Category: Buckstone Primary School

Happy Friday P1L!

I hope you have enjoyed this week of learning in school. We have had a very busy first week back together – you have all worked really hard! Well done!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Literacy

In literacy this week we have learned four new sounds – ‘sm” ‘sn’ ‘sc’ and ‘sk’. We enjoyed thinking of words which have the sounds in them, looking for words in our reading books and drawing pictures of words which have the sounds in them. We also learned began to look at the Block 3 tricky words. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. Here are some videos we use in school which you could watch again at home.

For reading, we each got a new ORT book and we predicted what we thought was going to happen in the story before reading, we had word hunts and we read both individually and with a partner. We also practised our comprehension skills by completing a fill in the missing word activity sheet. We enjoyed the extra challenge of reading our book backwards this week!

In writing, we wrote about our Easter holidays. We thought about something we had enjoyed doing in the holidays and wrote a story about it. We practised adding more detail into our sentences by added interesting words to help our writing be more descriptive. We are still working on this!

Things to try at home;

• Practice reading your reading book which is sent home! Read the book forwards and backwards, ask your child questions about the story, the characters etc. You could extend the learning of the book and ask your child to write the next part of the story.
• Revise our new sounds and tricky words! Can you read them and write them?
• Write a story about your weekend! Can you add lots of detailed language?

Numeracy

In numeracy this week we practised our counting skills and recognising numbers up to 100. We also started our maths topic of time.

We revised days of the week, months in the year and the order they come in/what season each month is in. We thought about something which happens in each month – such as our birthdays or a holiday and drew beautiful pictures to help us remember each month. We also learned how to tell the time. We looked and played with clocks and learned how to read o’clock times on a clock. We had lots of fun learning this! As an extra challenge we learned how to read half past times as well!

Things to try at home:

• Practice counting to 100.
• Can you notice numbers in your local environment? On buses, houses or outdoors? What number comes before or after the one you see? What is 10 more than that number?
• Practice telling the time and looking at clocks. What hour comes next?
• Revise the days of the week and months of the year. Ask a family member if there is any special months to your family? Family birthdays etc!

Other Curricular Areas

P.E: We played some fun fitness games and practised our balancing skills.

Drama: We learned how to show and express our emotions through our faces and our body language.’

French: We have been learning how to count to 10 in french and basic greetings. We also have been learning the days of the week and how to say ‘Today it is..’ We also learned how to say my name is and practised introducing ourselves to a partner. We are really enjoying learning French with Ms Leach!

Next Week:

• P.E will be on Monday and Thursday.
• Next week we will be doing the SNSA assessments which we have gone over together as a class and supported the children in making them seem like a fun game they will be playing with our PSAs.
• Please bring appropriate outdoor clothing as we will have one outdoor lesson per day.
• Ms Leach will be teaching the class on Monday next week.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss McGillivray

Welcome back P2/3 Golden Treasures, we hope you had a great Easter holiday! This is what we have been learning this week

• Literacy:
• Writing about a magic egg: whatever you wished for could come true. Using at least three connectives (for example, because, but, and, then)
• Dictation: mild, spicy or hot choice using our tricky words
• Reading: making predictions about what would happen in our group reading books.

Numeracy/Maths:

Timed times tables sheets

Working on symmetry

Working on our number skills- ordering, smallest and biggest number, number of the day- number before and after, adding and subtracting 10.

Other Areas

Learning about magnetism- making instructions for a game involving magnets

In PE we played games in teams as if it was sports day.

French- learning about the colours

Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine!

MrsTweedie and Mrs Graham

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It has been lovely to see the children back after the Easter break. We have had a busy week.

Literacy

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Spelling

Our new sounds this week have been the blends sk, sc, sm and sn, and our new tricky words so and very. You can find the home learning sheet below. Please continue to work at home to consolidate the learning of the new sounds and using them to build and write words.

Writing

In writing this week we wrote about our Easter break. It sounds like everyone had a great time.

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Reading

We continue to work in school on developing our reading skills. As well as reading the words and learning new vocabulary we predict, discuss and comprehend. We hope you enjoy sharing the books with your children at the weekend. If you feel perhaps that they have memorised the book ( which is part of the learning process) then you could ask them to read the book backwards, starting with the last word. Of course this makes no sense , but the children do find it funny and it helps the adults to see if the child can read the words with little context. We use this technique in class so the children are familiar with the idea.

Reading books will be coming home today instead of Thursday this week only.

Please note that we cannot send reading books home on Thursday unless your child has their purple folder with them, and we would respectfully request that the children do not carry their water bottles in the purple bags – we have already had one soggy reading book!

Numeracy/Maths

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This week we have started to learn about time, revising the order of the days of the week. Most of us are confident naming the day after, but identifying the day before is a bit more tricky. We have learned how to read o’clock times on both analogue and digital clocks.

