31st August 2012
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Nursery
The Nursery children have a real interest in 'Parties' so we have been busy looking at why people have parties, what sort of things are celebrated when having a party and the Nursery children over the next few weeks will be planning a party, from creating their own invitations, designing their own wrapping paper and cards, playing party games, looking at how parties have changed over the years and what food we have at parties and why? etc.
We have already started with a pretend camping
trip party where we put tents up in the Nursery and had a picnic by a pretend
campfire, what fun we all had.The Nursery children have a real interest in 'Parties' so we have been busy looking at why people have parties, what sort of things are celebrated when having a party and the Nursery children over the next few weeks will be planning a party, from creating their own invitations, designing their own wrapping paper and cards, playing party games, looking at how parties have changed over the years and what food we have at parties and why? etc.
P6/7
We've had an exciting week - developing our use of the HAM scheme where the children are motivated to work hard on the variety of activities presented to them. This week some of us worked out great ways to add and subtract multiples of 10 and 100 quickly, while others were working with rounding and finding numbers greater than or smaller than a target number, and trying to get closer to their target number than their partner.
We've had an exciting week - developing our use of the HAM scheme where the children are motivated to work hard on the variety of activities presented to them. This week some of us worked out great ways to add and subtract multiples of 10 and 100 quickly, while others were working with rounding and finding numbers greater than or smaller than a target number, and trying to get closer to their target number than their partner.
We were delighted to start our new term of French with Mrs Walker and Mrs Campbell has been putting us through our paces for cross country.
the wee ones!)
P1/2/3.
P.1 have been doing very well at learning the names of the
Oxford Reading Tree characters and how to read them. They have also been
learning the sounds of the letters s and a. We have been doing lots of counting
and we counted up to 50 one day! They have also been practising writing the
numbers.
P2/3 have also been doing counting but they are counting
hard numbers like 498, 499, 500, 501, it is very tricky when you have to write
numbers which cross a hundred! Some of the work has been counting backwards or
counting in 2s and 5s. P2/3 have been working hard on their spelling and they
will be getting homework today.
We have started reading The Hodgeheg and we thought the
spoonerisms Max says were hilarious! “I got bot on my hittom!” was very funny.
We have also been talking a lot about hedgehogs.
P.1 had P.E with Mrs Campbell for the first time on Thursday
and they did very well.
On Thursday we wrote postcards to Ms Scollay, she hasn’t
read them yet so we hope she likes them!P3/4/5
Week 2 !
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Sorry for the lateness of the Blog this week, I was way laid on Friday.
We had a super week last week and the whole school is beginning to settle down to a routine again. We have all been focusing hard on the improvement to our language work, in particular writing. All the classes last week have been working on the BIG writing system. We have been assessing where the children are at and deciding how we are going to tailor our teaching to meet their needs.
P123 wrote letters about their holidays, as did P67 and P45 wrote a diary entry pretending they were about to board the Titanic the next day.
All classes have also been issuing reading books to all the pupils. P1 have talking about reading books and are learning about the Oxford reading tree characters of Biff and Chip. Please can we all make a big effort to look after the reading books which go home, we many have to charge if books are lost as we need everyone of the reading books for the children.
We are all beginning to use the new Maths scheme, and this is proving very popular with the children.
P123 have been adding and taking away, P345 and P67 have been learning about place value and whole numbers.
P67 went swimming and really had fun, Mrs Campbell has begun to train the children for the Cross Country Race later this term. We have many pupils from P4567 who took part in the initial training I hope they continue to want to take part!
Best Wishes
W S Scollay
We had a super week last week and the whole school is beginning to settle down to a routine again. We have all been focusing hard on the improvement to our language work, in particular writing. All the classes last week have been working on the BIG writing system. We have been assessing where the children are at and deciding how we are going to tailor our teaching to meet their needs.
P123 wrote letters about their holidays, as did P67 and P45 wrote a diary entry pretending they were about to board the Titanic the next day.
All classes have also been issuing reading books to all the pupils. P1 have talking about reading books and are learning about the Oxford reading tree characters of Biff and Chip. Please can we all make a big effort to look after the reading books which go home, we many have to charge if books are lost as we need everyone of the reading books for the children.
We are all beginning to use the new Maths scheme, and this is proving very popular with the children.
P123 have been adding and taking away, P345 and P67 have been learning about place value and whole numbers.
P67 went swimming and really had fun, Mrs Campbell has begun to train the children for the Cross Country Race later this term. We have many pupils from P4567 who took part in the initial training I hope they continue to want to take part!
