P4 2023/24

Friday 17th May April 2024

The weeks continue to fly by in our fourth and final term of Primary 4! Take a look at what we got up to this week, below!

🏜️Arid Climate Art 🏜️

We have been learning about another climate in our world called the 'Arid Climate' where you can find the hottest places to live on Earth! We have made some Arid Climate Art based on the techniques used by Vincent Van Gough and had a fabulous time. It was lovely to hear so many of you complimenting each others' work too!

🕷️Woodland Critters! 🐞

Our fourth adventure to the woods this week and it was all about invertebrates! We had so much fun hunting down minibeasts and sharing them with everyone! We learned so much along the way too!

Friday 10th May April 2024

We have had some fun visitors into school this week teaching us lots of new things and great learning experiences about our local wildlife and landscape.

😍Scottish Access Code 🤩

Mrs Carlisle (Bethan's mum) was kind enough to visit us this week to teach us all about the Scottish Access Code and how we can be respectful of our countryside and all the users and wildlife within it!

😁Aigas Visitors 😊

We had a visit from Aigas field centre who taught us all about life on the Sheilings and had some super fun activity stations set up for us which showed us how tough life can be during these times in the Highlands for the people who lived there.

Friday 3rd May April 2024

We have made the most of the warmer weather arriving at last and have had lots of fun outdoors again this week! Take a look at our adventures below.

🧑‍💻PE and Technology 🏃👟

We have been practicing our atheltics with Mr Garden on the school playing field. We have been using ipads to help us see our race starts in slow motion, so we can give each other feedback and improve our techniques in time for sports day! We were also recording our times using the stopwatch features on the ipads to try and best our personal best times.

🌳Out in the Woods! 🌲

We ventured out to Lochardil woods for our third visit this week. We were learning all about the insides of our trees and how all the components work together. We had a taste of gorse petal tea and were guiding each other through the woods with our sense of sight being hindered!

Friday 26th April 2024

We have been really busy again this week in Primary 4! Take a look at what we have been getting up to!

🏔️Polar Climate Art 🧊

As part of our 'Weather and Climate' topic we have done some beautiful polar climate art pieces, inspired by the artist Ted Harrison!

💀Woodland Adventures 🌲

We had our second adventure to Lochardil Woods this week. We were learning about the different woodland animals that are in our Scottish Highlands. We were trying to figure out all of the different types of animals based on their footprints; food they eat; shelters they make to sleep in; skulls they have and even the different types of faeces they have!! We also played our new favourite game called 'Deer Down'. Ask us to find out all about it!

Friday 19th April 2024

We have made a positive start to our fourth and final term of Primary 4 with lots of engaging experiences and celebrating the great outdoors and the importancce of protecting the world in which we belong! Take a look at our adventures this week below!

🌍 Climate Change Art 🌏

All of our learning about pollution in our planet sparked an interest in making art that has a powerful climate change message that we want to share with our friends and families. We cannot wait to show you the finished art pieces as our project continues.

🐠Pollution Inventions 🚮

We have been reading the book titled 'A Planet Full of Pastic' by Neal Layton and this sparked some innovatie Pollution Solution Inventions to solve the huge issue of massive garbage patches that can be found in our oceans. One particular garbage [atch found in the Pacific Ocean is three times the size of France! The inventions we have started designing are absolutely amazing and I am blown away with the creativity and thinking behind all of your wonderful designs!

🦎Woodland Classroom - Survival Skills 🌳

We had a fantastic first day back after the Easter holidays by visiting Lochardil Woods to learn about things we need in order to survive in the woods - Food, Water and Shelter. We made some nature hotels and made friends with a ladybird, frog and lizard who became our first visitors to our nature hotels!

Thursday 28th March 2024

Well that's us at the end of term 3! It has been such a busy term with lots of fun learning experiences and loads of amazing memories made! Thank you P4 and hope you have an 'egg-cellent' Easter holiday!!

🐣Easter Pop-Up Card Making 🐰

We had a go at two different pop-up Easter card designs, with one being slightly more challening than the other!

Friday 22nd March 2024

We only have one more week left of Primary 4 before it is the Easter holidays! It really has been a very quick term indeed! Have a look at all of our adventures that we got up to this week, below!

🤓 Term 3 Open Morning! 🤠

It was wonderful to welcome parents, carers and relatives back into class this week for our Term 3 Open Morning! We hope you had fun problem solving, getting messy and being creative with your ideas whilst helping us build the roofs to our Jacobite black houses!

🤩Wow Moment! 🥳

Well done to this musical superstar who came first in her group and third place overall, in the Inverness Music Festival for Elementary Themed Piano! Well done Eliza we are so proud of you!

Friday 15th March 2024

Another jam packed week full of fun! We got rather messy being creative too...and have ended the week celebrating a worthwhile cause - Comic Relief!

🔴Comic Relief 🔴

We took part in a danceathon for Comic Relief, as well as 'Beat the Goalie' and 'Guess the Number of Skittles' activities. It was fun coming to school wearing red too!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Jacobite Blackhouses! 🏚️

We have been getting rather excited to make our own blackhouses since we saw one on our trip last week! We have made a start on making the main structure out of clay this week. We were joined by P3/4 and because they are learning about Vikings they decided to make some Longhouses to go along with our Jacobite Blackhouses! There was such a buzz around the classroom that we never wanted it to end as it meant it was time for a massive clean up operation!

