Today some of our Primary 7 children have participated in Children and Young People’s Climate Conference.  This focussed on Energy, Transport, Waste and Natural Environment.

KRIS BOYD FOOTBALL CENTRE IS BACK !

Ayrshire College
Outdoor – Astro

Term 1 Start Date: Monday 25th October 2021
Finish Date for Term 1: Monday 6th December 2021

Day: Monday’s
Time: 4pm – 5pm
Age Group: Primary 1 – Primary 7
BOYS ONLY !
Cost: FREE

To book please use link below:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/KRISBOYD/

Any queries contact: cherryl.fulton@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

ROSE REILLY FOOTBALL CENTRE IS BACK !!

Ayrshire College
Outdoor – Astro

Term 1 Start Date: Wednesday 20th October 2021
Finish Date for Term 1: Wednesday 8th December 2021

Day: Wednesday’s
Time: 4pm – 5pm
Age Group: Primary 1 – Primary 7
GIRLS ONLY !
Cost: FREE

Book using the link below:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/REILLY/

Any queries please contact: cherryl.fulton@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

We are delighted to announce that we made £81 from our recent “Dress Down Day”. This will go towards our school funds.

Thank you to everyone who made a donation.

On Friday 29^th October children are invited to come to school dressed in their Halloween costumes.

There will be fun Halloween activities throughout the day in their classes.

P6/7 Football Club

(open to boys & girls)

St Joseph’s Academy, Grassyards Rd, Kilmarnock KA3 7SL

Outdoor on an Astro Pitch – Please dress appropriately

(parents will be notified if sessions are cancelled via the email address provided, please ensure its correct)

Wednesday 20th October – Wednesday 24th November (6 week block)

P6 – P7

4pm – 5pm

FREE

Maximum 30 – Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. PLEASE ONLY REGISTER IF YOU INTEND TO COME ALONG AS SPACES ARE LIMITED

Register: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/P6-7FootballClub/

We hope all of our children and families have a fantastic October holiday.  Our holidays begin on Friday at 3pm.  School returns on Tuesday 19th October at 9am.

A reminder that Friday 8th October is an own clothes day.  We are asking for a £1 donation to be made for school funds. This is available on ParentPay.

Earth house had an amazing House Prize today. The children enjoyed their movie morning and cooking with Stephanie this afternoon. We are looking forward to some delicious cookies tomorrow.

Thank you to Stephanie and our amazing kitchen staff for organising this today.

A reminder that tomorrow’s school lunch will be a Munchie Box. This will contain a slice of pizza, 1/2 burger in a bun, chicken nugget and chips. Dessert is Strawberry tart or popcorn!

As you know our winning House, Earth will be rewarded tomorrow with a “Movie Morning” including popcorn, diluting juice and fun size chocolate bars. The film the children will be watching will have a “U” (universal) rating.

If your child is in the winning house and you would rather they did not have any of the above, please let the school office know as soon as possible.

We made £16.80 from our recent Rag Bag collection. Thank you to everyone who donated.

There will be a slight change to the lunch menu for tomorrow.

Instead of chicken goujons there will be fish and chips.

We are delighted to announce that winning house for this term is:

The Winning House will have a fabulous day on Thursday.  Their prize includes a movie morning with snack provided and a cooking masterclass with our talented kitchen staff.

We have exciting news.

Over the October holidays Active Schools are working in partnership with Kilmarnock Football club running a football camp for P1 to P7 pupils at Ayrshire College:

OCTOBER FOOTBALL CAMP 2021

Venue: Ayrshire College, Hill Street, Kilmarnock, KA1 3HY
Outdoor – Astro

Partnership Football Programme

Dates: Tuesday 12th October – Friday 15th October 2021
Age: P1 – P7 
Sessions: 10am – 12.00pm 
Cost: FREE – packed lunch provided

Males and Females welcome!

Delivered by KCST & Active Schools Coaches

Please book using the link below:

https://kcstdevelopmentacademy.corsizio.com/c/6155bd60f21e28465ec585ed/register

We have limited spaces due to Covid19 Restrictions.
Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. 
The survey will close when
the maximum number of participants is reached. 

Your name will then be placed on a waiting list.

Please only book a space if you intend to turn up. 

Failure to turn up takes places away from others who want to come along.
Children will be grouped in bubbles to adhere to COVID Guidelines.

This week Primary 6 have taken part in lots of activities to celebrate all things maths. P6 were entered into the national Sumdog challenge for Maths Week Scotland.

We started out the week by discussing when and where we use Maths outside of the classroom. The pupils came up with great ideas of where they use maths in their everyday lives.

Then P6 started their new angles topic and enjoyed learning about, and drawing, different types of angles outdoors.

Finally, P6 had a mini-lesson on co-ordinates and played co-ordinates football as a class.

Primary 6 enjoyed taking part in all the different activities 🙂

Miss McKenna

On Friday 8th October pupils and staff can choose to wear their own clothes rather than school uniform.  As always no football clothing please.

Parents/carers are asked to donate £1 via ParentPay for this (available from Monday 4th October).  This is to raise money for our school funds.

This week is the final week of P7 Rugby and the pupils will be doing tackling etc. out on the grass with the coach.  Can you please ensure that they bring suitable outdoor P.E clothing for this purpose.

Thank you.

Slice of pizza

1/2 Burger in a bun

Chicken nugget 

Chips

Strawberry tarts or popcorn

This week is the final week of P6 Rugby and the pupils will be doing tackling etc. out on the grass with the coach.  Can you please ensure that they bring suitable outdoor P.E clothing for this purpose.

Thank you.

As we are moving into Autumn and the weather is changing, can we please ask that children  bring appropriate outdoor jackets etc. with them for playing outside. Thank you.

Flu Immunisations

Pupils who have returned their NHS forms confirming permission to receive their flu immunisation,  will be immunised in school on Monday 22nd November. 

Congratulations to our Primary 5 children who were confirmed last night.
May God always be by your side.

Please keep our Primary 5 children in your prayers as the prepare to be Confirmed this evening.

Introducing our House Captains and Vice Captains for this year !

Recently we revamped our House Logos.

We asked the children to draw our new logos of Fire, Earth, Water and Air and then picked our favourites from there . 

Here are our winners with their framed drawings above:

Welcome back everyone and welcome to the P7 blog! I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday/staycation.  I am delighted to welcome back the pupils of P7 who have settled well into the school routine and are enjoying being the top of the school!

Here’s an overview of our learning that will take place in our first term (Aug-Oct).

Literacy

This term we will be focussing on a novel study, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo.  As well as reading the book together, the class will participate in activities that relate to other areas of the curriculum including Art, Social Studies and Technology.  We will also continue to develop our comprehension skills through our use of all ALP reading strategies with a particular focus on summarising and identifying the main idea

For writing, we are concentrating on descriptive writing:  Giving detailed descriptions using similes, alliteration, the senses and metaphors to interest the reader.

Spelling groups will continue to use Active Spelling strategies and follow on from previous work.

Numeracy

All groups this term have begun by looking at place value.  We will soon be moving into addition and subtraction.  The class will continue to take part in daily mental activities such as number talks where they aim to use a variety of mental strategies to achieve the solution.  The class are also working on skills beyond number with Mrs Fergusson and are currently developing their knowledge of angles.

Health and Wellbeing

This year we will continue to use the PATHS programme to shape our HWB learning. P7 have already started ‘pupil of the day’ and participated in discussions around feelings and how we manage our emotions.  We will continue to revise the steps of the Problem Solving guide and aim to apply it in situations independently.  We are also investigating the different diets people have due to allergies, intolerances and religious reasons.

For PE, we have participated in team games concentrating on how important communication and teamwork is in order to be successful.  We have also begun our block of rugby which is delivered by Kilmarnock Rugby Club.  P7 have also started to develop their badminton skills and are beginning to learn to rules and take part in small competitive games.

IDL

Our topic this term is World War 2.  This ties in closely with our novel study.  We will investigate how the war began, key events in the war (D Day and The Blitz) and how people helped the war effort.  We will be using other curricular areas, such as literacy and technology, to help us understand and research this topic.  P7 have also been watching news clips and information bulletins from the 1940s to get into the mind set of Brits during the war.

I look forward to working with P7 in the coming year and hope to have lots of enjoyable experiences that will make learning fun and memorable.

Mr Bertoncini

A huge welcome to the Primary 1/2 blog! The new Primary 1’s have all settled brilliantly into their new school surroundings and have already established routines and friendships within their new class!!

It was wonderful to see the “new” Primary 2’s again and I cannot believe how much they have all grown! They too have settled into their new classroom and are acting as wonderful role models for their new P1 class mates!!

We have had a lovely start to the term getting to know one another and our new class routines but we are most definitely poised and ready to LEARN!!!

Primary 2 – Term 1

Literacy

Phonics

In literacy we are word building using the letter sounds that we were taught last year as well as the new ones being introduced.  This term we will be introduced to the first joint phonemes (2 letter sounds, for example sh, ch, th).

Reading

We have been reading our class text of “Jack and the Flum Flum Tree” and have already completed prediction and visualisation tasks associated with the book.

We will continue to work on our comprehension and decoding skills within our reading groups as we re-start our Bug Club texts.

Writing

This term our writing will focus on describing items and people. We will be including size, colour, shape, number and texture in our descriptions, while remembering to use our writing targets of capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

We will be adding to our bank of common words (look and say words) and we will be working really hard to ensure we can spell these words correctly. This will help us greatly in our independent writing, as will our increasing knowledge of word building with our letter sounds.

Numeracy

This term will consist of deepening all of the number processes we have learned so far! We will be counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s as well as reinforcing our subtraction skills. We will then be looking at how our addition and subtraction calculations are linked, creating “fact families”.

The sequencing of our numbers will be a focus as always as we count forwards and backwards, thinking of the numbers before, after and between.

Health & Wellbeing

Primary 2 have been delighted to see the return of their friends – the PATHS puppets! Twiggle and his chums have already made their appearance, reinforcing that everyone has feelings and that’s OK!! We will be exploring each emotion in detail and relating these to our personal experiences.

We will also be discussing friendship through our PATHS programme as well as during our class circle times, highlighting the qualities of a “good friend”.

In PE we will initially develop our spatial awareness through games before moving onto large ball skills.

RE

This term we remind ourselves of God’s love for us all. We thank God for all those we love and for those who take care of us.  We also thank God for our talents and for the special things that make each and every one of us so unique.

IDL

We will be using “Jack and the Flum Flum Tree” as a basis for our interdisciplinary learning.  Through the text we will be completing prediction, visualisation and sequencing tasks as well as identifying rhyming words.  Our topic will also be providing the stimulus for our art work this term.

Primary 1 – Term 1

Literacy

During literacy times, P1 have been developing their phonological awareness (the ability to hear sounds in words). We are doing this by focusing on the rhythm and rhyme of language through clapping syllables and working on our nursery rhymes.

We are also working on our fine motor control to get ready for writing! Name writing is a focus too so we can always sign off on our masterpieces!

Listening and talking is a huge part of our day. We are learning to follow our “carpet rules” to ensure we do our best listening while the teacher or our peers are talking. We are also taking turns at communicating our thoughts and feelings.

Numeracy

We know numbers are all around us and have had a chance to talk about numbers which are “special” to us, for example, our age, door number etc.

Number times will consist of lots and lots of counting! We will be developing our “number sense” by counting out and comparing quantities and becoming familiar with the language of mathematics.

We will be reciting our number sequences forwards and backwards, understanding that each number we say represents a quantity.

As our pencil control improves we will be learning how to form our digits correctly.

Pattern and shape will also be a focus this term.  We will link this to outdoor learning by looking for natural patterns and shape in the environment as well as artificial ones indoors.

Health & Well-being (HWB)

Our PATHS programme will feature heavily during our HWB time. The children have already met our PATHS puppets, Twiggle and friends! Our puppet friends will be helping us to explore our feelings, looking at each emotion in detail. They will also help us to consider friendships and the qualities we look for in a “good friend”.

In PE we will initially develop our spatial awareness through games before moving onto large ball skills.

RE

The children have been introduced to our RE times and have learned about God’s love for us all. We will continue to explore this unconditional love by considering the gifts God has given us, including people who care for us and the qualities which make each and every one of us so special and unique.

IDL

We will be using “Jack and the Flum Flum Tree” as a basis for our interdisciplinary learning.  Through the text we will be completing prediction, visualisation and sequencing tasks as well as identifying rhyming words.  Our topic will also be providing the stimulus for our art work this term.

Mrs Duff