All posts by S Connell

Happy Pirate Day 🏴‍☠️

September 19, 2024Uncategorizedliteracy, numeracy, Talk like a pirate dayS Connell

Happy Talk like a Pirate Day! Arrrr… 🏴‍☠️
Look at our lovely crew of shipmates.
Here’s this week’s highlights!

Place value perfection! This week everyone completed their place value assessments and did absolutely amazing, showing Mrs Connell what they’d learned. A very proud teacher indeed.

We learned about synonyms and used a thesaurus to find words. Boiling, warm, burning and roasting are so much better than hot. Prehistoric and ancient are so much better than old.

On Tuesday, we learned about discrimination. Mrs Connell asked us to put post its on to different people. They said things like ‘I want to go university’ but we found it hard when we didn’t know the people. We learned that’s what discrimination is.

Have a lovely long weekend and see you all Tuesday.

Stuart and Kerrs post

September 13, 2024Uncategorizedart, literacy, numeracy, P6/7, place value, watercolourS Connell

This week we have been learning how to use adverbs nouns adjectives and verbs.

In maths we have learned place value and how to times by tens hundreds and thousands.

In art we have learned to scale up flowers in paintings.

In PE we played dodgeball.

Have a great weekend.

Jackson and Kerr’s post

September 6, 2024Literacy, Numeracyart, literacy, numeracy, place value, prediction, ReadingS Connell

Everyone learned how to write numbers in words.

We have started a new book called Kensuke’s Kingdom as class Novel.

We predicted how we thought what would happen in the book and played unlikely or likely with the post it’s that we made. We decided how likely each prediction was to happen.

We painted watercolour flowers with Miss Walker.

Choosing a new book 📖

September 3, 2024Literacyliteracy, P6/7, ReadingS Connell

Today, Primary 6/7 picked their favourite Celebration! We all had our own reasons for choosing our favourite and Mrs Connell even got her hands on a Malteaser. After, we had to choose a book we wanted to read and give a reason for our answer. Here’s our choices…

Last week…

June 28, 2024UncategorizedS Connell

It’s been a fun packed week with fire brigade visits and swimming, sports and water fights, ice cream and prizegiving.
All that’s left to say is have a fabulous summer, good luck to those moving on from here in their next adventure in life and we look forward to welcoming you back in August.

Angles

June 19, 2024Numeracyangles, maths, outdoors, p45S Connell

This week we have been learning about different types of angles. We went out to the playground to find different examples. We finished off with a game of angle tig.

Knights and Castles 🏰

June 7, 2024Historycastles, dean castle, History, knightsS Connell

We enjoyed a visit to Dean Castle Country Park this week to learn about knights and castles. Our tour of the castle took us from the keep to the dungeon, the battlements to the courtyard (shh… we weren’t up on the roof.)

After our tour, we took part in some expressive art activities. We created our own medieval creatures and shields for each class. The shields featured something about each person in the group. Then we took part in some drama activities, discovering what it would be like to be a knight.

Shape

May 23, 2024Numeracymaths. shape, p45, paint, symmetryS Connell

Today we created our own symmetrical patterns using paint. Then we used an app online to draw one half and watch as the computer drew the other half.

Sorn Castle Visit 🏰

May 15, 2024Outdoor Educationcastle, outdoor learning, Sorn, Sorn castle, Trip, whole schoolS Connell

Today we visited the amazingly beautiful Sorn Castle. We enjoyed exploring some of the rooms including the drawing room, the bedroom of the late owner and the dining room.
Mrs Connell’s favourite room was where they hold the weddings. She was keen to get a shot of the huge pipe organ.
We had a look around the grounds where we got to see how the electricity is generated by hydropower.

Dumfries House

May 3, 2024Outdoor EducationDumfries house, farming, outdoor education, p45, TripS Connell

Yesterday we visited Dumfries House Farm. We were extremely lucky to get to visit lots of stations and learn about the different aspects of farming. We particularly enjoyed getting to see the horses and hold the chicks… they were very cute, even after they pooped on the table.