We have had a very busy end to Primary 1 with lots of exciting activities happening.

On Monday we spent our PE time with our P6 buddies. The P6s organised some games for us and the game of ‘rock, paper, scissors, shoot’ proved very popular. We loved spending time with our buddies!

Whilst we had completed our learning about our community we received an invitation to write postcards to a local care home and we  agreed this was a nice way to give something back to our community. We discussed what we were looking forward to doing over the summer holidays and wrote this on the postcard. We also drew a colourful picture which we are sure the residents of the care home will love.

This term we have been learning about the artist Wassily Kandinsky. We have explored his work and last week we had a go at creating our own piece of work based on his painting  ‘Squares and Concentric Circles’

Finally, thank you to all of our parents and carers for your support this year. I hope you all have a lovely summer holiday ☺️

 

We have now delivered all of our thank you letters to people who help our community.

Last weekend, the librarians received letters from us to say thank you for helping us find the book we wanted, keeping the books on offer in the library fun and interesting and for inviting us to the library last year for Book Week Scotland.

We visited the Lollipop Lady to say thank you for keeping us safe and helping us cross the road.

On Monday, the Campus Police Officer based at Eastwood High School came to visit to receive his thank you letters. He was able to stay so we could ask some questions and we were particularly interested in his uniform and the various items attached to his belt.

   

    

Mr Weir has very kindly delivered the letters to the bin men to say thank you for keeping our school and streets clean and for helping to recycle the rubbish they collect.

Over the last week we have had a junk modelling area within the class. This was initially linked to our learning about space however the children have demonstrated their creativity a variety of models including musical instruments.

Also linked to our learning about space was our writing this week. We read part of the story ‘The First Hippo on the Moon’. We then had to write what happened next have Sheila blasted into space in the rocket she made with the other animals. We haven’t had a chance to read the rest part of the story so will find out next week what happened next to Sheila!

We all had an amazing time taking part in Sports Day on Thursday. We had so much fun completing all of the stations and there were plenty of smiles all round despite the rain!

Well done to the three boys and three girls who took a place in the race but I’m sure you will all agree that everyone ran really well and it was lovely to see such good sportsmanship amongst the children!

Well done everyone and thank you to all of our parents and carers for cheering us on ☺️

 

 

On Tuesday we enjoyed a very wet walk to the post office and the Co-Op on Harvie Avenue. We have been learning about our community and thinking about the people who help us, this included shopkeepers and people who deliver and help us send letters and parcels. We delivered our thank you letters to both places and even got to ask some questions to the staff working in the Co-Op.

Thank you to our parent helpers for joining us on the walk and also to the staff at both the post office and the Co-Op for being so accommodating.

We still have some more thank you letters to deliver to the library (thank you to one of our parents for doing this), the lollipop lady, a police officer and the bin men which we will hand over next week in school ☺️