This week in P3 we have been learning about the brain and how amazing it is. We learnt that it grows when we learn and it grows the most in the first 10 years of our lives. We found out that mistakes are actually good for our brains because it gets stronger the more we practice something. We made brains out of plough dough and wrote information reports about them. In Health and Wellbeing, we also thought about how unique we are. Our brains make us unique. We read ‘Incredible You’ and decorated rainbows and stars with all the things that make us incredible!

In Maths, we nave been collecting data and making bar graphs. In PE we have been continuing to practice our throwing and catching skills and today practising bouncing a basketball low, medium and high heights! We made faces out of natural materials to show different emotions. Some of the emotions we showed were happy, sad, angry and surprised. In Art, we made a puffin using paper plates. We painted them and added feet using orange paper!

Hello. This week in P3 we have been learning about puffins. We watched a video to learn facts and then we have written an information text. We had to include an introduction, facts and our opinion at the end. We also had to try and use connectives and describing words.

In Numeracy, we have been learning number sequences to 1000 and 10,000 for some. We have been counting forwards and backwards in ones and thinking about the number before and after. In Maths, we have started learning about collecting and displaying data.

In Art, we have created lighthouses using collage with lots of different materials. They look super.

In PE, we have been learning to throw a ball using a bounce pass, chest pass and shoulder pass.

We spent time with P2 and P3 this week for our outdoor learning. We were inspired by the book, Leaf Man to make our own figures or animals out of natural materials.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been thinking about the Rights of the Child. We decided what things we have that are ‘needs’ and which are ‘wants’. We discussed the fact that not all children get the things that they need and this is why the Rights of the Child are so important. We have written our Class Charter using the Puffin Promise from our class book as a template. We have changed it to suit what we need to be safe, happy and to be able to learn at school. It is called the P3 Promise! We have each decorated a puffin to go round it. We also thought about which of our Rights are being met in the classroom.

Hello everyone and welcome to P3. We have a had a great start to the year. We have been enjoying free play first thing every morning and have been able to move freely between P3 and P2/3 so we can catch up and play with all our friends. We have started reading a new class book called ‘Call the Puffins’ about a little puffin called Muffin who is starting out at Puffin Rescue School. We are using the Puffin Promise to help us write our own Class Charter. We have also been chatting about our School Values and how we can show them. We have been exploring our new classroom and finding out where everything is. We did a scavenger hunt to find certain things. In Numeracy, we have been revising number bonds to 10 and 20. We have been trying to improve our recall speed. Number bonds to 10 are so important for lots of the Numeracy we will be doing in P3. In Art, we each made a birthday card and we will be able to give everyone one on their birthday throughout the year. In Literacy, we have written postcards about the best day of our holiday. In PE today, we played Scatter Rounders and everyone was showing what ‘good sports’ they were. This afternoon, we have done a scavenger hunt outside. We worked with our partner to find things like a feather or a flower.