This week, P1a have been learning about what Pirates look like. We have be taking photos of ourselves and have turned ourselves into Pirates! We have also been thinking about Pirate names for our homework !

‘I am called Captain Daniel Blackbeard’ – Daniel Gough

‘I am called Captain Golden Hair Storm’ Savannah

‘I am called Captain Blackbeard’ – Jack

We have also been drawing pictures of Pirate! They look very scary! On Monday, we learnt about what a Pirate flag is called and we made our own flags ! Don’t they look super.

P1a loved dressing up as Pirates and going into the new Pirate role play area ! They had so much fun!

In Maths, we have been practising our adding and made super Pirate Addition ships and we have also been practising how to count to 20.  We also learnt how to share the Pirate coins out equally !

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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You have the right to the best health care possible,
safe water to drink, nutritious food, a
clean and safe environment, and information
to help you stay well.

P1 found a something very exciting in the playground today ……… A TREASURE CHEST!!!

It was full of coins, maps and treasure.  Who could it belong to?

P1 are hoping to get some more clues to help us to work out where the treasure chest came from!

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You have the right to a good quality education.

You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can.

REDUCE, REUSE,RECYCLE

P1a have been busy learning about how to be more ‘Eco Friendly’.  We have been thinking about what wildlife live around the Bankton area and we draw some super wildlife pictures.   We also designed pictures to go on the front of Asda’s reuseable bags!!

On Wednesday, we had a visit from ‘Bag Girl’ and she taught us all about how to reduce, reuse and recycle our rubbish. We played lots of super games and practised how to fight the rubbish monster!

Then we were challenged to sort the rubbish in to plastic, metal and cardboard into the correct recycling bins.

What can you do to help recycle at home?

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Every child has the right to the best possible health.
Governments must work to provide good quality health care,
clean water, nutritious food and a clean environment so that
children can stay healthy. 

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!

P1a have been working really hard this week ….

We have been learning about symmetry and we made our own symmetrical patterns on the carpet. We have also been practising taking away on a number line.  We have been writing our own take away sums and been working out the answers using either our fingers or a number line.

We have been learning all about the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, we ordered the events of the story, drew pictures and wrote about the wolf.

As it is Fair Trade fortnight, we talked about why Fair Trade is important and we sorted foods which have the Fairtrade Symbol on it.

Can you spot any Fair Trade foods when you go shopping with your family?