Category: Primary 4 Blog

What a great time we had at our Scots Assembly on Friday. Well done to the whole class for performing some of their poems, showing off their Scots art work and singing their Scots song.

This week is another busy week, Ms De La Cruz will be joining us in the classroom until March. In class, this week, we will focus on number processes in Maths with particular focus on our four operations. In our Rainbow Mental Maths we are moving to the orange band, number before and number after. In writing we will be starting recount using the information we have researched for our Scottish Inventors. We will continue the topic until the February Week and then produce short films to describe the Scottish Inventors that we have learnt about.

Due to Scots Week we were not able to finish our class readers so once again this week a book to read for pleasure will be sent home in the Home Learning bag. The bag will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday for discussion and reflection. In the bag will be the weekly spelling challenge, book to read for pleasure, new P3 and P4 Rainbow Maths Strategies challenges for the orange band and please continue to use the Scottish Inventors Challenge Grid.

This week P3/4 will be working with P6 and the Play Rangers to learn new games, activities and skills for the playground. Once we have completed this we will be using all these skills during our Fun 31 time and at playtimes.

In Writing, P3/4 will continue to work on their Scots Performance Poems and we hope to be able to perform some of them at the Scots Assembly on Friday. In Maths, we are continuing to look at Estimation and Rounding, along with our Mental Maths Minute challenge.

Home Learning will be sent home in the bag on Monday and should be returned on Friday for discussion and reflection. This week, there will be a book to read for pleasure, weekly spelling words with challenges, other curriculum Scottish Inventors challenge grid and the Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheets. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss any aspect of the Home Learning provided. Please remember that PE is taking place on Wednesday and Thursday and your child can come to school in their PE outfit or leave a change in school.

Welcome Back to the new year and we are already one week into Term 3 2026. I hope that you all had a restful holiday and exciting time spent with family and friends. Last week I had given home learning in spelling revision of common words, a book to read for pleasure and the Rainbow Maths Strategies sheet with counting forward and backwards thank you returning this.

This week, Home Learning will be spelling and we will be using the spelling words with the sound and pattern oi. Please complete a spelling challenge or try creating your own using the words provided. We are focusing on the poetry and songs of Robert Burns in class for the next few weeks as it is part of our topic work on Scottish Inventors and a Scottish Writer. I have enclosed an Other Curriculum challenge grid that you can work through until February Week that looks at Inventors, we will be learning about and Robert Burns. Last week was very short and reading books will not be sent home, so a book for pleasure has been placed in the Home Learning bags from the class library. We have also started to borrow books from the school library these may come home to share over the term.

Maths – please continue to use the Rainbow Mental Maths challenge sheets provided. In class we are looking at division and using our timetables to support our understanding. We will also be building our confidence in estimation and rounding numbers in the range 0-1000. I have enclosed in the bags another copy of the Sumdog passwords for anyone who has misplaced it. Please use Sumdog as an additional homework practice particularly to support your timetables

Home Learning bags will be issued on Monday and should be returned on Friday. I have also attached the Home Learning letter as a reminder of what you may have as home learning over the week in your bag. Please remember that Wednesday and Thursday are PE days and a change of clothes and if needed shoes for PE can be left in school for those days. Please remember to wear your warm coat to school and a hat and gloves for outdoors would be beneficial. Thank you.

Two weeks to the holiday and the time is flying in. Home Learning, this week will be sent home on Monday to be returned school on Friday. This will be the last issue of home learning before the holidays and due to this busy time of the year I have assigned just the weekly Spelling Challenge and our new Mental Maths Rainbow Strategies sheet, Counting Forward and Backwards. There will be no reading sent home as we are working on our performance poetry skills in reading and writing.

This week we will be busy starting to learn our Christmas songs with Mrs Jones and we will be working on making our houses to build our own 3D Royal Mile in our topic about Community and Housing.

Home Learning bags will be sent home on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week we will continue to use the Rainbow Mental Math Strategies sheet, the SHANARRI grid of challenges and the Maths Challenge Grid ( this will be the last week of both of these grids.) In the bag will be your Spelling Challenge sheet and please continue to use your logon to access Sumdog.