Today a group of Primary 3 children practised a sound that they find tricky – ‘aw’. We searched for words that had ‘aw’ in them (claw, straw, awful, hawk, etc), we practised making the words with magnetic letters and we made ‘aw’ words that we matched to pictures. Next time we are going to practise ‘au’ – it sounds the same, but it looks different!
This week we all started our new topics in PE. WE are now learning about fitness.
Each class had a chat about what the word ‘fitness’ means to them. Each class mentioned a healthy diet and exercise. We talked about different types of fitness and discussed if we had a favourite way to exercise.
Primary 5 warmed up by stretching and going for a jog. They then worked different muscle groups through exercises. They worked with partners to do 10 sit ups at a time – the partners held their feet down to make sure the sit up was effectively working the abdominal muscles. They then worked their chest, arm and shoulder muscles by doing press ups – they chose which type of press up they were most comfortable with. They moved on to trying out burpees, mountain climbers, and finally, they ended with a plank competition!
Primary 4 had a great afternoon yesterday when we shared our learning about Active Numeracy with lots of visitors. We began by playing a game to build up our quick recall of tables facts. We explained the activities and set about showing our visitors the many ways we learn about numeracy. We had Top Trumps games, snakes and ladders, race against time, computers using the interactive resources and Education City, and even Money Board games we designed and made ourselves!
Family members who came along all joined in and some even took part in our tables game at the end! Primary 4 were impressed! We had lots of positive comments and are looking forward to our next Sharing the Learning about our Woodlands topic. Thank you to everyone who was able to come along and participate!
This week Primary 2/3 led the school values assembly. Our value is RESPECT and we shared our ideas and a song with everyone.
Primary 2 have been using their imagination at break and lunch times to build different objects like houses and castles, just like we were learning about in our last topic.
Jaxson said “I liked making castles because it was fun! It kept me focused when I was outside.”
Colin said “I helped to build a castle outside. I really liked it because it looked cool!”
Primary 2 went to Judo and enjoyed learning some new skills and games.
Hope said “It was fun when we had to hold our partner’s jacket and try to pin them down for ten seconds by lying on their chest.”
Debbie said “I liked working with my partner, Kiera M and trying to get her off her tummy and onto her back.”
This week, the children were so excited to invite a friend or an adult from home to the den. They had great fun showing their special visitor around our wonderful den and then spending time playing with each other. Thank you for coming to visit us!
Some Primary 3 children took their learning outside, to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. We tried out the new quiet zone in the playground, with the log seats and benches. Mrs Duke organised games and activities that helped us to practise the sounds and words that we have been learning.
Hello from P7! It’s been a gorgeous sunny day and a very busy Monday. This morning we had a visit from two science teachers from DCHS. They helped us to complete some tasks on our science passports. The passports are part of our transition activities to help us prepare for high school. We carried out 2 experiments, the aims of which were to;
– investigate the adding of salt to water on the time it takes to dissolve
– investigate the change in temperature of hot water in a single test tube and a test tube huddle
After science we worked on laptops to create profiles for our P7 Leaver’s books. Everyone was keen to share their favourite memories from their years at primary school and enjoyed reminiscing.
This afternoon we discussed self image and self esteem as part of our work on health.
As part of nurture week we will be working on some mindfulness and yoga activities. We are also looking forward to our judo taster session on Thursday.
We also managed to get out into the sun for a short period of time for some healthy exercise on the Trim-Trak.
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Today we had a visit from some science teachers for Deans Community High School, who did some experiments with us.
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