Category: Buckstone Primary School

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Red Smeds

P1R Reflective Friday 4.10.24

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Hello everyone, this is what we have been learning this week.

LITERACY

This week we introduced two new sounds: m and e.

When revising these sounds at home please always use the pure sound of the letter.(Please don’t add an i to the sound to make mi). As we begin to blend and build words to read and write, not using the correct pure sound can make things tricky for us. If you would like further explanation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day.

We have been talking about friendships and what makes a good friend. Our writing prompt this week was – I like playing with……….

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Spelling homework should ideally be done in several short sessions across the week. (5-10 minutes 4 times a week will have a huge impact).

Adult write the lowercase letters we have covered on individual pieces of paper ( or magnetic letters if you have them).

Task 1

Using the letter cards, the adult can build the following words

men

set

net

pet

pen

met

ten

man

Pam

Map

mat

The child should pronounce each sound as the pure sound, then blend the sounds together to read the words.

Task 2

The adult should say one of the spelling words and the child uses the cards to build the word by finding the sound at the start, the sound in the middle, the sound at the end.

Please keep the cards you have made as we will be adding more sounds in the future.

You could play this game using a phone or a tablet. Please choose the ‘initial sounds’ option first.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game

MATHS AND NUMERACY

In P1 we use the SEAL programme (Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) which promotes number literacy. Pupils will be learning skills and strategies appropriate to their current stage of development. This includes(but is not limited to) recognising numerals to 10, 20 and beyond; counting forwards and backwards in sequence; counting objects with accurate 1-1 correspondence; ascribing numerosity to random arrays, spatial and finger patterns; counting two seen/unseen collections; describing and creating equal groups; partitioning patterns and numbers.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

All children acquire numeracy skills at different rates so the homework activities are skills to practise. If your child finds it easy, increase the level of challenge by adjusting the range of number (eg work within 10, up to 20, up to 50 etc).

Say the number AFTER  a given number ( what comes after 7?). Children should answer quickly without the need to count from 1.

Say the number BEFORE a given number.

Explore teen numbers. Eg 11 = 10 and 1, 12 = 10 and 2. 13 is 10 and how many more?

Count forwards and backwards.

Count a random collection of moveable or fixed items accurately with 1-1 correspondence.

We have been practising writing number two, please help your child to practise writing this number at home.

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

The children have been developing their skills through independent learning opportunities in class. Here are just a few photographs of what they have been doing.

PE

In PE we were playing some warmup games and learning to move at different speeds and levels in a designated space. We were thinking about the way different animals move and tried to copy their movements. We worked with a partner and the rest of the class tried to guess which animal we were pretending to be.

LOOSE PARTS

The children are really enjoying loose parts play and are working well with their peers to build, create and investigate. The next day for loose parts will be Friday 11th October. Please can you make sure that your child has clothes that you don’t mind getting wet. Waterproofs and wellies would be ideal but old scruffy clothes will do just as well.

OUTDOOR LEARNING

We enjoyed the autumn sunshine and formed the number two using found objects such as stones, sticks and leaves. We collected different leaves and looked at them on our light box, some of us used the leaves to make pictures and some of us did some leaf rubbing.

FRENCH

We have been learning to say hello and goodbye in French.

We have been trying to learn the words for some colours too.

Jaune – yellow

Bleu- blue

Rouge- red

Vert – green

Violet- purple

Rose – pink

We are singing songs and playing games to help us learn.

OTHER PRIMARY ONE MATTERS

Please bring in any clean recycling for the children to use in our STEM  area.

Please make sure your child has a change of clothes in case they get wet or muddy. Can these items of clothing  be named and kept in school in a bag. If your child has to change their clothes and takes the wet/dirty items home, please make sure they are replaced the next day.

We have a purple jumper which has been left in class for a few days now. It does not have a name on it, please come and ask one of us if you think it might belong to your child.

Any donations of plastic bags would be really useful for taking home artwork or wet clothes, thank you.

We are very happy to speak to parents at the end of the day to discuss any issue concerning your child. We are not able to talk to parents in the morning as we have to supervise the children as they come in ready to start their day. Thank you for your understanding.