Friday 8th March 2024

It has certainly been a busy and exciting week in Primary 4 this week! Have a look at our amazing adventures below!

🌍World Book Day 2024!📚

We took part in the Footy Booky Quiz 2024 and were amazed at all the football and book knowledge that we knew collectively as a class!

We also had fun taking part in the BBC World Book Day Live Lesson with George Tasker and Maddie Moate, which was all about different book genres you can get across non-fiction and fiction titles!

We managed to squeeze in time to visit the Book Fair that is in the P5 & P6 block of the school.

🛡️Culloden Battlefield Trip!⚔️

Primary 4 had another spectacular trip out of school this week to Culloden Battlefield as part of our topic on Jacobites this term. We learned so much from our magnificent tour guide James and had beautiful weather for viewing the battlefield. We were dressing up as Jacobite and Government soldier characters and got to learn about and handle unusual Jacobite artefacts. Wonderful happy memories have been made as a group, and I'm sure you have heard all about it at home this week!

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Here we are doing the 'Night March' in daytime! We had to close our eyes, spin round 10 times and then try to find our bearings whilst still keeping our eyes closed! Needless to say we were no longer in order!

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'The Highland Charge' in action!! Our poor parent helpers thought it was a nice peaceful trip! 😂

Friday 1st March 2024

Welcome to March everyone! Have a look at what we have been getting up to below! Enjoy your weekend as we have a very exciting week ahead with a trip out of school next week!

🤩Pupil of the Month Awards! 🥳

At assembly on Friday we had not one but two Pupil of the Month Awards being handed out by Mrs Kellacher! One goes to Fraser for being a super speller, sharing his love of reading for pleasure and for working hard to imporve his handwriting even further! One goes to Olivia for showing perseverance and determination to succeed and improve in her fluency in reading! Well done both of you!!

🦄All About Unicorns! 🦄

We have completed our Talk for Writing work on Unicorns. We loved the work so much that we decided to publish our beautiful unicorn poems alongside stunning monochrome unicorn paintings! We can't wait to show you them when you next come to visit us for an open session!

😄Completed Art Displays! 😁

As promised in a few blog posts back...here are our completed Charles Rennie Mackintosh Rose artwork along with our own family crests which we designed based on us thinking about our own family values!

⛪The Bible Society ✝️

We had a wonderful visit from Sue from the Bible Society in Aberdeen and Nikki from the CCC this week. We learned all about the importance of the Bible to Christians and took part in a dramatisation of the story about Daniel and the Lions. We all had a wonderful time and were asking if Sue would come back to visit us all again very soon!

Friday 16th February 2024

That's us at the February mid-term break already! Time does indeed fly when you are having fun, especially in Primary 4! Enjoy all of your adventures over your lovely long weekend!

🌺Symmetry Stations 🌸

We had fun with our symmetry topic in maths this week and set up six different stations which included lots of different ways to show our learning on symmetry. We were colouring symmetrical geometircal patterns, completing block patterns to make them symmetrical, completing shapes/pcitures with 1 and 2 lines of symmetry. Then to challenge us even further we were completing pictures/shapes with diagonal lines of symmetry and even creating our own symmetrical designs from scratch!

🧐Red Coats vs Jacobites!🤓

We have been looking at the differences between the outfits of the Government Red Coat soldiers and the Jacobite soldiers this week. Ask us our thoughts on who we thought was better equipped and who we thought looked the best!

🗾Jacobite Mapwork! 🗺️

We have been have to plot the Jacobite advance from Inverness to Derby and then the Jacobite retreat all the way back to Culloden! We have used grid references to hide some jacobite items in our mapwork too!

Friday 9th February 2024

We have had another fun week celebrating Children's Mental Health Week and of course Safer Internet Day 2024! Have a look at all our fun learning experiences in our snapshots of the week below!

😜Express Yourself! 🥳

To complete a fun-filled week for Children's Mental Health Week we had a dress down day in order to 'Express Ourselves!' Ashie House captains came to record how we expressed ourselves and to let us express ourselves on a graffiti wall!

💻Safer Internet Day 2024! 😁

We took part in Safer Internet Day by doing the BBC teach live lesson which was all about Artificial Intelligence and how it is so helpful in our daily lives! We made cool Safer Internet Day Posters sharing messages of how to stay safe online and took part in a cool Digital Safety Quiz run by our Digital Dynamo P7 pupils! We had a special internet safety day assembly where there was cool Digital Safety dance moves on show too!

😀Jacobite Symmetry 😉

We have been working on symmetry in maths whilst learning about all the different Jacobite flags that were used during the Jacobite rebellions! Some flags were trickier than others to pick out and identify the symmetrical patterns!

😍We all Matter! 😍

One of the main themes for Children's Mental Health Week is 'My Voice Matters!' so we have written beautiful thank you letters to each other detailing a time when that particular person made us feel special in some way which made us feel like we mattered!

⚽Fun with Caley Thistle! ⚽

We started off Children's Mental Health Week with Inverness Caley Thistle joining us! We got to design our own games using footballs and then picked our two favourite class game designs to play all together!

Friday 2nd February 2024

We are already in the month of February! We have been really busy in Primary 4 as usual and it was so lovely to meet up with all the parents and carers for parent appointments this week. Here is a snapshot of what we have been getting up to this week.

