P1 Pandas

P1p reflective Friday 17.5.24

Staff...685

Congratulations on the two new arrivals this week !

Ask me –

  1. What I enjoyed in health week

Please continue to send in your clean recycling.

Our learning this week


Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.

Health Week

All our learning this week revolved round health week. We enjoyed, amongst other things, fruit tasting, multisports session, judo, sports day, scootathon, bug hunting in the woods, reading the story ‘Not a stick’ then taking a walk to the woods near the playpark to re-enact the story – we have been so busy !


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Looking ahead to next week

No school on Monday.

Back to normal routine of Tuesday and Wednesday PE.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Enjoy the long weekend !

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Koalas

 P1 Koalas Reflective Friday 17.5.24

Staff..469

Hello everyone,

We have had a very busy and active health week, here is a sample of some of our learning:

LITERACY

We are continuing with the Scottish National  Standardised  Assessments in literacy. These assessments are completed individually with each child.

We wrote about Sports Day in our writing jotters and talked about what we had enjoyed the most.

 We started sharing a new reading book in our groups. We were talking about rhyming in our reading groups and looking at strategies to decode unfamiliar words. These books have come home with your child today, please return them to school on Monday.

We have really enjoyed listening to the children’s talks about their favourite places. It has been so interesting to learn about the places which are special to them, and the class have been a super audience asking lots of relevant questions. Thank you to everybody who has helped with these.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

When you are sharing your child’s reading book ask them if they can think of any words to rhyme with some of the words in the book. Rhyming prompts children to repeat sounds and patterns, reinforcing their grasp of word sounds.

Please continue to practise the tricky words we have learned so far.

Write down the tricky words on a piece of paper or card, hold the cards behind your back then show them to your child and ask them to read the word you have shown them. Your child could practise writing these words, forming the letters the way they have been shown in class.

(If you are unsure about correct letter formation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day).

Please share your child’s reading book with them.

NUMERACY AND MATHS

Some of children were completing assessments this week and others were working on core numeracy skills.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

This is a game to help identify and work with numbers up to 100. Your child can choose their own level.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

FLUFFY!

Thank you so much for all the entries in Fluffy’s journal. It has been lovely to see the children’s enthusiasm and eagerness to take him home. The children have really enjoyed listening to Fluffy’s different adventures. Everyone in the class has now had a turn with Fluffy, we will continue to draw names from a hat so that all the children can have a second turn with him/her but we will put the jotter in our reading corner so that the children can enjoy reading about his/her adventures.

LOOSE PARTS

Next date for loose parts is Monday 27 May.

HEALTH WEEK

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TASTING

MULTI SPORTS

SPORTS DAY

JUDO

TRIP TO THE WOODS

Have a lovely long weekend.

P2MD Mrs McFarlane and Miss Davidson

P2MD Blog 10.05.24

Staff..226

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week. This has been a short but a busy week for us.

Important information:

  • Reading books: as this was a short week are not sending reading books home.
  • Sports Day: As planned and shared earlier in the year, Sports Day for all pupils will take place on Wednesday 15th May 2024. If the weather is wet or poor, then a text will be sent out to cancel the event. Unfortunately, as there is no alternative date in the event of a cancellation, Sports Day will be cancelled for this year.   

10.45am – 12 noon at the Waterboard Field. Parents are asked to stand around the edge of the field as all activities will take place in the middle of the field moving out. Children will move around activities with their class teacher.

  

  • Next week is Health Week: pupils are invited to wear their PE kit all week. We have lots of great activities planned.
  • Loose Parts on Monday 13th May.
  • Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

Our focus on Literacy has been poetry. We have been listening to different poems and looking for patterns in the words. We have also been using our senses to describe things to help us to create our poems.

Our tricky words this week are: always, earth and through. We have also worked on the word have.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please continue to read stories to your child every day at home.  
  • Please continue to encourage your child to read at home.
  • Start preparing your short talk (please refer to the information on last week’s blog).
  • Practice your tricky words.

Maths 

We have continued to learn about fractions. This week our focus has been on quarter of a shape.

We have continued to work on numeracy skills such as addition and counting forwards an backwards in 1s, 2s, etc.

