What an afternoon we have had! After a delicious lunch, we headed straight for crate climb where we worked as a team to climb as high as we could! We learned how to use a harness and shouted ‘timber’ when the crates fell! Next we did Nightline – where we were blindfolded and had to follow the trail around the woods. Now it’s time for dinner and later campfire!
P5 arrived at camp to glorious weather! After a short orientation we played some team games and then settled into our dorms where we unpacked. Then we played pass the hoop around the circle and a game where we had to tie knots with rope around a giant tree and then untie them again! We enjoyed a filling lunch and are now heading out for afternoon activities!
This week was savoury week at cooking club 🧑🍳
We are all getting very good at following the cooking safety rules.
We had to spread the tomato sauce over our tortilla wrap, we then sprinkled cheese 🧀 and then the toppings 😋 after that we had to cook them in the oven.
Once they were out the oven we go to eat them together in class.
Rannoch had a fabulous week….We enjoyed time in the sun on the Trim Trail and in the wonderful lights of the Sensory Room. We also worked hard on our letter formation and phonics…we focused on the ‘g’ and ‘e’ sounds. In Numeracy we learned about Number Bonds and counted up to 20. We also painted with our hands and learned about what we do during the ‘day’ and what happens during the ‘night’ as part of our Topic focus. A super week!
This week in P2 , we have been upping our maths game by introducing the whole part model. We explored how one number is made up of two other numbers.
Elsewhere, we celebrated Mother Teresa on her special day, 5th September . We listened to her life story, created our own Mother Teresa portraits and discussed ways in which we could spread the same kindness.
See you next week!
Climbing, balancing and sharing space with our friends in PE today.
H and M enjoyed dancing to the number song today. ‘Let’s count forwards and count backwards. Move and have some fun!’
A made number block 20 with plasticine.
Exploring our new coloured slime… thanks to Mrs H. for giving us this. There are lots of colours.
Primary 3 have been learning how to use Tens and Ones to help us to do our number work even faster. We have been playing maths games and using the maths materials to make our learning easier and more fun.
First week back at gardening club. We got out in the garden to talk about what we need to do during our time at gardening club.
We managed to move a planter and fill in a big dangerous hole and harvested some cabbage 🥬. We are looking forward to getting stuck in to helping to maintain the school garden.
A great first week at gardening club.
Our Primary 4 stars have been hard at work over the past few weeks and had fun settling into our school routines again!
We have spoken a lot about our School Values and ways that we can demonstrate these around the school and playground. Our values are so important to every day school life and we are trying really hard to follow these and encourage others to do the same.
Friendship
Safety
Respect & Good Manners
Perseverance
Trust & Honesty
Here are some of our thoughts on St. Mary’s School Values…
Karlie – I think they are good because they keep us safe and I know them off by heart!
Hudson – Actually, I think they are pretty good.
Bonnie – I like our values and they keep us safe. Lots of people are good at following them. Miss Pritchard talks about them at assembly.
Peter – I like them all and I try to do them.
Damon – Our values are good because they keep us safe and it’s a good school.
Cody – The school values are important and every class has them.
Jessica – I think all the values are important because it makes us all feel safe. The teachers are happy when we follow them, and so are we.
Jaxon – Friendship is a good one because they make you happy.
Cooper – We should have good manners.
Iza – Perseverance is when you try your best and not give up. It means you should keep going.
Rocco – We talk about the values lots and I try hard to follow them.
This week in Primary 1 we have been looking at different ways to make numbers and talking about why numbers are important, not just in school!
We used tally marks, numicon, ten frames and much more to make our numbers and turn them into posters for our wall.
We ar doing very well in our sounds and it is lovely to here that so many of you are practicing at home.
In music we are working on keeping a beat. To help us with this we used rhythm sticks and boomwackers. We all found this lots of fun.
During play we have been exploring how to use the blocks to build different structures.
Have a lovely weekend.
