During Health Week, P2 took part in a wide range of exciting activities.

The pupils participated in activities such as curling, laser tag, litter picking, food tastings and a silent disco. Throughout the week, they demonstrated enthusiasm, teamwork and resilience while taking part in both active and educational experiences. The variety of activities encouraged the children to think about physical health, wellbeing, safety and caring for their community.

A huge thank you to our local optician, the Fire and Rescue Service, the Cotton Trail and Lochside for visiting our school and helping to make Health Week such an enjoyable and memorable experience for everyone involved. We would also like to extend a huge thank you to all the parents and carers who joined us for our den building session and family picnic. Your support helped make the week even more special!

Our P2 pupils have been working hard to achieve their Heritage Heroes Bronze Award.

They explored different types of homes in Catrine, how homes in Catrine have changed over time and discussed which wants and needs have changed and which have stayed the same. We then created a timeline of home interiors, arranging them from the oldest to the newest.

The pupils explored old photos of Catrine and identified where they were taken during our Heritage Hunt. They then visited the same locations, holding the old photographs, and took new photos to compare Catrine then and now. 

Our pupils explored the history of Catrine’s Cotton Mill. They investigated how the mill began, what it produced and how they helped Catrine’s community to grow. They then created line drawings of the Cotton Mill and designed their own patterned towels inspired by those made at the mill.  Mrs Watt brought in towels that were made at the Catrine Cotton Mill for the pupils to explore.

All of the pupils’ hard work has been brought together to create a P2 non-fiction text about Catrine’s heritage. This book will be placed in our school library, allowing pupils from all stages to learn about the history and heritage of our village.

Thank you to all the relatives and community members who took the time to share their memories and experiences of Catrine with our pupils. The responses have been fantastic and have helped bring our learning to life.

Literacy

This week P2 have been expressing their opinion about which Super Power they think would be the best and giving reasons for their opinion.

Numeracy

P2 have continued to work on time with Mrs Mair this week and have been playing lots of games to consolidate their learning on o’clock and half past times.

Learning Across the Curriculum

P2  created an obstacle course to test their skills with a badminton racket and shuttle.

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.

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.  The topic will change depending on the focus for that term.  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.

The talk should be ready to be presented the week beginning Monday 11th May. More details will be given shortly (please check Blog) about which day that week your child will be giving their talk.

We look forward to hearing about their toy!

Literacy

In literacy, our pupils have been exploring the u_e sound. They have also been focusing on writing grammatically correct sentences using Felix’s Foundations to help assess and develop their writing skills.

Numeracy

In numeracy, the pupils have been learning about fractions. They are now able to recognise that two halves and four quarters make one whole. They particularly enjoyed demonstrating this understanding using food and other real-life examples.

Across the Curriculum

During Health and Wellbeing, pupils have been learning to recognise and talk about their feelings. They are now able to identify a wider range of emotions and had great fun using facial expressions and body language to act them out while the class guessed the feeling being shown. Pupils also discussed the trusted adults and people they feel comfortable speaking to when experiencing strong emotions.

In addition, pupils developed key social skills such as teamwork, communication, and resilience while working collaboratively to design and build a variety of obstacle courses during outdoor learning. As they participated in each group’s course, they also worked on developing their physical skills, including balance, coordination, and strength.

Finally, the pupils created beautiful, spring garden–themed artwork to enter into this year’s Catrine Show. They then displayed their work in our mini art gallery and enjoyed giving feedback on each other’s pieces.

Our P2 pupils have had a very busy Term 3 and have earned a well deserved rest!

I hope everyone has a lovely holiday!