Lovely to see everyone back after the October holiday. We’ve had a fun week… we celebrated ‘M’s’ Birthday with some treats and this delicious cake that was sent in from ‘M’s’ parents! Thank you to them again. We also had some Halloween fun. Many of us enjoyed Halloween PE and the Halloween party followed by some tasty treats.
It has been a busy first week back in P5. We have attended our first committee of the school year where we have the opportunity to share our views and opinions about our experiences at St Mary’s.
We completed a writing assessment on information reports. Look at that concentration!
We attended our first upper school Halloween party. It was enjoyed by all. There were some cracking dance moves on display! I apologise for the picture quality being poor.
Primary 1 kicked of the week with potion making, mixing, smelling and feeling different sents and textures to make our own spooky potions.
In art, inspired by the book “Spider” we learned lots of spider facts and made spider 🕷️ pictures with stamps we made.
On Wednesday we participated in our first pupil voice committee groups, we all enjoyed working with different groups of children from across the whole school.
At our outdoor learning session this week we walked up to the local woodland area and made wands from nature.
During the week some of us enjoyed making pumpkin 🎃 stamp pictures using apples 🍎.
Keeping with the Halloween 🎃 theme we used it for our science 🧪 we turned a solid to liquid and back to solid making a spooky 👻 jelly potion, we are looking forward to eating them .
On Friday we had a Halloween 🎃 party. We played lots of games, danced, and had a costume competition, it was lots of fun. Well done to everyone who took part, everyone looked very scary .
Have a lovely weekend.
Have a lovely weekend.
Welcome back to the Tales of Tay!
We have enjoyed meeting up again after our well-earned break. We had such a busy start to our first year at St Mary’s and have continued in the same vein this week!
We have wellied-up and enjoyed Trim Trail increasingly muddy fun! Songs and personalised learning have focused minds keenly in our Literacy and Numeracy and we have had great fun with flour!
We have read, drawn, worked out puzzles, matched pairs, listened to initial sounds, played in the mud and the sand, made Autumn Art leaf pictures, and completed jigsaws! All in all, a busy week 1!
In Lomond Class we made chocolate chip cookies this week.
We did good looking and listening. We waited for our turn and mixed the ingredients together. The mixture smelled good before baking and even better after.
Everyone enjoyed eating the warm cookies!
We brought the curtain down on a very busy but successful first term. We have made lots of friends and learned lots of amazing facts and skills over the past 8 weeks. The highlight of this week was our funny but edible squishy ghosts we made during Food Technology.
Enjoy the pics below, and we hope everyone has a lovely week off.
Another busy learning week in Primary 1!
To start the week we read the story Pumpkin 🎃 Soup, this inspired us to make our own pumpkin soup in our tuff tray. We had lost of fun scooping out the pumpkins and mixing them with lentils and water. Lots of skills used and plenty of imagination 💭
For art this week we used leaves 🍁 we collected to make leaf 🍁 animals and bugs, we are very proud of how they have turned out.
During literacy, Read Write Inc, we have been practicing partner practice reading 📖 we are all doing very well at reading, blending our sounds together and working with partners.
During outdoor learning we walked to the local park, we all had lots of fun climbing and playing with our friends.
On Friday we were very respectful during assembly where we found out who our P7 house captains are, we were excited to find out if the people we voted for won .
Have a lovely holiday😀
In Tay class we can’t quite believe that we have been together for over 2 months and it’s now the October break.
We have learned so much…We are on our 6th initial sound, can build our names and practice our fine motor skills. We have also enjoyed Art and Music and Sensory play together.
We have played inside and out! In the sun and in the rain! We have made friends together and lots of happy memories!
We wish all of our followers a lovely break and we hope you join us again after the break to read about our adventures to come and our memories waiting to be made!
Today has been an immersive day in lots of things Japanese.
We enjoyed experiencing some Japanese anime when we watched My Neighbour Totoro. This is a very popular anime created by a Japanese film studio, Studio Gibli. We watched a little part at the beginning in Japanese and then we changed it to English.
We then looked at the Japanese alphabet and tried writing some sounds in Japanese and we practised writing the Japanese words for animals. We found lots of the symbols were complicated to write.
in the afternoon we had a taster session of some Japanese food and we tried to use chopsticks to eat it. We tried sushi and some mochi, the mochi was definitely more popular than the sushi.
Lill y- I didn’t like the sushi
Jenson – I didn’t like any of the food, the outside of the mochi was weird
Freya – I loved the sushi and the mochi
Macie – I loved the mochi, especially the ice-cream inside.
Siena – I thought they were both the best thing in the world
Jorja – It wasn’t good.
Abner – I liked everything, the ice-cream and the sushi
Grace – I loved it all especially the sushi with the soy sauce
Joseph – The mochi felt weird in my mouth, it has a funny texture
Jake – I liked everything except the soy sauce and the outside of the mochi
Lucy – I liked everything because the sushi was really nice, I liked the seaweed and the mochi was a different kind of ice-cream.
Philip – I liked the ice-cream but I didn’t like the sushi
Jude – I didn’t like the sushi, I didn’t like the taste of the seaweed but I liked the mochi
Amber – I didn’t like the sushi but I did like the mochi
This week in primary 7 we have been working on our house captain speeches and polling stations for voting! We have also been working on the videos that where shown yesterday in classes! In math we have been working on long division and we are doing excellent!! In spelling we are doing long words that are are getting a bit harder each time! In outdoor learning we are doing shelters for animals making our names out of leafs and more things in the woods and we are also making leaf drawings!! Our topic in class is Democracy and dictatorship along with politics.
thanks ML
