We have had great fun this week creating our own story books all about monsters. We have each made a pet monster, given it a name and started writing about what happens when the monster follows us to school one day. Surprisingly, things don’t go very well! We will hopefully share some of our finished stories soon.

We have worked hard on our first week back in school after the holidays.

Our persuasion exposition text this week has been on Homework Should be Banned.  We have had lots of great ideas in relation to this.

We are continuing to work on fractions and we are becoming more confident working with mixed numbers, improper fractions, equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions.  This can be tricky at times when we have to order fractions that have different denominators and we have to make them all the same!

We enjoyed our Live N Learn Workshop on Tuesday thinking about Grit:  Give it your all; Re-Do if Necessary;  Ignore ‘Giving Up and Take time to do it right and we have came up with a Resilience Plan.

We have also been thinking about strategies to help us stay safe and thinking about the people we trust in our life to help us with our worries.  We thought about our worries and had fun with bubbles trying to ‘pop’ worries.

In PE we  played rounders and working on some athletics skills eg running, jumping and throwing.

Share what you have enjoyed this week or what you have learned this week.

On the last week of term we had decorated our door to say farewell to Mrs Wilson.

We have had a great first week back.

We have been looking at division and measure in maths.

We have been learning about exposition texts and how they are used to persuade people.

We have started to think about sustainability and how we can reduce our impact on the world.

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Mrs Brown

We have had a great first week back.

We have been looking at division and measure in maths.

We have been learning about exposition texts and how they are used to persuade people.

We have started to think about sustainability and how we can reduce our impact on the world.

Leave a comment to say one thing you learned this week and one thing you enjoyed.

Mrs Brown, Mrs Smith and Mrs Harrison

This week primary 1 have been building words with en in them, we came up with lots of words like hen, pen, men, then, when, end, send and friend.

Primary 1 and P2/1 continued with their RSPB wild challenge today by setting up their compost bin. We hope to make rich compost to put on the plants we are going to grow  in the school garden. We added some soil, worms, apples cores and  some veggie peelings into the compost bin to get us started. We spoke to the dinner ladies who are going to give us vegetable peelings from the school lunches to add to the bin.

Today we went to check on the worms 🪱 in the wormery, we fed them some banana skins and used teabags! The worms were very lively, we were careful not to keep the lid off for too long as we didn’t want the worms to get to warm in the bright sunlight.

This week our new double sound is oa. We thought of lots of words with the oa sound and shared the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We made our stick puppets to help us retell the story and built bridges out of Lego for the goats to cross.

Primary 1 have been talking about how each of us are special, we all have special qualities that make us unique.

We shared the story of Elmer, he has a bright patchwork coat but he is special to his friends because he is kind, thoughtful, helpful and funny.

We are all special!