Mrs Muir and Mrs Steel’s Primary Twos

Welcome back to school once again! It was so lovely to see you all yesterday and hear all your news from the last few weeks.  We will be missing you today while you are at home but we have some fun activities for you to do which you can bring back to school tomorrow and share with us and the Primary One boys and girls.  Mrs Steel has given you all two worksheets to complete at home.  One is a writing task where you can list some of the things that you are really looking forward to in P2.  Think back to the things we all talked about yesterday and share them with your adult a home.  The second piece of work links to our story about Super Soap! Think back to what Super Soap told us about handwashing and why it is important-especially now we are back at school.  We would like you to create a poster showing how we wash our hands well.  Mrs Muir will be excited to see them tomorrow and we could even display them around the classroom as a reminder to us all.  The final thing we would like you to try is the game using the link below.  This helps us revise our numbers and its great fun.  We had a little look at it yesterday on the Smartboard.  You can start off with numbers to 20 and then challenge yourself with numbers to 50 or even 100!

www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

Mrs Muir is really looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow.  We hope you have a great day!

Mrs Muir and Mrs Steel

First Day Back for P1, 2, 3 & 4

The children returned to school today after the longest layoff, certainly in my lifetime. Happily, the children were very keen to return to school and see their friends and teachers and maybe to do a bit of actual school work. Our new P1 children coped admirably and went home at lunchtime happy with their experiences and achievements, while P2-4 met their teachers for the first time and all had a very enjoyable experience – including the teachers. Can we say a big thank you to parents/carers for preparing the children so well for the return? -There was nary a tear and the positive buzz in school was palpable. Hopefully, we will have a repeat of this success with P1 and P5-7 tomorrow.  Well done Carmondean!

Primary 2 Home Learning 13.8.20

Hello Everyone,

It was lovely to see you all yesterday and great to have you back. As you’re at home today, we discussed some home learning activities for you to complete.

  • Watch the story of ‘The Colour Monster’
  • Draw yourself using the feeling colours described in the story. If you wish you could choose 2 of the colours/feelings and write about what makes you feel these.
  • Play Helicopter Rescue

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

Practise finding a number in an appropriate range for your child.

  • Complete ‘Things you are looking forward to..’ worksheet using pictures or writing. We will share these in class on Friday morning.

We hope you have a good day and we are looking forward to seeing you on Friday. Remember we have Freetime Friday but please do not bring any toys from home – we will supply these in school.

Thank you for your continuing support,

Mrs Oliver and Miss Rafferty

 

Return to School and Home learning Arrangements

The staff of Carmondean Primary School are looking forward to welcoming back to school all our learners after the extended school closure we have all experienced. As you will be aware, not all children will be returning on Wednesday, 12 August – only P1, P2/1, P2 , P3 and P4 children will attend school on that day while P5, P6 & P7 will be involved in Home Learning. Arrangements for Home Learning for these children are as follows:

HOME LEARNING

 Wednesday, 12 August, 2020 – Primaries 5-7

Children in Primaries 5-7 will be able to access home learning on Microsoft TEAMS as they did during school closure. Please note, TEAM names will have changed, e.g., if your TEAM was previously called P5A 2019-2020, it will now be called  P6A 2020-2021, and so on. Instructions and resources for home learning will be posted to the TEAM General Channel in time for start of the school day on Wednesday, 12 August.

If a reminder is needed on how to access TEAMS, instructions are below:

  1. Go to www.westlothian.org.uk
  2. Click the GLOW icon
  3. Log in to Glow using your Glow Login (begins with ‘wl’) and password
  4. Locate the TEAMS tile and click on it (it is in the little temple tab on the left-hand side of the page)
  5. If you are asked to login to your Microsoft Account or Teams, the login is in the form ‘wlXXXXXXXX@glow.sch.uk’ where wlXXXXXXX is your normal Glow login. Your password is the same as for GLOW.
  6. If you have problems logging in, send an email to the school email address and it will be dealt with as soon as is practicably possible: wlcarmondean-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Children in  P5, P6 & P7 will return to school as normal on Thursday, 13 August.

HOME LEARNING

Thursday, 13 August – Primaries 2, 3 and 4

Children in Primaries 2,  3 and 4 will have been in in school on Wednesday, 12 August, and will have been given instructions and materials for home learning for Thursday, 13 August.

Please note that, to promote physical distancing,  apart from P1 children, parents/carers will not be allowed entry to  the school estate, so will be unable to accompany their children beyond the outer school gates. Please discuss this with your child/ren before returning to school for the fisrt time so they are aware of these arrangements and the reasons for them.

