Category Archives: P2 Blog

Welcome to Mrs Kelly and Primary 2’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.

Why not post a comment below and let us know what you think of our blog.

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

P2 ~ A Snapshot of our First Term



We are reading The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark in class. Today we made clay owls. We will paint them when they are dry and then we will bring them home to show you.


 


This afternoon we learned about different vegetables that are grown on a farm. We learnt how carrots get from farm to the shop and how crisps are made.
Later we cleaned our hands then followed safety instructions to peel or grate a carrot using kitchen tools. Primary 2 were responsible and listened well – well done!!🥕🥕🥕

P2 have been challenged to have a chat with you about how another food is made and tell you where bread, carrots or crisps come from to share some of their learning! Please support this & encourage pupils to share



Primary 2 first Stay and play of the new term was a success……children were all excited to share what  activity they liked best.
There will be other opportunities throughout this term. Thanks to all.



Primary 2 learned about where bread came from and how it is turned from wheat to bread.

Then we made a healthy sandwich with lettuce, cucumber and tomato!



Yesterday’s photographs of our time working with Jenny in the woods. We learnt about animal habitats, listened to a fantastic story about a hedgehog that was looking for somewhere to live and made hedgehog homes for hedgehogs to hibernate in! A great morning with amazing listening skills from P2.


 


We are learning all about Farms and how they work! We started offtoday by looking at how the farms in Sauchie look and painting apicture of the fields. Some people told me they even have cowsbehind their house!


 


A very successful first day in P2! Lots of hard work, good listening and smiling faces!


 

Author Visit – Stuart Reid

The whole school enjoyed Stuart Reid’s very energetic and engaging book reading assembly last week.

Stuart Reid Assembly

They learned a lot about what inspires his stories and about techniques that they can use in their own story writing (onomatopoeia, alliteration, ellipsis, visualisation).
Everyone was engrossed from start to finish.

After the school event, both P5/6 and P6/7 enjoyed workshops lead by Stuart.


He talked to them about how to be successful in writing.
Both classes will hopefully put some of his ideas and suggestions into practise.

 

 

Merit Award Assembly

 

This was our first merit award assembly this year. We invited family and friends of award winners to our assembly and they stayed to celebrate with their children with some refreshments. Thanks to everyone who supported this.

Ceejay and Layton shared their current favourite books and we all sang ‘Wake Up!’.

Our merit award winners are

Resilience – Harry
Fun – Finley & BillieRose
Safe – Ted
Tolerance – Leah
Respect – Ruaridh, Hannah, Ross , Aimee  & Rhys
Nurturing – Hannah , Chloe F, Layton  & Kadie
Effort – Olivia , Dylan B, Harry, Leah B, Mia, Daniel, Ceejay , Chloe P , Dylan P, Rhys, Skye , Chloe S, Charlie, Layton, Kadi, Leah C , Ciaran , Antosia, Dominic, Lennon , David  & Keir !

Well done. We are very proud of you all.

Have a happy and safe weekend.

Friday Assembly

As part of our school improvement priorities to encourage and support reading, Primary P1W pupils, talked about books that they were enjoying including ‘Oi Frog!’, ‘Oi Dog!’, ‘Oi Cat!’ and ‘Oi Duckbilled Platypus!’.

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
Jack, Kailyn , Toni-Linn , Kadi  and Jay .

PE Stars
Tyrus , Chloe W, Samir, Rachael and Mia .

Numeracy Stars
Mason , Kezmyn, Tyler, Rosie, Lacey, Taylor and Keir .

Literacy Stars
Mona , Ava , Jake K , Taryn , Russell , Dylan P and Cerys.

Star Pupils
Aimee , Flynn , Chloe F , Mirren , David , Hannah, Harry.

Clean Classroom of the Week – Primary 1W – 4th week in a row!!!!!!

Most improved 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.

Next week Childsmile will be in school for flouride varnish for P1 -P4, P4 are sharing books at assembly and children who have demonstrated respect for others during intervals will be rewarded with an extra playtime on Friday afternoon (weather permitting!).

Have a relaxing weekend.

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.

Newsletter ~ August / September

Welcome back to all children and families from P2 to P7 and a very warm welcome to our new children and families in Primary 1.

So far all of the children have settled well into their new classes and with new class teachers and the Big Buddies have been supporting Primary 1 children.

To find out whats happening in and around the school this term take a look at our newsletter by clicking the Deerpark icon below.

Friday Assembly

We sang our school song – We are the children of Deerpark School – very loudly and our stars of the week were presented with their stickers and certificates.

Stewart House Captains , gave out Numeracy Star awards. Numeracy Stars for this week are Kailyn , Jake E, Miley , Aimee C, Hannah & Mhya , Leah and Leah .

Bruce House Captains, gave out Literacy Stars for this week. They are Tyler , Thomas N, All of Primary 2, Dean and Lacey, Kerryn and Billie Jo, Mia and Ayden.

Star Pupils for this week, awarded by Schaw House Captains, are Charleigh & Euan, Robert , NoahP, Hannan M, Luke, Rhys  and Phoebe .

Makaton Signers of the week are Katie , Annie , Billierose & Miley, Leah  and Declan. They were presented with their certificates by Wallace House Captains.

Primary 5/6 demonstrated some of their learning through the brass project and played ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’. They were fantastic.

The parent council presented Primary 7s with their Prom Goody Bags.

Well done everyone. We are proud of you all.

Our Leavers’ Assembly will take place on Thursday at 2pm.  Hope to see you there.

Have a happy and relaxing weekend everyone.