Please see the planner below for all dates already planned for the new session. It includes Parents’ Nights, Stage Learning Showcases, Meet the Teacher and many other school events.
June 25, 2024
by Mrs Meechan
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December 12, 2024
by Ms McIver
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Room 23 – 12.12.24
Christmas celebrations are well underway in Room 23. Thank you very much for attending our Christmas concert on Monday, we hope you enjoyed the performance! 🎅🏼🎄
Have a look at these gorgeous illustrations from the pupils. They created a two point perspective drawing of 3D presents focussing on tone, line and form. They have turned out amazing 😍🎁 We will get them home to you before the break, definitely one to frame!🖼️
December 11, 2024
by Miss Livingstone
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Primary 2 Christmas Show
Primary 2 children have the option to wear something festive for the Christmas Show on Friday. This can be a jumper, t-shirt, headwear, bobble etc, please do not go out and buy something just for the show. If you do not have anything then please do not worry. They can wear this to school in the morning but still wear school uniform underneath.
Reminder of Shows:
Room 4: 930am
Room 5: 10am
Room 6 and 25: 11am
Thanks, Primary 2 Teachers
December 6, 2024
by Miss Stark
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The Vikings in Room 13
Recently in Room 13 we have been learning about the Vikings!
Before we began our learning the pupils made a list of what they wanted to learn about the Vikings! This has been the basis of our learning.
One of the first questions we had was how do we know about the Vikings seen as they lived so long ago! So we learnt about the role of an archaeologist and how they help us learn about the past. We then became our own archaeologists! We dug items out of the sand and logged a description of each item.
One of the other things the pupils wanted to learn about was what the Vikings looked like and what they wore. We researched what warriors wore and created our own designs and diagrams of a warrior. We then learnt about what most Vikings wore everyday. We compared how these clothes were made and what they were made of to the clothes we wear today. It was clear that lots of materials we have today weren’t available to the Vikings. Some colours weren’t even available!
We looked at different materials under the microscope and compared them.
Next we conducted an enquiry into what natural dyes work best on clothes. We dyed the same material in things like onion skins and blackberries, just like the Vikings would have done ! Look at the results!
Then we looked at how they made their clothes. We learnt how to weave using simple looms and some wool. It was tricky at first but we all now love it!
We plan to continue this and learn how to sew next!
Watch this space!
December 6, 2024
by Miss Finch
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Room 5
Room 5 enjoyed the arrival of our class Elf and decided to name him Tinsel. He has been helping us get into the Christmas Spirit and also reminding us that he is watching to see who is behaving and listening in class!
Our sound this week was ‘au’ which we found quite tricky, it would be great if we could revise this more at home to help. We did lots of collaborative work this week, including our writing lesson. In pairs the children were asked to design a new toy and to describe it. Some of the kids came up with some really brilliant ideas, including a toy that can teleport you to anywhere you want to go!
We also completed a maths challenge at our tables. Children had to work out the place value problems as well as delegate jobs to work well as part of a team.
In preparation for our performance next week, we have been making a fireplace to display some of the Christmas crafts that we have been doing in class. We can’t wait for you to see it next Friday! We have sent home the QR codes with links to the songs so that you can hopefully get some practice at home.
December 6, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 2!
This week in Room 2,
JN – We have been going on stage for learning and singing.
HMcL – I liked quiet time because I was quiet.
HMcH – I enjoyed writing in our jotters, we were turning on the light and we had to put one arm straight and one arm bent. We had to write ‘I am switching on the light’.
AD – We were practising our numbers.
IMcL – I enjoyed when we did the ladybug spots for number stories.
AT – I liked when we learned new sounds.
NS – I liked learning through play.
AY – I liked with Miss O’Brien saving Humpty Dumpty. We were trying to get materials and if it falls on the floor, we put something on the floor, when it falls it takes care of it and one did crack. (See pictures below)
We also had two dress rehearsals today for our upcoming Nativity performances. These will take place on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th December. The children should come to school wearing the correct clothing which was stated in the letters home with the most recent homework. We received some good feedback today and some things to continue working on but we are really looking forward to performing in front of our families. We hope to see some of you there!
