March 2025 – Primary 3

Monday 31st March

No new phonemes. Revise split phonemes and common words. Numeracy – fractions with a focus on halves and quarters. See homework tab for resources.

Outdoor Learning

We will be in the playground on Friday.

Literacy Information for P2C and P2E

Our writing focus for this week continues to be sentence structure. For this activity some pupils from P2C and P2E will be moving to another P2 class-for 30 minutes (3 times per week). We have already seen lots of positive progress in learners’ sentence skills and we hope this continues.

Mrs Carten, Miss Ellis and Mrs Findlay.

School will stop at 2.30pm on Friday 4th April. Children will be on holiday from Monday 7th April and will start back on Tuesday 22nd April.
We wish you all a restful break!

Monday 24th March

Homework: final split phoneme u_e as in ‘cube’, introducing/exploring concept of fractions and division – see homework tab .

Outdoor Learning: Friday, weather permitting. We will be staying in playground.

Literacy Information for P2C and P2E

Our writing focus for these next 2 weeks is sentence structure. For this activity some pupils from P2C and P2E will be moving to another P2 class-for 30 minutes (3 times per week). We have already seen lots of positive progress in learners’ sentence skills and we hope this continues.

Mrs Carten, Miss Ellis and Mrs Findlay.

New Catering System for ordering lunches reminder:

Teachers will also be able to order lunches in class.

Important Dates

Monday 17th March

Homework – split phoneme e_e , skip counting in 10s/10 x table, exploring multiplication (see tab).

Outdoor Learning – Friday: We will be staying on school grounds.

Literacy Reminder for P2C and P2E

Our Literacy focus is letter formation and writing in sentences using capital letters , finger spaces and full stops. For this activity some pupils from P2C and P2E will be moving to another P2 class-for 30 minutes (3 times per week). We look forward to the positive progress.

Mrs Carten, Miss Ellis and Mrs Findlay.

Important Dates

Spring Disco Information

Red Nose Day Information

New Cashless Catering System Information

We hope you find this information useful.

Rights Respecting Schools Article

Monday 10th March

Homework – split phoneme a-e, multiplication, 5 x table, see Homework tab

Outdoor Learning

On Friday 14th March we hope to visit The Foxes to go on a ‘Hunt for Spring’. Children should wear shoes that can get muddy, even if the weather is dry. A change of socks and trousers would also be a good idea.

Literacy

Our Literacy focus is letter formation and writing in sentences using capital letters , finger spaces and full stops. For this activity some pupils from P2C and P2E will be moving to another P2 class-for 30 minutes (3times per week). We look forward to the positive progress.

Mrs Carten, Miss Ellis and Mrs Findlay.