We had a fantastic trip on Thursday and learned more about Space! Our guide Matt showed us the biggest telescope we have ever seen! 🔭  We also spent time in the museum afterwards and were lucky to see lots of interesting artefacts; including dinosaur footprints, Buddy the Lion, two original Rembrandt paintings, WW2 memorabilia, the list goes on! A fascinating place to be! 😍

The class have been learning about constellations this week. They have turned into little star gazers! We have looked for hidden stars around the classroom, created our own constellations, learned about the Plough, Orion, Cassiopeia and Canis Major constellations and painted our own version of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous ‘Starry Night’. Reach for the stars P1B! 💫✨💫✨

Through RME the children have been enjoying learning about the Hindu festival of colour.  During Holi celebrations people throw coloured powder over each other playfully. The class decided to create self portraits and then splashed various colours of paint over them. They look fantastic! The boys and girls then watched a Bollywood style dance which was performed for Holi and it was a roaring success! Lots of new moves learned and the class was buzzing with music and excitement! 🎆🎨🙌🏻

We are having lots of fun learning about positional language and directions outside. The rain and hail stones didn’t stop us! ☔️ We even used what we had learned to build a spaceship! 🛰

We are so excited to be performing Jack and the Beanstalk for our upcoming class assembly on the 4th May.  Our class has been a hive of activity in preparation! ⭐️

Wow! Primary 1 have been super busy this week! As part of a homework task, the children were invited to create their very own rocket to link in with their new topic. They are out of this world! 🚀🚀🚀🚀 We will be using these rockets for writing this week as the class will be asked to write about what they see out of their rocket as it flies up to space. They proudly showed them off to P7 as they paraded around the school. ☺ 👌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻

The class have chosen to learn about Space as their next topic and as  one of the children noticed the moon out during the day, we started to explore the eight phases of the moon.  🌙🌔🌚 By mixing flour and white paint, the boys and girls even created their very own moons.

Spring has sprung in primary 1B! After the recent heavy snow fall, the sun popped it’s head out and we could even see some blue sky. The children enjoyed painting daffodils whilst listening to relaxing piano music. They also planted flower seeds to give to their Mums for Mother’s Day. 🌱🌷☀️💕

It is growing season already and the class are excited to be growing their own potatoes. 🥔🥔🥔 The potatoes have to sit on a sunny windowsill for two weeks before being planted into potato sacks. This is known as ‘chitting’.  Here’s hoping for a good harvest this year. 🤞🏻😍🌱

The class have been enjoying learning about time. Through sequencing daily events, creating their own clocks, exploring digital and analogue clocks, playing games and activities, learning how to write the time, the children have had fun developing their knowledge and understanding about how to tell the time. A firm favourite was playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ in P.E! 🐺

 It’s dinner time!