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What a week in Primary 1…

Literacy

This week in literacy we learned about the capital letter ‘W’, recapped some sounds we learned earlier and wrote about what we did on the weekend. The friendly Dragon received some nice letters from us, explaining what the fairy-tale “The three little pigs” is about – we are sure he loved them. Throughout the whole week, we have been covering our topic of fairy tales! Our teachers were very impressed with our book reports about our favourite fairy tale.

Numeracy

We have spent the week practising counting up and down from any number from 100, counting in 2’s,3’s, 5’s and 10’s and recognising numbers above 100. As well as that, we revised telling the time using an analogue and a digital clock and a little bit about sharing things equally.

Health and Wellbeing

This week is Health and Wellbeing week, and on Thursday it was outdoor classroom day. We spent the whole day learning outside – it was great fun! Also, on Tuesday, we had a Judo session in school! As well as that, we did some mindfulness and drawing.

Topic

As we mentioned above, our topic is Fairyland. Together, we discussed our ideas on how we think the castle in fairyland would look like and drew a picture along with it. We listened to the story “The three little pigs” and talked about how each character could have felt.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

P1 Teachers

Spring has arrived! Primary 1’s Week of Learning 25.3.2022

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1! Spring has arrived and we have been making the most of the lovely weather, noticing new flowers blooming and lots of warm sunshine. We were inspired to write a description of Spring and create some arts and crafts too.

In Literacy we have recapped some of our more tricky sounds and developed our skills in writing sentences, using capital letters and full stops. We learned to recognise and form the capital letters O and P. We are making great progress with our reading skills, noticing where the full stops are and taking a little pause. Some of us are even beginning to use expression and change our voices a little for each character. Super!

In Maths we have continued to learn about measure, this week focusing on weight. We enjoyed practical activities using balancing scales and kitchen scales to explore ‘heavy’, ‘light’ and ‘equal’.

For RERC, as we are in Lent, we learned about Palm Sunday, when Jesus paraded through the streets of Jerusalem and people cheered for Him. We discussed how special Jesus was when he was alive and how people were very excited to see Him.

Finally, we enjoyed our teddy bears’ picnic on Wednesday outside in the sunshine and look forward to our final week of the term next week.

Another busy week in P1- please read what we have learnt recently.

Literacy

Just like every Monday, we wrote our weekend news, beginning it with: At the weekend I… We tried to remember what we were doing over the weekend and we remembered about all the success criteria: capital letters when needed, finger spaces, full stops and of course a connective ‘and’ – easy peasy :-). We also recapped our knowledge about the sound ‘igh’ by writing some words with it: e.g. right, light, night etc. We have made more posters persuading about the dangerous litter in the sea and practised writing sentences that our teachers dictated to us.

Numeracy

 We were counting forwards and backwards from a given number. We were practising to work out the number before/after/between and we were counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s and recalled double facts up to 20. We were learning about big, small, bigger, smaller, biggest, smallest. It was good fun! We learnt how to use non-standard units to measure objects.

Topic – Under the Sea

 More sea creatures- a ‘Star Fish’ this week. We know many facts about starfish and how to draw this beautiful animal.

RERC

We learnt about the Last Supper – which was the day before Jesus Christ died on the cross. We know now that the Last Supper was a feast that Jesus had with his disciples and one of them (called Judas Iscariot) betrayed Jesus. Yesterday, we learnt about St Patrick who is a very famous and great saint as well as the patron saint of Ireland.

Have a great weekend everyone!

P1 Teachers.

 

Primary 1’s Week of Learning-10.02.22

We have had a super week!

In Literacy, we have been revising our sounds and balloon words and using them to write short sentences. Our teachers are very impressed that we can do this, as well as remembering to use finger spaces and full stops. Wow! We have been reading our new books at home and in school, and we are noticing our sight words in the stories. We were learning about capital letters, so we know now when to use them correctly. We also wrote an imaginative story about: ‘A visit to the vet’. We were happy to write a few sentences, using our success criteria and tried to use the connective ‘and’ – it was not very tricky for us at all!

In Numeracy, we have been learning to count forwards and backwards to 30 in 2s and up to 100 in 5s and 10s. We were practising number bonds for 10 and 20. We also continued to practise addition and subtraction using Rekenreks and Numicon, 10 frames, number tracks and, also number lines. Some of us can now do this independently. We are successful and confident learners! We started to learn about data using pictograms, which we found a ‘piece of cake’ (get it?).

We have also enjoyed some STEM as we became inventors! We were learning about Scottish inventors e.g. Alexander Graham Bell ( who invented the telephone), Charles Macintosh( who invented the raincoat) or John Logie Baird ( who invented the television). We designed our own rockets, flying cars, shelters, phones and teddies. We had lots of fun doing this all out of recycled materials!

HWB- In PE we were practising our gymnastic skills! We found it very fun and sometimes tricky! This week is called Children’s Mental Health Week, so today we had a chance to ‘dress to express’ – and we loved it! This could happen every Friday! We were learning how to be a good friend and what we need to do to improve our ‘ good friendship skills’. We now know what to do.

In RE we were learning about Jesus and his 12 disciples, we know that most of them were very good friends to Jesus!

 

Have a good long weekend everyone!

 

P1 Fitness Fortnight – Week 1

Primary 1 have been enjoying their first week of fitness fortnight. Here are some of the exciting activities we have completed this week:

-Designed our own sports day banner

-Blindfolded ourselves and took part in a quiz to guess what fruit/veg we were eating

-Created an acrostic poem for the word HEALTHY

-Took part in lots of fun fitness maths activities

-Used our creativity to create a game/activity

-Created our own circuits and then wrote instructions on how to complete the circuit

-We have taken part in lots of fun exercise activities such as Just Dance and Jumpstart Johnny

-We also took part in some mindfulness activities

 

Today is our virtual Sports Day! We hope you are all taking part and enjoying yourselves. PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECORD YOUR SCORES USING THE FORMS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PLAN!! Thank you 🙂

P1 Weekly Update

P1 have had a busy week. Let’s take a look at what we’ve been up to…

  • In numeracy we have been revising money. We have been discussing why we need money and where it comes from. We had a go at ordering coins, sorting coins and even set up our own wee shops where we had a go at being the shopkeeper and the customer.
  • For literacy this week we had to plan a movie night for our family. Firstly, we wrote a letter to our family explaining why we wanted to have a movie night. We then created tickets for our movie night and lovely posters.
  • We are still enjoying our topic. We have been looking at dinosaur diets and researching omnivores, herbivores and carnivores.
  • For art, we followed a tutorial on how to draw an allosaurus.
  • We continued with our growth mindset series. This week we thought about what to do if we are stuck and why using the word “yet” is important.
  • For R.E we spent some time reflecting on our year in P1, thinking about what has went well and what we want to get better at in P2. We then finished with a prayer to God to ask him to help us with our journey into P2.

