P1L have been enjoying taking part in Kodaly music with Mrs Malone. We have been playing singing games and working out the rhythms. We have also been learning about high and low pitch using so, me and la.
Month: March 2022
Nursery – Cardboard Box Fun!
The cardboard boxes arrived in school and were put to good use – lots of imaginative play and creativity.
The children were measuring how big a dinosaur would be and then worked out that they could fit one into nursery.
Continuous provision enables the children to choose different materials and resources to create and test out their own obstacles and trails. 
P4S – Bear Grylls Adventure
Primary 4S have arrived at their final destination of our Bear Grylls adventure; the Rainforest!
We have been learning all about the different layers of the forest and the numerous plants and animals within it. We have also been learning about how animals and plants have to make adaptations to survive in such tropical conditions. We have really enjoyed creating and designing our very own rainforest animals too.
Next week we will be learning about deforestation and comparing life in the Rainforest to life in Banchory.
Mrs Stephen has been so impressed with how engaged and eager we all are to learn more!
P4L – Talk4Writing
P4L have been using Talk4Writing to develop their Story Writing Skills. They have used Story Maps and Acting It Out to help them learn the story of ‘The Great Kapok Tree’ by Lynne Cherry. We then used the story as inspiration to write our own Great Kapok Tree stories. We used each part of the Story Mountain: Opening, Build-up, Problem, Resolution and Ending. We worked on each section as a whole class before writing our own version of it.
P6R – Curling in PE
P6R have been emulating our winning GB curling team in their PE sessions over the last few weeks.
Each team had roles throughout including coach, captain, equipment manager and social media officer. Every team worked well and were encouraging to each other, some lovely “tweets” were generated from our social media officers.
In class we also had some drawing of the official Olympic mascot, the very cute panda “Bing Dwen Dwen”.
P7R – French
As part of our IDL work we have been looking at ‘La Ville’ in our French work. We created our own fictional town and wrote about what it had and didn’t have. We have explored lots of new vocabulary relating to things you would find in a town, as well as looking at connectives and plurals. In the next few weeks we will be using our town map to learn more about directions and give instructions on how to travel from different locations. Bravo P7R!
