Literacy

We enjoyed new reading books this week.

PE

We began working on our fitness with some stations this week, we did lots of burpees and start jumps and finished PE with a game of ladders.

Maths

We made clocks this week to help us tell the time and practiced by quizzing each other.

Topic

We learned about toys from the past and the present and got to create and design our own.

Construction

The class were challenged to design and build a football stadium this week; here’s how they got on.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Literacy

This week we drew our favourite characters to learn all about adjectives.

Maths

In maths this week, we took part in a treasure hunt to answer missing number questions.

In our tuff spot we had a ‘Keeping It Fresh’ station where we practiced our odd and even numbers, symmetry, addition and great than and less than.

Health and Wellbeing

We continued making patches for Elmer the Elephant and learning about being unique.

PE

We worked on our fitness and ball control.

Topic

In our Super Scotland topic we made collage Scotland flag! We also made our own Scotland football tops.

Our construction challenge was to build a bridge for symmetrical city, but we had to plan it first!

As usual we loved our Wednesday wiggle!

Have a great week everyone 🙂

Welcome back readers, we have had such a busy week.

Literacy

In literacy this week we spoke about our class story and got the chance to add the next chapter to ‘The Adventures of Bill and Hannah’. As a class we added new settings and new characters to our story, we love creating new stories and adventures each week.

PE

In PE we continued ball control but added a challenge of only controlling the ball with our feet. We work in teams to make it through the assault course.

H&WB

We continued talking about being unique and learned the story of Elmer the Elephant. We each created a unique patch that we are going to use to make a P2A Elmer to show that we are all unique and different.

Maths

In maths we began learning symmetry, we had two new areas in the class to help with this. In the tough spot we have been using what we already know about shape and pattern to create symmetrical patterns and in the construction corner Symmetrical City was opened. Our challenge is to build two symmetrical cities that are separated by a river.

Topic

We loved showing our grown-ups everything we have been learning in our topic this week. Our open afternoons was full of fun activities about our Super Scotland topic. We had lots of different stations open in the classroom for everyone to try and we loved taking on the role of the teacher during our open afternoons.

We hope you have a relaxing February weekend and thank you again for coming to our open afternoon to see everything we have been getting up to recently.

P2A 🙂

Literacy

I literacy this week we continued getting new reading books, learning new sounds and spoke about our class novel that we created last week. We got to think about what might happen next.

We also began filling in our new Meta Skills passports, we are going to use these each week to show the Meta skills we have been using and how.

Numeracy

In maths we began learning about symmetry and are looking forward to doing more of this next week. We also continued working on tens and units, number bonds and counting.

PE

During PE we continued our ball control in and tennis and next week we will be practicing ball control with our hands and feet.

H&WB

This week in health and wellbeing we have been learning about being unique and celebrating everybody’s differences. We started off by working in pairs and drawing each other, doing this showed us how different everyone in our class is. We are looking forward to learning more about being unique.

Topic

In our Super Scotland topic we made kilts by creating put own tartans, we enjoyed this so much and decided to use our collaboration and creativity to work together and create a tartan for each of our clans to go with our clan coat of arms.

Extra

Primary 2 were extremely lucky to have had two guest speaker this week and we loved it. Our first guest speaker on Monday came to share information about recycling and what happens to our rubbish.

Our second guest on Wednesday came to tell us more about the Gaelic language as we have been talking about this in our Scotland topic.

We hope you have all had a lovely week, have a relaxing weekend and we look forward to welcoming you into our classroom for our open afternoon on Wednesday 12^th February and Thursday 13^th February 🙂

Welcome back readers! Happy Chinese New Year 🙂

H&WB

We learned about Children’s Rights and draw posters of us using our rights.

Literacy

We enjoyed getting our new reading books this week and reading them during DLL. We learned the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ and learned action to remember the story.

We also decided to create our own class story, we each got to add a sentence to our story ‘The Adventures of Hannah and Bill’, and we are excited to see what will happen on their next adventure!

Maths

We completed a 2D and 3D shape quiz this week and managed to get every question correct! We also got challenged to problem solving questions, we worked in pairs and managed to complete both of the question correctly.

Topic

In our Super Scotland topic this week we created our own tartan kilts. We loved making our own tartans.

We also celebrated Chinese New Year. We made red and gold lanterns and wrote our names in Chinese. We learned the order of the animals of the Chinese calendar and found out that this year is the year of the snake. We learned that most of our class is born on the year of the dog or the year of the pig.

