Hello! This is what P3a have to say about what they learned about in May:

Sareen- We wrote Autobiographies which are stories all about you. I wrote about starting school, my hobbies and interests and my friends.

Elias- We have been learning division and playing Hit the Button on the Chromebooks. I have also been learning x6 and x7.

Naomi- This month we drew Sunflowers. We used oil pastels and we had to blend them together. We copied Vincent Van Gogh.

Georgia- We learned our 6 times table. It was a bit tricky. We have been finding tadpoles in the river at the forest.

Nadine- We created family trees. I used a picture of a tree and I added all my family members and shared it with the class. We also started learning out 7 times table. We have been redrafting our autobiography too.

Zahra- We went to mass in St Cadoc’s church. We got to meet Canon Eddie and he told us facts about the church. He decided he wanted to a priest when he was 10 years old. We have been practising for sports day in PE.

Mia- Louise, Elias and I decorated a card for Mrs Reid who is retiring. Our whole class had to sign it.

Louise- When we went to the forest we went fishing. We used the nets and our group found tadpoles.

Savyasachi- We have been learning about bar charts in numeracy. Bar charts show how much people like things, present information. We also used tally marks. Also we went to the forest and made wands.

Rory- We have been learning about safety online and not talking to strangers. If somebody asked you to play and you didn’t know them you’d ask a parent or say no.

Grace- In maths we have been learning fractions. We also started a new topic this term and it is what matters to me. We did a couple things liked to our topic like writing our autobiography.

Elisa- We have been reading How to Train your Dragon. Hiccups dad decided to unbanish him and Hiccup talked to the dragon.

Parisa- In PE we have been learning to play rounder’s. If you run to a base and they put the ball in before you are out, but if you get a home run you get 5 points. For homework instead of a maths sheet we have been going on Education City.

Adam- We have been doing portraits. On our portrait we drew a picture of ourselves and then drew all out favourite things and we were inspired by Romero Britto.

Charlotte- We have started to learn our 7 times table. We have been looking at bar charts, working out peoples hair colour and favourite drinks.

Michael- My group did some tiling in numeracy and had to create patterns and when we had to draw it it was quite tricky.

Francesca- When we went to the forest we found some water slugs and snails. I also found a broken piece of pottery.

Carson- Last week we got a new maths mosaic which was Buzz Lightyear, the questions were division and a new mindfulness.

Andrew- I was a star writer for my autobiography and I got star of the week for amazing blending with the oil pastels.

Kye- We did French with Miss Hutton and we were learning to read sentences in French and work out peoples age and the colour of their calculator.

Matthew- My group in maths are using a new textbook and we have been doing fractions questions and it was a bit tricky.

Primary 3a have been working hard during the month of March. Find our what we have been up to below:

Zahra- We had real daffodils in our classroom and we drew them. We did sketching with pencils.

Rory- We were making our Life Beyond Land video. I talked about how the spaceman got into his suit and we made it for our mums and dads.

Michael- We learned about Palm Sunday. It is when Jesus went to Jerusalem and the crowd were shouting ‘Hosanna in the highest!’

Naomi- We made under the sea pictures with lots of sea creatures on it. There were sea turtles, whale and mantra ray.

Carson- We have been watching Blue Planet on BBC IPlayer and we saw the biggest animal in the world and how heavy his tongue was, as big as an elephant.

Charlotte- I have been learning about division. I am getting better every time I try it.

Sareen- For outdoor learning we collected a stick so we could make our wands. We used pipe cleaners, tape and string with buttons.

Georgia- We have been learning about jellyfish. Jellyfish have tentacles and they can sting you. We made jellyfish using paper plates and we painted them and added sequence.

Nadine- We showed some of our amazing maths to the other teachers who visited our classroom. We are doing fractions and we used skittles to make fractions.

Mia- We’ve made posters to save the sea. I had a whale and there was litter in the water.

Savyasachi- We have been learning about Ramadan and Muslims celebrate this and they call their God Allah. At the end of Ramadan they celebrate with a big feats called Eid al Fitr.

Cillian- I have been learning about halves. I have been cutting playdoh and playing half games on the Chromebooks.

Andrew- I got a new minions mosaic in maths it is looking at division. I have been learning division and it has been quite hard.

Matthew- We went to the learning lodge to use the Chromebooks in the STEAM suite and the P7s came and helped us log on.

