Elphy’s World of Work Conference

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The children have been working very hard to plan their conference, which takes place on Friday 2nd June. We have sent emails, made posters, worked out our program and thought about all the other little jobs which will make the day really special – like names badges and refreshments.  We now have speakers confirmed from Ross High, QMU and Edinburgh University.  The conference is for the children to attend as delegates but I am still looking for 1 or 2 parents who would be willing to speak about their own positive experience of training and the world of work.

We have a website for the conference –

http://sites.google.com/edubuzz.org/elphyworldofwork

This site has been set up by our IT team and is hidden from searches on the internet so the link must be typed in.

Mrs Hamilton

 

P3/4/5 Farm Visit

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P3/4/5 had a wonderful morning at Costerton Farm.  We saw some beef cattle and their calves, took a trailer ride through the fields, patted some lambs and sat on a quad bike and tractor.  We also learned about some of the jobs which take place on a real life farm.  We will use this visit as a starting point for our learning on farming.

 

Outdoor Literacy Learning

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After a cold few days it was lovely to get outside on Friday for literacy.  The children used their senses to listen, look, touch and smell items and record them on a sheet. We will add describing words to these nouns next week and use them to inspire our imaginative writing.

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Outdoor Literacy

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My Brilliant Body

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We had fun this afternoon discovering about our main organs and what they were for.  We worked in teams to lay out the organs in the correct place – on a real human body!

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Museum of Flight

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What a wonderful day we had on Monday!  We were very lucky that the Museum allowed us to visit and organised a excellent day of fun learning at such short notice.  Our thanks go to them and to our wonderful office staff who as usual pulled everything together with great efficiency.

A few photos of the day – Concorde was the highlight for most!

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P 3/4/5 Healthy Eating and My Brilliant Body

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We finished our Health and Well Being topic of Healthy Eating by designing a plate of food based on the Eat Well plate.  The children tried hard to include food from each of the important food groups – ask them what they are!

We have now begun work on our new Inter Disciplinary Learning topic – My Brilliant Body.  We began by learning about some of the main bones in our body and building a skeleton in our home teams.  I wonder who can remember some of the proper names for our bones?

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Healthy Eating in P3/4/5

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I have now managed to get the class link up and running so all my future posts will be here rather than the main school page.

We have started the year with a healthy eating focus.  The children have kept a food diary for a week and we have linked this with our learning about the Eatwell plate to identify how many portions we eat each week from across the food groups.  The children then discussed what they could eat more of and what they could cut back on!

On Wednesday we tasted some fruit and vegetables and I was delighted to see some children trying and enjoying food they had previously said they disliked or hadn’t tried before.

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Thank you!

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Thank you so much to P3/4 parents and children for all the lovely gifts, beautiful cards and very kind words! I was overwhelmed by your generosity! What a lovely class and school to end my career on. It’s been fun! I’ll miss the children dreadfully! Have a great summer. I promise to visit you sometime.

Love from Karen x

 

Treasure Island

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This term, the class have listened to and read an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous book, ‘Treasure Island’.   Jim Hawkins sets sail searching for buried treasure and adventure, and finds himself caught up in a deadly mutiny. He manages to outwit the cunning pirate Long John Silver in order to stay alive! An exciting plot!

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This has been a very popular book. The children have loved reading about all the characters, and the many twists and turns in this adventure story. As well as being a Literacy theme, ‘Treasure Island’ has led to many other lessons in Maths, Social Studies and Expressive Arts.

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We learned how authors like Stevenson build up suspense in their story, and that good description helps to create a picture in the reader’s mind. The class enjoyed writing their own exciting pirate stories. 

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 After reading Treasure Island, we made puppets of all the characters from wooden spoons. Everybody made a pirate puppet and chose one or two other characters from the story. The puppet show was great fun with lots of action and scary pirate voices! Everybody took turns for the main parts and  the narrator in the different scenes. People were very resourceful with props for our play! 

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Rockpool Rambling!

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P1-7 enjoyed a school trip to North Berwick Seabird Centre for indoor and outdoor workshops. We first watched a PowerPoint on the type of marine creatures that we might find in the rock-pools at low tide. We learned their names, what they looked like and what each creature feeds on. 

With support and guidance of the Seabird Centre staff, the children spent the morning enjoying exploring lots of rock-pools at the beach beside the Seabird Centre. It was great fun but some of us were over-enthusiastic wading into the rock-pools and managed to get soaking wet! We had to look hard as the creatures were very well hidden and camouflaged. We collected what we had found in trays so that we could see the creatures more clearly and then returned them to the rock-pools afterwards.