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IDL – Topic Learning

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This term our topic has been ‘Festivals and Celebrations’ we asked the pupils what they wanted to learn, they asked to learn about celebrations people have and the kind of beliefs they have, learners also wanted to know if we have the same beliefs.

We learned about remembrance day, birthdays, Diwali, Hannukah and Christmas. Here is a picture of our topic wall:

Our drawing club book has been ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. We have enjoyed every moment of drawing and writing about stickman, we have made a winter Stickman display and today we had a movie morning watching the BBC Stickman.

The last photo is our ‘Learning Journey Wall’ – the children choose photos to add and we decided to add some pupil voice quotes this term to tell the story of our learning.

Outdoor Learning – Posting Letters

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Primary 1 have been learning about the post, we had a visit from a postman and last week we wrote ourselves a letter about the visit. We addressed our envelopes and spoke about the postcode, house names/numbers and the location our post would be going.

Today we walked to Sound Service to buy stamps, on the way pupils pointed out different environmental print and other interesting places/things:

Pupils were excited to get into the bus stop and look at the bus timetable, we spoke about the time the bus would be coming and how to get the bus to stop. We got to use the traffic lights for the first time today too.

‘Look that sign means 20 in your car, you can’t go faster!’

‘That is new houses being built… that sign says only workers and you have to wear a hat… that word says i…n… in.’

‘There is a Shetland pony, and is the baby one called a ‘foal’?

Pupils asked the shop worker for 15 stamps, they chose 2nd class stamps and then on the way back we stopped to look at frozen nature. We enjoyed holding the frozen leaves while they melted and crushing them near our ear to hear the noises they make.

Look out in the post for your child’s letter – hope you enjoy reading it together.

 

Numeracy Week

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Numeracy Week has been a huge success at Sound School. We have enjoyed the daily ‘bell’ where the whole school stop to focus on numeracy for 10 minutes, we even had a special visitor – A Postman. He told us about how he uses numeracy and maths in his job everyday, we had lots of questions and have enjoyed having a post office role play area this week.

We have been developing our skills in using counters/loose parts to add values together, we have been revising number ordering and formation to 10/20 and exploring STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.  We planned, refined and created boats using junk modelling to help the polar bear cross the ocean.

Numeracy Week Outdoor Learning

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This week is ‘numeracy week’ at Sound Primary School, today for outdoor learning the adults were encouraging learners to notice number and beyond number learning in the outdoors. The class enjoyed exploring and playing in the wildlife area and for our group time Mrs Sjoberg encouraged us to use ‘positional language’ – we were pointing out our right and left, sitting ‘on’ top of something, lying ‘next’ to something, going ‘under’ something, climbing ‘over’ something.

Children’s voice:

‘This puddle is making splashing sounds, and the mud is ‘squelching’. The child then told Mrs Sjoberg how to segment these words using their phonics knowledge. ‘S-P-L-A-SH’

‘This stick is longer than his stick… My stick is shorter, if I add this stick too with cellotape then it is longer than his’.

‘I am jumping in ‘muddy’ puddles, my boots have mud on them’… ‘I can spell mud, M-U-D’.

‘I feel safe because this part was slippery on the tree so I am moved to this bit.’

‘Look this tree still has – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7… leaves on it, I wonder if they will be there next week or falled off?’

‘This acorn baby looks like a ‘c’ (child then showed me the action for ‘c’ and sang the ‘c’ song).

WE LOVE OUTDOOR LEARNING! (Especially on a rainy day!)

Outdoor Learning – Term 2 Week 2

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Pupil Voice:

‘This is the bonfire, wir needing some more rocks to go aroond it.’

‘We are need a fire lighter… we dunna have one lets use two sticks and rub them together’.

‘We can grab onto this with both hands and left our feet up and swing across to the other side’.

‘I am like a koala in the tree, hanging down from my arms and legs’.

Lots of role play in the wildlife area today, bonfire and den making as well as creating games in the trees. When it rained we hid in the den of trees and read the story ‘Where the wild things are’ then we revised our phonics sounds and blended some sounds to read words.

Curriculum Information Term 2

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Please find the term 2 curriculum information:

Term 2 2023-24

Our IDL topical learning will be road safety and festivals/celebrations. If you have any time to share in expertise in this area you are most welcome into our classroom.

Please can learners return home learning folders and diaries daily to school so these can be updated regularly with new phonics sounds. We will be performing a play this term called ‘The Little Blue Star’ your child may come home with lines to learn. They will be supported with this in school too.

Looking forward to a busy exciting term 2!

Term 2

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Primary 1A have been using paper to make ‘laptops’ and shown lots of interest in role playing ‘offices’. Luckily, we were given an old monitor and keyboard as well as two phones so pupils created an office in the classroom. Post it’s have provided lots of mark making opportunities, taking phone orders and messages and exploring the outdoor space with note making.

Mrs Sjoberg collected a huge box of conkers on holiday, we’ve been painting some, ordering by size, using them to count and some pupils chose to make numbers and phonemes using them. Lastly, we are getting quicker at ordering our human numberline and are so good at communicating with each other whilst supporting each other to get into the correct order.

So happy to see the pupils back in class after the holidays and so engaged in their play.


Outdoor Learning

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Primary 1A really enjoyed their first experience of outdoor learning in the wildlife area.

We are focusing on enjoying risky play safely, pupils enjoyed tree climbing, den building and scavenging. We are learning to dress appropriately for outdoor education which includes water proofs, high vis and welly boots. They decided on some key priorities: wear the right clothes, stay safe with your hands and feet, be kind to growing things, have fun and explore!

Pupil quotes about outdoor learning: 

‘I love the smell of the grass and the trees’, ‘I loved climbing the tree, I felt like an explorer’ ‘being outside makes me feel happy inside!’.