Thank you for all your hard work this week P1. We are very proud of you all.

 

Primary 1 Weekly Update

Primary 1, we have been so impressed with you all this week. You have been working really hard and we have loved receiving all your lovely pictures.

This week Primary 1 have been working on the following:

  • We practised spelling the common words by completing different spelling activities.
  • We have been revising addition and learning about doubles and near doubles by playing games, listening to songs and completing tasks.
  • We practised our reading and comprehension skills by reading stories on Oxford Owl.
  • We wrote about what we are looking forward to doing when lockdown ends.
  • We researched dinosaur habitats and created our own.
  • We built a flotation device for one of our toys.
  • We have been revising growth mindset. We discussed facing challenges, how certain situations make us feel and what we can do to overcome these challenges.
  • We also practised our handwriting.

Take a look at our lovely pictures!

P1 Weekly Update

P1 have had a short but busy week. We have really enjoyed seeing the pictures of your work  and we are so proud of you all. Here is what P1 have been up to…

  • In numeracy this week, we have been revising weight and volume this week. We used items around our house to help with this and completed a weight and volume challenge on Sumdog.
  • In literacy this week, we have been revising the common words and some sounds that we already know. We have revised these through games and written work.
  • We listened to the story “The Huge Bag of Worries” and then drew pictures/wrote about our own worries and discussed these with an adult.
  • As May is the month of Mary, we discussed who Mary is and why she is important. We then drew a picture of Mary and wrote a short description.
  • We took time to reflect on why we are proud of ourselves and recorded at least 2 of these reasons.

Here is a collage of pictures that we have received this week. Well done to these superstars!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

P1 Home Learning

Here is what we have been up to this week…

We wrote stories all about our favourite hobbies. We all have personal writing targets at the front of our jotters to help us to know what to focus on in our writing. Well done if you managed to achieve your target!

We have been learning new sounds and practising some we already knew. These will help us to read and write.

We have been consolidating number bonds to 10 by listening to songs, playing games and making fact files.

We followed “Art for Kids Hub” to create some lovely pictures.

We used items and surfaces around our house to create our own rhythms and play along with our favourite songs.

We have been exercising to help keep us fit and healthy.

We have been practising counting to 10 in Spanish.

We have discussed the importance of prayer and learned “Our Father”.

We have practised our handwriting. It is really important that we know how to form the letters correctly as this will help us when we begin cursive writing.

We know that it is very different to how we usually learn P1 but you are all working really hard and we are proud of you. Keep up the good work and most importantly, keep safe and enjoy spending time with your families.

We have really enjoyed seeing these lovely pictures this week. Please send us more next week and we will include them in next week’s post.

 

P1 Weekly Update

We have been learning about half past and o’clock

If the big hand is up the top the time is o’clock

When the big hand is at the bottom the time is half past

There are 60 minutes in an hour

There are 24 hours in a day

We looked at digital clocks, you can see them on your phone

We looked at analogue clocks, some people have them on their watches

We made a P1 Forum

The P1 Forum make decisions

We decided we didn’t have enough crayons in P1

We decided to have a pyjama day to raise some money to buy crayons

We made posters to send home

We have been learning about the 70s this week

Their televisions looked very different

They didn’t have very many channels

We watched a bit of the Wombles

We learned about the music in the 70s

Lots of the men had long hair in the music videos

We all learned the YMCA dance

We learned the oa sound

We learned the y sound

 

P1 Update

P1 have chosen to update everyone on the on the progress of their cress!

We have been taking care of our cress, making sure it has enough water and sunlight and we are very excited to see that it has grown :). This has generated a lot of discussions around the different parts of plants and why some may have grown more than others.

We will be sampling the cress next week.

P1 Weekly Update

Despite having a short week, P1 have been very busy! Here are some of the things we have been learning about this week:

Cameron- We were learning about an artist.

Nela- The artist used some fruits and vegetables to make a face.

Ava P- His name was Giuseppe (Arcimboldo).

Lena- We planted some cress.

Logan- We put cotton wool in the bottom of a cup.

Travis- We put some water in the cup.

Maya G- We put the cups on the window after we plated them.

Artur- They need the sun.

Kyle- We were putting numbers in the right order.

Amy- We have to start at the smallest number and then go to the biggest.

Zack B- We have been learning the sound “n”.

 

We have also been learning about our school values this week. Here are some of our values:

Ava B- We need to share to be fair.

Ollie- We have to be kind.

Zara- Be a good friend.

Zak K- Be honest.

Ava P- Trust is one of them.

 

 

 

 

P1 Estimation

P1 were very excited to find that some dinosaurs had visited our playground and left some footprints. We have been learning about estimation and we decided to estimate how big the dinosaur footprints were. We estimated how many P1s we could fit inside some of the footprints, how many cubes long the footprints were and how many steps it would take to get from one side of the footprint to the other. We then checked to see how close our estimations were.

 

P1 Dino Fun

Primary 1 have been very busy over the past couple of weeks.

We received a very exciting letter from Pat who is a Paleontologist. He asked us for his help as he had heard that we had been asking lots of questions about dinosaurs. He informed us that there were 14 fossils hidden in St Nicholas and asked if we would be able to find them!

We were unsure of what a fossil or a paleontologist were so we brainstormed some ideas and made a mind map on the board. We decided to go to the library to get some non-fiction books to help us find out. At the library we looked through books and learned how an index can help us to find information on a certain subject. We also found out how to use kiddle and found out some great information from both the books and the internet.

After we knew exactly what fossils were, we headed off outside to find the fossils and we managed to find all 14! We watched a video which explained what tools were needed to examine a fossil. Some of us noticed that the paleontologists were using brushes and decided to use paint brushes to dust our fossils.

Pat then sent us another letter asking for our help as he to know about habitats. We researched what a habitat was and then looked at the differences between our habitats and the dinosaur’s habitats. We then drew pictures of our habitats and created paintings of the dinosaur’s habitats. Some of us thought it would be a nice idea to make a nice habitat for the dinosaurs in the area so we headed outside to collect lots of leaves, sticks and grass for their habitats. We then built them a lovely habitat which we are sure they love!