Have a lovely weekend.

Buckstone Primary School, P2B

P2B Reflective Friday 27.09.24

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Hello families,

Welcome the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 27th of September.

Timetables, Dates and Reminders

  • PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
  • Our next loose parts session is on Monday 30th of September
  • Our following Loose Parts session is on Wednesday 9th October.
  • Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
  • We have a short show and tell session on Tuesdays focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
  • Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
  • We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
  • Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
  • Reading books come home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework. Please return these on Mondays.
  • Purple Folders: These need to come to school daily as there are often items of paperwork that may be damaged in a standard bag.

Admin

Your tempest photo order forms should have gone home yesterday (or today if an appropriate dry bag or purple folder wasn’t available yesterday). The brilliant Mrs George wanted me to say you have until October 10th to order to save on the delivery charge.

Literacy

Our class sound focus this week was on ow and oa as in snow and boat. We have also revised ay and ai, as in bay and rain.

To extend the learning at home be on the lookout for things that have ow and oa, and ay and ai in their name.

We have also done our Big Writing this week and the effort put in was amazing.

Science

We have begun our new topic of Sun, Moon and Stars this week. We looked at Sun facts and we became the Sun Moon and Earth to work out how all three move around.

Maths and Numeracy

We have been moving on with addition this week within 10, 20 and 30. We have also been reviewing our number bonds towards this. Focusing on those number bonds to 10 (1+9, 2+8, 3 + 7, 4 + 6 etc) can be supercharging to our adding and subtracting in class.

Play

P2B put those new blocks to good use this week with a fabulous chocolate factory being built, showing amazing sorting skills.

We have also seen some wonderful designer handbags being made in the area and a lovely dog costume head.

The Mr Bennett Bit

I am looking forward to seeing all our families next week at parent consultations. I was also really impressed with how the children tackled their big writing task this week. When we do big writing we are not allowed to provide support, only encouragement, so as to get an accurate snapshot of your child’s current independent skills. It can be a very emotional day. This week everybody put in an amazing effort and it was a pleasure to see the class achieve so much independently.

Have a fabulous weekend Bouncing Bunnies

Mr Bennett.

Buckstone Primary School, P2B

P2B Reflective Friday 20.09.24

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Hello families,

Hello families,

Welcome the P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog for Friday 20th of September.

Timetables, Dates and Reminders

  • PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
  • Our next loose parts session is on Monday 30th of September
  • Our following Loose Parts session is on Wednesday 9th October.
  • Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
  • We have a short class show and tell session each Tuesday focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
  • Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
  • We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. The Librarian looks after our class reading corner and will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read on Fridays.
  • Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.) A special note this week is that we particularly want shoe boxes as some amazing learning through play took place this week (see below)

Reading Books

  • Reading books will be going out from today. Reading books coming home on a Friday as a way for the children to showcase their learning to you, not as homework.
  • STOP PRESS: APOLOGY- due to a miscommunication, discovered today, with our reading support volunteer earlier this week two of our reading groups read each other’s books in the reading sessions. These children were reading our Fang’s Dentist book and the story about Ron’s Big day. If your child has these books please bear in mind they have had less preperation for their reading showcase than planned.

Trip out

Our finale to our houses and homes and information handling topics was a local area walk surveying homes in the local area.

The children enjoyed noting down the many types of residence in the area as they toured and were very good at spotting the different types. You could choose to extend this learning at home by asking what house and home types they can see on your next walk or drive. You could also practice counting with tally marks on a trip out or at home.

Thank you for those who supported or volunteered to support this trip.

Literacy

Our class sound focus this week was on revising all of our recent sounds. The highlight was a class game of hangman where P2b beat Mr Bennett’s toughest igh word ‘Lighthouse’. Which also came from our houses and homes topic.

To extend the learning at home be on the lookout for things that have igh in their name like the night or a light, or have -y in their name like a fly or the sky. May be play a game of igh/-y spy.

Maths and Numeracy

As said above maths was used in our house and homes survey this week. We also practiced some colourful addition games in class. The highlight for the children was being given access to Sumdog on the shared ipads. We will be working through the Sumdog diagnostic tests in coming weeks before supplying login cards for use at home.

