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Thank you all so much for all the very generous and thoughtful gifts you have shared this year! We are all very humbled and grateful for thinking of us 🥰. We have had a great P1 year and Mrs Mitchell and I are so looking forward to carrying on with you all next year in P2. Have a safe and fabulous summer everyone 🌞

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A reminder that children should come with hats and suncream on for the next few days! Thanks 🌞🌞

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We had a visit to our new P2 classroom on Wednesday, exploring the space, finding out where we line-up after playtime and also having a wee chat about how we want to set up our class routines next year! We also helped carry some resources up to the new class 💪🙂

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We enjoyed a walk around Ratho looking at how the village has changed within the past 100 or so years. We ended our walk at the Old Schoolhouse!

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We've continued our learning about mapping by drawing some maps for the Ozbots to follow! Ozbot introduces coding by drawing lines for the Ozbot to respond to in real time. In P2 we can add colour codes to command the Ozbot to move in different ways!

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We are having a party on Monday to celebrate the great year we have had in Primary 1! Children can wear pyjamas and bring a teddy for a movie! :)

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Hi, could we have all the folders and library books back by the end of term please, thanks 😃

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We have a planned buddy walk with P6 to explore Ratho on Friday morning. We would appreciate a couple of parent helpers to accompany us on the walk. We are planning to leave about 9.15 and back before 10.30. If you can help out please email in or let us know at the gate, thanks 🙂

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We practiced out tricky words using the fly swatters to swat a word, and then we wrote them on the whiteboards to practice our reading and spelling!

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We are learning how to play rounders, developing our hand eye coordination and team building skills!

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We have been exploring directions by practicing our "left" and "right" and finding fairytale characters on a fairy land map. Next week we will follow a map around the village!

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Good morning! We are aiming for a Forest session today and on checking the weather just now, it is going to be showery, so can all children come with a coat and have wellies with them please! Thank you 😊

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We have been exploring ‘equal parts’, learning that they are the same size and then using appropriate vocabulary to describe each part as "halves". Some of us are also writing halves on a number line!

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We created collage posters in groups to highlight the issue of plastic litter in our waterways and seas as part of our learning about Global 14, Life Below Water, and then presented them at assembly today :)

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We have had great fun joining in with a variety of activities including dance/gymnastics, Karate and the girls took part in Disney football! We are all feeling fit and healthy this week 💪

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Children should bring a named water bottle tomorrow and be wearing comfortable clothes with suitable outdoor trainers. Fingers crossed for dry weather! 🌞🤞

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Can children come with a waterproof coat to school every day please. We do have a small stock that we can lend out for playtimes but not too many! Thanks 🌧️🌧️

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Hi, we're looking for a favour! Would anyone be willing to share a couple of sentences about how you use the Book Bug bags at home please! We just need to get an idea of how useful the books and resources are to share with the people from Scottish Booktrust Reading Schools. You can either share at the gate at home time or drop me a quick email! Thanks in advance! :)

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Developing skills: woodwork and meta skills

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Developing skills: woodwork and meta skills

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We are continuing to develop wider skills, including meta-skills (which act as "brain superpowers" that unlock all other learning) by taking part in some simple woodwork activities. We have started with hammering which has helped us with the meta-skills of focussing and adapting, being able to bounce back from the frustration of hammering in small nails, and being resliient to complete the task! (Thanks to Mrs Brown's dad for refurbishing the old nursery workbench for us to use!) :)

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It's exciting to find your new digraph sound "ee" on your snack!

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We completed our learning in Data Handling by following on from our minibeast outdoor learning to working in pairs to survey each other about our favourite minibeasts. We then recorded the findings using tally marks and turned those tally marks into a pictogrpah/bar graph!

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We celebrated outdoor Classroom Day on 21st May by taking our learning in Maths outdoors. We had a "weather" story in the secret garden, then went on a bug hunt!

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We are continuing to embrace Waste Free Wednesday by creating our artwork on wipeable surfaces and photographing our work as a record.

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A lovely afternoon in the forest!

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A wee reminder it's dress down day tomorrow 😃

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We've changed our library day to Wednesdays so will be swapping books over tomorrow. Please let me know if you are unsure of what book your child has borrowed!

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We have begun our learning about Life Below Water, where we should be conscious about using our seas and waterways responsibly and sustainably. We watched a flim about life under water around Scotland. We then discussed what should and should not be in the water before making large collages to represent these discussions!