We are loving our new topic and can’t wait to see what happens next.

 

Dentist visit!

We were so lucky to have a visit from a real dentist today- Louise’s mummy! We had a fantastic time learning how to take care of our teeth. Margarita even let us have a go at looking into Dinosaur Colin’s mouth with a special mirror.

We learned that it is important to brush your top teeth downwards,your bottom teeth upwards and your back teeth in little circles. We also sorted the food into ‘happy teeth’ and ‘sad teeth’ baskets. We learned that sweets, lollipops, fruitshoots and cakes are very tasty but they should be eaten as a little treat and not everyday.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Louise’s mummy for coming into our classroom and for giving us all a fantastic goody bag!

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.

Working hard in Primary 1a!

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Primary 1a have had such a busy week this week!

We have been learning all about Scotland, by looking at stories, videos and pictures.

Here are some of the things we have learned:

Inverness is near the top – Daniella

Tartan is a kind of pattern – Daniella

‘Heid’ means head – Dermott

Edinburgh Castle is in Edinburgh – Dermott

Our ‘lugs’ are our ears – Lucas

Inverness is in Scotland – Lucas

‘Bahookie’ is your bum – Lennox

The Scottish slower is the Thistle – Matthew

Sometimes the thistle is blue – Matthew

The thistle is green and purple – Olivia

The Scottish flag is blue and white – Toby

Loch Ness is near Inverness  – Ava

The flag has stripes that look like an X – Daniel

Nessie is in Loch Ness – Hugh John

Edinburgh used to be called Auld Reekie – Daniella

In Edinburgh people used to poop in a bucket and throw it out of the window. They shouted ‘Gar De Lui’ – Olivia

Edinburgh used to be very smoky because they used a fire to cook and keep warm – Daniella

Edinburgh Castle is on top of an extinct volcano- Matthew

The volcano doesn’t have any red in it – Hugh John

It doesn’t have any lava – Daniella

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This week we have written some amazing descriptions of our Hamish McHaggis (who is helping us to find out more about Scotland). We all remembered to use capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, and we are even learning to use adjectives to describe something (ie he has a shiny red nose).

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Today we were learning all about Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We learned that he lived in Glasgow, and he was an artist. We made our own pictures based on his. We decided that for it to be similar, we had to have a pink flower, some stripes, and some small squares.

Don’t they look amazing?

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Also today, we had a very special visitor, who came to sing some songs with us. She brought lots of fun props to help us with some of the songs!

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I’m sure the children will all be exhausted after such a busy week!!

 

P1’s ‘Star Pupils of the Week’ and ‘Dojo Champions’.

Primary 1 have had such a busy week, and have worked so hard! We have been learning to add numbers (we know the number gets bigger); we have been learning lots more sounds; we have been reading new books (and blending sounds to read words); we have been learning about owls (we had a visit from the Owl Man!!); we have been learning about where light comes from; we have had a special P1 Mass; we watched the P3 assembly; and lots more!

 

This week, as usual, it was very hard to choose our stars of the week! However, we had 3 children who have been working so hard all year and have been so kind to others! So we’d like to say a huge congratulations to Alfie, Julia and Emma.

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This week’s Dojo champions are Tyler, Dorota and Andrew.

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Well done everyone and I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Feathery Visitors in P1!!!

Today, Primary 1 had such an exciting afternoon with some very special visitors. As part of our light and dark topic, we have been learning about nocturnal animals. So today, we were visited by 6 owls!

They were so cute! We had:

Chili – Chili is a spectacled owl from the South American jungle. She is 6 years old, and prefers warm weather. Today, she was making lots of ‘hissing’ noises, that reminded Mrs Baty of her cats when they fight. She also kept turning around to face away from us. I think she maybe didn’t like being woken up during the day.

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Cuddles – Cuddles is a barn owl, and is also 6 years old. She is mainly white, with light brown feathers too. She was very calm and friendly, although also kept trying to fly away (it’s okay – she had her lead on, so she couldn’t go far!).

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Otis – Otis is a grey, long eared own. Although we did learn yesterday that owls ears are hidden. We asked about this – Otis is called a long eared owl, but actually it’s not his ears that are sticking up, just feathers. The ears are actually hidden underneath, just as we thought.

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Poppy – Poppy is a small, brown, tropical screech owl. She made some little squeaks whilst we were holding her, but not loud at all. She is also from South America, and is 4 years old. We was very good when we were holding her, and loved strokes on her head. She looked like she was going to sleep! Mrs Baty thought she looked a little bit like a pom pom.

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Bell – Bell is a tengmals owl. She is also very small. She didn’t really want her photo taken, she kept looking away. She was showing off, by showing us how far around she could turn her head. She is originally from Scandinavia, so doesn’t mind the cold weather.

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Daisy – Daisy is a white faced owl. She also has feathers that look like ears. She is originally from South Africa, and is about 6 years old. She was showing off for us by doing a little dance whilst we were having a chat. We were able to hold her too, although she kept fidgeting and flapping her wings.

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We also found out lots more facts about owls. We have been learning that owls are nocturnal animals (meaning they come out at night) but actually we found this is isn’t quite right.

If an owl has dark coloured eyes, they come out at night.

If it has yellow eyes, it comes out during the day.

If it has orange eyes, it comes out at sunrise or sunset.

We also learned that they sleep up to 20 hours a day!

 

We then asked some fantastic questions:

Lennox – How long are their wings?

A – all owls have very big wings for their size

 

Matthew – do they fly fast or slow?

A – they actually fly quite slowly for birds. They only get to about 30mph.

 

Dermott – why are they tied onto logs?

A – they have to be tied up, the same way a dog has a lead when it goes out – so that it doesn’t fly off and hurt itself. The log is so it’s got something comfortable to sit on.

 

Lucas – can they fly really high in the sky?

A – they actually stay very low so they can find food. They don’t go higher than the trees.

 

Overall, we had a fantastic afternoon!!!

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Customers and Staff at a Spanish Cafe

Primary 1 and Primary 6 got together for language learning on Wednesday by creating a Spanish cafe in class.  We learned how to ask what a customer would like and how to reply with our food choices  – all in Spanish!  Mrs Baty and I were delighted with our children’s confidence and their ability to have a short conversation in Spanish – we were also delighted that we all got to eat fruit, cake, cheese and chocolate!

