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Merit Award Assembly

Thank you to all of the friends and family members who came to our special Merit Award Assembly this morning. It was great to see you all and we hope that you enjoyed staying for a cuppa and cake.

Some of the children shared some of the items that they had been making in class for this afternoon’s Christmas Fayre including hot chocolate cups, reindeer heads, bobble hats, decorated biscuits,angel decorations and much more! We look forward to seeing many of you this afternoon at 1:30pm where Big Ted will be raffled as well as goody hampers!

Everyone joined in with our song ‘Wake Up!’. It was fun.

Our merit award winners for October & November are

Resilience – Eilidh, Jake K, Kailyn, Rosie, Logan
Fun – Oliva, Antosia
Tolerance – Anastasia
Respect – David, Damien , Aimee C, Ciaran
Nurturing – Riley, Leah B , Leah C
Effort – Ava , Duncan , Chloe F , Noah S , Leah ,Declan

Well done everyone. We are really proud of you all.

 

Dates for your Diary

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NOVEMBER
  • 19 & 28 November – Parents’ evenings
  • 23 November – Parent Council Christmas Fayre
  • 29 & 30 November – In-Service Training Days
DECEMBER
  • 4 December – Whole school visit to MacRobert Panto
  • 13 December – Christmas Nativity at 2pm
  • 14 December – Parent Council Christmas Disco
  • 17 December – Primary 5/6 & 6/7 Christmas Party
  • 18 December – Primary 3 & 4 Christmas Party
  • 19 December – Primary 1 & 2 Christmas Party
  • 21 December – Merit Award Assembly
  • 21 December – 1pm School closes for Christmas Holidays
  • 7 January – School Opens for Term 3

Children In Need & Friday 16th November Assembly

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Thank you to everyone who donated food tins, chocolates ormoney to our Parent Council and Children in Need. We received lots of things for hampers and tombola for the Parent CouncilChristmas Fayre and £103 for Children in Need! Well done Deerpark!

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Primary 6/7 invited parents and carers to see their class assembly. The children were fully engaged in the planning, preparation,rehearsals and assembly with minimum adult support. They did a fantastic job of sharing their learning and we are very proud of them.

 

Please see below for our ‘Deerpark Stars‘ for this week!

Signers of the Week
Rhys , Jack  and Luke .

PE Stars
All of P1M, Aden,  Hannah Mc , Chloe  and Antosia.

Numeracy Stars
Tyler, Finley, Partycja, Noah S, Russell,Anastasia  and Chloe

Literacy Stars
Kerys, Kezmyn, Dylan, James, Aimme G, Layton,Hannah,  Anastasia, Dylan B  and Cerys.

Star Pupils
Alexander, Hannah, Euan, Kayla , Alan, Kian,  All of P6/7

Clean Cloakroom of the Week – Primary 6/7

Most improved Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 2.

Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 1W!

Well done to everyone for their efforts and achievements this week. We are proud of you all.

School Trip to Pantomime – Sleeping Cutie  

This year the whole school trip to the pantomime at the MacRobert Arts Centre will be Sleeping Cutie on Tuesday 4th December 2018.

In order to confirm the booking we would be grateful if you could please return the completed permission slip below along with payment by Friday 23rd November 2018.  

As always the pantomime is subsidised by the parent council and we are grateful for their contribution.  The subsidised cost is £7.00 per child and must be paid by 23rd November 2018.  Any late payments will be for the full cost of £14.00 per child.

We will be unable to take children to the pantomime for whom we have not received payment and permission slip. Any permission slips received without full payment will be returned.

Click here to view a printable copy of letter sent home with permission slip attached.pantomime 2018

Assembly 2/11/18

Thank you to all of the family and friends who came to Primary 5/6 Assembly this afternoon. Primary 5/6 shared everything that they had learned about endangered animals and how we can all work together to protect our environment and their habitats. Things that we can do included – reduce, reuse and recycle glass, cardboard,metals and plastics, use bamboo toothbrushes and put our litter in bins. The children were very confident. Well done everyone!

