This week we have been enjoying the lovely sunshine and warm weather.

On Tuesday we learned how to play Scatter Ball in the MUGA. It was so much fun, we can’t wait to play it again.

We walked to the bottom of the hill to look at our new crossing. Lots of us have already used it and we shared advice with each other about staying safe and crossing the road. We even learned that if you need it there is a dial at the bottom that spins when it is the green man to let you know it is time to cross.

We looked at a selection of non-fiction texts to help us understand different ways to share information. We really enjoyed looking at the travel brochures and furniture shop magazines.

We will use this to help create leaflets over the next few weeks.

On Friday morning we had a maths morning investigating number with Mrs Norman. When we were finished with our targeted task we decided to get creative in our learning zones. Take a look at the great things we created.

It was lovely to see all our families this week at our parent appointments, I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday weekend.

It was so lovely to be back in school this week with Primary 2C! Everyone was excited to share their news from over the holidays and before long it felt like we had never been away!

Today was our Eid celebration in school and we have had great fun creating art, dancing and making chocolate covered strawberries!

This week we were so lucky that the P6B led our PE session.

The Primary 6’s had Playzone training delivered by Tony from Active Schools and have been learning games and activities to teach to us.

They were brilliant teachers and we enjoyed all the activities they organised for us. We were extra lucky that the sun was shining!

I hope you all have a lovely Spring holiday & that the sunshine stays out!

Hi everyone.

I have been so impressed with everyone in P2C the last couple of weeks – they have been working so hard! Here is a little round up of what we have been up to. Miss Ross

In Numeracy and Maths we have been exploring time and symmetry. We like to work together to complete tasks. The iPad station is a particular favourite!

In Literacy we are continuing to learn our sounds each week. We have been focusing on alternative spellings of long vowel sounds. We have also started procedural writing and so far have written the recipe for a jam sandwich. I think it made us all a little hungry!

In Art, we have been learning about the artist Kandinsky and abstract art. We have completed various pieces of art inspired by his work focusing on line, shape and colour.

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 P2C for 3 periods 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 spent time outdoors to check if the moon can be seen during the day and we created Moon Phase sequences.

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 even went up to the lunch hall to investigate the food waste problem and come up with some solutions to help Sylvia and the Lunch staff

To finish off our Learning Journey we had a tasting session to try different fruits. The Pomelo wasn’t very popular, but most of us really enjoyed the apricots and mango.

We also had a special visit from the aunt of one of our 2B friends who works for Viridor waste management and was able to tell us what happens after our recycling is collected. We even got to try on some Hi Vis gear!

Learning Journey 3 is all about Growing and Planting, we have been investigating different types of plants, so far we have learned all about Edible, Carnivorous, Companion plants and we are creating a Mood Board to design our dream gardens.

Thanks for all of the plastic tubs, we will soon move on to planting in them using all of our recycled seeds – we are all excited to see what we will be able to grow.

We can’t wait for all our grown ups to visit us next week for our open afternoons. This week we were very lucky as one of our grown ups came in for an early visit to teach us some Gaelic as part of our Scotland topic. We even got to hear some music on the fiddle!

We then created our own tartan using card and tissue. We found it hard to weave the tissue but we tried our best and the final results look fantastic. We can’t wait to show you them next week.

This week in numeracy Primary 2C were learning about different ways to collect and sort information.

We learned about Venn and Carroll diagrams then tried out a few activities to sort out our information. We wondered about all the data handling our grown ups do everyday.

In the MUGA we were working on our tennis skills. Each station made us focus on our control and accuracy when working with the bean bags and balls.

Sorry for the delay in posting – I only noticed it hadn’t posted when I went to post this week!

Primary 2C were faced with a castle building challenge this week. They learned about the history of castles in Scotland and then had to design and create castles that met the criteria they set. The teamwork and planning was fantastic to watch and all the children were able to discuss their castles in great detail. Take a look at the process with some completed castles at the end!

Welcome back to Primary 2C!

The children all returned to school on Monday with great tales about their time off. It was lovely to hear about families getting together and the children showing their appreciation for the time spent with others.

This week in Literacy we have jumped right back into developing our reading skills by building on our knowledge of sounds and common words. We are looking forward to looking at some Non-Fiction texts.

In Numeracy we have been exploring place value and learned a really fun game where we had to calculate the answer faster than our partner.

In P.E. we are going to learn about tennis and badminton. This week we have been focusing on reaction times and learning about the individual skills involved.

Today we decided that we would like to learn more about Scotland and where we live in the local area. We were really excited to learn that there are artifacts in our area that date back hundreds of years.

Our special keys all disappeared. On Monday morning we had a surprise delivery of a beautiful black and gold box. We needed to work through some challenges in the envelopes to discover the message. It told us that we were the key to reading! We worked so hard and learned to keep using all our reading strategies. The keys are now in our class to help remind us when we feel challenged.