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P6/7 Into Film Creations

P6/7 have been working with Scott from Into Film and used their new skills to create adverts to encourage our school community to join our Race for Life event on Friday 6th June.

Into Film is an educational charity that puts film at the heart of children and young people’s learning.

View all 4 adverts below.

 

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. 🔥

P5/6 & P6/7 Visit to Forth Bridges Education Centre

Primary 5/6 and 6/7 enjoyed a visit to the Forth Bridges Education Centre Exhibition Area in South Queensferry.

We enjoyed finding out about the Forth Bridges and Engineering from Elaine, the Civil Engineer who was our guide for the morning.

Then we all took part in an engineering workshop challenge to build the tallest structure we could using small wooden blocks. We had a fabulous time and learned a great many things throughout the day.

Our team building, leadership, planning and organisational skills were excellent, with everyone working well in their teams and each group produced impressive stuctures!

We ended our visit with a stroll accross the Forth Road Bridge.