Play

P2B were very lucky this week to be given the first chance to use a new resource. We have our own class set of large building blocks until the end of the year which should make it easier for all to have a shot at building something fantastic.

In the area today several of our class were inspired by shoe boxes to create elaborate doll’s houses with fantastically modelled coathangers and clothes.

Well made girls.

Health and Wellbeing

This week we did the important job of expressing ourselves using SHANNARI wheels. A freedom of expression outlined in the UN declaration on the rights of the child. All of the children expressed how happy they were under the indicators. In PE this week we worked on throwing and passing skills.

The Mr Bennett Bit

It was a very busy week this week, with only 4 days to pack it into. The favourite part of the week was definitely the trip out to the local area. And I was so happy to hear how much it had been enjoyed.

Have a fabulous weekend Bouncing Bunnies

Mr Bennett.

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Red Smeds

P1R Reflective Friday 20.9.24

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Hello everyone, this is what we have been learning this week.

LITERACY

This week we have been revising all the sounds we have learned so far: s a t p i n.

When revising these sounds at home please always use the pure sound of the letter.(Please don’t add an i to the sounds to make them ti and pi). As we begin to blend and build words to read and write, not using the correct pure sound can make things tricky for us. If you would like further explanation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day.

We read My Big Shouting Day by Rebecca Patterson and told a story through our drawings about a time when we were shouting.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Spelling homework should ideally be done in several short sessions across the week. (5-10 minutes 4 times a week will have a huge impact).

Adult write the lowercase letters we have covered on individual pieces of paper ( or magnetic letters if you have them).

Task 1

Using the letter cards, the adult can build the following words

sat

pat

at

tap

pin

pan

nap

nip

( challenge- pants past)

The child should pronounce each sound as the pure sound, then blend the sounds together to read the words.

Task 2

The adult should say one of the spelling words and the child uses the cards to build the word by finding the sound at the start, the sound in the middle, the sound at the end.

Please keep the cards you have made as we will be adding more sounds in the future.

You could play this game using a phone or a tablet. Please choose the ‘initial sounds’ option first.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game

MATHS AND NUMERACY

In P1 we use the SEAL programme (Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) which promotes number literacy. Pupils will be learning skills and strategies appropriate to their current stage of development. This includes(but is not limited to) recognising numerals to 10, 20 and beyond; counting forwards and backwards in sequence; counting objects with accurate 1-1 correspondence; ascribing numerosity to random arrays, spatial and finger patterns; counting two seen/unseen collections; describing and creating equal groups; partitioning patterns and numbers.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

All children acquire numeracy skills at different rates so the homework activities are skills to practise. If your child finds it easy, increase the level of challenge by adjusting the range of number (eg work within 10, up to 20, up to 50 etc).

Say the number AFTER  a given number ( what comes after 7?). Children should answer quickly without the need to count from 1.

Say the number BEFORE a given number.

Explore teen numbers. Eg 11 = 10 and 1, 12 = 10 and 2. 13 is 10 and how many more?

Count forwards and backwards.

Count a random collection of moveable or fixed items accurately with 1-1 correspondence.

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

The children have been developing their skills through independent learning opportunities in class. Here are just a few photographs of what they have been doing.

PE

In PE we were playing some warmup games and learning to move at different speeds and levels in a designated space.

‘OUR BUCKSTONE’ TOPIC

We have been chatting about our address and talking about the number of our houses.

LOOSE PARTS

The children are really enjoying loose parts play and are working well with their peers to build, create and investigate. The next day for loose parts will be Tuesday 1st October. Please can you make sure that your child has clothes that you don’t mind getting wet. Waterproofs and wellies would be ideal but old scruffy clothes will do just as well.

OTHER PRIMARY ONE MATTERS

Please bring in any clean recycling for the children to use in our STEM  area.

Please make sure your child has a change of clothes in case they get wet or muddy. Can these items of clothing  be named and kept in school in a bag. If your child has to change their clothes and takes the wet/dirty items home, please make sure they are replaced the next day.

We have a purple jumper which has been left in class for a few days now. It does not have a name on it, please come and ask one of us if you think it might belong to your child.

