Inspired by this request on Twitter https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/worldmustbecomingtoanend/sing-alang-tae-the-langest-sang/
We got stuck into composing our own verses. We’d love to know what you think!
Author: C. Gibson
Curious Kids!
We went and explored the school grounds to find signs of animal visitors, we found a lot! We found a deer hoof print and where they had been nibbling on a tree trunk. We found holes and tunnels we think they might belong to moles or rabbits.
We found a half eaten mushroom we are not sure what ate it and other leaves and nuts that had been nibbled.
We are very curious to find out more about what goes on in the grounds of Grandtully Primary when we are not about.
Happy New Year!
What a great start to 2017. We have had a busy week exploring the scots language, problem solving, thinking of ways we can ‘unslump’ ourselves when things don’t go our way and setting up a pet shop role play corner!
We have enjoyed the snowy weather and getting out and about in our snow suits (even though they take a wee while to put on!)
We have been hard at work planning our learning for the term and look forward to sharing that with you next week.
We were also really excited to welcome Jacob to Primary 2, we’ve enjoyed sharing information about our school with him.
Mindset Resources
We aim to support the development of growth mindsets in our whole school community. Here are some useful resources, videos and activities to help find out more.
A brief overview of ‘growth & fixed mindsets’
Educationalist Carol Dweck explains how praise can impact on mindsets.
Here is a great series of short, manageable activities to introduce you to how to help your child(ren) develop a growth mindset.
https://www.mindsetkit.org/growth-mindset-parents
Singing, scripts and Book Groups
Another busy week at Grandtully Primary. We have been working hard on our French Nativity. You can see a sneaky peek into our singing practice here
https://youtu.be/2Lj-7lcqxr8
We are really looking forward to performing on Tuesday evening and are excited to see all the costumes and sets the parents have been working on. This year the parents have worked together as a team to create our costumes and sets, we help them by giving ideas and feedback. After the Nativity there will be a lovely buffet, all the families are bringing food to share.
We are taking part in the Christmas decoration exchange. We received our first decoration today! It was from Royal High Primary School in Edinburgh.
We are posting our next week. It’s fun to work with other schools. You can see who is taking part here. https://padlet.com/mrsharvey3/Exchange2016
Aberfeldy Film Festival and Book Week fun!
This week some of us have had a go at Vlogging our thoughts.
P4 & 5s share their Highlights
https://youtu.be/GKtKtaL6g1E
https://youtu.be/m3ER1prCM3c
https://youtu.be/UT8QwDZqFrI
https://youtu.be/2G_Z112fgeU
P3 Share their best bits!
https://youtu.be/fOVkzZkHY7M
https://youtu.be/ByxsQjEkblQ
https://youtu.be/ofbq0kgrO64
https://youtu.be/q8-Kkddrjac
P2 Think about their week
https://youtu.be/5VTNBvyD800
https://youtu.be/805WJRnqdFs
https://youtu.be/ZsfAEy411Ps
P1 Talking about the highlights of their week at school
https://youtu.be/AjJytwU3eIg
https://youtu.be/Pr9rMtDOoJc
https://youtu.be/jgS-r3ulIz8
https://youtu.be/8RarwdV8f58
https://youtu.be/KwBa507vYC8
https://youtu.be/MOrvXlFCqsQ
Genius Hour
Every Friday pupils at Grandtully Primary take part in ‘Genius Hour’ You can find out more about it here and here
This term we have pupils who are writing books, coding, sewing, doing science experiments and taking part in weekly challenges.
Next term we are hoping to involve parents in supporting these pupil lead experiences.
Nativity Songs
Please find audio files of our five nativity songs below. You will also be able to find the words contained within the PDF (please note we are not using all the songs, just those listed below)
Here is the current script – we may make some wee adjustments but this will give you the overall story.
Allons Vite a Bethleem
Douce Nuit Sainte Nuit
Entre le boeuf et lane gris
Hi Han Hi Han
Trois Souris
A Full Learning Week
Another busy week highlights have included
Ursie: I learned to make a rhyming book
Eva: I learned to make a rhyming book as well we loved reading the Shark in the Park on a Windy Day
Jago: I wrote a fireworks poem, I used some rhyming and we used Aurasma to make them come to life!
Maya: I found out that poppies were found on the battlefields after the war.
Erin: I learned all about the A9 at Breadalbane. I found the information really interesting and I like the blindfold activity that reminded us if you don’t look at the road it’s really dangerous!
Sofia: I made a Diva for putting a candle in for the festival of lights Diwali.
Max: I made a firework poem with scraffito and wax resist drawings
Noah: I made a fireworks picture
Freya: I learned how poppies were made and how they were made.
Freddie: I wrote a pumpkin poem
Julia: I learned about drawing
Minette: I can draw fireworks
Jillie Ann: I learned about less and more in maths
Nina: I learned a new sound ‘ew’ like ‘stew’
Hester: I learned how to say some nativity words in French! like ‘Joseph & Marie bebe l’ane. We are learning about coding too.
Jasper: I learned ‘c’ for camera
Enzo: This week I wrote a firework shape poem.
Our film ‘Freddie’s New Adventure’ will be shown in the Birks cinema on Sunday 20th November – we can’t wait!
We moved all our pompoms this week which means we get extra ‘Genius Hour’ time
We started preparing for our French Nativity, we decided on the cast and listened to some songs.
We had a visit from Kirsteen the Animal Welfare Officer we learned about staying safe around dogs and earned a certificate!
We also enjoyed a visit from Tayside Contracts to taste lots of salads! We voted for our favourites.
Freddie’s New Adventure
Last night Grandtully School Community came together to celebrate a successful first term at school, share some delicious home grown food and watch P1-5’s film, Freddie’s New Adventure. P1-5 came up with the idea of describing what it was like on your first day at school after being inspired by the Pixar film, ‘Inside Out’. There are lots of skills involved in making a film and everybody tried out a whole range of different roles and contributed to the final 10 minute film. We learned about different jobs along the way too. Dylan Gibson, a local illustrator talked to us about the importance of storyboards and planning, then Francesca and Ricardo Bernasconi, who have their own film production company, told us all about the different jobs you have to do to make sure your film comes together the way you would like it to. We wanted to serve food at our event so we asked Lio and Chris, two of our Dad’s who are chefs to come in and advise us on how to make soup and bread. We had other super parents in to help us manage the big task of catering, thanks to Francesca and Amalie for lending a hand. We would also like to thank everyone who came along to watch our film and all the lovely feedback we got, we really enjoyed making it.
You can watch our short film by clicking on the link below. We hope you enjoy it!
