Super proud of P4 this week – what a confident performance for our advent assembly. Also, they have done a fantastic job creating their art work for the dining hall.
Monthly Archives: November 2021
P7 Blog Post by ‘The Spooky Rats’
Anti-bullying week
Last week on anti-bullying week we all made a bullying vs conflict poster to show what is conflict and what is bullying to help people understand the difference between conflict and bullying. We made Pudsey masks with our buddies from P3. The whole class watched a video about anti-bullying week just to help us to have a bigger understanding. We learned about odd socks day and why it is an important day and how its relevant to bullying.
P3 Buddies
We made an octopus with our buddies, and they all turned out amazing! We also read a book called octopus shock-topus which tied in with our octopus art. We got a booklet about the book octopus shock topus which had some fun activities and a book review! We got to explore some things inside our read write and learn, bags it had 2x books 1x red pencil 1x notebook 1x whiteboard pen 1x measuring tape and 1x parent club book (isn’t relevant). We got to measure some things with our measuring tape around the classroom.
Pudsey Day
On Children in need day (Pudsey day) everyone got to wear their pj’s to school or something yellow. It was really fun!
Created by Spooky Rats
Remembrance Day
The Art Club collaborated to make a tribute to remember all the fallen heroes this Remembrance Day.
P2/1 Outdoor Classroom Day
We got wrapped up warm and celebrated outdoor classroom day this week.
On Wednesday, we had great fun collecting twigs and branches we found in the playground and used them to spell out the letters in our names.
On Thursday, went on a leaf hunt to try and find as many different types and colours of leaves as possible. We were amazed at all the beautiful colours and noticed these were the same warm colours we had used in our health and wellbeing art lesson. We even found some giant mushrooms growing on the grass but we were very sensible and careful and didn’t touch them as we didn’t know if they safe. Once our bag was full of leaves we took them back to the classroom to make leaf stick puppets. It was such good fun!
P2/3’s Outdoor Classroom Day
P2/3 took lots of our learning outside to celebrate Outdoor Classroom Day. We had so much fun!
Literacy
We started with a walk round the school grounds to discover what we could see, hear and feel. The frost was probably the most talked about thing. The children talked enthusiastically about the patterns they found on the ground and the difference between the sunny spots and shady spots. There was also much discussion around the frosted leaves, crunchy grass and melting ice.
Before we went out for a walk, we had got a message from Rosie the Bear.
We spotted Rosie’s picnic on the ground near the nursery and eventually found poor Rosie hiding up a tree. The children found lots of clues about what might have happened. Most thought it was the Gruffalo (or the Gruffalo’s child because Rosie wasn’t on a high branch), some thought a dog had frightened her, others a bird rustling in the trees and someone suggested it was us being noisy!
Numeracy
This week we have been looking at greater than, less than and equal to so this morning we worked in pairs to follow a range of instructions using words such as “big” “smaller than” and “the same size as”. Here are just some examples.
Hug something that is very big:
Find something about the same size as you:
Put three small things in a row:
Touch something big and small at the same time:
Dance around something that is bigger than a car:
We also used found objects to make number sentences using the greater than and less than symbols: < and >
Art
We ended the day with some nature inspired art.
For me, the best thing about the day was seeing and hearing the children as they talked to one another enthusiastically about the nature around them and the tasks they were working on, coming up with ideas, making links and working so well with one another.
The photos only show a fraction of the experience!