Any donations of plastic bags would be really useful for taking home artwork or wet clothes, thank you.

PHOTOGRAPHS 25.9.24

Individual and sibling photographs are due to be taken on Wednesday 25 September. We realise that this is a PE day but please dress your child in school uniform that day and we will adapt our PE activities.

We are very happy to speak to parents at the end of the day to discuss any issue concerning your child. We are not able to talk to parents in the morning as we have to supervise the children as they come in ready to start their day. Thank you for your understanding.

Have a lovely weekend.

Buckstone Primary School, School-News

CEC Open Day 6/11/24

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Come and visit Buckstone Primary School!

Our P7 hosts will take you on a tour of the school and will share all of the exciting things that are happening at Buckstone Primary. You will have the opportunity to ask any questions about learning at Buckstone. There will also be members of the staff team around to answer any questions about enrolment or transition to Primary One. P1 Registration takes place online between the 1st and 15th November.

Primary School Open Day – 6.11.24Download

Buckstone Primary School, P2B

P2B Reflective Friday 13.09.24

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Hello families,

Welcome to issue 4 of the 2024/25 P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog!

An Apology

This past Monday there was a loose parts session I had not communicated to you. This was simply because I had misread the timetable. I apologise for this and hope that clothes did not come home too sandy and wet. I have now amended my calendar and will include the next 2 sessions here going forwards. The next session is now Thursday 19th September and will be followed on Monday 30th September. Again my apologies for that miscommunication.

Timetables, Dates and Reminders

  • PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
  • Our next loose parts session is on Thursday 19th September
  • Our following Loose Parts session is on Monday 30th of September.
  • Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
  • We have a short class show and tell session each Tuesday focused on achievements and souvenirs of special experiences.
  • Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
  • We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. As well as looking after our class reading books the librarian will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read at story time on Fridays.
  • Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.) A big thanks to all who have contributed. Please keep it coming. And a special thank you again to Robyn and family who collected another large haul of junk modelling supplies and all our other contributors.
  • If you have not returned your KIC form can we ask that it is returned ASAP as we cannot take trips and walks off of school grounds without them.
  • Reading books will be going out from next week. Reading books coming home on a Friday is to showcase their reading work to you.

Trip out- Volunteers Sought

As a finale to our houses and homes and information handling we are considering a local area walk to survey the types of homes in the local area. We will need to have all our KIC forms (the personal details forms) returned so if yours is outstanding please rush that back in.

We are hoping that this will take place on one of the next two Wednesdays, probably around 9.30am. If you have some Wednesday availability and would like to come to support the class then please send a message to school detailing that availability and we will contact interested parents to confirm.

Literacy

Our class sound focus this week was on igh and -y digraphs. We saw some fabulous rainbow writing on Wednesday of words including night, sight and light. Some groups also were working on CVC words van leg and jam and on revising digraphs th and wh.

Maths and Numeracy

In addition to our SEAL sessions we have been looking at Information Handling. We did more work on Venn diagrams this week and worked on adding intersections. There was some fabulous sorting and understanding shown.

“Red and yellow together is orange.”
“The circles are things from the dinosaur time and things from now. Sharks were in both times.”
“straws, cups and a cup of straws”
The middle pencil has yellow and black on it.
Blue and yellow make green.

Play

Some of the class were building high and made a very tall tower using marble run supports. We also carried on with building buildings and had a good time at loose parts.

Help hold it so it reaches the ceiling.
The green colour monster is calm.
The super hippo is flying the jet plane but he can fly anyway. The green bear wants it.

Health and Wellbeing

In PE this week we have tried some throwing and catching ball skills.

The Mr Bennett Bit

I was again really impressed with the amazing way the class tackled the Venn diagrams and sorted the objects into a range of amazing groups. There has been some really good progress and effort going into writing this week with everybody working hard to follow our non negotiables and star steps (Capital letter, full stop, finger spacing).

Have a fabulous LONG weekend Bouncing Bunnies

Mr Bennett.

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Red Smeds

P1R Reflective Friday 6.9.24

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We have had a busy week in school. The children are getting to know one another and enjoying the different activities in the area and classroom.

