Primary 1/2 Kirklandneuk

Trip to Lunderston Bay

2011-06-09T08:35:00.008+01:00

As part of seaside topic, room 1 visited Lunderston Bay near Gourock. We had a wonderful time looking for seashore creatures and playing on the beach!

Seaside Topic in term 4

2011-05-25T08:22:00.003+01:00

Our topic this term is 'The Seaside'. We are all looking forward to learning about sea-life! We have changed our cooperative home-teams, room 1 now has 'Wonderful Whales', 'Super Starfish', 'Fabulous Fish' and 'Awesome Octopus' tables! Everyone has enjoyed working with new people in their groups.
Miss McCabe helped us to create our learning plan - we couldn't wait to get started! Room 1 have already made suitcases for Murphy, annotated maps and designed windbreakers. We have started to design our beach wall, and add items to our seaside shop!

Surprise Topic Unveiled!!!!

2011-03-23T16:29:00.007Z

Primary 1/2 were very excited and proud this week, because they got the chance to unveil their special topic to family and friends!
Professor Smart set our class the extremely hard job of recreating his dinosaur museum. We had to transform our class into a place where people could learn about dinosaurs. Room 1 had lots of tasks and activities to do - Professor Smart would write letters to tell us what he thought about our work.
We invited primary 6 and 7 in to see our class first. We really enjoyed bringing the older children into our museum! Mums and dads got the chance to come at night - and what a good time we had! Everyone was very impressed at the standard of work room 1 produced. Miss McCabe is so proud of every one of us! We have worked well as team to get the job done for Professor Smart.
Miss McCabe's mum was so impressed she made us a special dinosaur cake!!

Look at the photos below - doesn't our class look brilliant?!

Special Topic Continues....

2011-02-18T12:47:00.003Z

Room 1 have been kept very busy so far this term. Our friend, the 'Professor', has been giving us lots of jobs to do!
We have been working on our own, with partners, in groups and as a class team. Miss McCabe has been very impressed with our cooperative working.
Primary 1/2 were delighted that Mr Sloan, a geologist, visited our class during World of Work week. He spoke to us about things very important to our topic!
Look at the pictures below - can you guess what we are making for the Professor?!!

Term 3 Topic

2011-01-25T09:42:00.002Z

Primary 1/2 are busy working on a 'surprise' topic this term. Our class is very excited about the challenge we have been given by a mystery 'Professor'!
We have changed our home-teams, chosen new names and designed posters to help us work together cooperatively in groups.
Miss McCabe has taken pictures of us recording our learning plan and deciding on our 'big questions'.
Look at the pictures of our fact files and writing - can you guess what our challenge is?!

Rocket Videos

2010-12-21T11:22:00.005Z

Rocket Designs

2010-12-21T10:17:00.003Z

Miss McCabe thought she would set us another cooperative team challenge because we had completed our 'orbit' challenge so well! Each team had to design and make a rocket, using only the materials provided. We had to plan and draw our design first. Miss McCabe gave us tricky success criteria - our rocket had to have heat tiles, rocket boosters, an orbiter, engine and fuel tanks.

If you listen closely to our videos, you will hear our group leaders describing our work. We also go the chance to do the filming by ourselves - Miss McCabe showed us how to record using our class camera!

Team Challenge

2010-11-23T09:49:00.002Z

More videos from our team challenge! Miss McCabe said we worked really well together, remembering our social goals.

Orbit Challenge

2010-11-23T09:42:00.003Z

Our topic this term is Earth and Space. We are really enjoying learning about the planets. Miss McCabe set us a team challenge recently - after making our 'planets', could we show the correct orbit of the earth and moon? Look at our videos to find out!!

Active Learning in term 2

2010-11-09T10:17:00.004Z

Here we are working hard during active maths and language times. We are working cooperatively with our friends.

Cooperative Team Challenge - term 2

2010-11-09T10:12:00.003Z

Just like term 1, Miss McCabe set our class a challenge of forming new home teams. After being put together in new groups(our names were chosen randomly from a bag!) we had to choose a name, design a poster and create a celebrator! Each group had to make a ladder of success on their poster - we each had a step, and on the step we had to write what quality of ours would make our group successful.
We are looking forward to working with our new team mates!

RME in term 2

2010-11-09T10:06:00.002Z

Miss Paterson comes to our class on a Thursday morning to teach us RME. This term, we have been learning about the religion of Islam. Room 1 have been hearing important stories and Miss Paterson has been showing us clothing and artefacts from the Islamic religion.
Primary 1/2 have really enjoyed this series of lessons - we have learned lots of interesting things!

Expressive Portraiture

2010-10-26T15:27:00.003+01:00

Our class have been learning about expressive portraiture. We used mirrors and worked with our shoulder partners to recreate a surprised/ shocked look. We looked at each other to study how our faces changed when we showed emotion.
We used charcoal to create a striking effect - we got into a bit of a mess, but it was great fun!!

Our new class!

2010-10-26T15:21:00.003+01:00

Room 1 are so excited to be in their new class! Miss McCabe brought everything from our old room - it looks just the same!
It has been hard getting used to our new routines, but Miss McCabe says we are doing great!
Primary 2 have been doing a good job though setting a sensible example to the primary 1 children in the infant building.
Look at the photos of our new class!

Excellent Behaviour in Term 1!

2010-10-07T11:01:00.002+01:00

Everybody in room 1 received an excellent behaviour certificate this term! This means that we had no red traffic lights, and nobody had more that 5 other traffic lights! Miss McCabe is very proud of us - what a fantastic way to start the year!
Our class joined room 6 and 7 for our end of term reward - a fun party!

We can't wait to have a well earned rest during the October break - we have been working hard. Primary 1/2 are looking forward to starting term 2 in our new class!

Look below - some of us with our special certificates!

Food Technology in term 1

2010-09-30T08:14:00.007+01:00

As part of our technology programme this term we made healthy banana sandwiches. Our class practised skills such as cutting, chopping, slicing and spreading. This activity also helped us to write instructions - we have been working on this at writing times recently. Actually making the sandwich helped us remember the steps we needed to include in our writing.

We can practise ordering instructions on this website that we use in class:

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Visit from a Vet!

2010-09-21T08:18:00.003+01:00

As part of our topic, Mr Snadden came to talk us about his job - being a vet! We learned all about his patients, what tools he uses and tasks he has to do to keep pets safe and well. Our class joined rooms 6 and 7 to hear Mr Snadden. What an interesting afternoon!

Six Dinner Sid

2010-09-16T08:04:00.004+01:00

We have created a vets and pets shop in our class as part of our topic. We decided that we needed some information leaflets for customers to use. Here we are brainstorming our ideas using a carousel in our teams. We are working cooperatively with each other!

Gladigator Visit

2010-09-08T17:26:00.005+01:00

Room 1 were lucky enough to have a visit from Mr Gladigator recently. He visited our school to talk to us about oral health. He was very impressed with how much we knew about caring for our teeth! We had great fun talking to him and playing on his inflatable run!

Trip to Pets at Home

2010-09-08T08:55:00.014+01:00

While making our learning plan with Miss McCabe for our Six Dinner Sid topic, we decided a trip to a pet shop would help our learning. Miss McCabe organised a trip to Pets At Home.

Along with rooms 6 and 7, primary 2 from room 1 spent an afternoon with Paddy and Robert at the store. We were able to see all the animals and fish, go on a treasure hunt and take part in a workshop.

We had a fantastic afternoon and found out lots that will help answer our learnind questions! Murphy the Monkey and Barney Bear had a great time too!

Cooperative Team Challenge

2010-09-08T08:51:00.006+01:00

Miss McCabe set each group in our class a Cooperative Work Challenge recently. We had to work in our groups to create a poster that would let any visitors to our class know what our group names are. It was quite difficult for us at first, but with a little help from Miss McCabe we were able to plan and create our posters.

Everyone had to listen and cooperate. We had a time keeper, a materials manager, an encourager and an air traffic controller at each group to make sure we were kept on task. Miss McCabe was impressed at our quiet voices and helping hands!

As well as designing the poster with each group name, primary 1/2 also made name hands. We succeeded in our challenge - Miss McCabe has attached our posters to our desks. Don't they look fantastic?!

Active Learning in room 1

2010-09-08T08:40:00.008+01:00

As part of our Maths and Language programmes, we have lots of active learning activities. We enjoy lots of different things from using the computers and the Smartboard to using multilink and playing matching and bingo games. Room 1 is a great class with a water tray, sand tray and learning tent. Primary 1 have activity tables, and primary 2 have activity tables.

It is a great chance for us to work with different people in the class. Miss McCabe says we work very well at active learning times!

Primary 1 Buddies

2010-09-08T08:32:00.006+01:00

Primary 1 from room 1 have loved getting to know our new primary 7 buddies! We are so grateful that they have taken time out of their busy days to help us. Look at who has been visiting our class!

Settling into School Life

2010-09-08T08:22:00.002+01:00

Primary 1/2 have settled well into school life. We are all working hard and enjoying being in room 1! In our first week, we decided that we should have a set of rules for our class. This is to make sure it is a happy and safe place to learn each day. We want to be able to work and play happily together.

As well as thinking about how we work inside the class, we also thought about how we would behave outside the classroom. With Miss McCabe's help we chose our own 'quality indicators' to remind ourselves what our worktimes, listening times and lines should be like.Everyone who visits our class comments on how good we are at listening, working quietly and playing together co-operatively!

Primary 1 from our class have been helped to settle into school routines by their primary 7 buddies. They have enjoyed getting to know our buddies - the older children visited our class to read a story and they have also been playing games with us in the playground. When we went to the dinner hall for the first time our buddies gave some friendly reassurance and help when needed.
Look at the photos of our 'quality audience', 'quality line', 'quality work-time' and 'quality group-time'. We have been trying our very best!