Everone looked super this morning in their party clothes as we enjoyed our Christmas party with all three P1 classes together. We did some party dances and played pass the parcel and the corners game. Thank you to Mrs Smith, Mrs Bennie and Mrs Frater for setting up ( and tidying up!) the snack. The party ended with a special visit from Santa who was delighted to hear that we are all following the golden goals in school and trying our best to be good at home too.
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P1c “Hey Ewe!” Photographs
Here are some photos from the day that we tried on our nativity costumes in class!
After our performance, we received these lovely thank you letters and pictures from the boys and girls in P3/2. They came to our class to deliver them and read them out to us. We felt very proud that they had enjoyed our first performance on the big stage!
P1c Christmas Craft Afternoon
This afternoon we were delighted to be joined in the classroom by our P6 buddies! They helped us to make some lovely Christmas decorations as you can see from the photographs.
We also learned about Christingles and that they are not actually for eating! Christingles were originally from Germany although lots of churches now have special Christingle services for children at Christmas time.
P1c Visit to the National Museum of Scotland – 13 November
Today in P1c we were very excited as we travelled into Edinburgh by bus to visit the museum. In the morning there was some free time to look around the animal section with some help from the P6 buddies who were also visiting the museum too. We particularly liked the animal skeletons!
After lunch we took part in a special workshop to learn about being museum engineers. As you will see from the photographs we were very busy learning about cogs and gears and levers as we worked together to fix a clock.
Thank you very much to Mrs Spori and Mrs Ferrario for coming along to help us today and also to the P6 buddies for helping to keep us safe when we looked around the museum in the morning.
P1c Hallowe’en Activities 31st October
A big thank you to our parent helpers and P6 buddies for coming along to help with our Hallowe’en activities this afternoon.
As you will see from the photographs these included different craft activities. dooking for apples and a special skeleton game.
P1c Pumpkin Soup Making – 24 October
It might not quite be Hallowe’en yet but P1c are getting in the mood. This morning we enjoyed reading the story Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper, then we got busy carving pumpkins and making our own pumpkin soup.
Today we not only practised cutting the vegetables but also grating them too. After playtime we enjoyed having the soup with some bread for snack. A big thank you to Mrs Smith and Mrs Kemsley (our student teacher from Edinburgh University) for their help this morning.
A “cracking” time in P1c – 3rd Oct
This week we have been learning the sound ‘e ‘ and the Jolly Phonics action is to pretend that you are cracking an egg. So we decided to crack some real eggs and made some delicious omelettes for snack today. Everyone passing the classroom stopped to ask what the lovely smell was! As you can see most of us enjoyed eating the omelettes too! Thank you to Mrs Smith who was our head chef today.
P1c One Planet Picnic – 27 Sept
Today we enjoyed preparing our Scottish Cheddar cheese and Linlithgow apples grown in Iona’s garden for the One Planet Picnic. As you can see in the photographs we all took turns at cutting and putting the cheese and apples on the cocktail sticks. Thank goodness we have been practising our fine motor skills over the last few weeks – we were all fantastic and no one got jabbed or stabbed! The best part however, was getting to eat the snack at the picnic where we also had some Scottish oatcakes and some carrots which had been harvested from the school garden with a little help from Mrs Spori!
Unfortunately due to the weather the picnic was in the hall.
Here are some photographs of different activities that we have been doing over the last few weeks to help develop our fine motor skills.
P1a enjoy the House Treat – 27 June
This morning the boys and girls enjoyed taking part in lots of games and activities on the pitch as a reward for each house collecting more than 750 golden tokens. They then enjoyed an ice pole to cool down!
Thank you to our buddies in P6a for helping to organise this.
P1a Have Got Talent – 26 June 2018
Well done to all the boys and girls who took part in our talent show this afternoon – you were all fantastic!
P1a Visit to Botanic Gardens
Today we visited the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh to learn why SWAF is important for bears and animals. SWAF stands for SHELTER, WATER, AIR and FOOD. We enjoyed taking part in lots of games and activities and of course the teddy bear’s picnic (which unfortunately had to be indoors due to the weather).
A big thank you to Mrs Fullerton for joining us at short notice after I had sent letters saying that we would not need parent helpers today.
Health & Wellbeing Week in P1a
This week we have taken part in lots of different activities to help us learn about improving our health and wellbeing.
On Monday morning we practised our movement skills playing games at Enjoy-a Ball with Paul.
In the afternoon, we had great fun learning dance moves with some girls from P7 – we were even able to show off some of our own dance moves as we love dancing in P1a!
On Tuesday we had a more relaxing day with Amy from Relax Kids. We learned how to control our breathing and keep calm if we were feeling worried or upset. We also got to lie down and relax while Amy told us a lovely relaxing story.
Wednesday was a lovely sunny day and our first, very exciting sports day at Linlithgow Primary School. Miss McDermott was too busy picking up javelins to take very many photographs!
All week we have been recording the number of healthy snacks we have been eating. On Thursday we talked about what we thought were healthy foods. We worked in groups to sort foods in to groups of eat more and eat less.
Lots of us also brought our bikes and scooters to school and enjoyed taking part in the obstacle course.
Before assembly on Friday we discussed getting help in an emergency and when it is appropriate to call to 999. We enjoyed taking part in some role play however lots us don’t know our home addresses which is perhaps some homework for the holidays!!
P1 Church Visit to St Ninian’s Craigmailen Church
This morning both P1 classes visited St Ninian’s Craigmailen Church. We met Mr Houston the minister and were able to ask him lots of questions.
We took along our baby doll “Louis” so that Mr Houston could show us what happens at a Baptism ceremony. We learned that it is not just babies that get baptised and that the oldest person Mr Houston has baptised was 72!
When we returned to school we had a small party to celebrate with cake and a glass of lemonade. There was lots of toasting “baby Louis and the proud parents and Godparents”
Thank you very much to all of the parents who joined us this morning and to Mr Houston for welcoming us to the Church.
P1a – Learning Update 9th May
Last week we enjoyed taking part in a variety of activities with Louisa from the Drama Box and Miss McDermott is going to be trying some more of these with us in class – although perhaps not learning how to speak “banana”!
We are enjoying using the new ipads to support our learning in literacy and numeracy although everyone has not yet had a turn and we are also learning to be patient.
For art this week we read the story The Day the Crayons Quit and then worked with a partner to draw pictures using the wrong coloured crayons.
Our famous artist this week was Henri Matisse. We looked at some of his paintings but also some of his famous “cut out” art work too.
We then used only coloured paper, scissors and glue to make our own amazing and very colorful Matisse style pictures.
Unfortunately over the last week we haven’t been very quick at getting organised in the mornings and this is important as on Tuesdays we have Music first thing with Mrs McWhirter and on Thursdays we have French with Ms Hussain. Miss McDermott said we were “as slow as treacle” but none of us really knew what treacle was.
On Friday morning for snack we had a little treat – pancakes with treacle! We were able to see how slowly the treacle dripped off the spoon and of course the best part was we got to taste it. As you will see from the photographs – most of us actually quite liked it, despite what you might have thought!
This week in P1a – 20th April
This term we will be learning all about famous artists and we started this week by learning about Picasso. We read a story about Picasso and then we looked at some of his famous works including paintings and sculptures and talked about what we liked and disliked.
Then we created some our of own Picasso style faces as you can see below!
We learned that when Picasso was sad he painted using lots of shades of blue. We mixed different shades of blue paint and created our own “Blue Period” Picasso art gallery.
In Science we are still learning about forces so as the weather was nice we went outside to do an investigation. We worked in teams to find out which ball would travel the furthest down the ramp but first of all we had to make sure we were doing a “fair test”. All of the teams predicted a different ball but in the end we found out the same result and the tennis ball was the winner!
