Month: January 2020

This week P6/7 returned to “My World of Work” website to continue  identifying their skills through a section called “My Interests”. They also reviewed their “Animal Me”  from last week, looking particularly at the section of how to improve skills.

There was  then a whole class business meeting looking at the craft resources they had purchased and making a plan of how to use these. Also discussed at length was what Craft Packs would suit the different ages of children coming to the Spring Fayre, and  what prices may be charged  – depending on costs and profits.

It was agreed that Easter Cards, Easter Bunting, Easter Crafts and Easter Bonnets packs would all be made as part of their “Buy’n’Try” crafts. There are also options for some other goods which the “Crafty!” company would make as completed items, to sell.

We were able to identify that our skills of Collaborating, Leading, Feeling and Communicating are being developed through all of our activities!

We started off our week with Money Monday. We revisted our prior knowledge in this numeracy topic and used our concrete materials (coins) to show different ways of making an amount. The children were fantastic at showing and explaining what different coins they had used to show a total amount.

In PE we continued with our Athletics. This week we put our running skills that we learned about last week to the test. This week we focused on running over objects. the children worked in teams to complete and obstacle rely. The first team to all be seated won the race. Tiring work!

P3 and 3/4 worked together this week to explore another of our wonderful Scottish cities. This week we stopped of in Stirling. The children were asked to research facts about this city and encourage tourism by creating a leaflet full of information and facts about this historical city.

We discussed Robert Burns this week and listened to ‘To a mouse’. After we designed our own kilts using our knowledge of tartan ,colours and patterns.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy your haggis, neeps and tatties!

It has been another busy week in Deans Den as the children are working hard to become independent learners. They are really enjoying their role as lead learners and take pride in being the line leader and group messenger. Well done boys and girls!!

In maths, we have been learning about time and exploring using clocks in our play. We discussed where we might see clocks and why it is important to learn to tell the time. Her are some of our answers:

” There was a clock in the hospital” Maddison

” Look there’s numbers on the clock” Max

“Clocks help us to tell the time” Charli- Mae

” I want to learn the time” Andrew

We will continue to practise this during group time. Have a lovely weekend.

As part of participation Friday we visited our local shops to ask  if they would display our Reduce, Reuse, Recycle posters. We have been exploring the importance of recycling correctly and we know by doing so we can help to save our planet.  We hope people in the community will see the posters and be reminded of this important issue.  Some pictures below.

In an attempt to become more independent learners, we are beginning to self assess our work against curricular targets. We have began with writing. The children are aware of the 3 main targets and these targets are part of our writing success criteria.

When children are finished their work they traffic light it against the success criteria (red – still a bit tricky, yellow – getting there and green –  I’ve got it!) and put it in the appropriate tray. During this term we will also focus on different forms of Feedback and how we can use it to improve our work the next time.

We are continuing to enjoy Hamish McHaggis’s adventures as he travels around Scotland. We have been celebrating all things Scottish through art and design- making tartan patterns, using chalk to create thistles and starting to make Nessie puppets.

Lead Learners

The children are becoming more confident leading aspects of lessons. The pictures below show a number of children explaining how to partition 8 in a number of different ways.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. More updates next week.