St Ninian's Primary School

Nursery News

This week in nursery we have met our buddies, gone on a bug hunt and looked for signs of Spring. Thursday was windy ! The weather is certainly colder! The children have been using our outdoor literacy to decide what the weather is like in the garden.

Amelie was so excited to meet her buddy on Monday and show her around the nursery.

Sophie celebrated her birthday on Monday, Mrs Mushet was happy!!

On Tuesday we visited the library and brought back a book about a scared spider.

This gave us an idea to look for bugs on our welly walk this week.

We found spiders, slugs and a centipede. There were signs of Spring in woods, we saw flowers beginning to grow and will check next week to see if they have flowered.

The afternoon children decided to make signs on the path “so we know which way to come back” They used chalk to draw signs on the path and then discovered that they could make patterns in the mud with their wellies too.

We celebrated Mahnoor’s birthday on Thursday in the nursery.

and Friday?? fun fun fun and PEEPs to end off the week xx

Have a lovely weekend everybody. Snow is forecast so wrap up warm !!

From the nursery team xx

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – RED GROUP TOP1 FOR TRANSITION.

TUESDAY- BLUE GROUP TO P1 FOR TRANSISTION

WEDNESDAY- WELLY WEDNESDAY, please come dressed in waterproof clothing

THURSDAY- GREEN GROUP TO P1 FOR TRANSITION

FRIDAY-PEEP SESSION 5

P2 Update

Happy World Book Day everyone!

We had a great time in class during World Book Day making book marks and drawing our favourite characters. We even got to choose some new books for our class.

This is one of our new books.

We made bunting out of our drawings of our favourite books/characters.

In numeracy we have been learning about estimating numbers on a number line. Try out this online game using the link. Try estimating within 0 – 10 to start with and then increase this to 100 if you feel confident. Have fun.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing-numbers-on-a-number-line

In Literacy we have started using a new writing resource called PM writing. This is going to help us learn how to complete functional pieces of writing. This week we are focusing on a recount. We have already learned about the structure of a recount; title, orientation, sequence of events and personal comment. Next week we are going to be writing our own recount of what we do in the morning before we come to school.

For science we have explored our senses and had great fun completing a range of activities prepared for us by Mrs Lauder. The taste test was interesting as we had to first taste with our noses pinched and then taste again with out it pinched…what a difference it made! The feeling/touch test really made us think how much we rely on this sense because we firstly had to feel in the box wearing a rubber glove and then do it again without a glove! Fabulous learning through discovery.

Have a lovely week.

Mrs Currie

P1D News Update

We have had a wonderful end to a busy week in P1D. Thank you to everyone who came along to our castle banquet today. Have a look on our class twitter page for lots of pictures of the event @mrsd_stnps

Phonics

We have had a revision week of the sounds we have been learning this week in phonics. We have focusing on the digraph sounds we have learned. We know that a digraph is 2 letters which go together to make 1 sound. Here are the songs for these sounds we have been learning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJYK83Oqt8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVE7NBcpZFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIY9ms1Nm2E

Next week, we are going to be learning another digraph the ‘wh’ sound as well as the ‘j’ sound. We will be doing a lots of work on the difference between ‘w’ and ‘wh’ and ‘j’ and ‘i’. Please talk to us about this at home.

Numeracy

We have been continuing to learn about subtraction in our numeracy lessons. We have been working hard using the vocabulary of before, after, more and less to help with our mental subtraction skills. We have been completing written subtraction number stories to put our use of these skills into practise. Here are some games to play at home to help you use these skills further:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Topic

Our castle topic has came to an end now and Mrs Davenport is so impressed with how much we have learned during this topic. Next week is British Science Week and we will be beginning a science topic which will take us up to the Easter holidays. Our new topic is all about Space.

There is no pupil voice this week as today we were too busy preparing for our banquet! Don’t forget to look on twitter for lots of photos and thanks again for coming along this morning.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Davenport and P1D.

Primary 7 Weekly Blog

This week P7 group A went to ST Margaret’s for swimming, science and art. On Tuesday we played throwing rounder’s in P.E. On Wednesday we wrote a recount about our ST Margaret’s trip. Thursday was World Book day and we completed lots of activities to do with our favourite books. We have also been practising for our show and are all working very hard to learn our parts.

On Tuesday we had a lovely visit from Arch Bishop Leo Cushley. It was great to chat to him in our class and get the chance to ask him questions. On Wednesday Fr Kenneth came in for our Ash Wednesday service.

Pupil Voice:

Isla: I liked going to ST Margaret’s on Monday I liked the swimming the best.

Rachel M: I really enjoyed science at ST Margaret’s.

