This week starts with Halloween and ends with Bonfire Night…well nearly! We have two focussed writing lessons: The Leaky Cauldron (persuasive writing) and The Cabin in the Woods (imaginative writing-creating a setting). In maths we have begun a unit on measuring and are continuing to develop our basic skills. We have a new YMI music tutor, Kim Richards who is teaching us tin whistle (6 weeks). On Thursday we have a badminton festival with Durness and Scourie pupils which is being led by a visiting badminton coach. Learning Logs This term we have started using learning logs to share some of the things we learn in school at home. We have begun to write our targets for literacy, numeracy and health and well-being in them. On Friday everyone takes them home for parents/carers to see; please sign and return to school on Monday. This week : Things to remember… Monday – P.E (Basketball). Homework out. Tuesday- Fiddle lessons Wednesday- Chanter, Art and Technology (Mrs Poole),After-school Shinty Club Thursday- Tin Whistle (YMI), P.E. (Badminton)with Durness and Scourie P4-7 Friday: Homework in. Learning Logs out. Homework for Friday 4th November
If you have any questions about homework or about what your child is learning this term, please contact me at the school. Welcome back everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the autumn break. We have a busy term ahead of us with lots of new learning to do! We have a couple of tasks to finish off with our Clyde Street: WW2 project for this week. Next week we will begin a mini-topic before starting on our annual Christmas show. In writing this week we will begin to create different settings for imaginative stories. We will be working on our reading comprehension skills. Last term we assessed everyone’s spelling level so now we all have a weekly list of spellings to learn. We will working on the spellings in school but part of homework is to learn them too. On Fridays we will have weekly assessments. In maths we are continuing with the basic number facts, multiplication, division and measuring. This week : Things to remember… Monday – P.E (Basketball). Homework out. Tuesday- Fiddle lessons, Music Wednesday- Chanter, Art and Technology (Mrs Poole),After-school Shinty Club Thursday- Tin Whistle (YMI), P.E. (Badminton) Friday: Homework in. Mrs Smart teaching Homework for Friday 28th October
Last week of term already! Well done to everyone for completing a variety of different homework tasks this term. This week will be working hard to finish our historical group novels and write book reviews. Clyde Street is a dangerous place to be at the moment…the residents may experience the first bombing raids. On Tuesday we will be completing a handwriting challenge- S2 and Mr Galbrieth are going to be the judges. No matter who wins, we have all been trying to improve our handwriting this term. Also on Tuesday we look forward to showing you some of our learning from this term at parent’s afternoon. Our classroom will be open from 3.20 pm. On Thursday we will be joined by P4-7 pupils from Durness and Scourie for a music day with Mrs Muir. Finally on Friday we will be having a goodbye assembly for Mrs Robertson who is retiring from her position as headteacher. This week : Things to remember… Monday – P.E (hockey). Homework out. Tuesday- Parent’s Afternoon 3.20 pm onwards. Wednesday- Chanter, Art and Technology (Mrs Poole). Thursday- Mrs Smart teaching, P.E. Friday: Homework in Homework for Friday 7th October
Have a good holiday everyone The residents of Clyde Street are busy preparing for any air-raid attacks this week. They will need to build suitable shelters for their families. Click on the photo to find out more about different shelters. We have been finding out about the evacuation of children from cities and are making a wall display. We are all reading historical fiction novels set during World War Two. In maths we are trying hard to improve our mental maths targets. We are also learning some different methods of addition and subtraction....we have been looking at coins from the 1940's...some of our maths problems may include pennies, thruppenny bits, sixpences and half crowns! In science we will be investigating more reversible changes with melting experiments. This week : Things to remember… Monday – P.E (hockey). Homework out. Tuesday- Fiddle lessons, music (Miss Lockhart), Wednesday- Chanter, Art and Technology (Mrs Poole). Thursday- Mrs Smart is teaching , Music (Mrs Muir), P.E. (football) Friday- Homework in . Homework for Friday 16th September
