Have a look at some of the fun play-based learning activities we have been enjoying in Primary 1!
We have grown in our confidence and independance both inside and outside. We are also doing a great job of independantly accessing resources and putting them away when we are finished.
P3W excited to be able to reach high and brave the apparatus in gymnastics lessons. The children have been using ropes to climb, bars and benches to balance and body parts to work together with a partner.
Take a look at all of the amazing fun activities we have been involved in this month.......
Our Healthy Kidz Star is Charlie🏃♂️🏃♂️
This week we have been working very hard on our Digital Art. Here are some examples of our work.
Today we took our numeracy lesson outdoors for a carousel of number activities. We used natural materials to make our numbers, practised our number formation on chalk boards, made sets for numbers 1-6, played number ladders and beanbag toss.
The children had lots of fun writing Viking Sagas in small groups today. They then read them aloud to their peers.
This half term the WAU topic in P5 in Space. The boys and girls discussed the need for pressure in order to launch a rocket. They looked at how to make sure the experiment was a fair test by only making one change and keeping everything else the same. Here are a few photos and videos to show them launching the rockets.
All of the children enjoyed PE this week with Coach Steve. We climbed up the rope, balanced on the benches and learned how to roll.
This week P5D have had great fun planning and carrying out a technology investigation. They had to cut wood using a saw, stick it together using a hot glue gun, use polystyrene spheres to make planets using a variety of colours and pipe cleaners. The boys and girls also had to work together in groups to create the space mobiles they had planned.
We have been doing lots of activities and learning important messages as part of Road Safety Week this week.
Today we talked about the importance of being seen by motorists especially in the darker evenings. We learned it is good to wear bright clothing, especially with reflector strips or sections as this will help us be seen and keep us safe. We were amazed that our book bags have reflective strips on them!
This week we have been reading the story ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell in Primary 1 as part of our topic on ‘Light/dark’. Today we enjoyed making an owl picture using a variety of materials. The first step was colouring a branch using paint sticks. Then we painted our white owl body using pegs and pom-poms dipped in white paint to give a fluffy texture. We stamped on a peach circle for the eyes and printed orange feet using the edge of our pegs. Lastly, we stuck on eyes, a beak and stars in the night sky.
Well done to Madison for reaching her Accelerated Reading target. 📖
More excellent work on Mathletics this week ✖️➕➗➖
The Key Stage 2 pupils were treated a visit from the Reverend William Orr, who led the assembly. He told us the story of Moses from the Bible and encouraged us to show love and kindness to others. We always enjoy a visit from Reverend Orr!
Drama, Art, PE & Numeracy.
Thank you for all the donations to the Samartian's Purse shoebox appeal.
The WAU topic for this half term in P5D is Space. The boys and girls have been busy learning the names and order of all the planets. This week they used chalk pastels to create pictures on black paper of all the planets. Here are a few photographs to show them at work.
The boys and girls used Adobe Express to create their own ‘Wanted Viking Poster.’ They worked extremely hard on this ICT task, and all did a fantastic job. Well done P6M, you are a very talented class!
P3 loved all the exciting activities Coach Steve had planned-balancing, jumping and landing accurately, rolling in the correct pencil shapes.
New skills are hard work, but VERY FUN 🤩
Also this week we had REIM team teaching us how to STAY SAFE online. They were teaching us safe games and safe APPS and what to do if we are feeling funny about something that happens when on the internet. We had great fun with the RED FLAG activity and learning about personal information.
We also had more learning fun with Izak9 cubes and learning how to work in a team, listening and understanding each other is important!!!
Poppy and Hollie have achieved their first silver certificates in Mathletics. 🤗
Some of the children also made parcels out of junk materials.
We had our second session of gymnastics today with coach, Steve.
We worked on finding different ways to travel and on our balancing.
Weloved it!
The boys and girls really enjoyed a morning with Mrs Cartmill and Walt learning about the Life Cycle of an Apple.
P5D had a great week learning about play scripts. They enjoyed reading a variety of different plays, acting out the plays and also writing a play script in groups.
This week, in the spirit of Halloween, P7L got to design their own Haunted House. This was done using card, paper straws, paint and hot glue guns. This really helped solidifying their skill with arts and crafts, safety with hot glue guns etc.
P7 also got to dress up for Halloween, see if you can spot an alien or minion in there 😉.
Primary 3 loved dressing in costume for our last day of term, some scary, some cute and most of all great fun to see everyone join in with fancy dress!
Also, the children took part in Halloween singing and getting crafty!
Please take a look........
This week we had our monthly GTBG WINNER 👏👏👏🌟🌟🌟 as well as several Healthy Kidz winners, Mathletics certificates and our class target winners to award!
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Well done to all in in P5-7.
Class Attendance award-P7MM
Mathletes of the month- P6McL
Most improved attendance- P7L
