuesday (1.00-1.30) and Wednesday (9.00-9.30). Children will have the opportunity to browse and purchase books if they wish.

In maths, we have made nets of cubes, cuboids and pyramids and enjoyed making skeleton models of cubes and cuboids using art straws and plasticene. Check out the pictures below…

We also enjoyed creating and colouring our Islamic art symmetrically…

19th September

P4 have worked hard this week to colour our Islamic patterns symmetrically. This was a really challenging task but everyone did very well to complete the task accurately. Also this week, we wrote Imagined Personal Responses pretending that we were the headteacher for a day. Mrs McGillivray was interested to read some of our ideas - a water slide at school, all day PE, TVs on all desks and chocolate fountains in each classroom!!

12th September

This week we have carried on our Roman topic by making maps to show the where the Roman Empire was. Our maps are all different - coloured, painted, 3D - and are taking shape nicely! Pictures will follow when they are all completed! In science we have continued to create posters to encourage others to save water which we hope to display around the school for everyone to see.

We also learned how to use a compass this week then used this skill to help us create Islamic patterns which we plan to colour symmetrically. In writing, we adopted the role of an alien and wrote about the school from the point of view of someone from outer space. The aliens had some interesting ideas about our school!

5th September

We have continued our busy start to the term by creating positive statements that we can use to praise our classmates and their work. We have also planned our Social Studies topic, The Romans, and our RME topic, Islam, together as a class and look forward to learning and sharing lots of information about these in the coming weeks. On Monday we enjoyed a great performance of The Railway Children. In writing, we have written in the role of an Olympic athlete, describing our thoughts and feelings as we won (and lost) Olympic gold medals!

The group who have started their swimming block seem to be enjoying their lessons so far and the group in school have been creating some challenging PE games. Thank you to all of the parent helpers who have volunteered to come swimming with us.

Check out these pictures of us enjoying Golden Time

25th August

Primary 4 have had a busy first week back. We’ve been learning about the Olympics and were delighted to watch lots of gold medals being won and we designed pictograms to represent our favourite sports.

In maths this week we have been learning about 2d and 3d shapes and have been telling the time. We have also been enjoying our new class novel, Matilda, and have been doing some language work linked to the book. The class (and Miss Harper) have also set targets for themselves for the year!

Today we wrote imaginative stories about a beach and a treasure chest.

Written by P4.

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