St. Brendan's Primary School and Nursery

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September 16, 2016
by Miss Mitchell
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Update from Primary 5

Primary 5 have been having lots of fun since starting back in August and have settled in well to their new class.

We have also been privileged enough to have had a BEd student in working with us and she made wonderful, multi-coloured parrots with the children as part of our interdisciplinary theme. We also took a stroll down to Baron’s Haugh with Primary 6/5 to compare the similarities and differences between a typical forest in this country with a rainforest.

In maths we have been focusing on place value and addition/subtraction and we are enjoying the variety of active and written tasks. We are also thoroughly enjoying our modelling block novel, ‘The Queen’s Nose’, and we have been very enthusiastic to see what happens next.

September 16, 2016
by Mrs McNicholl
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Update from P6/5

Another school year, another set of new challenges! We have all settled in well to our new class and are making new friends and are enjoying the wonderful views from the third floor.

We have been learning about the rainforest so P5’s took the opportunity to visit Baron’s Haugh with Miss Mitchell’s P5s while P6 were having fun in Kodaly with Mrs Wilkinson. We set out to compare our local woods to the Amazon rainforest and found a few similarities such as types of  plants (ferns) that grow in the dark, damp conditions underneath the trees. We also noticed the lack of leaves on the lower branches. One big difference was the lack of colourful parrots in the trees!

P6 had a chance to use our new kitchen with Mrs Young making fruit salads which they shared with the teachers! P5 are now really keen to get their turn to work on delicious recipes.

 

September 2, 2016
by Miss Burns
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An Update from Primary 6

A big hello from Primary 6!

We have had a busy first few weeks back at school and are enjoying the challenge of this new and exciting stage in our learning journey at St Brendan’s.

During the first week of term, we worked together in cooperative groups to think about our hopes for this session and what we can all do to make sure we have a happy and successful year together.

We welcomed visitors from the NSPCC – along with their mascot, Buddy – and enjoyed participating in their ‘Speak Out, Stay Safe’ presentation and workshop, which told us more about our rights as children, how we can keep ourselves safe and who we can speak to about any worries we might have. Thank you, NSPCC!

We have also really enjoyed working with a variety of media to build up a seaside collage, which will remind us of summertime as we move into September! Here we are working with paints.

We will be learning more about the Rainforest this term, so stay tuned for more updates from Primary 6 through our Twitter feed and through the new school app!

Miss Burns & Primary 6

 

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