We’ve had great fun in P2/1 learning the signs for our daily routine with Mrs Ryalls.

We’ve had another busy week in P2/1. We’re spending a lot of time thinking about how to work together, share and take turns and playing games to practise these skills. We’re also continuing to think about how we’re similar and unique – this week in circle time realising how much we all have in common.

We had fun reflecting on the week at the end of today and looking at some of our photos. Here are some of the children’s highlights:

‘Making wiggly worms’ Isla

‘Playing Snakes and Ladders’ Amber

‘Playing games’ Noah

‘Making new friends’ Eva B

‘Making the alphabet’ Daniel

‘Building with the cuisenaire rods’  Finlay B

‘Making snails for the ‘ai’ sound’ Leah

‘Playing games in PE’ Charlotte

We have had a really busy week this week. We have been working hard on improving our concentration levels and working as a team.

We have expanded our knowledge of maps and explored the Scottish Borders.

We have continued our lessons in time for maths.

We planned and wrote “Guess Who?” simile poems.

Leave a comment below to tell us one thing you learned and one thing you enjoyed. 

Mrs Brown

We have had a really busy week this week. We have been working hard on improving our concentration levels and working as a team.

We have expanded our knowledge of maps and explored the Scottish Borders.

We have continued our lessons in time for maths.

We planned and wrote “Guess Who?” simile poems.

Leave a comment below to tell us one thing you learned and one thing you enjoyed. 

Mrs Brown, Mrs Smith and Mrs Musgrave

P7 have had another busy week. We have been settling back into our routines and are getting used to being around each other again and improving our concentration levels. This week we have:

• Researched, planned and written Explanation texts about the Life Cycle of Salmon
• Learned about spelling words containing the patterns j, g, ge and dge
• Studied some poetry in our task map reading lessons
• Created questions about a text
• Learned essential financial knowledge about debit & credit cards, budgeting, discounts, profit & loss etc.
• Investigated the area of right angled triangles and composite shapes
• Worked in groups to design and plan a zoo, thinking about area and perimeter
• Revised some essential First Aid skills as part of our ‘Keeping myself safe’ sessions
• Created some fabulous artwork for next week
• Enjoyed playing some of the playground games we have learned with Mrs Fletcher during our break times.
• Received a Head Teacher’s Award and a comment in our jotter from Mrs Wilson

Time to reflect:

1. What do you most appreciate about being back at school?
2. What is your goal for the rest of the term? (Only a week to go remember!)
3. What have you most enjoyed this week?

Primary 1 have been continuing to work on learning their double sounds….

ee and or as in Eeyore the donkey

oo as in moon

ai as in snail

The worms are now in their new home making compost. This  compost can be mixed into the soil  along with the liquid from the bottom of the wormery. Both are full of nutrients that are good for growing plants.

Setting up

Then add the worms

Sprinkle on the worm food

Finish with a layer of wet shredded newspaper.

We put  our wormery outside in an area with shade so the worms don’t get too hot.

We need to check  the worms.

The highlight of our busy week was starting the next part of our Wild Challenge with P1 and finding out all about worms and setting up our own Wormeries. On Wednesday afternoon we learned some worm facts – like worms have five hearts and are covered in tiny hairs – and then looked at some worms through our magnifying glasses to identify the different parts of their body. We then went outside on a worm hunt, using warm water and stamping on the ground to encourage them to come to the surface as well as looking under logs and stones. We found lots of worms in our outdoor classroom! We had a chat about being respectful to the worms, handling them as little as possible and returning them to where we found them.

In P1 this week we’ve also learned two double sounds – ee and or. The action for these sounds is to pretend we have donkey ears, and one of our activities was to make our own plasticine donkeys. The children did a great job of listening and following instructions and we were all very impressed with the finished result! We also made bees for the ‘ee’ sound and designed some shorts for ‘or’.

Also this week we’re continuing our subtraction work and have also been starting to think about numbers to 100. We’ve also been enjoying our play in the classroom – one group making a chain of 250 cubes!

We’re continuing our signing with Mrs Ryalls and are learning to sign along to an Easter song – check back again next week to see how we’re doing! 

P7 are so glad to be back with their friends again and we have loved seeing you in real life!

It’s been a busy (and noisy!) week and we’ve been working hard in class, learning about:

• FDP
• Negative numbers
• Area and perimeter
• Explanation writing about photosynthesis
• Paddington film trailer task map
• Spelling of words containing ch and tch
• PE playground games with Mrs Fletcher
• Music Voice recording using Garageband with Mrs Inglis
• Resilience in a virtual Assembly
• Looking back for some secret tasks

Reflect on your first week back by answering these questions.

1. What has been the best thing about being back at Kingsland?
2. What has challenged you this week?
3. What piece of work were you most proud of this week?

A huge well done to everyone who entered the Great Kingsland Bake Off! The entries were amazing and it was very difficult to choose winners. Thankfully, we had some help from Louise and the wonderful bakers at Forsyths.

Our prize winners were:

P4a – 1st Rosie, 2nd Jackson, 3rd Matthew and Alistair

P4b – 1st Allan, 2nd Rory, 3rd Beth and Lola