 

Back to School

As we look forward to welcoming our children back to school after the unprecedented lengthy break from learning and teaching, we are sure most of them will be looking forward to re-connecting with their friends and re-engaging in learning. Information on times, procedures and risk-management will be delivered to parents/carers directly through Group Call and our other media channels. But, in the meantime, if your child is unsure or feeling anxious about coming back to school, there is some good advice and preparation activities you can do with them to prepare them. You can access the advice by clicking the link below:

Back-to-calm-for-parents.pdf

 

Primary 2 26.6.20

It’s FRIDAY Primary 2!!

Can you believe it………we have made it to the end of Primary 2, well done to every single one of you. You are all amazing! It might not have been the year we had hoped however you have all worked so hard in class and at home. All three of us have thoroughly enjoyed being your Primary 2 teachers. We have missed you all so much over the school closure but we look forward to seeing you all in August when you come back to school and become big Primary 3 children. We want you to have the most wonderful summer holiday and fingers crossed we get the sunshine we deserve. Enjoy your time off from home learning and stay safe!

Our last day in school is normally spent reflecting on the year, spending time with our friends and playing in our classroom. Here are some messages from your friends:

And your teachers!

Happy Holidays Primary 2 from Miss Rafferty, Mrs Oliver and Miss Pringle!! 

Primary 3 Last Day of Term!

Hello and welcome to your last day in Primary 3. We hope you’re all extremely excited to be getting into the summer holidays after today and you can all take a well-earned break! We also hope that you are all very excited about moving into Primary 4, getting to go to a new classroom, meeting new teachers, getting to use the fancy smart boards! We will miss you all immensely and we could not have asked for a better year group. You have filled us with joy, curiosity, laughs, excitement, pride and all of the smiles the whole year and we could not be more impressed or proud at you all for how well you have done this year. You have all been absolute superstars throughout your home learning and we are so delighted that you have coped with incredibly difficult times so very well. It has been a privilege to have been your Primary 3 teachers and we hope that you all have amazing summers, you’ve earned it!

Go to this Sway

We hope you have a lovely last day of term, and if you have planned to have a small celebration with all of your challenge work this week, enjoy it! Take pictures and share them with us!

We could not resist posting one last Summer activity for you to try. It looks like so much fun and would be a great addition to your celebration today. I think I will have a go too! It looks like too much fun to resist!

https://rhubarbandwren.co.uk/giant-bubble-wand-tutorial/

Here’s a little Summer co-ordinate activity if you feel like recapping on our co-ordinates knowledge in Maths!

Summer Co-ordinates

Lastly, we would like to say the biggest of thank yous to all of our parents. Without you all there is no way the last few months could have been successful. You have shown so much care and support and enthusiasm for the work and for keeping everything going so well. It has been such a pleasure getting to engage with you all and your  support has made everything so much easier. We know how difficult the last few months must have been for you all and we cannot thank you enough for everything you have all done. We hope you make the most of your summer, thank you so much!

See you in August!

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Last Day of P1! 26.6.20

Good morning boys and girls!

Can you believe that we are at our very final day of Primary One! You have all worked so hard over the past few months at your home learning and we are all very proud of every one of you-you are all super stars! We hope that you have enjoyed all the tasks you have been set, especially our virtual trip to Disneyland this week.  All the teachers hope that you have an amazing summer-hopefully some places will begin  to open up over the next few weeks so we can all get out and about a little while we are off.  We have loved being your teachers this year and we can’t wait until we can see you properly in August- as big Primary Two boys and girls! Don’t forget to have a look at the transition information that was posted on Tuesday if you haven’t done so already.   Thank you for being wonderful Primary Ones!

Enjoy this ‘Goodbye Song’ by The Learning Station….how many silly ways can you think of to say goodbye?

Have a lovely summer everyone!

Miss Christy, Miss Cunningham, Miss Daun and Mrs Steel

Family Active Games Ideas

As we head into the summer holidays I wanted to share a document with you that has some ideas for games you can play at home with your family and friends that require very little equipment but are lots and lots of fun. Click on “Family Games” below to access the  document.

Family Games

Have a fantastic summer,  keep active,  stay safe and I look forward to seeing you all in August.

Mrs Ferguson

Guinness World Record weekly challenge

Have you heard of Guinness World Records?   Every year this organisation  publish a reference book , listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

They have a fantastic website with details of some of these world records and also lots of activity ideas for you to try at home.  Every week they set a challenge and this week’s challenge is ” Most foot taps by a team of 2 in 30 seconds.”

