P3b are just soooooo awesome. In May we acted out some plays, quite marvellously! We have been learning new skills in swimming, football and karate. We have been cooking and baking and have even been nominated for a Diabetes UK Fundraising Award!
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April Achievements
P3b are totally awesome. In April we have been making new friends, spending time with our families, achieving sporting success and numerical successes.
March Awesome Achievers and more
March
Ella notes that we have been confident and RESPONSIBLE by reading out our parts for the Spring Service. Abby loved that we were all INCLUDED when we practised playing the glockenspiels to “Spring is Coming”, to the tune of Frere Jacques. We even recognised the notes we have learnt with Mrs Carey in Music.
We can RESPECT all people and realise that people need help in different ways. We can read the Braille alphabet and even translated a letter from Braille.
We have ACHIEVED great ICT skills and can use Excel to produce our own graphs.
We have RESPECTED people of all religions and found out more about Islam and how a baby is named. Raymah’s name is one of the 99!
Aaron knows much more about Scottish inventors and how they communicated with each other after our visitors came from the Museum of Communication in Burntisland.
Our visitors talked to us and brought exhibits from their Great Scots exhibition. We found out even more about Scottish inventors they had started researching at the start of the term – these included John Logie Baird’s invention of the telephone, Robert Watson-Watt’s invention of radar, Lord George Murray’s invention of the shutter telegraph, James Bowman Lindsay’s invention of the incandescent light bulb, Ian Donald’s invention of ultrasound devices, Denyer and Renshaw’s invention of the micro-chip camera and Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone. We were able to play with very old original telephones, a replica of Murray’s optical telegraph, a Morse machine, semaphore flags and a special light-emitting device – incandescent light.
They also shared an interesting poem titled “Rough Justice” that Sir Robert Watson-Watt had wrote after he was caught for speeding by a radar gun of his own invention.
Logan knows more about places in the world because we had visiting teachers from America and Switzerland to help us with our learning. This class is able to RESPECT people from different countries. We also discovered that Miss Golding was brought up in Tanzania. She shared more about her country with us.
January Blog
January
We are delighted to be back after the holidays!! (AND this sentence includes some of our spelling words!) We have already learnt so much! We have investigated Scottish Inventors. On Burns’ Night we learnt about the Scottish poet and even sung one of his songs, Oh my luve is like a red, red rose. We have become more aware of Internet Safety. We are doing gymnastics. We have learned about exclamation marks and where they should go (although there are probably too many in this blog!!!)
Achievements – As ever, we are incredibly sporty and ACTIVE in gymnastics, swimming, football and dancing.
We have shown confidence doing new things, being INCLUDED, like joining cubs
We are successful learners, using Kinects and making lanterns, ACHIEVING success in building and making things.
We have been HEALTHY, climbing and cycling really far.
We have been RESPONSIBLE and INCLUDED our new classmates in our fun and games.
We know how to keep ourselves SAFE and have First Aid badges in Brownies.
November blog
This month has been so exciting for us as we held our class assembly. Anyone who saw it would agree that we performed brilliantly! We told our family, friends and school buddies all about the Jewish festival of Sukkot. We showed off our craft skills, with the succahs we made and our wonderful pictures. We sang and even danced with the lulav and etrogs!
Another exciting thing that happened this month was a walk in the local area where we investigated the different types of houses that people live in, like flats, semi-detached houses and bungalows. We also picked up different types of leaves on our walk.
We have been experimenting with different methods of creating art work. We made a collage from leaves we had collected, in the style of Guiseppi Archimboldo. We also made a tree from our leaf rubbings on to silver foil.
We have been learning how to dribble and pass the ball in basketball, but also how to stop! We had great fun being competitive and keeping fit.
We have learnt to use conjunctions (joining words), like “because” and “so”, making two short sentences into one long and more interesting sentence
Our mental maths calculations are improving because we have been practising by playing games on Sumdog.
We have been very funny, making our class and teacher laugh at the Voice Box Joke Competition and we have also been very successful at the Road Safety competition.
Finally, we learnt a lot about the Scottish Patron Saint and celebrated being Scottish because of St Andrew’s Day.
Achievements – Primary 3b are the most awesome class in the school, surely! We have helped people a lot, thinking about others in our families (including our pets!). We have been facing our fears, jumping in the deep end and bouncing on different trampolines. Our footballing, gymnastics and swimming skills are improving.
October blog
October
We are really considering the environment in Primary 3b. After reading Eco Wolf and the three pigs, The Promise (an emotional picture book about making the world clean and happy) and Charlie and Lola look after your planet we thought much more about being Eco-Friendly. We completed tasks online and are now Eco-Environment Agents – we know how to save energy, tidy away rubbish and not waste resources – our message is: REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE and RESPECT (the environment!).
We looked at what kinds of buildings people live in around the world and are about to go on a trip around the local area to see what kinds of houses people live in around here. We are also going to check to see if we can spot any eco-friendly houses with solar panels or wildlife gardens.
We’ve moved on from rugby to basketball – they are both team and ball sports, but the balls are shaped quite differently so need different skills when passing.
Achievements – Primary 3b are totally awesome again. We have won medals, can dance like a robot, rollerskate, cannonball dive, play the drums and piano, go on a flume and even more of us can tie our own shoelaces! We are so proud.
First blog post as P3b and there is so much to tell!
We have had the most marvellous first few weeks of school.
We started our fun learning by exploring three books by Roald Dahl, thinking about his expressive vocabulary and exciting stories. We used drama and PE to enable us to explore his excellent characters.
We have been working really hard on fitness and can tell we are being fit by feeling our pulse in our neck – if we have been working hard, it is faster.
We are become so incredibly computer literate – We can use the Activote pods to answer questions. We have learnt how to log in to Primary Games and play numeracy games to help our mental maths skills. We can use the computer to take part in Storyworlds activities. We have just received our own log-ins for Sumdog so we can play competitions against children all around the world!
We are starting to learn about the environment and look at Eco-friendly houses, so watch this space!
Achievements – Primary 3b are totally awesome. We are an incredibly sporty bunch. We swim loads – and have even been recognised for the huge amount of money we raised for a diabetes charity. We go to Brownies and Mosque and can even tie our own shoelaces now!
