This is the book P6/7 have been reading recently. Do you know it?
P5/6 Art
This week in Art we created a small sketch book (lots of folding was involved!) where we began to sketch some pictures of The Titanic. We gave each other feedback on how to improve our original sketches and used this feedback to sketch make our next sketch even better
Prefects make their pledge
Congratulations to all of our 10 prefects who were introduced to the whole school at a special assembly on Friday! They were all thrilled to be given this important role and were excited to have the support of many family members on the day.
Primary 7 enjoyed their first visit to Deans Community High School swimming pool, as part of their transition programme. They were pleased to meet some of the staff and enjoyed the chance to be in the High school.
As part of Health and Wellbeing this week P7 discussed what is bullying? We have our own simple definition- after much debate- which is :
“when someone sets out to put you down “ –
whether it be verbal, physical, online or in person. Children were very open and honest about situations they have been in and are now designing posters they would like to give to each class to share their learning.
Weekly update from Primary 3/4
It has been another busy week in class. We have been learning to be a good friend and how making the correct choices can benefit the whole class. We had a lovely afternoon making compliment clouds and they have certainly brightened up the classroom!!
A big focus this week has been to improve the quality of our writing pieces. We are learning the different ways of taking notes and how this can help transfer our ideas into paragraphs. We are proud of our progress and our next steps is to peer and self assess our writing pieces, using a range of strategies.
P3 Get Cooking
P3 made peach crumble as part of the James and the Giant Peach topic. In writing we wrote out the recipe. Then in the afternoon, after we washed our hands, we got started making our peach crumble.
We made two crumble dishes, one with fresh peaches and one with tinned peaches. We compared the similarities and the differences between them.
First we put the peaches in the dish, then we weighed the flour, sugar and margarine. We mixed them together and put the crumble mix onto the peaches. We baked the crumble in the oven for 30 minutes. After it cooled, we all had a taste of each crumble. Most people in the class preferred the tinned peach crumble.
P1/2 Science
Today P1/2 were being scientists exploring and experimenting with loud and quiet sounds. We walked all the way upstairs to the music room listening carefully to all the different sounds we could hear around the school. We heard chatting, the door squeaking, footsteps and people coughing. Upstairs we used lots of different instruments to make loud and quiet sounds.
Harrison – I loved making loud noises
Tyller J – My favourite sounds were the loud sounds
Ethan – I liked the quiet sounds
Families Connect
Yesterday our Families Connect group’s focus was on listening. The adults took part in some activities with one another before the children joined us. When the children arrived we all had snack together as usual and then we made ‘magic envelopes’. In the middle of the magic envelope the children drew pictures of one of their favourite things and then worked with the grown-ups to write clues about their favourite thing on the flaps of the envelope. We all got back together to try and guess what was inside each magic envelope. This was great fun!
Next week our focus is on books, we can’t wait!
Autumn is here!
Primary 1 and Primary 2 have been investigating Autumn. We have been discussing all the changes that happen in this season. We used Autumn colours to create amazing Autumnal trees.
‘The’Hunt
This week we have been learning the tricky word ‘the’. We went on a word hunt around the school and found the EVERYWHERE!!!! Mr Colverson even stopped to help.
Primary 4
In maths this week we have been learning to round to the nearest 10 and order larger numbers. We also learnt about ordinal numbers and thought about when they were used in everyday life. Pupils have been playing Number Knockout to help learn their times tables and we can already see a difference in how well some people can recall the facts. Keep working on it everyone!
In literacy we have been developing our knowledge of grammar by learning about singular and plural words. We also revised what we knew about verbs, adjectives and common and proper nouns. Pupils have been leading reading group sessions, (with the support of an adult), and have enjoyed developing their leadership skills. We continued to focus on writing in complete sentences and using paragraphs. We used adjectives to up level our writing and spoke about how authors create images/ imagery by using description.
Our class have been asked by Mrs Dobbie to help organise the Harvest Festival assembly this Friday and have been collecting donations from classes all week. We have also been preparing our presentation for our novel study assembly. We will be discussing the activities we did in relation to Charlotte’s Web and have asked for volunteers to speak at assembly. We have been developing our skills when addressing an audience and trying to become more confident when doing so.
In art the class created some really effective pieces which showed their personal interests and expressed more about them as an individual. These will soon make a lovely display outside the class. In our choir session this week it has been great to see that most pupils were much more confident when singing individually. Keep up the good work everyone!
Next week we will be reviewing how to peer and self assess our writing and use the feedback to improve our work. The class are also looking forward to watching Charlotte’s Web and comparing it to the novel.
