We have recently began our new topic; Global Goal 4 – Quality Education. We have been studying education in both Scotland and other countries and as a class, we decided we would like to raise money for ‘Send my friend to school’ charity. We decided in order to raise money for this charity, we would like to make friendship bracelets and sell them. We made a power point, which we presented to the rest of the school and we have made excellent posters to advertise our bracelets. Bracelets will be sold on Monday 27th February at break time in the foyer.

Primary 2 had an extremely busy week filled with lot’s of exciting activities. Thank you to all the visitors who helped to make this an amazing week! We have learned a lot about  the importance of having both a healthy body and mind. Here are some of the activities we were lucky enough to participate in:

Sophie McLellan ‘We enjoyed dressing up as dentists.’

James Doran ‘I loved using the firemen’s hose to spray water.’

Olly Watters ‘The guide dogs were my favourite.’

John Joe Hodge ‘I loved doing tae kwon do.’

Derry Finnigan ‘I love Bella the cow.’

Ana Hearns ‘The dancing was my favourite, I liked showing lots of attitude.’

Anton Heinrich ‘The tractor ride was good fun.’

Erin Kane ‘I liked dressing up as a caterpillar.’

On friday we had an extremely exciting morning when Zoo Lab came to visit us! We couldn’t believe that we got to see and touch a snake, a rat, a tarantula and a giant snail! We were very brave and loved learning all about these animals! What an amazing end to the week!!

‘The rat is so soft and furry’ – Jonathan Delaney

‘The snake feels nice and smooth’ –Matthew MacInnes

Primary 2 had a fantastic day dressing up as scientists and participating in science lessons. We especially enjoyed a visit from Generation Science! We learned all about magnets and got to work in groups to complete different magnet activities.

‘I loved learning all about magnets’ -John Joe Hodge

Primary 2 have had  a great couple of weeks back at school learning all about Scot’s Language. We have enjoyed participating in a variety of activities such as reading and writing descriptions about various characters in ‘Room on the Broom’ and ‘The Gruffalo,’ creating tartan kilts, studying Scottish Saints and learning Scottish dances during p.e.

This week has been magical for primary 2 as an elf named Elfie has joined our class. On Thursday morning an elf door appeared in our classroom and by the afternoon we had found a letter telling us all about Elfie. Primary 2 enjoyed sharing the news with parents and grandparents and created a storyboard to describe activities they would do with Elfie, if he was to go for a play date with them.

‘I want to take Elfie to the cinema‘ -Georgia Neil

‘I would have hot chocolate with Elfie’ -Ana Hearns

‘I would watch Barney with Elfie’ -Olly Watters

‘I would show Elfie all of my toys’ -Mirrin Hughes

We have been very busy over the last couple weeks preparing for our Christmas Nativity but we took some time out this week to create our christmas fayre products, which was lots of fun!  We have made bags of reindeer food, which we are very excited to sell at the fayre on Saturday!!  We are also going to make some reindeer gingerbread biscuits! ‘I loved making reindeer food.’ James Doran           ‘I was really good at making the reindeer food and I liked helping other people make theirs.’ Sophie McLellan

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Today marked our last day of football training with Tommy. The past six weeks have been excellent and we have learned many new football skills which we will continue to develop. ‘I’ve loved learning how to play football with Tommy’ Ana Hearns.  ‘I wish Tommy was helping us with football for a bit longer’ Anton Heinrich.

We have been working very hard to improve our numeracy skills this term. We recently enjoyed reading Katie Morag and  we were very lucky to receive a letter from Granny Island, who asked us to use our excellent maths skills to help her find various places on the island. We used our knowledge of directions and working in a team to help Granny Island at each station in our classroom. Eva McWilliams said ‘We loved helping Granny Island.’   Jonathan Delaney said ‘that was my favourite maths lesson.’

In primary 2 we have been lucky enough to have a football coach called Tommy working with us to develop our football skills over the past few weeks. We have had great fun  and we are definitely improving our skills!!! Matthew MacInnes and Anton Heinrich are ‘really enjoying p.e with Tommy.’