Well folks, what a week it’s been in school and I can’t praise the children enough, they have been wonderful!  Their smiles this week have made it worthwhile!

This week Primary 1 children from P2/1 class joined us for a few days and we have had great fun practising for our assembly which we shared this morning, sorry we were unable to invite parents and carers in to watch.  The children were amazing and all said their parts with confidence.  Perhaps they will tell you about it at home.

In literacy we have been learning the sounds aw  and are and we worked together to sort out real words from nonsense/alien words.  We learned the tricky words where and were, it was a wee bit tricky to tell these two words apart so please practise these at home.

In maths we have been learning about 3D shapes and had to sort some real life objects according to their shape.  Perhaps you could talk about 2D and 3D shapes at home.  In numeracy we have been practising our fact families and we did some addition and subtraction sums.

This week we have also been working on our Wellbeing Web and have talked about the eight different Health and Wellbeing indicators and the children self-evaluated each of these.  We’ve talked about how we were feeling and the children have been supported to share their concerns around the Coronavirus.

As the children leave today I have a mixture of emotions.  I will miss them all over the coming weeks but I want you all to stay safe and healthy.  Your child has brought home their home learning pack today and I hope you will support them in continuing their learning.  Please take good care of each other and I look forward to seeing you all back in school soon.

Mrs Clyne

This week we have continued learning about magic ‘e’ and how it changes the vowel in a word from its sound to its name.  We focused on making words with the o-e and u-e sounds and we worked on sorting real words from alien words.  We have also completed our sound assessments and Mrs Smith and Mrs Clyne are very impressed with the progress we are making with our reading.  Reading bags will not come home this weekend to allow us to sort the new reading groups and have the books ready for Monday.  In writing we were writing about why our mums are special and we wrote some lovely things.

In Maths we have been continuing with our number bonds and we were making kites to show the different number bonds to 10.  We have also been learning the months of the year and learned a wee song to help us remember the order of them.

In science we learned about springtime and we talked about it being a time of new life.  We learned about the lifecycle of a butterfly and we had to sequence the different stages of a butterflies life.

We started to practise for our assembly next week and have been learning some songs and making some video clips to share.  Unforunately we will no longer be inviting parents to join us at the P1 assembly.  While we are sorry this is the case we appreciate your continued support as we follow guidance surrounding the current circumstances.

Well what a ‘booktastic’ week we’ve had to launch our first ever Book Month and celebrate World Book Day.  On Tuesday we watched the 10^th Anniversary Authors Live’s show.  Michael Rosen was very funny and we were amazed by how quickly Tanya Roberts could illustrate what he was saying!

Click on the link below to see some familiar faces!  Our part in the film was supposed to be part of the Live Show but Michael Rosen went off script and spoke for too lang and they had to cut short the film which meant our school clip wasn’t shown.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e3vwxj/play/a9dfzc/p085jmkn

Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day by Dropping Everything and Reading on three separate occasions throughout the day, the children loved this!  We made some bookmarks and enjoyed listening to Mrs Sansom sharing a story with us.  The children talked about their favourite stories and who they like to share them with.

Today we have enjoyed our ‘Share a Story‘ assembly and Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.  It was really fun sharing our stories and Mrs Clyne read the story of Alice in Wonderland while we drank our milk.

In between all our book fun we have learnt the sounds a-e and i-e and the tricky words one and anyone.  In maths, we continued with our numbers bonds and learnt about halves and quarters.  Here are some of the children’s comments:

GG “I liked learning our new sound a-e and i-e.”

RC “I liked the same as Georgie.”

PP “I liked the assembly when we were all dressed up.”

SS “I Ioved the tea party”

EW “I liked it when we had the assembly.  Mrs Mill was scary.”

PW “I liked eating the food at the party.”

AH “My favourite part was eating the cupcakes.”

IG “My favourite thing was everything we did this week. I liked making the bookmarks.”

EM “I liked all of the week.”

NB “I liked when me and Georgie shared our books at the assembly.”

ZP “I liked the tea party.”

LK “I liked eating the sandwiches at the tea party.”

FW “My best bit was the tea party.”

SC “I liked Mrs Clyne’s costume.”

ED ‘I liked the assembly.”