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.
Today was NSPCC Number Day and P4S had fun measuring themselves with rulers, metre sticks and measuring tapes. They collected the data into a table and then investigated to see if the tallest child had the biggest hands and feet. The children also dressed up in Number themed clothes which ranged from sports tops and self-decorated t-shirts to an evacuee costume complete with evacuee label which had lots of numbers on it. We had a great day.
P4S recently travelled to the Palace Stables in Armagh for an educational trip to extend their knowledge of WW2, our present World Around Us topic. Some of the boys and girls dressed up as evacuees and they really did look like children from the 1940s. Firstly we made identity cards (to ensure there were no spies in our party 😉)and evacuee labels. Then we learnt more about food rationing. After that, we visited Mr Heaney in his war time kitchen. When the siren went off, he and Air Raid Warden, Cole, led us to the Anderson shelter. Finally we met Sergeant Willis, an American GI, who taught us how to drill and send coded messages. The children thoroughly enjoyed this experience of war time life.
Thanks to all of you who donated to this charity before Christmas. On Friday 17th December we all wore our Christmas jumpers or festive outfits.
We raised a phenomenal £735.40 so many thanks. The cheque was handed over this morning to Rebecca who came into school to represent this very worthy charity.
We recently travelled to the museum in Armagh to take part in an art workshop led by Orla, a local artist, who taught us a simple way to draw animals. The children thoroughly enjoyed this and their work was amazing!
During the first week of term, P4S enjoyed a visit from Young Enterprise’s representative Nicola. The theme of the session was Our Community and the children really enjoyed learning about what constitutes a community and how communities are funded. They were most surprised when they discovered that they had to give lots of their hard earned wages to the government to pay for certain services such as health, education and policing. They decided what they’d like in an ideal community and designed these. This was a very interesting and educational session for all.
We’ve had great fun this week making a hand tree, dancing Santas, elves and reindeer. The children love our Christmassy display. Lucas suggested a collective noun ........ a sleigh of Santa’s 😀.
Congratulations to all our winners, including Lukas whose Mathletics points won him a special award for the term.
