In St Luke’s Cluster we nurture every child’s unique God given talents to enable them to flourish in a climate of high expectations, innovation and creativity.
We braved the cold today to head outside and consolidate our learning about living and non-living things. The pupils learned about the distinguishing features of something that is a living thing and then went outside, found different items and placed them into the two categories. We also discussed other ways to categorise the items depending on their similarities and differences.
We have been enjoying learning about our bodies in science. We have learned about our skeletons and loved making a life-size diagram! The pupils also enjoyed being creative and creating their own skeleton pictures at golden time on Friday!
Whole School Homework – British Science Week
This week Science homework tasks have been added to Education City to mark British Science Week. Pupils access the activities using their Education City, then clicking on the homework tab.
Sumdog Competition
The East Renfrewshire Sumdog competition finishes on Thursday. There are currently 173 classes entered. Well done to the pupils who have been taking part at home!
We had a visitor today in Primary 2 to tell us a little more about our topic, Fairtrade. One of our parents, Mr Mariner, is an employee of Co-op supermarket which sells a large range of Fairtrade products and is involved in many Fairtrade projects.
He told us about the lives of farmers and their families in other countries, and how we can help them by buying the Fairtrade products they produce.
He brought with him a selection of Fairtrade products his supermarket sells such as tea, coffee, sugar, chocolate, bananas and even cotton wool.
As a treat for listening to his presentation so well he gave all the children a cookie with Fairtrade chocolate chips and a Fairtrade banana each to take home.
British Science Week
Journeys and Transport was the theme for 2019. In a nod to Science week Primary 2 were provided opportunities to think about different transport, from trains, planes to spaceships. Here is what they got up to…
Science
We are working on the investigating types of water. We investigate melting and freezing today. We melted ice and used ice to freeze milk. Click the link below if you would like to try this at home, with an adult.
Farmer Visit
On Thursday Sheila visited us to tell us about her life as a farmer. We found out she had 80highland cows and over 1000 sheep. We heard how she had a very busy day looking after the animals, keeping them safe and healthy.
Beat the Street
Beat the Street commences on Friday. Pupils will received their fobs on Thursday.
It’s a fun, free game that will see Barrhead and Newton Mearns transformed into a giant game! See how far you can walk, cycle and run in just 6 weeks.
Play the game from 15 February – 29 March and register to win prizes for yourself or join a team to win team leader board prizes.
For more information click the link below
https://beatthestreet.me/barrheadnewtonmearns
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.
Better late than never. This is a short video about our trip to Finlaystone. While we were there we complete a senses walk. It was a great day!
Finlaystone video 2 – best video on phones.
Homework
Over the next 3 weeks the homework will focus on a variety of curricular areas.
Please click the link below for more information.
P2 Homework Activities October
My Family
We have been looking at toys from the past. Last week we looked at toys which we still play with which our grandparents might have also played with. On Monday we designed and made kites. We tested them outside as it was a windy day, perfect for flying a kite!
Hail Mary
Primary 2 have been learning the Hail Mary this month to mark October. October is traditionally the month of the Rosary. Pupils wrote their own personal copy of the Hail Mary and took these home to practise.
This week we have begun our Science Topic : Senses. So far we have went a walk around the school on a Senses walk, we found lots of exciting things including a delicious smell of soup coming for Mr Farrell’s class, the sound of children laughing and found lots of interesting things to touch in the P4-7 playground.
Then Miss Pervaiz brought in lots of interesting things for us to taste, smell, hear, see and touch. We loved describing and tasting the different fruits.
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