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Art and Craft, Expressive Arts, Listening and Talking, literacy, Social Studies, STEM

The Three Little Pigs

September 22, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children loved hearing the story of the three Little Pigs.

The children worked in groups to create houses made of straw, sticks and blocks. They had to decide how to join the different materials and make it as strong as they could.

It was great to listen to the children sharing ideas, chatting about the story as they made the different parts of the houses. The three versions look great.

The primary 2 and 3 children used the story for writing practise and have written books of their own. below are examples of writing from three different primary 2’s.

The Primary 3’s have been focusing on extending their vocabulary and including different connectives to lengthen their sentences.

The primary 1’s and 2’s loved using the story for Drawing Club. It is amazing to see the progress in the P1 fine motor control.

The have also been using stick puppets and masks to role play the story and make up their own adventures too.

Art and Craft, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, literacy, Science, Social Skills

Buddying

June 26, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The Primary 1’s look forward to meeting up with their buddies every week. The p7’s plan a variety of fantastic fun activities to do together and recently completed this collage based on the Hungry Caterpillar story.

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The Hare and the Tortoise

June 26, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children loved the story of the Hare and the Tortoise and we used the story in Drawing Club. These are some of the drawing Club masterpieces.

The Primary 2’s re-wrote the story using pictures which they had sequenced to help them remember the story order.

They did an amazing job of using exciting vocabulary, description and phrases which they picked from listening really well to the story and Drawing Club and applying this to their own pieces of writing.

They read their stories out to the class and were proud to see them on display.

The Primary 1’s made the cute tortoises with beautiful collaged shells.

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Spring Flower Science and Literacy

May 17, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children have been learning about about flowers. They have been finding out about the different parts of a flower and how they grow and change.

They have been investigating and naming the different parts of flowers and learning about how dandelions use the wind for seed dispersal and bees take the pollen to different flowers.

This all ties in with discussions about Spring in the classroom and when we are outdoors.

The Primary Two’s used lots of verbs to write poems about Spring. They did a great job of making a good copy to display on the wall using ICT skills they have been practicing recently.

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Imagine………

March 30, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The primary 2’s enjoyed coming up with ideas for this poem. They really got the hang of the rhyming words, descriptive language and rhythm of the poem and were super chuffed with the results.

They also got a chance to practise their IT skills, changing the size, colour and style of font as well as centering their work and then saving and printing it.

Art and Craft, Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, literacy

Mother’s Day

March 17, 2023 Mrs Forsyth 1 Comment

The children were really focused and wanted to make their Mothers Day presents really special for all the lovely mums out there.

They looked amazing and the children were really proud of them.

Willum and River had the job of filling up the cups- I think the mums in their houses have done well!

They wrote their names on tags and wrapped their gifts. I hope they all made it home safely.

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

World Book Day

March 2, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children all looked amazing today and had great fun listening to and reading stories.

Several of the staff joined in as characters from the book The Day the Crayons Quit.

The children loved sharing their books and explaining who their characters were.

Ellis dressed as Greg from Diary of A Wimpy Kid and Mrs Moncrieff was the white crayon to colour him in.

In the afternoon the children became authors and publishers and wrote their own books! They were so enthusiastic and the independent writing was amazing.

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Our Big Dino Build

January 29, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children started by selecting suitable boxes/junk to make their model dinosaur. They worked in pairs so there was a lot of discussion and collaboration to find the parts and join them together.

We spoke about how to make their model strong by creating different types of joins in using PVA and sellotape.

The next stage was seriously messy. They used papier mache to cover the dinosaur, focusing on the joins and making sure the newspaper strips went from one part of the model onto an adjoining part.

Once the models had two coats of papier mache it was time to choose colours for their dinosaur.

Once the paint was dry the children thought about the detail they wanted to add- eyes, teeth, claws etc.

The primary 2’s have been working on adjectives in their literacy work so this was a great opportunity to apply that learning to describing their dinosaur.

The writing was read out in class for the others to guess which model the description matched.