Best Wishes
W S Scollay
Welcome back! Session 2012 - 2013 begins!
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It was wonderful to see everyone again after the holidays. My word the children come back to school looking so grown up.
We were delighted to welcome our new P1 children to the school. They all seem to have settled in really well.
Mrs Walkers class all created birthday cards which will be given out to each other over the course of the year. The children went to the gym for PE. They have enjoyed making dog walking pictures and have been doing lots of gluing and glittering.
P123 have been introduced to number. P2 and 3 have been doing really hard sums, they have been doing addition. They have been writing sentences and matching words to meanings.
PE will be in Thursdays and Fridays, please make sure the children have their gym kit.
In Ms Scollay's class the children have been doing lots of spelling this week. We have also created a Newspaper of all our holiday reports, I hope to try to upload them for you to look at.
We created mirrors after reading the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Our magic mirrors show our portrait, what we like and what we would like to do in the future.
We have also been learning about the Titanic. We were all blown away by the trailer of the film Titanic. We have created a TITANIC list of questions that we would like to learn about the Titanic. This will be our topic for the coming term.
We also tried out the new Maths scheme today, the active games and activities really got us thinking about our maths, and the new textbooks were well recieved.
Pr 6/7 have started their swimming and we would like to thank Sheree Fraser for accompaning the children.
P6/7 have been having a WW2 sing soing as their topic this term will be WW2 Bombs and Blackberries.
P6/7 will have been getting our feet under our new desks and they started on the BIG WRITING experience. This is a new system for the teaching of writing which the whole school will be embarking on throughout this year.
A parents work shop will be held later in the Autumn to explain this new method of teaching.
The nursery has bloosmed this term with 15 children in the class. Lesley Hall has joined the nursery to work with Alison Bowcott. They have had a busy week allowing the children to explore the environment. There has been paint mixing and lots of outdoor play. They really enjoyed a session with balls out on the playing field.
The Hmie report will be published on Monday and you will recieve a copy of the report on Monday from the children.
Please note that I am teaching Tues - Friday and am unavailable during this time. If you would like to see me please make an appointment so that I can arrange a suitable time. I am sorry that I cannot be more flexible, but due to council cut backs on management time I only have Monday's within the school office.
I look forward to the fun and challenges of the year ahead.
Best Wishes
W S Scollay
Head Teacher
We were delighted to welcome our new P1 children to the school. They all seem to have settled in really well.
Mrs Walkers class all created birthday cards which will be given out to each other over the course of the year. The children went to the gym for PE. They have enjoyed making dog walking pictures and have been doing lots of gluing and glittering.
P123 have been introduced to number. P2 and 3 have been doing really hard sums, they have been doing addition. They have been writing sentences and matching words to meanings.
PE will be in Thursdays and Fridays, please make sure the children have their gym kit.
In Ms Scollay's class the children have been doing lots of spelling this week. We have also created a Newspaper of all our holiday reports, I hope to try to upload them for you to look at.
We created mirrors after reading the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Our magic mirrors show our portrait, what we like and what we would like to do in the future.
We have also been learning about the Titanic. We were all blown away by the trailer of the film Titanic. We have created a TITANIC list of questions that we would like to learn about the Titanic. This will be our topic for the coming term.
We also tried out the new Maths scheme today, the active games and activities really got us thinking about our maths, and the new textbooks were well recieved.
Pr 6/7 have started their swimming and we would like to thank Sheree Fraser for accompaning the children.
P6/7 have been having a WW2 sing soing as their topic this term will be WW2 Bombs and Blackberries.
P6/7 will have been getting our feet under our new desks and they started on the BIG WRITING experience. This is a new system for the teaching of writing which the whole school will be embarking on throughout this year.
A parents work shop will be held later in the Autumn to explain this new method of teaching.
The nursery has bloosmed this term with 15 children in the class. Lesley Hall has joined the nursery to work with Alison Bowcott. They have had a busy week allowing the children to explore the environment. There has been paint mixing and lots of outdoor play. They really enjoyed a session with balls out on the playing field.
The Hmie report will be published on Monday and you will recieve a copy of the report on Monday from the children.
Please note that I am teaching Tues - Friday and am unavailable during this time. If you would like to see me please make an appointment so that I can arrange a suitable time. I am sorry that I cannot be more flexible, but due to council cut backs on management time I only have Monday's within the school office.
I look forward to the fun and challenges of the year ahead.
Best Wishes
W S Scollay
Head Teacher
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