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Down Syndrome Awareness Day

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Dunrossness Primary School was decorated with odd socks this week ready for Down Syndrome Awareness Day!  Many pairs of odd socks, odd shoes and even bare feet were seen today!

We prepared a card and poem for one of our classmates to let her know how lucky we are to have her in our class.  We also learned to sign, ‘If classmates were flowers, we’d pick you!’

We watched a PowerPoint about Down Syndrome and did some activities that helped us realise we are more the same than different.

Finding classmates with the same interests as us.

We learned a lot of facts about Down Syndrome and many thoughtful questions were asked too.  Some we need to find out about but that’s what makes days like these so interesting for us all!  We all learn together!

We watched the song below and talked about its importance.  We decided that it shows just how many jobs a young adult with Down Syndrome can do and that everyone needs to be given a chance in all aspects of life.  We thought that this video can also link to life in school.  If one person is seen to be inclusive, that soon rubs off on all the others watching.

https://youtu.be/SKku4RAWa4M?si=JcnvIcFtJfrwUG8s

We’ve had a super day!
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Good Luck Mr Shannon!

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P4/5 have enjoyed having Mr Shannon, a first year student at Aberdeen University, working alongside us for the past five weeks.  He was popular with all the children and he’ll be missed.  We wish him every success as he continues in his teacher training!

Good luck!
For his final afternoon in our class, we introduced Mr Shannon to one of our favourite games, a Space themed Blooket Quiz.
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Next Week in P4/5

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Good morning all!  We hope you have managed to get outside and enjoy this amazing week of snow we’ve had, in between all those snowy showers!

Next week we have a busy week planned for you!  We hope that Gregory and his team from The Children’s Parliament will be in school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning.  On Tuesday, we will also have a visiting artist in class who will do creative work with you so we would ask that you all bring in an apron or old shirt to protect your clothes.

On Thursday we will be swimming again and we’ll have another session of Boccia to look forward to on Friday!

It’s going to be a busy one!  Hope to see you all soon!  👋

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31 Playful Minutes

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We are on our second week of our 31 Playful Minutes journey in P4/5.  It’s certainly a much looked forward to part of the week.  Please ask your children to explain to you why we are doing this each week, and why it is for31 minutes!

We plan to stick with our chosen ‘play’ choices for at least another week before deciding if we’d like to try one of the activities some of the others have been choosing or picking a different interest.

Below are some of the things we’ve enjoyed so far….

Always a hit!  Staff like to join in too!

A lovely, quiet area for building a Minecraft world.

Role play in the grocery shop.  They had some
tricky customers this week!

Crafts….from clay to stuffed pigs and paper bag people!

Following our own topical interests and presenting our findings however we choose.

Farms, trucks and tractors!  We even had a friend stop by who couldn’t resist a play!

We have already seen wonderful examples of sharing and cooperating together during these sessions.  Sometimes compromising can be hard at times but a playful environment is a wonderful way to work through these challenges.

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Welcome To Term 2!

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It was lovely to see everyone back for the start of Term 2 and to hear about holiday adventures both near and far!

This week some of the learning that P4/5 have been involved in has included creating an atmospheric, moonlit sky for a spooky Halloween painting, creating a plan for a story about ‘staying out’ on Halloween night and starting our opening paragraph and in Maths, working with change.

It was very amusing to see some of these activities being carried out in Halloween costumes for our dress-up day!

We’ve also had a change of seating arrangements in the class so we’ve got new friends to work alongside.

Concentrating while mixing and blending colours.
Painting is always a favourite activity in P4/5!
A quiet class, happy at their work!

Opening sentences for Ollie’s ‘Staying Out’ story…

On Halloween Bobby and Miller go camping in the street.  They set down the tent on the grass next to a path.  The grass was wet, soft and damp but they paused.  They heard a noise, a loud noise.  It came closer and closer AND closer.

Opening sentences for Alex’s ‘Staying Out’ story…

It was Halloween and Jeremy and Bob went camping in the forest.  It was a misty and cold night and it was hard to see.  All they had was a small tent, a torch, beans, firewood and matches.  They were sitting next to the fire when suddenly it went out.

Monopoly Maths in fancy dress!
Super group work playing by the rules, working out change and double checking using calculators.
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Class Charter

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Over the past few weeks, P4/5 have been working together to create our class charter.  We looked together at the Articles listed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and picked out four that we felt were important for our class.  We chose Non Discrimination…Be Ourselves, Be Respectful, Be Safe and Be Healthy.

Our next job was to identify our responsible behaviours under each heading.  Once agreed,  we voted on a theme to display our charter and the most popular idea was a Rainforest theme!

It would be really great if you could spend time talking through the responsible behaviours we have decided on at home too.

Be Ourselves

  • We understand that we all have similarities and we will respect our differences too.
  • Be ourselves…don’t change being you for other people!
  • Take interest in everyone and what they like to do.
  • Include everyone!

Be Respectful

  • Be kind and fair to everyone.
  • Listen to all ideas, even if different from your own.
  • Talk in a polite way to everyone.
  • Treat others how you would like to be treated.

Be Healthy

  • Keep our brains active and our ideas healthy.
  • Let staff know how we are feeling.
  • We will notice if our classmates are struggling and help.
  • Be active!

Be Safe

  • Use equipment at school sensibly.
  • Wear a seat belt on the bus.
  • Follow all the school rules.
  • Treat others with care.

The Duty Bearers were also given a set of responsibilities too.  The children felt these were important to include.

  • Encourage us.
  • Help us to sort out any problems we have.
  • Help us in a small group if we find something tricky.
  • Take us to new places and let us try fun activities indoors and outside.
  • Just be yourselves!
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Week One!

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It’s been lovely to see all our pupils back this week!  The Draatsi class have been kept busy.

Last year’s P5s helped our new pupils to get to know both of their teachers by introducing them to one of their favourite games on the laptop, Blooket.  It was fast and furious fun!

They have also been looking carefully at their reflections and have drawn amazing self-portraits.  These will be displayed beside a Bio Poem they have been creating to help us get to know them better too.

They have been introduced to our class topic, Rainforests and Biodiversity and have listened to the blurb on our class novel.  The title yet has to be revealed but it’s a good one!

Time was spent thinking about our school rules – Ready, Respectful and Safe and the class worked on T Charts to help them record what this would look like and sound like in our class.

The good weather meant that we could spend time outside playing team building games together so we can get to know each other better and begin to work well, collectively, as a class.

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