Welcome back everyone. It was so lovely to see all the children again yesterday and hear all about the holidays! We loved hearing all about the carrot challenges yesterday and today. Thank you to everyone who emailed/tweeted/sent in photos (someone even got the photos sent to them in the mail by Granny! Excellent effort! ). …
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Carrot challenge
Today some of us harvested the carrots we planted last year! We couldn’t believe how many grew or how big they were! They have been set a homework challenge over the holidays to create something with the carrots…we thought about soup, mince and tatties, cakes/muffins or just as sticks with a wee dip! We would …
Busy bees
Here is a round up of the last few weeks! Soft start Literacy Last week the P1s practised all the sounds they have learned so far. This week they learned c/k and e while the P2s learned ‘ng’. They thought of lots of ‘ng’ words! Summary of ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ Numeracy Lots more work on …
Aigus Field Centre Visit
We had a great session with Aigus Field Centre this morning. We learned about hibernation. We played a game where we had to act out animals that hibernate to the other team. We learned that butterflies, frogs, bats, snakes and hedgehogs all hibernate. What fun! Then we made hedgehog homes. We collected lots of leaves …
Highland heroes
We have been nominated for school of the year at this year’s Highland Heroes awards woohoo! Please vote for Drakies using the link below… https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/highland-heroes/ Thank you! 🤞🙌😬
Sponsored walk
We had a lovely afternoon doing the sponsored walk yesterday. And the sun shone! The children were all really enthusiastic and were great at supporting each other. Some of them were still full of energy and wanted to run some of the way! Well done everyone! Big thanks to all the parent helpers too! 🌟👏😊
Week 5
It was a short but busy week last week! The p1s went on a sound hunt and tried to find their sounds written in words around the school. The p2s were looking for capital letters and the ‘sh’ sound. They brought the IPads to take photos of their findings. We were working on place value …
P1 homework
Phonics This week we are consolidating our 6 first sounds. Please use this week to practise the sounds at home. We are spending a lot of time this week word building so you can use the sound cards to make words for the children to try and read. Don’t worry if they find this hard…it …
Half way there!
Wow we are half way through the term! How did that happen?! This week the children have been enjoying more soft start activities. It has been great watching the P1s have a go and be inspired by the p2 phonics activities. I have also enjoyed watching the children lead their learning. Some made vehicles out …
Tesco trip
What a wonderful experience we had going to the Post Office on Thursday. The children were super excited! When we arrived we split into groups with a letter each. The children chose to write to Julia Donaldson, The Queen, Drakies Nursery and Mr Callander. The children asked for prices for stamps and then worked out …
