Enter the Infant school at Deanbank, climb the stairs and you will notice a gorgeous hand-painted sign decorating the door on the left : The One-ery
Behind it, P1-aged children are not sitting at desks, as they might in a traditional P1 setting. Instead, they are engrossed in a plenitude of activities designed by staff to enhance the pupils’ learning in a play-based environment, while allowing for their own interests and creativity to shine through.
The children are free to move between the 6 zones in the One-ery, though at various times of the day they come together in small groups for specific target learning to be achieved. The following photos are just a glimpse of what some of the children chose to experience today.
Classic role-play on one side of the ‘Creative Zone’, ‘modern’ art on the other (if this photo was a video instead, you’d know that there is counting and higher-order-Maths thinking going on there!),
A remarkably calm room, the sensory zone allows children to experiment with all five senses.
It’s a busy space to be in – today you could choose between cooking (Banana muffins!) , wood work, bee-bots (early level computer programming) and model making, to name but a few.
…and where there’s a water-table, there’ll be tidying up to do too!
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So many different ways to enjoy reading!
Children use their named peg to mark the room they have chosen to work in.
South Morningside Primary School 