March 2022 – Deans Primary School Blog

What have P6 Been up to this Week?

Literacy

In group reading some of us practised our inference skills, some of us our prediction skills and some of us worked out what tricky words meant using our context skills.

Writing

This week as part of our descriptive writing we wrote about about a friend or family member.

Joel – I wrote about Fraser. He is sometimes energetic and a technology mastermind!

Bailey – I wrote about Piotr because when he is near the goal in football he passes and doesn’t always shoot.

Debbie – I wrote about my friend who is really nice.

Bella – I wrote about my sister Cara because she is very special to me.

Here we are Group Reading

We read our group novels, listening to each other and use our contextual skills to work out any unknown words!

Numeracy

We practised subtracting decimals to 2 decimal places. We used mental and formal methods.

We also played SUMDOG to practise our general maths and numeracy skills.

ICT – Coding

We practised using our coding skills to turn an object, use a loop and a variable. We also debugged when there was a problem.

Health

We learnt about the importance of eating a balanced diet and looked at the ‘Eatwell plate.’

We continued to improve our gymnastic skills. Watching olympic gymnasts online has given us inspiration.

Here is Piotr’s balance.

We peer assessed our work.

Science – The Water Cycle

In groups we acted out the water cycle.

Fraser is the sun and this group have evaporated to become a cloud!

Outdoor Learning

Katie – We planted more trees.

Emily – We had to clear out the compost bins and had to take everything out in a black bag.

Alexis – Debbie said she felt sick because she was holding the bag of compost.

Debbie – The paper came and took pictures of us planting trees with the P1s.

Some of us were still thinking about Ukraine.

A Weekly Round Up From P5

This week in Primary 5 has been a busy one!

In Green Gym this week we played a game where we were pretending to be bees collecting the pollen. For this, there were holes in cups and we had to collect water using these, trying not to lose too much water, then take it back to fill a bucket. When we were bringing it back we had to do a wiggle dance like a bee would! We found this funny but a little bit awkward too!

We then worked in groups using a variety of materials to create a shelter.

In digital learning we were coding using conditions and a hit command.

In Writing this week, we completed our Descriptive genre assessment. We got to choose a person to write about and describe. We described what they look like, their personality and the things they like to do.

Here we are busy at work on our assessments:

In Numeracy, we continued our money topic. We looked at adding and subtracting amounts of money as well as trying some money problems. We also played some interactive money games.

We also enjoyed doing some Easter activities!

We hope everyone has a lovely Easter and enjoys the holidays!!!

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Outdoor Learning

Deans Primary are trying to create a suitable and exciting outdoor learning space within the school grounds. Unfortunately, we are being hampered by vandals who destroy our newly planted trees, take apart out new Willow shelter and continually damage our bug hotel and newly erected structure that will be part of our area of biodiversity. On the last occasion some of the nursery items were also destroyed. The children and staff of the school would like to ask the community to support our endeavours.

This Week in P3

Literacy

In writing this week, we continued to develop our skills when writing a descriptive piece. We looked at a few examples and assessed each piece of writing. Then we read our feedback from last week and used this to up-level our writing. This week, we were describing a female rugby player. We used the describing bubble to help us structure our description.

In reading this week we were focusing on our summarising skills. This is where need to tell a friend what the text was about. We have to only include the important details.

Maths

In numeracy this week, we continued to develop our multiplication skills. Some of us were looking at the 3 and 4 times tables. We also had a class number talks where we discussed the different strategies we could use to calculate the answer. We also played multiplication games such as times table bingo.

IDL

For our sports topic this week, we looked at ‘The Football Players’ (1908) by Henri Rosseau. Henri Rosseau was famous for his abstract paintings. We discussed the meaning of abstract and then identified what made this painting abstract. Then, we designed our own abstract painting representing a sporting event.

P4 Class 25.03.2022

We have had a great time this week researching facts about Scottish wildlife. We learnt to categorise them into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.

We used graphs to represent our surveys on favorite pets. We estimated and measure the height of trees outside and we made function machines.

We also enjoyed making poems about gratitude. We used our senses to express how we feel. For reading, we have been working on our reading aloud strategies and asking evaluative questions.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

21/02/2022

We made the most of the beautiful weather this week and went outside for PE. The children worked on their balancing, climbing and strength.

Outdoor Learning

The children had Outdoor Learning with Mrs Dobbie on Thursday afternoon. Mrs Dobbie set the children a challenge of getting from one side of the playground to the other, only one person was allowed their feet on the ground.

