Gardenrose Primary Newsletter, Term 2, November 2020
P7 PE – Leadership 👏🏽
As part of PE with this term, P7 are working alongside Active Schools to gain a leadership award! 🥇
Pupils are developing their leadership, problem solving and physical skills to eventually lead lunch time clubs with infant pupils.
Children in Need – Soak the Teacher! 💦
Remembrance Day❤️🖤
To finish off our WW2 topic, the Primary 7 pupils have been taking part in a variety of Remembrance activities.
On Remembrance Sunday, Kayden and Jay did us all proud representing the school by laying our school wreath at the War Memorial.
We painted our own Remembrance rocks and took them down to the memorial at the Greenside as our way of paying respects to those who fought.
The children also performed a beautiful Remembrance Service on the 11th November. They wrote their own lines and shared their WW2 learning whilst honouring all of those who have fought in war. Thank you to everyone who joined us on Zoom and Facebook live! You can rewatch the service on our school Facebook group.
We finished off our topic with groups of pupils showcasing their ICT and research skills alongside their knowledge of WW2 through presentation assessments. Very well done P7!
Term 2 with Miss Lee
We are off to a flying start in term 2 with Miss Lee! My spooky witches and wizards have enjoyed some Halloween play based learning as well as being introduced to new aspects of learning across the curriculum.
Literacy
Within literacy, I will be supporting with Talk for Writing on a Tuesday with Miss Morrison on the Story of Charlie and focusing on reading and comprehension on a Wednesday. We will have a separate reading book in class from home due to COVID guidelines.
Numeracy
This term we will be focusing on measuring with Miss Lee. We loved measuring with non standard units in P1 and now we are ready to progress on to using a ruler accurately to measure the height and length of objects in P2.
“The paintbrush was 30 cm long, it was longer than the pencil because it was only 23cm long” – Anni
Play Based Learning
We have had lots of fun transferring our skills we are learning in class through play. We enjoyed our Halloween themed PBL and we are now exploring different emergency services relating to fire safety for Bonfire Night and a Dental Practice as part of our IDL on Teeth!
Halloween Is Coming!
We have been exploring potions! We have been measuring bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to watch the cauldron bubble. “Izzy Wizzy lets get busy time to make my potion Fizzy”!!!! We has super fun scooping our pumpkins and feeling a variety of sensory materials such as jelly, ice, noodles, spaghetti, playdough and beans!!!
We have been exploring rhyming CVC words through the story ‘Room and the Broom’. We made ‘Silly Soup’ using bats, cats, logs, dogs, star and car! We have also been singing lots of Halloween spooky songs.
We have been learning new mathematical language when making our witches wands. We have been exploring height too. How many pumpkins high are you?
Number Talks Guides
Number Talks is an approach to mental maths that is used throughout the school from Primary 1 to Primary 7.
Children are encouraged to discuss and share strategies to help solve calculations within the four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Please see below Parent Guides to Number Talks to support your child’s mental maths and number sense at home:
