Literacy

P2 have been working hard on their new common words this week  –  much, use,  would, could, new, who and friend.

Numeracy

Pupils continued to work on telling the time on both analogue and  digital clocks, focussing on o’clock and half past times.

Learning Across the Curriculum

It was walk to school week this week and I loved seeing everyone participating in all walk to school week activities throughout this week! Our pupils also loved meeting Jonny Paterson, a paralympic footballer, who played for Scotland! They took part in activities run by Jonny and enjoyed listening to his inspirational talk about never giving up on your dream.

Literacy

We have really enjoyed hearing everyone’s Big Talk this week all about their favourite toys.  Well done Primary 2!

Numeracy

This week with Mrs Mair they have been focussing on telling o’clock and half past times using analogue and digital clocks.  The class made their own clocks to help them.

Twice a year, the children take part in our whole school ‘Big Talk Homework Challenge’.  This is where your child gets the opportunity to prepare and present a talk to the class.  This term the class has chosen to talk about ‘My Favourite Toy.’

Some ideas to include in their talk might be:

• What is your favourite toy?
• Who gave you it or where did you get it?
• How do you play with it?
• What do you like about it?
• How does it make you feel when you play with it?
• Any interesting facts about your favourite toy.

Please practise saying the talk out loud at home. Posters or slides to help the pupils with their talks are encouraged but pupils should not read from these – they should only act as prompts to aid the pupils’ talk.

We will begin Big Talk presentations next week. Please look at the list below to find what day your child will be expected to discuss their favourite toy.

Monday 11th of May

• Mirryn
• Fifer
• Coila
• Rosa
• Miller
• Riia
• Jessica
• Charlie

Tuesday 12th of May 

• Reuben
• Ethan
• Lucia
• Bella
• Lyanna
• Claye
• Allie
• Brie

Literacy

In writing P2 have been learning about persuasive writing and wrote some reasons to try and persuade an adult to take them to the park after school.  They had some great ideas, here are a few!

• “The first reason is because I can play football and football is healthy.”
• “I could make new friends.”
• “I will tidy my room if you take me to the park.”

Numeracy

We have started our new maths block all about time.  P2 used songs and games to help them revise the days of the week and months of the year. The pupils have also learned to solve Number Talks problems using different strategies.

Across the Curriculum

In PE we have started to learn to play badminton.  P2 learned the name of the different parts of the racket and how to grip the racket correctly.  They also practised hitting balloons before moving on to hitting and aiming shuttlecocks.