Clothing bank is back again
Orchard Brae have restarted the clothing bank. We can provide preloved school uniform items for our pupils. This can also include warm jackets and blankets, depending on what we have in stock. Please either pop into school to view our collection or contact the school office directly if you wish us to send something home with your child. Alternatively you can email Ru Mason or Gill Moffat directly.
We are also gratefully accepting donations of good quality school uniform items that your child might have outgrown. Please send these into school and ask for them to be passed along to the office or Room 17.
gw20masonruana@ab-ed.org – Ru Mason
gw09moffatgill@ab-ed.org – Gill Moffat
Room 18 Outdoors
In room 18 we have been trying to get out enjoy the best of the weather before the cold weather sets in. Here are some of the activities that we have been participating in.
Room 19 Life Skills
As the term progresses all pupils have had a chance to try out different work experience tasks in school. They are becoming more comfortable with their roles and responsibilities and are clearly concentrating on their tasks.
Ashgrove Nursery Room 1 – Term 1 and Settling In
It is lovely to have all our returners back and we have welcomed some new friends too.
We have been busy exploring our new Nursery Playroom since returning after the summer holidays. Fun activities include: going out for walks and trips to our local park, weekly drumming sessions with Keith and making playdoh which involves getting very messy!
We are focusing on Myself this session, and are learning about our body parts through singing, sticky kids, painting with our hands and feet and learning how to brush our teeth.
Music With Scott
We play music with Scott, experimenting with different instruments and the sounds they make. One of our pupils is really fond of the drum sounds what this drum machine makes. We practice to identify emotions and how to recognise them. This will help us to better understand how others and we feel.
We are ordering the numbers from one to ten to practice our numeracy skills.
Looking For Autumn In Room 2
In Room 2 we love to go out in the community for nature walks, exploring the world around us and how things change with the seasons.
This week we enjoyed exploring the signs of autumn.
We found some conkers and enjoyed playing with their spiky shells before cracking them open to find the shiny, brown conker inside.
We also enjoyed collecting leaves that had changed colour from green to yellow, red and brown.
We took some back to class to investigate their texture and smell.
Fruits of the Forest!
Adventures with Supertato in Room 10
Room 10 have been very busy immersing themselves in this term’s book study, Supertato!
Week one we introduced ourselves to Supertato with Super Squad, with a birthday cake themed playdough for sensory play and a birthday themed bucket time. We introduced story massage and found this has positively supported engagement in story activities for our class – any Room 10 families wanting to try this at home can find lots of resources on our class Google Classroom.
Week 2 we explored the original Supertato story, with Evil Pea playdough sensory play, bouncing and spinning movement activities and lots of messy jelly fun for our Monday literacy session. Our Monday sessions have seen us teaming up with Room 9, which is a fab opportunity for us to practice our social skills with a larger group of friends.
Week 3 we checked out Supertato: Books Are Rubbish, creating masterpieces with glow in the dark paint, built and knocked down towers, engaged in torch play, glow sticks and light up toys for bucket time, and a jelly obstacle course for stage three (shifting attention and turn-taking), which wasn’t anywhere near as messy as it could have been!
Last week we had a bubble exploration session with veggies hiding in the foam, bubble blowing art, bubble wrap art, bubble popping movement activities and bubble sensory play. We even had a bubble themed bucket time! This gave some fabulous opportunities to not only explore this week’s Supertato story, Bubbly Troubly, but also gave us a chance to explore core communication skills (MORE bubbles please!) and practice regulation skills (relaxed breathing with blowing bubbles). Not to mention lots of fun!
All of this is alongside the focused efforts on settling in to a new class and building relationships with others around us. We’ve had some great fun with our Friday jam sessions with Room 9, we suspect the fun could be heard for some distance but that’s just part of the fun – we’ve been making friends, exploring rhythm and practicing our early signing skills.
Where will our Supertato adventures take us next? Watch this space …
How To Catch A Star With Room 8
‘How To Catch A Star’ by Oliver Jeffers
Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? It is enough to make a boy want to give up! Yet sometimes we discover things aren’t where, or what, we expect them to be.
The pupils in Room 8 decided the boy is a superhero, followed him through the story and admired his persistence in making his dream a reality. We learned from him being inventive as him in his attempts to catch a star, waiting from sunrise to sunset for a star to appear. We all also appreciated his patience and determination.
We went further and experimented how to power a spaceship with just a drop of hand wash liquid.
So, during Science, we cut a rocket shape out of a carton with a little space for the ‘engine’. When we added a drop of soap in the hole, it pushed the water out, backwards. The water moved out the back of the rocket and pushed it forward.
Fun, fun, fun!