DanceLive 2020

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If you’re interested in dance and movement and wondering what to do over the holidays, then maybe this is for you. 

Running from the 15th – 18th of October, DanceLive 2020 is a digital dance festival broadcasting online from Aberdeen. It will feature streamed digital dance performances, live streamed sharings and workshops, online live interviews and Q&As with artists. The digital delivery means that the dance performances can be enjoyed from the comfort of your home.  DanceLive is supported by Aberdeen City Council, Creative Scotland, and EventScotland, and is working in collaboration with Aberdeen Art Gallery. There will be short films screened at Aberdeen Art Gallery which you can watch if you are visiting the Art Gallery over the festival weekend. Have a look at our programme and see what there is to watch over the four-day festival.

Festival Tickets cost £7 for a day pass and £25 for a full festival pass which will give access to the whole four-day programme.

Visit the CityMoves website. https://www.citymoves.org.uk/dancelive-festival for more information.

One for the kids is Moon Capers by Shaper/Caper on SUNDAY 18TH OCTOBER 11:00am

The Professor Strikes Back

Age: 4-9 and families

Recruiting all Moon Cadets!

Meet Captain Caper and pilot Peppy and help them on their mission to the Moon. You will be requested to attend Space School in preparation for the journey of a lifetime: A trip to the Moon and Back!

Mission Possible: Rescue Moon Moo, the cow that can’t jump and get back home before bedtime.

3-2-1… Blast Off!

Room 13’s Intrepid Explorers

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Room 13 has been able to access the school bus and use it to take our students out and about and find out what’s happening in our city.

The students take it in turns in the bus, as per covid rules, to find interesting things that are going on and take back some photos for the rest of the school.

Our two intrepid outdoor correspondents this week were finding out what has been happening around the city coastline.

Wellbeing Workshop

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Please see the poster below regarding an online 6 week course facilitate by AndBreathe123, focusing on mindfulness, breathing techniques and other ways to help support your and your children’s wellbeing. This will take place online every Thursday from 29th Oct – 3rd Dec, 10 – 11.30am.

For more information or to book your place, please contact Ruth Hamilton, Family Learning Development Worker on 07387064465 or message on Facebook @ Ruth Family-Learning.

We Too! Magazine

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As many of you already know, We Too!  produce a ‘What’s On Guide’ for families and children with Additional Support Needs.  Prior to March’s lockdown, schools distributed this magazine to families on a quarterly basis.  However, due to current Covid-19 restrictions this is not possible at the present time.

We Too! have organised for the autumn issue to be posted directly from the printers to families for free. To request your free copy please subscribe via their website www.wetoo.org.uk by 8th October. 

Review of Aberdeen City Council Minimising Exclusion Policy

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Aberdeen City Council are currently reviewing their Minimising Exclusion Policy & Guidance and are consulting with families, staff and partner agencies to obtain feedback and inform a revised draft .

The policy and guidance can be viewed below:

As a mechanism for gathering feedback, we would be grateful is you could please take the time to make your views known via the following link:

Minimising Exclusion Feedback Form

Please note that this feedback form closes on 9.10.2020.

Health & Wellbeing In Room 6

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One of the things we have been focusing on this term has been making sure we are all feeling happy with all our classmates and teachers. So far we have done Yoga, gone for lovely walks, done some dance sessions, played outside and enjoyed chilling out at choice time. A special highlight of our day is our relaxation sessions just before we prepare to go home.

Room 12’s Busy Week!

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We have had a productive couple of weeks in Room 12.

One young man absolutely loved his new trike. It’s been quite a while since he’s been on one and he took to it like a duck to water. Chris Hoy needs to look out for competition!

We did some sensory art work. We did some spice painting. You can do this at home with whatever you have in your kitchen cupboards. Add spices/flavourings to different colours of paint. You can smell the paint, make pictures and in some cases see different textures of paint depending on what you use. We used vanilla flavouring, cinnamon, turmeric, chilli powder and ginger.

We also made some wool wrap leaves. We cut out some leaf shapes in cardboard (Amazon packaging comes in handy here!), making sure your leaves have jaggy or rounded edges. We used pastels to rub/colour in the leaves, then used wool to wrap around them. Some of us went extra fancy and did more than one colour of wool on our leaf.

Learning Through Play In Room 2

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Room 2 pupils all enjoy learning through play. On a Friday they have the freedom to choose what they want to play with. We observe our pupils confidently making their choices, playing alongside each other, observing the variety of play opportunities and selecting another activity to do, initiating communication and, most importantly, having fun.

What Have Room 10 Been Making?

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Outdoor Learning: We took a walk around the school grounds and collected items as the children saw them.  We came back to class to make ‘Natural Things’ panels, which you can see us making in the photographs.  We will use these panels to decorate our outdoor area.

Making instruments in Science and Music: We are making our own xylophones, one of which can go outside as it has been made from drainpipes.  We have rolled and used Sellotape, we have tapped to hear the different sounds we could make with our rolls.  We have used string to make knots. We are going to use some of our own instruments in class music and see what difference size and volume can make to notes and pitch.#