Welcome back to another term. Hope you all had a restful break and enjoyed lots of family time!

We have been super busy in our first week back. We have learned new sounds, used finger lights during reading to help us follow the words, started making a book in Chromebook buddies and enjoyed lots of soft start activities.

We have also spent a lot of time during soft start making creations with our new ‘Kapla’ resource. Kapla is a brilliant ‘loose parts’ resource that encourages logical thinking, stimulates creativity and helps to develop concentration, patience and perseverance. We are loving it! The week began with lots of towers but after 4 days it was amazing to see their creativity develop!

A BOAT ☝️

A PERSON ☝️

A HOUSE ☝️

TRAIN TUNNEL ☝️

A PERSON ☝️

A DOG ☝️

A WHOLE CITY ☝️

As well as developing creativity and concentration it has been great to see the children develop our core values at Drakies. They have displayed amazing team work and determination! Well done everyone for an awesome 1st week back!

What a great party we had today with the P1s! Everyone was looking super smart!

We had lots of dancing, games and a huge feast of food after lunch! Thank you to all for the awesome food donations!

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🎅

We enjoyed our last parental visit to chat about jobs this morning. Thank you to E’s dad for coming in to talk about his job as a resuscitation officer.

We enjoyed hearing all about what his job involves. He also taught us some first aid. We learned how to do CPR (our teddies made fab patients!) and how to put someone in the recovery position.

We had a little change from books for our comprehension skills this week. We watched the John Lewis Christmas advert.

We worked on our prediction, reflecting, inference and understanding skills. We then chatted about the slogan “show them how much you care” and gave examples of evidence that supports this…

After watching and discussing the advert the P1s drew Edgar and thought of describing words or sentences while the p2s chose a scene and added dialogue. I was super impressed with the work!

We have one final parent volunteer coming in to chat about their job on Tuesday 17th December.

Please can all children bring a teddy to school on this day as the children will be learning a bit of CPR.

Thanks 🙂

We were so grateful to all the parent volunteers who came in last week to tell us about their jobs.

It’s important for us to learn about what jobs are available and the skills involved in these jobs.

We had great fun learning about being a: nurse, policeman, civil engineer, nursery nurse and blood lab technician.

The children learned loads and enjoyed hearing all about the different jobs. Thanks again to our fabulous parents!!

A letter went home last Thursday giving details about show costumes. If you have misplaced the letter please let me know asap!

Thanks 🙂

There will be no new homework given out over the next few weeks.

I have added ‘independent’ books into all children’s Bug Club accounts for children to do if they are looking for activities. Please let me know if there are issues with this or if your child has read all books.

Children should still have numeracy activities to do if they choose! 🙂

Yesterday we had a visit from the SSPCA. We were learning about how to care for rabbits.

We learned some fun rabbit facts, how to hold a rabbit properly and how to care for a rabbit.

We particularly enjoyed dressing up as vets!