Category: Session 2020-2021

Hello and welcome to this weeks post. Some super learning to share with you!

This week in preparation for our narrative writing we enjoyed listening to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The children began by tracking Little Red’s jounery through the forest and drew maps to detail her route. Some examples below-

Writing – Little Red Riding Hood

Once that was completed, the children wrote an imaginative story using the Little Red Riding Hood story as a stimulus. The children had to imagine that the wolf  wasn’t hiding in the bed , it was another animal. They had super ideas, some examples below-

We now have a new display which  hopefully will help the children focus on achieving their core writing targets.

Health and Wellbeing

Some super action shots of the children developing their skills during our Monday PE lesson.

In class, we have been reading the Colour Monster. The colour monster changes colour depending on his mood e.g. he is red when angry, yellow when happy, green when calm etc. The children have drawn their own monsters and we are going to use them in a corrider display (will post a picture of the completed display next week)

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

Welcome to this week’s  blog. It has been another busy learning week at Deans. Some highlights the children wanted to share with you.

Maths – Time

This week we have been learning to tell the time. We have been ordering days of the week, seasons and exploring months of the year. On Monday, we began to  focus on o’clock times and next week we will look at half past.  The children have made their own clocks and have been challenging each other to tell the time. Some action shots below-

Writing- The Three Billy Goats Gruff   

This week we continued with our narrative writing genre and used The Three Billy Goats Gruff story to help us. Firstly, we read the story, then we sequenced it-

Then we used puppets to re-tell the story-

Next we re-told the first part of the story including the “who and where”-

Lastly we challenged each other to make a bridge big enough for the troll to fit under-

Scotland       

We have celebrated Rorbert Burns birthday this week by reading stories about Hamish McHaggis (ask your child to tell you about him). The children love hearing him speak Scottish, for example – “stop your blethering!”, “haud your wheesht!”. We have also attempted to create our own Deans tartan-

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

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog. We have had an extremely busy learning week. Some pictures the children wanted to share with you.

Numeracy and Maths- Patterns and Relationships

This week we have been looking at patterns. The children have been copying, continuing  and patterns using cubes, beads and colours. Some pictures below-

Writing – What Happened Next?

This week we  continued with our narrative writing genre. The children  had to use their imagination to descibe what might happen to Jack and his mum now that they have the golden goose. We had lots of great ideas including, buying a golden palace, getting Daisy the cow back, buying more farm animals etc. Some super examples below-

Learning Through Play

Part of our classroom has been turned into a doctors surgery complete with a reception and waiting area, an examination bed, PPE, bandages, plasters etc. The children absolutely love it and have had great fun bandaging each other up, listening to their heartbeats, taking x-rays etc.

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

Happy New Year to you and your family. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and managed to stay well.

Welcome to the first blog post of 2022. The children are  happy to be back at school and have settled  in well . The children have choosen some of this weeks work they would like to share with you-

Literacy – Writing

This term we are focusing on a new writing genre and  will be exploring narrative/descriptive writing.  To get us started we received a very important letter from Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) telling us that the giant had followed him down the beanstalk and had escaped. A picture of the glitter trail that led to a letter in our library corner.

We decided that we would we use our imagination to think about where the giant could be hiding and how he was feeling. The children came up with super ideas e.g. behind the beanstalk, on the roof, in the forest etc. We also had some great describing words when writing about how the giant  might be feeling, such as miserable, suprised and lonely. Some examples below-

Numeracy – Time

As well as our normal numeracy we are going to learn about time. We began by looking at daily routines and the children drew things  they do in the morning, afternoon and at night. This enables the children to link daily routines and personal events to time sequences. Some pictures below-

We have also really enjoyed reading and making hungry capterpillars to help us sequence the days of the week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will be back next week with more updates from Primary 1.

Primary 5 would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!! Stay safe over the holidays!

Welcome to this weeks blog. The Deans Decision Makers have been busy creating STEM challenges for our school advent calendar. The first challenge was to go on a nature walk and look for patterns in the environment. The children took lots of pictures and identified lines of symmetry in a number of objects. On Tuesday, our challenge was titled “Dancing Salt” (sound waves and vibrations). We had to place clingfilm tightly over a bowl then put salt in the middle and place the speaker in different position around the bowl and watch the sound waves create vibrations. We discovered that salt was too light and rice was a good alternative.

On Wednesday the children had to make an igloo using marshmallows and cocktail sticks. This was tricky but as they worked together they managed to create small igloos. Some managed to make a roof and opening for a door.

On Thursday the challenge was to use marshmallows and spaghetti to build and measure a tower.

It got a bit tricky so the children made snowmen instead. It is nearly Christmas after all.

Lots of good discussion, problem solving and fun had by all!

This week we read a beautiful book called Little Robin Red Vest. It is the story of a kind little bird who gives away his 7 vests to his friends who need them.  On Christmas Eve he was cold and alone but Santa had been watching him and rescued him. Mrs Claus knits him a very special red vest and this is how the robin got his red breast. The children have drew robins for our winter display and designed vests. A lovely story well worth reading.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend . Not long to go now!

Welcome to this weeks blog. On Friday of last week the children took part in Participation Friday. This event happens once a month and enables the children to become more involved in the local community. In Primary 1, we will be  visiting local attractions in Deans and giving them a rating out of 5 stars. Some picture below of us visiting the park and feedback from the children.

They loved it with most of them giving it 5 stars!

Writing

As this week was the end of our  persausaive writing block we had a little fun! The children had to persude the reader that “Santa should visit me because……….” It was lovely to hear how kind and helpful they had been all year. Some super examples below-

I am sending their writing home for you to enjoy!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I will be next week with the last post of 2021!