Category: School Updates

Maths

In numeracy this week the children were learning about rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. We used our big numbers square rug to help us understand the rule of rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. Ask them about it, I’m sure they would love to tell you it.

In maths we continued learning to tell the time. Some of the children were even telling the time in five minute increments. All the children were working super hard. I can see that they are using their home learning time to practice this.

Creative Arts

This week the children were shown a clip from the Disney classic Bambi. We listened to and watched the scene of the  April Showers. While watching we were discussing how the music reflects what is happening in this part of the film.

After this the children were then asked to listen to Vivaldi-Storm and imagine what story this piece of music is telling. I loved that P3/4 could describe which emotions could be linked to both of these pieces.

Health and Wellbeing

There is currently a whole school focus, this is celebrating difference. This week primary 3/4 we exploring similarities and differences within our own families and families all over the world. We used our JIGSAW resources to help us discuss what constitutes as family in modern day society. We all got to share things about all our wonderful families and compare what might be similar or different with each other. The children then drew a family portrait, and inside the frames they wrote down the words that best reflects their family and how much they mean to them. Difference is something to celebrate and as a class we showed a great deal of respect towards each of our differences and similarities. Well done everyone!

We have had another extremely busy week in Primary one.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we have been focusing on Celebrating Differences. One of our school values is to make everyone feel included and special. So with this in mind we firstly began to unpick what makes us special? Sophie thinks she is special because she is kind and caring, Mark thinks he is special because he loves taking part in tricky math’s challenges. After a lot of elbow partner discussion we all agreed that we are all special in different ways and that’s a great thing. All of us are unique and  have a valuable part to play in our learning community.

This is the picture we used as an example. At first glance they look similar but when you look closer you begin to notice the differences and that what makes them special.

PE

In PE we are continuing to develop our balance and ball skills (we are improving every week!) Here are some pictures to prove it!

We have a lovely visit from our buddies today. They support the children  by listening to them read, helping them with tricky words and  meeting writing targets. They also come down on a Friday to take them to assembly.

Math’s Challenge

This weeks challenge was to make 10 in as many different ways as possible. The children worked collaboratively in small groups, supporting and encouraging each other.

Other News

We are continuing to learn new sounds and tricky words. The children are blending  sounds they know to make new words. We use word mats which encourage the children to identify beginning, middle and end sounds. Some  are now changing sounds to create words. We have completed a winter poem plan and will use the plan to write fantastic poems (I will include some photographs of them next week) We have also been researching and writing facts about rainbows. The children were amazed that you can not ever find the end of one or touch them. Nativity songs are being sung everyday, the children are loving it and can’t wait to get on the stage.

Next Week

We hope to see you next Friday for our book bug event. Thank you for your continued support.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

On Friday the 8th of November, Deans celebrated its 50th birthday. We had a fantastic fun filled morning. The children and I welcomed a record number of visitors to our classroom. In Primary 1, we  demonstrated how children learn in 2019 through actively investigating, collaborating, discussing and sharing strategies.  Thank you so much for your support and in case you were unable to attend here a few pictures of some of the activities.

On Tuesday we celebrated Armistice Day  by observing the 2 minute silence and making poppies.

On Wednesday afternoon we decided to take our learning outside. We have been learning some new tricky words and played a game of word splat.

Our new sound this week is a. Now that we have a vowel sound we can begin to blend and segment words. We have been using our word mats to create words and change the beginning sound to make new ones.

Lastly we had a math’s challenge. It was really tricky but there was a lot of valuable discussion around the problem, such as “how many different ways are there to make 5” “can we use concrete materials (red and green cubes) to help us”

Thank you for your continued support especially with reading and recognizing tricky words. Have a lovely weekend.

What a fantastic morning we had in Primary 2/1 celebrating our 50th birthday. Many thanks to all the parents and carers who came along and joined in with all the fun activities in our classroom. It was so busy and lovely to see so many friendly faces.

Our focus was on how we learn in the present day. We had a number of literacy based activities to take part in and we were able to explain all of our learning to our visitors and show them how it’s done!

After break we even had a visit from the ice cream van, it was the perfect way to end such a fun day!