🤩Pupil of the Month Awards! 🥳

At assembly on Friday we had not one but two Pupil of the Month Awards being handed out by Mrs Kellacher! One goes to Harvey for always challenging himself and striving to do better in all areas of the curriculum. One goes to Emilia for showing perseverance and determination to create a fabulous free verse poem on unicorns! Well done both of you!!

🌳Monochrome Landscape Art with Unicorns! 🦄

We have also been making monochrome art where we have used the same colour but have darkened it or lightened it according to the landscape we wished to make. We will show you our finished unicorn silhouettes next week along with some fabulour literacy work to match!

🌹Charles Rennie Mackintosh 🌹

We have been learning about the famous Scottish artist called Charles Rennie Mackintosh this week. We learned lots about his style and made some of our own Rennie Mackintosh roses using chalk and coloured pencils! We will share our finished designs in next week's blog post!

👪 Family Clan Crests! 👪

We have had so much fun researching our surnames to find out more about our Scottish clan crests! We learned what our mottos are and what the crest badge pictures look like and even what our clan tartans look like!

Friday 19th January 2024

It has been a very strange end to the week this week with our school being closed due to adverse weather. I do hope you have managed to make the most of the snow while it lasts! Please see below for a quick snapshot of our snowy week in school this week.

🕰️Jacobite Timelines! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have been busy working hard on putting the important events from the Jacobite rebellion into order this week!

🏀Basketball in PE! 🏀

We have been having fun shooting baskets in basketball with Mr Garden in PE. We were in teams trying to shoot as many baskets as possible from the baseline and we were using lots of encouraging words to our team to help make them score!

🧠Multiplication Masterminds! 🤯

We have been busy completing multiplication squares in maths at the start of this week and we intend to use these squares when we are learning more complicated multiplication tables! We even made the tables correspond to colours to make them easier to find when we zoom through our multiplication calcuations!

Friday 12th January 2024

We have started off 2024 with a great attitude to learning and here is a few snapshots of our first week back of term 3!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Koen for great being a great friend and offering support when people most need it! Well done!

Another star pupil this week is going to Maeve for being extremely polite and help[ful to everyone around her! Well done!

Farewell Mrs Cuthbert!

We have had to say a very sad farewell to Mrs Cuthbert, one of our amazing PSAs today as she embarks on fun new adventures. Good luck Mrs Cuthbert, thank you for keeping us safe and remember your heart is purple!

📚Responsible Readers! 📚

We have settled back into our reading groups routines with ease after our festive break! Here we are doing various activities linked to the books we are reading, ranging from non-fiction scavenger hunts; research on new wind sports using technology to help us; hunting for special digraph sounds and identifying common nouns from proper nouns! Fabulous work everyone!

🦄 Mythical Beasts! 🐺

We had so much fun starting our new Talk for Writing topic this week!! Here we are creating our own mythical beasts/creatures. We made a mash-up of animals we knew and loved and created our own creatures. We provided detailed descriptions for our creatures and gave them names! We are looking forward to how this writing topic unfolds!

🍫Arrays in Real Life! 🏢

We have started multiplication in maths this week and have been learning about repeated addition and arrays and how they help us calculate our answers much faster! Here we are pointing out real life arrays that we have found in and around our classroom alone! We soon realised that we are surrounded by arrays!

Friday 22nd December 2023

Well that is us officially finished Term 2 and we are now halfway through our year in Primary 4! Thank you so much for all of your hard work and all of your wonderful, thoughtful gifts. You really are so kind and it's amazing being your teacher. Hope Santa is good to you all and you have a magical festive break! See you all again in 2024!

💃Social Dancing 🕺

We have had amazing fun learning our social dancing with Mr Garden this term! We we were teaching P5A and P3/4 how to do it!

😃Magnetic Game Showcase! 😁

We had P1A and P3/4 come to visit us this week to try out our magnetic games that we have been making! It was such a fun atmosphere and everyone had a great time!

🎄Christmas Jumper Day 2023! 🎄

We had a fun day at school wearing our festive jumpers and having our Christmas Lunch together! We even had crackers to pull before our lunch even started!!

🌈Our McCoo 2024 Calendars! 🐮

During our Seasonal Celebrations Topic this term we have covered lots of different festivals and celebrations that occur all over the world and in lots of different religions at this time of year. To finish our topic we have been learning about New Year Celebrations and how different countries take in the new year. We even learned about a few unusual Hogmanay traditions that attempt at bringing people good luck for the year ahead. We made our own 2024 calendars to take home and learning about Steven Brown to make our own McCoo Calendars!

🧐Equivalent Fractions! 🧐

We have continued our maths work on fractions to include equivalent fractions. We have been noticing lots of patterns with all the equivalent fractions we have been finding - lots of them linked to multiplication tables!! We made ourselves hungry drawing out pancakes on our tables and making equivalent toppings of chocolate and jam! A lot of children were saying Mrs MacIver should have brought in the real thing!!! We have managed to progress to drawing lots of different equivalent fractions ourselves and just adjusting the amount of sections within rectangular shapes. Super learning, well done everyone!

Friday 15th December 2023

It has been another jam-packed festive week in Primary 4 and who can believe that there is only one week left of term 2 to go!? It has been a super quick term indeed!

🤩Star of the Month🤩

We had a celebration assembly this week and our Star Pupil of the Month goes to Louis for making magnificent progress in his writing skills! Louis is putting lots of descriptive details into his settings in his writing pieces and is presenting his work beautifully! Well done Louis and keep up the fabulous work!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Aulay for great group work skills! He was listening to his group members and being really helpful! Well done Aulay and Happy Birthday for tomorrow!

