Author: Mrs Davidson

Today in Primary 1 we went to the woodland area and created symmetrical pictures.  We thought you might like to have a look.

This week in Primary 1 we have been learning about symmetry.  We made symmetrical patterns on butterflies and with Mr Parkhouse we used our hands to create symmetrical crab pictures.  Today we went out to the playground on a ‘Symmetry Search!’

We are very lucky to have two S6 boys from St Joseph’s College running an after school basketball club for us.  Mr Millar and Mr Kirk are giving up their free time to do this. The Primary 5 and 6 boys and girls who attended this week had great fun.

On Friday we went to the woodland area to do our maths work.  We have been copying and creating patterns so decided to look outdoors to see what we could make.  We found a number of different things to create our patterns including leaves, stones, sticks and pine cones.   Here are some of our brilliant patterns:

 

As part of our ‘Keeping Safe’ topic, PC Trosh visited our classroom today.  He told us about the different jobs the police do which help keep us safe.  We got to ask lots of questions and even got to try some of the equipment the police use.

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at patterns in our maths work.  Mr Parkhouse has linked our Art lessons with this.  Last week we printed to make patterns of our own.  This week we looked at the work of the artist Mondrian and his use of pattern, line and colour.  We used this as an inspiration for our own art work.

 

 

 

 

Today Primary 1 used our investigative skills to look for patterns outdoors.  We know a pattern must repeat and we found lots of repeating patterns in our playground. We took our own photographs of patterns we found.

Primary 1 have had a lovely first week settling in to St Andrew’s.  It has been a busy time and they have already made lots of new friends.  The P7 Buddies have been a great help showing them around.  Here are a few photos of our new Primary 1 enjoying lunch in the dinner hall.

On Tuesday this week Primary 1 went on a trip to Mabie Farm Park.  We had a super time and the weather was great.   There is a new really fast slide which we loved going on.  The pet handling and straw barn were also very popular.  Mrs Gilligan even got a lesson on how to somersault on the trampolines!  We had a brilliant day and were all tired out on our return (especially the grown ups!)

Today Primary 1 went out to our woodland area to use our measuring skills.  Firstly, we all found a stick and arranged them from longest to shortest.  Then we chose a number of different things in the woods to measure using our hand spans and feet.  Here are some photos of us busy at work: