Daily Archives: February 11, 2022

General Information, Primary 2/1

P2-1 Weekly Reflection 11.02.22

This week we have enjoyed a number of activities to mark Children’s Mental Health Week 2022. We watched the Place2Be’s virtual assembly on the theme of Growing Together and had a super discussion about the people who help us to grow. We created our own support balloons highlighting the people who help us talked and discussed what makes us happy and the sorts of things we can do to help us feel better when times are not quite so good. We also enjoyed some yoga.

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In phonics our focus in P1 has been ir and ou and in P2 we have been learning about suffixes through adding ed and ing to words. We have been practising our sounds and working hard to blend our sounds together to help us read with increased fluency. Thank you for supporting the children with their reading at home.

In numeracy P1 have been learning to tell the time using o’clock and half past times on both analogue and digitial clocks and particularly enjoying this song to support their learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UvcqVGEMGbY. Please keep practising telling the time at home. P2 have been completing their block of learning on addition and subtraction by considering related facts and comparing number sentences. A favourite song this week for the children was  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-iAQI5k-8cQ , why don’t you have another listen at home!

This week we finished our Charles Rennie MacIntosh inspired roses, I’m sure you’ll agree they look great.

We have had great fun talking about pets this week and some children changed our home role play area into a pet shop with a vet section. The children have engaged in some super conversation during their play in the pet shop and have been developing their literacy and numeracy skills throughout their play.

We are keen to continuing building our pet shop and vet area in the next few weeks and would be very grateful for any donations of soft pets, pet toys, water bowls and small animal beds/cages which you no longer require. If you would like to donate any items please send them in with your child and we will quarantine them before adding them to the pet shop.

Have a lovely weekend and please remember that Monday and Tuesday are holidays for the school children. We look forward to seeing them on Wednesday 16th February.

Here are some the children’s highlights this week:-

Minny “I enjoyed everything.”

Ethan “I enjoyed making the Pets at Home and the vets.”

Cooper “I enjoyed making the support balloons.”

Hunter “I liked doing my maths, no my reading!”

Aylar ” I enjoying doing the pet shop.”

Jack “I liked learning my letters.”

Georgia “I enjoyed learning about everything.”

Kaylan “I enjoyed learning Mental Health Week.”

Cara “I have enjoyed everything.”

Poppy “I’ve liked learning about everything.”

Kyle “Everything.”

Dylan “I liked building the pet shop.”

Kade “I liked learning the words.”

George “Doing the numbers.”

Dexter “I liked building my train rushes.”

 

Primary 7

Blog 7th-11th February

Blog 6th-11th of February

 

This week have had French and Spanish which we really enjoyed. In Spanish we learned about colours and got to ask each other what colour was our favourite.

 

We have also been continuing to work on our Author’s Journey story writing. Mr Stephenson from ICHS came to listen to our Authors Chair and he gave us feedback. It was really good to get feedback from him as he is an author too as well as a teacher!

 

This week has also been Children’s Mental Health Week so we watched the Place2Be Assembly and then spoke about connecting with others and cheering them on. We wrote on pieces of paper on each other’s backs about what we really liked about them. It was nice to see so many nice things written about me.

Maths was looking at symmetry and also problems solving. Its fun trying to do problem solving as Mrs Taylor was giving us House Points for finding lots of ways to find the same answer.

This week it was P6 who did assembly. They spoke about Mental Health and how to stay connected and remember to speak to Trusted Adults.

Miss Quinn came to visit from ICHS to talk about High School. She asked us to write about the things we liked and gave us a chocolate too. We got to ask lots of questions about what High School might be like.

It’s been another busy week in P7!

Class Posts, Primary 5

Children’s Mental Health Week Reflection for P5

Here are some of our thoughts about the week we have just had. It was a great week!

I hope you all have a great long weekend. See you next Wednesday.

Maizy – I liked when we did football with Davie. I liked the matches.

Caleb – I liked it when we were doing dividing in maths. I am getting much better at it now.

Holly – I enjoyed doing the writing about Mary Queen of Scots. I love writing.

Mathew – I really like the maths this week because I like working with the Teejay books. The maths really helps me with some of the video games at home.

Emma – I liked doing the French with Mme Moore. I enjoyed learning about snacks and fruits and the fruit festivals. I liked learning what they have for breakfast in France.

Zach – The extra football practice with Davie has helped me improve my skills.

Elena – I have been having fun learning French. I like learning how to say I like or don’t like different types of food.

Amelia – I am happy because I have improved in maths.

Anya – Doing the Health and Wellbeing check in was good because I got to think about who is my trusted adult.

Lewis – I liked doing gymnastics because I was finally able to do the crab.

Safia – I liked gymnastics because I got the chance to lead the class when they were doing their stretching.

Pola – I really enjoyed practising division. It is getting more fun because I’m getting better at it.

Primary 1

P1 Weekly Learning Reflection W/E 11th February 2022

In Literacy we have learned the ‘ir’ and ‘ou’ long vowel sounds and the red word call. We have written words with ‘ir’ and ‘ou’, built words on our magnetic boards, played roll and read and sorted real and nonsense words. In writing we wrote an adventure story featuring our superhero.

In Maths this week we have explored reading and writing half past times on an analogue and digital clock. We wrote o’clock and half past times on a digital clock, read half past times on a digital and analogue clock and in words to complete jigsaws, played an o’clock and half past board game and bingo.

