Due to Covid-19 restrictions, our Nativity production this year looks very different. All classes in the school have been involved in creating a stop frame animation of The Christmas Story.
Scene 1 – P2
Scene 2 – 4/3
Scene 3 – P3/2
The story was divided into scenes, with each class being responsible for a scene. Pupils made the scenery and props, and set up the scene for their class. Everyone in the class was involved in helping to animate their class scene, and pupils were able to work in small groups at a safe distance.
Scenes 4 & 5 – P1A & P1B
Scene 6 – P4
Scene 7 – P5
The stop frame animation involved positioning the characters in the scene, taking a photo, then moving the characters a very small distance. Another photo taken, another tiny movement made, another photo taken, and this was repeated over 100 times for each scene. When all the pictures are sequenced and viewed one after another, the characters appear to move by themselves.
Scene 8 – P7
Scene 9 – P7/6
Scene 10 – P6/5
There has been a huge amount of work from the pupils involved in creating this year’s Nativity – well done everyone.
We all hope that you enjoy watching it.
It has been a busy week in Primary 2/1 and we are now in full festive mode. We decorated our classroom with Christmas trees, tinsel and fairy lights and we have even been enjoying having a ‘real’ fire crackling on our smart board whilst we work.
On Tuesday we had our Christmas jumper day and our Christmas dinner, it was very yummy!
Despite all the festivities we have still been working hard in the classroom. We have been learning all about the sound ‘e’ and are making great progress using the vowels we know to help us build and write new words. We have been writing more silly sentences using tricky words and the sounds we know to blend together and create CVC words. We also had a go at some functional writing and created some wonderful invitations to our Nativity performance.
In numeracy we are continuing to develop our skills using number bonds for 10, we are enjoying using games on the smart board to help us and practising using concrete materials to help us. We are still practising our mental maths skills every day with our ‘Daily Five’, we are coming up with lots of strategies to help us such as, counting on, using our fingers or using a ten frame.
In Health and Wellbeing we are continuing to develop our focus on Celebrating Differences. This week we have been investigating the qualities which make a good friend. We have been working alongside Primary 1 where we came together to watch the story of ‘The Rainbow Fish’, this helped us to think about what makes a good friend and what doesn’t!
We designed a Friendship Token which displayed a quality which we would like in one of our friends. We had lots of lovely ideas which reflected our class charter and school values and we were able to share our thoughts confidently with the group.
This week we have also been having a big think about our learning environment. We spend so much time in our classroom everyday and it is important that we all have a say in how we would like it to look and what resources we have to help us learn. We talked about all the things we like about our room and all the things we don’t. We then made a list of what we would like changed or included. The main items to come from this discussion was the inclusion of a ‘computer den’ and to improve our class library, making it more colourful. Here are some of our detailed designs. What this space to see what happens to our classroom in the New Year………
To round off the week we finally got to perform our Nativity ‘It’s a Baby’ to all of our friends and family. We have been working very hard over the last few weeks to perfect the actions and words to our songs. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and hope all the audience did too! We would like to thank everybody who attended for their valued support.
Dressed up and ready to perform!
We are looking forward to another festive week before we break up for the holidays. Please remember our class party will be held on Thursday afternoon, get those party clothes at the ready!!