Parisa- I have been doing handwriting, we have been learning to write with joins.

Grace- We have been doing writing we have written The Door and The Undersea Adventure. Also we have been doing our How to Train your Dragon novel, we have been answering questions and we are on chapter 9.

Louise- We wrote inside candles to say our prayer for lent and we decorated them.

Adam- We have been doing tiling in maths, drawing shapes and creating patterns. It can be quite hard but I am working hard.

P3a share a bit about what they have enjoyed and learned in February:

Sareen- We got to decorate Hiccup and Toothless using tissue paper. We also moved onto our next big questions ‘what different sea creatures are there?’

Grace- My group in maths are learning staircase division. We have been using the stations, maths, writing, creative station, topic station. We have been writing stories about our novel ‘How to train your dragon’ and wrote a story as if we were climbing into the dragons den.

Adam- We had our Eurovision song contest, we won and had a continental breakfast. We had croissants fruit and juice.

Nadine- We were learning about camouflage in science and my group are learning staircase division in maths. We also have new colouring pens.

Charlotte- Our group has been learning vertical multiplication. I feel like I am getting better at it.

Savyasachi- We went to the science centre on a white star bus. I saw different parts of bodies and at the end we watched a movie about under the sea and we wore 3D glasses. My favourite part was running in the hamster wheel.

Elisa- We have been learning about different sea creature: sea turtles, octopus, crab and jellyfish. Sea turtles don’t breath under water. We have also added new prises to the star of the week bag.

Parisa- Yesterday my group was chosen to do the Easter egg hunt. Inside the Easter eggs were our spelling words. Our sound is the ‘ou sound’.

Naomi- In the creative station we are to draw a space picture and I drew one with the planets and the sun and stars.

Matthew- We finished off our big questions about astronauts and the different planets in our solar system. I enjoyed creating a poem to remember the order of the planets.

Michael- I liked the science centre. There was a body parts sections, you had to take the organs out. There was also magnets and you had to put them in a weird shape. There was a soft play and there were sideways houses also a water bit to play in. My favourite part was the dance floor.

Francesca- We made portholes out of paper plates and paints. We stuck the two paper plates together and stickers and drawings inside.

Georgia- We designed some butterflies and then camouflaged them about the room.

Rory- In my maths we have been learning staircase division and using remainders. When we were at the science centre there were 3 floors, my favourite floor was the top floor the body floor.

Louise- We’ve made some space leaflets and used the chrome books to search facts to put in our leaflets. We then decorated them and drew some space pictures.

Mia- in my group we have been learning division and remainders. We have maths stations, we can do different activates at the maths stations. I enjoy the maths board games.

Carson- We made some crosses to put on our window and the sun has been shining through! At maths we’ve been doing staircase division with remainders. If you’ve done well Miss Hillhouse will give you challenge questions. I like the challenge questions.

Kye- We have been learning about sea creatures. The biggest octopus is 9 meters long, the same length as our classroom. Sea turtles can hold their breath for 5 hours and breathe the same air as humans.

Cillian- I enjoy doing the daily mile. We have been doing gymnastics, we have learned a barrel roll.

Elias- I have done an Iron Man maths mosaic, also I’ve been learning about money and coins and I’ve been doing nice questions on the board with Miss Hillhouse. I had some fun doing the questions with Miss Hillhouse.

Andrew- I have enjoyed doing multiplication in my maths.

2023 here we come!

So far so good, we have started the year off with a bang! Here are some of the things P3a have been learning in the month of January…

Naomi- We have been doing our new expedition Life Beyond Land. We have been answering the questions ‘How do astronauts survive in space?’ and ‘How many planets are in the solar system?’ We wrote questions in our jotters of things we wanted to know and we chose 4 main ones to answer this term. In Waterloo I have a solo part.

Savyasachi- We have been practising for the St Cadoc’s Eurovision Song Contest. We are performing Waterloo by Abba. I have been enjoying the song and I am playing the guitar. We are performing on Friday. Miss Hillhouse has put the times tables on the wall. I am getting better at my times tables. Miss Hillhouse and Mr Connor have been teaching us how to speak French. There are pictures of our baptism on the classroom wall.

Michael- We have been learning about the chasuble. It is something that the priest wears, it comes in different colours. Ordinary time it is green, Easter and Christmas it is white. We have our new house point token Love. You can get a token when you show love in class.

