The final preparations for our Fairtrade Coffee Morning is complete. We’ve decorated our biscuits, written our presentation and even rehearsed some entertainment.
Hope to see you tomorrow at 10am!
Fairtrade Coffee Morning
Preparing
On Friday Mr Mckenna and groups of P2a and P2b pupils prepared our biscuit mixture. Following the recipe below using Fairtrade ingredients where possible.
https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/m/martha-collison-sfreezerdoughcookies.html
Baking
Miss Mckay baked the biscuits from frozen. They are now ready for P2 to decorate.
Coffee Morning
Our coffee morning is on Friday 8th March at 10am. Come and along to hear about Fairtrade and enjoy some delicious baking. All donations of baking will be happily received.
Lenten Mass with the Bishop John
The Bishop will be celebrating a Lenten Station Mass with our cluster, Thursday 21st March, 7.00pm, St. John’s Church.
We would love to celebrate this with as many families as possible. Children should wear full school uniform.
Coffee and Chat 26th Feb
Thank you to all the families who came to the Coffee and Chat this afternoon.
Items discussed:
Homework –
Whole school homework: parents liked the whole school homework and felt pupils were engaging well.
Numeracy e-homework: Sumdog and Education City providing a range of interesting and engaging games at pupils level. A reminder to encourage pupils to log in as guest setting does not target skills for pupils. Mr McKenna emphasised that research has shown that at least 30 minutes of Sumdog per week has a beneficial impact on the development of Numeracy and Mathematics skills.
Literacy
Reading for Enjoyment: In P2 we are working on encouraging pupils to read for enjoyment, through trips to the Foundry, exploring different reading materials and improving use of School Library. Parents noted that pupils enjoyed the trip to the Foundry.
Numeracy
Currently using Strong Maths every day with this term’s focus on Subtraction strategies using visual aids and concrete materials.
Health and Wellbeing
Mrs Hemphill is working with the pupils to develop their knowledge of Food and Nutrition and applying this knowledge to make healthy meals.
Free Flow Playground
Parents asked about the free flow playground. Primary 2 are encouraged to stay off the muddy areas. Primary 2 are reminded to tell an adult if something upsets them during playtimes.
Communication
Parents are enjoying accessing the blogs and finding out about what is happening in school.
Music and families
For their third and final lesson with Mrs Duggie, the children of Primary 2 would like to invite their families to join in with their lesson.
This lesson with take place in the classroom this Thursday 28th at the times shown below,
P2a 1.30 – 2.00 pm
P2b 2.00 – 2.30 pm
Everyone is welcome, just bring your singing voice!
Week beginning 4th February 2019
No Whole School homework
Atrium: Imagination and Collaboration
There was lots of imaginative ideas from a skyscraper with shops and houses to magic wands and candle shops.
Health and Wellbeing
Today we continued our health and wellbeing focus of Friendship. The focus was the having more than one friend. After hearing about Twiggle’s Special Day, we worked with a partner and completed a task which involved working together and sharing.
Foundry Visit
On Tuesday we collected our new library books. Our aim is that these library books will encourage children to read for enjoyment. Every child selected their own book. Pupils were encouraged to choose a book for enjoyment which they could confidently read.
The books will be collected in March to return these to the Foundry.
PE
We are working on stretch and strength in PE. We found press ups tricky but two P6 boys kindly offered to demonstrate.
Burn’s Day
The lunch hall will be serving a Burn’s Day menu in the 24th January. 
Scottish themed Friday Afternoon
Activities including –
Making our own tartans using a paper weaving technique
Creating a thistle using collage technique
Steven Brown inspired highland cows focusing on colour and line techniques
Scottish Assembly – 30th January 2019
Following a request by pupils, on Wednesday some pupils will be sharing some Scottish dance, poetry and music at assembly. If you would like to attend this assembly it will begin at 2pm.
Many pupils in Primary 2B have volunteered to sing a song. They will be singing Katie Bairdie .
See the link below should they wish to practise at home https://soundcloud.com/scottishbooktrust/4-katie-bairdie
This week, pupils have also written their own versions of Katie Bairdie.
Week Beginning 21st January 2019
Whole School Homework – First Minister’s Reading Challenge
This week the whole school homework focuses on the First Minister’s Reading Challenge. The blue booklets were handed out in Aug/Sept and should be updated regularly. This week they will go home to be updated with any recent books completed. These books should be returned to school by Friday.
There is also some suggestions of way to engage your child in reading out side of school. 
Read, Write, Count Primary 2 bags
In November Primary 2 visited the Foundry, where they received yellow bags with 3 reading books, numeracy games and a note pad.
Please let us know what you thought by filling out the Parent survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PXCWGJ2
The prize draw for parents is a personal Read Write Count GOODIE BAG filled with books, games and activities for all the family to enjoy.
The deadline to complete this is Monday 4 March 2019.
Atrium
In the atrium this week we provided opportunities to explore natural resources as well as using sand, water and construction materials. Over the next few weeks we hope to rebuild our loose part materials collection. We will be looking for all sorts so look out for a letter for Mrs Carwood.
Physical Education
As we progress through our gymnastics focus in PE we have been working on rolls. This week we have been working on different rolls including forward rolls.
Week beginning 14th January 2019
This week we started our block with St. Luke’s Sports Leaders.
Whole School Homework
This week’s optional whole school homework is a creative competition. If you are interested in taking part see the link below.
Creative Competition Flyer 2019
The competition is part of the Show Racism the Red Card campaign and encourages all participants to demonstrate an anti-racism message. If you would like to take part and require any art materials please let Miss McKay know. The school will submit the entries together and therefore they should be returned by Friday.
Living Things
Pupils have been identifying living things and sprting these into catergories of their own choice. We used our ABC of talk to discuss our ideas. Animals we find in school provided a particularly interesting debate, thankfully we were all in agreement we don’t see sharks in the playground!
John the Baptist
We were delighted to be visited by Margaret Mary on Monday. She shared the bible story of Jesus’s baptism and talked with us about John the Baptist.
Week Beginning 7th January 2019
Welcome back to Term 2! I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable winter break. Check out what we will be doing this term on the P2B information page.
This week we are working on getting back into routine at school. A new homework jotter was handed out with a new homework overview and pupils logins for Education City and Sumdog.
Pupils also have a planning sheet to talk to their families about our topics this term: Weather, Farming and Fairtrade! When planning a topic, pupils share their knowledge and ideas to ensure we provide learning opportunities which target their interests. By discussing these at home first we will be able to have a really engaging discussion in class.
Pupils Leading Learning planning sheet
We will continue to have PE on a Wednesday and Friday and I would encourage pupils to bring their kits back in as soon as possible. Remember we love PE and don’t like to miss it, so even if it’s wet or cold we try to get outside. Therefore it’s important to have suitable outdoor clothing for PE in the MUGA on a Friday.
St. Luke’s Sports Leaders will be working with Primary 2B on Monday 14th, 21st and the 28th January.
This week we also started working on Fractions and Money.
For Golden time this week, pupils could
- play Science Games about living and non living things on Education City
- make and decorate crowns to mark Epiphany (6th January 2019)
