Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!

Primary 4/5 are so excited to be back at Kirklandneuk on Ard Road. We are loving our "new" school. On the first day back we couldn't believe our luck when we got a tour of the school. Our favourite things about the new school are: our new smartboard, trays under our desks, breakout space and our fancy toilets!

Things are always busy in Primary 4/5 but we are particularly busy just now with learning about our new topic "Titanic." This is a very special year to be learning about Titanic because in April it is officially the 100th anniversary of the start of Titanic's maiden voyage (10th April) and her unfortunate sinking (early hours of 15th April). As well as learning some fascinating facts about Titanic, we are also going to be transforming our classroom to learn what it was like to be a passenger on Titanic.

We hope you will be able to join us on this journey.

Christmas in P4/5

In Primary 4/5 this term we have been extremely busy!!! One of the highlights of this term was being set up with schools in other countries through E-Twinning in a project called "School Differences." We are now friends with children in Spain, Turkey, Italy, Poland, Croatia and Greece. It was so exciting to receive Christmas cards through the post from our "international friends" and to send them Christmas greetings from Kirklandneuk.

As the festive period has arrived we were busy rehearsing for our Christmas concert performance of "Winter Wonderland." We hope you were able to make any the Christmas concerts to see us perform. We had so much fun!

Our favourite part of this term was designing and creating outfits with Room 11 for a "Trashion Show." This was part of our Enterprise topic. We collected lots of recyclable items e.g magazines/newspapers, bottle tops, sweet wrappers and much more to create outfits that London Fashion Week would have been envious of. On Monday 12th December we showcased our catwalk of outfits using ourselves as the models. It was such a fantastic morning and we are very proud of how well we did. Even Mrs Maxwell and Miss Fulton got in on the act and dressed up in outfits made of newspaper. We now know that recycling is so important and to save our planet we have to "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle."

Primary 4/5 cannot wait to return back to our building at Ard Road. We have been busy packing for weeks.

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you at our "new and improved Kirklandneuk."

Welcome to Primary 4/5.  We have had a fantastic start to the new term.  Our new teacher is called Mrs Maxwell and we also have a teacher called Mrs Boyce helping to teach us.  In Primary 4/5 we now have lots of responsibilities as we are in the upper school.  We are very lucky to have super Pupil Council, Eco, Rights Respecting Schools and Anti Bullying representatives.

Primary 4/5 have been working hard in all areas of the curriculum but we are particularly enjoying our new topic which is "France."  We have been learning about different places in France and comparing the similarities and differences between France and Scotland.  This week we are performing solo talks on a famous French person.

We are so excited about all the things we have coming up this term.

Term 4

We all enjoyed our Spring Break. Since coming back we have performed our class assembly, which was in Trinity Church. We were all a little nervous but it went really well and we all enjoyed doing it!

We have had lots of holidays this term, but we are still working hard. We have started our new enterprise topic, we are organising and hosting the school talent show this year! We are all really excited and are working hard in our teams to make sure it is a success. We are hoping to have a very exciting celebrity panel, and can't wait to see all the acts!

As well as starting our enterprise topic we have also started our new science topic, which is really interesting. We are looking at living things and life processes. We have learned lots of new things already but have a lot more still to learn.

PE is also exciting for us this term. All the P5's are going swimming and learning lots of new techniques. The P4's are taking part in Just Dance programme, and we are putting together a mini routine, which is great fun!

We are all enjoying this term!

End of Term 3

We all enjoyed our Medieval Castles Topic and our open evening was a success. Our classroom really transformed. We are all looking forward to our Spring Break, and getting ready for leading the Easter Assembly in the church.

Joyning the Learning Topic

We are all really enjoying our new topic, and our classroom is beginning to really transform! We have been learning lots of interesting things and we are using all our knowledge to help us transform our classroom with lots of different work! We have got a really busy month coming up, we are taking part in lots of different things throughout the school. It is fair-trade fortnight and we be doing work on the different aspects of fair-trade, we have also got our sponsored walk coming up soon, this will help keep us nice and healthy as well as help raise money for charity.
We are really looking forward to our open evening and cant wait for all our parents, family and friends to see our classroom and all the hard work we have been doing! We will make sure we have plenty of games and activities for everyone to see!

Term 3

We all had a nice Christmas, and glad to be back and starting our new term. We have finished our China topic, which was great fun! Our class dragon is now going to be displayed in the foyer for everyone to see! We have also just finished our science topic - Solids, Liquids and Gases, which was a lot of fun and very interesting! Our last couple of experiments were great fun. We made rockets that we lauched. We mixed a solid and liquid together to create a gas which lauched our rockets!

We are all very excited to have started our new topic now, It is very interesting and looks like it will be a lot of fun! We are all getting ready to transform our classroom (with paint shirts at the ready!) We will be working very hard to have it all ready for our Open evening in March where our family and friends can come along to see all our work displayed around the classroom. We have been working in different groups and carrying out lots of different tasks in order to find out as much as we can about the topic, we have also started reading our class novel, which is by one of our favourite authors!

This is going to be a very fun and interesting topic!

Primary 4/5