Santa Dash for the Beatson

So folks this year the AMAZING staff at Wallacewell  Primary are doing a thing… In honour & support of our loved ones fighting cancer in our school community & beyond we are taking part in this years Santa Dash on Sunday the 10th of December to raise money for @Beatson_Charity 👋🏻🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏃🏻‍♂️👋🏻

We know money is tight just now but if you have any pennies to spare please support us by donating to the @Beatson_Charity Just Giving Page using the link below –

https://www.justgiving.com/page/wallacewellps?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fwallacewellps&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

Thank you in advance for any support you can give.

 

Money – P3a

It was Financial Education Week last week. The children took part it lots of different learning activities using money. They were recognising and skip counting coins; adding money to create different amounts; estimating costs and using magazines to total costs. We had lots of fun with our active learning.

P5a

This week P5a have worked very hard advancing their understanding of division in number and characterisation in language. Next week I will introduce fractions and help the children to find more information when a reading non- fiction text. P.E on a Thursday will now involve mastering skills in netball.
Mrs. Jodah

JRSO Be Bright Be Seen

We have done an assembly about wearing bright jackets on dark nights. You should wear reflectors on your jackets so at night a car would see you. Our class ( P5a ) have made some posters of bright jackets. We picked four posters to put round the school. We enjoyed the assembly, it was also a bit scary.

written by Rosie-Joy and Ollie . Our school Junior Road Safety Officers.

These are the four children with their posters to promote wearing bright jackets this winter.

Growth Mindset -P3a

We ended this weeks learning with a Health and Well-being lesson focused on Growth Mindset. The children learned about the differences between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset . We worked together to highlight the  positive growth mindset statements. The children then created their own fixed mindset statements then used their learning to turn them into positive statements. The children especially loved getting to write their statements on the desks!

The second term is off to a good start.

This term P5a have come back to school ready to take on some new challenges. We have continued with coaching in Dance in P.E. This term we have started to extend and develop number skills in multiplication and division.
In science we are investigating friction.

. Designing an experiment using a car on different surfaces and discussing the results.

     

 

SPOOK-tacular Artwork – P3a

The children celebrated Halloween with lots of spooky learning today. They especially enjoyed creating their amazing ‘Mummy Eyes’ artwork. They used oil pastels and selected complimenting colours to create these bright and glaring eyes. These will look fantastic on our classroom walls, well done P3a!

 

CLUBS

We are delighted to share this term’s morning and after school clubs.  Last term we targeted upper school, this term we have introduced clubs for our middle school and, next term, we will target our lower school pupils.  For those pupils in the dance club, the City of Dance Heats will take place on 28th November at St Roch’s Secondary, 3.30 – 5pm.  As always, if you have a PVG Certificate and would like to support the school by leading any extra curricular activities, please get in touch.

Book Week Scotland (Monday 13th of November to Friday 17th November 2023)

 

We are delighted to share that we will be celebrating Book week Scotland this year between Monday 13th of November and Friday 17th November 2023.

We have lots of fun activities planned.

LIBRARY VISITS

All classes will be walking to the library.

Mon 13th P.4b

Tues 14th P.1b, P.6a, P.6b     

Wed 15th P.4a

Thurs 16th P.3/2, P.3a

Fri 17th P.1a, P.7b, P.7a      Mon 20th P.5b

Tues 21st P.2/1, P.5a, P.2a   Wed 22nd P.3b

HELPERS NEEDED TO WALK TO THE LIBRARY PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE IF YOU CAN HELP

FREE BOOK SWAP

Bring your good quality, pre-loved books into school and swap them for a new book.

BOOK SWAP on THURS 16th NOV

READ, WRITE, COUNT BOOK BAG GIFTING

Parents and carers are invited into the school dining hall at 2.30 for a cup of tea and a look at the resources in The Scottish Book Trust’s gift bag!

P.2 – Monday 13th November

P.3 – Tuesday 14th November

FIRST MINISTER’S READING CHALLENGE

The children will be given their own Reading Passport to record how many books they have read.