As part of our school improvement priorities to encourage and support reading,  BillieRose, Nikodem, Rosie and Noah S, talked about books that they were enjoying including ‘TheSmartest Giant In Town’, ‘The Hodgeheg’ and ‘The Snail and the Whale’. All classes will have a chance to share their favourite stories over the coming weeks at assembly.

Please see below for our ‘Deerpark Stars’ for this week!

Signers of the Week
Leah Brown  and Hannah MacFarlane.

PE Stars
Alix , Patrycja , Noah S  and Leah.

Numeracy Stars
Ted, Blane , Robert, Nikodem,  Steven and Xander.

Literacy Stars
Duncan, Nyco , Chloe W, Conner, Katie, Leah and David

Star Pupils
Alexander, Ava, Jake K, Noah P, Dean , HannahMac, Leah C

Clean Cloakroom of the Week – Primary 6/7

Most improved Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 2.

Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 1W!

Well done to everyone for their efforts and achievements this week. We are proud of you all.

Have a happy and safe bonfire weekend. Remember to vote for your favourite Guy on Sparks in the Park Alloa Round Table Facebook Pages. Perhaps Deerpark will win for the third year in a row……

P5/6 and P6/7 visit to United Auctions

Today we went to United Auctions in Stirling, to learn all about farming.

We visited a range of different stalls including ‘eggtastic’ eggs, lif eof chicks with the Coop, bees, food assurance, cereals, muesli,transport, animals, food miles and dairy.

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At each stall we learned about the importance of farming in these different areas, the jobs connected to them and the different skills and interests required for different roles.

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Our last stop was a trip to the auction mart, where we bid on the different animals that we had met earlier in the day.

Deerpark hadthe highest bid for the geese and the Pigmy Goats. 🐐
We participated, listened well and gave positive feedback about our experience, when we returned to school.

P1M ~ A Snapshot of our First Term


P1M doing a fantastic job at developing our pencil control.


 


We had the Scottish Wildlife Trust in class today to talk about thewildlife in our local environment. We learned about various animals including deer, sheep, basking sharks and foxes.



Today we had Liz Ferrall from the Bat Conservation for Scotland visiting our class. She told us more about different bat species in Scotland, their anatomy and where they could live. We discovered some bats live close to our school! Fantastic listening throughout the presentation! Well done all P1’s!



We were learning about the properties of 2D shapes today! We used straws and Lego to check how many sides and corners each shape had. We also had to select specific shapes to make animal pictures. Well done everyone!


 


P1M making sure they can form the sounds we have learned sofar! We used pens on paper, Lego and even our bodies to form the sounds!



As our class topic is ‘Our Environment’, we went for a walk in our playground environment and collected some objects to help us fill an empty autumn tree. We looked at various creatures and plants! We took time to look at the sky, the pupils described this as‘beautiful’!



We have been learning numbers 1-5 and have been practising forming our numerals. We have also been learning our sounds this week.



Practising writing the number 4 in a variety of ways.

Well done everyone, you all worked hard when forming your numerals.



Outdoor learning practising forming our numerals. We have learned 1,2 and 3 so far!.Well done everyone!

In P1M we were developing our memory skills, completing listening tasks using our 4 rules of listening and playing circle time games that promote good listening and turn taking.



Sharon from Child Smile came into class today to speak to the children about brushing their teeth. They met Elvis the dinosaur and have all been given a toothbrush for brushing their teeth in school! Letters in school bags  with more information.



Picnic social snack  in P1M. Pupils can chat,eat their snack and then spend their play time outside playing. Today the pupils wanted to listen to a story whilst they ate their snack, so we read ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Cat’!



P1M exploring their local environment with Jenny Ventham from the Forestry Commission.

They were learning about North, South,East and West.

Collecting items to remind us of our journey outside the school and were being responsible partners whilst we walked in our local environment.

We then sorted all the items into the order we found them on our walk.