Deans Primary School Blog

What an unexpectedly sunny week we have had. Luckily we have been able to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine for gym this week. We have really enjoyed playing a range of team building games and learning all about what it means to be a team player.

This week we have started to learn about a new genre in Writing. This is called Recount, where we are learning to retell and evaluate past events and experiences. This week we have been writing about ‘Our First Day In Primary 4/3′. We examined an example text and looked at all the different parts that make up a recount text. Mrs Stevenson challenged us to identify and name all the different parts of the text and label and colour code an example. We really enjoyed working with a partner to do this.

After examining the structure of the text we looked at some of the language that we could use in our own writing. We explored past tense verbs and time ordering words.

After devising a plan for our work, the next day we had a go at putting our learning into practise and writing our recount. We did a pretty good job! Check out some of our pieces below.

We are taking our time to think about and devise our class charter. One activity we did this week was to think about our own most important value. We shared with each other what we thought was an important quality to possess. As a class we designed a class flag using all of our key values. It is proudly on display in our classroom and we feel it represents Primary 4/3 very well. One of the most common values that appears on our flag is ‘kindness’.

We hope you enjoyed a little snapshot of our week in Primary 4/3. We hope everyone has a lovely, sunny weekend.

This week we have continued with our fantastic learning in Primary 5! We have completed some other assessments in Spelling and Reading and have started some in Numeracy and Maths. These will continue next week.

In Reading we have started our Novel Study. Our book is Ratburger by David Walliams. We started off by making predictions of what we thought the book was going to be about based purely on the title. Here are some of our thoughts:

Erin R – It will be about a place where rats are cooked or the hamburger pates are made from rats.

 

Ariah – It’s going to be about a man who goes into a restaurant every day and order a burger and puts a rat on it and eats it.

Daniel – It is going to be about a rapper who loves burgers.

Ciaran – It is going to be about a cook who makes a burger with a rat inside.

Then Mrs Hillan read the blurb and asked us again. Here are some other predictions:

Caelan – It is going to be about a really hungry man who puts anything on a burger.

Holly – It will be about a man who wants to cook someone’s rat.

Lewis D – It will be about a man who looks for a rat in a restaurant to put in a burger.

Gracie – It will be about a man who cooks a rat and brings it to the wrapping station and makes the rat dance.

Ariah – It will be about a the girl feeding a rat burger to the bully.

 

We started a new writing genre this week too – Recount. This is where we have to retell and evaluate events and experiences. We went through an example with Mrs Hillan, and then created our own recounts of our first day back at school.

 

We look forward to seeing what next week brings!

In Primary 3 we have had a fantastic start to the year! We have enjoyed seeing our friends and hearing about how we spent our summer holidays.

We were practicing our tricky words and playing with some of our literacy games. During our story, we made predictions at the beginning and different points throughout the story.

In numeracy, we had an introduction to our place value topic. We were learning about ones and tens. We were using dienes materials to represent the number provided to us by our partners and we had to peer-assess one another’s work.

In science we learning about materials. This week, we learning about the properties of materials. We were given different materials and discussed their properties as we identified there similarities and differences. When we were discussing the properties of the materials, we had to use the correct scientific vocabulary.

We have had a fantastic start to our new school year!

Bella – It was great seeing friends again.

We enjoyed friendship time today. What a treat!

Health

Jaxson – We enjoyed going on the trim track!

We have been playing various icebreaker games in order to help us get to know our new class mates.

Emily-I liked the memory game when we had to remember each other’s hobbies.

Joel – I liked the, ‘Me Too’ game with string .

Hope – This game showed us how we are all connected as a class.

We have learnt about self-esteem and in future lessons will be focusing on how to make ourselves more confident and happy.

Art/Design

Lily-Elen-It was a good idea to make a birthday card for everyone in the class to open when it is their birthday.

Bailey-I enjoyed the art activity where we designed a poster showing our talents and personality.

Mrs Dobbie

Mrs Dobbie will take the class on a Tuesday morning for outdoor learning. Please remember to wear suitable clothes.

Alexis – I enjoyed French with Mrs Dobbie.

Literacy

This week we wrote a letter to Miss Stanway sharing our holiday news. We also started reading our class novel – The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Numeracy

Our first maths activity involved dealing with numbers connected to us e.g. rounding our house number to the nearest 10.

