Learning about Harvest
Primary 1 have been learning about autumn time and harvest. Today we were talking and learning about Harvest in particular. We watched a power point and discussed how vegetables and fruit are harvested – from under the ground, above the ground and from trees/plants. Afterwards we unwrapped a range of vegetables and had the opportunity to use our senses to investigate. Tomorrow we will be able to look even closer at our vegetables using magnifying glasses and peeling the layers off to explore inside.
Primary One Learning
Today was a proud moment for Mrs Hardie and Mrs McJimpsey, as the Primary One children wrote their first words in their jotters. The world is their oysters! Well done!
Learning in Primary One
Primary 1 – A new and exciting beginning!
Primary 1 had a great first day today. They all settled well and were ready to begin their school journey. The children made lots of choices during our ‘Play and Learn’ times. We read a story together and talked about the meanings of words and travelling safely. The buddies were fantastic! They came to the class to help the children get ready for both break time and lunch time and at the end of the school day. At lunchtime the children sat in the lunch hall and shared time with their buddy, returning to the playground for a run around and a time to explore.
After lunch the children returned to the classroom and we investigated mark making using chalk boards, we developed our scissor skills and created a ‘This is me on my first day at school’ line drawing . At the end of the day we were joined by our buddies again who walked with us on our first Primary 1 Daily Mile around the school. Well done!
Nursery Graduation June 2018
The preschool nursery children celebrated their graduation on Tuesday 12th June. We would like to congratulate them as they leave nursery and move on to Primary 1. Well done!
Nursery Exploring Outdoors Sway
Nursery Developing the Young Workforce Week
This week the nursery children have been learning about the world of work. We have had visits from a firefighter, a postman and a care worker. We looked closely at some of the equipment Mr Fish uses to help him with his job. Mr Wilson let us try on his outfit and we learned that he can choose to wear three different types of hats – a summer hat, winter and a skip hat.  We talked about the role of a care worker with Kaz.
In nursery we set up our own Post Office with letters, post cards, stamps and labels. We can also weigh parcels to see how heavy they are. Our nursery fire station is set up with a telephone and emergency forms to fill in to tell the firefighters where to locate the fire or emergency. We also have home made hoses to put out fires.
Thank you to all our visitors who helped develop and support our learning this week!
Nursery children in the garden!
Now that spring has arrived the nursery children have been very busy in the nursery garden. Today we planted potatoes and helped to prepare our planter for seeds. We used the watering cans to water our daffodils and other plants around the garden.
Nursery learning to keep safe!
Over the last few weeks the nursery children have been learning about keeping themselves safe. We initially began to talk about keeping ourselves safe at home, using talking boxes and photographs. Over the last couple of weeks we have moved on to keeping ourselves safe outside. We have used the ‘Let’s go safe with Ziggy!’ resource, a set of stories and videos which help us to learn about keeping safe in the car, and crossing the road.
