We were so delighted today to finally open our doors and welcome our pupils’ families back in to our school!

It was amazing (and quite emotional) to see so many of you this morning and the staff and children were so proud to show off all the fantastic work that takes place in our classrooms.

A huge well done to our superstars Ellie and Hannah who stood up and demonstrated their maths skills, they were outstanding.

Thank you so much for your feedback. We will look through these and look at ways at continuing  to support pupils and families with maths. Look out for future posts on how we have responded to your suggestions.

Thank you so much once again, we really loved having you all back!

Mrs Schendel

This week is Maths Week Scotland and we are looking forward to taking part in lots of activities throughout the week.

Following on from the success of last  year, we are relaunching our National Numeracy’s Family Maths scrapbooks and activities. These are activities that help children and families to explore everyday maths at home together. They link the maths that children are learning at school with life outside the classroom.

To help you and your child complete these activities every pupil will bring home a toolkit packed full of equipment to help you get creative.

Please come along to our Maths Open Morning this Wednesday 28th at 9am for more information on supporting your child at home with maths.  You will also have the opportunity to  visit your child’s classroom and see all the amazing maths activities that take place there every day.

Have fun exploring your toolkit and I look forward to looking through the scrapbooks.

Mrs Schendel

As part of Maths Week Scotland next week we are delighted to be able to open our doors and welcome parents and carers into the school.

The main doors will open at 9.00am and a short presentation will be given in the main hall.

There is then an opportunity for you to go and join your child in their classroom and take part in their maths lesson.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 28th September at 9.00am.

Mrs Schendel

A warm welcome to Miss Norman who will be joining us in August.

Miss Norman will be the P3/4 teacher for the year and we look forward to a busy year ahead.

What a fantastic day we have had celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee!

We had our very own live band playing this morning while we were busy decorating placemats.  A big thank you to members of the Sanquhar Silver band and friends for keeping us entertained.  The ECC joined us in marching round the playground to show off our majestic crowns and to give some very royal waves. We then finished by standing and listening to the band play the National Anthem.

Our street party lunch was so much fun! We showed off our dance moves and ate delicious party food.  A big thank you to our Catering Team once again for making our lunch so special.

Throughout the day the children took part in different activities. Make sure you have  look on the class blogs to see what they got up to.   We have just loved being able to mix classes again and see our older pupils supporting the younger ones.

A big thank you to all the staff who have worked hard to make the school look special and for organising such a fantastic day!

Have a great holiday weekend.

Mrs Schendel

Thank you so much to our Catering Team for a fantastic Jubilee Lunch.  The children said it was, “so yummy!”

Thank you also to Mrs Watt for our balloon decorations, our tables looked fit for royalty!

A reminder that Mrs Schendel, Miss Murdoch and Miss Burleigh will be in the playground from 2.45pm tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday 24th May, to chat about all things maths.

See previous post for details.

We look forward to seeing you then.

Mrs Schendel

Our partnership with National Numeracy is coming to an end and I would like to say a huge thank you to all the families and pupils who engaged with the scrapbooks over the year.

I have been so proud to attend meetings with the organisers and other schools in East Ayrshire who have been taking part and to show off the fantastic work lots of you have been doing!

Due to the huge success we intend to continue with the scrapbooks next year and, fingers crossed, we may be able to get families together to share ideas and offer support.

National Numeracy would like your feedback and have asked that parents complete a short survey.  You have a chance of being entered into their competition to win £50 worth of books and games.

Please click the link below and good luck!

https://nn.typeform.com/to/xLcyBnNU

Mrs Schendel

Although some restrictions are beginning to ease we still really miss not being able to  have our parents/carers in school to see all the fabulous learning that is taking place.

Mrs Schendel, Miss Murdoch and Miss Burleigh would love a blether with parents/carers of P5/6 and Primary 6/7 about all things maths and will be in the main playground on Tuesday 24th May at 2.45pm.

Please come along and ask any questions you may have in supporting your child with their maths homework or to ask about the maths work taking place in the classrooms.

We would appreciate that in line with our regulations that social distancing is maintained.

If you are unable to attend but have any maths related questions you would like to ask please e-mail me at:

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you then.

A reminder that Mrs Schendel, Miss Edmund and Miss McLean will be in the playground from 2.45pm tomorrow, Tuesday 10th May, to chat about all things maths.  See post below for more details.

Fingers crossed the weather clears up and we look forward to seeing you then.

Mrs Schendel

Although some restrictions are beginning to ease we still really miss not being able to  have our parents/carers in school to see all the fabulous learning that is taking place.

Mrs Schendel, Miss Edmund and Miss McLean would love a blether with parents/carers of P3 and Primary 4 about all things maths and will be in the main playground on Tuesday 10th May at 2.45pm.

Please come along and ask any questions you may have in supporting your child with their maths homework or to ask about the maths work taking place in the classrooms.

We would appreciate that in line with our regulations that social distancing is maintained.

If you are unable to attend but have any maths related questions you would like to ask please e-mail me at:

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you then.

Wow!! Our pupils are so creative and imaginative and have once again blown us away with their amazing egg creations.

Well done to our winners!

We even had a special visitor to wish us a Happy Easter.

Have a wonderful holiday!

