Month: November 2019

Deans Den

Many thanks to all visitors who came to help celebrate Dean’s Primary School 50th birthday. It was very well attended and our visitors were impressed with the children’s learning and classroom environments.

This week in Deans Den we have been focusing on how to be a good friend and how our actions and words may affect others. We read the story of The Rainbow Fish and learned how important it is to share with others. With a little help from Mrs Morrison, the boys and girls are trying to demonstrate this skill during their time in the den and also in the primary one classrooms.

We are all excited to be taking part in the school nativity and we had our first listen to some of the songs we have to practise. A lot of hard work and fun ahead in the coming weeks!!

P6/7

It was great to see so many people at our school birthday celebrations last week. Our class really enjoyed seeing everybody and sharing their learning. The visit from the ice cream van was also a firm favourite for pupils!

Our class have been discussing changes they would like to make to their learning environment. So far we have incorporated a new library area with new books from the main school library. Pupils are looking forward to adding to their book collection next week. Classes have been allocated some money for pupils to select a range of new books from Waterstones. This follows on from our reading ambassadors visit to the Livingston branch to select some books by their favourite authors. These included Michael Morpurgo, Emma Carroll and David Walliams.

Pupils have further plans to develop/ improve their classroom by adding in inspirational posters and LED strip lighting. A common request was also to buy in new Together Time and wet play activities.

This week we have been working on some Winter poetry and trying to incorporate descriptive language techniques. We described scenes using our senses, alliteration, similes, metaphors and personification. Our pupils will be creating a display of the work for everyone to see.

Library changes

In P5/6 We got £200 pounds to use to spend on books of our choices. We liked goosebumps, the school of good and evil, Pokemon, beast quest, ink trilogy, tom gates, fairy books,  detective pikachu , and we have aso been doing   Maths in class this week in maths we’ve been using empty number lines.

Primary 2/1 Learning Breakfast.

On Tuesday we held our Learning Breakfast and what a success it was! It was lovely to open up our classroom to all of our parents and carers to share and demonstrate the super learning which takes place on a daily basis.

We started off our morning in the dinner hall with the most delicious breakfast of pancakes, croissants and fruit, all made by our talented dinner ladies – Thank you so much for feeding us all!

It is safe to say the Primary 2/1 pupils gave the breakfast a big thumbs up!

After we had filled our tummies we went back to the classroom to share some of our Numeracy Learning.  We were able to share what we were learning, how we were learning and why. It was great to be able to demonstrate our addition skills, counting and sequencing in tens and all the ways we can use Numicon.

 

A great big thank you to all the parents and carers who attended on Tuesday. Thank you for your continued support of our school.

Latest News from Primary 1

On Friday the 8th of November, Deans celebrated its 50th birthday. We had a fantastic fun filled morning. The children and I welcomed a record number of visitors to our classroom. In Primary 1, we  demonstrated how children learn in 2019 through actively investigating, collaborating, discussing and sharing strategies.  Thank you so much for your support and in case you were unable to attend here a few pictures of some of the activities.

On Tuesday we celebrated Armistice Day  by observing the 2 minute silence and making poppies.

On Wednesday afternoon we decided to take our learning outside. We have been learning some new tricky words and played a game of word splat.

Our new sound this week is a. Now that we have a vowel sound we can begin to blend and segment words. We have been using our word mats to create words and change the beginning sound to make new ones.

Lastly we had a math’s challenge. It was really tricky but there was a lot of valuable discussion around the problem, such as “how many different ways are there to make 5” “can we use concrete materials (red and green cubes) to help us”

Thank you for your continued support especially with reading and recognizing tricky words. Have a lovely weekend.

 

P5/6’s fabulous 70s party

During the p5/6s 70s party Parents and carers were aloud to come into our classroom. We had many different activities to do.

jumping on space hoppers was one of the activities. We were aloud to make drawings of Andy Warhol’s design of Marilyn Monroe. One had key rings, puzzles and boggle. Another activity was dancing the YMCA. While we were at the different stations we listened to music.

Some of us dressed up wearing wacky hair, disco trousers and shirts, We even got some parents to dress up! If we didn’t bring anything to wear, Mr Colverson would bring in different clothing. There was two different themes for the 70s. Throughout 1970 – 1977 the style was disco but during the 1978 – 1980+ the style was punk. We could wear ripped jeans, black t-shirts and Mohawk-style hair (and even black rubbish bags)

A lot of music we still watch are from the 70s just like-

Mamma Mia’s songs – Abba

ABC – Jackson 5

YMCA – village people

Deans 5Oth Celebrations in Primary 2/1

What a fantastic morning we had in Primary 2/1 celebrating our 50th birthday. Many thanks to all the parents and carers who came along and joined in with all the fun activities in our classroom. It was so busy and lovely to see so many friendly faces.

Our focus was on how we learn in the present day. We had a number of literacy based activities to take part in and we were able to explain all of our learning to our visitors and show them how it’s done!

After break we even had a visit from the ice cream van, it was the perfect way to end such a fun day!

  

What’s on…

Week beginning 11th November 2019

Mon –

Breakfast club fitness fun – p4-7

Lunchtime Multi-sports club

3.30-4.30pm Football After School club P4-7

3.15-4.15pm Tae Kwon do After school club

3.15-4pm Choir After school club

 

Tue-

Planet Soccer Lunchtime club

9-10am P1/2 Learning Breakfast

 

Wed-

Dad’s drop in session meet in Hub

Scripture Union lunch club

3.30-4.30pm Football After School club P1-3

 

Thu-

Move to the Beat workshops P5 and P5/6

P4 Futsal

 

Fri-

Fitness Friday breakfast club – p1-3

 

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