Day: November 7, 2019

Latest News From Primary One

It has been another busy and exciting week in Primary 1. On Tuesday the 5th we welcomed firefighter Steel. He told the children all about his role in the fire service and explained how they not only fight fires but rescue people who get into trouble in the water and climbing. However, the most important message was keeping safe around fireworks. The children asked him lots of questions and some enjoyed trying on his special (very heavy) firefighters hat.

Summer wrote a lovely thank you letter to all  fire fighters who work hard every day to keep us safe.

Story Writing

The children have been learning how to retell and sequence a story. They picked The Rainbow Fish and discovered that the story reflects  our own school values of feeling included, supported, safe and valued.

Yoga has become a form of exercise that the children really enjoy and look  forward to. The children are learning about the benefits of yoga through stories, music and games. Yoga helps to build resilience,  manage emotions and promote a sense of well-being through the use of postures, meditation and mindfulness.

We have also been busy preparing for Deans 50th birthday. We hope you can come and visit us. We are showcasing learning in the present time.

Have a lovely safe weekend.

Deans Den update!!

It has been another busy week in Deans Den. We continue to work on improving our listening skills as this is a very important skill to master . When you listen well, learning can take place!! One area of learning that has been a success this week is developing our pencil control. Andrew was proud of his detailed colouring of the number 4 and said ” I’m not scribbling.” Well done Andrew!!

The boys are girls are excited to have snack time together and we made a shopping list of the different foods we would like to enjoy. Some suggestions included apples, bananas and crackers.

As it was bonfire night this week we talked about the different ways of keeping safe but still enjoying the fireworks. We were lucky to have a visit from Fire Officer Steel who talked to us about his job and we enjoyed asking him questions too.

Friday is a special day for Deans Primary School as we celebrate it’s 50th birthday. We look forward to sharing our learning with you, hope to see you all tomorrow!!

 

P6/7

Our class are looking forward to the school birthday celebrations tomorrow, (especially the ice cream!). We will be looking at the decade of the 1960’s as part of our school’s history and it would be great if you could pop along to join us. As previously mentioned some pupils have asked to dress up in 60’s fashion but this is entirely optional and not expected.

Pupils in class have been discussing how they would like to develop and improve the learning environment of their classroom. At Deans we are very lucky to have large, spacious rooms and want to make it as welcoming, relevant, and adapted to class personalities and interests as we can. There have been some great ideas so far regarding layout, lighting, displays, table and resource organisation. In the coming weeks we hope to pull these ideas together to make our classroom an even better place to be.

We have started our topic on Japan and look forward to finding out more about it. Next week our topic focus will be looking at how landscape and climate affect land use. We will also be comparing school and home life in Japan and Scotland.

Primary 2/1 Update!

It has been an exciting week so far in Primary 2/1 as we prepare to celebrate our schools’ 50th Birthday on Friday! We have been talking about birthdays and what they mean to us. We talked about what month our birthdays are in and we even got to celebrate Miss Swanson’s special birthday on Monday!!

This week we have been learning all about why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We learned about Guy Fawkes and his plans to blow up parliament. We shared all of our plans for the evening and even designed a special poster to raise awareness of how to keep ourselves safe. We were lucky enough to have a special visit from Fire Officer Steel who did a fabulous job of explaining all about his job and he also gave us some hints and tips on how to stay safe from fire.

Seeing it was bonfire night we wanted to explore lots of different media to create some fantastic art for our classroom.

We used salt, paint and PVA glue to design a firework picture.  It was tricky to create an explosion picture but the end result looked great.

We also cut up cotton buds and dipped them in various colours of paint and glued them onto a black background to create more firework explosion pictures. This was extremely tricky but it also       helps us to develop our fine motor skills too!

At the end of the day we went into the playground to create a whole class piece of art. We used a massive sheet of black paper and covered it in stripes of glue. We had such fun then throwing handfuls of glitter over the glue. Here is our finished product….

Homework superstars this week – Alfie and Archie with their fantastic 3D firework models . The boys were confidently able to share to the class how they went about building their models and which 3D shapes they used! Well done!

 

This week’s sound focus has been on the vowel ‘a’. We learned all about Inky’s vowel house and how this is a black tunnel sound coming from the back of our mouths. We did lots of fun activities to help us practise recognising and writing our new sound.

 

 

In numeracy we are practising counting in steps of 10 and 5. We have been using the 100 square to identify patterns and help us to count both forwards and backwards. Keep practising at home!

We are very much looking forward to opening up our classroom on Friday morning to showcase all of our super learning in the year 2019.

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