Taylor: I enjoyed having a glee work shop on Thursday.

Joseph: I enjoyed writing about our trip to ST Margaret’s.

Chi-Chi: I enjoyed playing rounder’s in P.E.

Kalin: I liked our double period of science in which we were identifying unknown food groups.

Chloe: I liked when your grace came to our school. He talked to us about how he met the Pope.

P5D Weekly Update

This week in P5D we took part in an Ash Wednesday service to mark the beginning of Lent. We have spoken about our Lenten promises and what we are going to give up.

We have also celebrated World Book Day and enjoyed taking part in a ‘Drop Everything and Read’ session.

In maths, we have started a new topic and have been learning about decimal fractions and how they appear on a number line. We have also being consolidation our knowledge of time, making games to share with our class. We have a mixture of board games, snakes and ladders, kahoot quizzes online and snap. “I had fun making my game about 12 and 24 hour time!” – Maliha. “Making our game was really fun because we got to use our knowledge of time to help us!” – Emily.

We have been continuing with Number Talks and sharing strategies with one another.

We have been learning all about how to structure sentences properly and have learned that there is different sentence patterns. Why not ask us about what we have learned.

We have continued using PM writing this week and have been applying our knowledge of recount texts in a recount about our school show. We have enjoyed learning about past tense verbs, irregular verbs, sequential language, nouns and the important features of a recount. “I enjoyed PM writing because it was fun and I learned more about verbs.” – Sophie R. “In PM writing, I really enjoyed it because I learned about regular and irregular past tense verbs.” – Michelle.

In PE, we have enjoyed developing our tennis skills and look forward to applying these in games of tennis. We have also been building up our stamina with Mr McCurdy by doing cross country running and ab exercises. “I really enjoyed playing Russian long ball!” – Morgan.

We have also been supporting the nursery and helping them develop their throwing, catching and bouncing ball skills.

Congratulations to Huda for being awarded our praise postcard this week for always having a good attitude towards tasks, even when they are challengingJ!

Have a great weekend, P5D and Miss D!

P6/7 weekly news

Pupil Voice:

This week in primary 6/7 we had a very exciting week:

Pizza Express Visit

Everyone: We went to pizza express and made pizzas it was great fun . Check out Twitter @mrsroy16 for photographs!

Visit from Archbishop Cushley

Ambra: Archbishop Leo Cushley came into our class He told us stories about himself.

World Book Day

Harley: We done drop everything and read for world book day. Check out Twitter @mrsroy16 for a video link.

Daniel: Ryan and Beth went to Waterstones to buy new books and a game for our class.

Abi: In PE we did heady handball. This was a new game and we all enjoyed playing it.

Ash Wednesday

Brooke: We had our Ash Wednesday mass I enjoyed it because I was part of choir.

Written by Abi and assisted by Mirren

NURSERY NEWS

A fun packed week this week in the nursery. Children were busy busy all week. We have new dishes in the snack area, the children now have china cups and plates to have their food on each day. Any donations of small side plates and little cups would be great receives as we move away from plastic to a more Froebelian approach to nursery.

Transition started this week, all of the children moving on to P1 this August had the chance to visit the P1 classrooms and see where they hang their coats etc. Everyone was so excited and happy to have a look around. For world book day the children from each session visited for a story.

We celebrated pancake day on Tuesday, children had pancakes for snack and had the opportunity to toss the pancake at the end of the sessions.

On Wednesday the weather was vert wet and the children remembered the word boost word soggy as we splashed through the puddles and played Pooh Sticks at the Lanthorn bridge. Primary 3 visited us on Wednesday to share their fabulous bedtime stories with us and Thursday and Friday was World Book Day for our children we were all in our pyjamas and went to visit primary one to share a story they had bought from Waterstones the book shop.

fantastic learning experiences!!

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY – MEET THE BUDDIES

TUESDAY- LIBRARY VISIT, DRESS APPROPRIATELY FOR THE WEATHER

WEDNESDAY- WELLY WEDNESDAY, WATERPROOF CLOTHING PLEASE

THURSDAY –

FRIDAY- PEEP SESSION 4

Have a wonderful weekend !! from the nursery team xx

Nursery News

What a busy week for St Ninian’s nursery!

Our boys and girls are really embracing our new word boost words and trying hard to understand them. There have been lots of lovely thoughts and ideas of what words mean and how they sound, this is growing week by week! The word boost words for this week were;

CREAK

DISCOVER

GIGGLE

SHIVER

Please support your child’s learning at home by using these words regularly and encouraging them to be adventurous with their vocabulary 🙂

Moving on from the word boost work this week – the children showed interest in making words and letters out of wool. Some children even moved on to using the sounds they know to spell out the word ‘LUV’ – fantastic ways to experience and experiment with early phonics!

