Latest News From Primary One

It has been another busy and exciting week in Primary 1. On Tuesday the 5th we welcomed firefighter Steel. He told the children all about his role in the fire service and explained how they not only fight fires but rescue people who get into trouble in the water and climbing. However, the most important message was keeping safe around fireworks. The children asked him lots of questions and some enjoyed trying on his special (very heavy) firefighters hat.

Summer wrote a lovely thank you letter to all  fire fighters who work hard every day to keep us safe.

Story Writing

The children have been learning how to retell and sequence a story. They picked The Rainbow Fish and discovered that the story reflects  our own school values of feeling included, supported, safe and valued.

Yoga has become a form of exercise that the children really enjoy and look  forward to. The children are learning about the benefits of yoga through stories, music and games. Yoga helps to build resilience,  manage emotions and promote a sense of well-being through the use of postures, meditation and mindfulness.

We have also been busy preparing for Deans 50th birthday. We hope you can come and visit us. We are showcasing learning in the present time.

Have a lovely safe weekend.

Deans Den update!!

It has been another busy week in Deans Den. We continue to work on improving our listening skills as this is a very important skill to master . When you listen well, learning can take place!! One area of learning that has been a success this week is developing our pencil control. Andrew was proud of his detailed colouring of the number 4 and said ” I’m not scribbling.” Well done Andrew!!

The boys are girls are excited to have snack time together and we made a shopping list of the different foods we would like to enjoy. Some suggestions included apples, bananas and crackers.

As it was bonfire night this week we talked about the different ways of keeping safe but still enjoying the fireworks. We were lucky to have a visit from Fire Officer Steel who talked to us about his job and we enjoyed asking him questions too.

Friday is a special day for Deans Primary School as we celebrate it’s 50th birthday. We look forward to sharing our learning with you, hope to see you all tomorrow!!

 

P6/7

Our class are looking forward to the school birthday celebrations tomorrow, (especially the ice cream!). We will be looking at the decade of the 1960’s as part of our school’s history and it would be great if you could pop along to join us. As previously mentioned some pupils have asked to dress up in 60’s fashion but this is entirely optional and not expected.

Pupils in class have been discussing how they would like to develop and improve the learning environment of their classroom. At Deans we are very lucky to have large, spacious rooms and want to make it as welcoming, relevant, and adapted to class personalities and interests as we can. There have been some great ideas so far regarding layout, lighting, displays, table and resource organisation. In the coming weeks we hope to pull these ideas together to make our classroom an even better place to be.

We have started our topic on Japan and look forward to finding out more about it. Next week our topic focus will be looking at how landscape and climate affect land use. We will also be comparing school and home life in Japan and Scotland.

Primary 2/1 Update!

It has been an exciting week so far in Primary 2/1 as we prepare to celebrate our schools’ 50th Birthday on Friday! We have been talking about birthdays and what they mean to us. We talked about what month our birthdays are in and we even got to celebrate Miss Swanson’s special birthday on Monday!!

This week we have been learning all about why we celebrate Bonfire Night. We learned about Guy Fawkes and his plans to blow up parliament. We shared all of our plans for the evening and even designed a special poster to raise awareness of how to keep ourselves safe. We were lucky enough to have a special visit from Fire Officer Steel who did a fabulous job of explaining all about his job and he also gave us some hints and tips on how to stay safe from fire.

Seeing it was bonfire night we wanted to explore lots of different media to create some fantastic art for our classroom.

We used salt, paint and PVA glue to design a firework picture.  It was tricky to create an explosion picture but the end result looked great.

We also cut up cotton buds and dipped them in various colours of paint and glued them onto a black background to create more firework explosion pictures. This was extremely tricky but it also       helps us to develop our fine motor skills too!

At the end of the day we went into the playground to create a whole class piece of art. We used a massive sheet of black paper and covered it in stripes of glue. We had such fun then throwing handfuls of glitter over the glue. Here is our finished product….

Homework superstars this week – Alfie and Archie with their fantastic 3D firework models . The boys were confidently able to share to the class how they went about building their models and which 3D shapes they used! Well done!

 

This week’s sound focus has been on the vowel ‘a’. We learned all about Inky’s vowel house and how this is a black tunnel sound coming from the back of our mouths. We did lots of fun activities to help us practise recognising and writing our new sound.

 

 

In numeracy we are practising counting in steps of 10 and 5. We have been using the 100 square to identify patterns and help us to count both forwards and backwards. Keep practising at home!

We are very much looking forward to opening up our classroom on Friday morning to showcase all of our super learning in the year 2019.

Reading Ambassadors

Children from P 2-7 have recently had the opportunity to apply for a post as a Deans Primary Reading Ambassador.If interested,  they had to complete an application form and informal interviews took place last week. Ten children were successful and will now have the exciting challenge of promoting Reading as a lifelong skill across the school.

Their first task was to visit Waterstones book shop in Livingston Centre to discuss various authors and to set up an account there. Each class is being given a sum of money to spend for their class library and can order books online or create a list that the class teacher can go and collect in person.

On Friday, the children involved, showed off the books they had each chosen on their visit for their respective classes, and reminded everyone to start spending!

What have P5 been up to this week?

Literacy

  • Reading

We have started our new group reading books and have been learning to read with fluency using various strategies to read unknown words.

Although it was tricky we practised using our inference skills to demonstrate understanding of what we had read.

  • Writing

Bella – I enjoyed writing a diary about the main character in my reading book and practising my chatty style.

In spelling we have been investigating the different ways to spell the phoneme/sound ‘j’.

Maths

We continued to consolidate our learning about time. Our time-telling skills are improving.

Lewis – I enjoyed learning about am and pm.

P.E.

Georgie – Rugby was tricky bit I improved my passing skills.

Keris – I got better at catching the ball.

Choir

Keris – I enjoyed the warm up – we had to spell Christmas!

HALLOWEEN!

We had a great time at the school disco.

Lacey – It was fun and we all got to dance.

Homework

Bella, Keris, Georgie, Eva, Shantelle, Mason and Lewis Duckworth shared some of their homework this month. We enjoyed looking at it.

It would be great to see some more homework completed by more members of the class next month.

School Birthday Celebrations

Keris – I enjoyed researching the 1970s on the laptop. The fashion was long dresses and mini skirts.

Next Week

  • Our learning breakfast is on Thursday morning. We are looking forward to sharing various activities. with you!
  • We also hope to see you at Friday’s School Birthday Celebrations.

P3 Topic – Scotland focus

This week Barnaby Bear is in Scotland.  We are learning all about Scotland.   On Tuesday, we made porridge, and we all had the opportunity to taste the porridge when it was ready.   In our writing, we have been learning how to write instructions, and check we have sequenced each thing in the right order.  We have all written instructions for making porridge.

We have been exploring the Scottish flag, and have used different techniques including using wax crayons and water colours to create a wax resist effect.  We have also tried used a range of different textured papers to create flags making a collage effect.

We have also tried some Scottish dancing.  It was great fun!

 

Busy times in Deans Den!!

It has been another busy week in Deans Den. We continue to work hard on improving our listening skills, which we know will help us with our learning. We also got together around the snack table to decide how best to behave when enjoying snack. Here are some of the suggestions:

“We all wait and behave at the snack table” Charlie- Mae

“Close your mouth when you are eating” Andrew

“Help to tidy up after snack” Maddison

“Use quiet voices at the snack table” Max

“Always use your manners” Mrs Morrison

Snack menus will be sent home next week. Please have a look in your child’s bag and if there are any dietary concerns, please talk to Mrs Morrison as soon as possible.

What’s on…

Week beginning 4th November 2019

Mon –

Breakfast club fitness fun – p4-7

Lunchtime Multi-sports club

3.15-4.15pm Football After School club P4-7

3.15-4.15pm Tae Kwon do After school club

3.15-4pm Choir After school club

 

Tue-

Planet Soccer Lunchtime club

Firefighter visits classes – Bonfire safety

 

Wed-

Dad’s drop in session meet in Hub

P7 visit Deans Community High School

Scripture Union lunch club

3.15-4.15pm Football After School club P1-3

 

Thu-

Move to the Beat workshops P5 and P5/6

P4 Futsal

 

Fri-

9-10.30 am 50th Birthday Celebration!

Primary 3/4

Primary 3/4 have had a busy week this week!

This week in maths we were exploring the value of single digits within whole numbers up to 10,000. This allowed us to order sequences of numbers from largest to smallest and smallest to largest.

For our topic we used Google maps to explore the area we live in to gain an understanding of the term settlements. We followed on from this by exploring the whole of Scotland using an Atlas and identifying the major cities of our beautiful country.

In our writing, we explored our 5 senses to help us write a spooky poem. We used a lot of fantastic wow words to describe what we could smell, see, taste, touch and hear.

Our Primary 4’s had a fantastic morning out of School on Thursday for a local handball event at Craigswood sports centre. They were all fantastic and showed great sportsmanship. They done Deans proud.

To finish off the afternoon P3/4 visited our local Morrisons to learn more about our wider community. We enjoyed our tour of the store and learned a lot about the inner workings of our local supermarket. 

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