Another star pupil this week is going to Megan for being a kind and caring friend to all she meets! Well done!

🧲Magnetic Game Designs!🧲

The classroom has been full of fun, excitement, problem solving and most of all fab learning when we have been working together to use all of our learning on magnetism to plan, design and finally create our own magentic games for younger pupils to play! Stay tuned to the blog for when we have the little ones come visit us to test our games out!

🎄French Christmas Activities! 🎄

We learned about different Christmas customs that are carried out in France this week and we then learned some special Christmas vocabulary in French to help us complete a French Christmas word search and to label 'Le Pére Noël ' correctly!

🤗Wow Moment! 🥳

Fraser wanted to share his wow moment with the class this week. He has fully completed all of his swimming lessons! Well done!

P4 Christmas Party!

A tremendous amount of fun and laughter was had at the Primary 4 Christmas Party this week! Thank you so much for all of the wonderful tasty treats that all the families kindly provided, as always it is greatly appreciated thank you!

Friday 8th December 2023

Another busy week had in Primary 4 and it was lovely to see parents and carers and relatives in to visit us! Please have a look at what we have been getting up to below!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Harvey for standing up for his peers when they were feeling hurt. Well done!

Another star pupil this week is going to for always working conscientiously across all areas of the curriculum.

🖼️Art Displays! 🎨

Just in case, you didn't manage to see our art displays outside our classroom during the open afternoon, here they are! We are very proud of our work!

Kadinsky and Pop Art

We have been learning about the artists Wassily Kandinsky and Andy Warhol to create colourful Halloween themed designs inspired by their famous art works.

Zentangles and Line Art

We have been experiementing with line and shapes in our art and have made fabulous cat Zentangles and cute tree landscapes.

Term 2 Open Afternoon

It was lovely to see so many of you at our Literacy Open Afternoon this week! We hope you enjoyed perusing through all of our work we have achieved so far and had fun open up our digital advent calendar full of Winter Recipe surprises that we have been working on!

Hanukkah Menorahs Scratch Art 🕯️

We have been learning about the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah in class as part of our Seasonal Celebrations topic this term. We were amazed at the story as to how Hanukkah is celebrated came about and decided to make our own Menorahs using a scratch art method!

😃 Next Steps in our Learning 😄

We took a trip down memory lane and revisited our learning pathway folders which are now getting quite full from all of our work over the years! We wanted to revisit the next steps from our first High Quality Assessment Task from last term and identifying how we are progressing and what else we can do to improve further!

Friday 1st December 2023

Well it's official we are in December today and Christmas has arrived in Primary 4! We have the Christmas decorations up and a surprise mischievous visitor has also made an appearance, which I am sure you will hear all about as the weeks fly by, in what is remaining of this term!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Fraser for looking out for friends who felt sad and lonely in the playground this week! Well done!

Another star pupil this week is going to Millie for listening to other's ideas when designing a game during group work in science! Well done!

🎄Meet Rogie Our Christmas Elf! 🧝

We had a surprise mini tornado of a visitor arrive in our class, in the shape of our Christmas Elf on Friday! Who knew someone so small, could cause so much chaos and mess!! We have decided to name our elf, Rogie! I do hope he is not going to be Rogie the Rogue!

🌏COP 28 🌍

The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference is currently taking place in Dubai this year. We took part in an interactive lesson with BBC Planet Earth II to learn about the affect of climate change on our beautiful harp seals.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿St Andrew's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have been learning about our patron Saint this week. We learned about how St Andrew became our patron saint and why our Saltire flag has an x-shaped cross. We took part in the Kids Literature Scotland Team Reading Challenge where we listened to a local author Barbara Henderson and heard about 5 of her fictional books that she has written about different historical contexts for children at our reading level. We also listened to a well known and loved book, The Gruffalo but with a difference it was read in Scots! We thought some of the words and phrases were really funny!

We also made some St Andrew's Day silhouette art using the saltire or tartan as our background for a thistle silhouette.

🦃Thanksgiving 🦃

As part of our Seasonal Celebrations topic this term we have been learning about the celebration of Thanksgiving this week. We learned that it is celebrated in America during November and Canada in October due to them having different endings to their harvest seasons. We learned that they usually eat Turkey with lots of trimmings so we decided to have a bit of fun and create some Turkeys in Disguise to avoid the Thanksgiving roast! We wrote about all the things we are indeed thankful for in our own lives on our turkeys feathers. We also created a collaborative piece of art with a very important message to share.

🤔Fractions in Maths! 🔢

We have been busy learning all about fractions this week in maths. Here we are having fun with fractions writing on our tables with our whiteboard pens! We felt rather rebellious doing this, but seeing as it was whiteboard pens, and we cleaned up really well afterwards, it was another fun piece of learning!

Friday 24th November 2023

We are fast approaching the last week of November! We have had a very productive week in Primary 4, participating in two very important events! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Finlay for being kind to others and making them feel included when they had nobody else to play with at lunch! Well done!

Another star pupil this week is going to Erin for helping making her friends laugh and feel included when others were absent from school! Well done!

🚗Road Safety Week 2023🛣️

We have particpating in Road Safety Week 2023 this week. We had very responsible discussion about road in and around our school community and decided to make some road safety banners to encourage people to park elsewhere to keep all of our young people safe when arriving and leaving our school environment.

