Welcome back! I hope that you all had a peaceful festive period. It is lovely to be back with Primary 3, and we are all ready for another busy term. Here is an update on the upcoming term.

At the beginning of our first term, we explored the UNCRC Rights of the Child, and together created a meaningful Class Charter to ensure that our classroom is a place where we feel safe and where we can learn and grow together. As we continue into term 3 we will refer back to this ensuring our Class Charter is relevant and ‘felt’ within our classroom. As a school community, some of the UNCRC articles that we will have a focus on, are Articles 17 and 19 relating to internet safety and Articles 24, 27 for World Water Day.

Literacy

We will be looking at a range of texts this term. We will start the term with story ‘Lewis Clowns Around’ which will link into our mini Scotland topic. We will use this whole class text to develop our prediction, summarising and ‘Find it, prove it’ comprehension strategies. We will also access Bug Club readers as we continue to work on decoding and fluency skills.

During writing, we will look at report writing before moving on to explanatory texts. We will look the structure of these genres and write our own texts. We will continue to have a focus on the use of accurate punctuation as well as beginning to develop the skill of proof reading our work.

Spelling will take the form of active spelling activities and the children will experience phonemes and blends at their working level.

Numeracy & Maths

We will move on to looking at multiplication and division; using a range of concrete materials, we will develop our understanding of groups of a number before investigating the concept of arrays. We will look at the patterns in various times tables and will use this knowledge to solve a range of problems. The children will participate in a daily number talk activity as we develop our confidence in the use of mathematical language to explain our thinking.

In Beyond Number, we will continue to explore measure with Mrs Strachan, before moving on to time.

 

Health and Wellbeing

This term we will continue with the PATHS programme, reflecting and discussing a range of emotions and what these might look and feel like. We will also continue with the Do Be Mindful programme which will allow us, through the use of a range of strategies, to look at ways we can take a mindful moment each day.

PE is on a Monday and Friday. This term we will be covering;

Fun Fitness

Ball Skills

Children will require PE kit each PE day.  Please make sure your child is not wearing jewellery on these days as they will be unable to participate in the lesson for health and safety reasons. If your child cannot take part for any reason, please contact the school.

Religious Education

This term we will be continuing to learn a range of well-known prayers and will have opportunities each day for quiet prayer and reflection time.

We will reflect on Jesus’ early life, investigating the Jewish Community that He was born into. Then, as we begin our preparation for celebrating First Confession, we will look at the parables of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin. We will look at the significance of the sacrament and become familiar with how it is celebrated.

As we approach the Holy season of Lent, we will think about the importance of prayer, almsgiving and fasting and how we can prepare for the great feast of Easter.

French

Through a range of songs, activities and games we will continue to develop confidence in counting and greetings, we will also look at months of the year in French.

IDL

We will begin the term with a mini Scotland topic, looking at some Scottish music, art and poetry, as well as exploring some features of the Scottish landscape. This will lead into our main topic this term which is Farming in Scotland. We will consider different types of farms and the various produce from these farms. We will look at the food journey – how it changes from farm to fork and will plant some potatoes and carrots, which will allow us to get first-hand experience of growing our own crops.

 

Homework will be distributed on a Monday to be completed, and returned by Friday.

 

Keep an eye on the School App and your child’s Learning Journal profile for a snapshot of some of our wonderful learning!

Thank you as always for your support and I’m looking forward to a really great term with P3.

Mrs. MacKinnon.