Today the nursery children were getting in to the Christmas spirit by decorating one of the Christmas trees.
Many of the children wore their Christmas jumpers to help raise money for Jak’s Den.
Thank You very much or your kind donations.
The past few weeks the nursery children have been preparing an area in the garden for planting. They were given the choice of what flowers they would like to plant. This week the children have enjoyed planting vegetable and flower seed and they will help care for them when they start to grow in the new year.
Keep a look out in the useful documents section for winter ready activities for P1 and P1/2 in the event of school closures due to extreme weather conditions. There are lots of activities to choose from but don’t feel you have to do them all!
The Rights Respecting Champions are collecting food for the Dedridge Baptist Church Food Bank. We feel that it is very important to give something back to the local community!
The collection starts on tuesday the 29th of November and will end on the 19th of December.
Here is a list of items that we are wanting to collect …
Diluting juice
Long life fruit juice
Tinned potatoes
Instant mashed potatoes
Tinned sponge puddings
Tinned custard
UHT milk
Jam ot other spreads
Sweets or chocolate
Toiletries
Cleaning products
Unfortunately fresh food cannot be accepted.
Please give what ever you can to this important cause as it will help so many people!
Thank you from the Rights Respecting Team!
Article 24
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.
P5 are you winter ready?
Thank you to all the parents who were able to make it along on Friday to receive their Book Bug Bags and to see the children working on different literacy and numeracy activities related to the books for Scottish book week. I hope you all enjoy reading the stories and using your playing cards at home.
In topic we have been learning about ‘The Inuit’ and the Inukshuk, the singular of inuksuit, means “in the likeness of a human” in the Inuit language. They are monuments made of unworked stones that are used by the Inuit for communication and survival. The traditional meaning of the inukshuk is “Someone was here” or “You are on the right path.”
In Art we designed our own Inuksuit.
Aaron K – I enjoyed drawing pictures as part of our ‘Golden Time’.
Nicole:I had lots of fun talking to my mum during book bag event.
Josh:In maths we have been learning to subtract 11 using the strategy: subtract 10 and then subtract 1 more and we had lots of fun using dienes to work out our answers.
Samantha:I enjoyed writing ‘My Magic Crayon’ story.
Maya:I loved everything in school this week.
Ryan:I enjoyed working with a partner in maths.
P.E.:We have been learning how to play badminton
Arran:I enjoyed drawing our ‘inushuk’ pictures as part of our topic work.
Aaron:I enjoyed drawing my crayon picture as part of our book bag activities.
Roots of Empathy
We had to draw and write about a time when we were feeling sad.
Thank you to all the parents who were able to make it along on Friday to receive their Book Bug Bags and to see the children working on different literacy and numeracy activities related to the books for Scottish book week. I hope you all enjoy reading the stories and using your playing cards at home.
In topic we have been learning about ‘The Inuit’ and the Inukshuk, the singular of inuksuit, means “in the likeness of a human” in the Inuit language. They are monuments made of unworked stones that are used by the Inuit for communication and survival. The traditional meaning of the inukshuk is “Someone was here” or “You are on the right path.”
In Art we designed our own Inuksuit.
Aaron K – I enjoyed drawing pictures as part of our ‘Golden Time’.
Nicole:I had lots of fun talking to my mum during book bag event.
Josh:In maths we have been learning to subtract 11 using the strategy: subtract 10 and then subtract 1 more and we had lots of fun using dienes to work out our answers.
Samantha:I enjoyed writing ‘My Magic Crayon’ story.
Maya:I loved everything in school this week.
Ryan:I enjoyed working with a partner in maths.
P.E.:We have been learning how to play badminton
Arran:I enjoyed drawing our ‘inushuk’ pictures as part of our topic work.
Aaron:I enjoyed drawing my crayon picture as part of our book bag activities.
Roots of Empathy
We had to draw and write about a time when we were feeling sad.
This week in maths, Primary 1/2 have been practising their adding skills independently whilst learning about subtraction at the teach table. The boys and girls know that subtract means to take away and have even learned another word for subtract – minus. We made minus monsters out of the subtract sign and are trying not to get muddled up between add, subtract and equals signs! We have been using cubes to help us to take away and are getting quite good at it!
In sounds, we have been learning the ‘oa’, ‘ng’ and ‘w’ sounds – ‘oa’ lives in the vowel house and you need a tunnel mouth to say it properly, ‘ng’ is an orange sound made at the back of your mouth and ‘w’ is a loud red sound made with your lips. We have been working on our blending skills by playing bingo and sounding out words using the racing car tracks and stretchy snake to help us blend the sounds together and read the words.
In topic work we looked at some different toys and thought about what materials they were made of. We felt the toys and discussed how they felt and what we thought they were made of. We spotted these materials – wood, plastic, metal, foam and fabric. 
Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who were able to make it along on Friday to receive their Book Bug Bags and to see the children working on different literacy and numeracy activities related to the books for Scottish book week. We really enjoyed having you there to help and to be able to share our favourite stories from the bags with you. I hope you all enjoy reading the stories and using your magnetic numbers at home.
Looking forward to more fun next week Primary 1/2. Well done everyone!
This week, Primary have been learning a new skills in maths …. Subtraction. We have been using cubes to help us to take away! In sounds, we have been learning the ng and w sounds! We have also been working on our blending skills by playing bingo and using the racing car tracks to blend the sounds together.
For our topic work we looked at what toys were made of. We felt and sorted different toys and discovered they were made of wood, plastic, metal, foam and fabric!
It was great to see some many parents at the Bool Bug Bag give away day for Scottish book week! We enjoyed sharing our favourite stories from the bag with our parents. We completed lots of different activities based on the stories!
Miss Rodford hopes you all have fun reading the Book Bug Bag stories at home.
Please feel free to leave us a comment about your favourite books and dont foregt to vote for your favourite story on the Scottish Book Trust website! My favourite is ‘Shark in the Park’!
Well done Primary One
For book week, P2 have been reading ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’ and ‘Marshall Armstrong is new to our school’.
We loved having the P2 adults in class to tell them all about our book week activities. We are so excited to bring our book bags home today to show our adults our brand new books and activities to do at home.
Also this week we have been learning about cold lands for our topic. Cole, Femme and Savannah loved drawing penguins following each step carefully. Kian and Robbie enjoyed sticking the animals from around the world in the correct climate on a world map.
In art, Kalan learnt how to make positive and negative shapes.
This week our number talks master was Robbie who did a super job of asking P2 to make double strategies.
Congratulations to:
Our dojo champion – Olivia
Next week’s superhero – Nathan S