🐿️ SSPCA Visit 🐕

We had a lovely visit from Kirsty who works with the SSPCA charity. She explained to us what her job was and also allowed us to become animal detectives where we had to work out the mystery animal based on tricky clues!

🕯️Diwali Crafts 🏮

As part of our topic this term we have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. Here we are making two different styles of Diya lamps to celebrate the return of Rama and Sita.

🚸World Children's Day 2023! 😉

It was World Children's Day on Monday so we took part in the live assembly by the new Children's Commissioner for Scotland and Mirabelle the Rights Rabbit!

Friday 17th November 2023

Such an exciting week at school this week! Starting off with our Trip to the Highland Wildlife Park and ending with fabulous Children in Need activities! Have a look at what we have been getting up to below!

🤩Star of the Month🤩

We had a celebration assembly this week and our Star Pupil of the Month goes to Eliza for being such a kind and caring pupil in class and making extrememly good progress in her reading skills! Well done Eliza and keep up the fabulous work!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Ryan for doing his very best to cheer up a friend who was upset, by making them laugh! Well done!

Another star pupil this week is going to Eliza for helping her firends out with tricky maths questions this week! Well done!

🧸Children in Need! 🐻

We had lots of fun at school today raising money for Children in Need! We came to school in dress down attire; we took part in Joe Wick's Children in Need Workout; we had lots of yummy treats from the bake stalls; we had a Pudsey hunt in the playground and we took part in lots of stalls that were kindly being run by P5B!

🤗 Anti-Bullying Week 🤗

To help mark Anti-Bullying Week, we took part in the BBC Live Lesson on Anti-bullying with the theme of 'Making Noise'and speaking up to someone you trust if you are being bullied. We also looked at the 5 important key words to tell if you are being bullied or not - Power, Intention, Hurt, Repetition and finally Speak Up. It is important to make a noise even if you aren't the one being bullied but if you see it happening to someone else.

🐒Kincraig Wildlife Park Trip! 🐯

We had a fabulous day full of fun, laughter and memory making at Kincraig Wildlife Park on Monday! I am sure you have heard about all of our amazing animal encounters when your child returned home from school! The wet and cold weather did not affect us one bit and we had a smashing time together!

Thank you so much to Calum's Mum and Finlay's Mum for kindly volunteering to help join us today; keeping us safe and joining in with our adventure!

Please have a look at even more fantastic photos from our trip on our google classroom!

Friday 10th November 2023

To say we have had a very busy week is an understatement! We have crammed so much learning into the last few days and we ended the week with our first successful trip out of school! So proud of each and every one of you! Here's to our next fun filled trip next week!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

One of our star pupils this week is going to Harrison for looking after injured friends whilst playing football. Well done!

Another star pupil this week is Catriona for being kind a caring towards her friends and sharing her treats with them! Well done!

🎞️Super Mario Bros! - Into film Festival 📽️

We throughoughly enjoyed our trip to Vue Cinema as part of the Into Film Festival to see the Super Mario Bros movie! Huge thank you to Ryan's Mum and Molly's Mum for being our parent helpers! You made the trip possible and we hope you enjoyed our time with us!

💟 BBC Teach Live Remembrance Lesson 💟

We took part in the BBC Teach Live Remembrance Day Lesson this week. We created word banks of words and images that reminded us of Remembrance Day and why it is important to continue to remember the armed forces personnel who have lost their lives in past and indeed present conflicts. We learned about different special features of poetry before having a go at making our own remembrance poems with the important focus of why we still need to remember to this day!

As a result of our learning we created absolutely stunning pieces of silhouette art using Remembrance as our main theme in our art pieces. Don't they look beautiful and poignant at the same time!?

🎵 Check out our Singing! 🧑‍🎤

We had a quick practice of our assembly song for this week called, 'Welcome Everybody'. For our first day of practice we sounded great, so we will be absolutely amazing come Friday!

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🎆Bonfire Night Artwork! 🔥

Our latest celebration that we have been learning about through our topic has been Bonfire Night. We learned about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 with Guy Fawkes and other conspirators and decided to make a story board out of the plot! WE also made interesting cityscape firework displays in our artwork using forks!

Friday 3rd November 2023

It's hard to believe that we are into November already! Please find attached our learning overview for Term 2, to give you a quick snapshot as to what we will be looking forward to learning in the coming weeks. It has also been posted on our google classroom if you would prefer to peruse all of the information from there.

P4 Term 2 Learning Overview Blog .pdf

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

Our first star pupils of the week award goes to Nicholas for being such a helpful and caring pupil. Even helping others to tidy up their belongings!! Well done!

Our next Star Pupil of the Week for also being a kind and caring pupil to her classmates!! Well done Alice!

🤓WOW Moment! 🤗

Not one but TWO Wow moments for Ryan this week! He has completed all of his swimming lessons and also won a mini trophy for football! Sports superstar!

🎃 Halloween Acrostic Poem 🎃

We have made amazing acrostic poems in class this week using the theme of Halloween as our focus! We now know the key features of an acrostic poem and did lots of Halloween brainstorming as a class to help us use as many Halloween theme words in our poems as possible. We look forward to trying out some more themes ourselves! Here are some sppok-tacular exmaples that we came up with below!

🏃 Speed Sprinting in PE 🏃

Mr Gardin has been putting us through our paces in PE! We have been practicing speed sprinting with inceasing fluency, accuracy and control. We particularly enjoyed the balloon section where we had to sprint to catch the balloon our partner threw for us, before it hit the gym hall floor! P4 were so fast it, was really tricky for me to get good photographs that weren't blurred!

