Today we had some special visitors from Urban Nature as a House treat. It was a fantastic experience for everyone – thank you! Here are the photographs for you to have a look at:
Author: Mrs Roy
P1R news
Another busy week to report on in P1R. The children worked with Mrs Kerr on Monday and Tuesday and kept busy with their tasks as Mrs Roy was getting ready for the RRS visitors. She enjoyed her short visit and said the children worked very well for her.
Here are some of the highlights shared by the children:
Isla – I enjoyed seeing the nursery children coming into the lunch hall.
Ephraim – I enjoyed playing literacy and numeracy apps on the ipad.
Lloyd – I chose to play on the ipad during Goldentime.
Rafay – I enjoy doing homework, I have been working hard on my Fry’s words and reading.
Mark – I have liked playing Sumdog on the ipads.
Paul – I enjoyed playing with my friends.
Dexter – I enjoyed number work, I am really good with numbers to 20.
Brooke – I enjoyed learning the number names for 0-20, I also liked dressing up at Goldentime.
Bernice – I have loved everything at school this week.
Abigail – I enjoyed maths.
Lucy – I enjoyed playing a pirate app on the ipads.
James – I enjoyed playing with Klaudia.
Klaudia – During Goldentime I dressed up as a cat.
Nathan – I enjoy playing with the lego.
On Tuesday James and Ephraim represented our class at the meeting with the RRS visitors and they spoke confidently about their leaning and knowledge of the UN Convention and the Global Goals. Well done boys!!
Next week there are a few special events happening:
Monday – House Reward for winning house, Microfitness.
Party Animals visit in the afternoon.
Children will receive a letter telling them about their
new class for next year.
Tuesday – Sports Day 10am-11.30am on upper school playing field. Children will take part in potted sports in House teams to win points. Parents/families are welcome to come along and watch. Children to bring a water bottle and wear House colours that day.
Thursday – Moving Up Morning, children line up and register at P1 class then will be taken to their new class for the morning.
Friday – The Charity Committee have organised a Marie Curie Blooming Great Tea Party, a letter has been sent out with further information.
Due to all of these events there will be no formal homework issued next week. It might be a good opportunity for you to talk to your child about the move to their new class.
Presenting and performing in P1R
The highlight for our class this week was our class assembly today. Over the last few weeks we have been writing our script, practising our lines, practising our songs and making a headpiece to wear linked to our speaking parts. Every child wanted to have a speaking part which shows how confident they have all become. Ephraim also took a leading role in our finale song and had to do a solo piece, we were all really proud of him. Thank you to all the grown ups who helped the children prepare for this assembly at school and at home, we couldn’t have done it without you. The biggest thank you goes to the children – they were amazing!!
If you were unable to attend I have attached the link to the SWAY presentation on my Twitter page @mrsroy16.
We have also posted some photographs for you to have a look at.
Global Goal 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation
Message from UN Ambassador’s:
There are many easy ways to join in.
*Take a Global Goals Selfie and help to spread awareness.
*Like and follow along at the Global Goals Facebook page.
*Follow along on the Global Goals Instagram feed.
*Follow the @UN and the @TheGlobalGoals on Twitter and search for the #Globalgoods and #SustainableDevelopment hashtags
Help our kids become the generation that changed the world: ending poverty, reversing climate change, and promising girls get educated. Talk to your kids about the #GlobalGoals with this fun guide: http://cdn.globalgoals.org/2015/09/Global-Goals-Parent-Guide.pdf
#TellEveryone
Bag packing for Malawi
Today a group of the UN Ambassador’s went to St Margaret’s to help pack some suitcases for Malawi. This was a humbling experience as we saw many of the items which were being sent, things we all take for granted. Everyone worked really well together and checked that their cases were the right weight. The allowance was 23kg per case-not easy to achieve! Thanks to the St Margaret’s team for allowing us to help with this project, we are looking forward to hearing all the stories on their return.
Health Week
What a fantastic week we’ve all had. This week the focus has been on health and wellbeing and all activities linked to this. Our timetable has been jam packed and every day has been full of fun.
Check out our class story on dojo for photographs of some of the events and follow us on Twitter for more photographs and video links, @mrsroy16.
Monday
We started the week with the daily mile and invited our nursery friends along to join us. We all chose a partner and showed them the route. We then went straight to gymnastics which was good fun, we even got to make a human pyramid at the end with the full class taking part. Amber, Klaudia and Mark were very flexible and showed us some great cartwheels. After break we went straight to cross country with Mr McCurdy and had a practise at pacing ourselves for the fun run on Friday. Mrs Roy was exhausted and couldn’t keep up with some of us! In class we learned about the different parts of the body and the special jobs they all do, we watched a video about this and joined in with a fun song. After lunch it was time for fit and flex, this was a circuit with high intensity activities. Nathan couldn’t stop laughing at Mrs Roy when she tried to pull the stretchy band!
Tuesday
Judo was very popular in the class with many voting for this as their favourite activity. James and Brooke had to help demonstrate some of the moves which we all found really funny. Mrs Stewart did really well too when she partnered up with children! We went over to Dedridge PS for micro fitness, a huge inflatable with lots of challenges. Everyone managed to have lots of turns, it was really exhausting. In dance we learned a short hip-hop routine, Rafay and Ephraim had some impressive moves! The day ended with a nature walk, we spotted lots of signs of plant life and animals, we even met the new cygnets at the pond! In class we used the UNICEF launch pad to learn more about the rights of the child, we focused on article 5.