For Children’s Mental Health week we listened to the story The Dot. We discussed our strengths and drew pictures of these on dots. We also watched the short film Boundin’ and explored times when we have felt up and times when we have felt down. We created hot air balloons to show the times when we have felt up.  Here are a few of the children’s reflections:

Angus – “We have been learning about ou words. I was good at my sentences and I had fun playing my llama game in gym today.”

David “I liked eating my snack and lunch.”

Leo – “I liked building a flying saucer with the bricks”

Lyla- “I loved playing in the story corner and reading.”

Aaron- “Playing Star Wars with baby Yoda. I was Learning how to write a sentence.”

Finlay – “I liked playing with Aaron and I learned how to write things that I didn’t know how to write, by sounding them out.”

Emma “We learned about writing words today. I made a sentence.”

Mia – “We were learning the sounds ir and writing words.”

Jessica- “I liked the parachute game today for gym.”

Ayaat – “I liked writing the letters and words.”

Have a lovely long weekend.

Miss Maclachlan

General Information, Primary 6

Primary 6 Weekly Reflection – WB 07-02-22

 

This week we have been busy preparing for our assembly on children’s mental health.  We have been learning about our support networks and making connections with others. We also made colourful posters about what compassion meant to us.  The assembly went very well and we did lots of practising throughout the week. We felt very proud of our work and felt better after the stressful part was over.

Luke, Freya, Olly

Senora Gordon and Senorita Martinez have been working with us in class on our Spanish. Finn and Luke made a tortilla at home and shared their learning in class. Luke thought his tasted very nice, he added pork and cheese to his.
Luke, Finn

In maths we have been focusing on drawing angles, it was a bit tricky. but we will continue to practise. We have also been working on our fractions and we will soon be moving on to decimals.
Lakshya, Leo 

We are in the middle of our authors and illustrators project. Our stories are going well and they are going to be very good.  This week we have finished our build up sections and are now working on our dilemma.  We are starting to think about how we will present our work and are looking forward to this part of the process.
Angus, Anna

General Information

P2 Learning Reflection for W/E 11.02.22

A busy week in P2 this week. In literacy we have been spelling words with double ll, ss and ff. In numeracy we are continuing with subtraction and in number talks we have been looking for doubles and near doubles using two ten frames. The children enjoyed making self-esteem pizzas with sprinkled toppings of talents and strengths. The children have started the share their home learning, this will continue into next week as they have so much to share! Hope you all have a lovely midterm break. Please see below for your children’s learning comments:

Ella – I enjoyed gymnastics. We have been working together on floor routines. My partner was Rhy-Lee. We did rocket balance at the start and the end. Then we done moon balance and sitting star. I did a rocket roll and then I done a flying saucer and a dish. I think the last thing was a star jump and we finished with rocket balance.

Nathan – I love reading so much. I am reading a book.  The girl is trying to get the dish and the jam. The mum comes up and sees the mess. She tells the girl to tidy up!

Oliver – I liked when we were reading because I really like reading my book. It about a dog with a hurt paw and the vet fixed it. Then he jumped up on her because she fixed the paw and he was happy.

Louis – I like gymnastics. So we done stuff for gymnastics. We were doing a rocket and you jump and go into a moon and roll and go back into a rocket.

Willow – I liked the assembly. It was about mental health week. I stood up and talked about my self-esteem pizza. The toppings have all my strengths and talents. I am kind, I am good at dancing and I am good at cycling. I am also good at gymnastics!

Thea – In free play I was playing teachers. I was teaching Willow math and she got some right and some wrong!

Jack – I enjoyed doing free play. I was making paper chains for my birthday party. You get the paper and glue it and you make a big circle and you keep on doing it. You have to put one bit through the other bit then glue it!

Olivia – I enjoyed number talks. We were doing doubles and near doubles on the ten frames. In the first one there was six dots and the second one has seven dots it’s a near double. I did double six equals twelve and one more equals thirteen.

Caleb – I enjoyed doing the pizza. We made pizza with topping and the topping were our feelings.

Kyra – I liked gymnastics. I liked doing the routines. We were doing pike alien and moon and the star jump.

Alexander – I liked doing free play. I like building the bricks. We were trying to build a stage so we can rock and sing!

Georgia – I liked reading. I am reading Tag. Pip was it, they find Tip first then they come to find Zip and Zip was in a rocket. Zip pressed the wrong button and he zoomed away!

Josh – I liked making the pizza. The toppings were what we are good at. I put on sport, swimming, running and stuff like that.

Elyas – I liked the pizza that we made. It has our feelings on it and things that we are good at. I am good at running, building and I am good at climbing.

Rhy-Lee – I liked doing the gymnastics. We were doing rocket balance and star jump. Then we done a roll and flying saucer. We were pointing our toes!

Arianna – I enjoyed reading. A little girl gets a pot and a bowl. She gets jam in it and she gets it on her leg and her chin. I like to read!

General Information, Primary 4

11.2.22 Reflections in P4

This week in P4 we learned the bus stop method for division, we thought about our support network for our mental health and created hot air balloons to share this. In poetry, we created rhyming poems which were quite funny and some were a little silly! In P.E. we developed skills in gymnastics and badminton. Here are some of our thoughts on this week’s learning;

Lewis “The bust stop method was challenging but we all persevered.”

Lois ” The hot air balloons make us respect our families and you can show your unique personality through your design.”

Sevinc “Sharing your feelings in writing is a better way to express yourself.”

Sushanth “We were improving hitting, aiming and returning skills in badminton. We learned to hold the racquet correctly…it was like shaking a person’s hand.”

To finish the week, we made magic flowers that open when they float in water! Look out for the messages inside.

Happy holiday weekend, everyone.