Monthly Archives: January 2011

Dens Road School Reception

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Our blog will be a little different for the next few weeks. We are learning about Old Schools and New Schools. We are very lucky because we will be making friends in another school called St Andrews Primary School in Dundee. They are a very new school. Their P1 classes are learning about Grannies and Grandads. We are going to compare our old school with their new school. Every week we will take photographs of different parts of our school and St Andrews will take photographs of their school. We will look at each others blogs and compare them to see the things that are the same and the things that are different.

Our photographers this week were Amy, Kacie, Jamie, Alisha, Rhys and Casey. We took photographs of the Reception Area.

This is the front door of our school. We come in here when we are late.
The is the reception door.
We have a Dens Road rug when you come in the door.
We have pictures of all our teachers on the wall.
We have very old radiators in our school.
We have a healthy award on our wall.
We have lots of different shapes in our school.
These are the doors to the upper school.
This is where visitors can wait.
Some of our pipes are old and the painting is coming off.

We all liked taking the photographs in our school and hope you can leave comments.

Old Toys and New Toys

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 In the Active Learning Zone this week we have been learning about Old Toys and New Toys. This has been helping us learn about in the past as our school is 100 years old. We have lots of different areas where we can choose to learn. At the computer area we have been sorting old toys and new toys. Try out the game here. http://www.museumeducation.bedford.gov.uk/bedfordbytes/toys/describing_toys.htm

 At the writing table we have been using lots of different things to help us write. At school 100 years ago the boys and girls used a blackboard called a slate and chalk. We use lots of things but we especially like using the whiteboards and pens and we even use Pictochat on the Nintendo DS.

A long time ago children used to play with a dolls house. We still love playing with the dolls house. We are learning to be friends with each other by being nice and sharing.

 

We have a railway area wih two railways. A wooden railway like the boys and girls used to play with a long time ago and a battery operated railway that makes great noises and stops and starts when you press the buttons.

When our school first opened  boys and girls were just beginning to play with teddy bears. We have a teddy bear picnic area where we can play with the bears and share and take turns with our friends.

In the library we have story books. Some children would have been lucky enought to have books to read. In our story corner we also have MP3 players to listen to stories.

 

When we are in the Active Learning Zone we use cameras and microphones to record our learning. We take photos to show we have been busy, recording our learning and sharing it with the other children.

Please leave a comment  to let us know what toy you liked to play with when you were young.

Old School New School

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This week we have been celebrating 100 years of Dens Road School. We had an assembly on Tuesday where we saw what it was like to be in school in 1911 when the school opened. We saw a classroom with slates and chalk and an abacus. And we saw a classroom like ours with Nintendo DS’ and interactive whiteboards. We like our classrooms. We did a mind map of what we would like to learn about schools. Check out the latest school blog which has extracts of the school log book 100 years ago. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dd/DensRoadSchool100Years/

 

We have been practising our Jolly Phonics sounds lots this week. We have been making 3 letter words in class. We play with the wedge and make words.

In our homework we have a new Blending Book so we can have lots of practise of blending our sounds together. The more we practise, the better we get!

In maths we are learning to add things together. We are really good at it already. We have used our Ladybird Maths Box to help us.

 

We also practise writing numbers on our whiteboards. We completed our first adding sheet in the class and Mrs Mackay and Miss Davies will be putting them into our Folio of Work for P1.

Happy New Year 2011

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It’s great to be back after the holidays. We told all our friends what we got from Santa and what we did in the holidays. We wrote a story and drew a picture too.
We have been practising counting numbers. Everyday we add a number to our number square. We are now at 74 days we have been at school. We will be beginning to plan our 100 days at school party soon.
We are celebrating 100 years of Dens Road School this year. The Dens Road School 100 Years Blog will be starting very soon. So keep up to date with everything that happened from when the school opened in 1911 here. https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/dd/DensRoadSchool100Years/
We have been learning songs for our 100 Years assembly on Tuesday. Remember if you want to come along please contact the school office.
Just a reminder – fruit money of £1.20 is now due for the first six weeks of this term. Please hand in as soon as possible. Thank you