PE

We have been doing yoga every day this week after lunch and love all of the yoga adventures we have been on so far.

We played some tig and also began tennis in PE and learned how to use a tennis racquet.

This week was also very busy with committee meetings – we love hearing what each committee in the school is working. Primary 2A were also super lucky to have Mr Goodfellow join us from high school on his work experience, we loved showing him all of our hard work.

In P2A we love to dance so we end each day with a big dance before home time.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, we will be back next week 🙂

Good morning reader,

What a day! I hope you are all staying safe during the storm.

Literacy

This week we shared our writing pieces about a time we have been a good friend. We loved hearing about times we have shown kindness and respect to each other. We also started our new DLL task boards and got new reading books.

Maths

In maths we have been continuing countdown each day to get quicker at our mental maths.

We have also been learning lots about shape and did a class shape quiz. We got 1562 points!

We made maths posters in pairs showing different ways to answer the same question.

Topic

As part of our ‘Super Scotland’ topic we learned about coat of arms and got to create our own. We chose our clans and made a coat of arms per clan. We now have: Clan Edinburgh, Clan Glasgow, Clan McGinn and Clan Nessie.

This was really fun as we got to add lots of Scottish themed drawings to our designs.

Construction was busy this week with a challenge to build a Scottish bridge!

Everyone stay safe this weekend with the windy weather and I will see you all on Monday 🙂

Hello readers and welcome back to our blog,

PE

We began the week with some relaxing Harry Potter themed yoga, we loved doing different actions for all of the characters and using our magic wands!

Literacy

We learned the story of Little Red Riding Hood, made a story map of the book and added actions to help us remember each party of the story.

We continued our class novel and this week we got to draw Mr Fox’s tunnel that he lives in.

Maths

We began learning about different shapes this week as well as continuing our mental maths practice using our countdown game.

Topic

In our Scotland topic this week we learned about all the different cities in Scotland and learned some famous Scottish songs. So far we know ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and ‘Ally Bally Bee’.

The construction corner was busy again this week with a new challenge to build a famous Scottish bridge as part of our ‘Super Scotland’ topic.

Have a lovely weekend,

P2A 🙂

Hello readers and welcome back to our blog,

We hope you had a lovely holiday and wish you all the best in 2025!

PE

We began the week with some relaxing Moana themed yoga, we loved doing different actions for all of the characters.

Literacy

We were excited to get our new reading books this week. We also learned about the magic e, and learned all of the words it can change.

We had some time with our thinking buddies to discuss what we did during the school holiday and shared this with the class.

Maths

In maths we began the week with a countdown challenge we had to use our mental maths addition and subtraction skills to reach the number given.

This week, we also started a new class novel ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ we love it already. We had to draw each of the farmers just from the description in the story, it was very fun using our imagination.

The construction corner was busy this week with lots of new creations, some of the buildings were almost as tall as us.

We also have a new class Pizza Parlour, we love taking orders and making yummy pizzas with lots of different toppings.

Thank you for reading our first blog of 2025, see you next week. Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Hello Readers,

Firstly, thank you to everyone who attended our Nativity last week. We loved performing and showing all of our hard work.

We would like to wish you all a magical Christmas and a wonderful New Year celebrating with family and friends 🙂

We have had a fun-filled festive week in primary 2A and we are all excited for the holiday’s!

Thank you for an excellent start to the year, full of hard work and lovely memories. I cannot wait to see you all back in the New Year- Miss Brodie.

Merry Christmas everyone and happy New Year.

See you all in 2025,

Primary 2A 🙂

Welcome back to our blog! We have had a great week in primary 2A.

The week began with some cheeky visitors in our class! They have been getting up to no good…

Literacy

We enjoyed reading new books this week, continuing DLL and writing a recipe for a good friend.

Maths

We practiced some problem solving this week using the Numicon. We also used the Numicon to help Santa and his reindeer make 20.

Craft

We worked so hard making our crafts this week for the school Christmas Fair. We used our engineering knowledge to plan, build and decorate our crafts. We also spoke about what life would be like inside a snow globe. We used our creativity and curiosity during this to complete our craft and talk about life in a snow globe.

We have lots of advent calendars in our class, one of them gives us a Christmas song of the day. We played the song just before lunch and decided to ‘dance like we are in a snow globe’. We had so much fun.