Primary 1  Miss Skene                    Mrs Wilkes                 Mrs Settle

New Diary Dates     Fri 16th October - Mid-term break   Mon 26th Oct - Staff Resume Tues 27th October - CfE In-Set day for staff Wed 28th October - Pupils Resume 11th November - Individual and Family Photographs 25th November - Nursery Photographs 30th November - St. Andrew's Day Celebrations - wear some tartan to school!   Welcome to Primary 1!

Thursday 19th of November

 

Sarah - "I enjoyed colouring in my eye patch for Pudsey"

Emma - "I enjoyed writing the word Pudsey in the middle of my hat"

Dylan - "I enjoyed decorating my hat with my own colouring pencils"

Drew - "I like Pudsey and had fun decorating my hat, it was really fun cutting it out"

 

We are all looking forward to Pudsey day tomorrow!

 

Thursday 12th of November

 

The cats have just sent their very first e-mail to a very special person - Miss MacNaught!! 

 

Lauren - "I enjoyed making my fireworks pictures"

Jamie Mc - "I liked my fireeworks because it was colourful"

Angelique - "I liked swirling the chalks to make my firework"

Kaid - "I liked drawing my fireworks becasue it was lots of fun"

 

Sam R took a photo of our fireworks display for the website.  Sam says "I'm very proud of my photo because I managed to get everything in and didn't miss anything out"

 

 

 

Primary 1 loved Charles Darwin week - here are a few of their favourite bits...

 

Rebekah, Eesha, Sophie and Paige - "We liked planting bulbs because we liked putting them under the soil."

Jack, Laim, Drew, Devin and Kaid - "We liked finding the worm crawling on the top of our bulbs!"

Sarah, Hannah, Connor and Shannon - "We liked making and tasting the yummy bread...mmmmm!"

Emma, Jamie Mac, Kieran, Jamie Y - "We liked using our strong muscles to dig the soil out."

 

    Bradley, Emily, Arran and Kristy - "We mall liked digging in the mud and getting messy, we also collected wiggly worms!"

Keston, Abbie, Jamie, Callum and Eilidh - "We liked getting our wellies on and planting the bulbs because it was great fun!"

Sam, Jack, Robyn and Tyler - "We liked making the bread because it was really tasty."

Stephanie, Holly, Lia, Kiera and Paige - "We liked making the bread too because we liked eating it and we got butter all over our faces!"

 

Dylan, Kerry, Rebecca abd Rachael - "We liked planting the bulbs and watering them"

Sam, Hanna, Eve, Lauren and Amy - "We liked making the yummy bread because it was tasty with the lovely jam on top."

Angelique, Lara, Louise, Jordan and Isla - "We liked learning the Mr Darwin song and digging in the soil."

Ty, Fraser, Zach and Jacob - "We liked collecting all of the things outside and making pictures with them."

 

We all enjoyed the X Factor party when we learned the letter X!  We especially loved being the judges!!!

 

Week Beginning 12.10.09

 

Primary 1 loved Book Week - here are some of their comments...

 

Devin, Jamie Y, Jamie Mac and Drew - "We liked the hospital because we liked putting bandages on Mrs Settle"

Liam, Kieran, Liam and Kaid - " We liked looking at all the books at the Book Fair because we liked buying them."

Connor, Emma, Jack and Sophie - "We liked playing in the hospital because we liked being Doctors and Nurses."

Shannon, Sarah, Hannah and Rebekah - "We liked Little Miss Sunshine because we liked painting her."

 

Sam, Abbie, Robyn, Jamie and Kiera - "We liked Mr Bump's hospital because we get to help each other."

Kristy, Stephanie, Keston and Lia - "We liked the hospital because we can fix people."

Holly, Emily, Bradley and Jack - "We liked Little Miss Greedy's Cafe because we get to eat all the stuff like Miss Greedy does." 

Bradley, Paige, Arran, Eilidh and Tyler - "We liked making the Mr Men models because we could paint them."

 

Lauren, Lara, Angelique and Kerry - "We liked Miss Greedy's cafe because we like eating soup and pretending to be waitresses."

Zach, Jordan, Ty and Rachael - "We liked the Book Fair because we liked to buy the great great books like Dr Who and Jolly Phonics."

Hanna, Jacob, Sam and Amy - "We liked the Book Fair because there were lots of books to see there, we love our books to pieces."

Rebecca, Eve, Fraser, Louise and Isla - "We liked the hospital because we liked being Doctors and patients."

 

Week Beginning 05.10.09

Message from Mrs Wyroslawska

Thank you to all parents and other family members who came to Bee's Book Bonanza on Thursday. It was lovely to see so many of you. Bee's Books will start coming home after the October holidays. If anyone would like to come and help for an hour on Tuesday afternoons with this, please contact me or Mrs Strachan. 

As Mrs Wyroslawska said thank you to all of the family members who managed to make it to our 'Bees Book Bonanza'.  We were thrilled to see so many of you there and want you all to know that we really appreciate your continued support!  The children thoroughly enjoyed their performance and asked if they could do it all over again!! 

                                            

This week takes another new slant again - we will be taking part in Book Week where we will be focussing on Mr Men and Little Miss.  Please ask the children about Mr Bump's Hospital and Little Miss Greedy's cafe where they will be given opportunities to take part in exciting role play.  All of our lessons this week will focus on the Mr Men books - if you have any resources we could possibly use please write your name inside and pass them to one of the teachers, thank you. 

 

Parents' Evening is on Thursday 8th - if you do not have an appointment time please let us know.  We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

 

Week Beginning 28.09.09

 

First of all we would like to thank all of the parents and grand parents who managed to come into school to visit us on Wednesday and Thursday last week, as you could all see we were very excited to show you how independent we are becoming!  Our teacher's were very impressed and we were very proud of ourselves too. 

There will be a slight change in class over the next few weeks again - Mrs Wilkes will be teaching us our Jolly Phonics.  Miss Skene will be teaching us some Maths, where we will be beginning to use our knowledge of numbers 1-10 to work on some addition problems.  Mrs Settle will be teaching us about Harvest and will be introducing us to Discovery Dog who loves science challenges!  Please help us to remember our sounds and numbers at home and test us as often as possible - look out for new books and sounds!

We have been very busy in class learning a Bees song for the launch of 'Bees Book Bonanza' on Thursday 1st October (at 2.45 pm) and would love to see as many parents and grandparents in school again as possible.  We will sing your our super song and you can then help us to choose our very first book for sharing at home.  Adults can then enjoy a cup of tea, a yummy cake and a chat in the staff room whilst we get changed for home time.  Hope to see you there!

 

If possible, could the children please wear a black T-Shirt on Thursday? (dressing up as bees)  Thank you for your support!

 

Week Beginning 21.09.09

 

Jamie Y - "I have enjoyed playing with my buddies because they are nice to me."

Emma - "I liked making the jungle pictures because I like drawing jungles."

Sophie - "I liked helping Miss Skene becasue I like stapling things"

Kieran - "I liked playing with the Fire Engines".

 

We are all looking forward to our families coming into school to see us working hard on Wednesday and Thursday next week.  We will try hard to show you all of the exciting work we do in P1...bring your pencils because we might ask you to help us!!

 

Week Beginning 14.09.09

 

Sarah and Eesha liked having their buddies down this week because they helped us finish our posters.

Kaid "I liked writing about feeling happy in school".

Paige N - "I liked choosing a special person because Drew's very special".

   

Sam H - "I liked school this week because I liked learning about happy and sad"

Jack McK - "I liked learning how to handwrite because you can find out a way to make it fun!"

Arran - "I liked going to the dinner hall to eat my lunch".

Lia - "I liked going to the gym hall because I liked pretending I was in a space bubble".

 

Rebecca - "I enjoyed playing outside because I like playing with all my friends".

Jacob - "I liked eating my packed lunch in the dinner hall because I sat with my buddy".

Kerry - "I liked learning about Tiger Ten becasue he's my favourite".

Sam R - "I liked learning my phonics sounds because I like spelling words". 

 

 

Week Beginning 07.09.09

 

First of all we would like to remind parents that a photographer from 'The Courier' will be attending the school on Monday (7th) to take the children's photos.

 

We will be continuing with lots more hard work this week.  Mrs Settle will be helping us with our Jolly Phonics and we will be working hard on more letters and sounds - look out for a new homework booklet and please help us with our sounds.  Mrs Wilkes will be teaching us new numbers this week and will be challenging us to see if we can remember all of the numbers we have learned so far so help us with our numbers to 10 (including zero).  Miss Skene will be helping us to write about what makes us feel happy and on Wednesday we will have an exciting challenge to do all about growing up.  Please could you remind us to bring in a baby photo and put our names on the back so that we don't lose them.  This will be displayed outside our classrooms - we will upload a photo of this display soon.

 

On Friday in class we had the chance to look through the school website and here's how we have enjoyed our first full week in school:

Hannah and Drew from the Green group 'We enjoyed having our buddies down to help us.'

Emma and Shannon have enjoyed playing with the toys and making lots of new friends!'

  

Angelique and Isla enjoyed doing lots of hard work this week in all of the rooms.

Hanna and Lauren enjoyed going to the gym hall for PE.

  

All of the blue group wanted to say that they love all of their teachers!

Keston and Robyn liked going up to the hall to eat their yummy lunches all week.

  

 

Week Beginning 31.08.09 

 

First of all we would like to welcome all of the children and parents to Windyknowe Primary, we hope that you had a lovely summer! 

 

The children have settled in really well to primary 1 and are working hard to familiarise themselves with all of the rules and routines of the school.  As you are aware, the children will be taught by all 3 teachers everyday.  So far Mrs Settle has been helping us to consolidate our numbers to 5.  Mrs Wilkes has introduced us to Ginger Ted who will continue to help us with our listening skills throughout P1 and Miss Skene has been helping us with our Jolly Phonics - please look out for our s,a,t,i,p,n homework booklets and help us to practise these sounds.   On Friday we met our P7 buddies and had the opportunity to get to know them a little, lots of fun and laughter could be heard as we all chatted and some of us even told jokes!

 

The children are very excited to be coming into school full days as of Monday 31st August, hopefully there won't be too many sleepyheads in the afternoon...including the teachers!  Please ensure that your child has either a packed lunch or money for a school dinner.

 

Please remember to check school bags for this terms P1 newsletter.  We welcome your comments and will do our very best to reply to them (if necessary) as soon as we can!

  

Thank you to all of the Parents and Grandparents who managed to come to school for lunch on Thursday, it was lovely to meet you all.