Category Archives: Literacy

Friday Assembly – Primary 4 Class Assembly


Thank you to all friends and family to attended Primary 4 Class Assembly on Friday. Primary 4 shared their learning about Wallace and Bruce and Fun with Food. All of the children were confident in their presentations. We are very proud of you.

Scots Poetry finals took place on Friday morning. Our judges,Councillor Steward, PC Scott Arundel, Rev Shuttleworth and Lochies School said that they found it very trick this year as the standard was so high. The winners are:-

Primary 1 – Kerys
Primary 2 – Jake E
Primary 3 – Billierose
Primary 4 – Katie
Primary 5/6 – Kian
Primary 6/7 – Olivia

The winners will perform their poem at our Scots Assembly on Friday 8 Feb at 2pm.

All classes will perform a Scots song.

We hope that you can join us.

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

Signers of the Week
Tyrus, Teaghan, Hannah, Xander

PE Stars
Kadie, Jake E , Rosie, Shae and Chloe

Numeracy Stars
Harry, Eilidh, Thomas N, Noah, Aimee C, Layton and Ciaran.

Literacy Stars
Duncan, Nyco , Ross & Kier, Samir, Alan & Katie ,Karli and Harry .

Star Pupils
Casey , Tyrus , Annie , Sophie , Matthew , Arminas and Antosia

Most Improved Clean Classroom for this week – Primary 3

Cleanest Classroom for this week – Primary 6/7

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

Friday Assembly

As it is class finalists days for our Scots Poetry competition and Rabbie Burns day, some of the children practised saying their poems to the whole school. The were very good and I can tell that the judges will have a tough job next week choosing winners from each class. We hope that you will be able to join us for our Scottish Assembly in a fortnight.

Mrs Bernard explained that lunchtime quiet club would now be a reading club to encourage and promote reading for enjoyment. Dean thought it would be a good idea to come up with a name for this and he is going to have a think and make some suggestions. Any ideas are welcome in the comments below.

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

Signers of the Week
Hannah, Mason, Adam, Kian and Mhya.

PE Stars
Flynn, Dylan, Billierose, Aimee C and Amber

Numeracy Stars
Tyler, Kezmyn, Damien, Amber, Alan, Amber &Kadi  and Skye.

Literacy Stars
Aimee, Jack, Chloe F & Charleigh, Kayla, Rachael, Layton and Olivia .

Star Pupils
Harry , Garry , Kiyla, Billierose, Toni-Linn, Leah, Daniel

Most Improved Clean Classroom for last week – Primary 5/6

Most Improved Clean Classroom for this week – Primary 1M

Cleanest Classroom for last week – Primary 6/7

Cleanest Classroom for this week – Primary 1W

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

Have a relaxing weekend.

Friday Assembly

We welcomed everyone back to school after our Christmas Break and talked about some of the things that would be happening this term including learning Scots poems and songs for our Scottish Assembly on 8th February.

We welcomed Ms Elizabeth as class teacher in Primary 6/7 to the team at Deerpark.

We shared plans for a whindust path for our playing field. A copy of which is shared below. All classes have received a copy of this and we are seeking the children’s views on whether we should have the path built and the different ways that it might be used, for example the Daily Mile.

The path would cost between £5000 and £6000 depending on the width.

We would welcome your thoughts. Please comment below or directly to a member of staff at the school.

Please see below for our first ‘Deerpark Stars’of 2019.

Signers of the Week
Ava and Xander

PE Stars
Harry, Shannon , Jenna , David  and Rhys

Numeracy Stars
Tyler,  Blane, Robert, Tyler , James, Hannah, Amber and Cerys.

Literacy Stars
Kerys , Flynn , Jake E , Samir, Lincon, Arminas and Shane.

Star Pupils
Alexander, Kezmyn, Dylan, Mirren, Annie , Taylor, David.

Clean cloakroom, most improved clean classroom and cleanest classroom of the week will be awarded next time.

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

We look forward to hearing your views regarding the proposed path. Thanks in advance.

Have a relaxing weekend.

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. 🔥

Friday Assembly ~ 7/12/2018


This week we sang ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ and we heard some Christmas jokes. Here’s one of them……..

What Christmas Carol do parents like the most?

Silent Night!

🙂

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

Signers of the Week
Hannah M and Blane, Arminas and Teaghan.

PE Stars
Robert, Tavia, Mhya and Ciaran.

Numeracy Stars
Mona, Shannon , Aden, Miley, Adam,  AmberP and Chloe Mc .

Literacy Stars
Aimee, Kezmyn , Damien , Mirren , Rachael G ,Kerryn  and Skye .

Star Pupils
Alexander, Ava , Kailyn , Amber , Ronald , Xander, Declan and Leah B.

Clean Cloakroom of the Week – Primary 6/7

Most improved Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary P1M

Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 6/7!

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

Remember our Christmas Concert takes place next Thursday 13December at 2pm. We look forward to seeing you then.

Friday Assembly

As part of our school improvement priorities to encourage and support reading,  pupils talked about books that they were enjoying. Leah shared ‘Kid Normal, Megan shared ‘Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilet!’ and Layton shared ‘Ratburger’.

All classes will have a chance to share their favourite stories over the coming weeks at assembly.

Everyone sang ‘Together’.

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

Signers of the Week
Nyco , Hannah , Steven  and Daniel.

PE Stars
Alexander, Hannah , Taryn, Lacey and David.

Numeracy Stars
David , Tyrus , Charleigh , Conner, Toni-Linn, Leah, Shane.

Literacy Stars
Robert, Jack, Damien & Chloe W, Samir, Logan,Arminias  Leah B.

Star Pupils
Kadie, Elise, Jake E, Kayla, Hannah Mc, Dylan P, Daniel.

Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 1W – 3rd week in a row!

Most improved Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 3.

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

Friday Assembly ~ 27th April 2018

We practised our new song as a school. It was fun.

Schaw House Captains , gave out NumeracyStar awards. Numeracy Stars for this week are Tyler, ThomasW, James , Annie & Alan, Amber, Archimedes group (P5/6) and Ayden & Harley .

Wallace House Captain  gave out Literacy Stars for this week. They are Aden, Ross , Little Chicks group,Aimee Gl, Chloe , Chloe P and Leah .

Star Pupils for this week, awarded by Bruce House Captains, are Chloe F , Ryan , Brianna , Teaghan , Taylor , Mia  and Shane .

Makaton Signers of the week are Katie , Andrew , Kian and Rhys ! They were presented with their certificates byStewart House Captains.

Well done everyone. We are proud of you all.

Have a happy and safe weekend everyone.