We have had another super learning week in Primary 1S, what a great learning team we are.

A visit to the school garden resulted in lots of vegetables found. We were all super excited to find out what was growing under the soil. Carrots, potatoes, leeks and onions were all found.

We took all our vegetables back to our classroom to share them out to take home. We then cleaned  the vegetables and chopped them up to make soup in the classroom.

We had soup with bread and butter, some of us loved the soup and some of us did not like it but that’s okay as we all like different things. Everyone enjoyed washing, peeling and chopping the vegetables, even if we didn’t want to taste the soup.

Everyone is doing very well learning how to use some of the technology we have in the classroom. The focus has been logging into the iPads independently and scanning QR codes. We all did very well!

For our topic we are thinking “all about me”, how old we are, our names, how we are unique and special and how we all belong to a family, our family at home and our school family. We have created lovey family pictures.

Books are amazing and we are trying to develop a reading culture in the class and although we cannot read yet we are very good at looking at pictures in books and thinking about what the story could be. Reading for enjoyment 📚😀

Have a lovely weekend!

Another super week in P1s.

We have been learning all about our rights!

We are very proud at St Mary’s to be a Rights Respecting School silver award holder. In Primary 1 we have been focusing on five rights:

Article 1 – Everyone under 18 has these rights.

Article 2 – All children have these rights.

Article 3 –  Adults must do what is best for me.

Article 19 – I have the right to be protected from being hurt or badly treated.

Article 31 – I have the right to relax and play.

We have also been learning about our school values, we have been focusing on being respectful and all agreed to  try hard to follow them. We know that our school values are on our school badge and we have them on our class wall.

At PE we have been learning lots of new skills while having fun!

On top of all our learning we have also had time to have fun outdoors and using loose parts and messy play.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

What a fantastic start we have had in Primary 1S!

Every one has settled into St Mary’s well and we have all been enjoying learning and playing together. We are all doing very, showing the school values, and are super proud of how we have settled in. I am sure you will agree we all look very smart in our school uniforms.

We have enjoyed learning numbers, especially writing numbers 1 to 4, concentrating on our pencil grip. We have also done super work in learning our first four phonics sounds using Read Write Inc. The sounds we have learned are  m a s d.

Our P7 Buddies have helped us during break and lunch time as well as spend time with us in class, this week we read stories together.

We have had time to explore the our door classroom and use the school “Trim Trail” as well as having a go of the school bikes and scooters. During the first two weeks we have also enjoyed PE, Music and French as well as lots of time to play together. It has been such a busy time for us all.

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

WOW what a great day Primary 4 have had at the Zoo!

It was very hot and we were careful to keep hydrated and keep safe in the sun.

We enjoyed a session about endangered animals in the zoo education centre followed by time to explore the animals in the zoo. We enjoyed reading the map and all the facts about the animals.

We enjoyed a lovely 🥰 morning at the school “big breakfast”. It was lovely to have so many families join us for breakfast.

We also had a great morning talking about what we look for in a friend and how we can be a good friend to others, we all enjoyed sharing our learning with grown ups that could come along.

in class we have been closely watching our caterpillars 🐛 grow and then patiently wait on them turning into butterflies 🦋 Today we released them. Some of us got to hold them but we were very understanding that they are delicate and we need to let them fly off.

To end the week w had some fun in the sun for our fun 31 time! Have a lovely weekend everyone ☀️

Primary 4 had a great time at sports day on Wednesday. We all showed good sportsmanship and congratulated the winning house team, St Margaret.

We have been all working hard to prepare for the school summer show! We have a variety of participants in our class, dancers, actors and stage production team! Everyone has a job and we have all been working very hard.

Primary 4 have also been busy planting trees in the front playground. We have planted pear and apple trees, we hope that they will grow big and strong.

What an amazing week packed full of activities we have had! We have completed activities on keeping our body and minds healthy. Primary 4 would like to thank the Health committee for their hard work, it has been lots of fun and lots of us have been exhausted.

Kicked off our week with Destination Judo, Bowling up at the bowling club, Handball and then outdoor learning. We finished the day of watching the teacher v’s pupils netball game! It was good to see the adults join in 😀

On Wednesday  we started with making smoothies on the smoothie bike! We picked the fruit and juice we anted in our smoothies, copped them then jumped on the bike to mix it up. We then had a mindfulness session and PE. To finish off we did bead making in class, this was another mindfulness activity as it took a lot of focus. We were all very proud of the Rosary beads that we made.

On Thursday we started learning some music for our Shrek show before we started our activities.  We had PE with Mrs McMaster outside and then we walked up to One Mind Martial Arts, although some of us were apprehensive to start with we all joined it, it was lots of fun. Next up was exercise to music followed by SKM Dance. To finish our day we had a talk with female footballer and referee Nicole. We all found this very interesting and enjoyed getting to hold referee flags and cards as well as look at all her other kit!

Ladt but not least, Friday. We started the morning making fresh fruit kebabs, we chopped and peeled the fruit before sticking it on and enjoying it😋 We then had a fitness session outside followed by learning some first aid. To finish the day we enjoyed Fun 31 because we all have the right to play!

It has been a very busy week, we hope you like some of our action shots!

Primary 4 and 5 took on the challenge of the Daily Mile for the World Daily Mile Day. Everyone participated well, we have some great runners at St Mary’s

We did 12 laps of the playground, no cutting corners 😉 some of us are very keen to do it more regularly.

Today in Primary 4 we spent some time in the garden planting vegetables 🥗.

We have planted potatoes 🥔, onions 🧅, carrots 🥕, broccoli 🥦, lettuce 🥬 and pumpkins 🎃.

We found it very interesting how all the seeds looked different and we were surprised to be growing potatoes from potatoes 🥔 .
This is connected to our topic of planting and farming.