Mrs Schendel

Our P6 buddies enjoyed another morning with their buddies from the ECC this morning. This week the focus was literacy and we were all so impressed with the children’s skills.

It was great to hear from our National Numeracy partners this afternoon at our parent workshop.

The top tips shared to help build positive mindsets towards maths included:

• Point out maths in everyday life
• Be positive about maths
• Praise effort not talent
• Boost your own confidence.

If you want anymore tips or want to discuss how to help your child with maths please do not hesitate to contact me at the school.

Below is a link to the National Numeracy Challenge website.  Click below to explore your own feelings about maths and find ways of boosting your own confidence.

http://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/challenge/catpar

Mrs Schendel

A reminder that National Numeracy are holding an online Parent Workshop tomorrow. Please see previous post for more details and do not hesitate to contact me at the school with any questions.

DATE:  Tuesday 22nd March

TIME:  1.15pm – 2.15pm

LOCATION:  Zoom

Here is the Zoom link for the session:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85833264692?pwd=MDBCejJMdFFZUWVJS3NmS05Hcmxqdz09

Meeting ID: 858 3326 4692

Passcode: 796713

I look forward to joining you for the session.

Mrs Schendel

Primary 6 have been so excited to met their new buddies from the ECC!  The children have had two sessions where they have had time to get to know their buddies and begin to prepare them for their move to the ‘big school’.

Staff have been so impressed with how Primary 6 have communicated with and cared for their buddies and you can see in the photos how much fun the children have had together.  Our ECC pupils seem very happy and confident and we look forward to more sessions ahead.

Once again I would like to say a huge thank you to all the families who have been engaging with our maths activities at home.  It is great to read your comments and hear how much fun you are having with maths at home.

As part of our partnership this year with National Numeracy I am delighted that the charity are offering us a parent workshop.  Due to ongoing restrictions this will take place over Zoom.  This is a great opportunity for parents to work alongside the staff at National Numeracy and gain more information on our successful project with them this year.

A note from National Numeracy:-

Parental engagement in children’s learning has a large and positive effect on children. We want to support parents to engage positively with our pupils’ maths learning.

Therefore, we are inviting all parents and carers to attend a workshop with the charity National Numeracy.

The workshop is not a maths lesson, nor does it cover any maths learning, but is focused on fostering positive attitudes towards numeracy and tips for ensuring your children develop these too.

The session will cover the importance of maths in the real world, being positive about maths and how to boost your own number skills.

We would be delighted to welcome you to the session.

DATE:  Tuesday 22nd March

TIME:  1.15pm – 2.15pm

LOCATION:  Zoom

Here is the Zoom link for the session:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85833264692?pwd=MDBCejJMdFFZUWVJS3NmS05Hcmxqdz09

Meeting ID: 858 3326 4692

Passcode: 796713

Please do not hesitate to contact me at the school if you have any problems accessing the meeting.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Mrs Schendel

01290 551436

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

All pupils in the school have once again been issued with a maths task to be completed at home.

Last term we were delighted with the response to these activities and loved to see that lots of family members got involved in completing them together.  I will be reporting back to National Numeracy this week and I’m so excited to show off all the amazing work and positive comments from the scrapbooks.

The activities are designed to be fun and relate to real life.  Here are some comments we received:

“Had good fun doing this one.”

“We had lots of fun running around the house looking for all the 3D shapes, there is a lot. It’s a long time since I really looked at objects and tried to work out the 3D and 2D shapes.”

“This is an interesting example as it allows (my child) to start to understand the application of numbers in a real world context.”

“I did a good job.”

“We had fun using puppies to do maths.”  (No animals were harmed in the process lol!)

If you haven’t tried one of the activities yet, please give one a go and let us know in the comments box on the sheet how you got on.  Please contact me or your child’s teacher if you have any questions.  Also keep an eye on your child’s class blog for some examples which might help to give you some ideas.

Here are some examples of the super work that was done last term.

Good luck and have fun!

Mrs Schendel

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

I have spent the last couple of days looking through all the children’s maths scrapbooks that have been completed at home and I wanted to say a great big well done to all the children and their families who have put so much effort into completing the tasks.  Our families have shown great imagination and creativity and I have loved seeing mums, dads, grandparents, siblings and aunties all getting involved.

It has been great to read the comments and hear that, above all, you have been having lots of fun.  The comments have also shown that families have enjoyed relating maths to real life.

We look forward to continuing to work with National Numeracy in the new year and hopefully we will have some more ‘maths blethers’ where we can support each other in building confidence and positive mindsets in completing maths activities.

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

Mrs Schendel

It was lovely to see so many of our P1 parents for a ‘maths blether’ last week – despite the pouring rain!

Mrs Schendel and Mrs McKenna would love a blether with parents/carers of P2 parents about all things maths and will be in the main playground on Tuesday 9th November at 2.45pm.

Please come along and ask any questions you may have in supporting your child with their maths homework or to ask about the maths work taking place in the P2 classroom.

We still need to follow Covid-19 regulations so please remember to wear a face covering, unless exempt, and maintain social distancing.

If you are unable to attend but have any maths related questions you would like to ask please e-mail me at:

roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you then and hopefully the weather will be kind.