Elias- We are practising our bullet points and note taking. We were taking notes on astronauts, we used fact files, pictures and chromebooks. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon.

Andrew- Miss Hillhouse has been reading the Demon Dentist to us, it is really good. We also brought in our baptism pictures. On Robert Burns day we did a Robert Burns quiz.

Georgia- We have been reading our class novel ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ In the story Fishlegs didn’t get a dragon so Hiccup gave him his.

Francesca- We have been writing in our free writing jotters. We have been writing about the characters Stella and Tiggy. We write in these jotters in the morning each day.

Grace- We have been learning about clocks. We have been learning quarter to and quarter past. We made leaflets and we drew astronaut pictures and also pictures of Buzz Lightyear.

Adam- We have moved seats in January, some people moved to a different group too. I like sitting next to Nadine, because I like sitting next to all different people because I get to sit next to a boy and a girl. It is very nice meeting new friends. We had Ariana for Williamwood high school to help us do maths, writing she went round helping us and looking at our work.

Rory- We made some crucifixes for the window. Miss Hillhouse gave us a cross shape and we used plastic, and glue and tissues paper to glue them. In Waterloo I have a solo part.

Sareen- We have been learning about division. I like learning about division because I like learning maths. We are also doing times tables up to 9. We have been earning house points and the tokens are blue, purple, orange and red for the St Cadoc’s values.

Elisa- Yesterday all the tables were moved when we came in. We did a special maths booklet. Miss Baker came in and we had to answer the maths questions. On Burns Day we had haggis, neeps and tatties for lunch.

Nadine- We have been using the voices to read the characters in our stories. We have been creating our own names tags for our desks.

Matthew- We were learning about division, timetables. I enjoyed it. We have been practising singing Waterloo in French.

Charlotte- We have been learning in our writing to use exciting openers. On our space wall we wrote questions and facts about astronauts.

Parisa- We have new friends Stella and Tiggy who we sometimes write about in our free writing jotters.

Zahra- We have been doing new mindfulness’ and we have been doing our novel study and answering questions about the novel. We have been singing Waterloo and I am a dancer with a blow-up microphone. We have also been learning about the chasable, it comes in red, purple, white and green.

Carson- At outdoor learning we have been making clocks on the path and trees. We used sticks and pinecones and tones to make the clock hands, and we used chalk to make the outline and numbers.

Mia- We have carpet friends and when we are sitting nicely, we get a carpet friend to sit with us. They are very soft; I like having a carpet friend.

Louise- In our PE we have been doing gymnastics, we have done point and patch balances. We have also been doing jumps and rolls. I enjoy it a lot.

Cillian- People brought in their baptism pictures.

In their own words, here is P3a tell you about what they have enjoyed and learned recently:

Naomi- We have been opening the advent calendar every day and it’s been lots of fun practising for the Nativity. I was Mary I had to say a lot of lines and sing a solo. I was nervous on the day of the show!

Georgia- We have been learning about the post office and we have done about the Egyptians. We have a post box and some things we can buy like Christmas cards, stickers, stamps.

Charlotte- We have been practising joined up handwriting. We made Christmas posters for the Christmas fayre, and we put it in our jotters and I got star writer for it! We made letters for Santa and it was really fun!

Mia- We have been practising our Nativity show. I am a dancing angel. I was excited on the day of the show.

Grace- We have an elf on the shelf! He brought us a post box that we have to paint and decorate. We wrote letters to Santa and posted them in our post box. We turned it into a post office, we get to play there. We have been doing a lot of spelling and grammar, We have also been making Christmas cards.

Sareen- So we’ve done our Ninja challenge and our projects, lots of people made pyramids. We’ve also been doing rugby for PE, we have been playing matches.

Adam- We have been doing some jump start Johnny and yoga and also doing our handwriting more. Our elf brought us an advent calendar. He is called Snowdrop. We have also been doing measuring in my maths group. We have been using meter sticks and have been learning about centimetres. Also we have been practising for the Nativity and I was a wise man and I had to bring myrrh to the baby. We have been reading stories, my favourite was the Little Reindeer.

Rory- We have done our projects. We had to present them to the class and I did a PowerPoint and I drew a big Egyptian flag. In the Nativity it was a narrator, we did two shows, one at 2pm and one at 7pm.