Their is now a little Dinosaur Exhibition set up in the school for the other classes and staff to visit to see the models and the writing.

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Sentences in P1

January 15, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The Primary 1’s have moved on to learning how to use their sounds and words to write sentences.

They were so proud of their writing and what they did will be coming home as part of their homework to show you this week.

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New Years Resolutions

January 5, 2023 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The class recycled old Christmas cards to make these stars to hang in the classroom.

On the back they wrote their New Years Resolutions. It was lovely to hear what the children would like to get better at and their wishes/promises for 2023.

Here are a couple of ideas of the kind of things they were thinking about.

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

Cards for the Community

December 29, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

All the children in the school made Christmas cards for the over 80’s who live in the community. The primary 1/2 class uses tatties to print penguins then put on details with cut paper and pens. They looked fantastic. I am sure the recipients were delighted with these precious cards.

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Making Words In Primary 1

November 20, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

It is so exciting to see how the Primary 1’s are using their phonic sounds to build words. Everyday we practise their sounds and do lots of games and activities to practise blending letters to read and make words.

They loved playing hopscotch in the classroom using wordcards.

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Remembrance Day Poppies

November 16, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children worked together to make two Remembrance Day poppy wreaths.

The Primary 2’s wrote instructions for how to make them.

The children made these lovely poppy pictures with their fingerprints. Adding stems and leaves with black pen.

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Halloween Fun

October 30, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The bairns have had so much fun being back at school with a Halloween theme in the classroom. They have been enjoying dressing up, reading stories, making potions and spells, hocking out pumpkins and finding spooky creatures in some very disgusting blue goo amongst other things.

After reading the story Funnybones the children had a go at drawing skeletons. They loved learning about the different bones and feeling for them inside their own bodies. The drawing were excellent.

The children helped Grizelda the Witch with her spell. They put in lots of gruesome, unusual and scary things.

There was great excitement as the mixture began to bubble up and the children said their magic words.

The mixture bubbled over and the children thought of wonderful things their spell could do……..

The children completed some writing using their favourite ingredients for the cauldron. These are from Primary 1’s.

They loved the opportunity to scrape the seeds out of the pumpkins and get them ready for carving. This created lots of discussion, fun and mess.

Health and Wellbeing, Listening and Talking, literacy, maths, Science, Social Skills, STEM, technology

Trip to the Windfarm

September 29, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

We went to the Viking Energy windfarm for a visit. So many roads, so much information and so many trucks and vehicles. They loved wearing the PPE, being on a bus and having packed lunches as part of their day out.

In the afternoon the children were in the hills and got to see the huge scale of the base of one of the wind turbines. They also had a quiz and used the information boards to find the answers.

The children brought a time capsule with them. They had all written some information about themselves and predicted what might be happening in 25 years time when it gets dug up again. The children got to choose which one of the 103 windmills it would be buried under using the map as a guide.

They chose one near to Weisdale and there will be a competition to now give their windmill a name.

The primary 2’s wrote reports on their trips, These are by Chloe and Sophie. They did an amazing job remembering all the things they saw and being able to write so many sentences about their day out.

Listening and Talking, literacy, maths, Science, STEM

Dying with Beetroot

September 20, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The children pulled up the beetroot from the Polycrub. They washed it and chopped it and put it on to boil.

They cut a square of material and put it in a pan to boil with vinegar.

Once everything had boiled the beetroot was drained and the material put into the purply red juices.

This is Sophie’s instructions describing what we did.

Listening and Talking, literacy, Science, Social Skills

Beginning Phonics in P1

September 1, 2022 Mrs Forsyth Leave a comment

The primary 1’s love hearing their new sounds. They listen to a story, sing along to a song, play games on the whiteboard and practise formations.

They practise the letter formations in various ways including, in the sand, shaving foam, with playdough and on the whiteboards.

They have been doing speedy skills everyday to practise the letter formations and lots of hiding and searching games. They also have had ‘s’ for spaghetti, ‘t’ for tea to play in and ‘i’ for ink experiments.