Special visitor to Primary 4B!

Hannah took a very special visitor into class last week - Pip - who was very cute!

As a result, Ms Rendall has decided she would like a class pet so she just has to persuade Mr Taylor this is a good idea!!

Skara Brae Ranger visit

Ooops - this post should really have gone up before the one about our Skara Brae visit but I'm sure that's not too important!  As part of our learning about Skara Brae we had one of the Rangers, Elaine, come into school and talk to us about it.  It was very exciting because she took along the box of replica artefacts for us to see.

We enjoyed learning about Skara Brae and seeing all the artefacts.

Slideshow - Skara Brae ranger visit

Skara Brae visit

Primary 4 had a busy trip to Skara Brae on Friday - although it was very windy it didn't rain and the sun even shone when we were out!  We managed to fit a lot into the day, including a trip to Skara Brae, the beach (where we built our own Skara Brae houses) and the Ring of Brodgar where we learned a few facts about it and played a game.

Hopefully everyone had a fantastic day!

Slide slow - Skara Brae

Battle of Jutland commemorations

Sorry for not having many recent posts on the class blog recently - things have been hectic in Primary 4!  We have some very special photos to put up on the blog page today so do hope you enjoy looking at them.

We had a fantastic day out on Friday visiting the poppies at the Cathedral followed by going to see the Battle of Jutland exhibition at the Orkney Museum.  We then had our lunch in the Tankerness House Gardens (in the sunshine - yaaaaay!) and then spent the afternoon on board the naval ships which were in Orkney for the Battle of Jutland commemorations.  Ms Rendall hopes this is something the class will remember for a long time!

Slide show - Jutland commemorations

Times table practice!

Primary 4B have started to learn more about multiplication and division this term and it is proving tricky!  We are focussing on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables this week and have been using games to help us with this.  One of the strategies we are trying to use is to double the 2x table to get the 4x table, and then double the 4x table to get the 8x table!  It is tricky but Primary 4B are amazing and working REALLY hard on this!

If you are looking for online games to try to help with this, please check out the "Useful Maths Links" a little bit down this page and you will find some fun activities to help you with your tables.

Special visitors

We had a special treat on Tuesday of this week when the authors Lyn McNicol and Laura Jackson, who wrote a series of books about Badger the Mystical Mutt, visited the school.  We enjoyed hearing a few chapters from the first book and particularly enjoyed meeting Badger!  Badger's family comes from Orkney so this made it even more special!  Infact, Badger visited the Ring of Brodgar when he was here, and you can see the video below!

Slideshow - Badger the Mystical Mutt visits St Andrews

Primary 2 come to visit

We have been enjoying sharing our RME learning with Primary 2 this term.  We have been working together to learn the Easter story and were given the challenge of putting this into the correct sequence.  It has been very tricky but we have nearly completed this.

Slideshow - RME with Primary 2

Independent learning

We are learning about Scottish history in the class this term and everyone has been very interested in this topic.  We were very impressed when Marcus told us he was researching Robert Bruce at home and was making a poster.  This is the final product - well done Marcus!

Farm visit

Primaries 4B and 4L were really lucky yesterday and went to visit Millburn Farm in Harray, where we learned lots of information about looking after sheep and cows, and about growing crops.  

It would be good if you could add some information into the comments below to let us know what you were learning about Primary 4!

Slideshow - Farm visit

The Gruffalo's Bairn

Primaries 3 and 4 were very lucky this week and were given the opportunity to go to the Picky Centre and hear the Gruffalo's Bairn being read in Scots and Orcadian Language.  We also saw the animation of the story which was great!  Here are some photos of our trip, plus a video of the stories being read in Scots and Orcadian.  We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

Slideshow - the Gruffalo's Bairn

From Scots Gruffalo

From Orcadian Gruffalo

Burns Day

I know this is being posted a little bit late (very sorry) but we had a fantastic Burns Day on 25th January, complete with haggis and bag pipes!  We also read some of his poetry in class and Primary 4B did some singing of Auld Lang Syne!

From February 3, 2016