Francesca- We have been writing a lot of stories in our jotters. We have been writing about the Gruffalo. We also wrote the Firework poems, I was a star writer for mine! We have a really nice teacher.

Nadine- We have an elf on the shelf and I drew an elf on the shelf and put it on my class brick on the wall. Also new mindfulness. The mindfulness helps me relax. Our elf is called Snowdrop and he has given us an advent calendar and we wrote a letter to Santa, I wrote a practise one and then I wrote the real one I sent to Santa. In the Nativity I was a servant, I was excited when it was the real show.

Matthew- we have an elf named snowdrop, right now he is being nice but some days he is being cheeky. Like he put all the chairs upside down! Today he gave us books to read and some nice notes. He loves candy canes.

Elisa- We have put lots of things on our bricks. I put some artwork on mine. We have carpet friends when you are sitting nicely you can get one. I have had a carpet friend sit with me!

Louise- We have been doing division and my group has been learning about money. In our trays we have money and worksheets we need to complete. We did Santa letter and we did one in our jotter and one we posted and I was a star writer!

Elias- We have been doing maths tests on a Friday and we did division and times and plus and take aways. We have a brick for our work which is our favourite and I put on my brick my haunted house drawing. I was excited about the Nativity and I also like the school and it’s fun to be at school. I love doing my maths tests because I sometimes get good scores and I also love doing division because it’s so nice to be learning about division.

Andrew- We have been doing maths mosaics. We have been getting house point tokens for achieve, respect and kindness. The elf gave us some books.

Michael- We have an elf on the shelf. I was a star writer for my letter to Santa. We had to write our school address and Santa’s address and we made our own envelopes. We had to stick a stamp on it. We had to put Santa’s address on the front and also put stickers on our envelope.

Parisa- So we have been doing comprehension, I love comprehension it is so fun. For our letters to Santa I was a star writer and it was really fun making the letters. We have also group points so whoever has the most group points in a week will win the cushions.

Zahra- We made snowman decorations out of wood and we got to decorate them. Also we have been doing Christmas activities like the post box. We have been making letters and I got star writer for one! We also got to play at the post office and we have toy money so we can pretend to buy things and we also got to buy stamps letters, envelopes, Christmas cards and stickers. It is really fun.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support this term. We will update our blog again in the New Year 🙂

This is what Primary 3a have to say about their learning this month:

Louise- We learned a lot about ancient Egypt, we learned about pyramids and mummification. We are going to be making a poster or model or poem and PowerPoints for our project at home.

Adam- We have been learning about Diwali we have learned about people painting their floors and putting decorations on their houses and we learned about Rama and Sita. I remember doing things about God, and Daniel and the Lion’s den and making Egyptian necklaces. Every week we get a Star of the Week and Assembly awards and there are cuddly toys if you’ve been sitting well on the carpet and we also have Halloween arts and crafts. We’ve got timetables on the walls to help us learn.

Rory- On Newsround we’ve been learning about the new prime minister. In my maths group we’ve been crossing out (borrowing) numbers. We did an All About Me maths challenge and we also did a rainbow fish and we wrote about the dancing tiger.

Naomi- We have been doing maths activities using dominoes, cards and dice. We’ve been using them for times tables, x2 x3 x4 x5 x6.

Charlotte- In my maths group we’ve been learning carrying with sneaky numbers. We have also being doing some Yoga and during PE we have been focusing on keeping the ball next to our feet in football.

Elisa- We have been learning about how they mummified the Egyptians in 20 layers of bandages and they left the heart in the body. They threw the brain away but they kept the other organs in Canopic jars. Mia- We have been writing rhyming poems about the Witch Next Door. It was a little tricky but I did it correctly.

Savyasachi- I’ve been doing upstairs downstairs calculations. It was medium, it is hard to write the questions in the jotter.

Carson- We have been learning about Egyptian fashion and we have been making necklaces in the style of Egyptian fashion. We used paper plates and yellow paint and sequence to decorate it.

Parisa- We have been doing loads of fun activities like our spelling words hidden in the pumpkin eyes.

Zahra- We have been doing forest school, we made faces and decorated them with sticks and flowers.

Kye- We made bug homes. Andrew and I made rocks and stuck them with mud and made a second layer. We made hands for the wall, we wrote our names in buddle letters and we also drew ourselves on small bits of paper for a school collage. We also were doing skimming and predicting in comprehension.

Francesca- We have been learning a lot about Diwali and Rama and Sita and that Rama and Sita were guided home by lots of Divas. We made a Diwali lantern.

Nadine- We have been reading Halloween Stories. We made Halloween masks, we made Halloween decorations using a scratch pencil. We have Ancient Egypt books inside our classroom.

Matthew- There is a Halloween table and if you are working hard you can go to the table and make a Halloween monster using playdoh and cocktail sticks, and you can name your monster.

Grace- We’ve been learning about in mummifying and they put the person’s body in salt to try them off. When we’ve been learning about that I really enjoyed it because I liked that they only mummified people who were rich like pharaohs because it was interesting.

Elias- We were carving a pumpkin in class. We scooped out all the insides, I enjoyed it, it was lots of fun. While you were waiting for a turn to scoop the pumpkin you made a pumpkin using tissue paper and you got to make your own faces on it and use nice colours. I made a cool pumpkin.

Sareen- We’ve been doing arts and crafts like our necklaces and our hands on the walls and we’ve been doing x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 times tables.

Cillian- We saw a show in school.

Andrew- We did maths mosaics and some mindfulness.

We have made an excellent start in Primary 3! It is very different from Primary 2 as we have our own desks and chairs. We have jotters for each subject and do work in them each day. We have some active play in our classroom but not like in Primary 2, that’s because we’re the big boys and girls now!

Each of us has shared, in our own words, a few things we have enjoyed or learned so far in P3 below.

Grace- We get to learn lots about the Egyptians. I have learned that pyramids take years to build. They put all the organs in jars.

Naomi- We have been doing stories and we have been learning about how the Egyptians turn into mummies. I have enjoyed being in the p3 playground.

Adam- We learned that it takes 70 days to turn someone into a mummy and they get put into a coffin and sometimes the coffin is gold and blue. We watch Newsround and we have been learning about our new Prime Minister Liz Trust.

Charlotte- I have been learning my timetables. We have enjoyed looking at the Egyptian books in our classroom.

Parisa- They would wrap the body in 20 layers of bandages.

Sareen- They put a hook up their nose to get the brain out. They also leave your heart in the body because they thought it had all your love and thoughts.

Rory- We have been drawing about the yellow, blue and red colour monster. The yellow is for happiness, the blue is for sadness and the red is for anger. When we were watching Newsround some people were having food fights and we have also being sitting on chairs and desks.

Francesca- We have learned our 2 and 3 times tables.

Zahra- They cut the left side of the body to get the organs out. They worshiped cats.

Georgia- We have been learning about The Lost Sheep. He lost his sheep and went to look for it. It was under the rocks.

Nadine- We have jotters and our own table. We also have reading books. There are trays for the teachers and the children have their own trays too. It is different from p2. We have a reading den to sit in, it is blue with yellow stars and lights.

Elisa- We wrote about our topic, about the Egyptians getting mummified. When we voted the Egyptians won, they got the most points so we are doing that topic.

Savyasachi- We wrote a story about Tiddler. He was a fish who was late for school every day. We were pretending we were Tiddler and we wrote about what we did that made us late. We were also reading our textbooks and we answered the questions in our jotter. I have enjoyed my classroom. I like having my own desk.

Matthew- We did maths mosaics of Donald duck, Mickey Mouse and goofy. You do maths questions and colour them in to make a picture. The mindfulness colouring is relaxing, we colour it in on our own and it has to be colourful. We were learning about the Egyptian words, hieroglyphics. We wrote our names.

Andrew- The Egyptian priest had a wolf mask on during the burial.

Mia- We have done spelling and some maths. We have done writing for silent b, using chalk outside and also stamps and beads.

Louise- We have our own groups, red, blue and green. We have to get group points for being quiet or helping carrying PE equipment. Whoever gets the most points gets the pillows for the whole week.

Elias- I have learned subtracting and times tables. I have enjoyed reading books and getting group points and getting the pillows.

Michael- I have enjoyed having new friends in my class. I have enjoyed writing about Egypt and the Tiddler story.

Carson- I have enjoyed my new teacher.

Cillian- I enjoyed making my own Tiddler. I stuck on sequence and feathers.

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