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P1 Visitor

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Today P1 were very lucky to have a special visitor. We were visited by 2 policemen (PC Robertson and PC Hart)!!

We were very excited (and on our best behaviour).

Who helps us?

Alfie – policeman

Matthew – fireman 

Ava – lollypop man (he has an orange jacket and a hat and a stick)

Haziq – shopkeepers 

Louvisa – they wear a uniform

James – and a badge

Joshua – high service (customer service) 

Piper – teachers

We learned a lot about Stranger Danger – we know that we don’t speak to people we don’t know!

We had some questions we were bursting to ask. Lots of these were about the uniform they were wearing. We wanted to know why it was bright yellow, what the pen was for, and what the handcuffs looked like . The policeman even arrested the teddybear!

We also asked:

Olivia – How do you catch bad guys? (we are really fast, and some people tell us where the bad guys are?)

Joshua – where do you do? (we take the bad guys to the police station)

Arran – is the car bumpy or not bumpy? (it can get bumpy when we drive fast) 

Roman – do you only catch bad guys? (we only catch bad guys, but we speak to good and bad people)

James – do you drive really fast? (only in an emergency)

Tyler – why do you have a police hat? (so everyone knows we are policemen)

Kayleigh – why do you have handcuffs? (in case the bad guys run away)

Lucas – do you have a police ambulance? (no, but we do have a police van)

Leo – why do you have a radio? (so that in an emergency we can speak to each other when we’re far away)

Joshua – why do you have a flashlight? (so we can see in the dark, because we work at nighttime too, to keep you safe). 

We then all had a chance to wear the policemans hat! (including the bear).

We then got a chance to see the police van! We were so excited!

We had such a fun day!

(photos will be posted later!)

 

Primary 1’s Fantastic Friday’s Facts

This week we have been learning all about Rabbits. We were so busy this week that we learned these fun facts today (Friday) instead of Thursday!

We really enjoyed hearing stories and learning about different types of rabbits. Here are some of the things we learned:

Lucas – they eat grass and carrots 

Daniella – (the burrow) keeps them safe

Chloe – it keeps them warm

Damian – there are over 100 types of rabbits 

Haziq – they use their paws to dig

Emma – some rabbits stay in a house 

Daniel (P1b) – some rabbits live in huts

Joshua – some rabbit ears stick up and some are down 

Matthew (P1a) – floppy ears are called lop ears

Oona – some wild rabbits are brown

St Nicholas in Primary 1

Today in Primary 1, we have been learning all about our school’s saint: St Nicholas.

Here are some of the things we have learned:

Louvisa – he rescued someone

Thomas – he rescued them from a storm 

Chloe – he made people rich (he was generous) 

Leo – he shared his money

Roman – he left a bag of money for a man 

Matthew (P1b) – the man found the money

Lucas (P1a) – he wants to give money 

All – he was happy

Toby – he wanted to be a bishop 

All – A bishop is like a priest 

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Fantastic Mr Fox!

We’re all just back from a fantastic afternoon, watching a travelling theatre company perform ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’.  In celebration of one of our children’s favourite authors, Roald Dahl, all our boys and girls from Nursery to P7, watched the production.  At St Nicholas Primary, we love Roald Dahl because there are always morals in his stories and great characterisation, making them suitable for young and old.

More people who help us!

Our primary one children had a fantastic day today visiting our local fire station!

The children listened well as the fireman told them what his job was. They learned all about the uniforms (did you know that most fire fighters wear yellow helmets, but the one who’s in charge wears a white helmet?!) and all about the fire engines (in Scotland they are red with blue lights – the same as the ambulance!!)

We learned that at Broxburn, all the firefighters have pagers, which beep when it’s time to go to work, but other stations have fire fighters who eat and even sleep there!

They then saw what fire fighters have to wear (Mrs Evans and Mrs Baty modeled the uniform – it was very heavy and warm!!)

We also learned what to do if we ever see someone on fire (tell them to Stop, Drop and Roll – you can see us practicing this in our photos).

After that, the children went outside to explore the fire engine. They even got a shot of a water hose out of the fire engine!

All primary 1 children were fantastic on our first trip! Thank you again to our fabulous parent helpers!

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Amazing Ambulance in Primary 1!!

Today, primary 1 were lucky enough to have some very special visitors! As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we invited some paramedics to come to see the children. They told us all about their job, what they do and what equipment they use.

Some of us were allowed to dress up in their real High Vis Jacket, and their paramedics helmet. Then, we pretended Mrs Evans had been trampled by an elephant!! The paramedics put a bandage on her head (like a big plaster) and used a special machine to make sure she was feeling okay (it beeped, and had a blue wavy line on it).

Then, we went to see the ambulance!!! It was amazing! We even got to go inside! Then they put the siren on for us to hear! (See our picture with our hands over our ears … it was so loud!).

We had a really great day!!

Joshua – Paramedics have ambulances

Alfie – they wear an ambulance suit

Ava – they have a torch

Kayleidh – (how could they make sure they are seen?) you wear a jacket

Isla – (Mrs Evans should..) get away from the elephant!

Lucas – (Mrs Evans is hurt, what do we do?) phone the doctor!

James – is the number 909?

Ben – the ambulance is blue

Lucas – …and green and yellow

Matthew – the ambulance has lights

Olivia – the lights are blue, and they flash

Matthew – it has a siren, and they rescue people

Toby – they help people who get hit by a  car

Ben – they are sometimes with the fire brigade

Arran – they take you to the hospital

Dermott – St Johns hospital. 

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Perfect Police

Today, Primary 1 were learning all about The Police, as part of our People Who Help Us topic.

 

We began by watching a video about police in action, then we had lots of fun activities. We got to play dress up (as police and firefighters), and we even took our own finger prints!

 

Here are some of the things we learned today:

 

Ben – the police use helicopters

Toby – They catch bad guys

Olivia – They drive police cars

Lennox – They go fast on their motorbikes to get badies

Dermott – They have sirens on the top of bikes and cars

Ava – They have handcuffs

Arran – They go on motorbikes

Daniel – They use horses

Roman – They go on police helicopters

Daniella – They wear a white and black vest

Ben – They wear helmets

Abdullah –  (the pattern on the side of their cars is…) blue and white and yellow  

Ava – Everyone has different lines on our fingers

Tyler – … called their fingerpints 

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Day 8 of Primary 1’s Fitness Fortnight.