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There was no mud in the woods so we made our own! There's nothing better than muddy hands ♥️!

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Upside down fun in the Forest today!

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We all did a great job of long jumping to practice for sports day! We have practiced landing with bendy knees to avoid getting sore legs!

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We had our last session with David from YMI on Tuesday. We learned so much about pitch, rhythm as well as singing lots of new songs!

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We are enjoying practicing writing for different purposes, and have written letters to Emma the Hopetoun ranger to thank her for leading our fun mimibeast safari! We will post some of them next week! 😃

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We are continuing to learn about handling information by exploring tally marks as a quick way of recording data by grouping in bunches of five. We used lollipop sticks outdoors to successfully make tally marks to match number cards!

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We are heading into the forest tomorrow afternoon (14.05.26), so children should come wearing comfortable, warm(!) clothes with their school jumper. Children should have wellies to wear in school too please. Thanks :)

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Great fun at Hopetoun today, minibeast hunting and exploring the grounds! Huge thanks to Emma and her team for having us! 🐌🐜🪳

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We have arrived safely and have started our activities! 😃

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It will be helpful if children are sharp into school tomorrow morning so we can get everyone organised and into the bathrooms before we go! Fingers crossed for a dry day 🤞🌞

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Good morning! A reminder that we are on our outing on Friday and that details for payments have been shared on parent pay. Any questions please get in touch!

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minibeast Safari excursion May 2026 blurb

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We had another great visit to Ratho library today, listened to a story and borrowed some books to read in class!

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We have started our learning about Data Handling by exploring bar charts. We used the coloured Numberblobs to make the graphs, working out how many colours we had and comparing each column, thinking about "how many more" one column had compared to another! 😀

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We are planning on a Forest Fun session tomorrow, so children can come in comfy trousers and school jumpers please, thanks 😊

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Now we are coming into better weather (hopefully!), children should come to school with a hat and can have suncream with them too, or applied before school in the morning. They should be able to apply suncream themselves, but we can do it if they have a form signed by a parent or guardian. Forms can be collected by the office. Thanks

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Investigating subtraction using chameleons and bugs, and also slices of cake! We are all doing well with our understanding that we are removing itemsfrom a collection to make the collection smaller 😀

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We are having fun this week finishing off our learning about capacity with some outdoor learning, using coloured water, pipettes and various containers to talk about volume.

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Within Digital technologies this term we will:

use digital technologies to explore how to search and find information as part of our IDL learning about our communities

We will use the Ozbots and Beebots to understand the relationship between the symbols used to create instructions (forward/backwards/left/right), and how these simple robots will move to these instructions.

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28.04.2026

French

·         We will continue to embed our French counting skills to 10.

·         We will learn how to say our name in French

·         We will learn to say please and thank you and respond to how we are feeling

·        We will practice naming body parts in French

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Our RME learning this term will include:

New Baby Customs

·         We will be learning all about new baby naming customs.

·         We will become more aware of the importance of celebrations, festivals and customs in religious people’s lives.

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Our learning in Numeracy and Maths this term will cover:

·         We will count on and back and to add a range of numbers within 10, 20, 30 and beyond.

We will subtract within a range of numbers from 10, 20, 30 and beyond

·         We will work out solutions to addition and subtraction word problems (mental maths).

Topic Maths: Shape, Position and Movement

·         We will identify, describe and create symmetrical pictures with one line of symmetry.

·         We will use positional words to describe where things/people are.

·         We will follow oral instructions and describe a journey using left and right.

Topic Maths: Estimation

·         We will compare the amount of objects in one group to help estimate the quantity of objects in other groups.  We will check our estimate by counting.

Topic Maths: Information Handling

·         We will record information in a variety of ways.

·         We will use a diagram or chart to find one or more pieces of information.

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This term we will be learning:

Reading

·         We are continuing to hear and say sounds made by one, or two or three letters together, and to use our knowledge of these sounds and letters to read words.

·         We are learning to read aloud familiar texts, learning about simple punctuation as we investigate these texts.

·         We are learning to use context clues, such as pictures, to support our reading and understanding of different texts.

·         We are developing an awareness of some features of fiction and non-fiction texts and are learning to find information in a non-fiction text to learn new things about out IDL topic.

Writing

·         Following the Talk for Writing programme, we will create story maps of familiar stories and write the story using legible lowercase and uppercase letters.

·         We will also focus on alternate endings in our story writing, considering the characters and the plot.

