November 2023 – P3.11 Blog 2023/24

Coding- School Values

During our Coding pathway in Mearns Masters, we have been using Scratch Jr. Our first project has been to create a cartoon to teach Primary 1 children the meaning of our school values. On Scratch Jr, we can change backgrounds, create characters, make objects move, add voice overs, add text and so much more! Mrs Stephenson has been so impressed with how confident we are at working independently.

Today, we visited P1.2 and shared our creations. They loved the animations! When we arrived back in our class, we discussed what went well and what we could improve on.

Outdoor P.E

During our outdoor P.E slot, we have been focusing on improving our hockey skills. We have been practising holding our hockey stick correctly and passing a ball to our partner. After our lessons, we also get some time on the outdoor gym equipment which we love! This is always a highlight to our Tuesdays!

Letter Writing

We have been working on writing letters in class. A few weeks ago, we wrote a thank you letter. We learned how to set our letters out properly, including our school address.

Today, we have been writing letters to a new pen pal. We have made a connection with another school in East Renfrewshire and are writing to pupils in their primary 3 class. This was our first draft today and once we have received feedback from Mrs Stephenson we will re-draft and post our letters.

INTO FILM FESTIVAL

We loved going to Cineworld and seeing ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’. We were lucky to get the back row so some of us were able to have a little dance along with the fabulous songs!

Big thank you to our two parent helpers for supporting us on the day 🙂

House Challenge

Well done to A, E & A for earning House Challenge certificates! We loved cheering them on as they were presented at assembly 🙂

Happy Halloween

Halloween was lots of fun in 3.11. We had our Spooktacular sporting event, had the opportunity to look at all of the fabulous pumpkin creations, listened to a story about a witch’s spell gone wrong and created and shared our own witch/wizard story through Drama.