Hi everybody,

Can’t believe this is our last blog post of 2025! What a quick year it has been! P2/1 have been so busy this month and are feeling very festive!

Everybody worked so hard on our Nativity- Hey Ewe!- and put on 2 fantastic shows. Hopefully, you all enjoyed the show as much as we enjoyed performing it!

We were very surprised to learn that we were going to meet 2 of Santa’s reindeer! It was amazing getting to see them and feed them some carrots.

For the Cross Arthurlie Christmas Fayre, we worked hard to create some beautiful wreath decorations.

Everyone looked great on Christmas jumper day!

In class, we have been doing lots of festive activities. We wrote our letters to Santa and learned all about the story of the Nutcracker. We watched part of the ballet then did some dancing and artwork ourselves. As final Christmas activities, we baked and decorated Christmas cookies and had hot chocolate. Hopefully everybody enjoyed them!

We also had our Christmas party this week. Everybody looked great and we had lots of fun dancing and playing games. We had a very special visitor too… Santa! We were so lucky to each get a special present from him.

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 2026!

Miss Donaldson and P2/1

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

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 🙂

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 🙂