This week we loved being back with Mr Lockhart for outdoor learning. We were looking for signs of spring and learning about the trees.
We have also been learning how the moon changes shape and what the different stages are called. We ate Jaffa cakes to show each change in the moon.
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.
We have had another fun-filled week at Lego Club! This week our challenge was to build an animal habit for their favourite animal for Earth Day.
Amongst the creations were snakes in the jungle, sharks in the ocean, fish in the coral reef; as well as penguins, polar bears, rabbits and more! One clubber even created a ‘true view’ of the ocean with plastic and old junk floating in it – which was very sad but very important as we all agreed this should not be allowed to happen.
Well done for your creativity and great discussions Lego Club!
This week in P6 we have finishing our Europe topic by presenting our Power points on our favourite country. Next week will will start our new topic Victorians. In maths we have been learning about decimals and angles. We have started a new writing topic – Persuasive Writing – and have been practising presenting a series of arguments in two class debates.
We have also started working on our Shrek the Musical Jr show, with all pupils rehearsing or helping to paint and build props.
We also began a new session of outdoor learning and will be planting up our raised beds and finishing off our John Muir Award.
In other news well done to Codi and Maddison for taking part in the gymnastics competition – they each received a medal and certificate. And also huge congratulations to Luke, Kymberley and Keira who received an award from St Kent’s for participating well in the Young Stem Leader’s lesson before Easter. Well done!
Rock for Camp is nearly here. Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets so far. We will be selling tickets in school tomorrow morning or on the door tomorrow night (£3 for Adults £2 for children).
Doors open at 6.30pm where we will start the games and raffle and open the ‘tuck shop’ where you can buy a can of juice, a fruit shoot, a packet of crisps or even an ice pole. Adults may BYOB.
We have some excellent raffle prizes including an overnight Glamping experience for 2. There will a chance to play ‘Slide the Coin at the Bottle’ and other games to be played.
The Band ‘Full Circle’ will be performing between 7-9pm. We hope to see you all tomorrow night.
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.
We loved our first session of outdoor learning with Mr Lockhart. We had fun exploring the woodland area. Some of us were climbing trees, hunting for pine cones, looking for sticks and swinging on the rope swing. Mr Lockhart read us a story all about a dragon. We loved it and can’t wait for our next session.
Sofia – I liked playing on the rope swing
Macie – I liked climbing the trees
Evan – I had fun on the swing
Jorja – I loved climbing up the trees
Freya – I liked finding food for the squirrels
Darcy – I liked collecting pine cones and putting them in the pile
Ailsa – I loved bouncing on the trees
Ariana– I liked climbing up the trees
Lucy – I liked it when I was on the swing
Charlotte – I liked the swing too
Jake – I liked collecting sticks
Oonagh – I liked collecting pine cones and making a nest for the birds.
The first week of gardening club was a great success.
We have prepared the planters for the new season, taking all the weeds out and feeding the soil with fertiliser.
We also organised our new polly tunnel.
We look forward to some planting next time.
Lovely to see all the children back to school this week and it’s been a busy one. Here are some photos of what we’ve been up to:
‘H’ enjoyed making and saying numbers and addition sums using the magnetic numbers.
‘A’ sorted the numerals from the puzzle into the correct order.
‘L’ especially likes the illustrations of the play park in this book.
‘A’ and ‘B’ played with the coloured rice and toy food.
‘A’ and ‘H’ enjoyed creating music outside.
We all enjoyed the sunshine whlist climbing and exploring the trim trail.
‘A’ enjoyed sorting magnetic numbers and making and reading numbers too.
‘L’ played with the treaure chest and liked putting different toys inside.
‘C’ has been very interested in the visual timetable this week.
Some of the class enjoyed making salt dough. Pouring, mixing and kneading. Look at those faces… so focussed!
The children made collage spring flowers for our window then ‘H’ helped Miss M. to paint stalks for our flowers and butterflies too. Fantastic!
Here are a few photos of some of the tasks at the teaching table this week. ‘C’ and ‘B’ did well on the matching tasks. ‘A’ and ‘A’ used their fine motor skills to carefully complete the letter ‘h’ with a dabber. They also focused well whilst overwriting the letter h and their name too.
A few photos from ‘Choose Time’…
‘A’ has enjoyed creating Numberblocks using plasticine or play dough.
What a busy week it has been!
Finally, here a few more photos of the children playing at the trim trail. Not so sunny this time but that didn’t stop us. Lots of exploring, climbing, balancing and challenging themselves!
‘B’ loved pulling the chimes back, letting them go and listening to the sounds they made as they bumped together.
This week in Primary 4 we have been learning all about Vincent Van Gogh. We then created our own flower pictures.
In maths we have moved on to pictographs and bar 📊 graphs.
We had our first Shrek rehearsal this week, in class we will be working on helping to create set backdrops.
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