As part of our topic on the human body, primary 6 have been learning all about the digestive system. Today we had fun experimenting with the journey that our food goes on when it enters our body. As you can see from the photographs the children really enjoyed themselves.
Each group used IPads to record their experience and they will use this evidence to create Sway presentations explaining what they have learned today.
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Our New Vision & Values
Below are the responses to our Vision & Values questionnaires.
We had responses from: 38 parents/carers , 3 partners, 189 pupils
and 10 staff
The Pupil Council have looked at the feedback and agreed that the 4 most important values for the children and pupils of Dunlop Primary School & ECC are for us to be:
Happy Respectful Kind Honest
Climb that Hill
Thank you to everyone who took part in our consultation.
Dazzling Around Dunlop
More amazing Dunlop Dazzlers!
Harvest Tea
A huge well done to all of the children of Primary 6 who hosted a fabulous Harvest Tea! The children were great hosts, serving tea, coffee and a huge selection of home-baking.
This is a great inter-generational project giving the children the opportunity to interact with the senior citizens of Dunlop and Lugton. They all thoroughly enjoyed their morning, especially when sampling the delicious cakes that had been provided by our generous families.
All of the classes performed a song from the ECC to Primary 7 (Primary 5 unfortunately were held up on the way back from swimming and were greatly missed).
Below is a link to Primary 6 singing Highland Cathedral, once agian their singing brought a tear to my eye, I hope you enjoy!
A very proud Miss White
Fabulous French
Primary 6 have been working incredibly hard to improve their French vocabulary and conversation. Over the last couple of weeks we have been practising how to say what we are called, how old we are, when our birthdays are and where we live.
We decided to show off our digital skills also by using the Ipads to create these Chatterpix videos. All of our videos have been added to our E-portfolios for our parents to have a look at but we thought we would share a couple with you.
We hope you enjoy!
P2b Shape work
I thought I would share with you some of the work that P2b has been doing in maths. We have been working really hard on our 2D and 3D shapes and had a great time making 2D and 3D models with the shapes we have been learning about.
P4 Harvest Tea Performance
I thought you might like to hear the song “Good Things” which the children performed for the senior citizens today. They sang and danced beautifully and made everyone smile especially me!
Septembers Dazzlers
Please take a moment to look at our amazing Dazzlers, we really do have very talented children who like to keep themselves busy and achieving away from school!
October’s Dazzlers
Congratulations to last week’s Dazzlers. They have achieved a variety of awards for dancing, swimming, cycling, show jumping, running, golf, Tae Kwon Do and, unusually, finding rats and competing in a World Stone Skimming Competition! WOW!
P2b Termly Targets
Literacy
This term the children in P2b will be continuing to use the Active Literacy programme for spelling. This includes phonemes and tricky words.
The children will continue to receive a new reading book each week that is read in school twice a week and can be read at home. Every week the children will complete a variety of comprehension tasks that relate to their book.
P2b will also be exploring the use of capital letters and full stops in all writing tasks. We will also be looking at nouns, verbs, adjectives and connectives, using these in our writing when we can.
We will be looking at a variety of writing genres across term 1. These will include poetry, instructional writing, characterisation, setting, imaginative and persuasive. We will also be looking at “Have a go writing” which allows the children to explore their imagination and spelling without much teacher input.
Numeracy
This term we will be exploring number talks. This will involve using rekenreks, number lines and subitising.
In numeracy we are looking at numbers to 100, place value and exploring mental strategies to add within 20. We are also looking at 2D and 3D shapes and time. Within place value, we will explore tens and units and partitioning numbers. We will also be focusing on number bonds to increase the children’s speed and accuracy.
Health and Wellbeing
For P.E P2b will be exploring large ball skills, throwing, catching and passing. This will lead to playing mini team games. We are also looking at keep fit and how important it is for us to keep our bodies fit and healthy. Within our keep fit classes, we will be looking at movement skills.
Later in the term the children will enjoy some Christmas dancing in preparation for their party.
P2b will also be exploring friends and friendships and they key attributes that make a good friend. This will lead on to bullying and how the abilities and needs of the children and other young people are all different and that’s what makes them unique. The children will also discuss appropriate targets for themselves and how to encourage each other to do their best.
Through our I.D.L ‘Teeth and Eating’ the children will conduct science experiments and identify how to keep our teeth healthy by brushing them and by providing our bodies with healthy food.
We will also be exploring the topic “people who help us and others ” which will allow the children to learn about different jobs that people have who help us and others. This will also allow the children to interact with the community.
P2b will also learn about the different services that will keep them safe and healthy.
