P3/4/5
Ms Fleming/Mr McLean
What a great class!
Thank you for sharing your Christmas present with us! Imagine a potato making a clock work!
Engineers at work!
This lucky robot has found himself a comfy bed!
We had to sing our song 'Mrs Right got a fright in the middle of the night' as we were singing the Winker was putting people to sleep! The detective had to tey and find the guilty winker.
The children were fantastic winkers!
What great fun we had this morning at out Kodaly! Keeping a beat and playing games.
Our Carol singers popped into the Council Offices to bring some Christmas cheer!
Carol singing outside the Co-op.
This afternoon we visited the Wade Cente to sing some Christmas Carols. The children were in great voice and their singing was greatly appreciated!
Checkout the World Cup Stadium!
Amazing construction work going on in P.3/4!
A huge thank you to these great helpers who were making sure that our pencils will be nice and sharp to produce our best work!
Tidy up time. We were moving to the Tidy up Rumba! It proved a great success!
The Badenoch Centre Staff got a lovely surprise this morning when we popped in to sing some Christmas songs! ( We got a lovely surprise when we were offered a chocolate!)
Look at our little elves getting our Enterprise ready for the Christmas Coffee Morning!
Making our star constellations!
The children are being encouraged to go star gazing and see what star constellations they can see in the night sky!
A delicious way to learn about the phases of the moon.
Here is what we have been learning about in P3/4:
2022/2023 - Mrs Anderson ,
Busy at our Soft Start!
We collected some apples from our school apple trees .
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We had to peel our apples.
Cracking the eggs
More great team work for the mixing!
Delicious apple cake!
What a treat!
Look at our special Hallowe'en treat!
Very kind and thoughtful!
It was all hands on deck to make our Pumpkin Lantern.
Dooking for apples!
Brilliant designing going on in P. 3/4
The Scottish SPCA came to visit and told us lots of important information about looking after and caring for animals. Vanessa told us all the important things she does as part of her job. Primary 3/4 listened very carefully and asked super questions. We had an amazing vet too! P.3/4 are a class of stars!
2021/2022 - Ms McDonnell & Ms Still
Term 1 - Work linked to our class text, 'The Colour Monster'.
Map work: looking at map symbols. This is linked to our topic 'Tourism'.
Kodaly Music with Rosalind.
Singing and trying to keep the beat!
More map work: Land use.
Finding tourist attractions in Kingussie and deciding on map symbols for them.
Working in small teams for our PE: Orienteering work.
Term 2
We started our termly work on COP26: Climate Care by listening to Sir David Attenborough read the song lyrics to a 'Wonderful World'. We inferred what the words meant and showed our understanding by drawing a picture of what we heard. Afterwards, we loved watching the images he had put with it.
Leaf rubbing with oil pastels.
Using the leaves found in the school grounds.
Initiated by a member of our class.
Outdoor Classroom Day: Thursday 4th November
Counting on and Symmetry in Maths, story telling in Literacy, Rangoli patterns for RME, tree identification for Science and a fire pit with marshmallows and songs to end the day.
P4: Listening and Talking lesson, using barrier games to encourage clear descriptions and good listening to make each person's picture look the same.
The start of our block of Shinty lessons at the Badenoch Centre on Thursday's.
P4: Using the large parachute to encourage working together as a team, by undertaking small tasks together.
Week 4's focus has been related to 'Walk to School Week' and 'Anti-bullying Week' with kindness heart collages and being a good friend bunting. We also enjoyed dressing down or in our PJ's for 'Children in Need' on Friday. P6/7 gave us a fantastic assembly encouraging us to cross the road safely.
Week 6: Keeping Ourselves Safe
After P6/7 assembly we decided whether each road crossing picture was a safe or unsafe place to cross
Social Subjects: We have been learning about John Muir as he was a conservationist. After our fact finding question and answer group activity we went outside, and like he was for a time, we 'lost' our sense of sight, to take it in turns to use our sense of touch to appreciate the outdoors.
Continuing to show improvement in their Shinty skills at the Badenoch Centre and participating in Christmas jumper day to help raise money for Save the Children.
Term 3
Another week of Kodaly music online and enjoying outdoor learning in mixed classes.
Creating our Superhero cuffs!
Completed examples above.
Mental Maths Outside
Hop scotch as they chant out their chosen x table facts.
Partners keeping a check on their answers.
IMG_3214.MOVScience: How is sound made and how do we hear it?
Experimenting with sound waves and making our own instruments.
Mental Maths -
Multiplication facts:
Matching the x table sum with an answer card and the matching repeated addition sum.
Science - Sound
Creating instruments to learn how sound travels and how we can then modify the instruments to change the pitch.
Multiplication Check Up
Showing X table fact as equal groups, arrays, repeated addition, turnaround and equal jumps on a number line.
Technology: After studying what parts vehicles need and considering the terrain it may go over the children had a go at working out how wheels and axles work.
Online author visit from the famous Cressida Cowell who wrote 'How to train your dragon'.
Some examples from our 2D work identifying how many sides and corners different shapes have. There was some great sorting too, in Venn diagrams.
Who is that photo bombing our photo?
Technology: Making their vehicles! Selecting the materials that they included on their plan then cutting them to size and attaching them.
It was great to see how Rollo adapted his design after trying it out at home. Thank you for bringing it back into to show us. The changes made certainly improved its appearance and how it could be pulled along.
Our Primary Four pupils got to share their life cycle posters they had researched and made with the Primary Three pupils.
Term 4
Learning about Alpaca's from Marcus whose family have recently got 4 of them. We get the exciting opportunity to possibly name one of them. We read facts about them, questioned Marcus about them then sketched and thought of a name. We can't wait to hear which name has been chosen. Thank you to the Alpaca Trekking in Newtonmore for giving us this opportunity.
Platinum Jubilee Celebrations - what a lovely day!
We worked as a team to each create one part of this picture. We had to wait until we had all finished to reveal the surprise of who or what the picture was of! Can you see who it is?
Learning about the Commonwealth and working in teams to find the Commonwealth countries.
We have sent time looking at a pond ecosystem (in class and outdoor learning groups). We were also busy planting potatoes.
Well done boys! The P1-3 shinty team did very well on Wednesday evening, winning their age group final.
Spelling tennis - to learn our common words.
Understanding fractions with pizza's.