Ideas for learning at home: 

  • Ask your child to cut or divide an item into halves and into quarters (ensure that they are equal parts)
  • Cut photos of a magazine in half and in quarters.
  • More information about quarters in here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh9hxbk

Use the halves area to revise half of a number.

Other areas

PE

We are working on athletics.

IDL

We have continued to work on life cycles. We have carefully observed our caterpillars and our beans grow.

RME

We have been learning about Sikhism.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McFarlane

P1 Pandas

P1p reflective Friday 10.5.24

Staff...685

Ask me –

  1. What Cheryl was talking about in Assembly today.
  2. How to spell the tricky words want and his.
  3. To tell you about our caterpillars.

Please continue to send in your clean recycling.

Our learning this week


Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.


Literacy focus


Our focus this week was on sharing our talks. All pupils were well prepared and spoke confidently to the class about their favourite place – we heard about so many different interesting places; bedrooms/homes, the family room, the cinema, Mauritius, North Berwick, Nethybridge, Turkey, ballet class, Legoland, London, Cousins’ house, Dollar Burn, Blairdrummond, the beach, the park, the swimming pool, Tenerife, Deep sea world and even the Dentist. Still a few more talks to share next week. Well done everyone.

We have completed our SNSA tests.

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- you her she we be all are they come some said one were there into here do as of

We have been learning to correctly form some more capital letters.

Maths and numeracy focus


We have been using our learning about data handling and creating our own surveys

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Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw) and began to learn about shoulder and arm strength and different throwing techniques.

We are learning about Looking after living things and the lifecycle of caterpillars.


Looking ahead to next week

Health week activities, including trip to the woods on Tuesday and loose parts learning on Friday.

Children should come to school every day in sports clothes ( no football kit ) and prepared to learn indoors and out in any weather. If your child’s indoor shoes are ‘school’ shoes, it would be great if they could bring in some trainers or gym shoes next week for indoors as the hard soled school shoes are not always suitable for indoor sporting activities ( not buying anything new at this time of term obviously – just something for indoors next week would be great )

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Play this game. Choose addition or subtraction and then set your level of challenge – there are lots of options to try !

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.

P2D- Mrs DeBonrostro

P2D Reflective Friday 10.05.24

Staff..114

Dear Parents,

We hope you had a great week. This has been a short but a busy week for us.

Important information:

  • Reading books: as this was a short week are not sending reading books home.
  • Sports Day: As planned and shared earlier in the year, Sports Day for all pupils will take place on Wednesday 15th May 2024. If the weather is wet or poor, then a text will be sent out to cancel the event. Unfortunately, as there is no alternative date in the event of a cancellation, Sports Day will be cancelled for this year.   

10.45am – 12 noon at the Waterboard Field. Parents are asked to stand around the edge of the field as all activities will take place in the middle of the field moving out. Children will move around activities with their class teacher.

  

  • Next week is Health Week: pupils are invited to wear their PE kit all week. We have lots of great activities planned.
  • Loose Parts on Monday 13th May.
  • Change of clothes: Please ensure that your child has a spare change of clothes at school (including pants and socks); these don’t have to be school uniform. It is really helpful for them all to have them (especially when they get wet). Please label all the items.

This is a summary of our learning this week:

Literacy

Our focus on Literacy has been poetry. We have been using our senses to describe things to help us to create our poems.

We have been writing about the life cycle of a butterfly. Amazing work this week!

Our tricky words this week are: always, earth and through. We have also worked on the word have.

Ideas for learning at home

  • Please continue to read stories to your child every day at home.  
  • Please continue to encourage your child to read at home. It is important that children practice reading every day.
  • Start preparing your short talk (please refer to the information on last week’s blog).
  • Practice your tricky words.

Maths 

We have continued to learn about fractions. This week our focus has been on quarter of a shape.

We have continued to work on numeracy skills such as addition and counting forwards an backwards in 1s, 2s, etc.

Ideas for learning at home: 

  • Ask your child to cut or divide an item in halves and in quarters (ensure that they are equal parts)
  • Cut photos of a magazine in half and in quarters.
  • More information about quarters in here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh9hxbk

Use the halves area to revise half of a number.

