Monthly Archives: April 2018

General Information, Primary 2/1

P1K Learning Reflection for Week ending 20.4.18

PATPAL

Holly – we taught Mrs M to count on a Rekenrek

Arya – we played cover up you can count in your head or see the counters to help

Nathan – takeaway using dice, you take the small number from the big number

Rayyaan – We showed different ways to make a number you can do 6 and 4 or 7 and 3 to make 10

Maddie – domino number patterns to see how many ways we can make a number

       

Measure

P1K found different sized foot prints in the class. After lots of speculation about who or what left the footprints the children explored different ways they could measure them.  They decided to use: beach glass, dominoes, lego and counting teds. The children started to notice that they were getting different results because they were using different materials to measure with, see the table below:

   

   

After lots of discussion and exploration the children found they best way to measure was:

  • Dominoes were the best non-standard unit because they were all the same length
  • To measure the length you don’t go around but from end to end
  • Be careful there are no gaps when placing the dominoes.
  • Measure the longest part

The children then practised their measuring skills further by measuring the length of all sorts of things around the classroom using cubes.

    

 

 

Primary 1

P1M Learning Reflections W/E 13th and 20th April

What a busy couple of weeks P1M have had since we came back our holidays. In Language we have learned four sounds ‘oo’, ‘ar’,’or’ and ‘air’. We have used these sounds to read and write words such as book. We have written about our Easter holidays and worked with a partner to write a spring acrostic poem. In Numeracy we have been busy working on our friends of 10, counting in 2s, 10s and learning how to count in 5s. We have started to explore measurement. We used items such as counters to measure the length of some dragon footprints and objects around our classroom like a water bottle. We also had our PATPAL and we loved showing you what we do in numeracy in class. Pictures from the PATPAL will follow. We loved taking part in SportaFunD on Thursday. Pictures to follow. In art, with it being spring, we had a go at drawing some daffodils. Here are a few reflections from the children:

Cali: I enjoyed drawing the daffodils. I found recalling my doubles tricky.

Alanice: I loved playing rotten apples in the gym hall. It was tricky drawing the daffodils.

Calum: I enjoyed all my learning. I found drawing the daffodils tricky but I gave it a go.

Anya: I enjoyed learning new sounds and then making new words with these sounds. I found drawing the daffodils hard.

Zach: I enjoyed learning how to draw daffodils. I found adding and subtracting 2,3 or 4 a little bit tricky.

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SportaFUNd Thursday 19th April

Below is information which has already been circulated through letter, email, facebook and twitter about our upcoming SportaFUNd day. Any donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference.

 

SportaFUNd

Dear parent/carer

As you will be aware, the school’s SportaFUNd Day is on Thursday 19th April within the school. We are holding a Sponsored Mile long obstacle course, various stalls in the playground including face painting, beat the goalie and soak the teacher amongst others and a Bake Sale to support former pupil Abby Cowan on her trip to Rwanda to build a new school.

All monies raised within the bake sale goes to Abby’s trip. All monies raised by the nursery will go towards new nursery play equipment. All monies raised by P1-P7 and the money from the various stalls goes to the school for new playground equipment, new PE equipment and towards the cost of transport to various sporting events.

For all of this to happen we need your support please. We are looking for baking donations, volunteers to help at the various stalls and volunteers to support the obstacle course. All 15 members of the Sports Committee will be supporting the event too.

Below is a timetable for the day.

Assault Course                                                        Stalls

9:00am-9:15am                      P6                            9:15am – 9:30am                   P6

9:30am – 9:45am                   nursery (am)           9:45am – 10:00am                 nursery (am)

10:00am – 10:15am               P5                            10:15am – 10:30am               P5

11:00am -11:15am                 P1                            11:15am  – 11:30am               P1

11:30am -11:45am                 P2                            11:45am – 12 noon                 P2

1:15pm -1:30pm                     nursery (pm)           1:30pm – 1:45pm                   nursery (pm)

1:45pm – 2:00pm                   P4                            2:00pm – 2:15pm                   P4

2:15pm – 2:30pm                   P3                            2:30pm – 2:45pm                   P3

2:45pm – 3:00pm                   P7                            3:00pm – 3:15pm                   P7

If you can help out at all please attend a short meeting in the school gym hall on Monday 16th April straight after school with Mr Stewart and the Sports Committee. If you cannot make the meeting please give your name to Mrs Young at the school office and Mr Stewart will contact you before the event. Even if you can only help for a short while we would really appreciate it. If you cannot support you are welcome to come along and support your child at the appropriate time above.

Children are encouraged to wear sports kit from any clubs or teams they represent out with school. Football strips will be allowed on this day. Those children who represent any of the school teams will be allowed to wear a school strip. PE kit or a tracksuit are also allowed. The assault course is outside so please ensure your child has a change of clothing as they may get dirty.

On the day the bake sale will take place in the gym hall from 9am – 12.  All of the other stalls will take place in the school playground. Most of the stalls will cost between 50p and £1.

Can you please ensure your child’s sponsorship money is delivered to the school office as soon as possible.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Stewart, Ms Taylor and the Sports Committee