LITERACY

This week we have been learning to recognise and begin to write the graphemes t and p.

When revising these sounds at home please always use the pure sound of the letter.(Please don’t add an i to the sounds to make them ti and pi). As we begin to blend and build words to read and write, not using the correct pure sound can make things tricky for us. If you would like further explanation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day.

Our story prompt this week was- I am changing my shoes.

MATHS AND NUMERACY

In P1 we use the SEAL programme (Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) which promotes number literacy. Pupils will be learning skills and strategies appropriate to their current stage of development. This includes(but is not limited to) recognising numerals to 10, 20 and beyond; counting forwards and backwards in sequence; counting objects with accurate 1-1 correspondence; ascribing numerosity to random arrays, spatial and finger patterns; counting two seen/unseen collections; describing and creating equal groups; partitioning patterns and numbers.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

Go on a hunt around your house for things beginning with t and p.

Play ‘I spy for t and p’.

Look for numbers in the environment(buses, shop prices, house numbers)- if single digit numbers are easy, look for teen numbers.

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

The children have been developing their skills through independent learning opportunities in class. Here are just a few photographs of what they have been doing.

PE

In PE we were playing some warmup games and learning to move at different speeds and levels in a designated space.

‘OUR BUCKSTONE’ TOPIC

On Tuesday P1R and P1S went for a walk around the local area to learn more about their surroundings and discuss the community we live in. As part of this topic, we are going to talk about our addresses. Please can you help your child to learn their address.

LOOSE PARTS

The children really enjoyed their first experience of loose parts play last Monday. The next day for loose parts will be Wednesday 11th September. Please can you make sure that your child has clothes that you don’t mind getting wet. Waterproofs and wellies would be ideal but old scruffy clothes will do just as well.

OTHER PRIMARY ONE MATTERS

Please bring in any clean recycling for the children to use in our STEM  area.

Please make sure your child has a change of clothes in case they get wet or muddy. Can these items of clothing  be named and kept in school in a bag. If your child has to change their clothes and takes the wet/dirty items home, please make sure they are replaced the next day.

We have had a number of  jumpers and coats which have gone missing. Please can you check that your child has brought home the correct item of clothing, thank you.

We are very happy to speak to parents at the end of the day to discuss any issue concerning your child. We are not able to talk to parents in the morning as we have to supervise the children as they come in ready to start their day. Thank you for your understanding.

Have a lovely weekend.

Buckstone Primary School, P2B

P2B Our Learning 23/8/24

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Hello families, 

Welcome to the 2024/25 P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog!

Timetables, Dates and Reminders 

  • PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 
  • Our next loose parts session is on Friday 30th of August. 
  • Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays. 
  • We will have a short class show and tell session each Tuesday. If you have achieved something, done something extraordinary or have something very special to show us then that is the day to bring it.
  • Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day. 
  • We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. As well as looking after our class reading books the librarian will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read all, or a taster of, at story time. 
  • Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.) 
  • Purple folders will be heading home today so that you have them. Books will be going out from the week commencing 2nd September, when we have completed our reading assessments and formed our groups. When reading books go home your child will have practiced during the week. The aim is for them to showcase their learning to you with a read over the weekend. Books need to then be back in on Mondays for us to start the next set of reading groups.
  • Flu vaccination letters are coming home today. We need them back ASAP and by Wednesday at the latest.

Rights Respecting Class 

This week’s big rights respecting task was the creation of our class charter, which has been signed by everyone in the class with a hand and their name. 

We decided the aims of our charter were that our class should be a fair and happy place and a Rights Respecting place. 

Our charter also aims to help us be healthy, develop freely, express ourselves freely and access education. These aims are from UNCRC Articles 6, 13 and 28. 

The expectations we put in place were to be Ready, Respectful and Safe as per the whole school’s values. We also decided to be Kind, to Do Our Best and to be Helpful. It is important that the adults in our class live up to these aims 

Literacy 

Our main focus this week has been on reading assessments in order that we can form our reading groups for the term. 

We listen to a story each day. On Monday we voted for our favourite story from the first week of term. The children selected Stuck by Oliver Jeffers as their favourite choice. 