The children decided to use the crates to move across the playground. They worked amazingly as a team!

Drama

What a dramatic morning we had in Dean’s Hospital. We had accidents from falling off a roof, falling out a tree and breaking arms and legs! Someone also had trouble breathing. Luckily, we had amazing Doctors on standby to make everyone better!

Weekly Update From Primary One

Welcome to this weeks blog. Some of our highlights to share with you.

Outdoor Learning ‘

During this weeks outdoor learning, the children wrote a fantastic collaborative Spring Poem using their senses-

Classroom Garden Centre

This week, in our class garden centre we have been looking at different life-cyles. Firstly we tracked the life cycle of a bean, (we planted beans last week and are patiently waiting for shoots to appear) some pictures below-

Then we looked at the life cycle of an apple blossom tree. We planted some apple seeds and are hoping that they grow so that, we can transfer them into pots for the children to take home and plant in their own gardens.

The children then went onto create their own apple blossom tree life cycle diagram.

Writing – My Bedroom

This week we continued with our descriptive writing block. The children had to describe their bedroom, where in the house it was, how many beds, what was in the room and what they enjoyed doing there, Some super examples below-

As the weather has been amazing this week, the children have enjoyed some outdoor numeracy as well has spending time on the trim track. A great time had by all.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I will be back next week with more updates.

What have P6 been up to this week?

Topic

Jaxson – I enjoyed drawing a WW2 soldier and his equipment.

Silence Day in aid of Ukraine

Well despite everyone thinking we would never manage it…we did! There was the odd blip. (Miss Stanway was the first to forget.)

Anton – I was surprised at how much money we raised.

(So far £71). Thanks so much for your generous donations.

Hope – It was hard but we remembered why we were doing it.

It helped that we spent some time outside drawing and going on the trim track even though we could only communicate on our whiteboards.

We even practised some BSL (British Sign Language). Our favourite sign was for hometime…it was a tough day!

Literacy

On Monday it was National Poetry Day. We listened to a poem and then wrote poems of our own.

Science

Robbie – I enjoyed the water cycle song.

P5’s Weekly Update

This week in P5 we have had another session of Green Gym where we continued to build the Willow Den but we also got the opportunity to do some tight-rope walking if we wanted to! This was lots of fun and made Mrs Hillan giggle quite a lot!

Ryley – I found it quite exciting to go on the tight-rope. At first I found it quite scary, but after a few times I enjoyed it.

Sophie C – I was looking at the tight-rope at thought that I didn’t want to go on it, but when I did, it was fine.

Chloe – The tight-rope was hard and when you got the hang of it, you could do it.

Olivia – I loved the tight-rope walk and I never even found it hard!

Lewis R – The tight-rope looked a bit scary, but when I went on it, it was fine.

Gracie – It was fun adding some bits to the willow den.

Sophie G – At first the tight-rope looked quite scary, but when you went on it was ok. I liked helping people go along it.

Kayleigh – At first I couldn’t get on, but when I did it was fun!

Kullyn – It was fun at first, but when I fell I got embarrassed. But it got better along the way.

In Writing this week we looked at poetry as Monday was World Poetry Day. We all discussed and then created our own ‘Thank you’ poems, where we said what a Thank you looks like, smells like, tastes like, sounds like and feels like. Have a look at some of our super efforts:

For Spelling this week we used our spelling words to create a ‘Spelling Poem’. Some of us put a lot of thought into these. It was good for us to know that a poem doesn’t have to rhyme. We also played a game where we wrote our spelling words twice and then shuffled them, turned them upside down and took turns trying to find spelling word pairs.

In Numeracy we completed our money assessments and played some interactive money games. Mrs Hillan tested our knowledge on giving change so that she knows how much we know so far. We also looked more in depth at counting amounts of money using coins and notes.

We completed our Roundhouses last week for our Celtic topic – take a look!!!

For our Space topic this week, we presented our group posters to the rest of the class.

14/3/22

IDL

The children enjoyed the challenge this week of trying to put a skeleton back together! They then completed an art lesson with Mrs Morrison about how to draw a skeleton and looking at all the different bones.

Mrs Wallace came to visit our PE lesson this week and was very impressed with how the children participated in a game, how they could use a chest pass and a bounce pass and how many children successfully scored into the basket.

Literacy

The children have worked very hard this week on their end of term check-ups. We have also been working hard to answer comprehension questions about our reading book by answering in a sentence and not forgetting our core-writing targets!

I am very proud of how hard the children have worked this week! Enjoy the sunshine and have a lovely weekend! 🙂

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