This year we are beginning a new curriculum called the PATHS Programme.  We will have PATHS lessons twice a week during which we will cover many topics including: Friendship, Recognise and Understand Feelings, Use Thinking Skills and ways to solve problems.

We would like to ask your assistance in occasionally helping your child complete a Home Activity.  You will already find children coming home with Compliments Lists for them too.  We will keep you up-to-date as we are going along.  If you have any questions, please let us know.  This is a whole school initiative and will continue throughout their full education.

Team P3

It is a busy week this week with Remembrance Day on Wednesday, followed by Children in Need celebrations on Friday.

Please check the main school blog page for more information about the plans for Children in Need on Friday. You will need to scroll down the main page a little bit and click on the link provided.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/onthankps/

Read on below for details of the homework for this week.

Homework 9.11.20

This week we will be learning the phoneme ‘ow‘ in Primary 3. Some words that contain the phoneme ‘ow’ are:

owl       brown       growl       now       crown       allow       cow

Here are a couple of videos to help you to practise the ow phoneme.

Click on the link below for a Geraldine video clip.

https://youtu.be/GJtvjxBYg7I

This next video is quite a funny one to practise the ow phoneme. Please use your lovely Scottish accent rather than the American one on the video though!

https://youtu.be/HWIXnIX9yY0

Our common words for this week are:

how

where

now

too

For homework please practise reading and spelling these common words and the words using this weeks ‘ow‘ phoneme from the list above. Remember that you can look out for this weeks phoneme and common words when you are reading too.

Click on the link below to see some fun active spelling ideas that you could choose from.

Active Spelling Strategies

Remember to log into your Bug Club account and choose books to read. By clicking on the ‘bugs’ that appear on the pages you can practise your reading comprehension too. Don’t forget that you can go into your Bug Club Library to read books again. This is a good way of improving the fluency of your reading, as the story and tricky words will already be familiar to you.

Check the Heinemann Active Maths link in Bug Club too as your teacher may have allocated you a maths game to practise learning that we have done in class.

If you are struggling to log in to your Bug Club account then you could try accessing through the Google Chrome browser, try updating ‘cookie’ settings or ask your teacher/school for help.

Happy Learning,

Mrs Nelson and Team P3!

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Happy Monday Primary 3!

We hope you all had a lovely time celebrating Halloween with your family over the weekend. 

This week we will be learning the phoneme ‘ew‘ in Primary 3. Some words that contain the phoneme ‘ew’ are:

flew   stew   grew   drew   few   new   crew   jewel

Here are a couple of videos to help you to practise the ew phoneme:

Click on the link below for a Mr Thorne video clip.

https://youtu.be/30O9NWnbDpA

The Alphablocks also practise different ways of making the ‘ew’ sound.

Our common words for this week are:

what

many 

soon 

book

For homework you could practise reading and spelling these common words and the words using this weeks ‘ew‘ phoneme from the list above. Remember that you can look out for this weeks phoneme and common words when you are reading too. 

Click on the link below to see some fun active spelling ideas that you could choose from. 

Active Spelling Strategies

Remember that you can log into your Bug Club account and choose books to read. By clicking on the ‘bugs’ that appear on the pages you can practise your reading comprehension too. Don’t forget that you can go into your Bug Club Library to read books again. This is a good way of improving the fluency of your reading, as the story and tricky words will already be familiar to you.

Check the Heinemann Active Maths link in Bug Club too as your teacher may have allocated you a maths game to practise learning that we have done in class.

If you are struggling to log in to your Bug Club account then you could try accessing through the Google Chrome browser or ask your teacher/school for help. 

Happy Learning, 

Mrs Nelson and Team P3!

On Thursday our very lucky Primary 3 classes will each be taking part in an outdoor learning session with Rangers from the Dean Park. The Rangers are coming to work with us outside in areas near to the school (we are not going to the Dean Park on this occasion). This will be an exciting opportunity to explore and learn more about the nature right on our doorstep! 

Please could all children come to school with waterproof jackets and wellies (if possible or suitable outdoors footwear), so that they are dressed appropriately and can stay cosy, dry and enjoy their time learning outside.

It looks like the weather might be quite wet on Thursday, so it would be a good idea to also bring a change of trousers, socks and shoes to change into afterwards in case we get wet. 

The session times have been organised so that children will have their usual snack and lunch times in school. 

There are sure to be some excited children coming home and keen to tell you all about their learning on Thursday! 

Hi P3,

This week our joined phoneme is – au

Some words with this spelling pattern are-

dinosaur

haunt

launch

August

Autumn

vault

Can you think of some more?

Here are some YouTube clips to help you

The common words this week are-

because

week

keep

when

Happy Learning!

Mrs Strain

Team P3

 Hi P3,

Please remember to check out last week’s blog about the Green Cross Code and practice crossing roads safely.

There is a link to the Road Sense Scotland website with more information and some games and activities to do at home.

This week we are learning the joined phoneme ‘oi‘, as in-

boil, spoil, foil, toilet, join and oink

The common words this week are-

their, some, then, last

Here are some clips to help you learn this new sound-

Hi P3,

Just a wee reminder of the two events that are happening tomorrow.

It’s our ‘Go Green for MacMillan’ event to raise funds for the MacMillan charity. If you have something green at home to wear then please wear it tomorrow. If you don’t have any green clothes then you can ‘dress down’ for the day (please see the School blog for more details). If you want to wear your school uniform then that’s ok too. 

Ness Reading Festival

Tomorrow we will be taking part in the Ness Reading Festival. The aim of this Festival is to get as many children as possible across Scotland to sit down and read a book at the same time.

If you have a favourite book that you would like to bring to school tomorrow then please bring it. We have lots of great books in school to read too; so don’t worry if you don’t want to bring in a book from home.

Tomorrow morning, at the same time, we will all ‘drop everything and read!’

Stay safe and see you tomorrow!

Mrs Strain and Team P3

This week is Road Safety Week in P3!

All of the P3 classes will be learning about Road Safety this week; which is especially important at this time of year when the weather is getting more wintery and it’s getting dark earlier and earlier.

The Road Sense Scotland website has some cartoon clips, games and quizzes for you to do at home. Here is a link-

https://roadsafety.scot/learning-zone/first/green-cross-code-phrases/

Please have a look at the Road Sense Scotland website at home with your child and practice the Green Cross Code with them when you are out and about.

Thanks for your help!

Stay safe x

Mrs Strain

Hi P3 families!

There was no homework post last week due to the Monday holiday.

All P3 classes were learning ‘ue‘ words last week, such as blue, glue, true, clue and rescue.

The common words from last week were- best, number, blue, other.

These have all been covered in class.  

Reading books have been allocated on Bugclub.

Please let your child’s class teacher know if you are unable to log on to Bugclub as some passwords may have been changed.

The school code is – kg9j

This week’s joined phoneme is- aw

Words with this sound are-   jaw, draw, saw, claw, crawl, awful

The common words this week are- very, took, fast, there

Here are some links to YouTube clips about the ‘aw’ phoneme-