Category: School Updates

Good morning everyone I hope you are all safe and well and enjoying working through week one’s activities. I am going to post some new activities for you to try. The children will need some support and guidance and I am grateful for your continued help at this time.

Activity One – new sound ee

Some useful background information. The children are familiar with Inky’s vowel house.

The ee sound comes from the poor donkey in the first window who has a sore throat. He can only say “ee”. The learning intention and success criteria for this lesson and similar to others in the vowel house  –

L.I. – to understand that two letters can make 1 sound.

S.C. I can say the sound to match the letter shape

S.C. I can blend this sound with other sounds to read words

S.C. I can spell words with this sound.

It would be a good idea to have the ee sound written on separate pieces of card or paper and individual sounds on other pieces of paper or card. The children can practice saying the ee sound and blending it with others to make words e.g. b ee, f ee t,  s ee d, m ee t, n ee d etc. It may help to write the words or make a little snap or bingo game to help reinforce that 2 letters can make 1 sound and that sounds can be blended with others to create words. Once they have become more confident recognizing and using words with the ee sound they could go on to use them in a sentence (another good way to check understanding).

Activity Two

Count a collection of objects to 10 or 20. Use this knowledge to estimate the number of objects in a larger group. Then count and check.

Continue to practice doubles and near doubles (yesterdays post) use your jotter to support your thinking if you need to.

Activity Three – What can you do in 1 minute?

Have a great day and stay safe!

Number Formation Rhyme Cards (1)

As we come to the end of a busy day of learning here is a nice idea for later-

If you have a garden space or area in front of where you stay, use chalk to draw or write positive message for  all  to see. Families going for walks may enjoy reading them and your neighbours may be inspired when they look out their windows!

Hi P3/4

Here are your Powerpoints and activities for this afternoon’s health lesson.

P3 and 4 Health and WB Tuesday

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Gratitude Game – Big Life Journal

Mindfulness PPT

Have fun and stay safe and healthy!

Miss Taylor

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all safe and well. I was in school yesterday and took a picture of the Three Little Pigs display (it’s a work in progress, hopefully we will get to finish it at some point). Last week the children worked with primary 7 buddies to create the 3 pigs houses. The children worked well together displaying good communication and problem solving skills.

I hope you have began some of the week one activities from your pack and are enjoying this new temporary way of learning. Just a few extra activities for your to try.

Teach your family the Days of the week song.

You could ask your child questions such as what day was it yesterday, what day will it be tomorrow? Also learn the months of the year song.

You could make a yearly calendar detailing family birthdays and special occasions. It would also be helpful to look at one month of the year and be able to identify e.g. the first Monday in March is the 2nd, what date is the third Friday? etc.

In the class we have been working on double numbers e.g. 3+3 etc. to extend our learning children have been trying to use this knowledge to answer near double questions e.g. we know 3+3 =6 so the answer to  3+4 must be one more. Have a go, challenge yourself with double and near double numbers to 10.

Morning everyone, hope you and your family are all well. Most children have now got a pack which has 3 weeks learning inside. If you don’t have one you can collect one from school (they are at the front door on a table). I will keep in touch with you through the blog so please check it regularly.

Keep safe.

As you may be aware, P6/7 have been creating products and activity packs since the start of this term as part of their “Crafty” enterprise business. The products are completed and ready for sale and as our whole school Spring Fair has been cancelled, we have the opportunity to have a Mini  Spring fair instead!

The products shown below will be on sale on THURSDAY in school. There are a limited supply of products, however, so classes will be “drawn from the hat” to decide which classes come when.

Our products with micro eggs and cream egg would make ideal small Easter gifts and the card, activity and Easter bonnet packs are ideal for keeping busy and creative! 

Cream egg basket or Micro egg jar = £1.00

Card activity pack (contains 2 cards ) = 1.00

Easter activity pack (contains 4 items ) = £1.00

Make your own bonnet = £2.00

Guess the chick’s name (a raffle) = 50p