In Science we have been exploring the forces exerted by magnets 🧲

We have being learning about how magnets can repel or attract and that magnets have a North and South Pole.

We also helped to design a magnet maze game. We have had lots of fun with magnets!

Primary 3/2 had great fun at their Christmas party.  We played pass the parcel, musical statues and had a dance competition! The boys and girls even went on a treasure hunt for gold coins.
Have a great Christmas, you have all worked very hard!

This week we have been learning our 2 multiplication table. We had lots of fun making an array house, playing splat games and creating sets and groups of twos using cereal and Lego. In another fun game we had to try and race a partner and beat the clock.  Have a look at our learning below.

We have started a new RME topic all about the Parables of Jesus.  We listened to and discussed the story of the two builders or the wise man and the foolish man.  We talked about the message of the story and how we should always work hard in everything that we do and be kind to others.

We used different building materials and tried to build a house on cushions to be like the foolish man who took the easy way out.  We then built a house on solid foundations – it was more difficult to knock down!  We decided we would rather be like the wise man.

Primary 3 have been learning all about space.

We had great fun working collaboratively to create space shuttles.  We used different collage materials and came up with great ideas.  We presented our finished rockets to the class. In our groups we also had the challenge of creating moon fact files.

We have also been learning about the phases of the moon and created our own phases of the moon books.

Have a look below at the models we made to show that the Earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits the earth.

Design a board game challenge. 

We had to think of boardgames we enjoyed and then it was our chance to design one of our own!

These are the things we had to think 🤔 about.

What are your favourite areas of maths? Will it have counters or characters to move, a dice or a spinner? Will there be additional task cards to challenge your players?

Design a boardgame that your classmates can enjoy! You will need clear rules and instructions.  

Remember to make your game bright and colourful!

This is us planning and designing our gameboards!

We have been investigating – Night and Day.

• We can identify why and how we have day and night time.
• We have explored how we experience night and day as we move away from the sun.
• We understand that it take 24 hours for the earth to rotate once.

We had lots of fun exploring night and day using the torches and globes. We created models of the earth and sun to show that the earth 🌍 rotates around the sun ☀️
Our next steps are to investigate the phases of the moon. We are going to create our own moon booklets.