🎨Halloween Kadninsky Art! 🎃

We have been learning about the history of Halloween in class as part of our Seasonal Celebrations topic this term. We learned that Halloween used to be called All Saints Day, then Hallows Eve before no being called Halloween as we call it today! People used to be so scared of ghosts and spirits that they used to dress up like them on Halloween and leave them food at their doors to deter them from entering their homes! We also learned about the famous Russian abstract painter Wassily Kadinsky, and did our own Halloween version of his famous concentric circles painting! They turned out spook-tacular!!

Friday 28th October 2023

I hope you all had a wonderful cosy October break and managed to have a chance to recharge ready for Term 2! Primary 4 have made a great start to our second term together and we have lots of exciting things coming up in the coming weeks! Stay tuned!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

It is the first week of Term 2 and our star of the week for helping encourage his friends to successd at games in the playground! He was helping them to findthe best hiding spots! Well done Aulay!

Our next Star Pupil of the Week for looking after friends in the playground by making the feel good! Well done Megan!

💙Health and Wellbeing 💜

Every term we check in with our own health and wellbeing against the SHANARRI wellbeing indicators. The indicators are as follows: S - Safe, H - Healthy, A - Active, N - Nurtured, A - Achieving, R - Responsible, R- Respected and I - Included. Here we are completing our SHANARRI Wheels so we can check in with ourselves and get help in areas if we need to!

😁Fun with Spelling! 🔠

We follow the Wraparound Spelling programme in school and here we are practicing our spelling sounds in a fun and engaging way on whiteboards. We played lots of different games and I think Word Battle seemed to be the most fun and competitive in the class!!

🧭Magnetism! 🧲

We have continued our learning on Forces into term 2 and are learning all about magnetism in class! We carried out predictions as to what items we thought would be magnetic and then we tested lots of different items in our class to see if they were magnetic too!

☃️Christmas Card Designs 🎄

We have been busy being creative this week making our annual fundraising Christmas Card designs! We decided on a snow globe theme as a class and we filled our snow globes full of festive characters! There is a very short turnaround for us to get these cards to the printers so if you haven't placed your online order and returned the design back to school then please do so as quickly as possible so you do not miss out!

Friday 6th October 2023

It has been one super quick first term in Primary 4! I am proud of the class we are and all the wonderful learning we have achieved so far this session! Have a wonderful October break everyone, and hope to see you back fully rested for another term full of fun and adventures together!

🤗A Fond Farewell!👋

We have sadly had to say goodbye to a very popular member of our class! We wanted to send Nastia off in style so had a party in the afternoon! Good luck in your new school Nastia! Bring the fun, adventure and your sassy confidence toyour new friends and just know that you will be sorely missed! Remember your heart is purple, and you are welcome back anytime! Keep in touch!

🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

It is the final week of Term 1 and our star of the week for being a kiond a caring friend in the playground this week! Well done Lucas!

Another Star Pupil of the Week for consistently working hard across all areas of the curriculum! Well done Ayesha!

🤩Star of the Month🤩

We had a celebration assembly to finish off our first term of Primary 4 so here is the second member of our class to receive the Star Pupil of the Month award for being a fun and caring friend and always presenting her work beautifully across the curriculum! Well done Nastia and we wish you all the best for your future!

🐸 Climbing Friction Frogs!! 🐸

Conitnuing with our Science topic of Forces, we did some work on Friction in class. We created climbing friction frogs and had them climbing all over our classroom! Some children enjoyed it so much they made extras to take home!

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😀Open Morning Fun! 🥳

We had a fantastic Open Monrning session with parents, grandparents, cousins and siblings on Tuesday this week! Here is the class video that was showing in the background during the open morning which showcases our fun adventures during the Science Egg Drop Challenge and our Freestyle Robot Dances! Also a lovely video of our families who attended the Open Morning. Apologies if I have missed some families with my camera as it was such a busy morning indeed and it was lovely to meet you all!

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😆 Wow Moments! 😀

A budding cartoonist in the making! Harrison wanted to share his artwork with the class today that he had been working hard on at home! Super work Harrison and I think your favourite characters in the last picture are also my favourite! Well done!

Fraser ran the Loch Ness 5km at the weekend and has a cool medal to prove it! Well done Fraser!

Koen received a Certificate of Completion for his fabulous art he has been making! Well done Koen!

Friday 29th September 2023

An extremely short week in school this week due to the industrial action taking place. It was lonely in school without you boys and girls! We still had fun learning across the two days though, as you can see below!

🎨Wild Robot Art! 🤖

We have made an impressive collaborative piece of art for our topic wall in our classroom this week! We had so much fun having an afternoon of art as we love to be so creative and work together as a team to complete a masterpiece!

🥈Wow Moment! 🏊

Huge well done to Erin who managed to get second place in Breast Stroke and Back Crawl at her very first Swimming Competition! Good luck for Front Crawl and Butterfly next week Erin!

🏃PE Stations! 🤸

We had a super fun PE session with Ms Barclay on Monday this week! She had so many fun stations set up for us! Have a look in the video and all the pictures below!

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🗺️Climate Change Assembly 🌍

We received a treat performance at assembly this Friday, from Primary 7A. It was all about climate change seeing as it is Climate Change week this week! They performed a story about the Southern Hawk dragonfly is now present in Scotland which means climate change is very much apparent and an issue we should take very seriously!