Other areas

PE

We are working on athletics practicing for Sports Day’s events. Please continue to practice skipping with a rope at home.

IDL

We have continued to work on life cycles. We have carefully observed our caterpillars and our beans grow. We have taken our bean plants home so we can plant them in soil and look after them.

EXA

We have learned about Prokofiev.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs de Bonrostro

Buckstone Primary School, P1 Koalas

 P1 Koalas Reflective Friday 10.5.24

Staff..469

Hello everyone,

This is some of our learning from this week:

LITERACY

We are continuing with the Scottish National  Standardised  Assessments in literacy. These assessments are completed individually with each child.

 We started sharing a new reading book in our groups. We were talking about rhyming in our reading groups. These books have come home with your child today, please return them to school on Monday.

We have really enjoyed listening to the children’s talks about their favourite places. It has been so interesting to learn about the places which are special to them, and the class have been a super audience asking lots of relevant questions. We will continue listening to the talks next week.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

When you are sharing your child’s reading book ask them if they can think of any words to rhyme with some of the words in the book. Rhyming prompts children to repeat sounds and patterns, reinforcing their grasp of word sounds.

Please continue to practise the tricky words we have learned so far.

Write down the tricky words on a piece of paper or card, hold the cards behind your back then show them to your child and ask them to read the word you have shown them. Your child could practise writing these words, forming the letters the way they have been shown in class.

(If you are unsure about correct letter formation, please speak to one of us at the end of the day).

Please share your child’s reading book with them.

NUMERACY AND MATHS

Some of children were completing assessments this week and others were working on core numeracy skills.

THINGS TO DO AT HOME

This is a game to help identify and work with numbers up to 100. Your child can choose their own level.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

PE

This week in PE we were practising for our Sports Day on Wednesday 15 May.

FLUFFY!

Thank you so much for all the entries in Fluffy’s journal. It has been lovely to see the children’s enthusiasm and eagerness to take him home. The children have really enjoyed listening to Fluffy’s different adventures. Everyone in the class has now had a turn with Fluffy, we will continue to draw names from a hat so that all the children can have a second turn with him/her but we will put the jotter in our reading corner so that the children can enjoy reading about his/her adventures.

LOOSE PARTS

Next date for loose parts is Friday 17 May.

Some examples of learning taking place over the last two weeks:

Have a lovely weekend.

P1 Pandas

P1p reflective Friday 3.5.24

Staff...685

Ask me –

  1. to talk about how to look after a pet
  2. to spell the words do, as and of
  3. to explain how tally marks work

Please continue to send in your clean recycling.

Our learning this week


Here are some photographs of us developing our skills through our independent learning opportunities and experiences this week. Please take time to share these photographs with your child so they can share their learning with you.


Literacy focus


This week we have been taking our SNSA tests. This will continue into next week as pupils undertake these one at a time

Tricky words

Our new words this week were do, as and of

Block one – I the to was saw put he he me is his want

Block 2 so far- you her she we be all are they come some said one were there into here do as of

Our writing prompt this week was “In Spring”

Maths and numeracy focus


We have been learning about data handling – creating and interpreting block graphs, pictograms and tally charts

Other areas of the curriculum

In PE we continued our block of athletics ( run. jump, throw) and working on our cardio fitness. We discussed keeping our heart healthy and strong.

Ali had one last singing session with us – we got to use the parachute, that was fun.

In loose parts learning this week we were given a teamwork problem solving challenge . Mrs Cross said we were awesome at it !!


Looking ahead to next week

Monday Holiday/Tuesday inservice day

Class talks ( see previous blog past)

We will continue our Scottish National Standardised Assessments ( SNSA ) in Literacy.

‘Homework’ ( things to practice at home)

Make a block graph or tally chart of your own – for example you could ask your family some questions about their favourite food, or count the cars that drive past your front window. You could bring it back to school to share if you wish.

Play this game. Choose addition or subtraction and then set your level of challenge – there are lots of options to try !

Use our class spelling city page to play games which will help you to learn to spell our block one and two tricky words. Follow this link and then choose the list you would like to practise.