Dear Parents/Carers
Primary 3 are having a sale of toys, jigsaws, games and books to raise money for plants to put in the planters at the shops in Deans. The sale will be this Friday, the 10th of June from11:15am -11:45am in the Primary 3 classroom.
You are very welcome to come to school from 11:15 and join your child at the sale. This then gives you the opportunity to attend the coffee morning at 11:45 in the hall to meet The Support Squad (Parent Council).
Much appreciated
Primary 3
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.
Once again Deans Primary have received a donation of saplings from the Woodland Trust. The children are not only hoping this will enhance the look of the school grounds but begin to support a Net Zero Community and improve the environment.
The children would like to ask all children, staff, parents, carers and members of the community to help us look after the saplings so they get the opportunity to grow into large, strong trees. Since they are newly planted and have not yet taken root we would appreciate it if you could stay away from the trees. If you see or hear of any issues with the trees can you please get in touch with Mrs Dobbie.
We are focusing on internet safety this week in school.
There are lots of resources available from the saferinternetday.org.uk website
including:
1) Learn more and get involved – Safer Internet Day 2022
5) Organisations and Resources for Parents and Carers
P6/5 Week starting Monday 10th January
Monday:
Maths – All groups were looking at fractions today; one group were sorting various activities and games into degrees of difficulty. We looked at the forward plan to help us discuss the learning intentions for these activities and decided most them were covered by “to sort and compare fractions”.
Literacy – reading groups have new reading books so we all looked at the skill of prediction.
PE – we all looked at possible activities for the coming term and decided to focus on tennis, rugby and continue football.
To help us with our understanding of vertebrates and invertebrates, and our artistic skills, we drew skeletons.
Tuesday:
Maths: continuing work on fractions in our groups, looking at denominators and numerators.
Literacy: continued work on prediction (the rest of the book). Progressed from making notes to writing this up in sentences (some in paragraphs) into jotters. We also did an extended writing piece – a narrative story of each child’s own choice.
Mrs D STEM activities in the afternoon. Fractions
Wednesday:
Maths – Fractions, with one group focusing on simple fractions of a number, the rest on equivalent fractions. A small group were also able to work on percentages and how they relate to fractions.
Literacy – generating questions (and corresponding answers) about their group reading books, which will feed into a reading comprehension activity. We also peer assessed the narrative writing from the previous day.
In the afternoon we used our drama skills to further our understanding of “Macbeth” and what a medieval battle might have sounded like.
We also continued working on our skeletons. We extended this activity today by getting some people to label the different bones while some people drew examples of other animal’s skeletons.
Thursday
In maths some continued their work on fractions of a whole number, while another group worked on related word problems.
In literacy some were creating questions about the text they were reading, while others had to catch up on their reading.
In the afternoon the class continued their work on “Macbeth” and practised their drawing skills by creating an image of the three witches.
Friday:
Assembly, when LH got the star award for sensibly supporting others.
Maths: how to make a loop game, and using these to practice maths including decimals and fractions.
PE: throwing and catching, relating to racket and ball skills
Primary 4/3 have been working hard to maintain the Bug Hotel they started work on last year. Unfortunately, we believe that some children are continually playing on it and moving or removing some of the material. Can everyone please help by looking but not touching. Primary 4/3 are hoping that when it is set up properly that the everyone can use it for outdoor learning.
The Sunflower Challenge given out last term will finish on Friday 27th August. Please make sure your photos and measurements are handed in before then.
Thank you to all the parents/ guardians and most especially to all the P7/6 pupils. You have all been amazing and I could not be more proud of all your achievements this session! You have all shown resilience and determination! Well done!
As a a class, we had to say goodbye to our P7 peers. It had been a pleasure to be working and learning alongside you! We wish you good luck and an amazing time in High school.
I hope you have a well deserved summer holiday! Take care everyone and stay safe 🙂
Numeracy- We did Fibonacci Sequence and Number sequences
E.g.- 1,1,2,3,5,8
Literacy- We did a spelling test Term 3 And dictation
We did foreshortening, emphasizing our hands and feet for art.
For P.E we did football And rounders without the bat and ball but we used our football.
On Monday 14/06/21 four of our p7s went with Mrs. Moyes’ class for there s1 transitions
By CE
MG- I enjoyed writing a Science Fiction story this week. We have been working if adding adjectives, onomatopoeia, similes and conjunctions in our writing to make it a good story.
For PE, we played a new game. It’s like rounders but instead of using bat and ball, we use football to kick it.
In Numeracy and MathsWe learned to create triangular and square numbers. We also revised on area and perimeter. We also identified various 3D shapes.
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