Primary 1 kicked off book week listening to some authors read their books aloud. We chose the books that were included in our book bags.

On Monday afternoon we had a book bag gifting party 🎉 in class. Some parents came along and we shared biscuits and hot chocolate ☕️ with marshmallows. We looked inside our book bags and created our very own pet star ⭐ after we listened to the story “My Pet Star”.

On Tuesday, as well as listening to story “One Goose two Moose” we participated in the school book swap. Many of us had handed books in to swap and we all loved going to the book swap and brining one, two or three books home. Happy reading 📖.

On Wednesday we joined a whole school reading river. Our buddies joined us and helped us to read a story, the river was very long.

On Thursday we wrote book reviews and made potato 🥔 characters. We enjoyed picking a character and trying to make our potato look like it.

Friday was dress as a book character or in pjs this was lots of fun.

What a fantastic first week of cooking club!

We learned all the routines of cooking club and important steps such as cleaning our hands etc before we start cooking.

This week we made iced biscuits 🍪. We had lots of fun using lots of different skills.

We are all looking forward to next week.

Primary one learned all about remembrance day this week. We participated in a whole school assembly led by Primary 6 ,everyone was wry respectful during the two items silence. Back in class we made our own poppies using our handprints.

During Outdoor learning we went up to the local woodland area with our clipboards to complete a treasure hunt. We all really enjoy exploring the woodland area.

Throughout the week we have been practicing our Christmas Nativity show, this is our first time on the stage performing and we are all doing very well. If we have a speaking part it would be really good to practice our words at home.

As we have our first school Christmas 🎄 fair coming up we have been working like Santa’s elf’s and making some unique things to sell.

The iPads are very popular in class and we are all becoming very independent at putting in the code and accessing Sumdog and games, we all found this very tricky to start with.

Have a lovely weekend.

In  Primary one this week we have been learning all about firework 🎆 safety. We used bonfire 🔥 night to inspire our writing for the week, we talked lots about what fireworks look, sound and smell like. After our discussions we drew pictures of fireworks and wrote a sentence.

We also used fireworks to inspire our art work this week, we created beautiful fireworks in the night sky art using paint and forks!

During RE 🙏 we learned all about All Saints and All Souls’ Day. We found it very interesting learning about different saints and how God calls us all to be good.

Everyone in class voted to change a play area to a pizza shop! We made shop posters and decided how much we would charge people for our pizzas. We also had to make pizza dough and the toppings for the pizzas. 🍕 We have had lots of fun making and selling pizzas this week.

For outdoor learning this week we enjoyed some time in the outdoor classroom, we built towers and bridges together as well as having time to explore other toys.

On Friday we celebrated mass together with the whole school and members of the parish. We were all very respectful during the mass.

Have a lovely weekend everyone 😀

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 class we have been working on motor skills, we used a hammer to hammer in nails to decorate a pumpkin. 🎃 We all found this lots of fun, we had to talk about how to stay safe with tools, how to be good at turn taking and how to be creative.

With our autumn 🍂 leaves we created leaf monster puppets, we had lots of fun creating these then using them to play.

In number work we have been developing skills using Building Thinking Classrooms. We work in random groups to solve a problem together. We all love collaborative learning. We use “ thinking hats” to help us identify the problem, the information that we have, thinking time, how it makes us feel and how we can be creative.

In RE we have been learning why Mary is special to the church and that October. On Friday we joined the whole school in celebrating Mass.

During outdoor learning this week we created pumpkin 🎃 designs with our handprints.

We had a very important job of voting for new house captains on Friday, we listened to the Primary 7’s tell us why they would be good captains. After thinking about it we went up to the Primary 7 room to vote.

Have a lovey weekend 😀

We started the week off in Primary one learning about Autumn 🍂 and talking about the signs of autumn.
To create autumn leaves 🍁 we used sponges to paint and create texture, after waiting on them drying we turned them into leaf self portraits.

After collecting materials outside we used them to make our names with nature.

Primary 1 had lots of fun harvesting vegetables from the school 🪏 garden. We spent time washing them to make sure all the dirt was off them then wee carefully used tools to peel and chop the vegetables. The boys and girls decided they would like to make soup with the vegetables so on Thursday we made soup 🥣, we all had the choice to eat the soup and we buttered some bread to go with it. Some of us didn’t want to eat it and some of us had two bowls 😋

Staying in the garden we planted bulbs for next spring, we had to be very careful that we planted them correctly so they can grow up to the sun in the springtime  🌼 We are looking forward to watching them grow.

Primary 1 have been learning that the season has now changed to Autumn 🍂. We talked about the changes we can see 👀 hear 👂 and smell 👃 as the weather gets colder.

For outdoor learning we had a lovely walk up to a local woodland area where we explored the trees 🌳 and shrubs. We talked about staying safe in a different area and had lots of fun.

We are all doing very well in progressing through our sounds and are starting to blend sounds together to make words. The more we practice these the easier it will be to read and write. All children have been sent home with a set of sounds.

On Friday we enjoyed the “Big Breakfast”  and “Sharing Our Learning “. Tasting different food at breakfast club with our friends and family . After breakfast it was great to show the adults our amazing work in class.

Have a lovely weekend 😀