March 18, 2022
by Mrs Irvine
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Comic Relief and LEGO Challenges

Primary One were all dressed in something red today for Comic Relief.

The children really enjoyed taking part in the LEGO challenges as part of Comic Relief. They had to build habitats for each of the characters. Here are their creations…

Rainforests for Cam and Dash

Salt Lakes for Flo

Savanna for Dot, Sky and Lucky

Rivers for Rocco and Chip

March 17, 2022
by Mrs Irvine
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Spring Walk

Today Primary One went for a walk to see signs of spring.

: We were going on a spring walk to look for signs of spring. (FP)

: We saw some birds on our walk. (JR)

: We were looking for lots of things around the school. (MW)

: We found flowers; daffodils, crocuses and snowdrops. (MS)

: This is a crocus. (JL)

: The leaves are coming on the prickly plant at the leisure centre. (JM)

: We had to tick things off our sheet.I liked checking off the lists. (FA)

: The wind made our sheet blow about. (JL)

: There were tiny green leaves starting to grow. (RI)

: There are buds on the trees. (JL)

: We went to the wild garden and it started to rain. (HS)

: Things are starting to grow in the ground.

: When we got back we drew and wrote words about what we saw. (MM)

March 14, 2022
by Mrs Irvine
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Home Learning 14.03.22

Hello,

We hope everyone is feeling OK.

Here is the grid for this week: Family Learning Grid Primary 1 14.3.22

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

March 7, 2022
by Mrs Irvine
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Home Learning 07/03/22

For any of our pupils who are isolating, here is a grid of activities for the week.

Family Learning Grid Primary 1 7.3.22

The blue folders are available in the school porch this pm. If you have any issues collecting the folders please concentrate on the online grid.

We hope everyone is feeling better soon.

March 4, 2022
by Miss Irvine
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This week we have been doing a lot of activities on the Supertato book. We have been working on our fine motor skills by lacing string around Evil Pea and the vegetables, building Lego jails to capture Evil Pea and making our own Supertato crafts. We also made Wanted posters for Evil Pea and wrote really good descriptions.

Yesterday, we all dressed up for World Book Day. We wrote about our costumes and watched an Author’s Live about Julia Donaldson then drew the Gruffalo.

In the afternoon we shared stories with Primary 5/6 and it was really good fun. You can see their World Book Day blog post here

: We did a picture together

: It was fun drawing with somebody else

: They helped us to write

: It was fun working together

: I liked seeing everybody dressed up

: I liked listening to the story

: They were good at reading stories

: My story was called King Cats

: We read a car story

: We read Oi Frog

: We read Monsters wear Underpants

: I really liked my book

February 23, 2022
by Miss Irvine
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Winter walk

: The ice felt cold in our hands.

: We were scraping the ice with our toes.

: We were touching frozen puddles with our hands.

: We went for a walk on a cold day.

: The football pitch was covered in snow. We played on it at breaktime.

: We could see our breath in the cold.

: It was too icy to make snow angels.

: We had fun on the snowy grass.

: We tried to make a snowman but it wasn’t enough snow.

: We followed footprints.

: We think it was a rabbit!

February 7, 2022
by Miss Irvine
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Languages Week

Primary 1 have been busy learning about flags. We listed to a song on youtube about Flags, played a matching flag game and also made flags using Lego. With the Lego, we also built famous landmarks from around the world. We compared the colours and pattern of the Shetland and Portuguese flag and also painted some different 2 and 3 colour flags. This week we are going to type up names of countries at computing to go with our flags

Primary 1 enjoyed looking at the Food around the World PowerPoint and sounding out the names and dishes from countries. We realised we enjoyed different food from all over the world!

In music, we sang a German Song called Paule Puhmanns Paddelboot, we can say Guten Tag and Auf Wiedersehen which is good afternoon and goodbye in German.

On the class Whiteboard we have listened to different stories from around the world from this website and we enjoyed looking at Google Earth. One day we zoomed in on Whalsay , Portugal and the North Pole! We also enjoyed playing an online game called Pirate Bunnies

January 25, 2022
by Mrs Irvine
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Burns Night

Primary 1 have been learning about celebrations and as part of that, have been learning about Robert Burns.

Today we held a Burns Supper. The children helped to prepare the vegetables for the feast, talking about textures and smells, and learning about safety.

: Keeping our fingers behind the knife.

: haveing clean hands and hair tied back.

: Cutting away form our fingers.

: Talking about where our food comes from.

Once everything was ready the class helped to set up the tables. We were all very excited as it was the first time some of us had tasted haggis, neeps and tatties! We said the Selkirk Grace and tucked in! Everyone had a peerie try of something on their plate and it was amazing how many people enjoyed all of the elements.

Afterwards we all danced to Auld Lang Syne.

January 17, 2022
by Mrs Irvine
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Talking and Listening

This term in primary one we are taking part in a ‘Show and Tell’ session every Friday. This is a great way to develop key skills to become good listeners and talkers. This week we were concentrating on looking at our audience when we talk and also ways to show we are listening. It was great to see everyone’s interpretations of the topic, “What makes me happy…”. Some people took in props, which were kept in bags and returned to bags afterwards to keep them safe. It was great to see the children begin to talk to larger groups and also convey important information. Questioning was modelled by the teacher and some children picked up on this to ask really good questions at the end. Well done everyone!