We continue to work on our numeracy skills, consolidating counting forwards and back, numeral recognition and addition strategies.

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we were exploring balancing on one leg, two legs, two legs and one hand etc.

We also explored dance and movement activities on the theme of time.

We saw a tiny budgie egg and then explored which other animals hatch from eggs.

We used our sense of smell to sniff some things in pots. Some smells we recognised, some we didn’t. Some we liked, some we didn’t!

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Here are some photographs of us enjoying our independent learning opportunities this week. Please ask us what we were doing.

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Things to try at home

Practise knowing the order of the days of the week – focusing on the day BEFORE

Play this telling the time game.

Look around the house for all the clocks you can find. How many are digital clocks? How many are analogue ( with hands) ?

Count backwards from 30 to 10 ( or 100 – 30)

Write all your numbers from 1-9. Are they all the right way round? If not, can you practise them.

Practise spelling all the tricky words so far – how many can you write from memory ?

Be Geraldine……. ” Off she went around the house to find something beginning with….. sm/sn etc l” How many things can you find? You could make a list of all the things you find.

Practise your letter formation – are there any letters you find tricky to write ?

Learn to spell and write your surname.

We have been revisiting our tricky words this week from our learning in P4. We will work on our dictation challenge at the end of the week so the words are below if you wish to practise them:

L.I. to revise ‘tricky words’.

       To spell these words correctly in our own writing.

Word List: 

                work   know

                great   small

                before   four

                here    hear

                to   two   too

Go to the link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjpytrd/articles/zmjrrj6

Word List:  other   another

                would   should   could

                people   water

                there   their   they’re

Go to the link-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zmrt2v4/articles/zfhxxyc

                 where   were

                what    which

very       every

before    four

              only     little

             any       many    

Thank you! 🙂

This week in P2W…

Literacy: This week we were learning about magic e’s superpowers on the letter ‘u’. This week we also practiced writing our tricky words.

Numeracy and Maths: This week we were learning about position and movement. We explored direction and discussed words that help us give directions. We became pirates and had to guide our ship North, South, East and West.

Health and Wellbeing: We continued our focus on kindness and discussed kind acts we had seen or shown that week.

Other learning: This week we have been learning about Easter and the religious storyline Easter. We have also been developing lots of skills through our learning through play. Have a look at our gallery below!

Have a lovely Easter holiday!

Ms Russell

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Happy Easter P1L!

Well done everyone with another term of Primary 1! You are growing and becoming such wonderful learners and I am so proud of you! This term has been usual but we have had lots of fun together both in the classroom and online!

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Literacy

In literacy this week we learned two new sounds – ‘fl’ ‘gl’ and ‘pl’. We enjoyed thinking of words which have the sounds in them, looking for words in our reading books and drawing pictures of words which have the sounds in them. We also have been practicing to read and write our Block 2 tricky words. Please continue to practice your tricky words at home and our new sounds each week. I have sent home a sheet with words which your child needs to practice writing by memory – any practice of these would be beneficial. Here are some videos we use in school which you could watch again at home.

Things to try at home:

• Practice reading and writing both Block 1 and Block 2 tricky words to memory. You could make flash cards, write them using chalk, make them out of pasta, draw them in sand, flour, paint etc..
• Read for fun! Read anything – books, magazines, newspapers. Sound out words you don’t know and have a guess using your knowledge of sounds before asking for help.
• Write a diary of your Easter holidays. Draw a picture of something fun you do each day and write a sentence describing what you did. Can you use any descriptive language? Can you join two short sentences together with ‘and’ or give more detail with ‘because’.

Numeracy

In Numeracy we had a revision week of areas in SEAL we need more practice on. These included writing arrays, counting jumps between numbers, number bonds to 10 and 20, addition and describing and making equal groups.

We continued our maths topic of Positional Language and Movement. We continued to practice giving other people directions and playing games in P.E.

We also enjoyed doing Easter themed maths activities.

Things to try at home:

• Practice counting forwards and backwards to 30. (Up to 100 for an extra challenge.)
• Saying numbers before and after in the range to 30. (Up to 100 for an extra challenge.) Try saying the next two or three numbers forwards and backwards!
• Making and diving items into equal groups. You could use pens, sticks, stones, toys. Whatever you can find!
• Look for numbers in your local community when you are outside! What is 2 more, 5 more or even 10 more!

Other Curricular Areas

P.E: We used our maths focus of positional language to help us in P.E this week.

Art: We talked about spring and made spring pictures of trees with blossom on them!

Music: We enjoyed having our online music lessons where we talked about different musical instruments we could play, clapping along to the beat of songs and listening to the music as it got louder and quieter, faster and slower. Thank you to the music specialist for the wonderful online opportunity!

Handwriting: We took handwriting outside this week and used chalks to practice our cursive letter formation.

RME: We learned about the Easter story this week and had a discussion about what the story means for Christians.