Today we had a visit from three lovely ladies from ‘West Lothian Gymnastics’. What did we do ?  Well we all went to the gym hall and had a gymnastics taster session .  It was amazing ! First of all we played a warm up game called ‘Breakfast’ before we stretched out.  We were then placed into three groups and let loose on the equipment doing forward rolls, backward rolls, handstands, kangaroo jumps and more jumping using the springboard.  We had such a good time that some of us wanted to have another go.  Well done everyone for working hard !

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Fitness Fortnight continued – Karate

Primary 1a and 1b had a fantastic afternoon of Karate. Some of us have already experienced Taikwondo or Karate before, and we were keen to show off our skills.

We found out that Karate is a Japanese sport.

We began by learning how to say hello in Japanese. They are very formal. To say hello, they bow, with their hands at their sides and their feet together. The more important the person, the lower we bow. So of course, we all bowed very low to our teachers!

We then learned how to count to 5 in Japanese.

1 – ish

2 – ni

3 – san

4 – chi

5 – go

We then learned different ways to punch and kick correctly, so as not to hurt ourselves. (Of course, we learned that this is just a sport, and only to be done in safe environments, such as in karate or taikwondo classes).

We learned a forward punch – it is important to keep our thumb tucked away, punch in a straight line, and use the top part of our first 2 fingers.

We learned to a head block and a side block (to stop others punching us).

We then learned something called a slap kick – we don’t use the bottom of our foot or our toes, as this would hurt. Instead, we use the top part of our foot.

We practiced all of these on punching pads, held only by the instructors. We then got a go at using the pretend man called Bob. This was fun as he was very squishy and wobbled a lot.

We also had lots of fun playing games. These games were to help us get fit, and to exercise our muscles. We played an opposites game. We found this tricky at first but eventually got the hang of it. If the man said sit, we had to stand. If he said fight, we had to dance.

We then played a dice game. The dice had different exercises on it, including crunches, push ups, star jumps and squats. There was even a side which got the teachers to do 25 exercises! Luckily it only landed on this once. It was very funny watching Mrs Baty trying to do 25 push ups! She’s not as fit as us.

We had a really fun day, and we’re looking forward to the rest of the week.

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Primary 1’s Fitness Fortnight Day 6.

We have had a fantastic day today !

What have we been up to ?

This morning we took a walk up to the ‘Range Park’.  Some of us had already been before so we were already familiar with it.  For some of though, it was our first time there and we were amazed when we saw all of the super things there.  What did we see ?

a  flying fox

a climbing wall

a roundabout

a chute

an obstacle course

a trampoline

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and lots of lovely green grass and sand for us to run around on.  

We all had lots of super fun running around and using the equipment. It was really great !  We arrived back to school just before lunchtime having walked back.  Mrs Macdonald and Mrs Baty agreed that because we walked up and down to the park we didn’t have to do our ‘Daily Mile’ back at school.  Phew !!!!

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In the afternoon we had a visit from a nurse ! She told us lots of super things about our body and what we can do to keep ourselves strong and healthy.  She also showed us what a heart looks like and told us how important it is to exercise.  We learnt that children’s hearts should beat between 80-120 beats per minute.  We also learnt how important it is to wash our hands.  It was a very informative visit.  Thanks so much toMrs Purves for giving up her time to talk to us.

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A big thank you also to Freya and Tavia’s mummy, Wiktoria’s mummy and Thomas’s mummy for coming along to the park this morning to help us.

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P1s Fab Fitness Fortnight Continued

P1 are having a brilliant week as part of our Fitness Fortnight. We are definitely feeling very fit …. and very tired!

Today we did our daily mile again. It is 6 times around the field. We have been walking most of the way, then running the last 2 laps, although some of us are pushing ourselves further to run more. We are noticing the differences now that we’ve been doing it more continuously.

This afternoon P1a had a yoga instructor come into the class. We had lots of fun trying to get ourselves into all the different positions. They had funny names, including The Airplane, The Bridge and The Cat. We had a lot of fun! (Primary 1b will get to try this next week).

This afternoon, P1b made some healthy snacks. We actually began by trying Mrs Baty’s smoothie (she wasn’t so keen on the ones we tried yesterday, so brought in one of her homemade ones). Lots of us liked it a lot more than the others, and we found out how easy it was to make.

We then made our own yoghurt snacks. We mixed yoghurt, coco powder, honey and banana, and put it in the freezer. We were hoping to eat them this afternoon, but they weren’t frozen enough. It’ll just have to be our breakfast tomorrow! (P1a will make these next week).

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Day 3 – Primary 1’s Fitness Fortnight!

We have had another great day today ! We started our day off learning about lots of different fruits. We spoke about our favourite fruits before trying some of these in the form of smoothies.

We tried a mango and passion fruit smoothie, a pineapple, banana and coconut smoothie, a strawberry and banana smoothie and a pomegranate, blueberry and acai berry smoothie. We liked some of these better than others but we still tried them and some of us even asked for more.  A big well done to everyone for trying these , we are super proud of you all.

Primary 1b voted, and we decided our favourite was the strawberry and banana smoothie, although the mango and passion fruit was a very close second.

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In the afternoon we went for our mile walk.  This is starting to become easier for us and we are enjoying being out in the fresh air.

P1b’s Fabulous Fairytales

Primary 1b had a great couple of weeks towards the end of our Fairytale Topic.

Thank you to all the mums and dads and grannys etc to who came to our Fairytale Showcase. We had such a great time telling you all about our learning. We have really enjoyed this topic.

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After the showcase, we still had lots more to learn. We looked at the fairytale of Hansel and Gretal. We decided the witch was very nasty, and that we should be cooking her instead of her cooking Hansel. We wrote some amazing recipes for her.

We then made our own sweetie house. They looked yummy!

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P1’s Fantastic Fitness Fortnight (Day 1)

Primary 1 have had a brilliant start to their Fitness Fortnight!

This morning we went on a trip to Craigswood Xcite Leisure Centre.

It was amazing! We had 7 different activities set up for us, and the trainers were very helpful.

We experienced shot-put, using basketballs before using REAL shotput balls!!

We tried the javelin. This was very tricky.

We tried the high jump and the long jump (I think we brought back most of the sand!)

We had a go at wellie throwing.

We had a hoop game, and we had races. We were all super fast, but eventually we got our boy and girl winners. We even got prizes!!

We had a really fab time!

