Category Archives: P1 M Blog
Welcome to Miss McDowall and Primary 1M’s class blog.
Here we will keep you updated on our learning activities throughout the school year. We hope that you will enjoy reading about them as much as we enjoyed doing them.
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Dates for your Diary
Here are some dates for your diary…
Sports Day – 13th June 1.00pm dependent on weather (alternative date 20th June 1.00pm)
Parents Evening –Monday 24th June 3.15-5.00pm. Tuesday 25th June 5.00-8.00pm
Reports to parents – Friday 21st June
End Term School Disco Friday 21st June , 6.00pm
Meet the Teacher afternoon…. TBC
Leavers assembly – Thursday 27th June at 2.00pm
Last day of term finishing time…12.15 Home lunch , 1pm School Lunch
First day of new term…Tuesday 20th August 2019 9.00am.
Letter from the Headteacher
Dear Parents and Carers,
I am Rhoda MacDougall and will be the interim headteacher of Deerpark Primary until June 2019. I have had a super first week working in the school and have been made to feel very welcome indeed!
I am really keen to get to know our children and families over the coming weeks and so I hope you are able to come to our Sharing the Learning event which will take place on Wednesday 27th March from 6.00pm -7.00pm. This will give you an opportunity to spend some time in your child’s class and see the work they are doing each day at Deerpark. I look forward to meeting you all next week!
After the spring holiday I will sending out questionnaires to our children and families to find out what you like about Deerpark and also how you think we could improve our work at the school too. This will help shape our school improvement plan for Deerpark and your views will be very valuable and welcome.
In the meantime please get in touch with me at the school if there is anything you would like to discuss further.
Many thanks
Rhoda MacDougall
Headteacher
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.
Burns Day in P1
Making & eating shortbread, listening to The Gruffalo’s Wean and The Reiver Rat, dancing and singing to Scots songs and designing our own tartans. We also voted for our favourite Scots words. Hoolit, Muckle and Bahookie were our winners. #TaeTheBard 
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.
Newsletter ~ January 2019
View a copy of our January newsletter here.
Find our whats happening in and around school this term including staffing updates and those all important dates for your diary.
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!
Coming soon: Online payments to school with ParentPay!
Starting week commencing 14th January 2018 we will be introducing a more convenient way to pay for school meals, trips, after school clubs and much more online, using a secure service called ParentPay.
ParentPay will be live at school on 14th January 2018 from this date we will be working towards no longer accepting cash and cheque payments, making the school a cash-free environment. Parents who need to continue making payments by cash or cheque may do so for now, please follow link for more information.
