Primary 7 had their first transition of the year on Wednesday 6th November. We experienced high school life by attending different classes such as Art and Design, CDT, English, Geography and Science. The class are all looking forward to our next visit.
Month: November 2019
We are 50!!
We had a fantastic time celebrating our 50th birthday on Friday! Thank you to all our school community family and friends for celebrating with us! We hope you enjoyed your trip through the decades!
#WeAreDeans
This week in P3/4
It has been a busy week. Deans Primary celebrated its 50th birthday this week!
Our class was asked to focus on the 1980s for this weeks celebrations. The children really enjoyed taking a step back in time to explore this wonderful decade.
The children were paired up and given one year each to research online. The children were then able to design a poster showcasing all the different events from that particular year. We joined all of the posters together to create a timeline of the 80s.
In maths we explored counting time in years. We used terms such as, decade and century to calculate years of the past, future and present on an empty number line.
We also had a visit from fireman Steel just in time for bonfire night. He gave us some great tips on how to be safe during this particular event. The children also got to try on his hat and jacket.
Then of course we had Deans birthday celebrations. P3/4 were amazing hosts to all the wonderful guest we had visiting our classroom. We hope you all enjoyed our 80s themed activities. After the celebrations we all got to go to the ice cream van and pick a well earned treat.
Thank you to all of the parents and visitors that came along to celebrate with us during this wonderful occasion.
Celebrations in P3
Our school celebrated it’s 50th birthday today. Classes had been given a decade to focus on for the birthday celebrations. We have been learning all about the 1990’s. We learned about the channel tunnel which opened in 1994. We had a team working challenge – to create a map to help us recognise where the channel tunnel is.
On Tuesday, we were learning about keeping safe on bonfire night. We made posters to remind us, and we had a visit from firefighter Steel. He talked to us about how to keep ourselves and others safe. We even had a chance to try on his helmet – it was very heavy. Thank you Mr Steel for coming into our class to see us.
Today we had a very busy classroom with lots visitors joining in our activities. As the first Harry Potter book was published in 1997, we were making magical Harry Potter wands.
We also made our own versions of Mr Potato Head from the original Toy Story film which was also released in 1996.
We used some cardboard tubes, some fabric and a train set for problem solving. Our aim was to set up the train tracks through the ‘tunnel’.
We also set up a mini class museum with some items from the 1990’s.
We all enjoyed our visit to the ice-cream van after break time – it was great!
Thank you to everyone who came along to support us today. We had a lovely time.
P5 have a Learning Breakfast and Birthday Celebrations in the Same Week!
Learning Breakfast
Breakfast
- Keris –We enjoyed the breakfast.
- Bella – The croissants and pancakes were really good.
Activities
There were various activities. Through playing online games we learnt about internet safety and European facts. We acted out the digestive process, which is something we have learnt about in science. Games included matching the capital cities to their European countries and a flag quiz. Lewis and his mum were very engrossed in a jigsaw that was a map of Europe! Our craft activity was creating map collages.
- Lacey – Making the European Flag Collages was fun!
- Lewis – I enjoyed watching my 3-year-old brother do a flag collage even though he used the wrong colours!
The digestive system experiment was popular.
- Mohamad – My mum thought it was funny!
- Liam – My mum’s favourite part was squeezing the poo out of the intestines!
School Birthday Celebrations
Thank you to all the visitors who helped us to celebrate Dean’s 50th birthday.
Each class concentrated on a different decade and ours was the 1970s.
Activities
We played games that had been invented in the 1970s – including practising on a space-hopper. In the style of Andy Warhol we created Pop Art pictures, organised significant dates on a timeline and some of us even wore 1970s dress!
- Bella – My mum enjoyed the Pop Art.
- Emma – The Spirograph that Bella let us use was great fun!
- Mason – The Pop Art was really cool!
- Georgie – The Space Hopper was fun!
- Monika – I enjoyed the 1970s dancing.
- Lewis – I enjoyed dressing up as a mini Miss Stanway (we both had a similar costume.)
- Bella – Miss Stanway was a skilled roller skater!
- Emma- I liked drawing the roller skates.
Afterwards we all enjoyed our slushi or ice-cream!
Birthday Celebrations in P2!
We’ve had a very busy day in Primary 2 today! We started off with the excitement of our new classroom layout which has given us a large library space and play area!
To celebrate our 50th Birthday, we all came to school wearing denim, embracing the fashion of the 1990’s!
We had such a fun morning with all of our visitors. We made Mr Potato Heads, designed a new outfit for the Spice Girls and even had the chance to make magical Harry Potter wands! 
We finished the day off enjoying our Slush Puppies and Ice Cream Cones!
Primary 2 would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate our school’s birthday today!
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.