 

 

This week in primary 5/6 we started with settling in to school again after the long summer, we got to meet our new teacher and classmates it was really fun.

After we got to choose our seats but they were not permanent after we chose, we started our work we were doing 3 tests 2 math 1 spelling and at the end of the day we were playing a game with toilet paper it was a math game to get to know about everyone. It was however many sheets of toilet paper you took is the amount of things you had to say about yourself.

On Wednesday we had started to line up in Alphabetical order to get better at it, CB is at the front and EY is at the back, we had then got trays sorted out every student had gotten 2 trays each. the left is for jotters and stuff the right is for drawings and pencils we had also went over to the library to choose books some people had chose animal books some cars others science or fiction we had then read till the end of the day we had also labelled the jotters.

On Thursday we had a spelling test

 

The summer holidays have come to an end and it is time to dust off the school bags and pencil cases and get ready for a new term in a brand new class. How exciting!

Primary 4/3 has had a very busy first week back of term. We are excited to begin our learning journey this year and continue to develop all the skills we are passionate about.

Thankfully a lot of the past Covid restrictions have been lifted and we are beginning to return to some degree of normality. We talked about the continued importance of good hand hygiene and had a competition to design a poster for the classroom. We made a fabulous effort. We agreed that all of our posters should be –

• Bright and colourful to make them eye catching
• Provide some information on why hand washing is important which is easy to read
• Have detailed illustrations
• Have a catchy slogan

Here are some examples of our wonderful work.

We have begun to read our new class novel ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ by Andy Shepherd.

We made some predictions based on the title, front cover and the blurb. We think this is going to be a really interesting read and are very curious to discover how to grow a dragon! This got us talking about things we would like to be able to grow. We designed our own front cover and changed the title to what we would grow instead!

 

Finally another highlight of our first week has been creating some colourful art for our classroom. We have decided to make a ‘Wall of Fame’ to display work we are proud of and have started drawing our own self portraits to accompany our chosen pieces of work. The care and attention to detail in all of these portraits has been fabulous.  Check them out!

We hope you have enjoyed a little snapshot of our first week in Primary 4/3.

We had a great week getting to know each other.  We played lots of games to help us get to know our teacher and our new class.

We also began to read our class novel and made predictions on what might happen next.  We worked together to create our class charter too.   Overall, our week has been fantastic!

SW- I enjoyed my first week in school because we did lots of art!  I liked doing the addition and subtraction emojis.

 

 

Hello and welcome to our blog! We have had such a busy and fun first week in Primary 2/1!

Our primary 2s and some of our primary 1s have been showing off what they already know about numbers and dot patterns through playing different games.

Some of our primary 2s have been revising their knowledge of basic CVC words through board games!

Whilst the primary 2s were doing some jobs with Mrs Morrison, the primary 1s began learning about the start, middle and end. We had to circle which animal was in each position in the feeding queue, and which person was in each position in the bus queue. This will help us when we start reading and writing words.

The primary 1s have also had a chance to spend lots of time with their buddies this week! The P7 buddies have been so helpful when getting ready for break, having our lunch and also spending time out in the playground.

We cannot wait to get stuck in to more learning next week!

Where possible, please ensure ALL of your child’s belongings are labelled. We have a pile of jumpers, shoes and jackets beginning to form and it can be very difficult to match these back with the children without name labels. Thank you!

Welcome back everyone!!! It has been so nice to see everyone back in school this week and hear everyone’s stories about their Summer!

This week we have spent quality time listening to each other share our news of our holidays as well as going over any news for the next few weeks and the year ahead. We had a COVID update and started to think about our Class Charter so that we can get this created and displayed next week.

We wrote and drew pictures for some of the highlights of our Summer and these will be added to a class display. We also created some cool name tags for our pegs in the cloakroom.

We created some handwashing posters to remind ourselves and each other about the importance of washing our hands regularly. We must also remember to sanitise regularly too.

This week we have completed our first spelling baseline test so that we become familiar with new spelling patterns and improve our spelling skills. We have also done a bit of recapping of our addition and subtraction skills to get our brains in gear again! We will focus on this for the next couple of weeks to make sure we are confident with this again.

We have been set a task by Mrs Stewart to think about which After School Clubs we would like to see available and which Leadership groups we would like to be part of. Mrs Hillan will gather our ideas next week.

Looking forward to another week of learning next week!