Some highlights of this week have been:
P.E.
The children have been working hard learning how to dance the Gay Gordon! We are learning our Scottish dancing with P3A. Everyone is really enjoying this area of P.E.! Miss Taylor has also been teaching the children how to play bench ball.
Literacy
We had another try at writing an imaginative story using a picture as the stimulus. This week’s picture was of a boy on a flying carpet. Some of the stories have been very interesting!
Numeracy
On Tuesday we had a visitor from the WLC Numeracy team in to observe us during a Time lesson. Mr Valentine was extremely impressed with the children’s time telling skills.
On Thursday we had another ‘Mild, Spicy, Hot’ challenge! The purpose of these are to encourage the children to chose for themselves an activity that takes them out of their comfort zone and really challenge themselves. This week’s challenge was on fractions. Mrs Bruce was in class to observe the children during this lesson. I was most impressed with the choices the children made.
Three of our P2 children did fantastically well. Each getting 100% correct in the Spicy challenge! Anton, Cara and Lauren all received a Math Award as a result of this.
Well done and keep up the great work!!
Interdisciplinary Learning: HWB/Social Studies/Literacy
We are continuing to learn all about castle life. This week’s focus area was Knights. In topic groups the children were using their team work and research skills to find out as many facts as they could about Knights. They have been preparing a poster that they will then present to the rest of the class.
** Our P3s and P3A have an assembly on Friday 27th March on our castle topic. We would love to see you all there to share our learning with you! **
Red Nose Day
We had lots of fun today and have hopefully raised a lot of money for this fantastic cause! Instead of our normal problem solving activities we spent the morning designing our own Red Noses!
Successes
Class awards
Anton, Cara and Lauren all received a Math award for their fantastic understanding of fractions during our Mild, Spicy, Hot challenge!
Star of the Week
This will be announced on Monday. Pic will be uploaded on Monday.
Skillionaire
Khizar received an award for being able to answer questions and explain how the castle models were built. P3A are now working on their models, we are looking forward to seeing their masterpieces! 🙂
Emma received her award for being able to make links between her knowledge of fractions and quarter past/to in time and explain this to Mr Valentine from the numeracy team.
Next week’s skill is ‘Apply‘. Good luck to everyone!
Head Teacher Award
Kirstin received her HT award for fantastic effort in her Artistic Ace homework. Well done Kirstin!
WHOLE CLASS GOLD STAR AWARD!!
We received our first whole class Gold Star award from Ms Macrae. We received this for the superb writing we produced during last week’s GLOW Digital Story Writing activity. We certainly did West Lothian proud!
We also received this award as a result of the huge effort put in for our latest homework challenge to design and make a medieval weapon! Thank you for your continued support from home.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Preston xx