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🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

After a very short, two day week at school, our eigth Star Pupil of the Week for helping his friends out on the football field and offering his team mates loads of encouragement. Well done Louis!

Another Star Pupil of the Week for helping out friends in need doing their maths work this week! Great partner work indeed well done Ellis!

Friday 22nd September 2023

A very exciting week in Primary 4 this week. Hope you have as much fun going through it all this week as we did actually doing it!

😁 Wow Moments! 😁

A well deserved FIRST PLACE Rosette for 'Harry Trotter!' Absolutely amazing effort Caitlin and your pony looks the business!

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A beautiful rainbow display made out of coloured pencils was brought in by Catriona and it looked so soothing we were all mesmerised by it!

🪂Our Science Egg Drop Challenge! 🥚

We have continued with our Forces theme in SCience this week by undertaking the 'EGG DROP CHALLENGE!' We used out prior learning of gravity and air resistance forces to try and see if we could protect an egg from cracking when dropped from a height in our playground! The PLANNING, DESIGNING and CREATING was taken very seriously indeed! Here are some pictures of us in action and stay tuned for videos we would like to show you during our open morning so you can find out which groups completed the challenge with eggs still intact!

🤖 UHI Robot Visit 🤖

We had the most spectacular time in class when Robotic Engineer, Mr MacIntyre, came to visit us from the UHI campus! He brought some of his robot friends to show us and even let us have a go of some of them! First of all we met Meccanoid who was able to dance and speak! Meccanoid was quite cheeky and wasn't doing what he was told at times! 🤣 Then we got a treat of Mr MacIntyre flying a drone around our classroom with lego Catriona attached to it! Finally we were able to undertake some coding of our own with a cute little robot named Botley! We are hoping to make links with Mr MacIntyre so that he will come back to do some more STEM projects with us next term!

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🌟 Our Stars of the Week! 🌟

After listening to pupil voice within our class, we have decided to pick not one but TWO stars of the week each week as it is just so hard to decide every week as we are all a bunch of super stars in Primary 4!

After a very busy and exciting week at school our sixth Star Pupil of the Week for being a kind and caring pupil to his friends by including them and ecouraging them to play in the playground this week. It is truly wonderful to know that our class has a friend like you! Well done!

Our seventh Star Pupil of the Week for being extremely hard working and giving maximum effort across the whole curriculum! You have been recognised by your class mates for all your hard work! So proud of you and keep it up!

Friday 15th September 2023

It has been an extremely short week this week, but we have still got up to lots of learning over the past three days! Have a look below! It was wonderful to hear what you had got up to during your long weekend as well!

Our Mindfulness Journals

We have many different 'Start of the Day' tasks, but we quite enjoy putting entries into our Mindfulness Journals. This is time for us to reflect on our personal experiences in and out of school. We are concentrating hard in these photos to get as much detail into our journals as possible!

⚙️🤖 The Wild Robot and Emotion Works ⚙️🤖

We have been working extremely hard on our upcoming High Quality Assessment Task that we intend to send home to you very soon to discuss our learning with Health and Wellbeing this term. We have been using our Emotion Works Programme that we use across the school to investigate how Roz the Robot may have been feeling in a particular challenging situation within our class novel. We are looking forward to showing you and discussing the results of our hard work!

🤔🗾 Problem Solving 🤔🗾

For problem solving this week, we were trying to decode a word puzzle using grid references to give us each letter! We also had to colour in each grid reference a particular colour in order to make a neat picture mosaic! Very clever Primary 4s multitasking in this activity!

🤓 French 🤓

Over the past few weeks we have been learning French numbers 0-30; days of the week; and months of the year. So we consolidated all of our learning together this week to make ourselves birthday cards and inside we wrote in French when our birthdays are! We have also made a French calendar in our classroom which we will change daily to keep practicing our French days and months and numbers throughout the year!

🌟 Our Star of the Week! 🌟

After a short 3 day week in school, please meet our fifth Star Pupil of the Week for being a kind and caring pupil to her friends when they got hurt in the playground this week. It is truly wonderful to know that we are in safe hands! Well done!

Friday 8th September 2023

It has certainly been a very hot week in school this week, but it has been glorious to have the sunny weather! 🌞 Enjoy having a look at the learning we have been getting up to this week and I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend ahead! I'm already looking forward to hearing all about your adventures on Wednesday!

🌐🌍 Meet Our Class Reps! 🌐🌍

We held a vote in class to choose our Class Representatives for this year! It was really difficult as so many of us wanted to do each role but we managed to finally vote for two in each Pupil Representative Group.

Unikids Reps

Pupil Council Reps

JRSO Reps

Health Promoters Reps

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🧑‍🎨Completed Self Portraits🧑‍🎨

We have finally completed our self portraits! As promised in a previous blog post, here they are on a rolling carousel of pictures. We are so proud of them , we have decided that we are going to showcase them going up our class stairwell, so everyone coming to visit our class will be able to see our beautiful work!

🎼 Rhythm in Music! 🎼

We have been having a lot of fun and laughter making our own percussion rhythms using our bodies! We learned that the word 'ostinato' means a repeated rhythm over and over so we were making cool ones ourselves and trying to follow along as a class! We have also been having fun with 'Incredibox' which allows us to make our own digital ostinatos through beat boxing! We have been using the free version in school that allows you to use four different themes of the incredibox beatboxers! We have loved using it so far!

Incredibox - Pump it up and chill!Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers. Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

💻Chromebooks in Maths🔢

Our different maths groups have been using the chromebooks to enhance our learning in maths and other groups have also doing partner work to continue working on our place value and ordering much larger numbers! Such a hard working class indeed!

🥳All the P4s Together Time! 🥳

For Fun 31 activities we joined together with the P4 pupils in the P3/4 class! It was lovely to have some fun together time with ALL the Primary 4 pupils!

🌟 Our Star of the Week! 🌟

We are now half way through our first term of Primary 4! Meet our fourth Star Pupil of the Week for being a kind and caring pupil who is always trying her best at everything she does! Well done, so proud of you!

🤩Star of the Month🤩

We had a celebration assembly to finish off our fourth week back at school so here is our first member of our class to receive the Star Pupil of the Month award for doing his best in all areas of the curriculum! When Mrs Kellacher asked our star pupil what his favourite subject was, he said he couldn't possibly decide as he loves all of his learning in Primary 4 so far! What a well deserved Star of the Month pupil! Well done!

Term 1 - Week 3

Friday 1st September 2023

It's quite hard to believe that we are already in the month of September! Here is all the fun learning we have been getting up to this week!

🎭 Drama 🎭

We had a lovely drama session with Mr Everett who played lots of drama games with us and we had lots of fun learning new drama techniques!

🧑‍🎨 Self Portraits in Art 🧑‍🎨

We have been working hard on sketching out our own self portraits in art this week. Look at the concentration in those faces! Such a hard working class and they can't wait to get to the colouring stage next week!

⚖️🪂 Forces in Science! ⚖️🪂

In Science, we have been identifying different types of forces. Some of the forces we had never ever thought about before and some we didn't even know existed! Lots of learning going on so stay tuned for some fun experiments in future blogs!

🤔💭 Problem Solving 🤔💭

Lots of hard working pupils working out word problems using a calculator! We have to use the calculator to answer very complicated sums. We then had to turn the answers on the calculator upside down to read out the words to complete the puzzle! It was very tricky indeed so we worked in partners and were so pleased with ourselves when we worked out the puzzle! What a P4 team!

🤖🌊 Our Wild Robot Topic - Seaworthy Robots Designs 🤖🌊

Roz was very lucky to survive the ship wreck as all of the other robots sank to the bottom of the sea! Here we are being designers of the future by planning our 'Seaworthy Robots' with added special features, P4 style! Stay tuned and we will share some of our completed designs!

🌟 Our Star of the Week! 🌟

Meet our third Star Pupil of the Week for comforting her friends when they didn't feel at their best in the playground! What a wonderful friend to have on your side, I am so proud of you and how kind you have been to others. Well done!

Term 1 - Week 2

Friday 25th August 2023

That was another super quick five days in Primary 4! We hope you enjoy having a look at everything we have been getting up to this week! Have fun scrolling!

Here is our learning overview for Term 1. It is also posted on our google classroom.

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🤖🤖 The Wild Robot 🤖🤖

We have made a start on our topic this week which is our class novel study on 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown. Here we are working in pairs to make predictions using picture clues taken from the book, before we started to read. We got so carried away with the story that we are on Chapter 7 already! Please ask us what has happened in the book so far!

🤗 Maths this week... 😁

We have been working really hard on place value in maths this week. We were using interlocking cubes to create amounts in each of the place value columns and testing our partners to see if they could work out the number! Some of us were even managing to go up to 5-digit numbers!! Wowzers!

🐠🐟 Rainbow Fish! 🐟🐠

We watched a short animation on the Rainbow Fish and had a lengthy discussion about all the messages that were resonating with us from it. We created some of our own rainbow fish to make a lovely wall display to show off the main message we learned from the animation....

We are all different kinds of fish.... But at Lochardil, we all swim TOGETHER!!

🎭 Oliver Twist 🎭

We had a wonderful treat from M & M productions who put on a fantastic show of 'Oliver Twist' for us this week. Thank you to all parents who pay towards school fund contribution as you helped to pay for magnificent treats like this! This was certainly leaving us 'asking for some more sir!!' 😁👏

French Numbers 0-30

We had lots of fun practicing our French accents doing the numbers 0-30! We even put our practice to the test by completing a colour by number activity of Elmer the patchwork elephant! Our Elmers turned out colour-tastic!! Well done P4!

🌟 Our Star of the Week! 🌟

Meet our second Star Pupil of the Week for showing perseverance and determination in learning place value in maths this week; so much so that she ended up helping others! What a wonderful way to end the week, I am so proud of you and how hard you have worked to achieve results! Well done!

Friday 18th August 2023

Welcome to the Primary 4 Class Blog! We hope you all had an amazing Summer holiday full of adventures!! Our first week of Primary 4 has zoomed by in the blink of an eye as always! We have been busy making our class charter this week, where we have decided what we all need to do in order to make our class be a happy environment and also an effective place to learn.

Our class learning overview will be posted next week, but just to let you know our PE days are on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend to rest and recharge for week 2!

Meet the Awesome Members of Primary 4!

😁 Celebrating the End of Week 1!! 😎

Here are a couple pictures of everyone in our wonderful class celebrating our first week together!!

🌟 Our Star of the Week! 🌟

Meet our very first Star Pupil of the Week for being so kind and caring to her classmates! What a wonderful quality to have in a friend, I am so proud of you! Well done!

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