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Then, this afternoon, we took part in our daily mile. We are enjoying it a lot more and are finding it easier now. We are even trying to run more and more of it.

Then we had some team building games.

We had a hoop game – we had to get the hoop around the circle, without letting go of each others hands. This was quite tricky, but Mrs Baty & Mrs Gaffney’s team seemed to get the hang of it very quickly.

We then had some wheelbarrow races. Most of us went in the right direction! This was great fun though.

Finally, we played a game with a ball. We stood in a row in our team, and had to pass the ball along the line in a pattern. We were quite good at this, but rather tired by this point.

Overall, we had a fantastic day! (and what great weather it was too!)

Hopefully we’ll all sleep very well tonight, and be ready for more adventures tomorrow.

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Primary 1b’s Magical Morning

Primary 1b had a very fun morning, imagining we had a Fairy Godmother, just like Cinderella!

We had some lovely wishes to ask her. We will soon be making magic wands to see if we can help make some of them come true. Photos will come later.

Grace – I would wish to be magic so I can decorate my room

Freyja – I would wish all of the world was made of chocolate 

Gabrielle – I would wish for a fast, flying, spectacular pony with magic

Lucas C – I would wish for a hundred dollars 

Lily – I would wish to have 5 fluffy cats

Hamza – I would wish to live in a castle 

Alicia – I would wish to have a beautiful unicorn 

Brooke – I would wish to be a Fairy Godmother

Lucas T – I would wish to go to Disneyland 

Adriana – I would wish for a bunny

Holly – I would wish I had a magic wand 

Mia – I would wish to live in a ball

Liam – I would wish for Mrs Baty to live with me

Martyna – I would wish for a sparkly cat

Mya – I would wish for a crown with gems

Nicola – I would wish for 5 cats

Gabriel – I would wish for Goofy to come to my house

Leonard – I would wish for 3 dogs

Oliver – I would wish to be stronger

Safaa – I would wish to be a princess with magic

Wojciech – I would wish for blue dogs

Catherine – I would wish to be a really fast runner

Let’s keep our fingers crossed that (some of them) come true!

Let’s take a selfie!

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This morning Primaries 2 and 2/1 were confused when they entered their classrooms as there was no sign of Rudey!  They were worried that he had gone back to The North Pole early.  However, Mrs Leonard came in with some interesting news!  She asked us to come down to the photocopying room to investigate.  On the walls were selfies of the two Rudey’s which they had taken using the photocopier over the weekend.  They also left us a note saying they were bored without us.  Mrs Brown also came to investigate and said that we should keep the photographs as evidence of their naughty behaviour to show Santa.

Arran H – I was very shocked when Rudey wasn’t in our classroom.

Finlay F – I was amazed to see that Rudey had used the photocopier.

Matthew M – I was a bit sad to see that Rudey wasn’t there.

Zach – I think that Rudey should go home with us over the weekend to show him how to behave properly.

We hope that Rudey’s behaviour will be better tomorrow!

 

Primary 1b’s Fantastic Numbers

 

Today Primary 1b have been having lots of fun practicing our numbers.

We have been ordering the numbers to 10, jumping on numbers before and after, counting forwards, counting backwards, singing number songs, and going on number hunts in the classroom.

Here are some pictures of us using the large number line on the floor to work out the answers to the number before / after. How clever are we?!

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Dinosaurs loose in the school!!!

Primary 1 have some very exciting news!!!

Today, after lunch, our dinosaur eggs hatched! Inside, we found a baby T-Rex. They were a bit naughty, with one even walking through dirt and leaving muddy footprints all over the classroom!

However they are learning quickly, and primary 1b’s dinosaur (named Rory) has even been brave enough to go on a sleepover! (With his special blanket).

We hope he has a lovely time and we are all looking forward to our turn to take him home.

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P1 and the brilliant habitats.

Thank you so much to all of the boys and girls in P2  and their teachers for inviting us to see the fantastic habitats that they made.  We already knew what a habitat was but it was fantastic to see lots of different models of these.  Today we seen bee hives, deserts, beaver dens, fish tanks, beaches, oceans, ponds,  a bear cave, jungles, a fox cave, an insect hotel, rabbit holes, hedgehog dens, owl nests, the Antarctic and a kennel.  There were so many different habitats to see !

Well done P2, you are so talented and we learnt lots from you today.

 

 

 

Happy chickens in P1b !

Here are the happy little chickens, (also known as P1b) working hard.  We spent an afternoon doing chicken related things.

Our activities included :

Working with our shoulder partner to record a chicken related fact.

Making chickens.

Playing a chicken game on the smartboard, (we had to rescue the baby chicks from the foxes).

Sequencing the life cycle of a chicken, (the pictures were muddled up, we had to sort them and put them in the write order).

Practising our fine motor skills to colour in a chicken picture, (Mrs Macdonald said our clolouring looked like P2 colouring in !).

We had a fun, active and constructive afternoon.

 

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Shapes are everywhere !

Primary 1b have been very busy this week recapping 2D and 3D shapes. We went on a shape hunt and recorded our findings. We hadn’t realised before just how many things there are that we use that are made out of 3D shapes. We have been very active with our learning. What else have we been up to ?

We have played ‘Name that shape’

We played ‘Shape Bingo’.

We designed a living things picture using 2D shapes.

We played with the 3D shapes, stacking them and rolling them.

We learnt a fantastic rap all about 3D shapes.

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Bye bye bonny butterflies !

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Thank you to Miss Boyd and Primary 2 for allowing P1a and P1b the chance to help you. We loved watching you set your butteflies free.    We felt sad and happy at the same time because it was nice having butterflies in St Nicholas, but we know that butterflies belong outside.

We learnt that :

Butterflies start off as caterpillars – Kai.

After a wee while the caterpillars change into a chrysallis – Jacob.

They then turn into a butterfly – Fallon.

Butterflies only live for two weeks – Aoibhe.

Before they die, butterflies lay hundreds of eggs and these turn into caterpillars.

Butterflies like to eat leaves and fruit – Harry and Chloe.

Once we got back to class, we completed  a couple of butterfly themed activities.  We wrote a report on butterflies and we made a symmetrical stained glass window butterfly.

 

Mrs Hesketh’s chickens and primary 1.

Today, Primary 1 learnt all about chickens thanks to Mrs Hesketh. Mrs Hesketh has four chickens altogether and she told us all about these. We learnt that her chickens have a special hut in her garden to shelter them and she also told us that they have a long run to let them stretch their legs.

