Welcome to Primary 3!

We have started our class novel, Flat Stanley and lots of our learning so far has linked to this.

We have started a kite design for our class charter after lots of discussion about our rights and responsibilities. We have discussed what we need to do so that we access our right to learn and also allow others to learn.

Last year at the taster day we created ‘all about me’ stars 🌟 these are now proudly presented on the classroom door.

In art, we have been learning about the visual element of line. We used different types of lines to add colour to our art work:

Article 2 we have the right not to be discriminated against. We have been learning that we are all unique and have similarities and differences. We worked with a partner to identify things that are the same and different about us. We recorded our ideas in a Venn diagram:

In maths, we started a mini topic of measure to revise our knowledge. We drew a picture of Stanley and measured different parts of his body:

We were then keen to draw a picture of our choice to measure in cm:

Article 15 the right to have friends. We have talked about what it means to be a good friend and what things we can do to spread kindness in our classroom. We will continue to learn about emotions and friendship during HWB lessons. We created  a kindness tree with all our ideas:

Article 24 the right to good health care. Linking to our class novel, Flat Stanley, we have been learning about other rights that are relevant to us. Stanley went to the doctor for information when he was flattened by a bulletin board. So far we have enjoyed setting up our role play area like a doctors:

In science, we are learning about living and non-living things. Particularly what makes something alive. We went outside to find things in the schools grounds that are living and non-living.

In literacy, we have been learning how to write a character study using information from the book.

Hi everybody,

Hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday! Here’s a round up of what P2/2 got up to this month.

Everybody did a fabulous job presenting their solo talks to the class. I was so impressed at how much effort everybody had put in and we all learned a lot from each other!

In maths, we have been investigating capacity. We had a great time using the water tray to measure and compare the capacity of different containers.

As the weather is getting nicer, we’re enjoying getting out into the fresh air. We’ve been learning how to skip and we’re already starting to improve. It’s good for our bodies and fun too!

Finally, as part of our knights and castles topic, we have been investigating life in a castle. We know that there are lots of different jobs that people needed to do in order for a castle and its kingdom to be strong and happy. In groups, we have started researching different jobs and will share our findings with the class soon.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Donaldson and P2/2 🙂

Hi everybody,

It was lovely speaking to you all at parents’ nights this week. Primary 2/2 have had a very enjoyable March!

In muddy movers, we have been investigating ramps and how we can impact speed. In groups, we worked to make courses where a ball will roll from beginning to end and could be caught. We had a great time!

In PE, we have been working on our badminton skills. We’ve improved a lot and enjoy playing and creating rallies.

We were lucky to be visited by the fire service (including David’s dad!) this month who taught us all about the equipment in fire engines and their purposes. We even got to use the hose!

For World Book Day, we all brought in our favourite book from home. We enjoyed sharing information about these books with our classmates and taking some time to enjoy reading them. We also got to visit the book fair and visited the library to collect a free book each.

We have started learning Mandarin with Miss Xu and are learning lots of new words through games and activities!

Finally, we dressed in red today to raise money for Red Nose Day. We took part in lots of fun activities down in the gym hall. Thank you to the house captains for organising this!

Enjoy the Easter holidays when they come!

Miss Donaldson and P2/2

Hi everybody,

What a quick month February has been! We loved having so many family members join us for our open afternoon this week and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Here are some photos we captured:

In ICT this month, we have enjoyed learning all about coding. We have been applying our skills to solve a range of puzzles.

In maths, the circles have been working on numbers to 100. They did a super job of using tens and units to represent different numbers. The squares and triangles have been investigating weight. Here they are using balancing scales to compare the weights of a range of items.

As part of our dinosaurs topic, we created dances using elements such as turns and gestures to re-enact a stay at a dinosaur museum. We had great fun and our moves were fantastic!

That’s all for this month- I look forward to seeing lots of you at Parents’ Night in a few weeks.

Miss Donaldson and P2/2 ☺️

Hi everybody,

P2/2 have had a lovely start to 2025 and have been very busy. In muddy movers, we have been creating obstacle courses with elements we need to go over and under.

In PE, we have started improving our skills in gymnastics. We learned a range of rolls including forward rolls, pencil rolls and teddy bear rolls. We have also been applying our jumping, rolling and balancing skills using different equipment.

We have selected dinosaurs for our topic this term which is something many people in our class have a special interest in! We had great fun hunting around the classroom for dinosaur eggs that gave us facts about paleontologists and dinosaurs. Then, we worked in groups to research and present information about different dinosaur classifications.

Hi everybody,

P2/2 have had a very enjoyable December and are ready for Santa to visit!

We worked very hard to create some beautiful pinecones to sell at the Christmas fair. Everybody did a fabulous job!

