Visit to the Farm

Today the nursery children had lots of fun on their visit to Almond Valley Heritage Centre.

They saw a chick which was 3 days old and 3 kids which were born on 25th February.

There were lots of other opportunities for them to see other farm animals – sheep, horse, cows, chicken, ducks and geese.

The trip finished off with a little play at the swing park.

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Artists in Residence

Many thanks to Sam and Pam (Mum and Gran of Stephanie & Gemma Townsend) who have generously shared their time to create a wonderful backdrop for our school show: ‘Edith’s Wartime Scrapbook’. The scene depicts the Blitz and will add extra creativity to this amazing show. Tickets are now on general sale from the school office priced £2. Don’t miss it – but remember to bring your tissues as it can be very emotional! See you there!

Thanks Ladies!
Thanks Ladies!

P4/5

This week we had a lot of fun showing off our points homework and giving our class talks. We look forward to parents/family coming in to see our work on Monday. Science was very enjoyable when we decorated our rooms and then wired up a light and buzzer. (See pictures below!)
Division through bus stop method and remainders was our task in maths this week.
Congratulations to our fantastic dancers who represented us in a dance competition this week!
Star of the week this week was Niamh for her fantastic writing and Dojo champion was Ella Gordon.

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Marvellous Maths in P1b

P1b have been working hard today with drawing and counting objects to 20 and beyond.  Miss Dyet worked with the children and was very impressed with their accurate counting and number formation.  We tried out some tips on how to count large groups of objects and found that marking the objects that we had counted helped us to make sure we hadn’t counted any objects twice and hadn’t missed any out!

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Easter rhyming and lots more ….

P1a have been busy this week learning about Spring. We have been thinking about the signs we can see all around us.  Can you spot some of the signs of Spring the next time you are out walking? Here are some signs we came up with …

  • flowers
  • baby animals
  • blossom
  • bees
  • butterflies

We have also been doing some Easter rhyming. We had a go at making different words that rhyme with ‘un’ using Easter eggs and we thought that was lots of fun.

P1a have also been enjoyed our new and improved structured play area! We loved all the space we now have.

In maths, we have also been learning about how to link addition and subtraction number stories together using dominos and pegs.  We have been practising making 4 facts using 3 numbers e.g.

2+3 = 5, 3+2 = 5, 5 – 2= 3 and 5 -3 = 2

We also have been learning how to count beyond ten and counting out sets of objects up to 20.

P1a also enjoyed visiting the book fair and looking at all the lovely books.

We want to say a massive well done to the upper school for their show, we thought it was very funny.

“I liked the army men’ Daniel G

” I liked all of it” Ryan

Miss Rodford wants to give a big mention to Daniel S, for an amazing piece of instructional writing that he produced. It is super Daniel !!   Well done to Jack Mcmillan, who was our superhero of the week. Jack has shown super manners and he has been trying very hard with his learning this week!

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Sensational Scientists @ the JYHS Science Fair

Congratulations to our P.7 Scientists who presented their projects with confidence and flair at the Science Fair on Monday night. The Science Fair was an excellent way to showcase their skills of predicting, experimenting and evaluating. Thank you also to the parents and families who came to encourage our P.7s – it was great to share our learning with you. We were very proud when Fraser Muir was awarded 1st Prize for his mould experiment, based around the question:

‘Mum, do I really have to wash my hands?’

The answer was a definite YES!!!

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Literacy in P1b

P1b were practising their group work skills today when they were working in teams to think of adjectives to describe the big, bad wolf.  The children worked together really well in their teams and thought of some super adjectives like mean, nasty, sneaky and evil!

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We have also been working on our rhyming skills and completed some super independent rhyme work.  Well done boys and girls!  Keep up the good work!

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