St Kevin's Primary and Nursery

Primary 1 have been working hard to read , write and count collections to 5 . We enjoyed using different materials to help us show ways to make different amounts .

We have all enjoyed learning to subitise to 5 using good looking skills to say what we see .

With it being the last day of the week before the holidays we all enjoyed taking part in some fun activities together . Some children chose to go outside to play where as others decided to take part in table top games or an art activity.

Mrs Doran enjoyed creating some fabulous wax resist of under the sea pictures  with children from Primary 1-3 .

Hello from Primary 7,

Primary 7 have settled in very well to their new class and have been working exceptionally hard over the last month.

Literacy – We have completed a modelling block and have now introduced our group novels. We have been working with these alongside our comprehension strategies. We have also been using stage 6/7 for our spelling programme. The genre we have been focussing on is Narrative. We have been learning to create effective character descriptions, openers, setting descriptions and using pictures as a stimulus for writing.

Numeracy – We have been revising place value and number processes, we have just started our money topic where we have been learning about banking. We will be focussing on how we pay for things, calculating interest and APR, hire purchase, spending in a budget as well as calculating foreign exchange. I think we have some budding bankers in the making!

I.D.L – The children selected their topic and the topic they chose was Japan! It is a great topic and we are looking forward to immersing ourselves further into this. We have already looked at the Japanese language as well as major cities and landmarks, artists and folklore and tradition. We studied the artist Hokusai and recreated his famous piece of art ‘The Great Wave’ using hot and cold colours. You can see some in our gallery.

Health and Wellbeing – Our block this term in P.E is tennis. Our P.E days are Tuesday and Wednesday.

R.E – A reminder to parents we will be continuing with The Pope Francis Faith Award and look forward to welcoming the new Primary 6 children who will be starting to undertake the work for their award.

REMINDER – Primary 7 will be hosting a coffee morning on Friday 28th September at 1-2.30pm, please come along and help us raise money for MacMillan. If you could also make some donations of bought baked goods and raffle prizes, that would be much appreciated.

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This week we have been learning about the ancient art of Chinese Caligraphy. We practised writing some Chinese words in our jotters before taking a close look at the Chinese characters which represent our alphabet.

We learned that Chinese people have to hold their brushes a special way, holding them at the top!

It was quite tricky to master but we had lots of fun trying!

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Can you guess what we were writing?

Miss McFadyen and Primary 3/4

Our new P3/4 class have been enjoying a great start to the new school year!

We took a vote for our first Topic and the winner was China!

So far, we have been using Chinese myths for our story writing, exploring China on world maps, learning Mandarin greetings and practising Chinese calligraphy. All this in only 3 weeks!

Here we are infront of our oil pastel drawings of Nian, the Chinese sea monster.

We can’t wait to see what we’ll be learning about China next!

Miss McFadyen and Primary 3/4

Primary 1 have all settled very well into school .  They are all working hard and have enjoyed making new friends .

In class we enjoyed working in pairs while learning about pattern.

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