This week we have all been stars!! We enjoyed making ‘Naughty Jellyfish’ and singing our number song.
We all worked hard on lots of /a/ activities too.
This week we made a big shark to go on the wall. We used sponges to paint the shark and had to take turns so we didn’t all get covered in paint!
Our Commotion in the Ocean display is starting to look good!
At the October Parent’s Evening we asked you to provide us with some information regarding your child’s reading habits. We are trying very hard to promote reading for pleasure within west Primary and would be interested to see if this is having an impact on your child and their attitude towards reading.
When we asked parents of P1 to P3 pupils the results showed that all of our pupils were being read to at home. 37% were listening to a book each day and 31% several times a week. This is great news! We could see that all children had access to books and that they talked about the books they were reading.
These results leave us with very little scope for improvement. We will look at the results as a staff and discuss how we can build on this strong foundation of reading for pleasure.
In P3-P7 there seemed to be more children reading less, or never independently. Some children had no access to books and some children rarely or never discussed a book they were reading with an adult at home. However, these numbers were still very low.
We are hoping to encourage our older children to enjoy reading independently and have already explored different ways of doing this in school.
All children are read to on a daily basis in class, usually at the beginning or end of a day. Children seem really keen to listen to a novel that their teacher is reading to them and this has prompted many children to read other books by the same author.
We are using the Zumba sponsor money to make our class libraries attractive and comfortable and to stock them with books that the children are asking for. There is independent reading time allocated throughout the school day.
Children are recording book reviews for assembly. Our reading scheme provides opportunities to read books and novels as well as a traditional reading book. We have purchased a new reading scheme for all ages.
We will repeat this questionnaire at the Parents’ Evening in March and compare results, hopefully we will see an increase in the amount of time that our older children chose to read.
We all had fun creating our dances with Right 2 Dance.
Thank you to everyone for their continued work in keeping West an Eco School!
We loved our dance session with Right 2 Dance this afternoon.
We have started our new topic learning about the Titanic and we took part in a ‘jigsaw’ to learn some facts about the ship. Groups were given different passages about the Titanic and we picked out the most important information. Finally, we met up with members of the other groups to share what we had learned making our ‘jigsaw’ complete!
Week 2 on dinner menu
Monday, 16 January
P5/6 Football at Ferguslie (pm)
Minecraft Club (3pm-4pm)
FOTW Meeting (6.30pm-7.30pm)
Tuesday, 17 January
Girls Football Club (3pm – 4pm)
Wednesday, 18 January
P3 Weather Workshop – Right to Dance (pm)
Basketball Club (3pm – 4pm)
Thursday, 19 January
Football Event at Ferguslie (am)
Nursery Coffee Evening (7pm – 8pm)
Friday, 20 January
Nursery Coffee Morning (9am – 10.30am)
Recently Mrs Ormond met with a group of parents to discuss the results of our parent questionnaire. Attached to this post are the results of the questionnaire and actions that have/will be taken to address some of the concerns of parents. We hope you find the information useful.
This week (week ending the 13th January) has been a very busy week for Primary 3b.
As part of our topic on the Major Organs of the Human Body we learned why it is important to wash our hands and we used a special machine to help us see the dirt that we missed when we washed our hands.
The garden is also looking very good and we were amazed at how much some of the bulbs have grown. Soon it will time to get things planted in the garden and if any parent or grandparent wishes to help then please get in touch with the school office.
We were also really excited to find out that Primary 3b travelled the most miles in Scotland as part of Skypeathon and we look forward to receiving our prizes very soon.
Finally, if anybody at home does have any empty cereal boxes Primary 3 would be most grateful for them.
