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P2/3 Health Week Day 4

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Fenwick Primary School Health Week
23rd – 27th May 2022

Orienteering

Primary 5/6 planned and led an orienteering challenge for the lower school. The class were split into teams with some P4/5 leaders in each team to help them. They had to find all the puzzle pieces to create an image. The first team to be successful were rewarded with 5 house points per pupil in their team.

Garden

Primary 2/3 enjoyed exploring the garden. They worked fantastic in groups to create their own mud kitchen masterpieces and duplo creations.

Hexagol
Kilmarnock Football Club Community Trust

Primary 2/3 had great fun in the Hexagol as always thank you to the coaches from Kilmarnock Football Club’s Community Sports Trust. They ran off lots of energy.

Nutrition Talk
Parent Helper

We were lucky to have a parent helper in to discuss nutrition with the class. She discussed a balanced diet and the benefits of different nutrients for out bodies. Primary 2/3 pupils then created their own balanced meal and shared them with the class.

 

P2/3 Health Week Day 3

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Fenwick Primary School Health Week
23rd – 27th May 2022

Tennis
(Kilmarnock Tennis Club)

This morning P2/3 braved the weather and enjoyed participating in tennis out on the courts. The session was delivered by two coaches from Kilmarnock Tennis Club.

Dance
(Parent Helper)

After tennis the pupils enjoyed participating in a dance session along with P3/4 delivered by one of our wonderful P1 parent helpers.

Team Games
(Active Schools)

This was followed by fun team games in the playground delivered by Lynsey Hogg from Active Schools.

Golf
(Miss Jaffrey)

This afternoon, P2/3 were lucky to enjoy a golf session outdoors where they played some competitive team games. This was delivered by Fenwick’s very own golfing star, Miss Jaffrey.

P2/3 Look at our literacy work

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Spelling

Primary 2/3 enjoyed the sunshine today by going outdoors to practice their spelling words.

Reading

Primary 2/3 have started learning about the visualisation reading strategy.
They have been super visualisers by highlighting key words including adjectives in a piece of text which help them to create a picture in their head of what is happening.

 

 

P2/3 Outdoor Learning

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Outdoor Learning
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

Primary 2/3 took their learning outside this morning. They started off by completing a paired scavenger hunt in the school garden looking for images which showed different parts of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch story. Then they went into the playground to place their pictures into the order in which they happened in the story. After this, they collected natural materials from the garden to create a lovely picture frame around their storyboard. Finally, a couple of the pairs shared their story board and frame with the rest of the class and discussed how they completed their final piece of work.

Pupils taking part in their scavenger hunt to find the pictorial representations of the story.

Pupils discussing the correct order of the story and then creating a natural picture frame around their storyboard.

Pupils discussing their storyboard and frame with their peers.

P2/3 Outdoor Learning (IDL)

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Outdoor Learning
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

As part of our IDL topic we are focusing on the book called The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. Today we took our learning outdoors and discussed the different things that Mrs Grinling included in Mr Grinlings lunches. The pupils were able to identify the healthy lunch items and the not so healthy lunch items. Following this, they learned about different vegetables that can be planted at this time of year and how they grow. Pupils then followed instructions to prepare the soil and plant seeds (runner beans, carrots and parsnips) which we will continue to look after and harvest closer to the summer.

The pupils also had excellent fun using the mud kitchen to retell different parts of the story. Some pupils made coffee and peach surprise just like Mrs Grinling did for Mr Grinling.

‘Go and get more water for his coffee!’
‘We are going to make the best peach surprise ever for Mr Grinling.’
‘We need fruit for our peach surprise. Look at this!’

P2/3 – Positional Language

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Last week we began to learn about positional language and how important knowing these words were.  We came up with a list of important words.  Here are some we thought of: left, right, forward, backwards, beside, under, on.

Today, P2/3 came up with long list of jobs in which people need to use positional language. Here are a few examples, police officers, ambulance drivers, nurses, doctors, pilots, taxi and bus drivers.

We have been using positional language to direct each other in the playground to different coloured markers, to find objects on a treasure map with the help of Lego figures to help with left and right and becoming familiar with using the Beebots.

P2/3 Learning Update

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Primary 2/3 Learning Update

This week in Primary 2/3 we have been working really hard and lots of the pupils have really challenged themselves in their learning producing some excellent standards of work. See below for a little update about some of the things we have been learning about.

Literacy

In literacy primary 2/3 have been learning about nouns. They worked collaboratively to complete a noun hunt in the classroom and in the playground before attempting their individual tasks. Primary two were able to identify and use nouns for places, people and things. Primary three extended their learning further and learned about proper nouns and common nouns. They learned the rule that proper nouns always begin with a capital letter. 
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Numeracy

Our focus in numeracy at the moment is number and the four operations. some pupils have been creating calculations for their peers using Numicon and other pupils have been learning about the vertical written method for addition (chimney sums). All pupils have been highly engaged with this and have really impressed me with their enthusiasm and their efforts.
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P2/3 Maths Week Scotland

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Unfortunately I had a few issues when trying to upload photos last week so please have a look below at what we got up to in class

Primary 2/3 went on a pattern hunt around the school then created their own patterns in the garden.
The children noticed lots of patterns such as the squares in the windows, the bricks on the wall, the metal railings outside.
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