Mrs Byrne

December 16, 2019 Mrs Byrne 36 Comments

WORKING HARD/ADVENT/CHRISTMAS AND HAVING FUN

RERC/LITERACY/NUMERACY/EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND IDL

P1/2 have been working very hard throughout this term and as we approach the end in this last month of December, the weeks before these Christmas holidays have just flown past.

After writing their letters to Santa the children worked hard to get all their Christmas Fayre goodies all ready to go on sale. And with all their other Christmas activities and preparations for them. E.g. Their Nativity rehearsals, dance practise and preparation for our Christmas party, etc. P1/2 have been rushed off their feet!

We have also had a little visitor to the classroom who keeps turning up in unusual places and so the children decided to make there very own to to help with the hall surveillance for Christmasin the hall…

NATIVITY

P1/2 really loved performing in their School Nativity with P2 and P3. and thank you so much to some of the P3’s for standing in at the last minute for our P1 children who were ill. The children had all been practising and working very hard for weeks and I know you will agree that their performance was wonderful.

However as I mentioned, unfortunately some children were very unwell on the day and could not take part. To those children, thank you so much, we really appreciate all your hard work too and hope you feel better very soon.

Finally P1/2 would love to wish everyone a very Happy and Holy Christmas and New Year when 2020 arrives. God Bless x.

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Primary 2 December

December 16, 2019 Mrs Simpson 5 Comments

Mrs Simpson and all the children in Primary 2 would like to wish you all a very happy and holy Christmas. We are looking forward to our Christmas holidays, but also can’t wait to come back fresh in 2020 to achieve even more. All the best from us to you!

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November

December 13, 2019 Mrs Cook 8 Comments

November has been a particularly busy month here in Primary 7!

In Literacy, we have begun studying the novel, Divided City by Theresa Breslin which tackles the subject of sectarianism in our community.

This links well with work we have been doing with the anti-sectarian charity, Nil-by-Mouth in Social Studies. We had 4 sessions, over 2 weeks where we worked with the pupils from Mossend Primary School. We discussed many of the issues around tolerance, bigotry and prejudice and we have planned lots of trips and activities with P.7 from Mossend Primary School.

In Maths, we have been looking at decimal fractions and negative numbers. We looked at temperatures on thermometers to help us understand negative numbers on a number line.

We have now completed our work on genetic testing and the pupils created Powerpoints and wrote persuasive essays on this subject.

We had lots of trips this month too this month including a trip to the cinema in Braehead to see a movie to celebrate Film Week.

Another amazing trip we had was to The Sky Academy in Livingston. The children were made to feel very welcome and had the amazing opportunity to create their own short film. They were then given the opportunity to visit the call centre there and discuss the work opportunities available. The pupils were given their own pendrive with each group’s work attached and the rest of the school were able to share in their learning at assembly.

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Primary 2

December 11, 2019 Mrs Simpson 4 Comments

Primary 2 have had such a busy month. Preparation has began for our Nativity show ‘A Miracle in Town’. The children have their parts and have been working hard to learn their lines and songs.

We have continued work on addition and subtraction and have also covered a topic on shape. As always, a great deal of our work is practical using Seal Maths.

Within Literacy we have been doing more work on new sounds and common words. The children are getting so good at reciprocal teaching (teaching each other) by testing each other on what we have been learning. In writing we have had a go at writing a recount and have also been writing instructions. We especially enjoyed writing about how to make a jeely piece for Katie Morag.

The children have devoted lots of their prayers this month to their deceased loved ones as part of our work on the Month of the Holy Souls. We have learned the ‘Eternal Rest’ prayer and have been saying it daily.

As part of our Emotion Works syllabus, we have been identifying emotions and linking things that happen to us with how it makes us feel. The children made their own emotions using play foam and blank faces.

We have enjoyed some S.T.E.M time within our busy class this month. We were given the challenge of designing a new bridge for the Island of Struay as part of our topic. We made our way around a variety of stations (e.g spaghetti and marshmallows) and tried to design a safe bridge for the people on Struay to use.

Work began on our Christmas enterprise for our Christmas Fayre. The children had a ball making reindeer food and were so proud of the results.

Primary 5

Titanic cabins

December 10, 2019 Mrs Daisley 10 Comments

Before our cabins go home, we thought you would like to see them. Continue reading Titanic cabins →

Primary 5

Titanic peg dolls.

December 4, 2019 Mrs Daisley 2 Comments

We made these peg dolls using a pattern and material. It was really hard but we think they look good.

Primary 1/2

P1/2 November Reflections Mrs Stevenson/Mrs Byrne

November 30, 2019 Mrs Byrne 2 Comments

LITERACY

The children have embraced their new learning and have enjoyed using what they have learned in active literacy to enhance their writing lessons .

This month the children wrote about their Cinema Visit, learned the correct way to write a Beginning Middle and End (BME) Task and wrote out posters with visual Clues for the Christmas Fayre. Here are some of this months star writers with their fantastic work. (Pics to come)

The children also enjoyed pairing up with their buddies during Book Week, when they came down to P1/2 to read to them.

NUMERACY

The children continue to enjoy the progress the are making in the number prosess and their Seal Training ,as the develop their learning in using the strategies . They have also enjoyed learning about Measure and looking at different ways to identify Tall -Taller /Short-Shorter. Big.-bigger/ small-Smaller etc.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING (H&WB) EMOTION WORKS

The boys and girls are learning about their emotions what they are, how they feel and how they are able to deal with them and use different strategies to help them to do this.

ENTERPRISE AND THE CHRISTMAS FAYRE

The children have had a fantastic time preparing for the School Christmas Fayre as they make Reindeer Food and Christmas Sweetie Surprise Bags. The are also learning about how they can make money for charity by doing this. Here are some pictures of our little production line and one of our P1 pupils demonstrating how to seal the bags ready for display.

R.E – Month of the Holy Souls/The Rosary and the start of Nativity Practise.

During the month of November the children have been learning about the month of the Holy Souls the Rosary , what it is and why we use this to pray, especially during the months of Our Lady and the Holy Souls. However as we approach Advent and Christmas, with P3 and P2, P1/2 are practising for their school Nativity and the have all been working very hard as the look forward to their performance in December.

GOLDEN TIME

After all that hard work the children looked forward to, and enjoy their well deserved Golden Time each Friday afternoon. Well done and keep working hard P1/2.