Class of 2024a

Happy New Year from all of us in P3a!

We had a fantastic first week back at school. We wrote superb personal recounts about our time over the Christmas holidays!

In Maths, some of us began to explore multiplication and we also talked about angles, fractions and symmetrical shapes and pictures. We went on to use this learning to draw self portraits, completing the other half of our face, trying to make our features as symmetrical as possible. On Friday, we became bakers as we made our very own bread! We followed instructions to combine all of our ingredients (not forgetting the magical ingredient of yeast!), kneaded our dough, left our dough to prove and then baked it to make golden brown loaves! We had tasted our bread in the afternoon, with some butter and jam on top! Some of the boys were very proud and excited to show off the mansion that they built together, using jenga pieces and Kinnex!

This week, we have a visitor from Warburton’s coming in on Tuesday to do a workshop with us, involving sandwich making! We will keep you posted about this as we are very excited. We have been reading Pippy Longstocking as our class novel, getting to know the character and her mischevious ways!

See you soon! 🙂

Hello everyone!

This week, we created beautiful winter art work using paint and tissue paper. The trees were made by layering colourful tissue paper in the pointed shape of a tree. We added a touch of sparkly glitter to finish off our art!

We have our Nativity dress rehearsal this coming Monday, ahead of the big performances on Tuesday, so we were excited to visualise what we would all look like on the day! We wrote brilliant invitations on Tuesday, inviting our loved ones to our performances of ‘The Hoity Toity Angel’. We brought these home this week; we hope that you can RSVP!

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and the happiest New Year! Speak to you in 2020!

P3a 🙂

Hello there!

With the Christmas Fair this coming Saturday, we created our Christmas crafts. We carefully made unique cinnamon scented tree decorations with pieces of ribbon, as well as some tasty hot chocolate stirrers, made from delicious melted chocolate and shimmering sprinkes! These will be available to buy at the fair on Saturday. We hope to see you there!

This week, we learned more about our topic Field to Fork. Our challenge was to create an attractive piece of packaging, like the kind we might find in the supermarket! We tasted some of the fruits and vegetables that are grown on farms!

In Numeracy, we are working on our mental agility and becoming more able to solve calculations mentally, using different strategies that we have been learning about! We love coming up to the board to show off our thinking to our classmates! It has been tricky, but we are getting the hang of it!

Our Rugby skills have been improving through practising lots of passing and mini possession games!

See you soon!

P3a 🙂

Hello from P3a!

This past week we have been very busy rehearsing for our exciting nativity performance ‘The Hoity-Toity Angel’. We have been singing, dancing and speaking our lines so fantastically; we don’t even need our scripts anymore! We are so looking forward to the performances on the 17th and being able to show off what we have created and practised so hard for.

Last week, we explored the effect of germs and realised how quickly and easily they can spread, just like glitter! We created a ‘Sneeze Zone’ to see how many of our classmates a sneeze would reach, if we don’t cover our mouths properly!

We made these beautiful spooky haunted house scenes, using watercolour paints and silouettes. How amazing are they?

As part of World of Work Week, we made our way to the school kitchen and were given a tour by the dinner ladies. We also looked at the skills that we would need for lots of different jobs and were able to match them successfully, working very hard in our teams!

We have also been exploring Road Safety this week and have written some brilliant rules for navigating the roads effectively! As part of Book Week Scotland, we read Fantastic Mr Fox together, ventured on a trip to the school library, took part in ERIC time and designed our own book covers, using our favourite books as inspiration. We are very, very creative!

We discussed the importance of Catholic Education Week, as well as beginning to explore the meaning of Advent and the symbolism of the different candles that we light. Our problem-solving skills were put to the test when some of us became frogs to act out a tricky problem.

Most exciting of all, we have started exploring our brand new topic – Field to Fork! We know that there are different types of farms and that these farms yield different kinds of produce. We will begin to investigate the process and journey from these farms all the way to our dinner table, and everywhere in between!

Speak to you soon!

Primary 3a 🙂

Primary 3a have been learning about all things Oceans and Continents!

We know that there are 7 continents and have been researching some of the life that exists in each of these places. We especially loved learning about the animals that live in each climate and how they have evolved to survive there. We created fact files, explored an Atlas and used technology to find out about the creatures that live in each continent. We put our artistic skills to the test to create beautiful and unique drawings of small sea turtles and sea horses! Learning about pirates from the past and different ships was so interesting!

Recently, we created fantastic eye-catching posters to raise awareness of plastic pollution in our own school and thought of different ways to reduce our plastic usage, like using metal/paper straws and also recycling our shopping bags! We had lots of fabulous ideas to share and put into action.

We even have an upcoming visit from an author this week to further learn about the impact of conservation. We are VERY excited about this and are preparing some questions for her!

See you shortly!

P3a.

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