Category Archives: November

Find out what’s happening in and around the school this month

A Snapshot of Term 2 in P1W

 

Christmas party fun!


Thank you to those of you who joined us for our family film afternoon earlier today. The children really enjoyed the experience (and the biscuits!) 🎄 🎅🏼 🍪


Christmas has arrived in P1W


Thank you to all those who were able to attend our Book bug Book Bag event this afternoon. It was so lovely to see all of the children so excited about reading and sharing stories.


We had lots of fun in P1W today combining Halloween and learning. This morning we listened to the story Room On The Broom before sequencing events from the story. In Numeracy we practised our counting skills and numeral formation by counting spooky objects and recording our answers. This afternoon we finished our day with dooking for apples and a Halloween shaped ginger biscuit.
I hope you all have a fun and safe time tonight when you are out guising. Looking forward to hearing all about it tomorrow. 🎃

A Snapshot of Term 2 in P1M

Today P1M won most improved clean class overall at assembly and were given a prize from the cleaners! The prize was enjoyed by the pupils in P1M today!

 


P1M ready for their Christmas party! Everyone looked fantastic and had great fun and  we had a very special visitor!!


Thank you to everyone who came to stay and play this morning to make some Christmas crafts! Stay and play will be continuing afterthe holidays and dates will be given then!

 


Thank you to all the family members who came to our movie afternoon today! The children were so pleased to have you all in the class!

 


 

First grading for this proud pupil ! Thank you for sharing with us today!

 


Well done to everyone today for a superb Christmas show!! Thank you all for coming, the children were over the moon to perform for you all!

 


Some pictures from our Family Reading Session today!

 


As part of our November Reading Challenge we covered a display board with one of our favourite fairy tales! We read ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and discussed the characters and the order we met them in the story. We then watched some film clips to compare ‘book vs film’ as part of our reading challenge too!

 


Our Christmas Fair stall! We sold out before theend of the fair! Well done everyone and thank you for coming!

 


As part of our Deerpark November Reading Challenge P1M decided on two authors they liked, they then voted for their favourite! P1M enjoy Michael Rosen and Julia Donaldson stories and have read quite a few of their books! Julia Donaldson won the vote, she is the classes current favourite author!

P1M with their final favourite author votes and some of the booksthe class enjoy!


Stay & Play photographs from Wednesday! Thank you for coming everyone!



Making reindeer food to sell at the Christmas fair on Friday!


P1 enjoying their bookbug bookbag today! I hope they are all enjoying reading the stories at home too!



In P1M this morning we raised £12.98 for Children in Need anddonated a whole box of food too! We are all having fun in our pjs today! Well done everyone!


We have been working on missing numbers and the numbers before and after!

A very muddy loose parts play yesterday! Some children arebecoming more confident with their tree climbing skills and imaginative play is being enjoyed by all!

We had a spooktacular day today! We read ‘Spider Sandwiches ’by Claire Freedman and created our own gruesome sandwiches, we carved a pumpkin and made some crafty bats!

Thank you to Gracie for bringing in her pumpkin to share with theclass!

Happy Halloween!

A Snapshot of Term 2 in P5/6

A snapshot from our Christmas Movie afternoon. 🍿

Thanks to those that came in to support us.


Christmas wreath activity with our reading buddies from Primary 2.


We participated in different reading activities today.
The Iron Man group followed some specific ‘remember tos’ when organising the class library. In this task they used skills in teamwork, understanding of genre, alphabetical order andproblem solving.

Midnight Gang worked independently on comprehension skills.

Alfie Onion worked with Mrs Robertson on inference.

Read Write Inc. read for enjoyment and then worked on this week’s sound ‘ir’ with Mrs Robertson.

Some children (from across different groups) worked with Mrs Johnston on reading and grammar.


 

Yesterday we used syringes filled with solid, liquid and gas examples to help us consolidate our understanding of the 3 terms.
We also learned about how the particles in each substance move and react and we learned about the diagrams that a a solid, liquid and gas might be represented by


Today we started learning 9 x table facts.
We learned a range of strategies for remembering the products ofthe multiplication sums. Many of the strategies are to do with the patterns we spotted in the table.
Our fast finisher activities were used to revise a range of tables,not just the 9.
Tomorrow we will consolidate our learning and use what we know in trickier sums.


We went outside on a scavenger hunt. We had to work out the answers to a variety of multiplication and division sums. Each answer corresponded to a different letter. We had to unscramble the letters to make a secret phrase.


We also worked with our reading buddies today on a poppy craft.
Our poppies are now up in the corridor, near the foyer, along with a ‘thank you’ display Miss Wyman organised. Have a look the next time you’re in.


Next week, as part of homework, the children will be asked to read in the ‘craziest’ (whilst remaining safe) places.
Enthusiasm, competitiveness and creativity took over at Loose Parts today when these children started the challenge early! 📖


Today we went out to Loose Parts Play and we were joined by our reading buddies.
Despite having not been out at LLP for a while, we could easy recall the rules of the area and put them into practise outside.
This week we had mud pancakes, a writing den, obstacle courses,digging, climbing, horse riding and rope swings.


Yesterday the class were given a Halloween themed STEM challenge.
They had to work in teams to build a structure out of newspaper, that would hold a pumpkin.
Most of the structures managed to hold the pumpkin for at least 2 seconds.
It was a fun way to spend the last part of the day. 🎃



In spelling today, we were asked to be ‘self managers’ and takeresponsibility for how we wanted to practise our spelling words.
Some of us used slime, some played darts, others wrote lists andsome of us played games.
Lost of creativity, responsibility, effort and fun.


Last week we started looking at multiplication as our focus within numeracy and maths.
Yesterday, we worked on the 4 times table as a main focus and then there were opportunities to practise and/or challenge us too.

At the end of the lesson yesterday, we each created a question.
This morning we used those questions as a warm up for numeracy. This tested our previous learning and also gave us a purpose for writing the questions for our class.
We also self-assessed our work using a traffic light to show Mrs Robertson how we found each question.



Halloween pumpkin challenge with our reading buddies thisafternoon. 🎃


Lovely day out at the Forth Education Centre, learning all aboutbridges.
Team work, problem solving, developing skills for life and, forsome, facing fears during the bridge walk!
Well done all for your effort and behaviour.
(Thanks Scott, for accompanying us on the excursion).


Guy Fawkes Challenge
Well done everyone! Thanks to parents and carers who supported us today and thanks to those that supported by sending in clothes etc. for us to use.
A fun and successful morning. 🔥

Guy Fawkes preparations underway. 🔥

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……