Title: All About Me
Pupils have been given a project to prepare and give a short talk ‘All about me’. Some ideas might be family, friends, hobbies, holidays and pets etc. but you can include anything about yourself.
Pupils are allowed to bring in props for their talk. These can include photographs, posters, medals etc. Children should practise their talk at home in order to be able to fluently talk to the class.
Talks should be ready to be heard for Monday 20th May
This week the Primary 7’s will be learning to spell words containing the ‘f’ phoneme. The spelling words for each group are:
Blue Group
Green Group
Pupils should continue complete the fun spelling tasks in their homework jotters, however jotters will not be collected in at the end of the week. The class will have a weekly spelling test on a Friday as usual. Thank you for your continued support.
During the course of this week all children will be given a personalised common word spelling grid. These are the words that your child should focus over the next few weeks. When they feel confident with these words they can bring their grid to school for a spelling check-up before moving on to the next set of common words specific to them.
The 4 week rolling programme of phonemes, diacritical marking, tricky words and spelling rules will continue during class time.
Children should continue to access maths tasks through Active Learn as well as practise their times tables.
Thanks for your support,
Mrs McCaig
P2/3 enjoyed our discussion with engineer George Burns about the environment and what we can do to protect it. Afterwards, we decided to head outside to explore our playground environment and made lists of the living and non-living things we found.
Take a look!
Today Primary 7 have been celebrating World Poetry Day by learning how to write their own limericks. They found this quite tricky, but lots of fun! Here are some of the pupils with their finished limericks. Good work!
In the Gruffalo Room the children have enjoyed telling stories to each other – this develops their communication skills including pre-reading skills.
They have been doing lots of cutting and sticking- this requires concentration and uses their fine motor skills.
Games such as Matching Pairs and Pack my Bag have been very popular. The children are learning to take turns and working out the rules of the game. They need also need to focus and use their observation skills.
Primary 2/3 have had a busy first week of school in 2019. We discussed our goals for the new year and what we would like to achieve. Have a look at some of our resolutions!
Today I did great number work. I made calculations with the sticks. Caleb D
Today I did 1 add 1 with the sticks and that equals 2. Olly
I was counting the Pom-poms and making cupcakes. Harry
I made my name using sticks. Lennox
P2/3 used ‘I think, I see, I wonder’ to generate ideas and discussion around our exciting new space topic!
We would like to thank all the parents that came to our stay and learn literacy morning. We hope you all enjoyed seeing the different ways in which your children learn in their classes.
By Tyler and Cadence
We have had a super week in Primary 3/4. In Maths we have started learning about multiplication. We have been exploring array patterns and multiplication on a number line. We have been completing lots of different activities in Active Literacy. Ellis’s group were searching for nouns and she managed to find almost 50 in her book. In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about ways to keep ourselves healthy. Aimee, Ellis and Lexie had their work chosen for the “Good Work Wall” this week. Well done, girls!
P2/3 have been having lots of fun using our new Active Literacy resources. The children have been learning lots of spelling strategies.
The strategies the children are taught are:-
At Home
When your child comes home with a list of words you can discuss the sound/phoneme used. You can discuss with them which strategy they use to help them remember to spell each word.
Have fun!
Miss McLean & P2/3
In the ECC, Primary 1 and Primary 2 we are continuing to work on the development of our talking and listening skills using Word Aware and Big Talk. We have prepared a small pack of homework for the Summer holidays related to things you may be doing or discussing at home. We ask that you discuss and take a few short notes on the words and topics we have provided at some point during the Summer holiday just to keep up the good work you have been doing throughout the session. We are beginning to see the impact this has had and are continuing to work with Speech and Language Therapy in order to measure this formally.
We would like you to discuss the following broad general topics during the holiday in addition to the sheets provided:
Miss Burleigh and Mrs Campbell
Primary 3/4 have been reading the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. In one of the chapters Flat Stanley turns himself into a kite for his brother Arthur. This inspired us to create kites of our own. We used ICT to research how to make kites and discussed materials we thought would be good to use. We then worked in groups or individually to make our kites.
This afternoon the weather was perfect for flying kites so we went outside to test them out. We were surprised that the kites made from sugar paper flew better than those made from crepe paper or tissue paper. We discovered the shorter you made the string the better our kites flew.
Afterwards we evaluated our lessons using The Excellent Lesson. We decided it covered lots of points including thinking creatively, investigating and solving problems, using different resources including ICT, learning outdoors, linking with other subjects and many more.
We prepared for our writing lesson this week by having a discussion on what we see, hear, taste, smell and touch in Spring Time. This quality discussion was filmed in order for us to look back and listen to the content. All of the pupils involved received green cards for their quality contribution to the discussion and their application of what they had seen in real life contexts. e.g. our walks around the village. Well done Boys and Girls! All this success before you even wrote your senses poems.
Lit 1-09a
When listening and talking with others for different purposes, I can exchange information, experiences, explanations, ideas and opinions, and clarify points by asking questions or by asking others to say more.
Lit0-10a
As I listen and take part in conversations and discussions, I discover new words and phrases which I use to help me express my ideas, thoughts and feelings.
We had a variety of literacy activities to choose from in the Rainbow Room today. We are working hard on reading and writing and are trying to practise these in different ways.
The Enterprise group are working with Mrs Campbell and Mrs McMahon from EAST in order to fundraise. We are using an Easter theme but our activities all have a Literacy twist. We hope to use any money raised to purchase some new literacy resources- including a Word Aware book for each class, a computer programme for images and symbols and a set of Co-Build Dictionaries. This should help us to develop our Word Aware approach fully throughout the school. Dates and details will be advertised through the main school blog and look out for our posters around the school.
To help improve Literacy we have many pupils working on sounds and spelling using a resource called ‘The 5 Minute Box’. This consists of a variety of focussed literacy activities that pupils complete for a short period every day in order to revise and reinforce sounds, letter names and spelling patterns. A record is kept for each child and this helps us to gauge the impact it is having, which I am pleased to say is proving so far so good!
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