In our classroom this week…it’s September 1939….the residents of Clyde Street will be making their own identity cards. They will listening to an important radio announcement about some worrying events in Poland.. what will they need to do to prepare for war ? Whatever happens we will be recording it all in our writing journals. This term we are trying hard to improve our handwriting and presentation. We have decided to have a mini-contest in October and ask some HS students to judge it . This week : Things to remember… Monday – P.E (hockey). Homework out. Tuesday- Fiddle lessons, music (Miss Lockhart), Wednesday- Chanter, Art and Technology (Mrs Poole). Thursday- Mrs Smart is teaching , Music (Mrs Muir), P.E. (football) Friday- Homework in . Homework for Friday 26th August
If you have any questions about homework or about what your child is learning this term, please contact me at the school. This term our topic has a WW2 theme and we are using a ‘storyline approach’. This approach involves children inventing their own characters who might have lived in an imaginary street in Glasgow in 1939. We chose our character names last week by researching baby names of the 1930’s, we made the houses and devised ‘family trees’ for our characters. We have decided to call our street ‘Clyde Street’. This week it is the beginning of September 1939. The residents will be listening carefully to their radio sets as some worrying events are happening in Germany… If you have any local stories/artifacts about Kinlochbervie during WW2 or any of you own family stories from elsewhere too they will be really useful for your child’s homework projects :) The picture about links to a BBC Primary History website which will be useful for homework and further reading . This week : Things to remember… Monday – P.E (hockey). Homework out. Tuesday- Fiddle lessons, music (Miss Lockhart), Wednesday- Chanter, Art and Technology (Mrs Poole). Thursday- Mrs Smart is teaching , Music (Mrs Muir), P.E. (football) Friday- Homework in . Homework for Friday 26th August
Welcome back everyone! Last week was all about settling back into our school routines and now we are all set for the new school year :) This week we will be starting an exciting new topic which has a WW2 theme. Please see the learning grid to find out what we are learning about in each curriculum area. This week : Things to remember…Click here for our daily timetable for this term Monday – P.E (hockey). Homework out. Tuesday- Fiddle lessons Wednesday- Chanter, music (Miss Lockhart), Art and Technology (Mrs Poole). Thursday- Mrs Smart is teaching , Music (Mrs Muir), P.E. (football) Friday- Homework in . Homework for Friday 26th August We are having a gentle start to the new term with just maths homework to complete this week. The new mental maths books provide a nightly task covering a range of maths topics. On Fridays we will complete the assessments in class.
If you have any questions about homework or about what your child is learning this term, please contact me at the school. A busy week this week,especially for P7 pupils....
On Monday P7 are off to Lairg for the Safe Highlander event.They will join other North Sutherland schools for a series of workshops from emergency services. Tuesday is the last Goblin Car build day- Mrs Smart will be teaching P4-6 pupils. Mrs Morrison will be teaching Weds, Thurs, Fri this week because Friday is the Goblin car rally trip for P7...how will the Venus Warrior do ? watch this space! On Thursday we welcome parents into our classroom to see some of our work from this term. We had an excellent Peatlands field trip on Friday. Everyone learnt so much about the biodiversity of this special habitat that is on our doorstep!
This week P4-6 will be writing a report about what they learnt. We have been working on some super poems and sea-themed craft work with Mrs Morrison. We look forward to showing it to you on parents’ afternoon soon. P7 have their 4th Goblin Car build day on Tuesday. Mrs Smart will be teaching P4-6 that day. On Wednesday we will all be taking part in our annual ASG Sport Day in Scourie starting at 10 am, everyone is welcome to spectate. P1-3 children join us for races from 1pm. This week we have the final PE session with the ICT Healthy Hearts coaches on Tuesday.
On Friday morning (10-12 noon) we will do some Peatlands science work about 15 minutes’ walk from the school (up the peat tracks.) This will involve using different sampling techniques to investigate the biodiversity of this very important habitat we are so lucky to have on our doorstep! Please see the separate letter about what to bring- wellies are essential for electric fishing! In maths we are beginning some lessons on data handling and solving algebra problems too. We have been writing reports about our Orkney trip and the P4/5 have been learning about sharks. We are also reading and writing different styles of poetry. |
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