We held an event in Fairtrade Fortnight to raise awareness of Fairtrade. The children had great fun decorating Fairtrade bananas, eating Fairtrade bananas and other healthy snacks at our chocolate fountain stall, baking using Fairtrade products such as Fairtrade sugar and also showing their support of Fairtrade by getting their faces painted with the Fairtrade logo.
Here are some photos from the event which raised more than £500 for Mary’s Meals!
Hi achievers in Primary 3/4.
February has been a busy month for Primary 3/4. The children have been very welcoming to Mrs Henry who is here to work with the class for six weeks.
Ancient Egypt
We have been learning about Ancient Egypt and really enjoyed using a range of materials to build Egyptian boats. We even tested them, and we were delighted to discover they all floated!
We also researched Egyptian clothes and jewellery and found out many different interesting facts, including the specific colours Egyptians wore. We then created our own beautiful Egyptian necklaces which are displayed in our classroom.
The children have enjoyed sharing their knowledge about Ancient Egypt and are looking forward to continuing our learning throughout the topic.
Literacy
In literacy we have been learning how to write reports. We have been using subheadings to organise information. We wrote fantastic reports about honey bees and showcased our learning from our topic to write a report about The River Nile.
We have visited the library and enjoyed selecting a new reading book to take home. We loved listening to stories read by our librarian, followed by a great game of book bingo.
Back in class we have been participating in a range of activities and games to help us learn to combine two words to create compound words.
This Is Our Faith
During our RE time we have enjoyed meditating. We have been reflecting on how to be a follower and a friend of Jesus. We have created some wonderful role plays and performed them to the class. I am certain we have future movie stars in our midst!
Numeracy
In numeracy we are continuing learning about subtraction. We are particularly focusing on using numbertalks and learning how to explain the strategies we used to get our answers.
We have also been learning about 3D shape. We have used a feely box and can identify cubes, spheres, pyramids, cuboids and rectangular prisms. We are going to continue learning all about 3D shape and will even have a go at constructing our own Pyramids!
Global Play Day
Global Play Day was a huge success in Holy Family school and in P3/4 we had a great time building dens, playing with our toys and having class competitions with our ring toss game.
I have had a great month getting to know all the kind and hardworking children in P3/4. The children have made me feel like part of this wonderful school family.
Mrs Henry.
Science Week.
Primary 3/4 working hard and having fun!
Literacy
Here are some of our February Star Writers
Our Last February Library Visit
P1/2 really enjoyed their walk to the Library this month. The children noticed that the weather has started to change and also that the buds and leaves were beginning to appear on some of the trees.
When the children arrived they returned their books and headed for the special spot where the children books are. Our lovely librarian Bernadette joined us, reading some great stories that the children loved. Then afterwards they really enjoyed a favourite game called Book Bingo.
After this they got to choose a new book and took it to the librarian to be stamped and to take home. The had a terrific time.
Here is a little picture story of their visit.
Numeracy – Time, Music and IDL
With Miss Stevens the children have not only been learning about the days of the week and months of the year etc., but also about Morning, Noon, Afternoon Evening and Midnight. They have been learning about The hour, half past the hour etc. Analogue and Digital time and have also been learning about time through song and have even got to make their very own clocks! My goodness P1/2 you have been very busy indeed.
H&WB – Gymnastics
As part of Health and Wellbeing in Gymnastics, the children have revisited Safety, as well as thinking about being Active, Respected and Responsible’ in Term 2. They have thought about the rules they should follow to show respect, be active, and take responsibility for their own behaviour. E.g in turn taking, being kind and following instructions. This will help them enjoy and have fun learning about Gymnastics.
The children with Miss Stevens enjoying their ‘Dinosaur’ Gymnastic Warm up!
Topic – Dinosaurs
The children have enjoyed their dinosaur topic very much and have particularly enjoyed doing there very own research at home and bringing in their information to share with the class. The children have also had fun with their learning in school, e.g. Making their class dinosaur cave, Making musical stories and being dinosaurs. while also enjoying the challenges and tasks they have been set.
R.E. My Uniqueness, Art and IDL
With Miss Steven The children have been thinking about and learning how very unique they are. That we are all different and how fantastic this is. Together the children have made self portraits using paper plates and a variety of media. (Pics to come)
Fairtrade Fortnight and Fairtrade Thursday
P1/2 really enjoyed making Fairtrade Bunting and also made Fairtrade Fortnight posters as part of their taught writing lesson. They had so much fun participating in all the fantastic activities Mrs Cooney, Miss Daisley and P4/5 had arranged for them and the rest of the school.
