Category: P4

Primary 4 have had an exhilarating week filled with learning, celebration and new experiences!

We have enjoyed learning about Black History Month, recognising and celebrating the achievements of inspirational Black individuals who have helped shape our history and continue to influence our world today. We discussed the importance of their contributions and how their actions have helped create a brighter future for generations to come.

We also had a visit to the Book Bus, where everyone had the exciting opportunity to choose a brand-new book to enjoy during their independent reading time.

This week, we have also been developing our understanding of our four new Meta-skills: Initiative, Focusing, Integrity and Adapting. The class have worked together to create a display, featuring child-friendly definitions to help us understand what each skill looks like in practice. We have loved spotting these skills being demonstrated across the curriculum and awarding house points to celebrate those who put them into action. We are becoming increasingly confident at recognising and demonstrating the skills that will help us succeed both in and beyond the classroom!

Finally, we ended our week by celebrating Diwali, sharing in the festivities and traditions of our Hindu community. A huge well done to all of the performers – we thought you were absolutely fantastic! We were delighted that you shared such a special celebration with us and gave us the opportunity to learn more about this wonderful festival. To continue the celebrations, the class enjoyed delicious vegetable samosas and milk cake together in the classroom. What a lovely way to end our week!

UNCRC Article 30 – Minority culture, language and religion.

Sustainable Development Goal 10 – Reduced Inequalities.

This year, P4 have taken on the exciting role of leading Rights and Learning at St Cuthbert’s!

P4 bravely launched this term’s Building Resilience unit, ‘Take a Moment’, at our whole-school assembly. They confidently shared the focus of the unit and discussed the learning and outcomes with pupils across all classes.

P4 are already looking forward to leading our reflections assembly in December, where they will have another opportunity to share their learning and celebrate the importance of building resilience across our school!

SDG: 3 – Good Health and Well-being

UNCRC: Article 12 – Respect for the Views of the Child

As we reached our final week before the October break, we’ve been busy exploring, creating and developing our skills!

🍁 Exploring texture: We headed outdoors to take inspiration from the beautiful autumn leaves, using a mixture of media to create different textures in our artwork.

💡 Developing our metaskills: We explored our creativity by constructing our own LEGO creations, taking inspiration from our castles topic. We used our imaginations to bring our ideas to life and create some fantastic designs!

🌎 Celebrating Climate Week: We thought about the choices we can make to help protect our planet. We put our creativity to good use by designing posters that will be displayed around our school, reminding our whole school community how small, positive choices can make a big difference to our world.

Well done, P4, for another fantastic week of learning, creativity and teamwork! We hope everyone enjoys a well-deserved October break! 🍂✨

P4 have been working hard on openers, capital letters, commas, making lists, layout and organisation, and bossy verbs to create the perfect recipe! 👩‍🍳📝

We completed our final drafts and finished off with some lovely peer assessment. Everyone was very complimentary of each other’s work and did a fantastic job of spotting all the learning we have been practising in their classmates’ writing. It was wonderful to see the children celebrating each other’s successes! 🌟

Well done, P4s! 👏

🌍 Global Goal 4 – Quality Education: Our learning links beautifully to Quality Education, as we are developing new skills, sharing ideas and helping one another to improve our learning.

Primary 4 had a busy week! 🌟

We have had lots of fun participating in Maths Week Scotland activities! We particularly enjoyed using digital games to develop our arithmetic skills, including number bonds, organising and ordering numbers. We worked collaboratively to solve problems on the screen and support each other with our mathematical thinking. 🧮💻

We were also lucky to have an outdoor learning opportunity at the grounds of Astley Ainslie. We worked together to create castles using natural materials that we gathered from our surroundings. We challenged ourselves to create symmetrical structures inspired by medieval Scottish castles, making links to shape, symmetry, measurement and problem-solving in Maths! 🏰🍂

A huge thank you to Margon and GreenTeam for your time and creative ideas! 💚

What a great week — Maths really DOES matter! 💪🏽🧮

UNCRC links:

• Article 28 – Right to an education
• Article 31 – Right to play, rest and leisure

Sustainable Development Goals:

• SDG 4 – Quality Education
• SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities

Primary 4 had a fantastic adventure at Craigmillar Castle on Thursday! After a long bus journey and a lovely woodland walk, we arrived at the grand castle, ready to step back in time. 🌳🏰

We were introduced to lots of fascinating castle artefacts and learned all about how people lived, worked and defended themselves hundreds of years ago. Our absolute favourites had to be the chainmail and helmet — we couldn’t resist imagining ourselves as medieval knights! 🛡️⚔️

We then set off to explore the castle and its grounds, discovering poisonous berry trees, winding spiral staircases, medieval toilets and enormous fireplaces along the way. We even climbed right up to the castle roof to keep watch for any approaching enemy attackers! 👀🏹

It was a wonderful opportunity to bring our learning to life and experience a little piece of Scotland’s history for ourselves. P4 were a real asset to St Cuthbert’s, showing fantastic manners, asking thoughtful questions and listening carefully to all the wonderful facts shared by the Historic Environment Scotland staff.

Article 29 – the right to an education that develops our talents and abilities and helps us learn about and respect our own culture and the cultures of others.

Miss Tulloch has loved teaching P3 this year; they are a creative, confident and hard working class, ready to take on the challenge of P4 after the holidays!

Have a lovely summer ☀️☀️

P3 worked hard to learn how to tell the time this term. They can now tell the time to O’clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past and to and past the hour. #Article28 – The right to education.

We also used stop watches to time ourselves and our friends doing different activities and compared these to our estimations.

P3 thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the Edinburgh Playhouse to see Bluey. We have used Bluey throughout the year to support our health and wellbeing learning. #Article24 – The right to health and wellbeing.

For many of P3 this was their first time visiting Edinburgh town and going to a show in the Playhouse!

We them enjoyed a nature walk through Bruntsfield links and ended our day with a cheeky play in the park. Definitely well deserved after walking over 10,000 steps!! #Article31 – the right to rest and play.

This week P3 looked at the different temperatures different countries of their interest have in summer. They then used their research to create a bar graph to show their findings. #Article28 – The right to Education.

They also developed on their team work and created a collaborative summer art piece! Everyone was super impressed with the final outcome!