Primary 3 have been learning about the Circus; inspired by ‘The Greatest Showman’ film.  We talked about what we knew and what we wanted to know about the circus then decided on our activities too.

We have already learned about the great PT Barnum on whom the film was based and wrote fact files using the information we took.  We also learned about the history and laws of the circus and have been finding out facts about circus animals as some circus’ still use animals in their act although most don’t anymore.

Our class have also been getting their creative juices going  by making ‘This is Me’ circus bunting to decorate our class as well as creating massive magical clown bow ties.  We chose where we wanted to display our ties and also took pictures of us wearing them.

Our topic board has had a Big Top Circus added to it that we painted red and white.  We all get to be ringmasters with our top hats and the Star Dojo gets to take pride of place in the centre of the circus for a whole week too!

We have also started learning about symmetry and went outdoors to learn more.  We looked at a ladybird to see if she was symmetrical and voted using sticks for the graph and cones to vote with.  Our final vote was 25 people said yes and 4 said no making the overall vote that the ladybird was symmetrical.

To finish we got to choose groups to work in and had to use the nature box and things we found in our playground to create our own symmetrical pictures.  It was great fun!