Health and Wellbeing, Science, Social Skills

more polycrub produce

June 27, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The beetroot is amazing this year. The children pulled it up and it has been picked and put in jars. They will get a taste after the holidays.

The carrots – not so amazing. They didn’t get the attention they needed and didn’t get thinned out as the seeds had been sown too close together. The children enjoyed laughing at how small they were but did manage to crunch a few of the bigger ones.

All the children got a sunflower and tomato plant to take home and there were plenty for some of the other classes too. More peas have been eaten and the other plants are getting cleared out before the end of term.

The children thought that next year they would like to have a plant sale and raise money to get some new trowels and tools for the polycrub.

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, literacy, Social Skills

Emergency!

June 27, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

the children have been learning about the Emergency Services and how to get in touch with them.

In small groups they created little plays about an emergency when they needed to dial 999 and ask for the Police, Ambulance, Fire or Coastguard.

They have loved playing with Emergency vehicles in class, especially the ‘Oscar Charlie’ helicopter.

Listening and Talking, literacy

literacy puzzles in p1

June 27, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

Reading happens everywhere in the classroom. The primary 1’s have been using a variety of different resources to practice building words and reading them out loud.

they have also begun to learn the ‘names’ of the letters – as they are said in the alphabet.

Health and Wellbeing, Science, Social Skills

Sunflowers and Peas!

June 17, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

Huge excitement today in the polycrub as the children discovered several of the sunflowers had opened up.

A lot of the peas were also ready to be picked. The children tried a few and Conan brought a tub back to the school canteen. The cooks were delighted and will serve them up with the picnic lunch on Wednesday.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, Science, Social Skills, STEM

On Our Doorstep

June 17, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

Another Monday afternoon exploring our amazing local area. A walk in the Strom Road and down to the little beach to complete todays task…….’what can you make?’

Some groups decided to do dam building…….

Others diverted the water flow into new channels….

the children came up with so many different ideas………..

There was also time to explore the shoreline and find out what lives there.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, maths, Social Skills, STEM

Obstacle Course to 30!

June 11, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The best way to practice counting out loud is to have lots of fun while doing it. The primary 1 children built an obstacle course and took turns at being the leader and counting to 30, controlling everybody who was running around, under, through, behind, over obstacles.

Art and Craft, Expressive Arts, Listening and Talking, literacy, Science, STEM

The Crow and the Pitcher

June 11, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children loved the Aesop’s fable called the Crow and the Pitcher. The primary ones made crow puppets and used jugs and glass pebbles to retell the story. They loved being videoed on the class ipad and watching it back.

The primary 2”s wrote the story and then read it to a partner who acted it out using props. This is Conans story. He did a fantastic job of spelling and remembering to include all the important parts of the story in sequence.

Art and Craft, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, maths, Social Skills

Fruit Pots

June 5, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

Primary 1/2 are the Health Committee this term.

They presented their idea for fruit pots in assembly a few weeks ago and designed pot shaped adverts to display on the Health Committee board.

Today the children were very busy……washing, chopping and sorting fruits into little pots.

They used the fruit/vegetable knives very sensibly.
They counted out the cups and little forks and started sharing all the different fruits into the pots.

The children were very excited to welcome all the classes and staff to come and get a fruit pot at breaktime.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, maths, Science

Polycrub Progress

June 4, 2024 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The radishes were the first thing to be ready for harvesting. They have grown really fast. The children got to take some home and the cooks at school chopped somefor the children to try at lunchtime.

The sunflowers are getting very big. The children have re-potted them and are keeping an eye on the flowers at the top to see which ones bloom first. They are measuring Laurie’s one everyday as it is the tallest at the moment.

They have also cleared out all the spinach. They got a little bag of leaves to take home and try and the rest has been frozen ready to add to a recipe soon.

Willum did a great job of tying up peas onto the canes. It is really exciting seeing the peapods growing now. The children are desperate to start popping them open.