Cults Primary School are having an open day this Thursday (24th March) from 9.15 – 10.30am and 1.45pm – 3pm.  All are welcome.  Please sign in in the dining room and enter via the main door.

P1D have chosen a variety of their favourite maths and literacy activities to share with you.  They will also be giving tours of their classroom to help you all have a clearer picture of what happens most days.  They have selected some art activities that they are eager for you to become involved in!  Parents are welcome to sign their child in/out of P1D to take them to visit siblings in other areas of the school.

We have been learning some important tennis skills in PE recently.  We are learning to getter better at aiming and at controlling a tennis ball.

We have been learning to make our own subtraction sums in different play contexts. This involved much higher order thinking skills than if we had been given the sum by a teacher.  We have to carefully decide which number must go first and use the equals and subtraction sign correctly.  We hope to show you more about this at the open day.

In maths today we were learning to independently solve subtraction sums.  We used play dough, iPads, dice, songs and games to help us learn the key steps in solving a subtraction sum. We hope to share some of these activities with you on the open day.

Some me of us (the diamonds) even used our knowledge of taking away 1 to take away up to 100!

Today we worked together to complete a reading task – a story path.  We had to carefully read Handa’s surprise with our friends and then drew and wrote parts from the story on the story path.  We had to make sure it was all in the right order which some of us found quite tricky.  We hope to do this activity with you when you come to open day next week.

This afternoon we found out about the importance of dairy foods.  We learned that they help us to grow strong bones and teeth.  Many of us were amazed to discover that yogurts are made from milk which comes from cows!

We looked at the packaging of some yogurts and discussed which yoghurts would be the healthiest choices to have most days.  We then designed our own healthy yoghurts.  We hope to make these once the tummy bug has passed!

Click here to watch a video about dairy cows.

Our giant healthy plate is starting to look fantastic and clearly shows the healthy foods the children have been learning about.   We look forward to sharing this with you at the open day.

Today we we focussed on Carbohydrates.  We found out that they give us energy.   Please ask your child more about this.  They should all manage to tell you some foods that are carbohydrates.  We played a fun memory game in class today to help us remember them.

We have been learning about the way wheat is grown, harvested and made into some of our favourite foods. We watched the Little Red hen and wrote our own stories based on this. You can watch the video we used in class by clicking here.  You could try pointing out key words that your child knows as you watch it.

We hope to make bread soon too – once the tummy bug has stopped spreading! 🙂