We have enjoyed our short week in the lead up to the Christmas holidays and have been thinking lots about what Christmas means for other people.  We were talking about how not everyone celebrates Christmas in the same way and how lucky we are to be spending time with our families this festive season.

I think I am lucky this Christmas because:

Poppy – “I get to spend time with my family”

Griffin – “I get a tasty Christmas dinner that my mummy and daddy cook for me”

Breaghannon – “I get extra cuddles from my family”

Teigan – “I get to try new things, I like Breakfast with Santa the best”

Ellie – “People are kind and buy me presents”

Rory – “My mum and dad let me open presents in the middle of the day and I like doing that”

Emily – “Santa visits me and I spend time with my family”

Marley – “I get to make crafts with my mummy”

Liam – “I might get to see Santa, that would be lucky”

Keegan – “I get to spend time with all of my family”

Rio – “I get to see my dad”

Leila – “I like spending time with family, on Christmas Eve I can see my friends”

Jonah – “I have lots of brothers that love me”

Brandon – “I like spending time with my family and going to the cinema on Christmas Eve”

Cameron – “I spend time with my family”

Millie – “I get to spend time with my family too”

Max – “I have the best teacher at school and I get to have a holiday”

Regan – “I have the best friends at school and the best class”

Leah – “Santa gives me the presents that I really want because I am on the nice list”

We had a chat in circle time about what we hope Santa will bring us for Christmas.  Here is the thing we are hoping for the most:

Teigan – “I would like a train”

Cameron – “A teenage mutant ninja turtle thing that has a slide”

Rio – “A dinocharger would be cool”

Griffin – “I would like an ipad”

Poppy – “I would like Trollz”

Leila – “I hope I get an American girl doll with blonde hair”

Jonah – “I have a big Dumbo, I would like a small Dumbo”

Marley – “My favourite will be Pokemon cards”

Ellie – “I would like Paw Patrol Pups”

Keegan – “I hope Santa brings me Pokemon cards”

Liam – “I would like Dinosaurs”

Emily – “I would like an American doll too.  I want it to have an ice cream van”

Brandon – “The number one thing on my list is a Transformers Fire House Headquarters”

Breaghannon – “I would like Paw Patrol jammies to go to bed in”

Leah – “I would like a Hatchimal”

Millie – “I would like an American girl doll, the ice cream one”

Max – “From Santa I would like an iphone”

Regan – “I have lots of things but I would like a castle that is already built”

Rory – “Presents that I like opening is what I would like”

From Primary 2/1.

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – I would like to thank everyone for your kind Christmas gifts, I am really looking forward to opening them on Christmas day.  I hope that you all have a lovely festive period, full of Christmas cheer, and get the opportunity to ‘recharge your batteries’ before the start of Term 3.  Thank you for your continued support, I look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year!  Merry Christmas!)

Hi,

Another fabulous week in Primary 2/1 full of exciting new challenges.  We have been talking a lot about having a growth mindset and have been thinking of sayings to help us send good messages to our brains.  These messages help us to challenge ourselves.  Here are some of the ways we have challenged ourselves this week:

Max – “I challenged myself by doing counting activities and practising every day”

Millie – “The way I challenged myself this week was stations and at home.  I tried to make a tricky word game and learn new tricky words”

Cameron – “I was getting better at numbers, I set challenges for myself”

Griffin – “I was challenging myself to learn new adding strategies like doubling”

Rory – “I challenged myself in phonics.  I read the word on the board then I turned around and tried to write it, it will make me better”

Brandon – “Phonics was tricky this week but I tried my best.  I wrote sentences with a phonic word and a tricky word”

Leila – “In maths we have been doing challenges, I like to challenge myself”

Liam – “I made new friends this week, it was hard at the start”

Emily – “When I’m doing maths I like to do dominoes and when I do the dominoes I count the number and try to find the number pot.  I challenge myself by covering and counting on”

Poppy – “I tried the red challenge for the first time in maths.  We had number fans and we were doing sums and adding by counting on, it was easier than I thought”

Leah – “I did adding sums with the dice, I did good”

Rio – “I was flashing my numbers.  I didn’t count them, that was good”

Keegan – “I flashed numbers to 5.  Next time I will try numbers to 10”

Regan – “I am getting faster at flashing numbers too”

Marley – “I did the red challenge and flipped numbers so the big number was in my head.  It was tricky but good”

Ellie – “I got better at adding by adding new numbers”

Teigan – “I have tried my best with talking to other teachers”

Breaghannon – “I learned new numbers this week.  I am clever”

Jonah – “I tried to think of words with ‘oa’ and ‘oo’.  ‘oo’ is tricky!”

Something to remember!

The P1 Christmas Show takes place on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.   We are still waiting for a few costumes to come in before our dress rehearsal on Monday – please can these be brought in on Monday please.  We don’t have extra costumes to provide.   Thank you.

Hi,

We have had lots of exciting moments this week in P2/1, especially with the start of December!!  Here are our most exciting learning moments:

Emily – “Learning how to set up the Christmas tree in the Cosy Corner”

Liam – “Playing a new phonic game, the Invisible Man”

Rio – “I liked outdoor learning this week”

Cameron – “Outdoor learning because we got to do adding sums in a game”

Brandon – “Outdoor learning was fun because we played ‘Shark Attack’ and the sums were the islands”

Max – “Getting to play invisible man”

Ellie – “I liked Buddy time because we made backgrounds for our P1 show”

Poppy – “Learning how to fold and make a paper snowflake”

Regan – “Playing invisible man”

Leah – “The snowflakes were fun to make”

Jonah – “I liked winning invisible man”

Keegan – “Decorating the Christmas tree was good fun”

Rory – “I liked outdoor learning too”

Marley – “I liked making my snowflakes for the class – it made it look Christmassy.  I liked using the ipads for adding too”

Griffin – “New phonics games and activities”

Millie – “Buddy time and snowflakes were exciting”

Teigan – “Learning about Christmas trees and talking about our next learning”

Leila – “I liked circle time because we talked about the naughty and nice list and the things the cheeky elves have done”

Breghannon – “I liked outdoor learning, it helped my sums”

From,

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – costume letters have now been issued for the P1 parents, they are due to be brought into school by Wednesday so we have time to organise these before our dress rehearsal. If there are any issues with this, please let me know!  Also – apologies for the delay in getting homework out this week…in the excitement of Being Cool in School lessons and the Show Practice on Wednesday it was overlooked!)

What a week!!   This week the Friendly Dragon has been very busy in our class leaving notes, challenges and even a couple of presents!!!   He left us the Fairytale ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ which we have read in our brand new Castle tent in Cosy Corner!   He challenged us to draw what we think he looks like and the Primary 2 practised moving like a dragon and thinking of words to describe what the dragon looks like!

The best bits of our learning across the curriculum topic this week have been:

Brandon – “Learning about feelings and making a dwarf to show how feelings show on our body”

Rory – “Reading fairytales in the cosy corner castle tent”

Cameron – “I like sitting in the castle, it is cool”

Ellie – “We decorated cookies after reading our Fairytale”

Regan – “Learning about stranger danger and knowing not to accept sweets from a stranger”

Max – “Snow White took an apple from a stranger, this was very dangerous”

Marley – “I liked building my castle and looking at the different rooms”

Keegan – “I liked making the cookies too, it reminded me about stranger danger”

Poppy – “When the dragon came and ask us to draw him, it was tricky to draw the wings”

Leila – I liked learning about stranger danger.  I want to be safe”

Breghannon – “Mummy let me eat my cookies when I went home”

Teigan – “I liked making the apple for the top of my cookie”

Griffin – “I liked using the coloured icing to decorate a dwarf face biscuit!”

Millie – “The stranger danger stations were the best bit”

We have been challenging ourselves in maths and literacy too:

Emily – “I have been learning about ‘buy one get one free sums’, I can do them now!”

Jonah – “I liked doing adding sums at stations, I liked using the number bond boards”

Rio – ” I liked creating an invite for our Christmas fayre, I am excited!”

Max – “We got some new games at stations, I liked the snowball words”

Leila – “Fiddly fingers was good this week, we had to practise moving magic beans to make sums”

Leah – “We made a lion in phonics this week, I am getting good at sliding words”

What a busy week!!

Remember that the Christmas fayre starts tomorrow at 10.00am.  We have some lovely Hot Chocolate Reindeer to sell (£1 each) and Reindeer Food (50p each).  We hope to see lots of you there tomorrow!!!

From,

Primary 2/1

Hi everyone!
This has been another great week!

The best bits of this week have been:

Emily – “Pudsey day because we get to raise money to help other children”

Cameron – “Making hot chocolate reindeer for our class enterprise”

Leah – “Dressing up to help raise money for Children in Need”

Max – “A dragon arrived at imagination station.  We called him Sparky”

Jonah – “learning z in phonics – I liked making a zoo”

Rio – “Practising for the school show.  I know my line”

Brandon – “Getting to build a castle at the construction station”

Breaghannon – “Making hot chocolate reindeer too!”

Ellie – “Sequencing the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears'”

Rory – “Learning about Pudsey day”

Teigan – “Listening to the story of Goldilocks and doing the voices”

Keegan – “Everything.  It has been a good week!”

Marley – “Pudsey day and my t-shirt”

Leila – “Dressing up and even getting to come to school in our pyjamas”

Poppy – “Making a map of Fairyland with our p7 buddies”

Griffin – “meeting my p7 buddy and my class. I like p1”

Regan – “Buddy time was my best bit too because I liked using my castle book”

Millie – “Pudsey day because I got to dress up”

From

Primary 2/1

Hello everyone!

We’ve had another fabulous week in P2/1!!

The best bits have been:

Poppy – “our new reading challenge about the Balloon that went to the forest”

Liam – “turning role play into a castle”

Keegan – “I liked making a castle, I made the crown for role play”

Cameron – “I liked using scrunched up paper towels to paint with.  It looked really cool.

Max – “When the dragon surprised us with a D-mail during lunch time, he left lots of nice dress up clothes”

Rory – “I liked making the flags for the castle”

Regan – “I liked making the flag”

We were very lucky that Mrs Mansfield applied for us to enter a reading challenge. We read ‘The Great Hot Balloon Adventure’ by Stephen Holmes and then had to select our favourite part of the story.  The challenge is to draw a picture of our favourite bit and then these will be posted online and a winner will be selected!  We really hope that we win.  We spoke about our best bits of the story:

Leila – “I liked when they jumped off the air-balloon and jumped on the cloud”

Leah – “When the bunny hopped out of the air-balloon to see them”

Ellie – “When they gave the hot chocolate to the owl”

Teigan – “I liked the characters, the children looked nice”

Jonah – “I liked the bit when the rabbit landed and got the children”

Rio – “When the hot air-balloon moved into the sky”

Brandon – “I liked the part when they were going to the forest”

Marley – “I liked when the girl and the boy finished school and went home to play”

Millie – “When they were at the enchanted forest, I want to go”

Breaghannon – “I liked the hot chocolate bit”

Emily – “When the rabbit jumped out of the hot air-balloon”

We have had a week full of adventures, we can’t wait to see what else happens.

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – I have had a few parents ask me about lyrics for the Primary 1 show.  These will be posted on another blog so that all P1 parents can access it.  If there are any problems please let me, or another P1 teacher, know and we will do our best to help!)

Hi everyone!

What a week we have had…after the holiday week we came back to class and were surprised to find footprints leading towards our cosy corner!  We weren’t sure what had left the footprints or what clues we could find to help us work it out.  Here were some of our thoughts about who had left the things and the footprints:

Brandon – “It could have been a secret map in the scroll that a polar bear had left.  It would take us to a secret, invisible castle”

Ellie – “I thought it might have been a cheetah that left the footprints!”

Poppy – “I thought it was a tiger”

Teigan – “It was something very big that left the footprints!”

Liam – “It might be a big dinosaur, Mrs Mansfield would be scared a dinosaur would come to class”

Millie – “I thought it was a scary, scary, scary bad animal”

Leila – “The scroll smelled like fire!”

Max – “The scroll was like it had been in lava.  I thought it was a massive animal that breathed fire!”

Marley – “I felt sad because I didn’t want the dragon to make a mess with his footprints!”

Cameron – “I thought it might have been a crocodile because there were teeth marks in the paper”

Breghannon – “I thought it was a bit dirty, the paper looked a funny colour.”

Rory – “I thought it was a magic dinosaur because we could pick up the magic footprints!”

Emily – “I thought it might be an alligator.  I know what sound alligator starts with”

Regan – “I was happy because when I walked in I never knew it would be there”

Leah – “It was a cheetah and his tooth fell out when he ate the letter”

Jonah – “I thought it was from the flintstones time.”

Rio – “It was a tiger, the footprints were big”

It actually turned out to be a dragon that had left the footprints!!!  He had left us a scroll explaining that his home had been destroyed.  The Friendly Dragon needed help bringing Fairyland back to life, to do this we have to believe in our fairytales, read fairytales and complete jobs.  The first Fairy-tale we read was Jack and the Beanstalk – we practised sequencing the story, acting out as the characters and were able to talk and answer questions about the story.  It was all very exciting!  We are really looking forward to getting more ‘D-mails’ to help build Fairyland back up again.

Other Successes of the Week

• Rory – Pupil of the Week
• Cameron – Star Writer

From

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – Just a reminder that auditions for the School talent show will take place next Thursday – please encourage your children to practise their acts (songs, dancing, jokes…the list goes on) before then.  Children do not need to take part if they don’t want to but I look forward to seeing what our future stars have prepared.  Have a nice weekend!)

We have really enjoyed this week in P2/1.  There have been lots of good bits but these have been our favourite:

Millie – “making the owl by cutting out shapes and sticking them onto black card”

Rio – “I liked going to church”

Breghannon – “I liked church too!”

Cameron – “I liked singing songs at th echurch”

Poppy – “Making a jigsaw with our P7 buddy”

Ellie – “Reading a story with Mrs Dunbar and telling her about our apple experiment”

Marley – “Mummy coming to the church.  I waved to Mrs Aitchison and my mummy and I loved maths this week.  I’ve had a good week!”

Emily – “I liked church because I liked the singing”

Rocco – “The best bit was making a jigsaw”

Romeo – “I liked making and cutting a jigsaw too”

Regan – “Coming out of the church and giving my papa a cuddle”

Teigan – “I liked church with Marley”

Jonah – “I loved going to church”

Keegan – “I liked the church”

Leah – “I liked making a puzzle”

Rory – “Church was really good fun”

Max – “My favourite bit was learning sign language, we learned the colours”

Liam – “Singing the rainbow song in our sign language lesson with P2s”

Leila – “I liked going to church, it was exciting!”

We started work on our P1 show this week, we learned the song Tapping Away and we even got the chance to be on the stage.  We were excited to hear what parts we are in the show.

Narrators  – Rory, Cameron, Poppy, Rocco, Millie, Romeo, Leah

Santa – Regan

Reindeer – Emily, Leila, Rio, Breghannon, Teigan

Ralph the Reindeer – Ellie

From,

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – could all pink review jotters please be returned asap after the holidays.  These were due to be returned on Thursday, please let me know if there are any problems.  I hope you all have a lovely holiday and can’t wait to hear all of your child’s adventures from the October week!)