Holywood Hullabaloo

We p5-7 have a new topic at holywood and it is time and space. We have been learning about it for about a week or so. Right now we are doing things like building a model of the solar system. We are learning about space and time as our new topic.

We are also making books about space ( mainly the solar system) for the younger class.

 

By Charlie and Leland

On big Thursday we did PE with miss pata in PE we did tip off game.

And we did learn about music with miss Donald in music.

We did drama with miss stap

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to everyone who made and wore their fabulous costumes to the recent Hallowe’en disco.  You looked frightening!!!

We are trying out an extended break time once a week. Big Break!

This is to give the pupils time to explore learning through play.

This week we had pupils building a seat in the trees – because you need a rest when your climbing up a tree – it’s hard work you know!

Pupils were trying to light fires. Staff were hoping it was so that the kettle could go on as it was a bit chilly out.

Other pupils were rolling tyres down the hills and trying to get them to travel as far as they could before they fell over. They found that by pushing them harder – increasing the force on the tyre – they could get the tyre to roll for a greater distance.

Two children decided that they wanted to roll down the hill and dragged a tarpaulin out of the shed to roll down the hill in.

Gabriella spent the whole of Big Break cooking up in the mud kitchen. She has lots of fun developing her cakes.

Some of the pupils decided to dig for treasure in the corner of the playground. They washed out a hole they had dug when they discovered silver (non -confirmed sighting). This led them to get all the pipes and guttering out of the shed and set up a waterworks down the hill into the wildlife garden.

At first some of our pupils struggled to get themselves into play – particularly the older pupils. But we are trying to get better at it.

We need to review – time of day – impact on learning.

We’ll keep you posted on how Big Break develops.

P.Dale

 

We learnt how to use first-aid.  In a first aid kit you should have scissors, safety pins, a cold compress, plasters, triangle bandages, roller bandages, adhesive tape, a torch, tweezers, gauze pads, well marked waterproof box, antiseptic wipes, and disposable gloves. We also learnt about unconscious people and how to help them become conscious again. The way we found out mostly was the recovery position. Here is a picture of our poster.

By  DAKOTA, ESMAE, CASPIAN

On Monday we done wack up shack up then we done spelling workout 

after  snack time we done spelling quiz                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Today we had Miss Dale for our teacher. In the morning we did spelling workout. We play spelling games with our partner. Then we read our history books; we have to read another five chapters by Monday. Then we read our book for about fifteen minutes. We also made a verb wee book.

After break we did maths. We have Miss Stapleton for that. My group went on Sumdog first. After that we had to do a subtract decimal sheet.

Then after lunch we did a reading box card. Then we started our four seasons report. After that we did some work on our planets and space. Then to finish the day we did our planet model.

By Orla and Dakota

hi it is Sarah! on Monday when we came back we had to go curling.  My feet were sore and cold. we did games and slid the curling rock thing. It got stuck on ice a lot and people slid back a lot it was fun. We went back to school and got an hour of play time and we went home. We did the solar system I was done first. Hi everybody its Cleo now! I will be talking about learning today. SO lets get started! So as Sarah said we have been doing curling and it was a tone of fun to me! We had to have a plastic bag on one of our feet to make us slide. The ice was very slippy and as cold as a freezer but slipping on the ice and the cold breeze from the ice felt like I was going down and icy icicle path. I was hoping we would stay for a while  longer but we had to go back to school.

By Sarah! AND Cleo!

last Monday p6 went to the ice bowl to learn a little bit of curling we went from after break to  2:30 when we got there we got put in groups and did warn ups in our group then we leaned so e easy moves we started by using tow stones and did running side and push side. my favorite was the running side   then we did the run with a arrow  after that we had lunch  we  did games and then we when  back to school

 

 

 

                                                                              by james