The cold weather hasn’t stopped us getting out for muddy movers! For the past few weeks, we have been working on creating obstacle courses which included elements we had to go over and under. The best part was getting to test out the other teams’ courses. We also had some fun with the pipes and discovered some fun games we could play using them- including jumping over them and limbo.

A huge congratulations to everybody for a fabulous nativity performance of ‘The Bossy King’. Everybody did so well and we are very proud!

Yesterday, we had our Christmas party. Everybody looked great! We loved dancing and playing games but the best part was when we got a special visitor… Santa came to our party and gave us all a lovely present!

In the run up to Christmas, we have been doing lots of festive activities. We have been listening to the story of the Nutcracker and completing dance sessions as we go. Here we are enacting the nutcracker soldiers and the mice.

We also competed in a team Christmas quiz! Well done to team Elf (Louie, Harriet, Mila and David) who scored the most points in a very close quiz! Finally, we all created a lovely snowman Christmas card.

Hope everybody has an enjoyable and relaxing holiday and has a lovely start to 2025!

Miss Donaldson and P2/2 🙂

Hi everybody,

It’s been another busy month for P2/2! We’ve been enjoying collaborating on some morning starters to improve our reading and spelling.

In PE, we have been working on improving our fitness.

We had a fabulous day raising money for Children in Need! We looked great in our pyjamas/own clothes and enjoyed buying books and toys. We also had the winner of guess Pudsey’s birthday in our class!

We were very lucky to get a visit from some reindeer yesterday! We loved getting to feed them some carrots.

Finally, we had our house quiz today and 3 people from our class were picked to represent their houses. Well done to everybody for a fabulous job!

Looking forward to all the festivity next month and getting to perform our nativity which we’ve been working very hard on!

Miss Donaldson and P2/2

Hi everybody,

It was lovely getting to chat to you all at parents’ night this week. P2/2 have had a busy and enjoyable October- here’s what we’ve been up to…

In science, we’ve been learning about space. We decided to head outdoors to model how the planets orbit around the sun at difference speeds. Each orbit is 1 year and it takes the far away planets much longer to orbit than nearby planets!

In muddy movers, we’ve been exploring different ways that we can balance. We can use different parts of our bodies to balance on and can use the equipment in various ways to help with this.

We were very lucky to have received a taekwondo session! Everybody had a wonderful time and learned some new skills.

Finally, we had a wonderful Halloween! We chatted about our costumes, completed a Halloween mystery using our number skills and created spooky silhouette artwork.

Hi everybody,

It’s hard to believe we’re at the September weekend already! P2/2 have had a super September. Here’s some of the things we’ve been up to…

It was lovely getting to see so many of you at our open afternoon at the start of the month. The children were excited to show off what they had been learning about for our Mythical Creatures topic and created some fabulous things with your help.

We have continued investigating mythical creatures this month, focusing on some of our favourites such as dragons and unicorns. We have also been learning about woodland magical creatures and made some toadstool houses for any creatures who decide to visit our classroom…

In PE, we have been working on possession games. We have been rotating around lots of different stations to practise, throwing, catching, control, aiming and teamwork.  Our favourite was shooting into a basketball hoop!

In muddy movers, we have been working as part of a team to create bridges. We have tested out different materials to find out which ones are suitable for a strong bridge. Some were great but others were too weak or wobbly. Using what we learned, we are improving our ideas to make bigger, stronger bridges.

We are becoming more confident at problem solving in maths and enjoy working with a partner to select different strategies which can help us. We have also been investigating numbers to 100 in maths and have a good understanding of how these numbers are made. Counting in 10s is much quicker than counting in 1s for big numbers!

Have a lovely September weekend,

Miss Donaldson and P2/2

Hi everybody,

It has been lovely getting to know Primary 2/2 these past few weeks. We’ve been having a great time exploring the classroom and making it our own. I’m not able to include photos with pupil’s faces in it just yet but once I can, I’ll share our class photo from our first day in P2.

We’ve luckily managed to avoid the worst of the rain so far and having been enjoying our Monday afternoons at Muddy Movers. We have worked as a team to create structures to balance on and have been investigating the wildlife that can be found in the garden. Our favourite was a ladybird!

In PE, we have started learning about keeping fit. We’ve been keen to participate in a range of activity stations which help our fitness to improve.

In maths, we have been working in pairs to practise problem solving. We’re getting pretty good already! Some of us have also been investigating angles and learning to follow instructions which include directional language.

Finally, our science focus currently is space. We have learned that the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours which is why day and night occur. Then we made our own sundials to watch the movement ourselves.

We’re looking forward to our open afternoon where we hope to see lots of our grown ups!

Miss Donaldson and P2/2 😊