Category Archives: Primary 1

Happy Mothers Day !!!

P1a have been busy practising for the Mothers Day assembly! We have also been making cards and pictures for our mums.

We have also been practising our number facts for 9 and we have been working hard on our mental maths addition strategies.     P1a have also been writing wanted posters for Goldilocks!!  She is very naughty and the police need to catch her. Can you spot our wanted posters outside our classroom?

Thursday was world book day. We celebrated this by dressing up as our favourite book characters.

‘I am Harry Potter’ – Ryan

‘I dressed up as Alisa from Frozen’ – Pooja

‘I am a Minion’ – Kian

We also read the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, and we made super pictures of Goldilocks !!

Can you spot them next to our wanted posters?

P1a wanted to say Happy Mothers Day to all the mums and grandmas.  We think you are all AWESOME !!!!!

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P1b Visit the Church

On Monday, P1b visited the chapel along at the Lanthorn.  They were very sensible and were responsible citizens as they walked together with their partner.  The children represented Bankton really well and displayed excellent manners.  They listened really well to Darren who was teaching us all about christenings and baptism and some of the children even got the chance to act out the christening of a little teddy bear which we were pretending was a baby.  On our return to school, the children completed super pieces of work detailing what they had learned.  Well done boys and girls!

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A busy week in P1a

P1a have been really busy this week !

On Monday, we visited the Church at the Lanthorn Centre. We went to visit a mock baptism. We saw the font and we watch the teddy getting water poured on his head!

‘ They put a cross on the babies head’ Ryan

‘The font has water in it’ Charlie

‘God is welcoming the baby’ Robbie

Miss Rodford thought we did a great job at listening.

We also did some more work on digital and analogue time! We are getting super quick at telling the time now !

In phonics, we had a go at building sentences of our own using the words cards.

We enjoyed some play time in the structured play and we made pictures of the ‘Three Little Bears’ ! Can you spot the porridge that we used to finish the pictures.

On Wednesday, We watch ‘Alice in Wonderland’ , it was a super performance and the children had great fun watching it!

‘I liked all of it’ Charlie

‘It was fun’ Savannah

Finally, well done to the four boys who have gained their first reading certificate  – Ryan, Daniel S, Kian and Charlie.

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Huffing and Puffing in P1b!

This week there was a lot of huffing and puffing in P1b and it wasn’t from the boys and girls!!  It was the big bad wolf (AKA Mrs Lloyd with a hairdryer) trying to blow down the houses that the children had planned and then built in their technology groups!  Each group worked together and displayed great group skills – sharing resources, listening to each other and working together.  Some of the houses withstood the force but the big bad wolf did manage to blow down a couple!  The children really enjoyed this experience and made good predictions about which houses would stay standing and which ones would get blown down.  Afterwards they thought about what they would do better next time to improve the strength of their builds.  Good work P1b!  IMG_1006 IMG_1005 IMG_1004 IMG_1002 IMG_1013 IMG_1011 IMG_1010 IMG_1009 IMG_1008 IMG_1007

 

Reading Fun in the Library

Every Wednesday, P1b enjoy visiting the school library.  Children are able to take a book home each week and can return this the following week to allow them to take out a new book.  The boys and girls enjoy their weekly visit so please help them to remember to put their library books in their bags each Wednesday to avoid the disappointment of not being able to take out a new book.  Thank You.

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We made houses for the three little pigs.

This week, we work in teams to build a house for the Three Little Pigs.  The houses needed to be strong so the wolf couldn’t blow them down.

We made our houses out of cardboard, paper and Lego bricks.

Then on Friday, we pretended that a hairdryer was the Big Bad Wolf and we tried to blow all the the houses down.

Some of the houses DIDN’T fall down.

We also learnt how to tell the time to o’clock and we made watches and clocks !!

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Budding Gymnasts!

P1b have been improving their times as they get changed into their gym kit for gymnastics with Mr Muldoon!  The children have been working on lots of different skills including forward rolls, star jumps, swinging on the ropes and landing safely.  I was very impressed when I went in for a peek this week and I know that Mr Muldoon is very pleased with the hard work and good listening skills which are enabling the children to use the equipment safely.

Well done P1b

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Our busy week in P1a

We have been busy learning all about our number facts to 8. We have been using cubes and our fingers to help us to work out the different ways that we can make 8.

‘You can swop the number around to make a new number fact’ Savannah.

‘I can use a numberline to find the missing numbers’ Ryan

‘I enjoyed finding different ways to make 8’ Charlie

 

In reading, we are working hard to sound out new words.

‘I liked book ‘pets’ it was fun’ Ava.

 

We have also been spending lots of time looking at our bean plants to see how they have been growing.  Lots of the beans now have a stalk and leaves.

‘My bean plant has leaves’ Ryan

‘My bean plant has lots of roots and it is sucking up the water’ Daniel S

‘My bean plant has roots’ Daniel G

In Art, we made super beanstalk pictures using beans and cotton. We think they look super !

Ziggy is going home with Savannah for the weekend and we look forward to hearing all about their adventures on Wednesday !

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