This year we were credited with the highest possible award from Dyslexia Friendly Schools – the gold maintenance award. Achieving this standard is a great accolade for our school and something that we are incredibly proud off – a huge well done everyone!
Some of our P7 pupils and a representative for Rights Respecting Schools and Dyslexia Friendly Schools had a super day out in Silverburn choosing new school mascots. We visited Build a Bear and fell in love with a bear that we named Barry and rainbow tiger called Rae. After creating our mascots we visited Franky and Benny’s for lunch – it was terrific!
We worked with Mr Ross in the morning to explore literacy through drama. We have been learning about the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the morning, we read about Mike Teavee being transported by a magic television in the factory. We then came up with our own ideas to bring TV adverts to life.
Later in the day, we practiced our spelling words using some active methods. One of our favourites was using the magnetic letters and boards.
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Our Wear it Blue Day was a super success and all of our pupils enjoyed wearing either their Barshare blue sweatshirts or other types of blue clothing…some even had blue hair!
Throughout that day and for all of that week members of the Barshare Barrier Busters were selling their very own blue ribbons and managed to raise a whopping £50. Can we please take this opportunity to say thank you for all of your help and support and we will be donating the money to Dyslexia Scotland.
Everyone at Barshare would like to say a special thank you to Mary’s Fabric Shop in Cumnock for helping us and supplying the ribbon and pins at a discounted cost – we couldn’t have done it without you!
As we are now at the early stages of learning to blend in Primary 1, the pupils practised making up words using the sounds they have learned on jigsaw pieces.
To practice identifying sounds and matching them with associated words, the children were encouraged to look at the given pictures and match them up to the correct sound in their circle.
We use a variety of different games to reinforce all the initial sounds and encourage the children to identify newly learned sounds in words they know.
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