Glow Blogs – East Renfrewshire

Currently in the writing area, our children have been exploring different ways to develop their fine motor skills. Children need good fine motor control to hold and use a pencil or crayon correctly. Skills such as drawing pictures and eventually writing letters all rely on fine motor strength and coordination. Take a look at some of the fine motor activities we’ve been enjoying this week. Tweezers and fidget boards The children used tweezers to pick up colourful pom-poms and carefully place them into the tiny holes on our fidget boards. While it may look like a simple, this activity is

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Please see below for all extracurricular activities available to pupils during this term.

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In Primary 1C, we have explored our vision, values, and powers at Crookfur, which underpin all that we do at school. Using this helped us to create our Class Charter and consider what we would like our Class Charter to look like. A class charter is a collaborative agreement between the class and their teacher, outlining a set of shared values, rights and responsibilities to create a positive, happy and respectful learning environment. We decided we would like to create an Elmer-themed charter, which is currently under construction as we speak! We also discussed how our school vision, values and

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Primary 1C have been busy settling into school life and getting to know their new routines. The children have enjoyed exploring their classroom, learning where everything belongs, and discovering favourite areas to learn and play. It’s been wonderful to see them growing in confidence and beginning their learning journey at school.

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Welcome to Primary 3! We have started our class novel, Flat Stanley and lots of our learning so far has linked to this. We have started a kite design for our class charter after lots of discussion about our rights and responsibilities. We have discussed what we need to do so that we access our right to learn and also allow others to learn. Last year at the taster day we created ‘all about me’ stars 🌟 these are now proudly presented on the classroom door. In art, we have been learning about the visual element of line. We used

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We have been busy since the start of term in Primary 3. We are all settled into our new classroom and have been working on lots of different activities.  Until all our forms are back we can not show our faces so here are some examples of our work on our Literacy, Numeracy and Art wall. Also we have completed our Class charter and we voted on Stitch to be our picture.  

Continue reading Welcome to Primary 3!