NYCOS
Category: Whole School
Describing characters
Today we started our writing lesson having a blether about a few unique characters! We were practising using adjectives, similes, metaphors and alliteration to describe appearance and personality traits.
Outdoor play
Beach Collage
On Friday we all started to create a beach collage inspired from Silver Sand beach in Aberdour. We started by painting the sea using paint, then positioned little scraps of paper carefully on to our paper to look like sand. Next week we will add our own flip flop design and starfish. Everyone worked well together and used creativity and super collaboration.
Life’s a beach
Today we enjoyed a fabulous day outdoor learning at Aberdour beach, exploring the landscape safely and having fun in the sand. We had plenty of exercise, made sandcastles in the sand, collected shells, pebbles and paddled in the sea. Tomorrow we will use this experience in our writing lesson to describe the beach.
Sky Scraper Sundae
A busy morning in Woodmuir completing our Sky scraper sundae art work. The children first of all had to draw their tall outline and design each of their sections with a pattern and colour of their choice. At the end they had to outline their drawing in black pen and cut around the drawing carefully. A super start to our art project this term involving drawing skills such as understanding shapes, lines and proportions.
Literacy vertical groups
This week in Woodmuir literacy hour we have been very busy working together on our new class novel Turtle Moon. Children were predicting what the book is about, reading character descriptions and designing their own book cover!
Pupil voice
The children had the opportunity to express their views and voice their opinions on our middle area hub. Working with their peers, communicating and collaborating, they came up with super suggestions of what they would like their hub area to look like and sound like. This is linked to our Rights Respecting article of the week, Article 12, which grants every child the right to express their views, feelings, and wishes in all matters affecting them.
The Edinburgh Children’s Book Festival
This week we were very lucky to have the chance to go to the book festival with our all of our friends in school. We started the day off attending the Eco – adventurer workshop with Hannah Gold! Hannah Gold is the best selling author of the last bear. Hannah told us all about her life as an author and how she gets inspiration for her stories! We all received a free book, Turtle Moon, from Hannah and even had the chance to meet her and have our books all signed. We had a fabulous day.
Goodbye to our Primary 7 pupils.
A fantastic morning of laughter with lots of water fun and a movie. A lovely way to end our year and wish the p7’s all the very best for high school in August.
We will miss you all in Woodmuir primary and wish you all the best in your next adventure.
Thank you to Lachlan for superb tunes and piping out the children.
