It’s behind you! Oh no it’s not, oh yes it is!  We all thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the pantomime on Thursday morning, such good fun and exhausting!

Christmas dinner was also such a special treat on Wednesday, the tables were decorated and we all enjoyed listening to the Festive tunes as we ate.

However the highlight of the week has got to be our Nativity Shows, all the children were brilliant.  The hard work and rehearsals were all worth it as the children all shone like stars on the stage.  They navigated using a microphone, spoke clearly and remembered all the words and actions to the songs.  What a great job everyone.  I have put a Nativity Memory on each of your One Note profiles, log in to see it.

In class this week we have been revising our learning in Numeracy this week.  We helped Teddy get ready for Christmas by counting the candy canes he put on the tree, working out how many presents he opened and making sure he got the correct change from the Christmas Market.  Super work.  Here is one extra challenge for you to try at home, remember to read the question carefully to work out what Number Process you need to use;

Teddy had put 20 Christmas decorations on his tree but 6 fell off how many did he have left on the tree?

We also revised our formation of letters, this is in preparation for after the holiday when we will start to learn how letters join together when writing words.

Get your party clothes ready for next week!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

This week we have been doing Christmas dancing with primary 6/7. On Wednesday we did something different for writing we used the new John Lewis advert to inspire us. We made a story board of pictures of a celebrity who got a present that would end up being their career/passion. On Monday we went to go see the panto it was about Jack and the Bean Stock it was about jack’s son and  daughter taking the golden gees back to the giant. On Tuesday we done printing with ink we got a paper plate and had to draw a Christmas theme picture with a purple pen and whatever we coloured in purple it would come out white   we would pick a colour and role it in to the paper plate and push it on to paper

Maxx- Today is Christmas jumper day so we can come to school in a Christmas jumper.

Rachel W-we did a  solo presentation of who is inspirational  scot I done Gordon Ramsay. I also enjoyed playing countdown.

Charlie – I enjoyed the pantomime – it was really funny.

Joseph – I enjoyed number talks this week.

Lewis – I enjoyed working with Mrs Heather’s group for number talks.

Chloe – We had our Christmas dinner on Wednesday – we had a massive chocolate reindeer.

Viet – I enjoyed creating the story board.

Lukasz – For Christmas lunch I had macaroni cheese.

We have been so busy this week! Between pantos and Christmas lunches we have even managed to squeeze in creating our own books, like the fantastic authors we are!

Our photos this week were taken on Friday morning as we worked as a class team to make up our Mighty Writer mat! We can’t wait to start building Mighty Writer sentences next week, this will be the primary resource we will use in our story writing sessions next term 🙂 the boys and girls were a fantastic help – great job team!

Next week we will enjoy our Christmas singalong with the rest of the school – here is a link to our song, please practice at home as a family so we are sounding like a choir of angels by next week :D:D

Have a fantastic weekend -we hope to see you all on MONDAY at our book launch 🙂

 

We have learned the ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ sound this week. When we have been writing these sounds we have trying joined up writing to join these sounds together. This was quite tricky for the ‘ee’ sound but a bit easier for the ‘oo’ sound. Here are the songs we have used this week:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jj1WAkE6mQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxiRp9Vxz98

Here is a link for a game we have been playing to help us develop our spelling skills:

http://www.galacticphonics.com/cvc/interactive/cvcspell/cvcspell.htm

In maths we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes as well as patterns. We played this game to develop our learning this week. We have been using level 2.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

In Spanish we were learning about Spanish Christmas traditions and we have been learning to say Merry Christmas – Feliz Navidad. We enjoyed playing a game whilst listening to this song:

Next week, at the Christmas sing-a-long, we are going to be singing the ‘Little Snowflake’ song. It would be great if you could practise singing at home too. Here is the song:

Here are our highlights of the week:

Luke: I liked playing in the football pitch at lunch time and playing tig and hide and seek.

