P6/7 River poems

P1/P2 Shared Education

Today we welcomed the children from St.Patrick’s primary School, Rasharkin to join us for a Nature Art morning. What a great display of artistic talent!

P1 and P2 virtual trip to Dromona

Paddington Bear travelled to the farm and Dromona Creamery with his camera to allow the children to see where our milk comes from. He even brought us back some delicious cheddar cheese and tasty Dale farm ice cream.

The Countryside

Our new topic for this term in P1 and P2 is all about ‘The Countryside’. The children have been learning about all the jobs to be done on the farm and in the garden centre.

Safer Internet Day

The theme for this year’s Safer Internet Day was “Want to talk about it? P6/7 used C2K Newsdesk to listen to other children talk about good ways to communicate and stay safe online. They then designed posters with top tips such as showing respect in how you communicate and who to talk to if things go wrong online.

P2 numeracy

P2 children have been learning how to count in 2s by making their own counting sticks and investigating with Numicon.

Outdoor Play

P1 and P2 enjoyed playing and learning outdoors today, making the most of the better weather. Once we read the story, “What will I build?” we set to work creating submarines, trains, castles and airports!

Thankful For...

As part of our health and well being program, P1 and P2 were making ‘thankful hearts’ to give out. Family, friends, our homes and food were some of the ideas that we came up with.

Picasso portraits P6/7

P6/7 created some cubist style portraits in the style of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

Izak 9

P6/7 have been working hard to learn about the relationships between decimals, percentages and fractions. They used Izak9 blocks to represent this.

P2 Numbers, Numbers Everywhere!

P2 children have been working hard to learn all of their number stories up to 6 and also investigate numbers to 20. Here are some pictures of them all hard at work.

P1 and P2 learn about Road Safety

During Active Travel week the P1 and P2 class have been learning about staying safe when out and about near a road.

P6/7 Viking at School

After reading Viking at School by Jeremy Strong, P6/7 created their own board games based on the book.

P3 and P4 World Around Us - WATER

Over the past few weeks P3 and P4 have been learning all about ‘Water’ in their World Around Us topic work.

Today they did four ABL (Adventure Based Learning) activities, about water.

  • Water tray - exploring capacity

  • Painting watery backgrounds for underwater sea pictures

  • Listening to water themed stories

  • Making a water wheel from K’nex

LONGBOAT MATHS

P6/7 used their maths skills to estimate and measure the length and width of a real Viking longboat.

They used sticks, lines and paces to help with their estimating, then used a trundle wheel to check. They discovered how accuracy is very important when measuring.

In class they discussed how to draw a plan of a Viking longboat using a scale. They also worked out the area and realised that sixty Viking sailors did not have a lot of room! Less than 1 square metre.



Viking Art

In Art P6/7 made model Viking longboats from cardboard.

They all look very realistic!

P4 and P5 MEASURE

P4 and P5 have been learning about ‘Measure’ over the past few weeks. Today they went outside to look for things that they could measure. P4 were using non -standard units to measure. They used a sting that was one metre long. They had to find and measure items that were one metre, less than a metre and greater than a metre.

P5 children were using metre sticks and rulers to measure items to the nearest centimetre and millimetre. Before they started their precise measuring they used the outdoor classroom to record their estimates.

P6 and P7 VIKING ARTWORK

In their topic work, P6 and P7 have been learning all about the Vikings. They have produced some very impressive artwork using various art techniques. Have a look at their colourful dragon heads and shields.

PDMU - WE ARE ALL SPECIAL

P1 and P2 have been learning lots of things about the other boys and girls in their class. They have been learning that each person has his/her own name and that makes them special. They have been learning how to show respect to each other and how to play with, and talk to each other