As a special treat today, Mrs Hesketh brought in two of her chickens to show us, Gryffun and Charmander.  They are both girls.  Gryffun is the white chicken, Charmander is the brown one.

We learnt that :

Chickens normally live until they are five years old – Zach.

Chickens lay eggs – Carson.

A chicken’s favourite colour is red – Finn.

Chickens sometimes eat tiny stones – Ronan.

Chickens like to eat apples – Jacob.

When chickens are small their little yellow feathers fall off – Fallon.

They eat insects – Finlay F.

Some chickens lay blue eggs – Aoibhe.

They eat meal worms, these are like sweeties for them – Harry.

They eat other types of fruit – Ciaran.

Chickens sometimes get eaten by foxes – Emily.

Chickens can be called hens – Christy.

Chickens babies are called chicks – Poppy.

Thank you so much Mrs Hesketh for bringing in your lovely chickens. We learnt lots and lots. We were especially pleased to see the egg that Gryffun lay whilst we were outside.

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Beautiful Butterfly

Primary 2 have some very exciting news…one of our butterflies has emerged from its chrysalis!

Archie was heading back to his desk to do some maths work when he spotted the wings hanging on the silk paper.  He quickly came to tell Mrs Dymock who didn’t believe him at first as they had looked at the chrysalis’ in the morning and there was no change to them.  The hard work that Primary 2 were doing must have made the butterfly want to come out and investigate!

The wings were closed tightly, however they have started to open now and the red liquid from their wings are on the paper.  This means that its wings are getting stronger.

Primary 1 came over for a visit to meet our new butterfly and to learn lots of new interesting facts.

We know that we need to care for the butterflies before releasing them.  We need to put some sugary water and flowers into the butterfly garden for the butterfly to drink before it is strong enough to set free.

We can’t wait for the rest of them to join us!

Slippery Snails in P1.

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Thank you to to Connor and Cameron for bringing in their pet snails to show us.  We had a good look at them and learnt that :

The body of the snail is long, moist and slimy. It has a shell to protect the soft body. When the snail is disturbed, it simply withdraws or pulls itself back into its shell. The snail also retreats into its shell and seals the entrance in dry weather to protect its body from drying up. A snail is most active at night and on cloudy days. It does not like the sunshine very much. During very cold weather or winter, it hibernates in the ground.

Sounds as though snails are very clever !

 

Beastie boffins !

Today , primary 1b finally got to see the slaters that were hiding in Finlay’s box.  One was sitting quite contentedly on top of the soil whilst the other was hiding to the side of one leaf.

We used a magnifying glass to help us to get a closer look.  We learnt that slaters have 14 legs, seven on one side of the body and seven on the other.  We also learnt that slaters aren’t fussy when it comes to food, they will eat almost anything, whether it is fresh or rotten. We noticed that the leaves in Finlay’s box had little nibbles on them, the slaters must have been hungry.

Whilst investigating, we also learnt that slaters are usually a grey, brown colour.  This makes it harder for them to be seen when they are hiding in the soil.  They can also be found hiding under stones.

Here are some of us slater watching !

 

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Finlay and his box of beasties.

 

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Today,  Finlay F arrived at school with a very well prepared box filled with moist soil, leaves and holes in the lid.What was in the box you may ask ? Well, Finlay brought in a box with slaters and slugs collected from his garden and his granny’s garden.  We had a quick look to see if we could find them but they were hiding too well in the soil.

P1 will investigate again tomorrow using magnifying glasses and learn a fact or two about these fascinating beasties . Thank you Finlay for bringing these along !

Super smilers in P1 !

Yesterday, all of P1 got their teeth checked by the school dentist.  She was very happy to see lots of super, shiny teeth ! Today, we spoke about the importance of good dental care.  We watched a great cartoon about Crawford the Cat brushing his teeth.  He reminded us that if we want strong and healthy teeth we should :

Brush at least twice a day.

Floss between teeth.

Brush for 120 seconds.

To help us to do this, we have all been given a new toothbrush and toothpaste that we can take home. Happy teeth brushing boys and girls !

Mrs Macdonald and Miss Toner.

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Living Things in P1b !

Our new topic in Primary 1 is ‘Living Things’. We learnt a song to help us remember all of the things that living things need. It goes something like this :

‘Does it need air ?

Does it move or grow ?

Does it need food or water ?

If YES, then you know

It’s a living thing’.

We have been very busy learning exciting new things. Here we are, working hard !

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Happy birthday Harry ! (Treats to share too !).

P1b celebrated today as it is Harry’s birthday.  Happy 6th birthday Harry ! We hope that you have had a lovely day at school.  Harry brought in some cakes and sweets for us to enjoy.  Thanks for these Harry.  We shared them out equally ensuring that everyone got something.  We found this easy as this is what we are learning in Maths.  We will be spending the next few days learning how to share objects equally.

Here is the birthday boy !
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First few days back in P1b.

Our first few days back at school have been very busy and enjoyable.   Mrs Macdonald got a shock when she saw us after the holidays.  She  couldn’t believe how tall and grown up we were looking.  She said that we almost look like P2s !

We also welcomed a new friend into our class, Arran. Welcome to St Nicholas Arran !

Today, we had our story and milk outside today under the shade of the gazebo.  We couldn’t believe how hot it was.  If this good weather continues, we will need to think about wearing sun hats and bringing sun tan lotion to school (fingers crossed !).

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Fairyland Fun in P1b.

The boys and girls and I would like to say a huge thank you to all of our special visitors who came along to our class to share our learning.    It was fantastic seeing such a large turnout.  We hope you had fun .  We did ! Our favourite activity was decorating the gingerbread men. These disapperared very quickly !

Here are a few pictures from yesterday.

 

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Pranks in P1.

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P1a’s and P1b’s teachers swapped classes this morning to play a prank on the boys and girls. Miss Toner’s class were met by Mrs Macdonald and P1b were met by Miss Toner. What was going on ? We told the boys and girls that Mrs Brown had decided to swap teachers around ! There were a lot of confused little faces . After a few minutes, some of the class guessed ! We were playing a little trick.  Ha ha ! April Fools Day everyone !

P1b having fun in Fairyland !

P1 have been busy today making final preparations for our Fairyland showcase.  We made crowns, fairy wands and wrote a story about the big bad wolf.

