Class of 2025a

May has been a busy month for us!

Maths

We have continued to practise learning our times tables and playing lots of maths games. The pyramids have been learning about division and we can divide by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10. They have also been learning how to find halves and quarters of shapes and numbers. They have also been learning how to make different types of graphs and charts. The Cuboids have been lots of work on times tables. They have also been learning about money and have been using new textbooks. The Cubes have been learning about money and how to give change. We have still been practising subtracting with exchanging.

Literacy

In reading we have been answering different types of comprehension questions about our novel study Fantastic Mr Fox. We have learned how to do different types of reciprocal reading jobs such as predicting, summarising, visualising, questioning and clarifying. We finished reading The Witches and wrote our own stories about the characters. We also wrote a book review about it. We have been learning about similes and have been practising using them in our writing. We have also learned about irregular verbs and practising our joined handwriting.

R.E.

We learned about Jesus’ disciples receiving Holy Spirit in the Pentecost story. We learned that May is the month of Mary. Some of us celebrated Eid and Ramadan!

Other

In the forest we made new houses for Fantastic Mr Fox’s family with traps for the farmers. In Science, we have been learning about forces and have done some experiments using magnets. We learned that some metals are magnetic! We have also been learning about healthy foods and how to use medicines safely. We enjoyed participating in Sports Day, it was loads of fun!

We have been working very hard since coming back to school!

Maths

We have really enjoyed learning our multiplication tables. We can times by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and even 11! We have also been learning how to divide. We have discovered some new maths symbols – ‘<‘ which means less than and ‘>’ which means greater than – and have learned how to use them correctly. We have been playing ‘Maths Karate’ to help us work out the meaning of maths words. The Cubes have also been working really hard with calculations and have learned how to subtract with exchanging! It was tricky at first but now we are experts! We have been learning about angles – we know that a right angle has 90 degrees and a straight angle has 180 degrees. We also discovered acute, obtuse and reflex angles. We have also spent a lot of time on some tricky maths challenges!

Literacy

We are very excited to have started our new class novel, Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl. We have read the first two chapters and have been discussing the characters Boggis, Bunce and Bean. We made predictions on what we think will happen in the story. We have also been listening to another Roald Dahl story, The Witches – it is really exciting! We have been working really hard with some tricky reading comprehension challenges and have been practising reading the questions carefully and getting our answers from the story. We have learned some new spelling rules and sounds.

R.E.

Before the holidays, we spent a lot of time learning about the Easter story. We learned about Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, Jesus dying on the cross and finally rising from the dead! We have also been learning about the religion of Islam. We have been learning about Ramadan which is the time where Muslims fast to prepare for Eid. Eid is a very special day where Muslims get together with their families to celebrate! We enjoyed learning about other religions and we thank Umair, Eesa, Aroush and Abdurrehman for teaching us about their faith! We have also been listening to some of the parables told by Jesus. We have been hearing the Parable of the Talents and we enjoyed sharing our own talents with the class.

Ancient Egypt

We really loved learning about the Ancient Egyptians. We learned about the pharaohs and their pyramids and tombs. We learned a lot about Tutankhamun (The Boy King) and the story about how Howard Carter discovered his lost tomb in 1922! We enjoyed hearing about the many different Gods and Goddesses, such as Isis, Ra and Anubis. We learned about mummification and made our very own class pharaoh ‘Jackenaten’ into a mummy! We all worked very hard on our projects at home and had a lovely time presenting these to the class. It was the best topic ever!

Outdoor Learning

We have been taking of care of the environment by doing lots of litter picking around our school and Cadoc Wood. We collected lots of litter! We got to go to the park afterwards for a reward, and it was so fun! We have also made boats and rafts and tested them in the river. We also worked in teams to make bridges to cross the river. We tested them and a few of us fell in!

We have just voted for our new science topic. We have chosen to learn about forces! We are excited to take part in lots of experiments.

We have been working very hard this month!

We enjoyed doing Beat the Street in Outdoor Learning. We went on a huge walk and hit 5 boxes! Some of us also did litter picking around our school and streets.

