This term in Primary 2, we are going to be learning about Our Community. We want to find out what sort of jobs people do in our community, what services there are and what the transport is like. To do this we need to go on a walk of our local area and also have some visitors in to talk to us about the skills they use in their job.

In Science we are going to be learning about living and non-living things. So far we have sorted pictures and created questions about living things to help focus our learning.

In ICT we are going to be developing our skills using spreadsheets. We are doing Data Handling in maths and will use some of this information to create graphs on the computer!

Primary 2 have had a great day during Dream Big Day. The children came dressed as the occupation they aspire to be. They enjoyed storytelling workshops about being sensible with what you earn and about being fair and honest.

The children discussed why they wanted to do specific jobs and what skills would be needed for different jobs. They then highlighted what skills they thought were their strengths.

We had a variety of occupations represented in Primary 2, such as vets, doctors, a chef, artist, teachers, dancers and several footballers. Moya dreams of being an author because she loves reading books. Dan aspires to be an archaeologist because he loves history. Elliot wants to be a scientist because he wants to make potions!

Primary 2a have had a great fun learning about different transport with Miss Murchie. We linked this with our drama and had fun pretending to walk the plank! In our art time we created really cool 3D hot air balloon pictures using coloured circles.

In ICT we have been busy using Glow to create simple blog posts. We linked up with Primary 6 who responded to our blogs. It has been great fun being able to read their replies and send replies back to them. We also learned how to create a simple pirate animation with 2Animate.

In Science we have started to learn about our senses. We have been playing fun games to help us use our sense of hearing to identify where the noise was coming from. We also used torches to discover how the sizes of our pupils change depending on the amount the light.  We are excited to find out about the other senses too.

We’ve been having great fun learning about different modes of transport in the past. Through sorting and matching, we discovered how different modes of transport were invented and how this has influenced transport today. We used timelines to show this. “Imagine trying to cycle on a Penny Farthing.” Bicycles nowadays are much safer and easier to ride. Using our imagination, we developed unique cars of the future. With our eco-friendly hats on, our designs were created using recycled materials. A fabulous name chosen for a car of the future was ‘Candy Crush’ and a super description was ‘a sparkly car which flies super fast.’

We are looking forward to learning about the Glasgow Subway by researching and exploring maps. We chose to learn about Concorde aeroplanes because we are fascinated by how fast they can go. We will also have an exciting Pirate themed week where we will be experimenting more with maps and instructing our friends how to locate pirate treasure by giving accurate directions.