Viking History Trip

At the end of term P4 went on a trip to learn more about Viking history in Orkney. First we visited Maeshowe to see the Viking runes left over from when the Vikings broke into the Neolithic cairn to shelter from a snowstorm.  The the Historic Rangers took us on a tour of Kirkwall town and shared lots of historical facts with us before we finished the day with a guided tour of St Magnus Cathedral.  

We also had a bit of free time and Brandyquoy play park. 

Sport Relief

I'm SPS had great fun celebrating Sport Relief this afternoon. Staff v P7s netball game, stalls, activities and bake off competition...lots of fun to be had by all. 

A big well done to Libby for her super swimming pool cake. Her cake was judged as one of the top 3 in the school. 

Badger the Mystical Mutt

Yesterday P1-4 were treated to a super show by Laura Jackson and her mystical mutt Badger. Laura read some of her first book to us and Badger showed us his magic tricks. 

Maths - area

In maths some of us have been learning all about measuring the area of surfaces. After learning a bit about how to calculate area we had a go ourselves. In 2 teams we worked out the area of our classroom tables. 

It took us a few goes to get it right but worked well in our teams to get us to the right answer in the end. 

The Vikings are coming!

Well done to P4 for putting on a super assembly today. Despite a few shy moments, they did themselves proud. 

It was lovey to see such a good turn out of parents and families. Thank you all so much for coming. It means so much to the kids to see you all there. 

The Vikings are coming!!!!

P4 assembly - Friday 4th March

10am

Parents welcome.  Please let us know how many seats your family require before Thursday afternoon.  

Look forward to seeing you there

January / February

As our topic is Vikings this term we have been participating in a range of Viking related activities.  Above shows photos of us making ourselves into mini vikings using material and making sure we dress ourselves in the correct viking clothing.

We also learned about Viking Longships.  We found out that the average longship was 28 metres in length so we decided to find out how big this was.  We used metre sticks and trundle wheels to measure the distance out in the playground.  Group 1 found out that 28m was from P1 to P4 classroom windows.  Group 2 found out that 28m was the length of the muga.

Miss Kelday then set a homework challenge which asked us to build our own model longships.  We had 4 weeks to work on these with an adult at home and could use any materials we liked.

Here are some photos of our longships...  feel free to pop into school for a look.

James and Glen still to be photographed

In maths we have worked extremely hard on our addition and subtraction skills.  We have learned all about 100 squares, empty number lines and partitioning.  We decided to take a peedie break from this and move on to position and movement.  We have been learning all about giving directions this week and used a remote controlled car to do this.  We used command such as forward, right and left turns to direct the car and also included distances.  We had to type in the directions and watch the car move around the track (we built this ourselves - we gave ourselves a big challenge!!)  We made a few mistakes but persevered and corrected them to successfully move the car from the beginning to end in one full run.  We were very proud of each other as this was a super challenging task! 

One of our optional homework tasks this term was to learn a card game to teach to other members of the class.  Lots of people took part and we spent some time playing card games and teaching each other the rules.