This week we have started our new topic – ‘Pirates’.  The boys and girls found a treasure chest in the playground last week and this week they also found a pirate hat and sword so now we know the treasure chest was definitely left by pirates.  We have started to think about what we know already and what we would like to find out about pirates.

P1b used their ICT skills in Clicker 6 this week to take their own photographs and to use the painting tools to make themselves look like pirates.  Be warned – some of these pirates look a bit scary!!!!

Lots of pirate fun was had in the structured play area too.  Some of the children enjoyed pirate jigsaws, others played with the pirate ships and a few people took on the maths challenge of ordering pirate pictures in size order.  Well done!

Mrs Smail has been working very hard on turning the role-play area into our pirate ship.  It looks fab and we can’t wait to use it next week.  Thank you so much.

At the beginning of the week P1a received a second clue about who the treasure chest was from ! We found a hat and a sword and decided it was from a Pirate!

It’s from a swashbuckler – Daniel G

We enjoyed playing with the pirate ships in the structured play area and are waiting for our pirate ship role play area to be completed !

We have also been making Pirate passports and thinking about what Pirates look like. Some of us have written about what items a Pirate would have.

In maths, we have been continuing to practise our number facts to 10 and counting up to 20. We have also been learning to share objects out equally between two people !

P1a have also been learning  about healthy eating this week. We found out that we have the right to have a healthy diet!  We have been sorting the healthy and unhealthy foods on to different plates.

The apple stops us from getting sick – Fraser

Bad food can rot our teeth – Leah

On Thursday, we made yummy fruit salads and we enjoyed tasting them !!

My  fruit salad is yummy – Cole

P1a have also started taking part in the daily mile challenge. Twice a week we go for a walk around the playground and the aim to be get better at walking and get fitter.

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P2 have had a very exciting first week back!

To finish our dinosaur topic we learnt all about palaeontologists and we turned into palaeontologists for the afternoon! It was our job to carefully dig the chocolate chips out of the cookie without damaging the cookie or the chips. It was very tricky but we all managed to safely dig out the chocolate chips.

As part of Eco week, we had a visit from ‘Bag Girl’ who taught us how to fight junk monsters by reducing, reusing and recycling our waste. We also learnt a song that will remind us to take canvas bags with us when we go shopping.

In teams we had to sort rubbish into groups of metal, plastic or cardboard/paper.

We looked at old junk and shared our ideas of how we could reuse it. Some excellent ideas were to turn bubble wrap into a dress or use a kitchen roll tube as a golf club.

In maths we are learning to tell the time and are already super at reading ‘o’clock’ and ‘half past’ on analogue clocks.

As part of the ‘mile a day’ challenge we joined together with P2/3 to walk 1 mile around our playground. We had great fun getting fit!

Super Ted came back to class this week after his adventure home with Ayla and had a lovely new jumper! We think he looks very cute now.

As part of Eco Week P4 were set the task to work in home teams to design a sleeve that would prevent a bottle of water from cooling.

Pupils planned, selected appropriate materials and worked as a team to decide how to best wrap bottle.

Then they took the temperature of the bottle of water every ten minutes and recorded this.

We then shared results as a class and decided which material made the best sleeve and why.