French: We have been learning how to count to 10 in french and basic greetings. We also have been learning the days of the week and how to say ‘Today it is..’ We also learned how to say my name is and practised introducing ourselves to a partner. We are really enjoying learning French with Ms Leach!

Here are some photos of our learning this week:

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Happy Holidays!

• Ms Leach will be teaching the class on the first Tuesday back after the holidays.
• P.E will be on Thursday that week.

I hope you have a lovely holiday! Stay safe, have fun and I look forward to seeing you after the break!

Miss McGillivray

Here we are at the last day of what has been a very different term. Thank you again for all the support over the weeks.

This week’s learning has been centred around Easter. We have explored the Easter story through activities across the curriculum using cartoon strips, word searches, videos ,quizes and science.

We also have had fun playing Chinese Whispers.

Today we had a few pranks for April Fool’s Day!! It was funny!

Enjoy the Easter holidays . School returns on Tuesday 20th April

The highlight was our STEM challenge to create a parachute for an egg. We designed , constructed , modified, reflected, adjusted and finally created a parachute with a carrier for an egg, Then we tested them outside. We worked in groups or on our own . It was fun but a challenge.

Here we are in stages .

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Stage 2 We tested them before we modified them

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Stage 3 Then we went outside to launch them

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Have a lovely Easter holiday!

by P4H and Ms Hastie

Thank you for all your hard work this term P7, both at home and back at school. Have a lovely, relaxing holiday 🙂

Miss Collyns

Literacy

In literacy we wrote a myth about defeating a mythical monster. It had to include setting, quest, hero, dilemma, beast and ending. We read the fifth chapter of Coraline and answered comprehension questions.

We did spelling. Our spelling pattern was how to plural words that end in f, ff or fe. If it ends in one f or fe then you change it to ves. It was our last week of our literature circle books.

Numeracy

In maths we did problem solving with our learning partners. We practiced our money skills like budgeting, calculating discounts, profit and loss, and 4 operations. We did an assessment on money.

Health and Wellbeing

In PE we did circuits. We learnt about equality, diversity, racism and discrimination. We thought about how we can make Buckstone as inclusive to everyone as possible.

Art

We learnt about Holi which is the festival of colour and we made Holi art.

Topic

We learnt about Propaganda that was used in WW2 and created our own propaganda posters.

Home Learning

We could type up our myths (some of us took them home to finish)

We could research more about WW2

We could practice our times tables

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We made it! We had an amazing term. It was been a different one as we started learning from home but we were lucky to come back to school and we had a great time learning together.

This is this week’s learning:

Literacy

This week we have been learning three initial blends: fl, gl and pl. Our tricky words were do and as, now we have worked on all the tricky words from block 2. We have sent home a sheet with the words the children could work at home.

For fl we did flying kites. We took our kites outside and they flew!

We also played with flour!

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For gl we did glittery glasses.

We played with gloop.

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For pl we did plates with pl words.

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This week our writing focus has been writing about chicks.

We have continued to work on our reading books at school. We are working on different reading skills not only decoding and blending: fluency, comprehension, inference, making connections, synthetizing, increasing vocabulary, working memory and attention. Remember that this week our reading books will not go home.

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Home Learning ideas

• Practice this week’s sounds:

• Continue to practice building words and reading words with the sounds worked on so far.
• Practice the tricky words that your child has taken home today on his/her purple folder.

Numeracy

We have been learning about Position and Movement. We are learning to use simple directions and describe positions in games in movement, games and using technology. We have learned to programme Bee Bots and to use the Bee Bots app i our iPads.

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We have continued to work on our numeracy skills using our SEAL programme. We have been working on sharing equally, ordering numbers, addition with a missing addend, etc.

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Home learning ideas

• Continue to practice number recognition, counting skills.

• Why don’t practice sharing equally with the Easter Eggs?
• You could practice using a Bee Bot online: https://beebot.terrapinlogo.com/

Other areas

RME

We have learned about the Easter Story. We are becoming aware of the importance of celebrations, festivals and customs in Christian people’s lives.

Music

We have been singing outdoors with Charlie. We have also done two online sessions with Sarah from Sing for Smiles.

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Outdoor Learning

We have created patterns working in pairs. We used masking tape to create different patterns and colour them in with wet chalk. It was great to see how the children worked together and praised each other.

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Independent Learning

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News

All children took home today a sheet with the tricky words that they should be working on ( reading and writing), please feel free to work on these.

All children are taking home their spare clothes in a labelled bag, please return this bag next term so we can continue to use them.

We hope you all have a lovely break.

Looking forward to seeing you back on Tuesday 20th April.

Thank you for all your support during this term with your children’s learning. You all did a great job during the Learning at Home period!

Have a wonderful time,

Mrs Cross and Mrs de Bonrostro

Please feel fee to print this reading caterpillar bookmark if you have misplaced the one given with on your purple folder at the beginning of the year.