Wednesday
Before school started we had our parent and child bootcamp, well done to those who made it along.
It was a very relaxing start to the day with a yoga session, Mrs Roy loved how quiet and peaceful we all were!!! Football followed this and we got the chance to work on our dribbling skills and technique. In the afternoon we learned about the Eatwell plate and discussed different food types. We did a carousel which included making our own healthy plates and food technology. At the food technology station we made fruit kebabs, the ingredients we could choose from were : bananas, melon, pineapple, grapes and strawberries. It was great to so many children trying new flavours.
Thursday
Cheerleading was exciting as we learned a routine and used the Pom poms. We quickly picked up the routine to music and then got a chance to make up our own parts of the routine to two counts of 8, great teamwork everyone! The nursery joined us to learn about measure and we worked in teams to measure how tall we all were creating our own height charts. Boot camp was next, we got the chance to get outside and dirty taking part in different challenges-tug of war, follow the leader, the cone squatting game, walk the tight rope, etc. In the afternoon we had cricket where we got the chance to practise our throwing and batting skills. Isla was very good at this! We then finished off the day with a turn on the trim trail.
Friday
The day of the fun run arrived and we all went outside to do our warm ups to music, the whole school were there! Some families came along to support us, thank you. Well done to Ephraim who ran very quickly and finished first for our class.
Mrs Purdie then had a reward for 2 children in our class, Dexter and Isla, they were awarded the Headteacher Award, the theme this week was respect. They enjoyed a healthy smoothie as their reward.
Thank you
A huge thank you to Mr McCurdy for organising such a successful week and thanks to the children for participating so enthusiastically! Mrs Roy is away for a long soak in the bath to ease her aching muscles after all those activities!
Global Goal 5 – Gender Equality
Message from UN Ambassador’s:
This week’s talk task is to discuss Global Goal 5 GENDER EQUALITY
“Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”
Use this link to learn more: http://www.globalgoals.org/global-goals/gender-equality/
P1R weekly news
Another busy week in P1R,so busy that we didn’t get a chance to take many photographs.
In reading we are having a final push over the next 5 weeks to try and read all of our P1 sight words. We like to use the whiteboards when taking part in the Frys word challenge and when it was sunny we went outside to practise as well. We have also been learning about ‘cloze’ sentences, we have to choose the right word from the word bank to finish the sentence. It can be tricky but we just have to be confident and use our knowledge of phonics to help us read the sentences.
In numeracy we are developing our understanding of numbers to 20. We practised sequencing them and putting them into order. We also learned about the language before, after, and between. Outside we wrote numberlinds with chalk and then played a before, after, between game. We all had fun in the sun.
In RE we continued to learn about Mary our Mother and were really thankful to all receive our own rosary beads to use in class. We also spent time finishing our display to Mary, some of us made stained glass windows and others chose to make a bunch of flowers for her. Everyone behaved really well at the Feast of the Ascension mass and joined in with the prayers and singing.
During transition we took the nursery children out into the ‘big’ playground to show them around and introduce them to our outdoors toy box. It will soon be time for us to start our transition to P2. Over the coming weeks we will find out about our new classes and get to meet our new teacher, it’s very exciting.
Remember Health Week starts on Monday,come prepared for all weathers and sports! It should be a great week!!
Global Goal 4
ENGLISH_Why_it_Matters_Goal_4_QualityEducation
Our discussions focus on Global Goal 4 this week – Quality Education. As a school this is an extremely important goal for us and this reflects in our school Vision and Values and our Curriculum Adventure Rationale.
This goal is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and the promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all.
“In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other parts of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond…”
Malala Yousafzai
Hard at work in P1R
Another week passes with lots of learning and fun!
Fractions was our new topic in maths and we learned about halves, quarters and sharing fairly and equally. We started the learning with some chocolate! Mrs Roy gave us a challenge to cut a mini roll into halves then quarters, we had to be very accurate with our slicing. As we did so well we then got to eat the pieces, if only maths could always involve chocolate!!! Our learning continued when we learned about sharing fairly and equally. Mrs Roy was very naughty and shared sweets with all of us but it wasn’t fair! Some children got 1 bag, some got 2 bags and some got 3 bags! So we had to use our thinking heads and solve the problem,we came up with lots of good ideas and tried them all out. We decided the best way to do it was by giving each person in turn 1 bag then another bag and so on until all the sweets has been handed out. We have a good understanding of fair shares and as a reward got some Haribos which we shared fairly.
We continued to discuss the Gruffalo story and this week worked on sequencing the order of the story in preparation for making our own Gruffalo storybooks to share with the nursery,this was Dexter’s idea from our learning wall. Everyone worked really hard on these and when Mrs Scott popped in we took pride in sharing them with her. In Art we made ‘big’ Gruafflos which again was another idea from our learning wall. We used coloured sugar paper to do this, we made connections in our learning as we folded paper in half and then in quarters, we made also made different 2D shapes for our Gruffalo.
As it is the month of May we have been learning about Mary our Mother. As a class we started to make a special altar for Mary at the front of the classroom and discussed the meaning behind the different symbols. We will add to this next week. Then we all shared our thoughts about Mary and wrote them down.
During nursery transition we flipped it around and we went to the nursery instead of them coming to us. We went out into the nursery playground and buddied up with a nursery child to play and have fun with. We are being really responsible and helping the children prepare for coming into P1.
We also had a visit from the UN Ambassadors and they talked to us about Global Goals. They asked some of us to have our say by writing a tweet for our new Global Citizenship display in school. Have a look when you are here next week for Parent’s Evenings.
