This week we worked on the “friendly numbers” strategy for NumberTalks.
Lots of us found this strategy really useful for completing addition strategy and were able to show our thinking clearly. Take a look at some pictures of our work!
Ask us about this strategy!
P3 Big Talk Homework
P3 have been given a project to prepare and present a short 3 minute talk about a country. You might want to choose a country that you have visited before, somewhere you would like to visit or even just somewhere you want to know more about.
Some things you might want to include are: the language of the country, capital city, population, what the weather is like, a popular food, famous landmarks, famous people from this country or any other interesting facts.
You could also use other ideas to enhance your talk e.g. PowerPoint (saved on GLOW or pen-drive), drawings, diagrams or items from home.
You should practise your talk at home as often as possible and use a timer to help. You may want to use notes to help you stay on track.
Talks should be ready to present the week beginning Monday 12th May.
It has been a busy first week of our final term in Primary 3.
On Wednesday, we worked together as a class to decide which book to choose as our new novel study. We looked into 3 different options.
We looked at the cover, blurb, author and genre to make our decision. It was a pretty close tie, however, we have decided upon our new novel – ‘Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter’ by Francesca Simon.
In maths, we used this week to revise some knowledge of time. We reminded ourselves of some key facts, played games relating to o’clock and half past and even managed to get outside in the nice weather to play a game of ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ where we had to use our knowledge of the analogue clock.
We are now ready to progress our learning and look at matching analogue and digital times, including quarter past and quarter to!
**A reminder that next week will be the start of our 4 week homework block. There will be further information posted on the blog by Miss Kay, on Monday. **
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.
