Primary Seven pupils enjoyed their first buddying session with P1 pupils on Wednesday afternoon.
The focus for the afternoon session was developing Literacy skills – pupils from P2/1 were up leveling their sentence work in their fabulous stories about an ice castle. P1 spent some time completing paired reading with their buddies to practice reading skills.
This was a fun session and Primary Seven are looking forward to their next visit in two weeks.
Einartas had a great idea to go outside and build snow castles as part of our Castles interdisciplinary learning. Some of decided to work on our own, in pairs, in small groups and in larger groups. We had to use items that we found to create a castle. Some us added a flag created a moat and made turrets as we had been learning about the features of a castle in class. As a group we explained to the rest of the class the features of our castle and how we made it.
We are learning to write a description of our ice castle.
When we went back in our class we talked to our learning partner about what our castle looked like. Then we wrote a description of our castle. We realised that we were so excited we forgot to add in wow words so during our buddy time, our buddy’s helped us to uplevel our writing by using wow words.
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 1. The highlights of last term included looking more closely at a variety of Fairytales through reading the story of The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We read all our favourites, and enjoyed exploring characters and settings. Creating a happy, alternative ending to the story of The Gingerbread Man was a lot of fun too! Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Afternoon during Scottish Book Week. The children very much enjoyed sharing their learning with you.
Performing the Nativity was another highlight of Term 2, and I’m sure that you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job.
Mrs Smith P1 Teacher
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 2/1. The highlights of last term included our Cops and Robbers IDL context for learning. Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Afternoon during Scottish Book Week. The children very much enjoyed sharing their learning with you. Performing in the Nativity and the BFG Christmas was another highlight of Term 2, and I’m sure that you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job.
Miss Burton & Mr Glancy
P2/1 Teachers
Both P1 classes have been set a homework challenge on SumDog. All questions are about numbers 1-10 to reinforce what they have been learning in class. You can access SumDog by downloading the free app or by going to www.sumdog.com. The pupils log ins are in their homework jotters.
To select the correct SumDog Challenge, select Maths from the left hand side and then Homework Challenge.
To show that you are Winter Ready and can access the blog, please leave a comment below to say which is your child’s favourite game on SumDog.
Please find attached the P1 Burns Poem for our Annual Burns Competition. As part of their reading homework this week the pupils should learn as much of the poem that is appropriate for them (they do not need to read the whole poem). They should be able to read the poem without using the sheet and use expression. We will hold a mini Burns Competition in class on Friday 13th January. The winning pupils from both P1 classes will go through to the school Burns Competition on 20th January and their parents will be invited along.
As part of our Winter Ready preparation to show that you can access our blog, can you please leave a comment below to say which verse of the poem your child enjoyed the most.
Good luck!
Today we held our second Celebration Assembly to recognise the successes and achievements of children from across the school. We began with a welcome from Mr Povey, then shared the winners of our STEM Superstars and Remarkable Readers awards, as well as our top scorers and winning House- Calderwood. We also celebrated BB Bonkers’ success following their Dragons’ Den win yesterday.
A big well done to all of our award winners!
Primary 1 to 7 can log onto SumDog and complete a reading challenge.
P1: Reading Challenge
P2-3: Punctuation Challenge
P4-7: Tricky Words Challenge
We will be looking to see who has the highest accuracy scores!
P1-7 can log into Marshmallow Land and peer assess the Christmas Music videos. You can also create your own music video and upload it!
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/WestLothianCouncil/wlmarshmallowworld/SitePages/Home.aspx
P1-7 can log on to Purple Mash or use materials to make a Seasons Greetings/ Christmas Card. Show it to the rest of your class when you come back to school.
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