Tag: Community

Maths Week in P3A

We were very lucky during Maths Week to have two visitors come in to tell us how they use Maths in their daily work. Mr Malik is a software engineer and uses Maths all the time when he is writing code. He even created a game to show us how the software worked. Then we heard from Callum who runs a company involving small animals. He uses Maths each day for things like measuring how much food or water to give the animals and record the temperatures in the cages.

In class we worked on our times tables with a random partner, using arrays to help us.

We were also very lucky to go on a trip to Almond Valley Heritage Centre to take part in a Maths Trail. Here we found out how the farm used Maths in the past. We met the Miller who used to water wheel to power the wheel to grind the flour. Then the baker had to weigh the flour to make bread. We walked round the farm counting lots of different animals. This helped us gain knowledge for our Topic on Food and Farming.

P3a Judo Session

This week we were very lucky to have a visitor teach us some Judo techniques.  We played some games and learned some Judo moves. We had to work with partners, listen to instruction and take care not to hurt anyone else. Protecting our heads was the most important part. It was great fun. Some of us are even going to start going to weekly sessions.

P5’s Special Visitor

Primary 5 and Mrs Campbell were delighted to welcome Alan Hamilton into school on Thursday afternoon. Alan has previously been a regular visitor to our school, working with P6s and P7s on their World War IDL contexts. He is a mine of information about WW1, WW2 and everything in between!

Alan came to speak to Primary 5 about Remembrance and gave us a real insight into the life of a soldier, from rations and trench foot to horse dung and ‘sweet pea mixture’ (ask your kids!). He brought along his own medals and some interesting artefacts to show us and also very kindly left us copies of his own sketches which he made whilst serving in Iraq.

The pupils were highly engaged in this session and understandably had many questions which Alan did his best to answer!

EXPLORING OUR COMMUNITY

The children have enjoyed going for regular walks and exploring our local park and library.  They have been learning how to

  • confidently cope with everyday / new situations
  • understand the expectations of behaviour  and following rules (holding hands, getting ready to go out and staying close to nursery ladies when out and about)
  • demonstrate different ways of being active through energetic play at the park (climbing, jumping, pushing, running)
  • be aware of road safety – stopping, looking and listening at roads and crossing safely
  • share and look after books when visiting the library.

EE2

The children gain so much from going out into our local community.  We would like to be able to offer this experience to all the children in the nursery but we need EE2  (Excursion permission form) filled in by parents/carers before we can do this.  These are required for all new children and returning children.  We have been handing these out to families of returning children and they would have been in a welcome pack for new children.  If you have not filled an EE2 form in please ask a member of staff for the form, so we can include your child in this experience.  Many thanks for your support.

 

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