November 21, 2019 – Deans Primary School Blog

Update from Primary One

We have had another extremely busy week in Primary one.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we have been focusing on Celebrating Differences. One of our school values is to make everyone feel included and special. So with this in mind we firstly began to unpick what makes us special? Sophie thinks she is special because she is kind and caring, Mark thinks he is special because he loves taking part in tricky math’s challenges. After a lot of elbow partner discussion we all agreed that we are all special in different ways and that’s a great thing. All of us are unique and have a valuable part to play in our learning community.

This is the picture we used as an example. At first glance they look similar but when you look closer you begin to notice the differences and that what makes them special.

In PE we are continuing to develop our balance and ball skills (we are improving every week!) Here are some pictures to prove it!

We have a lovely visit from our buddies today. They support the children by listening to them read, helping them with tricky words and meeting writing targets. They also come down on a Friday to take them to assembly.

Math’s Challenge

This weeks challenge was to make 10 in as many different ways as possible. The children worked collaboratively in small groups, supporting and encouraging each other.

Other News

We are continuing to learn new sounds and tricky words. The children are blending sounds they know to make new words. We use word mats which encourage the children to identify beginning, middle and end sounds. Some are now changing sounds to create words. We have completed a winter poem plan and will use the plan to write fantastic poems (I will include some photographs of them next week) We have also been researching and writing facts about rainbows. The children were amazed that you can not ever find the end of one or touch them. Nativity songs are being sung everyday, the children are loving it and can’t wait to get on the stage.

Next Week

We hope to see you next Friday for our book bug event. Thank you for your continued support.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

P6/7

In gym this week we have been learning about the Haka and the traditions associated with it. We watched some clips of men and women’s rugby teams performing the Haka. We then worked in groups to create our own sequence of moves in that style. This was also a good opportunity to develop skills in collaboration, communication and leadership. In just two sessions each of the groups did incredibly well and there was a great range of facial expressions, gestures and moves in the sequences. Pupils in the class reported that they thoroughly enjoyed the sessions as was evident from the volume of noise in the hall and smiles on faces!

In literacy we applied our descriptive skills in our last session on narrative writing. We used a video clip from the Literacy Shed website to give us a story start and focus for our writing. We looked closely at the targets for our level to make sure we were including the right aspects. We then used peer and self assessment mats to provide constructive feedback. Next week we will be starting work on information writing and will be creating a leaflet about Japan using Publisher.

In art this week we have been creating pieces based on celebrating difference which is our health theme just now. These are still a work in progress and will be finished off next week. The class are looking forward to working on anime style art as part of our topic on Japan. The lessons will be led by one of our pupils who is very skilled in this area.

P5 Celebrate their Cultures

Health

In Health this week we celebrated our uniqueness. We designed our own culture wheels and then shared our own cultures with others.

Georgie – It doesn’t matter how you are different to other people.

Nakeal – Culture means who you are.

Keris – I learnt Emma likes football!

Bella – I was surprised that Monika likes football.

Mason – I was surprised that Shantelle likes Ariana Grande

We continued practising our rugby skills but this week went outside in the playground!

We also played games inside. These games encouraged us to listen to instructions, think carefully, keep fit and have fun!

Georgie – I liked the ship game.

Maths

We have now finished learning about time and are about to start our new topic – ‘Shape’.

Bella – I am much better at using a time line to calculate time intervals

Literacy

In literacy we continued to read our group novels with our partner and practised using various strategies to improve fluency.

Then we drew a picture using evidence from the text in a visualisation task that allowed us to show our understanding of what we had read.

We wrote a summary of what we had read in our own words – only including key information – but we agreed this was a skill we needed to continue to practise.

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