We started our new topic ‘Christmas around the world’ and we learned about the different customs people in Mexico follow at Christmas.  We learned that Poinsietta’s are a Mexican Christmas flower and we had a lot of fun making our handprint poinsietta paintings.

We have been busy practising our French words and we now know how to say pen (stylo), pencil (crayon), rubber (gomme), ruler (regle) and scissors (des ciseaux).

In drama this week we have been busy practising the songs for the Church Service on Wednesday 21st, we hope to see you there 🙂

Achievements this week

Well done to Hollie and Luke who raised £12.50 each 🙂

Well done Akasha who raised £42 🙂

Pupil of the week-Maddison

Kyle has attained his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has attained his white stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Archie has been practising his swimming skills and can now do a handstand under water

Emily has been practising her gymnastics

Rosie has been practising her swimming skills

Isla is trying to learn how to swim with her arm bands

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.

In writing this week we have been writing about The Magic Christmas Tree.  Miss McDougall has a tree up in her classroom and she thinks the tree comes alive when the children are away from school! Magic adventures! We had some lovely writing about what the trees looked like and had some fantastic describing words.

This week in maths we have been learning about data handling and making bar charts.  We found this to be good fun!

Well done to Hollie for participating in the school talent show and a big well done to Ellis who won for P1-3.

Thank you to all the P2 helpers who helped out at the P2 stall, we had a great time and sold out of hot chocolate reindeers and Santa lists.

Achievements this week:

Well done to Daniel and Jude for raising money for the READATHON challenge! Daniel has raised £40…a brilliant achievement for helping sick children in the UK 🙂

Daniel has got his black stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Elena learned how to whistle

Teigan earned a ballet achievement

Emily has an orange cap in swimming

Pupil of the week-Emma

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!)

As part of our Sergeant Stubby and Friends topic, we have been learning about a famous carrier pigeon called Cher Ami.  This means Dearest Friend.  Cher Ami was involved in over 12 flights over the WW1 battlefields, carrying messages and taking photos of where the soldiers were positioned.  We made super Cher Ami masks which we are going to display in class.

We have been learning new games in P.E with Mr Jeffries, ‘Unicorn Tunacorn’ which is a tig game and ‘Shipwreck’ which is a team building game.

We have been busy making posters in our writing this week to show at the Christmas Fayre, they look great!

Achievements this week:

Well done to new step 3,4 and 5 people

Pupil of the week-Sarah

Emily has moved up to level 5 in swimming

Hollie and Luke are going to be dance teachers/helpers for the day

Rowan, Luke and Hollie have been busy practising their cheerleading

Daniel has got his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Lexi has moved into the Green Caps in swimming

Lois has into into level 4 in swimming

Remember to keep reading your books for the READATHON challenge!

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

We had a fantastic Children in Need day and the classroom was taken over by lots of Pudsey bears and Blush bears! We all looked fab! Well done and thank you for raising money for this charity.

We have been busy making Santa lists and hot chocolate reindeers for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 26th of November.  We are selling them at this price…£1 for the reindeers and £1 for the Santa lists.  If you wish to buy beforehand you can 🙂

We have been learning about the 50p coin and counting in 10p’s and 20p’s up to £1.  We found it a little tricky so will be keep practising our coin work.

Achievements this week:

Rosie has been practising her roly polys

Archie has now managed to learn the butterfly stroke at swimming

Luke, Lois and Emily have been practising pool gymnastics

Kyle and Daniel continue to work hard at Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has earned his dark blue stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Well done to everyone who is now on step 3,4 and 5

Pupil of the Week-Daniel

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

This week we have had a very thoughtful week and we have been thinking about the soldiers in all the wars.  We made poppies as a reminder to remember those soldiers on Armistace Day.  We remembered those soldiers in our school assembly today at our one minutes silence. We made Sergeant Stubby masks as part of our topic.  Sergeant Stubby was a very brave dog who helped the soldiers in WW1 by alerting the soldiers to poisonous gas and would wag his tail and bark when he discovered hurt soldiers in the battlefields.  We are looking forward to finding out more about what he did.

In French this week we have been practising how to say our ages and we had fun practising in our teams.

We wrote about our favourite day ever! as part of our writing this week and we paired up with our elbow partners to discuss our favourites activities.

Achievements this week

Daniel and Kyle gained their blue stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Luke has been practising his diving, sitting and gliding in swimming lessons

Emma is on step 10 in dancing

Artjom is on level 8 in gymnastics

Akasha is trying hard in swimming to get onto level 2

Pupil of the week-Lois

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!)

In our maths work we have been busy learning about money and we are looking forward to counting our pennies in our class shop!

We have been learning about Firework Safety and how to follow the Firework Code, we had fun making Firework rockets in our art work this week.

In our writing we wrote super firework stories and watched Firework displays from Australia, London and Dubai.  We loved the colours and the shapes they made.

In drama this week we learned how to use our facial expressions and making Funnybones skeletons and we learned about body language.

We have been busy practising for our School talent show and our winning act for P2A is Hollie.  Well done to everyone who took part and also our finalists-Luke, Lois and Hollie.

Achievements

Pupil of the week-Wwell done to P2A for a fantastic assembly!

Lexi got to Level 7 in skiing

Daniel got a green stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Rowan has been practising swimming on her back under water

Luke has been learning backstroke and floating

Akasha has been practising starfish floating

Elena has been practising doing up her buttons

Archie has completed starfish floating on his front

Lois has been swimming a length in swimming

Thank you to our visitors for coming to our class assembly about Friendship.  We had a lot of fun practising with the microphone! We hope you enjoyed it too 🙂

We are looking forward to Halloween next week and doing some Halloween activities…wooooo!

For our writing this week we have been making Scary Halloween Stew potions and using our describing words to create them!

Achievements this week

Well done to new step 3 and 4 people!

Elena has learned how to swim without arm bands

Akasha has been practising her peddling in swimming

Hollie has been learning new swimming strokes

Archie has been a wonderful helper at home

Emma is on level 5 in dancing

Rowan has been practising tidying her room

Kyle got the Rainbow Stripe at Tae Kwon Do

Artjom has got a trophy for gymnastics

Emily can do her gymnastics in the water

Charlotte has been practising on her Princess bike