All posts by Miss Donaldson

November 2025

Hi everybody,

P2/1 have had a great November and are looking forward to the festivities of next month!

In maths, we have been learning how to measure weights. We have investigated using different types of scales including balance, dial and electronic. Our favourite part of this was applying our skills to bake our own banana muffins. They were delicious!

We’ve had a great time dressing up this month for both Cross Arthurlie’s 60th anniversary and for Children in Need. Here’s some pictures from our disco and activity sessions:

During writing, we have been learning to write instructions. Everybody loved writing and following instructions to make our own pizza!



Finally, we have been learning about questions in literacy. We worked well together in groups to spot question words in our class library books.



Miss Donaldson and P2/1

September 2025

Hi everybody,

September is almost at an end already and P2 have been very busy. For our Nature topic, we have been learning the difference between living and non-living things and did a great job of sorting these.

In maths, we have been learning and improving lots of new skills including measuring, creating patterns, place value and problem solving.

In muddy movers, we have been working as a team to create obstacle courses which include different elements.

In PE, we have been working on possession games and had lots of fun trying out a range of activities to improve our aim and control.

Finally, it was lovely seeing so many of you at our open afternoon. Hopefully you had a lovely time and enjoyed seeing some of our learning.

Have a lovely long weekend!

Miss Donaldson and P2/1 🙂

August 2025

Hi everybody,

We’ve had a lovely and very busy start to Primary 2! We enjoyed taking part in some yoga and are keen to do this more often.

We’ve had fabulous weather so far during muddy movers and have been learning to work together as a team and use our imaginations.

In maths, we have been working on creating addition calculations using concrete material to help us. We’re getting more and more confident with this! We’ve also been learning how to use beebots to programme routes and follow directions.

In PE, we are learning to improve our control, balance, throwing and catching.

Finally, we made suggestions of what topic we would like to start with in P2 and voted for Nature. We started our topic off by working together to think of as many things as we could for different categories of nature. Then we went outside to complete a nature scavenger hunt.

That’s all for this month,

Miss Donaldson and P2/1 🙂