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/GWR-at-home/GWRchallenge

I would like you to give this challenge a try.  Let me know how you get on. Will we have a Carmondean PS world record holder?

They also have a fantastic kids sections on the website with more world record ideas to try at home.  Check out the following link and give some of them a go.

https://kids.guinnessworldrecords.com/activities/try-this-at-home-backyard

I’d love to know how you get on.

Mrs Ferguson

Primary 2 25.6.20

Morning Primary 2!

So it’s Thursday and we only have a day and a half left before the summer holidays! How are you all getting on with the beach themed activities? We are still getting some super posts from boys and girls on Learning Journals, so thank you for that.

Summer Holiday Plans

What plans do you have for your summer holiday? Why don’t you let us know by writing it down or drawing a picture for us. It might be spending time in the garden, visiting friends and family, helping with home improvements, going on road trips or visiting places that are beginning to open again!

Enjoy your Thursday Primary 2!

Miss Rafferty and Mrs Oliver

Primary 1 – Farming SWAY

Good morning Primary 1!

We hope you’ve been enjoying taking part in some of the home learning activities this week. Can you believe that tomorrow is the last day of home learning before the summer holidays? We just wanted to say a huge big well done to all of the children in primary 1 for working so hard at home and sharing all of their excellent work with us. We have been so delighted to see how much you have all achieved and we are very proud of each and every one of you. We also wanted to thank all of the parents for the support you have given us over the last 12 weeks and we appreciate all you have done to support your child’s learning at home.

We would also like to share the SWAY we created for our farming topic this term. We have included lots of pictures and ideas from the children across primary 1 and have showcased lots of their hard work over the last few weeks. This is an excellent way to celebrate all of their achievements and show you their learning journey with this topic. We hope you enjoy! You can find a link to our SWAY below:

 

Thanks again for all of your efforts,

Primary 1 teachers

Proud Cliparts, Stock Vector And Royalty Free Proud Illustrations

 

Primary 3 25 6 20

Hello Primary 3, we hope you are all feeling great and raring to go for the summer. You have nearly made it and we hope that you are super excited for the end of term!

To mark the end of term, let us know how you are doing with your celebration plans and share with us what you plan to do. Today, how about coming up with a short play list of 5 of your favourite songs that make you smile. You can play these on Friday during your celebration, whilst having your healthy party food you planned out yesterday.

For your final reading task we thought that since there are so many keen readers we could start a Teams book club! We will set up a section on Teams where you can make recommendations to each other, create artwork of your favourite books or characters, you can chat about books you like, ask people about books they like. Hopefully we will have a large list of books that will keep you all going all through the summer!

As another Summer art activity, why not try this dream catcher to catch all of your hope and dreams over the Summer. You could make it from a paper plate, or an old CD.

 

 

 

 

 

Materials:

Paper plate / CD

Wool / string

Beads

Feathers

Bits and bobs for decoration

You could even practice the skills Mrs Fox taught you and try some weaving on it or you could leave it plain. Here’s a tutorial if you decide to try some weaving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzdpHbRbvZw

If you are looking for more Maths practice, how about trying this code breaker using all 4 operations, addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. The answers are all summer themed words!

Summer Code Breaker

Thank you for all your hard work and support,

Miss Smith and Mr Woodward

Primary 1 24.06.20

Hello everybody,

We hope you are well and are enjoying the last week of school before the summer holidays. Are you having fun with the virtual Disney trip activities on this week’s grids? What is your favourite activity that you have done so far?

Our focus for today’s blog is our Rights Respecting Schools Award. We are exploring Article 30. This article is all about minority or indigenous groups, culture, language and religion. In other words, every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family no matter where they live. Have a little look at the activities below and you could try to complete one of them over the next few days.

  • Can you find out how to say ‘Hello, how are you?’ in 3 different languages.
  • Do you know any traditional dances? Research these safely online with an adult and practise the steps.
  • Find 10 characters from your favourite books. Do they come from a range of cultures or are they all just like you?
  • Culture means traditions that groups follow like food, dances, song and clothes. Draw or write about what is important in your culture. Then think of someone who comes from a different culture and share safely with them what is important about culture for each of you.
  • Watch ‘If the World were a Village of 100 People’ to find out about people around the world.
  • Keep a food and drink diary for the week. What cultures do your food and drink come from? Which are your favourites?

If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch. Thank you for everything you are doing at home. Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Miss Cunningham, Miss Daun and Miss Christy

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