On Tuesday we were so excited to sing and dance along to Nick Morgan’s ‘No Scotland, No Party’ and a few of his other songs. We were very loud and waved our flags proudly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This week we have begun learning about People Who Help Us with a particular focus on our community. We discussed the Emergency Services and how they help us and then considered who we see regularly in our community who help us. This included shopkeepers, librarians, vets, bin men and the lollipop lady who helps us cross the road each morning as we come into school.

We all wrote a postcard to a person in the community thanking them for their help. We looked at the layout of a postcard and had a go at including the address and a short message.

 

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We had an excellent, yet tiring, Sports Week and were very lucky to participate in lots of different activities.

On Monday we took part in a Dance class taken by Miss Lamb. We learned a short routine and had to think a  lot about direction and movement.

On Tuesday we took part in a tennis session led by a coach from Whitecraigs Tennis Club. We played some games, got used to the feel of the tennis ball by throwing and catching it and got to use the tennis racquet to try and balance and then bounce the ball.

The main event was Sports Day and we didn’t let the rain put us off.

We were raring to go…

   

   

First up was football where we had to kick the ball and try to score a goal.

    

Probably the most favourite station, The Space Hoppers. There was plenty of smiles and lots of wet bottoms!

After that, we did the baton relay and had to run with the baton and then pass it to the next person in the team.

The final station was the bean bag toss where we had to try and get the bean bags into the hoops.

Well done to the winners of our flat race who ran an excellent race however everyone was a super star on the day and the most important thing was having fun 🙂

Over the past week we completed our presentations about the past. The items we brought in were so interesting and it was lovely to explore different items from the past or hear why an item is important to somebody’s past. There was lots of discussion and opportunities to compare items from today to the items brought in from the past.

Whilst presenting, we were encouraged to look at our audience and speak clearly with a loud voice. As an audience, we had to listen and show the person presenting respect.

Many of us showed confidence and could share lots of interesting facts about their item!

    

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 

We had such a wonderful trip to Summerlee Museum on Monday. The bus is always the most exciting part but once we arrived at Summerlee Museum there was no stopping us and we made our way to the Miner’s Cottages.

We enjoyed looking at and comparing living conditions from the 1880s right through to the 1980s.

The outdoor toilet gave us all a bit of a giggle.

It was then off to the play park where the climbing frame proved to be the most popular item. Some us loved to climb super high and there was lots of smiles on the swings!

After that we stopped for some lunch and Mrs Agnew was finally able to capture some pictures of us all now that we were still!

Once we were fed it was time to explore the museum. There was so much to see and do!

Our final part of the day was the workshop titled ‘When Gran was a Girl’. This links to our current learning about The Past.

We were able to explore some items and had to guess what they were and how they were used.

We then got to try some outfits that would have been worn in the past.

We learned how people would shop for their groceries in the past and also how they would do their washing. We then got to have a go at both…

The last part of the workshop was playing with some old toys from the past. These proved to be lots of fun!

There were some very tired children on the bus on the way home but from listening to some conversations it was definitely the ‘best day ever’!

A favourite video from the day, what a great example of teamwork!

On Monday we were very lucky to receive a visit from the Fire Service.

Soon we will be learning about ‘People Who Help Us’ so this was an excellent way to get us thinking about that!

We started off by listening to one of the fire fighters tell us about fire safety. We were also given the opportunity to ask lots of questions.

We then got to try on some of the fire fighters uniform and found it very funny! The helmet was very heavy!

The most exciting part of all…we got to go out to the fire engine and sit inside it and spray the hose! The fire fighters also showed us some of the equipment they use in emergencies!

 

This week we began an artist study about the artist Wassily Kandinsky. We learned that he was the first abstract artist and we discussed what this means.

We also learned that when Kandinsky heard music and sounds he saw colours and shapes and this is what gave him the ideas for his art.

We listened to a piece of music, just like Kandinsky, and imagined various colours, shapes and lines.

We then had a go at producing what we had imagined using black pen and coloured pencils. It was amazing to see the unique drawings produced by everyone.

We then explored one of Kandinsky’s pieces called ‘Squares with Concentric Circles’. We discussed the shapes and colours he used and then had a go at painting our square with circles. We will put all of our squares together next week to create a giant piece of unique art!

We have been very lucky to enjoy some lovely, sunny weather over the past couple of weeks. In class we have been discussing different types of weather and lots of us were keen to discuss thunder and lightning and tornadoes.

We kept a weather diary for a week and after reflecting on this, we wrote about our favourite type of weather. Thankfully no thunder and lightning or tornadoes were recorded in our diaries!

We have also been learning about electricity. We discussed what electricity is and how electricity works. We were able to identify items which use electricity and items which don’t by sorting them into two categories.

Some of us were able to describe different types of electricity and how various items are charged. We then discussed how to keep safe around electricity.

As part of our Technologies learning we used the Chromebooks to practise our mouse control skills. We had to use the mouse pad to move the dragon to his food. This meant clicking on the mouse pad and dragging our finger across at the same time. We found this quite tricky and will have another go in the next couple of weeks!

This term we are learning about living things. On Wednesday we discussed what we mean by a living thing and we compared these to non-living things.

We learned what livings things need to survive and how that can look different depending if the living thing is a human, animal or plant.

We then took our learning outdoors and went on a scavenger hunt searching for living and non-living things. To demonstrate our understanding we then had to identify the living things on our answer sheet.

    

Mrs Denholm has also been transforming our P1 garden with her Garden Club. She asked if P1A could move some of the bark that was delivered and there were many hard working volunteers.

There was also time for a little fun in the garden ☺️

This week we completed our castles and as you can see from our faces we are very proud of them indeed!

We’ve all worked very well within our groups and communicated well with each other. We’ve had to think about compromise and how to resolve something if we don’t all agree.

We put the finishing touches to our castles with some paint which took a lot longer than some of us thought!

 

Last week we celebrated Eid as a whole school. In class we have been learning about Eid with Mrs Dickie and the importance of Ramadan and Eid-al-Fitr to the Muslim religion.

In class, we had a go at some Arabic writing, created some Mehndi patterns and looked at the features of Mosques then coloured some pictures. One of us could even say some of the Arabic alphabet and enjoyed sharing it with others ☺️

   

This week we brought our learning about Food and Health to an end by making a fruit salad. We firstly discussed hygiene when preparing food and then discussed how to stay safe, particularly with a knife. We explored various ways we can cut food using the bridge and claw methods.

We each prepared our own fruit by chopping it and putting it into a cup then added some fruit juice.