In Maths we have been learning about 3D shapes like spheres, triangular prisms, cones and cuboids. We have been learning about their faces, edges and corners and we went on a 3D shape hunt in the outdoor classroom! We have been doing vertical calculations in maths and the pyramids have been learning how to do addition calculations with carrying.

We have been working hard with our spelling rules like ‘magic e’. We have been learning about verbs and enjoyed miming some examples. We wrote spooky Halloween stories to give our teacher nightmares!

In R.E. we celebrated the feast of the Guardian Angels. We have been learning about Mary in the month of October and learning about the joyful mysteries of the rosary. With Mrs Sinha we learned a Hindu festival called Navratri.

We enjoyed making sea creature pictures in Art using chalk. We have started to practise for our Nativity show in December called Gabriel’s Big Break! We have began learning the songs and are preparing to choose our parts.

We have all been working very hard so far in Primary 3! Here are some of the things we have been learning about:

In Maths we have been learning about symmetry. We coloured symmetrical patterns and even made some of our own in the forest! We found some butterflies in the outdoor classroom and discovered that their wings were symmetrical so we painted some butterflies of our own! It was very fun! 🙂 We have also been learning to round numbers to the nearest 10 and working on odd and even numbers. We have learned some exciting new mental maths games such as Popcorn, Knockout and Killer 10!

In Literacy, we have been working hard on our spelling rules and with our new reading books. We have been learning to answer different types of questions about the stories such as true, false and can’t tell. We made some yummy empire biscuits and we wrote out some instructions about how to make them! We enjoyed reading the story ‘Tiddler’ about a fish who is always late for school! We wrote our versions of the story using our imagination. We also wrote imaginative stories about Foodimal characters – they were crazy! We have also been writing about our weekeneds and sharing this with the class.

We have been learning emotions by reading The Colour Monster! In the story each emotion was represented by a different colour:

happy – yellow

sad – blue

scared – black

angry  – red

calm – green

love – pink

We did lots of circle time and made some giant colour monsters of our own! We have been learning to be good friends and have Heart Partners who can help us when we are sad. In P.E. we have practising running a ‘mini-mile’ and have enjoyed playing games and races in the MUGA.

In R.E. we having been learning about the creation story. We learned that God created the world in seven days and listened to the story about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They were tempted by the snake to take an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and they were punished!

Our new topic is Oceans and Seas. We sang the oceans song and a song about the continents. Did you know that Pacific Ocean means ‘peaceful sea’? We used the chromebooks for the first time and (after a lot of technical difficulties) researched some weird and wonderful sea creatures!

We have enjoyed outdoor learning in the forest and the outdoor classroom. We have been doing technology, maths, health and wellbeing and drama outside so far!

We have enjoyed taking part in group of the week and counting our group crystals on a Friday. We have also been awarding our ‘mystery students’ 10 house points for following instructions. We have enjoyed Golden Time on a Friday afternoon and finding out the Star of the Week!

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We are excited to update you on our learning since we came back to school after the holiday.

We had lots of fun completing a scientific investigation. We were looking at materials and predicting if they were waterproof or not and then testing our predictions. We have also created a space areas in our classroom. We have got planets and have been making star constellations out of marshmallows and spaghetti.

We have been working on ‘wh’ words in literacy. We have also been developing our writing skills. We love writing books! This week we wrote acrostic poems about Winter. We have been reading lots in class.

In maths we have been working hard on money. We are learning to use the correct coins to pay for items. We are looking forward to practising this at home and in the shops.

In French we have been learning to talk about our house and all the different parts of it. We can tell you how to say windows and doors in French.

We are continuing to work hard on our targets and we loving building things in the construction area. We are now very good at tidy up quickly.

From Primary 2a.

Happy New year to all our parents and careers.  We are enjoying being back in school and excited for the term ahead.  Last week we started learning about money in maths.  In science we have been discussing waterproof and not waterproof.

We had a great time at the forest- luckily it didn’t rain.   We made pictures in the forest with natural materials.

We’re excited for everything we are going to learning this year.

Primary 2a