We will make an information booklet on our favourite minibeast or plant, whilst making an attempt to use a capital letter and a full stop in at least one sentence. We will leave a space between words in our sentences.

We will recognise the difference between a vowel and a consonant.

Spelling

·         We will continue to work through our Literacy Rich spelling programme developing our ability to spell words.

·         We will be encouraged to remember the spelling rules applied to each new sound taught.

·         We will continue to work through our Literacy Rich spelling programme to spell a range of tricky words.

Listening and Talking:

·         In class, we will be continuing with opportunities to take part in Show and Tell. We will build confidence when presenting to our peers and this allows us to ask and respond to questions as well as show respect through good listening.

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Our learning this term in Health and Wellbeing will cover:

Physical Education: Athletics

·         We will learn to move at different speeds – slowly, steadily and quickly.

·         We will learn to use our bodies to jump in different ways.

·         We will learn to understand the basic rules of throwing.

·         We will learn to throw different objects at a target.

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Our new PE topic is Athletics and we have started with running, practicing relay running! Our teams were our houses, to practice for sports day! 😀

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Exploring capacity using the measuring jugs, bottles, cylinders and cups in the water tray. We estimated how many bottles and cups it would take to fill up different jugs then tested out our estimations!

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We completed our learning about electricity today but making a small circuit from a battery pack to a small lighbulb, before labelling a diagram of the resources we used 😀

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Welcome back! I hope everyone had a great holiday! Just a wee reminder that we need the home learning and home reader folders back in this week, along with any outstanding library books for tomorrow. Also, children should be back with indoor shoes! Thanks :)

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We completed our learning in gymnastics by putting together a wee routine together with the skills we have learned, using strength and control in balancing, jumping and rolling!

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We had a lovely afternoon in the Forest this afternoon, chatting, catching the rain and using engineering making elevators! 😀

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Huge thanks to Mrs Lawrie for bringing in 4 lambs from her farm. The children were interested to learn that they are only 1 week old, that they still need to be fed with bottled milk and that they live in barn until they are older and the weather gets a bit warmer! 🐑😀

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Continuing our learning around electricity, and how electricity can be made in different ways, we have experimented with static electricity, using tissue paper butterflies and a balloon!

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We are planning our last Forest Fun session for this term tomorrow (Wed) afternoon, and then we will be sending home the waterproofs and wellies! Children should wear the usual warm, comfy clothes with a school jumper, thanks 🌳.

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Super job everyone with your crazy hair and Easter bonnets! And well done to our winners 😀🐰🐣

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We have completed our learning about weight by being able to use the language of measuring weights and comparing the weights of vegetables!

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We have almost completed our learning in Gymnastics by beginning to put together a routine using all the skills we have learned so far, balancing, jumping and rolling!

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We love using the Uno cards to practice adding to 10, 20 and even up to 100 for some of us! Here we are practicing missing number problems. 🙂

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We learn our phonics in lots of fun ways, such as dice games, stampers, and whiteboard paddles!

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Dress down and Crazy/Spring Hair/Easter bonnets day!

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Dress down and Crazy/Spring Hair/Easter bonnets day!

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Just a wee reminder that it is dress down day tomorrow along with crazy/Spring hair/Easter bonnet day as well! Looking forward to seeing all the creations! :)

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We were fortunate to have a visit from RHET, the Royal Highland Horticultural Trust, as part of their Super Sonic Spuds project. We have now planted potatoes in a bag and a clear bottle to watch the roots and shoots grow. We must now look after them by feeding and watering them! 🥔🥔

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Our PE focus has moved onto Gymnastics, where we are learning to move our bodies in a variety of ways with strength and control. So far we have practiced balancing and jumping.

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We have begun learning digraphs and have moved onto the "sh" digraph (2 letters that make one sound). We are making words with the sounds on the magnetic boards, then writing the words and a sentence in our jotters ✍️ We have also been having fun practicing our spelling with SmartBoard games 😊

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We are so lucky to have David from YMI (youth music initiative) supporting our learning in music over the next 6 weeks. We have already learned 2 new songs and how to listen to a rhythm clapped out by David! 🎶🎵

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We had a lovely day in the sun for our Forest session! It was great to see so many signs of spring in our woodland 🌞🌱

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Thanks to all who supported Odd Socks Day to raise awareness of World Down Syndrome Day!

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Hi,

We are planning a Forest Fun session tomorrow afternoon, so children should come dressed for warmth and comfort and mud! Children, where possible, should also have their own wellies to be kept in school. We do have some spare pairs we can lend out!

