Primary 2 had another good year at Cross Arthurlie and despite a period of learning from home, they’ve shown resilience and confidence by bouncing back.  We look forward to seeing everyone back for Primary 3.

Today was Cross Arthurlie fun day, Primary 2’s theme was a day at the seaside. In the morning we made different crafts and we visited the fun fair, where we played lots of different games such as hit the bulls eye, knock the cups and fish out the rubber ducks. Primary 7 also organised some outdoor stations and races for the whole school. After lunch, we had a visit from the ice cream van and we all got a tub of ice cream! What a busy day we all had, it really was a great way to celebrate the end of Primary 2. Thank you for all your hard work this year, we will miss you!

Today we learned how to play some popular childhood games from the past. Some of us already knew these games and others were learning them for the first time. We played marbles, snap, memory game, the hoop and stick and dominos. Marbles was most people’s favourite!

In science we have been learning about forces. We have explored the forces push and pull.

Today we went outside and took part in push and pull activities.

First we played tug of war in groups using the pull force. Then we pushed the football around the cone. We had fun pulling the stilts from one end of the playground to the other. We then set up planks of wood and used the force of push to knock them down with a ball.

We have been learning about living things in science. We combined our knowledge of how to grow and look after a plant with some Easter fun!

We made Easter bunny plant pots and then planted our flower bulb using soil.

We put water in our plants to give them food and the boys and girls will continue to give their bulbs water and sunlight over the Spring break so they can grow into beautiful flowers.

Good luck P2/2!

We have had a busy few weeks settling back into school. We have started our new IDL, Now and Then. Today, we enjoyed looking at artefacts and making predictions of what we thought each object was called and used for. Take a look at our pictures below and see if you know what each object is. The answers are at the bottom of the post.

Object 1 is a rug beater. Object 2 is a school desk. Object 3 is a wash board. Object 4 is a hoover. Object 5 is a radio. Object 6 is a potato masher. Object 7 is a school bag. Object 8 is binoculars. Object 9 is a infant toy. Object 10 is a television. Object 11 is a phone.

This morning the boys and girls were challenged to build a sleigh for Santa. The sleigh had to fit two presents, stand on its own and have a seat for Santa (Buddy the elf visited to try it out for Santa). Pupils chose to work individually, in pairs or in small groups. They planned their sleigh on whiteboards and discussed which construction material they were going to use. Everyone was successful in building their sleigh!

Primary 2 had lots of fun dancing and playing games at our Christmas Party today. We even had a special visit from Santa!

To all our Primary 2 parents and carers, since we are unable to welcome you into our classroom in person we wanted to share it with your virtually. Follow the link below to explore our fabulous classroom. We hope you enjoy!

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Today we were learning about right angles.

We learned that when two lines meet they create an angle and shapes like rectangles and squares have right angles.

We created angle eaters and had great fun going on a right angle hunt around our classroom.

We recorded our findings on our whiteboards.

Have a look at all the right angles we found!!