Thank you so much everyone we had a terrific time.
February has been a very busy month for primary 1.
The highlight of the month for us all was Global Play day…we had so much fun! We turned our role play area into a dinosaur museum and really enjoyed playing the different roles of tour guides, ticket sales people, gift shop workers, tourists and dinosaurs! We also played with the many other toys in our classroom and some of us even brought in some toys from home…we had a very busy and fun filled day!
In literacy, we are working really hard on our two consonant phonemes sh, th, ch and ng. We are also working hard to improve our reading and writing.
In Maths, we have been working hard on addition within 10 and 3D shapes. We are also becoming extremely confident with our counting.
In HWB we have been working hard to be active and have been in engaging in lots of active activities such as the daily mile and outdoor play. We have also been doing musical theatre and yoga for PE!
Our topic this term is dinosaurs, we have learned about the different types of dinosaurs and are looking forward to extending our learning on this topic in March.
This month has been very busy for Primary 3.
We really enjoyed Global Play Day and had a great time using our imagination and sharing with our peers.
This month we have said goodbye to Mrs Gardener but we have welcomed Miss Shreenan into our class. Miss Shreenan will be in our class for 6 weeks and we are really enjoying our lessons so far with her.
This month we have been introduced to Developing The Young Workforce programme, where we had to discuss the definition of Aspiration and share our aspiration. We really enjoyed writing about what we would like to be when we grow up.
In numeracy we have been learning more about multiplications and data handling.
In writing we have been working a lot on Acrostic Poems and now working on report writing.
In ICT we can now send, receive and reply back to emails. We have successfully signed into glow and can assess our emails. Next months we are looking at sending attachments and even creating power points.
In our topic Minibeasts, we have been learning more about life cycles and their habitats.
In This Is Our Faith we are preparing for our First Friday mass. This will be our first school mass with the new priest Father Brown, we are excited that our class will be the first to celebrate with Farther Brown.
This month we were learning about Chinese New Year , which is the year of the Pig. We did a lot of research on the history of Chinese New Year and took part in a lot of Art.
We are looking forward to this month a head as it will be another busy month for Primary 3, we have Fair-trade fortnight, World Book Day, Lent and Science week, just to name a few.
This month has been a busy month for P6/7B.
In numeracy we have been learning about speed, time and distance.
In writing we have been working on a news report about an earthquake and became editors for a day.
We loved doing our lemon volcano experiments in science, the class smelled lovely!
After mid-term break we had a two day focus on Developing the Young Workforce and learned a lot about ourselves and choices we have for the future. We watched a video conference with Miriam Christofoletti who is a robotic engineering student…she told us never to give up and not to let anyone steal away our dreams.
In our topic we have been learning about how tectonic plates can cause earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.
In R.E. we have learned about St. Therese of Liseux and how she did lots of little things with a lot of love.
We learned about Chinese New Year and our art pieces reflected what we had learned. We are now doing pastel drawings of volcanoes.
We also had great fun on Global Play Day; favourites were den building and make-ups.
This month has seen us say goodbye to Mrs Gardner and welcome to Mrs Cook and Mrs Wilson who will be working with us now.
We really enjoyed Global Play Day and had great fun using our imagination and developing our social skills. At Thinking Circles we had to justify our reasoning for repeating this in 2020, hopefully Mrs Wilson was convinced !
We all took part in the 2 day programme on Developing The Young Workforce and learned a great deal about the range of career opportunities that are available from being a teacher or an engineer right through to becoming an entrepreneur making bird food.Here are some photos of the humane mouse traps we were designing as part of our engineering focus with Mrs leblond.We have been starting to look at our environmental footprint and what we can do to affect and reduce this as part of our interdisciplinary learning this month. February isn’t over yet and we are looking forward to next week and the launch of Fairtrade fortnight when the whole school will be participating in lots of fun activities from face painting to baking banana loaf! Thursday will be our focus day for this and we are very excited by the wide range of ideas that are being suggested for us to raise awareness of Fairtrade fortnight.
In literacy we have been learning to write newspaper articles
In numeracy we have been deepening our understanding of subtraction and decomposition.
In RE we have been learning about the muslim faith and the significance of the Qur’aan. We have also been drawing our own Arabic prayer mats.
We are looking forward to the month ahead and addressing our social studies and technologies targets.
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