Our topic this term has been learning about our local area. We went on a walk, took lots of photos of our route then built a 3D model.
For Book Week Scotland we enjoyed participating in a draw along event with author and illustrator Emily MacKenzie.
This month the children have been encouraged to take lots of photos of their own learning through continuous provision resources.
This month we have been working hard on our topic about homes and our local community. We all wrote about our homes, describing what type it is and our favourite rooms. We then went out to the playground to draw what we could see in our environment. We have been using lots of construction materials to design and build with, I think we all had lots of fun using the shaving foam as mortar! Last week we had a look at some local area maps and after listening to We’re Going on a Bear Hunt we drew a map to go along with the story. Everyone is looking forward to our local area walk this week and building a 3D map of it using our cardboard boxes.
For writing, we have been focusing on writing a set of instructions. We made our own toast and fruit kebabs before wring instructions and for Halloween we wrote our own magic potion recipe.
Thank you for all your hard work this month Primary 2! 🌟🌟🌟
This month Primary 2 were very interested in the change of season. Asking about the leaves changing colour and discussing how it gets darker earlier on than in summer. So we went on a few walks around our school environment to look at the changing leaves and gather fallen ones 🍂 We tried making some leaf bowls but it didn’t really work out as planned, the leaves didn’t want to mould around our balloons but we had fun trying. We also used conkers to make some lovely autumn art.
In Numeracy we have been working hard to learn doubles, addition and subtraction number stories, numbers up to 100 and counting odd and even numbers.
We have been using lots of loose parts to spell and P2 enjoy taking their own photos.
We also celebrated some achievements in class. Well done Olivia, Zara, Daisy and Anna on completing the summer reading challenge at the library. 📚 Please do remember to share all your achievements with us 🌟🤩
Well done on all your hard work this month Primary 2 👏🌟
A huge thank you to all our visitors for coming along to our Open Afternoon. Primary 2 were extremely excited to see you all and show off their work so far. 🌟🌟🌟
What a great start we’ve all had to Primary 2, look how smart we were on day 1 💜
We started off the new school year thinking about how we can be good friends and showing kindness and respect to everyone. We decided to make birthday cards, so on our birthday we will receive a card from the whole class.
We are also busy designing and making our Class Charter, I wonder if you guess what theme we choose?
In Numeracy we are all working on addition and subtracting and linking fact families.
At gym we are working on our ball control skills and learning new games together. Taking turns, sharing and being a good team player are important skills that we are developing.
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about right angles. We know they have 90 degrees, that a right angle turn means the same as a quarter turn and we can identify them in the environment. We were very excited to make our own right angle checkers and go exploring outside for right angles.
We have also been exploring symmetry and patterns. We are able to identify lines of symmetry in everyday objects and shapes and also in nature. We loved painting our own symmetrical butterflies 🦋 We can all identify a simple pattern, continue patterns and create our own.
Finally, we have been busy learning about directions. Using the arrow keys on Blue-bot we programmed him to go to different places on the mats. We confidently use the terms forwards, backwards, left and right turns and we are getting increasingly confident in saying ‘quarter turn’ and ‘90 degree right angle turn’. We also learned to write directions for Blue-bot, we were able to check if our directions were correct by programming him and seeing if he travelled to our chosen destination!
Huge well done Primary 1! 🌟
From Mrs Brown
We made notes to plan what we fruit we would like to use in our fruit kebab. We drew what we would like it to look like. We explored food health and safety and made sure we washed our hands and handled the knife carefully. We peeled, sliced and chopped. 
To finish of our learning about dinosaurs we invited P6 down to tell them all we have learned. They helped us develop our research skills on the chrome books and we worked together to make a fact file about a chosen dinosaur.
This term we are learning about life in the past and this class were keen to learn about dinosaurs. We have been using books and videos to find out information. We have enjoyed hearing from palaeontologists and how they dig up fossils and dinosaur bones. We pretended we were palaeontologists and pieced together a dinosaur. We compared our height to dippy the Diplodocus’s femur bone.
