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 😀

This week as we are a Eco school it was our first turn at litter picking to keep our playground clean.

At outdoor learning we went on a bird scavenger hunt. We are learning to identify different birds and we had lots of fun doing this.

We are all enjoying writing ✍️ and have been doing this independently using free play time as well.

Primary 1 are becoming very confident at recognising, counting, making and writing numbers.

Have a lovely weekend.

Wow another busy week in Primary 1.

in outdoor learning this week we worked with Miss Nelson to create clay snails. We talk about if we had saw them before, where we could find them and what they looked like before making our very own snails.

In number work we are focusing on forming our numbers as well as counting and making numbers. We have enjoyed playing lots of maths games.

We have been learning all about families, that all families are different and equally special. Everyone enjoyed talking about their own family and we made beautiful representations of our families for the class wall.

On Friday we made slime, this was lots of fun 🤩 We  decided that is would be a good place for some dinosaurs 🦕 to live.

Have a lovely weekend.

Another amazing week completed in Primary 1😊 Miss Stenhouse is very proud of all the children and their amazing work!

Primary 1 have been learning about how to be a good leader through Leader in Me. This week we discussed how to be proactive and how this connects to our school values. We will be learning all 7 habits of happy kids through Leader in Me and each week someone will be selected for a class certificate.

To start with we created our own Leader in Me tree for our classroom to remind us that we can all be leaders. We will be working on Stop ✋ Think 💭 and make Good Choices👍🏻

We have been creating a charter for our outdoor learning and exploring the outdoor learning areas at the school. We used our hand prints to sign our Outdoor Learning Charter.

At the Trim Trail we were working on our balance and coordination skills.

In PE we have been exploring different equipment that we will be using. This week we have forced on throwing and catching.

We hope you have a lovely weekend ☺️