Some of us decided to spend some time on these alphabet and opposite jigsaw puzzles during our play this week. Well done Matthew and Libby for not giving up and working hard to fit all the pieces together independently!
Category Archives: Celebrating success
P1- Wider Achievement
Celebrating 100 days of a school 💯
We had a fantastic time celebrating our 100th day at school. First, our classroom had 100 balloons to play with as a surprise after assembly time. Then, we did lots of number jobs thinking about the number 100! We found it on our big 100 square and spoke about it being different because it had 3 digits! None of the other numbers on the square do so 100 is special. It is made up of 10 groups of 10 and we made this using our numicon and our big number beads! We then wondered what 100 would look like if we counted out lots of different things. We found that 100 can look very different but it can still be 100! We also went on a 100 step journey and painted a picture with 100 dots! Later, with the help of our p7 buddies we read 100 books, made ourselves lovely ‘when I am 100’ collages and wrote about what we hoped to do by the time we are 100 years old using the photos our teacher made for us on a special app. We looked funny and a little wrinkly! You can see some of this work in the photo collages below. We also wore real lady or man fancy scarves or ties to attend a little tea party where there was some food and music to dance too. We had a great day!
P1- Our First Whole School Show
We have had a busy but rewarding week being part of the school Christmas show starring as the stable animals. Look how amazing we look in our costumes…
Bookbug Gifting Event
We had a great time sharing all of our literacy learning using the fantastic resources in our Bookbug bags. Thank you all for coming along and to our p7 buddies for helping also.
Our winning book was Station Mouse! Now we will just have to wait and see which story wins the overall Picture Book Prize early next year.
P1- Writing for a purpose
Look out for your invitation to our ‘Bookbug Gifting Event and Picture Book Prize Ceremony’. Our buddies will be coming along too to help us to vote for our favourite story, before we get to take our Bookbug bag home forever!
We had a great time writing our invites today and decorating them before putting them into an envelope to give to our mums, dads and special grown-ups at home. We hope lots of you can come along and see what we have been up to in school with our Bookbug bags.
P1- Parent Numeracy Open Morning
We loved welcoming our grown ups into the class this week to share in some of the numeracy learning we have been doing so far this term. We hope they all enjoyed their time learning and playing with us!!!
Here are some action shots from the morning….
P1- A pumpkin kind of week!
This week we were all about pumpkins and used these as a context for learning across the curriculum, incorporating literacy, numeracy and maths, science, expressive arts and health and well-being but more importantly we had a lot of fun learning!
In teams we became scientists and took part in a pumpkin investigation using many skills including turn taking, observing, explaining, problem solving, predicting, estimating, measuring, testing and recording our thoughts and findings. We could not believe that pumpkins actually sink despite being quite heavy! This led us into doing a more in depth learning about floating and sinking later in the week.
We used the book Pumpkin Soup to link our learning this week and decided to make some soup just like Duck, Cat and Squirrel in the story. But before we could do this we needed to write some shopping lists and look at lots of different recipes books. We even went into the garden and found some lovely carrots and potatoes to use in our soup! Miss Thompson was so proud of us all and the writing we produced. It was a challenging job but we can do anything we set our mind to in P1! 
Here we are enjoying our soup once and if the hard work chopping, cutting, stirring and cooking had been done.
Another pumpkin learning task we worked hard on was a S.T.E.M challenge in small cooperative groups. The challenge was to design and create a ‘pumpkin platform’ as a group. It had to be as high as we could get it but still steady and strong. Just look at some of the design ideas we had. The highest platform got the pumpkin 16 cubes high off of the floor!
Overall, we loved using pumpkins in lots of our learning and play this week!
Primary 1- Our First Success Assembly as a Class
We were so proud and pleased with ourselves following our first performance on the stage as a P1 class at the success assembly where each class in the school shares their learning with the wider school community.
We sang 3 songs to showcase a little of our learning across the curriculum. We started with our ‘When I Know My Sounds’ song which we sing everyday in class to remember why learning our sounds is so important and the steps we need to take to be successful in learning these. Next we performed ‘I Can Sing A Rainbow’ in both english and french to show a little bit of our french learning his term with the help of Miss Douglas and her friend Amelie. Lastly we sang ‘Thank You God’ to celebrate all of the wonderful gifts we have to share with the world. We really hope you enjoyed our performance! 📚🌈🌍
