This week in outdoor learning we used our problem solving, team working and creativity to design and create shelters for our class teddies. we were very impressed with our work. In maths we have been finishing our learning about 2D and 3D shape. We made funky egg Easter cards to bring home with our Spring Easter Bonnets. We had great fun showing our bonnets off at the Easter service and we also shared some spring animal poems.  Happy Easter! We hope you all have a lovely break!

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

What a wonderful trip we had on Tuesday! A very big thank you to Mrs Robertson and our parent helpers who came with us. The sun was shining and we managed to fit in all of our wish list from planning the trip together. We looked at landmarks and talked about Newport in the past. We particularly enjoyed playing in the woods and exploring the old hidden railway tracks. We spotted lots of birds, heard a woodpecker and even saw some deer. We did a conga on the grass together and a treasure hunt.  At the end we finished with a play at Kinbrae Park.

We have also been learning about what to do in an emergency if someone is hurt. We acted out different scenarios and practised the recovery position.
On Monday we had committees.
We also did some Easter crafting and practised our songs for the service.

This week we have been learning about the Easter Story. We watched a video, wrote and drew what we could remember about the different days of the story. We have also been learning about grid references where we had to find different pictures on a map using letters and numbers. we have been continuing to learn about 2D and 3D shape. We tried some trickier comprehension and we all worked hard to read, understand and answer in full sentences. We have continued to learn about fitness, creating our own excise routines. In health we have been learning to play to our strengths so we came up with superhero names to match our super powers.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we have all been working in our committees with pupils from all of the classes in the school. We have all been busy organising, leading and communicating with others.
We have been practising our songs for the Easter service which has been making us all feel happy and spring like!
In literacy we discussed whether snail slime soap was a good idea. There were a lot of strong opinions but we listened well to everyone’s points and took turns. We then turned this into a discussion written piece of work. We are all much more confident in how to structure this and the key words to use.
In numeracy P2s are improving their mental maths skills and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20. Lots of us are going further to work within 100!
The p3s are subtracting 9 and 11 within 100.

PE gymnastics was an opportunity to work on our peer feedback skills.
In topic we planned our trip to Berry’s Den which is next Tuesday. Don’t forget to look at the kit list of what to wear and bring.
Another lovely week!!!

 

This week we created our own spring poems. They were called ‘If I Were a Spring animal’. We imagined what it would be like to be a particular spring animal, making sure to use adjectives and verbs. We are very proud of our poems. We have also been learning about dissolving and exploring what dissolves and what doesn’t. We loved experimenting with the different solutes and even left some over night. In maths we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. We hid the shapes in a bag and did our best to describe the shapes to a friend. We thought about edges, corners and faces. In art we designed and created springtime Easter Bonnets for the Easter service. We used different materials shapes and patters. Finally we really enjoyed our compliment tunnel in H&W. we each took a turn to walk through the tunnel of hands while everyone paid them a compliment. We all felt really special.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we were writing discussions about eating insects.
We entered the Beano ‘Funniest Class Competition’.

We had sunny fun at Loose Parts and when exploring in the nursery garden with the p3s.
It was gymnastics again with the equipment for PE. We are getting really good at giving peer feedback.
Our handwriting focus was tall letters this week.
In numeracy we are trying to improve our mental strategies for addition and subtraction to 20 in p2 and to 100 in p3.

This week we have been looking at different patterns in numbers such as, the teens numbers, counting in 10’s, 5’2 and 2’s. We have also been discussing even and odd numbers and we found out that when you add 2 odd numbers you always get an even number and when you multiply by 2 you always get an even number. In Literacy we have been learning about the past and present tense. We played a game of musical chairs where we had to write down the past tense verb once we sat down. It was lots of fun! For outdoor learning we explored signs of spring. We researched which flowers were spring time flowers and found out about Daffodils, Crocuses and Snow Drops. For Science we conducted an investigation into properties of materials. We explored which materials were best for building boats, bridges and making bouncy balls. We loved exploring and being creative. We also decided the winning properties for these things. there was a lot of team work, creativity and questioning skills.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

Tuesday with Miss Allan

This week we have been learning about fractions and weddings in RME with Miss Allan.
We have been practising letters with tails below the line. P3s are learning some joins.

We made the most of the sunshine for outdoor learning in the nursery garden.
Our class library has been restocked and we have been exploring the new non-fiction and fiction books during ‘‘Drop Everything and Read’.

In PE we continued to use the apparatus for gymnastics. We are beginning to create our own sequences.

We had a class discussion about hunting animals and then wrote about it.

This we we enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. It was lovely to see everyone dressed up and to hear about their favourite books. We had a Teams author visit from Greg Stobbs, the author of Cloud Boy. We loved hearing and being part of the picture book about a boy who loved to dream and use his imagination. We also got to do a character draw along and ask him some questions. This week we have also designed our own character for a competition then we made our own mini picture books becoming author/ illustrators ourselves. We got to explore the books for the book fair and will be visiting next Wednesday to make any purchases. The Book Fair will also be open Tuesday and Wednesday 15:00-15:30.

We have allso been busy creating I am unique rainbows, building boats from tinfoil, making number patterns with teens numbers or doubling and halving and finally keeping fit with tabats at PE.

Monday to Wednesday with Mrs Meiklem

This week we enjoyed keeping the beat and moving to the music. We listened to songs from different genres of music and discussed what we thought and what instruments we could hear. We learned  a new song from the Latin genre.
In literacy we have been doing class debates and writing discussions for the first time. We were all very respectful of other people’s opinions and spoke confidently about what we thought.
We had fun exploring in the nursery garden with p1/2 for outdoor learning.
Our handwriting focus has been letters which start like a ‘c’. The p3s are learning the first group of joins. We have practised all week and our handwriting heroes are on display!
We liked using the equipment in gymnastics again today and were able to make up our own sequences of rolls, balances, jumps and types of travelling.