This week Primary 3 have been hard at work designing their eggs for our annual Easter egg competition.

We are a very creative bunch and made use of a range of materials to create our eggs. We had eggs ranging from minions and Easter chicks to farmers and Jesus!

It was a tough decision for the judges!

Here is a picture of our very worthy winner Logan and his ‘pig in a farm’  design.

Mother’s Day 2025

P3 got creative this week as we look forward to celebrating our Mother’s Day on Sunday. We had a vote to select a card design and ended up choosing a really cool sliding design.

We loved the sliding design and really liked adding our ‘hidden’ messages.

Here are some other snaps taken this week, including during tennis and numeracy.

This week we took part in our final lesson in ‘printmaking’.

We have enjoyed exploring the different techniques that can be used in the printing process and have been developing our skills throughout.

We used different shapes to create a mosaic before using paint to make a mono-print of our design.

Check out some snaps from this week’s activity. 

Probability Jars

P3 are learning about probability, chance and uncertainty. We are using terms such as likely, unlikely, impossible and certain to describe the likelihood of something happening.

Check out some of our ‘Chance Jars’ we made to practise in pairs!

Felix the Firefly 

Alfie introduced P3 to Felix. He told us all about how it is Felix’s job to give feedback on work around the school. Felix uses the ‘Tickled Pink’ and ‘Green for Growth’ strategy.

You will be hearing more about Felix and his feedback, soon!

In P.E, we have been working on ‘Tennis skills’.

As part of our session this week, we took part in a paired challenge to test and improve the reaction time of our partner.

We started with our hands behind our back. We would then bring one hand to the front, placing it high or low. Our partner had to react as quickly as they could and give us a high five.

This drill sounded so easy, however, it was actually pretty tricky to react quickly! We are going to try this out again next week and see if we can keep improving our reaction times.

We then continued our session with a game of ‘Floor Tennis’. Check out some pictures of us in action!

We have continued to develop our printing techniques in Art & Design. This week we got to try out a different method.

We first carved our designs onto Styrofoam sheets, being careful to apply the right amount of pressure.

Secondly, we poured a special printing ink into our trays.

We then coated our rollers in the ink, making sure to coat them thoroughly.

Next, we used the roller to spread the ink onto the Styrofoam design. 

After that, we pressed our paper onto our design. We used our hands to apply pressure. 

Finally, we lifted up the paper slowly to reveal our designs!

Some of our designs turned out clearer than others and we were able to discuss why this might have happened and discovered the way the ink was applied, pressure when rolling and even how sharp our pencil was during the carving process all had an impact on our final print. We learned so much about the printing process!

Here are some other snaps from our week, taken by Miss Kay when we were making and enjoying our fruit kebabs!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Today in P3 we celebrated Valentine’s day by taking part in a morning ‘code cracker’ numeracy challenge. We worked in mixed pairs to use our knowledge of the four operations to crack some codes. We found some of the calculations a challenge and worked excellently in our pairs to solve them.

We then peer assessed our work using our ‘tickled pink’ and ‘green for growth‘ system.

At home, ask us about how we use  ‘tickled pink’ and ‘green for growth’ to progress our learning.

Check out some snaps from this week’s ‘printmaking’ lesson. We built upon our technique from last week and used some natural materials to create mono prints.

We used the detailed print of leaves to create wonderful butterfly artwork. We think they look amazing and can’t wait to share the finished result.

This week we have continued with our study of ‘The Enormous Crocodile’. We are developing our knowledge of the story using our comprehension strategies.

We are becoming more confident using our task maps. Have a look at some of the different types of tasks and strategies we have used so far.

This term we have also been enjoying taking part in printmaking – a type of  Process art. We have been experimenting with different ways to make prints and seeing what we can create.

So far we have created art with techniques using our fingers,  as well as foil and water.

 This week, we took part in bubble printing. We first made a solution using colouring, water and liquid soap. We used a straw to create bubbles and gently pressed our paper onto the bubbles to create a print of them.

We also made a fantastic start to our novel study and began using our ‘Task Maps’. We developed our understanding of the story using metalingustics and visualisation and were able to better understand the vocabulary used by Roald Dahl after working with our partners.