Category: Community Learning

Community Learning

Room 12 Experience Halloween

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Room 12 have enjoyed celebrating Halloween. We have explored the insides of pumpkin, tolerating and experiencing the different textures, the bright colour and the smell.

We used paint to decorate our pumpkin, mixing the colours and using different sponges and brushes to create texture and colour.

We experienced the school Halloween disco. Some of us chose to dress up, whilst others enjoyed the lights and music.  There was a fun atmosphere.

Santa Parade

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Our local Dobbies (Aberdeen) on the Lang Stracht is hosting a Parade for Santa’s arrival on Sunday 24th November at 11am. The short Parade will start from our warehouse and move round to the Main entrance door all on flat ground, led by Pipers and drummers, Santa, Dobbie our Reindeer character, 2 donkeys (real ones), and dancers.
 
They would like to invite some children from the school to join the parade. If your child would like to join in please let us know and we can pass the information onto Dobbies.

BBC Reporting Scotland – Makaton Choir

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In case you missed our wonderful Makaton choir on BBC Reporting Scotland last night, you can download it using the link below (we’re on 22 minutes into the program).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0009y3j/reporting-scotland-evening-news-29102019?fbclid=IwAR2X5AqXNbx7Za1lZxYNVxxjNArUcHqaMvI3SnwzMAfuH7moMUuo0EzXnVQ

 

A Visit To The Library

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Room 4 recently enjoyed a visit to the Central Library in Aberdeen.  While they were there they took part in a multi-sensory story time session and everyone had a fantastic time.

Thank you to the library staff for hosting this session for us!

Exploring Movement In Room 2

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Visit To The Duthie Park

As part of our moving world topic this term, we have been exploring different ways in which our bodies can move and make other things move. We had great fun at Duthie Park moving and playing with the equipment. We used lots of different forces such as pushing, pulling and twisting to move ourselves and things around us.

You can see in the picture that we were really excited when we stood very still and the frog moved out of the water to say hello!

We have also been learning about how to travel in and out with school safely both on our feet and on school transport. You can see that we really enjoy sitting on the bus with our seat belts fastened and ready to go!

Movement through Art

We have been further exploring cause and effect of forces and movement in art where we have been moving different materials to make pieces of art. We had great fun moving toy vehicles through paint to create some interesting track patterns.

Rotary Shoebox Appeal 2019

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As a school we feel that it is very important for our students to support others within the wider community and in some cases, some of the most deprived countries in the world.  Following on from this, the staff and students in Howes Hoose are organising the Rotary Shoebox Appeal this year.

You do not have to send in any money and we are not asking for families to fill a shoebox but rather send in donations from the list shown below.   This will allow our students to organise and fill the shoeboxes in school.  We have found in previous years that the best way is to buy a multi-pack of an item and we will divide these up between boxes.  The items do not have to be expensive and could be things you have at home which you no longer want, so long as they are in good condition.

If you could please send donations in by Friday 1st November to allow the students time to pack them up ready for collection on the 8th November so they can be distributed in time for Christmas.

Thank you once again for your amazing support.

 

Macmillan Coffee Afternoon

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Howes Hoose, supported by their friends from Room 19, led a very successful coffee afternoon today. Well done to all of the pupils and staff involved in making this such a successful event, and thank you to everyone that came along to join in the fun and support Macmillan Cancer Support. Our pupils were very busy throughout the afternoon, setting up, keeping the tables cleared, and topping up the cups. Hopefully they all had time to have a chat with their guests too!

Thank you for joining us and making our afternoon such a success!

Room 5 Visit The Library

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Room 5 had a busy morning, visiting our local library at Northfield.

When we arrived, we spent some time exploring the library.  We really liked the computers and colouring in table!  We then met the librarian who gave us a library card for our class and we chose some books to take back to school.

We can’t wait for our next visit to the library.