Liam and Finlay guard Buckingham Palace.
Buckingham Palace
The Queen’s Speech
Nursery (Monday 28th May): The RSPB will be helping us to create a wildlife garden.
On Monday 28th May, a field teacher from the RSPB will be in Nursery to help us to create a wildlife garden to attract insects and birds. We would be grateful if parents of Nursery children would consider bringing a plant on Monday for the new wildlife area. Please only bring plants on the list provided on the Nursery door and in the letter sent out this week. We look forward to a super day of gardening! Thank you, Mrs Mackenzie
P5M Chocathon!
On Wednesday 16th May P5M celebrated their Wonka topic with a Chocathon Extravaganza! In order that all the classes in school were aware of the occassion, posters were designed to publicise the event. Groups of children visited all the classes in the school to answer any questions children had concerning the big day. During active maths Mr MacFarlane’s class focused on money and weighing activities leading up to the event and previous work done creating recipes helped the children when making brownies, chocolate chip muffins, chocolate krispies and biscuits. P5M split into teams and had four stations in different areas throughout the school. They all had great fun serving their customers and ensuring correct change was given and appropriate monies were received. After the event P5M worked out how much profit they had made. They were thrilled when they discovered their total profit came to £79.80. Mr MacFarlane said “A truly rich experience was had by one and all.”
Book Fair
We are happy to announce that Scholastic Book Fair is in school from 24th May until 30th May. Pupils have a flyer home today! The books will be on display to parents on parent afternoon and evening. We hope to raise £500 worth of books for the library! The children will have time in class to look at the books. We will be open on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 3pm until 4pm in the school library.
The Queen’s Speech
The Queen’s speech will be opening next week on the 28th May in the evening, for special guests on the 29th May in the afternoon and the 30th May.
Here is a little taste of the action!
Cerys and Keeley are the courtiers who are trying to write the “Queen’s Speech” for the Jubilee however they end up getting help from two old ladies from Dalbeattie!!
Liam is one of the guards at Buckingham palace!
Fin is the other!
The actors who have taken part in this production have been very committed to it and turned up every Wednesday to drama club. Good effort everyone!
Gardening Club
The Primary 3 children are taking part in a gardening club again this year over a six week block. We are very grateful to Mrs Moffat, who has volunteered to come into school to help and to Mrs Mackenzie and Mr McMurtrie for helping to organise activities. The club began by planting potatoes in week 1. We look forward to seeing them grow and to harvesting them again for soup in the Autumn.
Nursery Bird Hide and Wildlife Project
We were successful in applying for funding of £4306.04 to develop a bird hide area/bird project in the Nursery garden. The RSPB have given us helpful advice and a field teacher from the RSPB has been helping the children to learn about how to care for birds in our garden. The project aims to develop children’s open ended play, independence, problem solving, literacy and numeracy skills and ICT skills. The children will be able to access resources such as binoculars, clipboards, magnifying glasses and reference materials independently to develop their play. We are looking forward to getting the “jungle hut” ready to use for the children to relax and look for birds. We will need some parent helpers soon to be involved in helping the children and extending their learning outdoors. If you would like to help, please speak to any member of the Nursery staff team. Keep checking the blog for new bird project photos!
Nursery: May 2012 Child Initiated Train Topic
The children at Nursery have been very interested in trains and transport. The staff decided to use this interest to plan a child initiated topic around trains. We have focused on developing open ended play. The children loved making their own train using the cardboard boxes and they had hours of fun pretending to go on train journeys! We also made train sticky pictures and a number train for the new Numeracy Area in Nursery.
