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IDL – Fairytales

Our topic for term 2 has been fairytales. We wanted to learn about castles and dragons, we shared stories, folktales and learnt facts about where and why castles were built. We’ve enjoyed a range of art and design activities for IDL – we focus on the process of creating art work so all our paintings and drawings are unique and allow us to be creative in the design process.
In literacy we’ve been learning about ‘adjectives’ – we thought of adjectives to describe our dragons and added adjectives to our literacy working wall to help us with our writing.

‘castles were built on the hill to stop the bad guys getting there quickly’

’castles were built with stones because they don’t burn and are strong!’

We linked our World Book Day door display to our IDL too by creating a door that takes you into Fairytale land.

Outdoor Learning with 3B

We love outdoor learning in P1 and really wanted to share our love of the beach with P3. Pupils were really interested in finding ‘treasure’ and all found some interesting items at the beach. We were using our adapting meta-skills of being curious about the world around us and asking questions.

Pupil comments:

‘my sea glass looks like the Shetland flag!’
‘I found a rusty nail, a smooth stone and a piece of pottery.’

Both classes have been using adjectives in their writing. This week after our beach trip pupils suggested we both write about her sea treasures then pupils were keen to share their writing with the other class so we did a writing pair and share. We’ve really enjoyed learning together.

Pupil comments:

‘I loved seeing what P1 can write, they had some good adjectives in their writing!’
‘I like the P3s writing, they read it to me and I knew some of the words myself!’
‘Can we do more together? I liked sharing mine and reading the P1 writing to see what they thought the beach looked like.’