Hi there, it’s Mrs Dougall here. As you may know, I have a different role this year and I am now responsible for Inquiry Based Learning across P2, P3 and P4.  This means that I complete Learning Journeys with the children, starting with a problem/question and working towards them finding a solution using teacher and child led learning across different aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence.   I now teach P2b for 3 periods of IDL and one of PE each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.

We started the year learning about the Earth’s relationship with the Sun and Moon. We learned the difference between Revolution and Rotation and that the Earth has three main Climate Zones.

We investigated the phases of the moon

We learned the difference between Revolution and Rotation and the children led their learning by discovering Nebula and creating their own Nebulae.  

Linked with the Learning Journeys, we have been learning about Meta Skills. These are the skills that we use everyday in our learning and our Meta Skills Lessons help us to investigate the skills, apply them in practical situations and recognise the importance of them in our daily learning. These Meta Skills will help equip the children  for the World of Work.

Our first Meta Skills focus was on Creativity and Curiosity and more recently we have been focused on Communicating and Collaborating.  The class teachers work with us to apply these skills in all of our learning.

During our second Learning Journey we became Food Waste Warriors. We learned about how far some foods travel to get to us and how they grow.

We investigated what happens to food that we waste, especially in our Dinner Hall, set out to educate others in how to waste less food

And we tasted some of the fruits that travel a long way to discover if they still taste good after all of their airmiles.

We finished our Learning Journey with a special visitor who came in to tell us all about how Viridor Waste Management turn our Food Waste into biogas and compost.

Our third learning journey is all about Growing and Planting in a Sustainable way, we are recycling containers and seeds – we are really looking forward to discovering what we can make grow!

This week some of us have  have been learning how to round to the nearest ten. We played games in groups and on the iPads to practise.
Some of us have been giving missing number calculations a go. We used numicon to help us work out the answers. Here we are on a “missing number calculation” treasure hunt.

In class we have been talking about what makes us unique. In French this week, we learned how to describe our appearance in French. We have played a P2b version of ‘Guess Who?’ – where we describe someone from our own class!

We learned about the Scottish artist Stephen Brown and did our own ‘McCoo’ pictures! We are looking forward to teaching our adults at the open afternoons this week.