Yesterday was Christmas lunch day and it was delicious! Thank you to Mrs Clyde and her team, and to all the adult helpers.

We continued reading, writing and maths this week as well as doing many Christmas crafty things.

Here are the Christmas cards we made.

We made felt stuffed owls, using many skills such as threading, tying knots, sewing and cutting.

Our party on Tuesday afternoon was a great success. We danced and played games with P5b and enjoyed party food and drink.

We have learned lots from the Inspire 12 days of Christmas iPad activities. We have made animated gif cards, Memojis and AR scenes.

Mrs Hill, a retired science teacher and STEM ambassador, gave us light up circuits she made. We designed a picture and choose where the light should go, and where the switch should go.
Here are our creations, thank you Mrs Hill!

P5a and P5b enjoyed their Christmas party on Tuesday afternoon. There was dancing, games and party food, and some very smart and sparkly outfits!
Thank you to Mr Hawkins and Mr Cocolin who have been teaching the dances in PE, and to the Parent Council for the lovely party bags.

Mrs Stevenson’s class spelling – long o

We have been doing some Christmas themed activities this week.

We made Advent  christingles and have posted a video about them.

We sang our Christmas song and painted pictures to go with it.

In PE we have been learning dances for our party next week.

Our recount writing was about our journey back from space where some goes wrong but fortunately we resolve it and get home safely.

In grammar we learned about comparative and superlative adjectives.

We are learning about written methods for multiplication and will be doing division methods next.

In health and well-being we watched an NSPCC video with the message ‘speak out, stay safe’.

We have been using our iPads to learn new skills from the Inspire Team’s 12 days of Christmas. Here are some of our creations!

We learned about Advent Christingles and made our own.

Watch our video below!

This week we continued to research the planets in our Solar System and we made a wall display. We are learning how to take notes as we listen, and this helps us to remember facts.

We used chalk pastels to make these planets pictures. We smudged the colours and used black and white to shade the dark and light sides.

Also on the theme of planets our classroom order arrived and it included these inflatable planets!

In writing we wrote a recount of a trip and in health and well-being we looked at changing emotions and then the rights of the child.

In maths we linked multiplication to division and noticed that a number family has 4 facts. We are still learning how to plot coordinates and draw symmetrical patterns.

Our drama time is all about preparing our mission to Space, and this week we worked in our teams to plan a training programme for astronauts.

Have a great long weekend for St. Andrew’s Day!

We are learning about keeping connected as a Building Resilience strategy. We found out more about each other when we played a game called Find someone who…

For book week we read the special book The Last Wolf, shared by the whole school. It explores the sad theme of deforestation and extinction, but ends with hope. As we read it we charted our changing emotions by holding up our emotion face pictures. After we had talked about it we drew what we think would happen next, or far into the future.

Our writing is a recount and we planned and wrote about our first day at school. We remembered what we learned and drew, and about having lunch with p7s.

In maths we are learning times tables and why they are useful. We also continued symmetry and plotting shapes on grids.

Here are our poppy pictures from last weeks’ Remembrance Day.

Our spelling was long i, made in various ways.

We are learning about the planets and used our notebook to take short notes while watching a clip. This is a useful skill to help us remember what we’ve heard.

We used our iPads to sketch hedgehogs after working on the school book about Harry the Hedgehog.

And finally, the pheasant! It perched outside our window today, as it pecked around the playground looking for food.