Some pieces of Literacy work were submitted by P4S in the recent Portadown Rotary Club competition. The theme was ‘Environment’ and we entered poems based on the weather and some stories based on a water droplet’s trip through the water cycle. We were delighted to learn that Rosie’s story was awarded first place and Tyler’s poem came second. Rosie’s story now goes forward to the next stage of the competition.
P4S enjoyed a visit fromJack this morning. He came into our classroom to deliver the PIPS Home Support Gimmee5 program to the children. This is a very child friendly wellbeing program based on 5 elements: connect with others, be active, take notice of your surroundings, keep learning and give.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their morning.
lots of the children dressed up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day. We had everyone from Harry Potter casting spells, Mary Poppins singing, George and his Marvellous Medicine to The Queen ofHearts treating to chop off our Heads! We had a fun day.
We made pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. The children had great fun measuring out and mixing the ingredients, including free range eggs from Lenny’s girls at Lisnabunny. They then enjoyed eating their delicious pancakes.
On Tuesday P4S pupils took part in the Portadown Speech Festival. The girls performed their poem, Blame, and we’re delighted to be awarded first prize, two second prizes and two fourths. The boys’ poem was The Witches and they came first and second. In addition Sophie was awarded most promising girl of 2022. The whole class performed their choral piece, Pirate Pete, for the adjudicator. They excelled themselves and were awarded a cup for their efforts.
Today our Literacy lesson involved heading outdoors on an alphabetical noun hunt. Some teams even spotted lions, giraffes, zebras, caterpillars and worms. We headed back into the classroom to add adjectives to our nouns. We had a fun morning.
Today our Literacy/Art lesson took place in the ICT suite. The children drew monsters and then described them and their homes using lots of interesting adjectives. This was a fun learning experience for all.
Today James from Sentinus visited our classroom to help us make Anderson Shelters. The children had to roll sheets of paper into tight tubes to make the main structure. They then added a cardboard cover which they decorated to resemble the grass and food which would have covered real thing. James dropped weights on his shelter to show us how strong it was. The children were amazed at its sturdiness considering it was made from just paper and cardboard. Today's lesson was a fun and interesting way to increase our knowledge of our WAU topic, WW2.
