Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
A hair-raising effort was made for Comic Relief!
In Maths, they have been learning about halves and quarters of shapes and numbers.
The children have been making toys from the Victorian times- a jack in the box, a spinner, a jigsaw and a thaumatrope.
The children were set a task to find out information about the Victorians, out and about where we live and places they had visited. Also, they were asked to bring in artefacts and be able to talk about them. Here are some of their findings and special things from the Victorian times-
We now have our own museum of information and artefacts.
Thank you for all of your wonderful efforts!
We have had a wonderful couple of days being Victorians. On Thursday, the children dressed as Victorians and had a session at a Victorian School. Then they had ‘gruel’ for breakfast.
Some children wanted ‘MORE’!
The children had their daily march. They played some traditional games.
The children made kites. Freya is studiously measuring the string she needed. I was very impressed with her measuring skills.
The children were very busy with a tricky task.
Fortunately, it was a windy day to test the kites!
The P5s came to observe our kite making skills.
The children also made peg dolls. There were some interesting characters!
Daniel won a medal for the best Barbarians team at an Edinburgh and The Lothian’s chess competition on Sunday. Well done, Daniel!
The children were doing an art lesson on Victorian silhouettes and went outside to look at shadows first.
World Book Day parade.
Fabulous effort and lots of interesting characters!
Some clips of our assembly today about New Lanark and Victorians.
The children sang and danced to Food Glorious Food from Oliver. They also sang beautifully- Daisy Daisy and My Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow wow.
The children spoke very clearly.
A timeline showing the beginning and end of the Victorian Era, to the 1960’s (a comparison for P3s) and present day.
Different jobs that the children would do- miners,
millworkers,
watercress seller and pure finder.
Emily was a great schoolmistress!
Layla sang a solo of Coulter’s Candy.
One very proud teacher today! Excellent effort by all the children!
The children dressed up in a variety of Victorian costumes.
They were not happy when they had to go to work!
We played some traditional games outside.
Hoops.
Skipping rhymes.
Hopscotch or Peevers.
Maureen Liddle, from the West Lothian Museum Service, brought in some artefacts for the children to wear, look at and play with.
Homemade stilts using tins and string. Trying the diablo, which was tricky!
Trying out some toys-
A clothes peg. A whip and top.
Some of the wonderful artefacts.
The children were given pinafores or sailor collars to wear. They looked very smart!