For some speaking and listening tasks we have made talk teams of three (and a single 2 due to numbers). These will change on a monthly basis so that the children get a good experience and benefit of working with all their classmates over the year. 

Miss Kelly and Mrs DeBonrostro are running spelling groups on Wednesdays to improve our vocabularies and writing.

Our sounds focus at present is to revise some of last block of sounds from P1- wh, ch, sh, th, ee and oo. If you have books with a focus on these sounds at home, for example “Horton hears a who” for the wh digraph then reading those together will support our work in class. 

Numeracy 

As with Literacy it has been a week focused on assessments and group set up for continuing our S.E.A.L. (Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) practice. 

We have also been working on counting backwards from 30 as a class and singing this song. Counting backwards is a vital skill for successful subtraction and division. It can also make some addition and multiplication learning easier (e.g. 9×10 is equal to 10×10 minus 10). 

Modern Languages 

Our French word of the week has been Bonjour and we have used it to practice saying hello and goodbye in French. We have also been using Salut and Au Revoir in these sessions. 

Play 

In play the main focus has been learning and playing with all the new toys, areas and objects in the classroom. A popular choice has been building with our block sets and with our Lego.

Health and Wellbeing 

In PE this week we have focused on referee roles and their importance. 

In health and wellbeing we have been focused on Ready, Respectful, Safe, establishing our class roles and choosing our class identity. The identity the children have selected is P2 Bouncing Bunnies. 

The Mr Bennett Bit 

It was a pleasure to meet so many of our class’s families last Friday and do feel free to chat with me after school at the door with any small questions, or to make an appointment via the school office if that time isn’t good or the issue is larger. 

Have a fabulous week Bouncing Bunnies 

Mr Bennett. 

Apologies- there was one more button I should have pressed to link this to the class list on the website and it was missed on Friday. Hopefully you can now see this.

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Red Smeds

P1R reflective Friday 23.8.24

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Welcome to our first Friday blog. Please try to read the blog with your child as this will allow them to chat about their week and reflect on their learning. The blog will be posted on a Friday. The school office will continue to email if they have anything to share.

We have had a busy first full week at school and the children are settling into the class routines. They continue to enjoy break times with their buddies and are becoming increasingly independent in the dinner hall.

Our class charter is Ready. Respectful. Safe. We discussed what this means and how we can be each of these things. We made handprints which we will add to the statement so that the children will try to be ready to learn, respectful to adults,  peers and property and keep themselves and others safe.

INDEPENDENT LEARNING

The children have been developing their skills through independent learning opportunities in class. Here are just a few photographs of what they have been doing.

LITERACY

Our literacy focus this week has been on Listening and Talking as we share memory boxes together. We will continue to do this next week too so please send your child’s box to school. We have talked about our families and drawn pictures of them in our first writing jotter. We have been assessing the children’s knowledge of sounds and letters to begin phonic learning next week in groups.

NUMERACY

We have been doing some numeracy assessments with the children to assess their knowledge before we begin some core numeracy learning in groups next week.

OTHER AREAS OF THE CURRICULUM

In PE we were playing some warmup games and looking at different ways of travelling e.g. jumping with two feet together, skipping and hopping.

OTHER PRIMARY ONE MATTERS

Please bring in any clean recycling for the children to use in our STEM  area.

Please make sure your child has a change of clothes in case they get wet or muddy. Can these items of clothing  be named and kept in school in a bag. If your child has to change their clothes and takes the wet/dirty items home, please make sure they are replaced the next day.

P1 will have their first session of Loose parts play on Monday 26.8.24. This takes place in the sandpit and wooded area of the playground. The children can select from a variety of ‘loose parts’ to build, create, work cooperatively and use their imaginations. There is a tap they can use to fill buckets with water so wellies and waterproofs would be ideal. If your child does not have these things, then old clothes and shoes would be perfect. We have a few items of clothing in school that can be borrowed.

Thanks so much for all the boxes of tissues you have sent in. They are much appreciated and will be well used in the coming months!

Please speak to one of us at the end of the day ( mornings are very busy with all the children coming in) if there is anything you are not sure about or anything concerning you.

Have a lovely weekend.