And just like that, our Primary 1 journey has came to an end!!

I want to say a massive thank you to everyone in P1b and their parent and carers for being so wonderful and welcoming! I have had a fab last few weeks in Primary One. All the best in Primary 2 but I know you will all smash it!!!

Happy Summer.

Miss Faull xx

(Some pictures from our last few days)

It was a fun filled Tuesday at Rouken Glen Park.

We had a Scavenger hunt, a wonder around the pond, an ice-cream break and playing in the play park.

What a Blast Sports Day was! We loved every minute of it. Here are some action shots from our races and games!

We had a busy and active week during our Health week. We took part in a range of different sports and activities and it was so much fun!!

From Karate, to Dance all the way to Hockey! We got to try it all!

During the Colour Run week we explored different ways to make colour run.

We explored the dye on skittles running off with a little warm water.

Some of us ready for our colour run and all dressed in white 🙂

Being Queens and Kings for the day to celebrate the Queens Jubilee.

We had so much fun during the whole school picnic in the front!

As it is digital learning week this week, some of the Crookfur Digital leaders visited P1 to help with some coding. We used sequencing and loops to solve coding puzzles.

We practised our throwing, catching and travelling skills in athletics.

Lots of learning through play was observed in all of the areas this week including the ‘scissor game’ (actual scissors were not used in the playing of this game, witches’ potions in the sandpit and using number lines to help identify the missing number in calculations.

We took full advantage of the good weather and had to balance very carefully on the activity trail.

We built Pokemon houses, coloured polar animals in the sunshine and made up a show on the pallet stage that involved a lot of wiggly walking and pouting lips.

I can’t believe my last day is finally here. I’ve had the most amazing year with the children and I’m going to miss them all very, very much. I will pop in and see them all with the baby before the end of the year.

Thank you for all of your support over the year and for your very kind gift for the baby. I really hope to have another group of parents as supportive and welcoming as you all when I return.

Have a great Summer when it comes.

Love Mrs denholm x

Our sunflower seeds are growing well at the window and have been a great stimulus for discussion each morning as the children discuss the tallest shoots, how dry the soil looks and what the weather will be like for the day.

The magnetic tiles have been a big hit this week and some interesting designs and patterns have been explored as the children play. Here are some of the photos they have taken themselves.

We have been practising counting in 2s and completing missing number sequences that go up and down in 2s.,

We have been working on our spelling, handwriting and phonics  and Mrs Denholm has been very pleased with our progress.

We have been learning all about polar bears and seals, developing some new and interesting vocabulary along the way. It has helped tremendously with our writing as we have written a fact file for each animal we have been learning about.

We had lots of fun exploring the woodland area just beyond our garden, climbing trees, swinging on the tyre swing and discovering lots of different bugs.

We have also led our own learning as we play with our friends and develop new skills on a daily basis.

As always, have a lovely weekend! I very much look forward to next week, which will be my last week with the pupils, before I go off on maternity leave.

Mrs Denholm x

This week has been a short week in class but we have still had lots of fun learning through play. We have been carefully exploring the 100 square, ordering, identifying numbers and solving tricky challenges. We have also continued to use our knowledge of addition to create number bond stories.

Today we revised our knowledge of 2D shape names and used them alongside some inspiration from abstract artist ‘Kadinsky’ to create some pieces of art. The children were very creative with their designs and enjoyed overlapping shapes and adding colour to their pictures.

We learnt lots of interesting facts about arctic foxes and watched some cool video clips of them following a polar bear, looking for scraps of food. We discussed what they looked like and decided we could recreate this using our hand prints as the legs, body and tail for a picture.

We celebrated Eid this weekend learnt about some traditions that take place during these celebrations. Yusaf and Raaina shared some of the things they did at home to celebrate with their families before we sat down to make some paper lanterns.

Some of our pupils worked with Mrs Grieve to make some yummy tuna pasta. Unfortunately, the pasta was not ready in time but they were excited to take home the veg and tuna they had prepared.

We are continuing to observe and look after our plants and there has been great excitement when the sun shines through the window on their pots. The children will take them home in the next couple of weeks where they can continue to look after them.

Have a lovely weekend and I will see everyone on Monday morning.

Mrs Denholm x

This week in Literacy and English we have been revising the th sound so we are confident identifying it as we read and can use it to spell words.

We continued our work on rhyme. This time we tried to generate our own rhyming words, using the alphabet to help us with the starting sound.

We worked on recalling number facts for the number 8 using addition and found it useful to try and write these facts in a list, so we don’t miss any out.

We continued developing our understanding of addition and subtraction at the tuff spot through a game.

We learnt how to care for sunflower seeds and how even planted our very own seed. They are sitting at the window, ready to grow in the sun. Here are some things the children learnt:

Give them water and sun – Lucas

We need to protect them at the start. If it gets so rainy we have to bring them inside –  Kiera

Take care of the flowers and give them lots of water on sunny days -Aviraj

We focused on jumping in PE through various stations that were set up and quickly realised you could jump further if you had a little run first.

We continued our learning on snow creatures by exploring the Antarctic. We explored the various animals that survive there and what happens on the coldest continent on Earth. Here are some things the children learnt about penguins:

Their feathers are waterproof- Katrine

They can walk different ways and funny ways- Freya

They blend into the water. It’s camouflage -Sarah

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and look forward to welcoming all the boys and girls back on Tuesday.

Mrs Denholm x

This week we started our new topic, ‘snow creatures’, chosen by the children. After a class vote, the pupils shared questions they would like to find out the answers to and we will carry out our research over the next few weeks to develop our knowledge and understanding of life in the polar regions. This week, we looked at where the Arctic is located in the world and the types of animals that can be found there. The animals were a big hit in the water tray and some interesting noises were coming from this area over the course of the week.

We are focusing on athletics this term in PE and enjoyed some competitive relay races in the hall and MUGA this week.

We took on the role of characters in our reading books this week and took turns to ask these characters questions. It helped the children think about events that had happened in the story and develop their understanding of the characters further. We continued our work on numbers within 100, specifically looking at sequencing, counting forwards and backwards in twos and more and less.

We have continued to work on building designs in the block area, experimented with chalk, found some wiggly worms and moved them into the bug hotel and built a zoo for the safari animals, all whilst enjoying the sunshine and playing with friends. P1 is such a lovely place to be.

We enjoyed sharing our ideas about we can look after the planet and watched a short video about how paper can be recycled. We are all going to try and think carefully about how we can recycle and reuse in our everyday lives.

Well done to Morgan and Dhruv who received a certificate for their efforts in the Easter craft competition. Here is a picture of them with their certificates that were presented at today’s assembly.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Denholm x