Edition 5
October 2014
Edited by Kial Norrie (P7J) and Katie Maclean (P7)
Welcome back to another
exciting year at Dyce
Primary. Here are some of
the things we have been
learning about.
The whole school had a
‘Lepra Workout’ and
everyone enjoyed dancing
‘Zumba’ style.
We are learning more about
being healthy through having
social snack every day.
We loved seeing our family
when they came to join us
for Family Friday.
We liked our experiments
during Science week.
We hope you enjoy our
Newsletter and have a great
October holiday! 
P1 – Miss Bennett, Miss Youngson, Mrs Hosea
We have had a very exciting first term in P1. We had a lovely story called ‘The
Kissing Hand’ about a racoon who was scared on his first day of school but then felt
better after his Mum told him a secret. We have learned some new letters and
numbers, and are getting very good at writing these letters/numbers. We have had a
lot of visitors for our topic ‘Myself and My community’ We heard Mansen talk about
his job at the church, Jim explaining how he cleans the pool and fixes things in
school and the vet discussing how she helps sick animals. Mrs Dickson talked about
her job, Mrs Reynolds and Mrs Bavidge explained how they kept the office running
efficiently and the lunch ladies told us about how they make our delicious dinners.
We have had Mrs Paterson to teach us Maths, and she helps us with our numbers
from 0-10. Miss McKnockiter teaches us P.E and we like to run and jump.
1/ 2 - Miss Smith
2 and 2/3–Miss Glynn & Miss Hardman
We have been learning about Dinosaurs
names, characteristics, and how long ago
they lived.
We have been enjoying doing lots of
mental Maths and learning about
numbers to 10, and to 100.
We have written our own storybooks
about our bucket full of dinosaurs.
The Primary 2’s enjoyed their trip to
Techfest.
3M– Mr Martin
We have been learning about animals, their groups
(mammals, reptiles, fish and birds) and we have looked at
habitats. We have learned about living things, and we now
know this is called biology. We investigated a frog’s life
and the parts of a fish. We became explorers and
created brand new animals that we discovered in the
jungle.
We have been using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as
a class novel. We have been using the book to write labels
about the ticket winners in the book.
We have been learning how to do perfect number adding
using chimney sums. We have looked at bar graphs and
made our very own. We asked each other questions to get
information for our graphs.
With Miss McKnockiter we have been keeping fit by doing
relay races and we’ve used lots of equipment for these.
With Mrs Paterson we’ve been doing number patterns and
using clapping to help us count in sets of numbers.
Primary 2 and 2/3 have been doing
some common words and sounds. We
have also been creating an old oak
tree using our visualisation skills. We
have been enjoying mental maths and
tens and units. We made some posters
about extinct animals and talked about
dinosaurs. We are keen to continue
working on the vegetable patch. We
had lots of fun at Techfest.
P3- Mrs Hewitt and Mrs Dickson
We have been learning to add tens and units with carrying.
We have enjoyed using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to
help with visualising and summarisation skills.
Looking at our weather, we have been making autumn art
pictures.
We had a lovely walk around Dyce as part of our topic and
wrote an information leaflet for Dyce.
We wrote a report after Techfest.
We are learning to join our letters in our handwriting.
We carried out an experiment on how to build a bridge.
P4H and 4M – Mrs Hamilton and Miss MacIver
P5 – Mrs Casey-McKay
We have been learning all about the Vikings as our topic.
P5 have enjoyed learning about Nutrition and Food, and
We have learned some adjectives, verbs and nouns as well
as writing a diary entry.
we performed a show called ‘Healthy Eating – The
Musical.’ Linked to our topic on nutrition, we held a
We have learned about rights and responsibilities, as well
as drawing people accurately.
We have been writing reports how to tell the time and
doing work on friend ship.
nutrition exhibition in our class for other classes to visit.
We have enjoyed all sorts of maths.
We had a trip to Techfest, and this was fun!
Mrs Casey-McKay has been teaching us French, and we
We have also enjoyed adding and taking away as well as
are getting very good.
doing a special assembly.
P5/6- Miss Graham
P6 – Miss Bowen
This term P5/6 have being enjoying a Time travel project
We enjoyed the potions and explosions show at
Techfest. Our whole class novel is Holes and we have
been writing letters about this.
We have been researching Australia and have been
making posters.
We had a debate about zoos.
We made a rights respecting class charter.
using Tardis. In art we have been doing Victorian art
work and ice age cartoon strips.
In topic we have being learning about the Romans,
Pompeii, Mount Vesuivus, the Great Ice Age and
Victorians.
In Maths we have enjoyed multiplication and division.
In Literacy we have been reading Holes as a class novel.
Writing focused around their topic and using great
descriptions.
P7 – Miss Petrie
P7J– Miss Johnston
This term P7 have enjoyed having Miss Petrie as a
This term P7J have been enjoying their WW1 topic. We
visited Dyce church hall and lit a fire to experience the
conditions of a conscientious objector and wrote a
newspaper article about this. We learnt about trenches,
created recruitment posters and wrote a poem to enter
into a poppy appeal poetry competition.
We have learnt about current news issues like ice bucket
challenge and the referendum.
teacher, having PE with Miss McKnockiter, doing art and
drama, doing BODMAS (Brackets of division,
multiplication, addition and subtraction) and other new
topics in maths. We loved visiting Techfest, especially
the Potions and Explosions show in the afternoon.
Here are our Pupil Council members.
Faye Cromar (P1B), Samuel Shayo (P1H), Ross Gunn (P1Y), Owen Donaldson (P1/2),
David Mowat (P2), Caitlin Sinclair (P2/3), Erin Wheeler (P3M), Arran Brown (P3),
Cordelia Esson (P4H), Umair Khan (P4M), Murray Coleman (P5), Kate Cassidy (P5/6),
Jack Mackay (P6), Katie Maclean (P7) and Kial Norrie (P7J).
Chairperson = Kial Norrie
Secretary = Kate Cassidy
Vice-Chairperson = Katie Maclean
Treasurer = Umair Khan