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Catholic Education and Scottish Book week in P3 and P3/2

We have had another busy week in P3 and P3/2. Read all about our learning below.

In Literacy, we have been making predictions.  We watched a video of a girl walking along a beach and finding bubbles then we predicted what we thought would happen next.   We thought about where she might go and who she might meet. We also read  a mystery book and we had to guess what the title and front cover would look like.

In Numeracy, we have been using our knowledge of fact families to find addition and subtraction facts.  If we know one fact we can work out the other 3 facts.  We have played different games to practise our skills.

This week is Catholic Education week and we have been learning about St Margaret whose feast day was on Tuesday.  We have also been learning about making good choices.  We made beautiful prayer cards to thank God.

In our Pupil Parliament groups we have been discussing what makes a good team, how to improve teaching and learning, how to improve the school and community and how we celebrate success and achievements. We worked hard on this task and added it to a padlet.

We have also been designing a bedroom for a book character and thinking about what they would need.  Then we designed their bed covers and wallpaper.

On Monday we took home our Read, Write Count packs and we enjoyed looking through them.

What a quick week!

“Stickman Production”

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Primary 6a worked really hard to produce their “Stickman” puppet show to perform to the younger classes during book week. Every child had a part to play in this show whether it was narration, puppet mastery, lights or ICT. Primaries 1, 2 and 3 thoroughly enjoyed the show. Excellent work Primary 6, a great example of creative, independent work!

Primary 6b will be completing and performing their performance very soon. We are very excited to see it!

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Primary 1’s Book Week

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Primary 1 have been having a great Book Week so far.

We have been reading lots of books in class, with our teacher, with our friends, with nursery children and with our primary 7 buddies. We also took some of our favourite books outside to read in the sunshine today.

We’ve had lots of fun book related activities, including painting and other art activities related to some of our favourite stories.

We have been decorating our door like a book too – we are trying to win a ‘Dress Your Door’ competition against the rest of the school (of course, ours are by far the best!).

We helped write the first chapter of a ‘School Story’ – the rest of the school will continue and finish the story.

We have also been doing lots of fab writing related to and inspired by some of our favourite books.

We’ve also been bringing in some fab photos of our ‘extreme reading’ for the competition – the winner will be announced on Friday.

There’s still lots more to come, including a school carousel (where we will hear some stories from other teachers in the school, and finally, we are really looking forward to dressing up as our favourite book character on Friday.

Book Week Update.

Today was a super day with lots of great things happening.  What did we do ?

Lots of classes completed their book themed  wall/classroom door.

We brought in books to swap with a friend in our class.  We all went home with a new book.

A different teacher read a story to us.

P5 played ‘Book Cluedo’.  We now have an idea who took Mrs Brown’s books ! All will be revealed tomorrow.

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Book Week Update

 

We have been having a fantastic week this week, celebrating book week.

We have been engaging in lots of activities all week, and still have plenty to go.

This week we have been enjoying lots of paired reading (reading to others in the school). Primary 1 particularly enjoyed the primary 7 boys and girls reading to them.

Primary 4-7 have been going on a ‘Cluedo Quest’. Someone stole all the books from Mrs Brown’s office! They have been answering clues, leading them all around the school, to help them work out who did it!

We have been receiving some amazingly creative photos for our Extreme Reading competition. They are all on display in the gym hall. We have had children reading whilst hula hooping; upside down; in the dogs bed; on the moon; standing on top of a giant peach; on a horse; in a tree and many more!

Our teachers have been challenging us this week as well. There is a display in the gym hall, with lots of teachers hiding behind their favourite books. It is really tricky to work out who is who!

We have all been working as a class to create an imaginative display based on a favourite book, or a number of favourite books.  We can’t wait to see which class wins this competition on Friday.

 

We still have many more activities to do as well!

Tomorrow (Thursday) we are participating in a book swap in the classes. Every child has been asked to bring in a book they no longer want, or read, and it will be swapped with someone else, meaning we all go home with a new book to enjoy.

Also tomorrow our teachers are all swapping classes to read a story to another class.

But the thing we are most looking forward to is the chance to dress up as our favourite book character on Friday (Nursery is on Thursday)! We have been discussing costumes all week. There is a prize for the most imaginative costume from each year group.

Keep checking back for more updates!

 

 

Primary 1 & 2’s Library Visit

Today, primary 1 and 2 had a fantastic afternoon. We visited the local library. We met the author and the lead character of the children’s books Badger The Mystical Mutt.

Badger is a large black and white dog, who loves toast, and is awfully cheeky! He is also very good at magic. We watched him perform a number of magic tricks, in between annoying Laura, the author.

We also listened to a short extract from the first book.

It really was a brilliant afternoon. Thank you so much to the library and to Laura and Badger.

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Primary 1 Book Week

Primary 1 have been having a fantastic week this week. We have been celebrating books in all sorts of ways!

We have had our primary 7 buddies come to read to us twice this week! We loved listening to their stories, and even read them some stories too.

We have each designed / coloured a bookmark, which Mrs Baty says she’s going to laminate for us to keep.

We have read lots of new books and our favourite books every day this week.

We chose our favourite class book (The Selfish Crocodile) and have been designing a display on our door. It is looking so good. Fingers crossed we win the competition on Friday.

We got together to write the first page of a whole school story. We began it by introducing Mr Zebra, who was getting ready for his own birthday party with Mr Tiger and Mrs Hippo. He wore a blue and red sparkly party hat, and his party t’shirt. But on his way to the party … he fell into a puddle! We can’t wait to hear how it ends.

Today we went with the primary 2’s, to the library. We saw a short performance about Badger The Mystical Mutt. He was a very cheeky dog!

We have also been looking at some of the amazing ‘Extreme Reading’ photos. We are so creative.

We are really looking forward to the rest of the week. Tomorrow we are going to have a story from a different teacher; we have our book swap; and we can’t wait for our Dress Up Day on Friday.

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St Nicholas Book Week

Our ‘Book Week’ got off to a super start today with the boys and girls engaging in lots of great actvitiies including :

Whole school story – P1 started off our whole school story.  After a super discussion and a vote we agreed that the main characters in our story should be animals.  We used our imaginations to start off the story before we passed it over to the boys and girls in P2 who then wrote their part.  The story will visit all of the classes throughout the week with each stage adding their part.  We cannot wait to hear what happens next.

Paired reading – Primary 7 visited the boys and girls in P1 and read stories to them.  The P1’s loved being read to from their special visitors.

P7 went investigating around the school reading clues and looking for pictures of very famous book characters when they played ‘Cluedo’.  They had super fun looking for the culprit who stole Mrs Brown’s books.  I wonder who it was ? All will be revealed soon.P4, P5 and P6 will play this game too throughout the week.

Log in tomorrow for some more news about ‘Book Week’.

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