Thank you to P7 for organising the super bake sale this morning. P1c enjoyed buying lots of lovely cakes and hopefully we have helped to raise lots of money for charity.
P1c enjoying the MacMillan Bake Sale!
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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.
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!!
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!
P2b Share their learning
A wonderful action packed assembly by P2b.
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!
This week’s learning in P1a – 26 January
It has been another very busy week in P1a!
This week as part of our health and wellbeing curriculum we learned all about germs and the importance of washing our hands properly. Here is the video we watched and discussed in class – it’s got quite a catchy little song at the end too!
We practised washing our hands and singing the song and now that we are “germbusters” hopefully we will all stay healthy.
Well done to the boys and girls who sang the handwashing song as they washed their hands!
This week’s team challenge had a winter theme, At nursery, we had learned how water changed into ice when the temperature was really cold. Our challenge was to free a little dolphin from a block of ice without damaging it. We were not allowed to smash or chip the ice but we had lots of other good ideas as you will see from the photos. It was not quite as easy as we first thought!
And here is the winning team!
This term in PE we are practising throwing and catching. Our PE day is now Wednesday, however over the next 2 weeks we may need to use some of our hall time to practise for our assembly. Miss McDermott was very impressed with our throwing and catching skills already! If the weather is not too cold or wet we can hopefully practise this outside too.
We have been learning all about Scotland this week and have enjoyed lots of Scots stories, poems and songs. We made Saltire flags for our special Scottish celebration on Thursday.
P1 Christmas Party
This afternoon both classes were very excited to have our Christmas party. We all looked super in our party clothes and enjoyed dancing and playing games together in the hall with Mrs Ritchie as the DJ! We had made our own place mats with our names on them for snack but thank you to our Pupil Support Workers for laminating them and setting out and tidying up the tables and to Mrs Malone who also came along to help out.
We had also written to Santa inviting him to our party so you can imagine how excited we were when he popped in to say hello and give us a little gift just before Christmas.
We hope you enjoy looking at all our fantastic photographs!
Awesome Achievers 17th Nov 2017
Today we celebrated more efforts and contributions of some of our pupils – Awesome Achievers ! Well done, great to see all the onesies and support for Children in Need.
P7A Pursuers in Action
We had another fantastic evening at the court house in Edinburgh this evening. Both classes performed brilliantly with charisma, confidence and enthusiasm. Here are some pics of P7A in action. JP
P1a Hallowe’en Activity Afternoon
A big thank you to all the grown ups who came in to the classroom to join us this afternoon. The boys and girls loved having you and your help was much appreciated!
The activities included traditional Hallowe’en things such as dooking for apples but also playing games like pin the nose on the witch and a skeleton dice game. We did some craft activities too – making trick or treat bags and bats and also decorating gingerbread pumpkins. One slightly more unusual activity was the science “space rocks” where we had to drip vinegar on to the rocks to see what happened…
Our Awesome Achievers
Today we celebrated the efforts and contributions of some of our pupils – Awesome Achievers ! Well done, the first of many more to come. Congratulations.
P1a team challenge – make a chair for baby bear
Like our Maths activities , this week’s team challenge also had a teddy bear theme. We read the story A Chair for Baby Bear and then we had to design and make our own chairs. We talked about trying to make the chairs the right size and “stable” so that baby bear didn’t fall over. We also talked about how teamwork meant everyone had to take part.
At the end of the challenge all the teams tested their chair with our class baby bear. None of the chairs fell over – and as you can see some were big and some were small! One team even made their very own baby bear from the construction materials. Well done everyone – super teamwork!
Scottish Maths Week at LPS.
Please find a link below to what’s happening during Scottish Maths Week here at LPS.
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P1a Learning Update – 3rd Sept
This week as part of our numeracy learning we have been learning to play some number games. As well as practising our counting these are also good for practising skills such as sharing and turn taking and of course they are good fun too!
We have also been practising our cutting skills and using scissors safely. We made snakes and cut out squares which we then tried to put in order from smallest to biggest – which was not as easy as it first seemed!
On Friday we enjoyed taking part in “Let’s Move” drama activities which was all about people who help us. Miss McDermott was very impressed with our good listening skills and partner work especially as this is just our first week in P1!