Our welly wednesday was a focus on finding signs of spring on the back of the very UN-Scottish weather we have experienced this week (which has been a welcomed delight!). We found lots of green shoots and some pockets of colour that made us very happy! We also had a chat about picking flowers after seeing some had been picked and left lying.. we decided to rescue them and bring them back to nursery to put them in water! We seen a duck wandering through the trees which sparked lots of questions; what is it doing? Where is it going? More than all of this – we continue to learn to be responsible in our local environment on Welly Wednesday – taking opportunities to keep ourselves and others safe.

On Thursday we had a great time working with P5 in gym where we were learning to make baskets with our hands to catch a various assortment of items. We love working with P5 and learned a new term ‘underarm throw’, when we threw things back to our friends in P5.

Friday always comes around too quickly – but we went to the hall and had fun being dingle dangle scarecrows, using our bodies in different ways to flip, flop and wobble.

PEEP class this involved meeting our new puppet – an old lady (not Mrs Beattie…) who was telling us all about her eating habits! Swallowing spiders, flies… sounds yummy, no? We learned a Spring song and banged a big drum in time to share with everyone how special we are and our own name. We love PEEP – Bang, Bang, Bang!

Have a lovely weekend!

CAMERA, LIGHTS, P6/7

Pupil Voice:

This week in P6/7 we started to rehearse The Gospel Show! We are all excited and can’t wait to show it to our parents. Costume letters have been given out to everyone and ticket letters will follow soon!

Toni: This week P7, P6/7 and P6 started our show rehearsals.

Lauren: We started to do The Gospel Show!

Neve: We did our first rehearsal for the Gospel Show.

Bea: This week we started to rehearse the Gospel Show! I can’t wait to see the finished product.

Ethan: Today we practised the Gospel Show!

Jay and Daniel: We were doing show rehearsal today.

Ivana: We did our first show rehearsal this week.

Thomas: We started for the Gospel Show.

Brooke: We have been practising for our Gospel Show!

Ailie: We started practising for the Gospel Show.

P.E

Mr. McCurdy was such a nice teacher this week he let us go to the park and play football! We all had a great time and it really worthwhile being there.

Joshua: In P.E we done football outside.

Mirren: We did football outside with Mr McCurdy!

Lorena: For P.E we got to go to the park for football- Which I really enjoyed.

Matt: We went to an assembly on Friday with Mrs Purdie.

A HUGE THANKS TO BEA FOR TYPING THIS IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES FOR US AT THE END OF THE DAY AFTER ASSEMBLY!!!

Teacher voice:

PM Writing

We started to use a new literacy resource this week which will help us with our reading, grammar and writing. We learned all about nouns and verbs using a Recount genre. We discussed the important features of a recount in preparation for writing a recount next week with Mrs Roy and Mrs Scott.

At one point all the upper area classes and teachers were having a debate about nouns – it was hilarious!!!

Health and Wellbeing

Sleep has been the topic of the week and we have had 2 lessons and an assembly now about this. We did a questionnaire about our own sleep patterns and then looked at some of the science connected to sleep. We made notes using sub-headings and then turned our notes into a report as a piece of extended writing. Mrs Roy is going to try and follow some of the advice, ie. No screen time for the hour leading up to bedtime!!!!

Sorry I forgot to give out the praise postcard it was a bit manic!! Remind me on Monday!!!!

THANKS FOR TUNING IN WITH P6/7, HAVE A NICE FRIDAY EVENING!!

P2 Update

This week P2 have been amazing scientists. They have been learning about GERMS. They completed an investigation in how germs can be spread. Christopher was our willing volunteer to be infected (hand gel and glitter mixture) on his hand and then he had to shake hands with someone in class. We observed how the germs spread from one person to another. We discussed how to sneeze hygienically, into a tissue or into the inside of our elbow. We also talked about good hand washing. We then became GERM BUSTERS and wrote some rules on how to reduce the spread of germs. Super learning!

In numeracy we continued to look at fractions and we worked on finding half of a given amount. We used our division (sharing) skills the we learned recently to help us do this.

In literacy we have been using ‘peer assessment’ in our reading, we have been listening to each other and giving positive feedback. The children have also been using the traffic light system to self-assess their own performance in reading, they have been using the traffic light stamper in their green diary.

For Number Talks we have been using Maths Splats to discuss and share our strategies. This involves counting a number of dots in a random pattern (when counting we look for dice patterns and we use a variety of strategies such as counting in 2s) and then a number of the dots get covered by a splat. We have to work out how many are under the splat and explain how we worked it out. Have a go at this one.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie