We are urging all families to return any books they may still have at home that belong to Fenwick Primary School, particularly books from our Bug Club reading scheme or copies of class novels. See information below to find out how to return these. Thank you!
Book Amnesty – Click here to view the poster below in a larger format.
Today the Primary 2/3 pupils enjoyed a football session delivered by Callum from CP Fitness. They participated in several skills based practices focusing on dribbling and passing. The pupils did a great job and had lots of fun.
HWB School Improvement Pupil Committe – Worry Box
Some representatives from the HWB School Improvement Pupil Committee then visited our class to deliver and introduce a worry box. This has been delivered to all classes based on feedback from what pupils would like to see in our school.
On Friday morning Mrs McFarlane visited our class to teach us all about how science links to music. She had three very helpful Primary 7 pupils helping out and showing off their talents. Mrs McFarlane explained and demonstrated how sound travels which was really interesting and the children were so engaged. They learned that sound can travel through water and their body through a couple of experiments. They also learned that sound waves make vibrations and enjoyed this experiment the most.
In Primary 2/3, we have been learning about division. We have learned the different vocabulary that is linked to division (equal groups, sharing between, dividing, divided by) and the symbol used to show division. The pupils have enjoyed some multi-sensory tasks to help them complete division calculations as well as starting to carry out written division calculations.
On Friday the school had a fun filled day with lots of activities focusing on World Book Day. The P2/3 pupils had a great day and there were lots of smiles and enthusiasm all round throughout the activities.
They separated into their houses to rotate round different classrooms completing different tasks led by each teacher. They designed book spines, made book marks, designed face masks and competed in a book themed quiz.
After this they returned to the P2/3 class where they set off on a scavenger hunt around the school to find letters then unscramble them to reveal a book characters name (Mr Chatterbox). They then played ‘guess who’s reading’ where they had to look at photos of the school staff reading and guess what photo belonged to what member of staff.
The pupils also took part in the book swap, playing their part towards Global Goal 12 (responsible consumption), whilst encouraging reading for pleasure.
The jam-packed day was finished off with our open afternoon where we loved having parents into the classroom to show them the types of literacy tasks we complete throughout the week. It was great to see parents joining in with the tasks too.
Last week, Primary 2/3 were learning about symmetry. They created firework pictures using paint and black paper. They only painted half of their fireworks scene then folded the paper in half to print a symmetrical image on the other half of the paper. The pupils followed the lesson up with a bit of fun, completing a Just Dance routine to ‘Firework’ by Katy Perry.
Primary 2/3 are coming towards the end of their focus on learning about shape. They have a great knowledge of shape and have built confidence in naming and describing the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. They have taken part in a wide range of active tasks as well as written tasks as part of their learning throughout this topic.
Recently, P2/3 took their learning outdoors, into the playground, to complete a shape hunt. They were to work in small groups to find shapes (2D or 3D) and take photos of them on the ipads. The class then returned inside to discuss what shapes were in their photos and their properties.
Pupils built 3D shape models then described what shapes and properties their model was made up of.
As part of their Health and Wellbeing focus this term, Primary 2/3 are learning about the wider world of work. They identified a range of ‘jobs’ that they know about and then decided which ones they would like to learn more about. One of the jobs they wanted to learn more about was a police officer so we invited PC McIntyre, who is the campus cop at Loudoun Academy, to discuss his role as a police officer. He spoke to the children about crime prevention as well as considering reasons why people might commit crimes. The children also had the opportunity to see their finger prints. All children were very welcoming and excited when PC McIntyre attended, offering him a lovely welcome into Fenwick Primary School.
This week primary 2/3 enjoyed some more active tasks when learning about 2D shape. Pupils were able to describe different shapes detailing their properties using the correct vocabulary (curved/straight sides and vertices). They completed shape patterns on the Ipads, tiling activities using 2D shapes, created shapes using lollipop sticks and sorting pictures of real life objects into the correct 2D shapes. Additionally, some pupils were challenged with matching up properties to their 2D shape through a ‘loop card’ activity.
Once again, super work from all of Primary 2/3.
This week’s homework has now been uploaded to our homework page. This can be accessed by clicking the ‘homework’ tab on our class blog or by clicking the link below.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/fenwickpsp232223/homework/
