Unfortunately homework club was unable to take place today as there were several events taking place within the school and there was no working area available during our lunch time. There will be a homework club slot tomorrow (Thursday) for any children who were unable to attend today and still have homework tasks to complete. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Normal times will resume next week.
Mrs Waugh
Good morning Blackburn!
We don’t let the grass grow under our feet in the mornings here at Murrayfield. Children love joining in with our Wednesday “Wake up, Shake up” classes because they are great fun. Why don’t you come along to Breakfast Club and join in the fun if you are in P1 – P7? ( Sorry parents – if you are interested we can see if we can arrange a session for you to join in too!)
Breakfast club gets us off to a fantastic start every morning. It’s free to all pupils and we love to welcome newcomers. Doors open at 8.15am.
It is also the P1 and P2/1 Assembly tomorrow at 9.15am. Hope to see lot’s of parents there!
Miss Akram and Mrs Mackie
(UNCRC article 24: I have the right to good quality health care, to 24 clean water and good food)
Our Breakfast club children got off to an early start in “building their learning” this morning. There was huge excitement when they discovered a box of Lego in the cupboard and as soon as they had eaten their breakfast, they came over to start creating! Dot in the Kitchen very kindly donated some trays for them to use to keep the bits tidy on the tables. We are looking forward to seeing some lovely masterpieces from them.
Meanwhile, some of our other “early learners” worked to piece together cogs and to see how they worked together to make the different cogs spin. There was a lot great learning going on, well before the bell even rang. The best thing is that they were all having so much fun, they didn’t even realise how much learning was going on!
Another group of early morning explorers tackled Tangrams and either used the pieces to build their own pictures or decided to try to make the pictures shown on cards.
It is lovely to see our pupils eat a healthy breakfast in the morning and to see them safe and happy in the school environment, ready to go into their classes and learn. If your child has not yet come along to the breakfast club, please feel free to come along for a quick look or ask a member of staff for details. The more, the merrier!
I have just received training in LEGO based therapy and I am hoping to begin work soon with some groups of children in our school.
LEGO® based therapy is a social development programme based on the highly structured, systematic and predictable nature of LEGO play. Through LEGO therapy, children can learn to communicate with others, express their feelings, change their behaviour, develop problem-solving skills and develop a relationship with the world around them.
In order to get started, we will need to build up a bank of LEGO resources to enable us to work with the children. We would be very grateful if you could have a look for any LEGO or DUPLO in new or very good condition which you would be happy to donate to the school to help us. Loose LEGO would be great, as would any small, complete boxes of LEGO or DUPLO with instructions included, as instructions are required for some of the activities.
Thank you for your help and support.
Kind regards
Mrs Millar
Below is a list of the class assemblies planned until Christmas. Please note that these dates maybe subject to change. All assemblies start at 9.15am in the school hall.
Some of the children at Murrayfield are making good use of twiddle muffs in school. Twiddle muffs can help children, who need to fidget, to concentrate and focus on listening tasks.
Please click on the link below for a pattern for Twiddle muffs.
http://www.knitforpeace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Twiddlemuff-Pattern.pdf
Mrs Turnbull will be pleased to receive them any time.
The class are beginning to count down to the end of term, however we are continuing to work hard.
In Maths, the class have been learning angles. We enjoyed hunting for them inside the school and going outdoors into the playground area. We were surprised by the amount of the amount of acute and obtuse angles we could find on the Trim Trail and on the trees in the Butterfly garden.
On Thursday we had a Zumba instructor into help us improve our fitness and dance. We enjoyed trying out the dance moves and working together to do the limbo!
In writing , we looked at how to effectively peer assess our writing against the success criteria. We worked in pairs to examine the quality of our writing and discussed it against the Scottish Criterion. Many of children were very reflective and willing to take on the feedback given. I’m looking forward to reading the next piece of writing they produce during Big Write.
Have a great weekend 🙂
Fantastic Flying Forces Workshop presented by the education team from The National Museum of Flight
Today we had a visit from the education team from The National Museum of Flight, in East Lothian. We learnt about the forces, which have an impact on flight and used new vocabulary – gravity, aerodynamics, streamlining, drag and thrust. The class had fun taking part in different experiments.
Afterwards the pupils decided they would love their parents or carers to take them to visit Concorde and the other aircraft at The Museum of Flight.
Over the last few few weeks the pupils have been taking part in workshops about Music, Sound and Technology with a teacher called Miss Aslan. She has introduced us to Makey Makey’s, microphones and Zoom recorders. We have been challenged to explore and create sounds and music for a short animation. We have been having lots of fun using every day objects and our voices to create sounds. We have also become ‘experts ‘ in setting up and recording equipment. Sadly next week is our last input from Miss Aslan, however we can’t wait to watch and listen to our completed animation. We hope to be able to share our our efforts with parents and carers soon.
In Maths we have continued to focus on handling data and learning to use the vocabulary of probability. We used the smart board to play a fun game called ‘Take A Chance’, before explaining reasons for our choices. In mental maths we have continued to look at developing our multiplication strategies. On Wednesday, Mrs Waugh, Ms Macrae and Mrs Sneddon came into watch our Number Talks lesson. They enjoyed supporting us to share strategies used to find solutions to the questions.
In class, we have taken time to discuss the events which occurred earlier in the week in Manchester. We held a minutes silence to remember and support people who have died or have been injured. We had a great discussion on the event, sharing our feelings and worries about the world we live in.
In Gym this week we took advantage of the amazing sunshine to improve and develop skills in track and field events, such as relay racing, hammer throw, shot putt and hurdles. We are all looking forward to sports days on Friday 2nd June.
Have a great weekend. Hope the sun keeps shining! Remember to stay safe by wearing sun cream and a hat 🙂