When writing our story, we had to pretend that we were the big bad wolf and think of reasons why he ate Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma.  After a super discussion we all agreed that maybe the poor wolf hadn’t eaten for days and that is why he ate them both.  Maybe Little Red Riding Hood was mean to him and he decided to gobble her up ! Who knows !

We hope that you can make it along to our Fairlyland showcase.  Just a reminder to you all that it will be on Wednesday, 2nd of April at 2.00pm in our classroom. Hope to see lots of you there.

 

We hope to see lots of mummies, daddies , grannies and grandads on this day.

Goodies in P1b !

Today we were left another lovely surprise in our classroon after lunch ! A basket ! But, not any old basket, for this basket was full of goodies. There were sandwiches, cookies, biscuits, a donut , healthy grapes and milk.  Yummy !  Who could have left us such delicious treats ?

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD !

Thank you for visiting our class today.  We had lots of fun with your fairytale.  We sequenced the story and wrote all about our favourite part in our castle booklets.

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Taking care of our plants

Primary 1 have been learning about living things and how to take care of them. Our ‘beanstalks’ were looking quite squashed in their small pots, their roots definitely needed more space. We decided to replant them into bigger pots before we take them home next week. Halfway through replanting, we ran out of soil! This was a great opportunity to get out in the sunshine and collect some more.

Well done primary 1.

Miss Toner

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P1b’s news and birthday greetings !

Today, Evan, Kamaren, Connor and Arran would like to share their writing in their news jotters with you.  Well done boys !  When reading today’s diairies I was really impressed to see capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.  I also noticed that there were lots of birthdays at the weekend. We have one today too !  A big happy birthday to Arran, Finn and Zach.
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Our Learning Log

Primaries 2 and 2/1 have had a busy week!  In Maths we have been measuring and have been investigating to find things that are tall and short.  In P2a we discovered that Kordian was the tallest in our class and Chloe was the shortest.  In P2/1 Alan was the tallest and Tatenda was the shortest.  We used cubes which are a non-standard unit of measure to sort characters from Aladdin and measure them.

In Literacy we read a new book called ‘Who’s our new teacher’ and we worked in pairs to make up questions for the big green dragon.  We used the words why, where, how, when and what and had to remember to use a question mark at the end of our sentence.

We have also been building up an interesting story about our magic carpet adventure.  This week we wrote an interesting middle where we met a character in our story.

I met a giant baby in Egypt. – Archie

I met Prince Charming. – Aisha

I met Santa in the North Pole. – Chloe

I met a dancing Daisy in beautiful Field Land. – Natalia

I met a flying unicorn. – Zuzanna.

I met a shark in Australia. – Stephen

 

We also learned about St Patrick and made brightly coloured rainbow mobiles with a lucky shamrock and pot of gold hanging from them.  We know that St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.

Wow! What a busy week we have had.  We are looking forward to learning lots more next week!

 

 

 

P1 and the hunt for Goldilocks

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Today we all made a WANTED poster , appealing for help to find  Goldilocks. We will stick  some of these  up around our school , just in case she decides to come back. We hope that we find her because we would like to have a chat with her about breaking other people’s things. We will also be telling her off for going into the bear’s house . So silly as she didn’t even know any of the three bears. Our teachers  have reminded us all today about what we do to keep ourselves safe.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from P1b.

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Today the boys and girls learnt all about St. Patrick and Irish customs.  We watched a short film about St Patrick’s life.  It is was very interesting.  We had our listening ears on and were able to remember lots of facts about him.

We learnt that :

He was born in Wales (Harry).

He was captured by pirates (Zach).

He was taken on a boat to Ireland (Kai).

He had to look after sheep when he was captured (Finlay F).

Patrick prayed to God when he was on the island (Neve P).

Once he escaped he decided to become a priest and he studied for lots of years. (Aoibhe).

He went back to Ireland and helped the people to believe in God (Finn).

Mrs Thomson came into our class told us lots of things too about St Patrick’s day and about Ireland.  She showed us the beautiful shamrock that her mummy posted her from Dublin. We learnt that shamrock is Ireland’s flower.  It is very pretty.  We are going to use Mrs Thomson’s s cutting to try to grow more lovely shamrocks.

We also learnt that Irish boys and girls have the day off from school.  They celebrate the day by going to Mass before watching a St Patrick’s day parade in town. Mrs Thomson made us laugh when she told us that when she was a little girl she used to go to McDonalds on St Patrick’s day and order a green milkshake.  We didn’t know that there was such a thing !  We rounded off our afternoon by making a lucky leprechaun.  Harry and Aoibhe also showed us the lovely St Patrick’s day badges and leprechauns that brought in specially.   We loved them!

Happy St Patrick’s day to all of our family and friends,

love from P1b and Mrs Macdonald.

 

 

Writing fun in P1b.

We enjoy sharing our news after a busy weekend.  Here are some of our news jotters.  Ronan, Chloe, Finlay F and Casper worked super hard this morning to use their sounds in their writing.  Well done to all of the children for working hard.  I really enjoy reading what you have written.

 

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Mummies are very special.

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Primary 1 have spent a lot of time this week talking and thinking about our mummies. We spoke about what makes our mummy special.  Miss Toner and Mrs Macdonald spoke about their mummies too.  Miss Toner’s mummy is kind and funny.  Mrs Macdonald told her boys and girls that her mummy gives good cuddles and makes the best cup of tea in the whole world !   We want our mummies to know that we love them very much.

Happy Mother’s Day when it comes to our lovely mummies.

Love from,

All of the boys and girls in P1a, P1b , Mrs Macdonald and Miss Toner.

P1a, P1b, Mrs Macdonald and Miss Toner.

Sweeties in P1.

DSCF3367 DSCF3369 DSCF3370 DSCF3373 DSCF3372 DSCF3371What a surprise we had today ! Whilst we were at lunch someone snuck into our classroom and left us a bag of sweeties ! We couldn’t believe it ! Attached to the bag of sweeties was a note saying ‘Guess who ! Love from 2 fairytale characters’.   We racked our brains to try to guess who had left us some sweets.  Was it Little Red Riding Hood ? Could it have been Puss ? Maybe even Goldilocks ?  After a lot of discussion we finally guessed correctly.   It was Hansel and Gretel !  Mrs Macdonald read the story to us and then gave us one of the sweeties to eat as a special treat.  We then set off to work in groups designing sweeties, lollipops and candy canes. We also wrote about the story in our castle books that the dragon left us. It was a great afternoon.