Lucas: I liked dancing for PE this week and we did Scotland dancing.

Igor: I liked playing with the dressing up. I dressed up as a police car.

Mara: I like counting numbers. I can count to 100.

Roma: I liked playing with my friends outside. We were playing reindeers.

Pati: I liked learning about shapes. I built an elf with shapes.

Paul: I liked playing with the costumes.

Shea: I liked doing play time because I like playing outside.

Olivier: I liked playing football on the football pitch.

Scott: I liked learning about shapes. I liked building things with 3D shapes.

Celine: I liked playing in the office. I was writing.

Jane: I liked making an elf with the shapes.

Michelle: I liked learning about joining the sounds ee and oo together.

Logan: I liked the nativity and being the donkey.

Layla: I liked going to cake and carols.

Carter: I liked the nativity and I liked my lines being King Herod.

Rojin: I liked learning new sounds.

Amelia: I liked the nativity and I like singing.

Freya: I loved nativity because I liked being Mary.

Anna: I liked learning about shapes and I liked picking the shapes out the bag.

Mrs Davenport: My highlight of the week has to be the Nativity. The children performed 3 wonderful Nativity plays and I am so proud of them all. Well done! I would love to go to King Herod’s party!

Pupil Voice collected by Harley and Matt.

This week in P6/7 we have being doing all sorts of fun things.

Ambra: we went to the watch Jack and the Beanstalk at Howden park centre.

Jay: I enjoyed making the Christmas tree decoration

Haseeb: I enjoyed learning about Democracy in my local area

Bea: This week we made Christmas art, and hung them up on our classroom doors, we made a Christmas tree with a lot of snow around it.

Abi:This week I went to the panto with p4/5 because I was off.

Ethan: we went to jack and the beanstalk panto on Monday at howden park centre.

 

Teacher voice:

Another busy week which started with a visit to the Pantomine, all had a great time including the staff. We used this visit as a stimulus for our writing and we all wrote recounts of our visit.

In Art we created a step by step chalk picture entitled, Snowstorm, these are now hanging outside our classroom entrance and look very festive!!

Fractions has been the focus in numeracy and we have been looking for examples of these in real life for homework. we are all more confident in finding fractions of amounts, simplifying fractions and working with equivalent fractions.

In RE we have been discussing HOPE and PEACE, as this is significant during the period of Advent. We also used some reflection points from Fr Kenneth to help us think of how we could make time for ourselves during Advent.

Our brass and choir were asked to perform at Friday’s Cake and Carols Service – a proud moment for them all!!

 

 

This week we have been working hard in P5D!

In maths, we have been trying to solve ‘Murder Mysteries’ using all of our knowledge about different concepts including, shape, angles, compass points and co-ordinates. We have also been learning about decimal numbers and learning how to multiply and divide decimals.

In writing, we have been learning about the important features required to create a successful set of instructions. This week we had to write instructions on how to access our Glow profile on one note.

In art, we have been looking at the one point perspective again this week but from a different angle. We created pictures that looked like we were surrounded by sky scraper buildings.

We have been getting into the Christmas Spirit this week. First of all we got to watch the P1 and P2 Nativity dress rehearsal and the AM nursery nativity.

‘The nursery nativity was AMAZING.’ – Ola

‘It was really funny and cute!’ – Kasia

‘The Donkey (Kevin) was the cutest of them all when he used the microphone!’ – Zuzanna

‘The P1 and P2 Nativity was really good and I enjoyed helping the sing.’ – Michelle

‘It was really good and they all done well.’ – Sophie R

‘They were all very cute and I liked their performance!’ – Morgan

Yesterday afternoon, we had the pleasure of attending Howden Park Centre Panto, Jack and the Beanstalk 2.0. We all thoroughly enjoyed the show. It was so funny. The giant was our favourite! The experience was made even better when we got some ice-cream!

 

Have a great weekend,

Miss Diamond and P5D!