Good afternoon,

This week we have been busy bees.

We have been making our own books. We were authors and illustrators! – Megan

We were learning about how to stay safe with medicine – Hanna

We went to a summer disco – Bryce, Liam, Cameron and Rory

We made a Very Hungry Caterpillar book, in Spanish, with Mrs McCreadie.  – Logan, Ohad, Riley and Beth

We’ve been learning how to stay safe when crossing a road. We had two police officers come into school to talk to us about it. – Georgia

We met our Primary 2 teacher and we had a look in our new classroom. Our new classroom is Miss Fuller’s old classroom! – Aryanna

Our new teacher is called Mrs Black. Here is a photo of Mrs Black.

We have been learning about how to look after a baby and Mrs Brown brought her baby Emma in to meet us. We thought about questions to ask. – Jared

On Monday we went for a big walk to support the BRAKE charity – Alexis

On Wednesday we went to see the Primary 7’s special assembly – Joseph

 

Good afternoon everyone and thank you for visiting our blog.

This week has been busy in Primary 1 as we have been helping Miss Stephens to deliver Read, Write, Inc. workshops to our nursery parents. We helped to teach the parents all about how we learn to read and write in primary 1.

We have been learning about fractions this week. We learned to recognise a half and quarter of a pizza, and share cubes equally into different groups.

We also made special cards this week. If you’re lucky, you might get one on Sunday!

In our Science lessons we learned about what animals eat. We learned that some animals eat plants only and they are called herbivores, that some animals eat meat and are called carnivores and some animals eat both and are called omnivores.

In our Health lesson we learned all about how to look after a baby. We found out that babies cry when they are trying to communicate, that they need to have milk for the first six months after they are born and that they need lots of love and attention.

We also got to do something very special on Friday afternoon. We got to meet a little foal and mare! Mrs Wilson from the office, her daughter Lisa and her father in law brought their little pony and her mother in for us to meet. They were both so cute and some of us got to touch them! Here are a few photos.

This week we have learning about food chains and we made a little model to show the transfer of energy from a producer to a consumer. We have also been learning about different groups of animals. We know that vertebrate animals have a backbone and invertebrate animals do not have a backbone.

We have also been learning about parts of our body and we created super posters which labelled the different parts.

In writing we worked hard to write all about the activities we took part in at Sports Day.

In Spanish this week we learned how to write all about The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. We had great fun.

We have been learning about Islam and today we labelled the inside of a mosque  – Michael

We have been learning about how to look after the animals and insects in our playground and we went on a litter pick – Hanna

I was shocked about how much litter was dropped in our playground – Alexis

We got to take our sunflowers home this week  – Rory and Liam

We have been making Scottish wildlife posters  – Jared

We have been learning a new sound. The sound is a split digraph and it makes the i _e sound – Bryce

We were practising the races for Sport’s Day – Nathan

Miss Stephens had a bouncy hopper race and it was very funny – Abby

Miss Stephens had an egg and spoon race and she was second place – Georgia

When we were practising for Sport’s Day, Mrs McQuillan was doing the egg and spoon race – Megan

We were practising for Sport’s Day and Miss Stephens was taking part in half of the races – Beth

Sport’s Day

On Wednesday the 6th of June, we will be taking part in Sport’s Day. The boys and girls can come to school wearing their sports clothes and it would be really helpful if they wore a t-shirt which was the same colour as their house team. No football tops please.

Also, it would be really helpful if the children can have sun cream applied before coming to school and bring a water bottle too.

You are welcome to come and see your child at Sport’s Day. We will start our races at 1pm on the grassy area beside the MUGA. Please stay in the designated Spectator area. We hope to see you there.

 

Good morning everyone,

We have had another busy week in Primary 1.

We started our week at Almond Valley on our fantastic school trip. We got to see lots of animals, have a bounce on the bouncy castle/ or the bouncy pillow, play at the adventure zone, go on a tractor ride and have lunch in the picnic barn with our friends. Here are some of our thoughts about our class trip:

“It was cool” – Rory

“It was fun!” – Hanna

“It was awesome!” – Ohad

“It was really, really good” – Nathan

“the Adventure Zone was cool” – Bryce

“It was very good”

“the bouncy pillow was amazing and I liked jumping on it” – Euan

“I loved the Adventure Zone” – Jared

“the Adventure Zone was great” – Alexis

“I really, really loved the bouncy cow (bouncy castle)” – Beth

“I loved the Adventure Zone and the bouncy castle” – Aryanna

“I really liked the tractor ride” – Abi

“I really liked the trip” – Kayla

We have also been reading our books, finishing off learning about volume and capacity in maths and learning about Islam in our RME lesson.

Our sunflowers are growing well and we have been enjoying watering them and watching them grow taller every day!

In writing we learned how to use commas! We can now use commas when writing lists and Miss Stephens is very proud of us! We also used our checklist from our outdoor learning day last week to write about features of Spring. Check out our photos on Twitter!

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In our topic lessons we learned about trees in our playground. We learned that we have Willow trees, Rowan trees, Elder trees and Oak trees. Can you make a connection with those names to something we have in school? (please leave your answer in the comments). We learned about the different parts of trees and completed a labelling activity.

Our little chicks are going to their forever home this weekend. We have really enjoyed having them and owe a big thanks to Mrs McCappin for her kindness.

Have an awesome weekend everyone! 🙂

We had a very productive and exciting day, learning outside today.

We went on a Spring Walk and identified features in our playground that let us know it was spring.

 

We found a blossom tree and pretended the petals were confetti, like at a wedding!

We spotted some nests in the trees!

We had fun having rolling races down the hill.

Next we had a challenge – to work as part of a team to create a den that we could all fit inside.

We also went on a minibeast hunt.

We finished our day by planting some sunflower seeds and having a little hold of the new baby chicks in the yellow wing.

What at a busy day, I think all the boys and girls will be tired tonight – Miss Stephens certainly is! 😴😴😴

2017-2018

Class Newsletter: Term 4 

Primary 1:

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Learning in Term 3:

In Term 3 we learned all about Scotland. We learned that Scotland is the country that we live in and we learned about towns and cities. We can locate Scotland on a map and some of us even know the countries that make up the British Isles. We also learned to speak in Scots and used this knowledge to sing the ‘Heid, Shooders, Naps and Taes’ song and also recite the ‘A Hae a Wee Dug poem’. Through reading some Katie Morag stories, we identified the differences between life on the mainland and life on the island. We could not believe that the island did not have a big Tesco! We also wrote many fabulous stories about Hamish the Highland Cow and his many adventures to famous landmarks in Scotland. We also used local artist, Steven Brown as an inspiration and created our own ‘McCoo’ pieces of art. Not forgetting that we were superstars on stage and shared all of this learning with our loved ones and were brilliant tour guides at our Sharing of Learning afternoon.

Even though we were tired after all that hard work learning about Scotland, we still managed to learn about money, addition, 3D shapes and develop our mental arithmetic skills and share our learning strategies with our class mates. We also continued to learn more sounds in our reading lessons and we are becoming more confident, fluent and expressive in our reading.

Learning focus this term:

Through our learning context, Redwell’s Wildlife, we will be learning about:

• Animals found in our playground and how to create fact files about them
• The effect of litter in our playground and how to reduce this
• Fair-trade and what this means
• Trees and Plants in our grounds
• Areas of our playground, such as the pond and the vegetable patch
• Recycling at Redwell and within the wider community
• Life cycle of animals
• Food chains and food webs
• Sustainability and the Global Goals
• Pond dipping
• Role of the environment and our role in looking after it
• Human impact on wildlife

If you have any skills or knowledge in this area we would very much appreciate any input during our topic. If you would like, you could be a guest speaker in our classroom, or a learning leader in our grounds to help us learn even more about Redwell’s Wildlife. Any keen gardeners or wildlife enthusiasts please speak to class teachers to arrange a suitable time.

Core Literacy:

• We will continue to learn more sound digraphs and revise previously taught sounds.
• Tricky words will be taught and used in class.
• We will continue to focus on using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in our writing. Some children will develop their use of connectives to join 2 sentences together.
• We will learn about labelling within our writing.
• We will begin to write imaginative stories where we will create our own characters.
• We will also learn about functional writing such as writing letters, postcards and invitations.

Core Mathematics and Numeracy:

• We will be learning about measuring length and will be able to use non-standard units of measure (hand span, cubes and straws etc.) as well as standard units such as centimetres and metres.
• We will be learning about measuring weight using kilograms.
• We will be learning how to estimate measurements and then check these using appropriate units.
• Through our topic about Redwell’s Wildlife, we will develop our data handling skills and will be focusing on using tally marks and creating different tables and charts.
• We will also be continuing to focus on counting in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s and identifying the numbers that come before and after a given number.

Core Health and Wellbeing:

• We will be learning about the life cycle of a plant.
• We will be learning about different needs of living things, including humans.
• We will be learning about different families.
• We will also be covering the Clackmannanshire Council’s Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education course of work.
• We will be learning about how to look after a baby.

Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Miss Fuller and Miss Stephens

This morning we have been learning about volume and capacity. We have been using mathematical language to describe the volume of liquid in different containers. We even learned about the conservation of liquid when we use different sized containers. We loved it!

Thanks so much for our comments – we LOVE reading them. Keep them coming please.

 

Good Morning everyone,

What have we been doing in P1S this week?

We have been learning about:

“what plants are used for. We found out that they can be used to make chocolate” – Jared

“different races that we will be doing for Sport’s Day next month” – Hanna

“fair-trade. We know that fair trade is when the farmers get a fair price for the products that companies buy. I am going to have a look out for the logo on food products” – Ohad

“a cocoa plant and how this turns into chocolate” – Logan

“how cotton plants help to make clothes like our school jumpers and t-shirts” – Riley

“when the cocoa beans are ready, they are put into big bags and put on a ship to bring to Europe.” – Alexis

“plants which are used to make oil. We know that sunflowers are used to make sunflower oil for cooking our food in” – Natsumi

“how to use a scale for measuring weight in maths. We know that kg stands for kilograms and  g stands for grams” – Bryce

“chocolate being made by plants” – Liam

“animals and their young” – Kayla

“we read the story called ‘The Boy who Cried Wolf’ and learned about the setting, the characters and the order of the story” – Megan

“the rubber plant and how it helps make welly boots” – Abi

Here are a few photographs of us enjoying soft start today.

Not only do these two have the same name, but they have come to school dressed the same! Miss Stephens will get mixed up with who is who today! 🤣

 

Having fun playing football.

“Miss Stephens take our photo for the blog! Let’s pose!”

 

Having fun with the construction toys.

Enjoying drawing pictures.

Dinosaurs and baby Groot!

Thumbs up on a Friday. 👍🏽

Smiles all round!

Lovely smiles on a Friday morning.

Funny face from Beth!

Natsumi running fast!

Dakota and Bryce having a race.

 

Just a reminder that we have our Plant Sale tomorrow (Saturday 12th of May) from 11am  – 1pm. We hope to see you all there.