On Friday, P1 will be visited by a dog, rabbit and gecko. If your child has any allergies, please let me know as soon as possible.
Mrs Anthony
Monthly Archives: December 2016
P1 STEM – Making a rabbit enclosure
I was really lucky to be invited to join P1 in making their rabbit enclosures. I was so impressed by their team work to plan and make their enclosures. They had to be creative with the junk material they had. I heard Jacob telling his a team mate they had a great idea. This is great language to use. I also saw John who added cut up card to make hay for his hay rack. This was him thinking about how to improve the design. They shared them with the class and explained what they had in their rabbit home. They were able to explain what everything was and some even added extra information. Layla explained that the rabbit bowl was lower as the rabbit is small so it needs to be at the right height.
Well done P1!
Christmas craft afternoon
P2 Christmas Crafts
Mrs Cochrane has been working hard with the P2 children to make crafts to sell at the Christmas Fair on Friday 9th December. Please come along and buy some of our wonderful crafts which include Christmas tree decorations, placemats and candle holders.
Church Workshop ‘In My Father’s House’
Today, primary 1, 2 and 3 participated in workshops run by the church. We had great fun making glasses (P1) snow globes (P2), houses (P3) and bracelets. We then listened to Mary telling us some stories about finding God and Jesus and about Heaven. Pastor Ian told us about the Good News Club on Thursday evenings at 7pm at Greenrigg Mission as well as Sunday School (on Sundays!) at Bernhar Church in Eastfield.
Christmas church workshop
The primary 1,2 and 3 have been very busy making Christmas crafts at our church workshop.
Thank you to all the helpers at the busy and fun Christmas church workshop.
A Jack Frost Walk in Nursery
Today it was very cold and icy outside. We knew that Jack Frost had been around and went for a walk to investigate. We explored the school grounds looking for signs of Jack Frost. We could hear the grass crunching with the frost and saw the foot prints we left behind. We could feel the cold frost on the branches that melted when we touched it with our warm hands. We could see the frosty spiderwebs on the fences. We saw writing that older boys and girls had done on the benches on the layer of frost. We made sure we were wrapped up warm to go out, including the adults! Here are some pictures from our morning and afternoon walks.
Christmas Jumper Day and SSPCA
Today we looked a little bit different in school.We were wearing our Christmas Jumpers. We weren’t just doing this because it is now December but to raise money for Jak’s Den which is a local charity that supports children with serious illnesses. We raised a fantastic £50 which we will send onto them.
We also enjoyed an informative talk from Liam who is an SSPCA officer. He was telling us about how to keep animals safe at Christmas time and in winter. We learnt about things like not to feed  your dog chocolate or raisins. We also learnt that it is the time of year that baby seals are being born and that they get a lot of calls about abandoned pups. He told us that actually the mum will leave the pup to go and catch food as the pup can’t swim so if we see one on the beach we should just leave it alone.
Nursery Winter Sway
Please have a look at what we have been learning in the nursery about winter.
Visit to Dynamic Earth
As part of our topic “Natural Disasters” we went to Dynamic Earth to learn more about them.
We had a tour of the gallery and learnt lots of interesting facts.
We had to travel back in time to find out how our planet first started. Â This is called the “Big Bang”.
We then experienced what would happen in an earthquake, the floor moved beneath our feet, and how quickly lava would flow. We watched a video about how glaciers helped form the land around us.
After that we learnt more about the first lifeforms on Earth, what an iceberg feels like and animals in the rainforest.
“I learnt that 70% of the Earth is water” Lucy
” I learnt that one of the first reptiles on the planet was a lizard” Rebecca
” I learnt that sabre-tooth cats were hunted and not extinct like the dinosaurs”
In the afternoon we took part in a “shake rattle and roll” workshop. There were lots of activities to do with Natural Disasters. We had to make an earthquake proof building, learn how tsunami are made, sort rocks to see which ones were meteors, make a tornado in a bottle and label/draw different volcanoes.
We had an amazing time and would love to go back again.