December 6, 2024
by Mrs Stewart
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Room 19
This week, we have been very busy preparing for our Christmas concert on Monday. We hope you can join us and sing-a-long.
We have also just finished some lovely atmospheric winter artwork.
December 6, 2024
by Miss Livingstone
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This week in Room 6
This week in Room 6 we have been learning the ‘au’ phoneme, and going over subtraction in Maths. We have also been learning about Christmas Around the World.
Here are a few things that Room 6 would like to share:
NM : I enjoyed doing our sums in Maths.
LW: I enjoyed junk modelling.
AW: I like doing work on the whiteboards instead of our jotters.
LJ: I enjoy when we get to play.
AP: I enjoyed painting with Miss Reily.
Grinchy, the class elf, visited us on Monday and has been up to mischief all week. We also had the pleasure of watching the Primary 1 Nativity this morning, which we all absolutely loved. We have continued practicing our Christmas Songs for our Christmas Concert on Friday at 11am, we cant wait to see you all there! Next week we are learning the ‘ew’ phoneme and will continue with our subtraction in numeracy.
Room 6 and Miss Livingstone
December 6, 2024
by Miss Lockhart
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This Week in Room 15!
Hello everyone, how has your week been? Ours has been fantastic!
We have:
“Practised our Christmas concert songs.” S
“Been taking away instead of adding.” F
“Finished our Spud Murphy book.” H
“Had a spelling test this morning.” Z
“Wrapped presents and then wrote instructions to help others.” I
“Played football during P.E. on Tuesday.” M
“Developed our fitness until the rain started.” L
Our Christmas concert is next Thursday (12th December) at 11am, we are looking forward to sharing our singing with you.
Have a good weekend.
From Room 15 🙂
December 6, 2024
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 1
Room 1 have been very busy this week practising for our Nativity performance. We are so excited for all of our adults to see our hard work.
We have also been busy with our learning, please see below some of what we have done this week:
“I loved learning how to read with our reading books” TT
“I have enjoyed learning all of our our Nativity songs” CM
” I liked learning to add 2″ FB
” I liked counting in 10″ EMCC
“I liked adding 1” CW
“I liked writing a dictated sentence for the first time” AM
” I enjoyed counting in 2s” BK
A little reminder our Nativity performances are Tuesday 10th December and Wednesday 11th December.
Have a lovely weekend.
Thank you
Mrs Ventre and Room 1
December 6, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Reading and Writing 📚🔡
This week Room 3 have been working hard to improve their reading and writing skills. In reading, we have been looking at sounding out words and using picture clues to recognise unfamiliar words. We are getting really good at using these skills to improve accuracy. We have spoken about our common words too and get very excited when we see these in our reading books.
As part of our Literacy, we have also started writing dictated sentences using the sounds we have learned so far. This week, we used reading skills such as sounding out words to help up write words independently. Mrs Rae is so proud of our sentences so far! She even gave us an extra challenge to try and add a capital letter at the start, full stop at the end and not to forget our finger spaces. The more we practise, the better we get. Have a look at some of our writing below.
We have also spent time perfecting our Nativity performance this week and can’t wait to show this to audiences. We are very excited!
Pupil Voice
Below are some comments from our learning this week.
KH – I liked doing Nativity practise.
LB – I liked learning about ‘c’ and ‘k’.
BR – I liked doing the maths.
AR – I liked doing the ‘d’ sound.
IM – I liked playing sinking ships in Numeracy.
CD – I like all of Nativity.
KR – I liked doing the ‘r’ sound.
KO – I liked playing bingo.
LSS – I liked doing sums.
PC – I like saying my line in Nativity.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Room 3 and Mrs Rae 😊
