Texa have been very busy out and about with Lorraine, Margaret and Carol. The children have been enjoying lots of learning experiences both in the playroom and around the grounds and facilities in the school.
Miss McNeill has used the book ‘Not a Box’ to support children’s developing knowledge across the curriculum.
Based at the creative arts area over the past few weeks Miss McNeill has incorporated curricular areas literacy, numeracy, health & well being and expressive arts into children’s learning……
Literacy: Extending book knowledge through discussing the title, author, illustrator of the book ‘It’s Not a Box’ which was used to develop the context for learning. Encouraging children to develop an interest in print, texts and pictures. Recognising words, understanding print is meaningful and can convey as message. Understanding positional and comparative language, giving a personal response.
Numeracy: Describing and ordering in simple mathematical language ‘first, next, last’, touch counting items required, following and giving instructions using: in front, behind, beside, under, in, out, on top of, next to. Describing position, identifying and naming 3D shapes and objects. Describing length using long/longer, short/shorter and height using tall/taller and small/smaller. Solving problems and evaluating solutions.
Health and Wellbeing: Expressing thoughts and abilities, communicating with growing confidence within a group of friends. Recognising mistakes can provide opportunities for learning and working as a team – co-operating with others. Demonstrating how to tackle a ‘problem’. Taking responsibility.
Expressive Arts: Gaining confidence to explore and experiment with materials. Using tools and equipment to develop control of fine movement of fingers and hands. Selecting own materials. Use 3 dimensional form to convey thoughts and feeling and the experience of having a piece of work being ‘exhibited’.
And you thought it was just a box………………..
Can you think of any other skills your child may have developed through recycling junk!?
Children in our Cara playroom have been developing their skills across various areas of Curriculum for Excellence through the introduction of ’People Who Help Us’.
Relating to the Social Studies area of Curriculum fro Excellence; children are beginning to explore and investigate the roles people, shops and services play in the community with Miss March who has recently taken some groups of children to our local Waitrose. Children investigated money and the vital and important role of shop staff. Children also developed skills in numeracy and literacy as they wrote out their own shopping list and proceeded to count out and weigh items in store.
Miss Gaffney is supporting children as they begin to develop aspects of Health and Wellbeing. Children are sharing their thoughts and ideas in relation to describing the roles and responsibilities of people in the wider community, such as the doctor, police and lollipop services.
We will observe and see how the learning develops in response to children’s thoughts over the coming weeks.
To further support children’s learning – it would be wonderful to have a variety of parent’s share their skills and talk about their job with the children. Perhaps you are a florist? You could share your creative skills with the children and tell them about what floristry involves. Perhaps you are a dentist, a police officer or a lorry driver…..what ever your skill….the children will be very interested to hear from you!
If you can give up half an hour of your time, it would be very much appreciated! Speak to Miss Gaffney if you are interested in coming along to the Family Centre to share your knowledge!
Our BA Childhood Studies student has been working in room CARA and developing children’s creative skills.
Through observations and interactions with the children, it became clear that the children were very interested in pirates. To increase the children’s engagement and enjoyment, pirate themed learning experiences were planned to help develop their creative skills.
The learning activities covered different curricula areas such as literacy, numeracy and expressive arts.
Have a look at the different activities the children carried out within nursery from creating treasure maps to building pirate ships, exploring pirate treasure in the sandpit and “walk the plank” water play.
As you know, we reluctantly had to postpone our Curriculum Evening on the 3rd October.
I am delighted to inform you that we have now reorganised this event to take place on Thursday 24th October from 6.30 – 8.30pm.
We have received very positive feedback following previous Curriculum Evenings and hope you will manage to come along on the night.
Invites are on their way!
Please note: this is a parent evening and unfortunately we are unable to accommodate children at this event.
A Curriculum Evening had been planned for Thursday 3rd October. Unfortunatley this event has had to be postponed.
We will inform you of the new date as soon as possible.
Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. We hope you accept our apologies.
