Settling into School Life

Primary 1a has settled well into school life. We are all working hard and enjoying being in room 1! In our first week, we decided that we should have a set of rules for our class. This is to make sure it is a happy and safe place to learn each day. We want to be able to work and play happily together.

As well as thinking about how we work inside the class, room 1 also thought about how we would behave outside the classroom. With Miss McCabe's help we chose our own 'quality indicators' to remind ourselves what our work-times, listening times and lines should be like. Everyone who visits our class comments on how good we are at listening, working quietly and playing together co-operatively!

We have also been talking about the rights and responsibilities we have as children. Although this has been quite hard for us to think about, Miss McCabe says we are doing very well – our class has been able to think about ideas for our own class charter to go alongside our ‘qualities’.

Each week, a very special member of our class gets to visit somewhere exciting! Murphy the Monkey watches all week to see who has been working hard and trying their very best. He chooses who he would like to go home with for the weekend. Primary 1a has looked at his photo diaries from previous years - we loved hearing about his adventures with other children! We are all hoping Murphy will come home with us soon!