Primary 3c have been working extremely well since returning to school! Following on from the post I published on Google Classroom earlier this year, we are still working on sitting in our seats and adjusting to our new classroom dynamic, but overall I could not be prouder of how well the pupils have adapted to being back in school with the restrictions and the move away from play based learning. Well done Primary 3!
“My favourite part of P3 is muddy movers and outdoor learning because we have fun making stick houses, finding place we can have some time in and have fun with our friends.” Nathan
“My favourite part of P3 has been doing PE. I just think its fun doing PE in the MUGA and doing Miss Hillhouse’s races.” Kazeem
We are super at writing! We read a book called ‘Tiddler’ by Julia Donaldson about a little fish who made up stories about why he was late for school everyday. P3c then wrote their own stories explaining why they though Tiddler was late for school. We are very imaginative! We then made Tiddlers using pompoms and pipe cleaners. Also we acted out scenarios why Tiddler was late for school for drama in the outdoor classroom, some of our skits were very funny!
“I didn’t use that many pompoms, they were taking up too much space but I enjoyed sitting with my friends making Tiddler” Adam
“I enjoyed learning about all the new characters and new animals and also the drawing was fun” Luca
P3c also made Empire biscuits and they were delicious. We used digestive biscuits, jam, icing sugar and sweeties- yum yum! Pupils then wrote the recipe, listing the ingredients, equipment and method. We challenged ourselves to use imperative verbs too.
“I think I enjoyed putting the icing on and I enjoyed all of it, it was all fun!” Harry
“It was very yummy. When writing the recipe I had to think in my head and I’d like to do it again” Thomas
Rayyan was our star writer this week with an incredible recount of his September weekend!
“I felt amazed. My story was about the wedding, it had lots of adjectives.” Rayyan
Health and Wellbeing has naturally been a huge focus since the schools have reopened. St Cadoc’s have been using the programme ‘Jigsaw’ where our friend Jinx the Jigsaw piece provides us with questions and topics for thought and conversation. P3c also read the book ‘The Colour Monster’ where we learned about Colour Monster and his 6 different colours, each one representing a different emotion- happy, sad, angry, calm, fear, loved. Pupils also enjoyed watching Inside Out as a way to further discuss the different emotions everyone experiences.
“I enjoyed colour monster because it taught us the colours and it was fun reading it. I like Inside Out because it taught us some of the emotions, it was funny too. My favourite part was when Joy was making it worse because she was saying happy things when Sadness was feeling sad and she thought that Sad things were happy things” Isabelle
We have been partaking in mindfulness regularly, such as meditation time within the classroom and outdoor classroom, taking time to relax and focus on positive thoughts and positive conversations. We have been engaging in mindfulness drawing which the pupils have loved (such as drawing a dot or line on a piece of paper and then listening to music and seeing where the drawing takes us). Pupils have also been enjoying watching Newsround (this has been a huge hit!). This helps us discuss and understand world events in a positive and child friendly way, as well as further learn about the world we live in.
“Learning all the cool stuff has been good, like the animals. We learned about the baby pandas first birthday. It was quite cute.” Daniel
We are still reading our class novel ‘Wayside School is Falling Down’ not too many chapters left now but this story provided great conversations about class rules and behaviour in the classroom and playground.
“The book is pretty interesting because each chapter is totally different.” Nico
“”My favourite chapter was Mush. It was funny because no one wanted to eat the food, then one of the boys ate it and then kissed the teacher! It’s a silly story.” Maria
“Mush was the funniest one and its a great book” Andrew
“There were loads of teachers in Wayside School one of them was called Mrs Jewels and someone had a crush on her in her class. I liked that bit, it was SO funny!” Sarah H
We have also been loving our topic ‘Oceans and Seas’. We have learned some fun songs to help us remember the different continents and oceans. P3c are incredible singers! Pupils have also been enjoying their time in the forest. I have to pass on my thanks to all the parent volunteers helping us in the forest, it is not possible for us to participate in this form of outdoor learning without the help of our parents, so thank you! Parents evening will be via 10 minute phone calls this year, the dates for our class are the 21st and 22nd of October, times can be booked online. I look forward to speaking with you then, but as always if there is anything particular you wish to discuss please do not hesitate to send you child into school with a note or contact the office.
Miss Hillhouse and P3c
