Countdown To Christmas
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 3
Welcome back to the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar.
For Day 3, Room 4 invite you to join their Christmas party. Get your party clothes on and enjoy some festive fun!
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 3
Welcome back to the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar.
For Day 3, Room 4 invite you to join their Christmas party. Get your party clothes on and enjoy some festive fun!
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 2
Welcome back to the Orchard Brae Advent Calendar. We hoped that you enjoyed our first instalment yesterday and today we have another festive treat for you.
For Day 2, pupils and staff from Room 10 have been very busy getting creative through their artwork!
Room 16 have been preparing their up-cycled Christmas jumper for Christmas Jumper Day next week. We made a Christmas tree template and stuck it onto our jumper then used our hands to paint on with green for the tree, red and yellow for the baubles and lights then we used a pom-pom to bad some gold sparkly paint for the star on top. When we peeled off the template we could see our beautiful tree! It gave us the opportunity to practise turn taking as we had to work one at a time on our jumper. We are excited to display it for all our friends to see and to see the other classes creativity with their eco-friendly jumpers.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 1
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, come along and join the pupils and staff from Room 5 in some snowball fun.
Please find below an updated version of the Orchard Brae Covid-19 Risk Assessment.
This document can also be found on the Covid-19 website page. https://orchardbrae.aberdeen.sch.uk/covid-19/
We had a lot of fun at Orchard Brae today, the Book Fairy visited us leaving copies of ‘A Boy called Christmas’ by Matt Haig around the school. The book is part of a nationwide book-drop to coincide with the film coming out today!
Lots of our classes had fun searching for the books, here are some of the ones we found!
Thank you Book Fairy (and Matt Haig), we will really enjoy reading the book during our school Winter Festival.
Room 15 have been learning about time by exploring when special events occur as part of our ASDAN (mathematics) work recently. We used symbol information to work out when different special events take place, including Fireworks night, St Andrews Day and Christmas, as well our class birthdays, and added this information to our calendars.
We’re now extending this with our ASDAN ICT project to use ICT to prepare for a special occasion – we’re filming our Christmas video! (Too early?!?)
We voted for our preferred song choice on the interactive board and we’re exploring different ways to share communication relating to the song – through signing, using our AAC, through our actions – and recording this together. We’ll also be using technology in our video, switching on Christmas lights and using a camera.
We’ve had lots of fun going through our Christmas resources too, lots of fabulous sensory opportunities with tinsel, hats, baubles and more!
This month room 14 have been learning about remembrance day and created a wall of Poppies to remember those who fell in conflict.
They cut apples in half and used these to print the Poppy shapes.
We think it looks great!
We hope all our pupils in Primary 1 are enjoying exploring the books that they received in their BookBug packs which were sent home recently. These are a free gift from Scottish Book Trust, and the three picture books they contain are those shortlisted for the BookBug Picture Book Prize.
Children are invited to place their votes for their favourite title either using the following link to vote through the Aberdeen City Libraries poll https://forms.office.com/r/r2M2bVuPbk or alternatively, directly with Scottish Book Trust by following this link Register and vote: The Bookbug Picture Book Prize – Scottish Book Trust.
Voting closes at 5pm on Friday 10 December 2021.
Aberdeen City Libraries have also launched a video, featuring a read-through of all three of the Picture Book Prize shortlisted titles, which can be accessed through https://fb.watch/9ugmSKuarm/.
Pupils in Room 3 have been exploring colour.
We each chose which colour of paint we wanted. We then added our colour to the pumpkin and rolled it down a ramp. When it landed on the Tuff Tray we heard a thump and saw the paint SPLAT.
Have a look at the PowerPoint below to see what happened.