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Our new story focus is Going on a Bear Hunt. Thanks to Ms Martin and Ms Stein, we had a reading of the story in Spanish first of all and were able to work out what the story was by hearing the rhythm of the story 😀 We have completed the story map and are now writing about our favourite part! 🐻

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We are now concentrating on weight for our learning in measure. We have been practicing using the scales together at the group table before being able to practice with them during self directed play!

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A wee reminder that library books can be returned today and every Thursday 😊 📚, thanks!

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Hi, looking at the weather forecast, Forest Fun is not going ahead tomorrow so we will reschedule for next Thursday! 🌧🌬🌲

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Hi,

Just a reminder that we have class photos tomorrow (Wednesday) so children should come dressed in a school uniform. Thanks!

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We have the opportunity to investigate measuring during our self directed play, with a measure provocation. A provocation is something that provokes interest, exploration, creativity and learning, and can be based on children's interests or planned learning. We are loving measuring with paper clips, cubes and lollisticks! 📏 📎 🧊

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We are continuing our learning about electricity, and sorted examples various appliances into how they are powered. We were all very successful in sorting the appliances!

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We had a fun session in the gym hall playing games with the parachute! There was great hilarity when the bean bags were flying up and out of the parachute 😄🪂

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Huge thanks to those who were able to make it along to our Pop in and Play sessions. We know how hard it is to juggle life in general, so we always appreciate your time and support! We hope you enjoyed sharing your child's play and learning 😀

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We are always looking for fun ways to practice reading and spelling our tricky words, this time rolling a dice to match a number pattern with a tricky word!

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We have begun our learning about measure, starting with length and height using non-standard units. We measured Cat in the Hat using cubes! We will explore standard units such as metres and cm next!

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We would like to say a huge thank you to the community police officers who visited us today, PC Brian and PC James! They were super friendly and fun, and answered our many many questions! We loved getting the opportunity to dress up in the police uniforms and trying on the handcuffs. 👮‍♂️🚔

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Some of us are consolidating our number bonds to 10, practicing all the ways we can build numbers to 10. We have practiced partitioning(breaking numbers into smaller parts) with practical resources, and are now recording the sums using mathematical symbols + and =.

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We are beginning to transfer our writing from whiteboards to a jotter! We are learning to structure a sentence using full stops and capital letters, while practice our CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) and tricky words. Look how well we did! ❤️

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We had a first try of a Scottish country dance during PE! We had great fun and did an amazing job at remembering each step in the dance! 👏

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On Wednesdays we do not use paper for our art projects, instead using perspex, whiteboards and chalk boards. We then take photos of our super art work. We often work together on our creations ❤️

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We have a planned Forest Fun session tomorrow afternoon, so if you have not already done so, can children bring wellies and waterproofs tomorrow. They can also wear old trousers with school jumpers and extra socks for warmth! Thank you 🙂

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We are continuing to learn about money by identifying the silver coins 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p, understanding the value of 1ps within each coin!

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Our story corner is an important place to be able to find quiet time to look at stories and take a break from the hustle and bustle of the class! 🥰

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Hi there, going forward, we are going to trial Forest on a Thursday, to see if it gives us more time to enjoy our activities in the forest. We will be starting tomorrow afternoon, so children can come wearing warm comfy joggers/trousers that will be suitable for both PE and Forest! Thanks you! :)

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We tried really hard and were very patient with our weaving activity! It took a while but we all got there in the end! 👏👏

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We have begun to explore our new topic of Electricity by taking part in a scavenger hunt around the class to find items that require electricity to work 🔌

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We have begun learning how to identify coins up to a value of £2, starting with 1p, 2p and 5p, by playing a matching game!

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To learn to spell and read tricky words, it takes lots of practice! We do that through both outdoor and indoor activities, including activity sheets 🙂

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We had great fun getting in the mood for Burns night, practicing our Scottish country dancing and singing along to Burns songs and poems 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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We made Roman brooches which were used to fasten Roman togas. We chose the shape and the decorations to make each one individual 😊 (please be careful of the safety pin!)

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Hi,

We are planning for Forest tomorrow , so, if you have not done so already, can we have wellies and puddle suits back into school please. Thank you!

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We have begun to use the Talk for Writing program for our writing activities. We learn a familiar story off by heart by using actions we have created. We can then transfer our story into a story map before writing down a favourite part. We chose Goldilocks and the three bears to concentrate on this time! 🐻🐻🐻