As the nativity and pantomime practices take over and with pva glue and glitter flying all over the school for Christmas crafts each class found time to add a bit of Christmas cheer to the hall.
This year as our focus in school is on raising the profile of reading we have each decided to focus on a Christmas book.
P1/2: The Jolly Christmas Postman
A1: The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit
P2/3: The Snowman
A2: The Polar Express
P4/5: Father Christmas
P6/7: How the Grinch stole Christmas
This week P4/5, P6,7 and A2 have been visited by: 2 fantastic story tellers called Ruth Kirkpatrick and Gerry Durkin and one author called David Goucher. All the children were thrilled by the visits and could not contain their excitement over being given a signed copy of David Gouchers book by Miss Clarkson.
The children in P4/5 are off to an amazing start to the year. As well as settling into all the new class routines they have been learning how to be fantastic bucket fillers. After hearing a story about how saying and doing nice things makes us feel nice we have been focusing on compliments a lot.
Feel free to ask your child if they have filled any buckets today? I’m sure they will have.
We were lucky enough to have a visit from the Generation Science team who came in to teach us all about sound. They helped us understand about sound waves and the movement of air. This was a really fun practical session and the children really enjoyed taking part.
Today the children in Primary 3/4 enjoyed a visit from the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS) who came in to take a singing games workshop. The children were learning through the songs and games all about beat, rhythm and pitch. Here are some pictures of us having fun!
It’s been an interesting few days for ASD1. At the Assembly on Friday 6th January we were given a mystery box and told we were not allowed to open it. Miss Carson had to carry it with her at break and lunchtime and we had to LOOK, THINK and WONDER about the box.
We were able to see that the box was tall and narrow, it didn’t weigh much and something moved inside when we held it. We thought it might be a soft toy or sand or a few other things. We wrote down everything we thought about what was inside.
Finally, the moment arrived and we opened our box today (Wednesday 11th January) to find a very funny umbrella. It is made of wood and paper. We will be doing some activities about our umbrella over the next few days but the first things we wanted to do was dress up as the person who owns it.
Who do you think we are?
Firstly all the staff would like to say a massive thank you to all the parents and carers that managed to make it along to support their children. I’m sure you will agree that great fun was had by all and you were as relieved as us with the weather staying dry for the whole event.
