Monthly Archives: December 2022

WB Monday 5th December 2022

Our big adventure to Bathgate Early Years Centre.

First of all, we would like to thank all the children and families for making our relocation to BEYC as smooth as possible. We appreciate the extra effort to get children to nursery this last week and we have been delighted to see so many of our children make the move. They have been absolute superstars and taken the big change in their stride, we couldn’t be more proud of them.

We have had a lovely week at our ‘Holiday nursery’ the children have particularly enjoyed playing out in the garden and watching the world go by from “the big hill” – we are going to have to find a way to bring this home to Windknowe with us!!

We are also enjoying the beginning of all our festive celebrations, we put up our Nursery Christmas tree and practicing our writing skills by writing Christmas cards and letters to Santa.

We continue to make the most of our ‘holiday’ and share this magical time of year with our new friends at BEYC.

The Nursery Team

P5mw Learn it! Log it! Blog it!

Hello everyone.

We have had a busy past few weeks.

We have been working on our enterprise which is felt Christmas Trees. We stitched them, glued them and placed them into a wooden log base. We hope to see you at the fayre later this afternoon.

We have been creating shelves for the elves. We worked in small groups of 3 or 4s to create a bridge or shelf made from lollipop stick, tubes, string, tape and elastic bands. We enjoyed this as part of our STEAM focus.

P6W Blog Update 2nd December 2022

It has been a very busy 2 weeks in the P6W classroom.

Literacy

In writing, we have been creating poetry that links to our World War 2 topic.  We have been focusing on creating a repeating pattern and using figurative language to engage the reader.

Here is one of the poems created by MW:

Fear looks like a soldier,

Cowering the corner,

Like a terrified rabbit.

 

Fear sounds like a soldier,

Screaming so loud,

Like a new born baby.

 

Fear smells like a soldier,

Covering his face with an elbow,

To stop inhaling the smoke.

 

Fear feels like a soldier,

Saying goodbye to his wife,

Heading off to war.

 

Fear tastes like a soldier,

Bleeding from his head,

Hiding for his life.

 

Fear is hiding in your hands,

So heavy you can barely move it,

So you need to hide.

We have also been learning how to write diary entries.  We looked at examples of diaries, including the diary of Anne Frank and then created our own fictional diary of a child during the Blitz.

Numeracy

In numeracy we have continued our work on Decimals, Fractions and Percentages.  We have been learning how to find fractions of amounts and how to convert mixed numbers to improper fractions (and back again).  In Maths, we have been developing our measuring skills by learning how to measure and compare capacity.

Health

In PE, we have been learning some new dances for our Christmas party.  We have been practising the moves, improving coordination and balance as well as our listening and following skills.  So far we have practised The Slosh, The Macarena, The Cha Cha Slide and 5, 6, 7, 8.

Other

We have been working very hard on our Christmas Enterprise project which was to design and make a Christmas Tealight Holder.  First we had to do research and then we had to present our idea to Mrs Angus.  Then we designed our pots on paper before making them out of air drying clay.

We also created some wooden gift tags to sell at the fayre too.  Mrs Welsh let us try her Pyrography tool to create burned designs in the wood.  We had to be very careful as the tool gets VERY hot.