Monthly Archives: January 2015

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P3: What’s going on in our classroom!

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In Maths, Emma M has enjoyed learning the times tables and the whole class have enjoyed learning the 2x & 3x tables song except for Mrs Sinclair who kept singing the 3x table song in her sleep.

In P.E. Josh enjoyed climbing really high on the wall bars.  A big well done to Rhys who successfully climbed the box by himself after struggling for a little while.

A huge congratulations to Samantha & Amy for their recital of ‘Mince and Tatties’ and Carla for her Ally Bally Song.  We will see you all on X Factor in the future.

Our Roman topic is now up and running and the children are desperate to find out about the Roman helmet which sits  in our classroom.   We are also looking forward to looking at Matthew’s pictures on Monday.   Further updates and pictures to follow in the coming weeks.

As always we practised handwriting and a special mention goes to Ryan who enjoyed joining up his letters.

 

 

 

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Primary 2/3’s first month of the new year.

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Sorry its taken so long, but we have had technical issues accessing the blog to post about what we have been up to – so now it’s all fixed we’ll make up for it.

For our first feww weeks we have looked at winter and Scots Language.  We designed Winter Woolies, we evaluated some Winter Art then produced our own art using pastels.  We’ve learned and performed Scots poerty, including The Wee Rid Motor and Mince and Tatties.  We’ve listened to some modern classics in Scots, The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom.

Winter Woolies

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Brooke says ‘I enjoyed this activity’

 

The Gruffalo in Scots

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Zoe and Keigan enjoyed listening to the story, The Gruffalo in Scots, while Erin enjoyed listening to Room on the Broom in Scots.  Alex and Cole enjoyed painting Tartan.  Kai and Kai enjoyed drawing the Gruffalo following the Scots descriptions and trying to write in Scots.

 

Winter Art

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Iain and Darcy enjoyed looking at winter art then making his own winter picture with pastels.

 

Primary 1, Primary 2

P1/2 had a very busy week!

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This week we have been filling in more of our vowel house sounds when we were learning about the sounds ‘oi’ and ‘igh’ and have been sounding out lots of words with these sounds in them.

We have been using our take away skills to answer questions that were written in words instead of just numbers.

Niamh enjoyed doing some Scottish activities with Mrs Ferguson.  James enjoyed his language work this week.  Ryan had great fun at our first tennis taster session.

Next week we look forward to learning some new sounds and we are going to learn more about castles after getting a letter from Sir Helpalot last week.

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Scots Language Celebrations in Bankton

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Congratulations to all of our confident individuals who performed their Scots language and Burns poems at our whole school assembly to celebrate the work of Robert Burns. We were especially proud of our Nursery children who all sang Wee Willie Winkie with actions and P.1 – P.3 who entertained us with ‘Mince and tatties’, ‘Roguey Poguey’ and Ma wee rid motor.

P.4 – P.7 performed a number of Burns poems including: ‘Lament on Mary, Queen of Scots’, ‘A Parcel of Rogues among Nations’, ‘A man’s a man for aw that’ and ‘The Joyful Widower’

Photographs and prizewinners to follow.

P.2 and P.2/3  have been celebrating Scots culture with favourite stories in Scots – The Gruffalow and Room on the Broom. P.2 have had a special tartan challenge and displayed their work for all to see.

We look forward to hearing Louis Hartl-Hazette playing his Scots song on the trumpet at the area finals in March. keep practising Louis, we are very proud of you.

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Andy Murray Watch Out!

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Primary one had a fabulous opportunity today when they were given a taste of the skills needed for playing tennis.  Coach Ian complimented the children on how hard they had worked and on how well they were controlling the tennis balls.  Josh showed off his knowledge when he confidently named some tennis players and Jason was really impressed by coach Ian’s skills saying that he was awesome!  The children are very much looking forward to session two next week.     100_3719100_3727100_3722100_3726100_3720

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The Dragon Returns!!

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Yesterday P1 were shocked to find that the friendly fairyland dragon had been back for a visit.  This time, he left a letter complimenting our beanstalk and also left all of the children a present.  The children now all have a castles book which the dragon has asked them to write in and tell him about how they are getting on with turning the classroom into fairyland.  Keep an eye out for the beantstalk photos coming soon.  Also, good luck to Mrs Ferguson on her personal challenge of climbing our beanstalk to see what’s at the top!!!!

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Reduce, reuse and recycle with Rag Bag

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Calling all parents and families – please support our efforts towards our fourth Green Flag – have a clear out of drawers and wardrobes and bring your old clothes in a sealed ‘Rag Bag’ to the front entrance of the school on Friday, 30th January. All proceeds will go towards spring vegetable plants for the market garden and bedding plants for our planters. Garden Groomers prepare your tools!