Sharing Our Learning
This week we took ourselves outside for our art lesson. We used our creativity and critical thinking skills to collect natural resources and created a twig person. The pupils had a great time enjoying the outdoors while making some lovely artwork!
Our new P1 pupils have made a fantastic start at school, learning our school rules and values from their P2 classmates and their P7 buddies. We have made the most of the lovely weather in our garden, and have already started making plans to continue to improve this amazing space. There has been lots of fun and learning inside and outside the classroom including stories, singing, painting, building campsites and trains, reading together, learning to write, balancing, throwing and catching, measuring, counting and parachute games.
This class are showing wonderful listening skills and eagerness to learn. The P2s are doing a great job of showing kindness to their new classmates and helping them settle in, and the P1s are loving all the new opportunities to explore.
P6/5 have started their first genre of writing this year. Learners will read and write descriptive pieces this term. This week the children wrote their ‘cold piece,’ (a chance to demonstrate what they know already about writing descriptions). This is a great way to identify strengths and areas for improvement and to track progress over the next few weeks. The children are looking forward to ‘bumping up’ their work as they learn how to include more descriptive words and phrases in their pieces. This week they enjoyed writing about a popular film character.
This week P3/2 have been developing their communication and collaborating skills through a range of activities. We worked in groups in class to build towers using dried spaghetti and marshmallows – we used creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration to create a tower that would stand. P3/2 also participated in Building Thinking Classrooms where they had to collaborate using their critical thinking skills to solve the problem. We then collaborated with P4 during PE and P2/1 for outdoor learning.
P7/6 had a great time today learning outdoors with Rob from ‘Kids Gone Wild’. We evaluated how confident we felt about learning outdoors before our session today and will return to our ratings after the next session to see how our confidence has grown. We problem solved, collaborated, used our critical thinking skills and the ever important school value, perseverance!
