Author: Amy Dunnett

Countdown To Christmas

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Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 5 and 6

We are delighted to share the next instalment of the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar with you.

For Day 5, the Ashgrove AM Nursery are sharing ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ from their Nativity.

For Day 6, Room 19 are performing ‘I Am Giant’ in Makaton. This also features music composed by one of the pupils during Music Therapy sessions and by the magical wonders of technology, he has been able to join in with his class performance from home!

Countdown To Christmas

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Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 3 and 4

We hope you enjoyed the first day of the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar yesterday and we are delighted to share the next instalment with you.

For Day 3, Room 3 bring you a very special sensory retelling of Twas The Night Before Christmas.

For Day 4, Room 14 perform ‘I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas’ featuring a great vocal accompaniment from one of the pupils.

Countdown To Christmas

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Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Days 1 and 2

Welcome to the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar. Everyone throughout the school has had great fun creating these videos and we hope that you enjoy them and they help to bring you some festive cheer in the countdown to Christmas!

For Day 1, Howes Road AM Nursery perform ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ from their Nativity show.

For Day 2, Room 2 bring you ‘Gingerbread Men Attention’ featuring some very snazzy outfits they made themselves.

A Busy Time In Room 6

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Storytime

Room 6 have a “story of the month” which we listen to after lunch. Last month’s story was The Gruffalo. Here we are colouring our Gruffalos, cutting them out and showing them to each other!

Get Well Soon!

We made “Hope you’re feeling better” cards for a special friend. We collected things at Outdoor Education and then chose what we wanted to put on our pictures. Then we wrote our names on our pictures and sent them to her.

Christmas Countdown

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One one more day until the launch of the the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar.

Starting tomorrow, our extra special advent calendar will help to get you in the festive spirit! Each day in the run up Christmas will feature two special treats from pupils and staff at the school.

This will be shared both on the website and our Facebook page, so get ready to join in the festive fun!!!

Thank You

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We would just like to say a huge thank you to the Friends Of Orchard Brae for this wonderful hamper full of hand creams that they kindly gave to staff.

Their kind gesture is very much appreciated and these will be distributed to staff at the beginning of next week.

Christmas Countdown

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Time is flying by and before we know it, Christmas will be here.

To help get you in the festive spirit, we are delighted to announce the launch of our very own Orchard Brae Advent Calendar! Starting on Saturday 12th December, each day in the run up Christmas we will bring you two festive treats from pupils and staff at the school.

This will be shared both on the website and our Facebook page, so get ready to join in the festive fun!!!

Exploring Maths In Room 10

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Room 10 have been busy investigating measurement using different materials.

We used connecting blocks and joined them together to see who make the tallest group of blocks and worked collaboratively to create the longest group.

We also took maths out into the playground, measuring the length of lines using leaves and other materials and comparing our heights to the width of the path. There was also an impromptu lesson on volume and capacity as we watched the dumper truck put a tonne of sand into our sandpit!

Celebrations In Room 4

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Room 4 has been very busy celebrating different events and successes over the last few weeks.

We have been getting ready for Christmas! We have put on our festive clothes and hats and made Christmas ornaments to decorate our class tree!

We made decorations with our footprints and hand prints and we enjoyed the sensory play with the paints.

We made the Scottish flag to celebrate St. Andrews day.

In Room 4 we have been developing our skills when using our trikes. We enjoy going on our trikes and finding new ways of keeping active!