Author Archives: Drakies Staff

We are going to be learning about how our bodies have developed since being a baby. If possible, please can your child bring in 3 photos showing them as a baby, a toddler and a more recent picture. Can you please ensure all photos have names on the back. These will all be returned. CanContinue reading “Photo request (updated)”

As well as celebrating progress and success achieved in school, we like to share our wider achievements from outside of school too. In our Learning Folders we have a space to display any of these achievements alongside our in-school targets. If you have any achievements that you would like to share with us and addContinue reading “Wider Achievements”

We are going to be learning about how our bodies have developed since being a baby. If possible, please can your child bring in 3 photos showing them as a baby, a toddler and a more recent picture. Can you please ensure all photos have names on the back. These will all be returned. ThankContinue reading “Photo request”

Thank you to everyone who managed along to the Open Afternoon on Wednesday. It was lovely to have so many attend and to see the children so excited and proud to show off their learning. Hopefully I was able to answer any questions that you may have had but if not then please do notContinue reading “Open Afternoon”

On Thursday next week (20th) we will be spending most of the day outside to start work on a project with the ELCC. Please can you send your child to school with suitable clothing and footwear for all weathers! (warm and waterproof clothing and footwear!) Fingers crossed Storm Dennis will not be joining us andContinue reading “Outdoor learning”

A big well done to Hudson for getting the P1 Star Award this week. 😊🌟 He has showing two of our school values this week – respect and determination! Keep up the fantastic effort Hudson 👍

We continued to look at the ‘Cecil the Spider’ text this week. We worked in pairs or independently to create our own story maps and then used them to re-tell the story to the class. Today we had a go at changing one thing in the story and adding our own ideas. We will completeContinue reading “Cecil the Spider”

This week’s star award was given to Emily for being a kind friend and showing determination to complete her work. Well done Emily 😊👍⭐️

Following our learning about night and day we had a go at creating our own starry night paintings inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. We started by learning a little bit about the artist and looking at some examples of his work. We then painted our own starry night backgrounds using swirling brush strokes and nightContinue reading “Starry Night ⭐️🌙”

Monday marked P1’s 100th day of school! We had lots of fun doing different ‘100’ activities to celebrate! We started the day with a 100 themed soft start! This included a teamwork task of building 100 cup and 100 pieces of Lego structures, painting 100 dots, drawing a 100 monster, writing numbers to 100, makingContinue reading “100th Day of School!!”