Class 2 2018-2019

Just a reminder, as per the letter you received, there is a non uniform day tomorrow where children should wear green and/or white!

Looking forward to seeing all the cool outfits 🙂

Class 2 have been doing some super work on their new topic of equalities and discrimination. They have been learning about the Equality Act 2010 and the characteristics that are protected in this. They thought of excellent examples of discrimination under the different categories and also learned about reasonable adjustments that schools or workplaces could make to make sure nobody is discriminated against. Here are some of their thoughts –

• “Equality is being fair to everyone. This does not mean the same thing for everyone, like giving someone in a wheelchair more time in a race because they use a walker.” Isaac
• “Discrimination is when you are unkind to someone because of thir race like bullying someon because of the colour of their skin. This is called harassment.” Mariam
• “It is discrimination if a school or job doesn’t make a room for praying.” Subhan
• “Discrimination is unfair. Like only letting girls out to play and not boys!” Huzaifa
• “Discrimination because of age is terrible. You may think someone is older then they are but need to be fair when giving out a job anyway.” Kit

We will be continuing with work on this over the next few weeks making posters and making a short film about their learning.

“We are kind in Class 2 and do not discriminate” 🙂 🙂 🙂

This week we have also been learning  –

• double sums and quick recall of these
• further work on co-ordinates and directions
• verb tenses and using past present and future verbs correctly
• answering questions in full sentences using words form the question
• revising double sounds
• making good choices and needing to wait before acting
• working out clues to solve a problem
• about Mary and why she is important in the Catholic faith

Looking at the past, present and future of verbs and then using these in sentences

Hearing a mystery story and solving the clues to help us understand about waiting for all the information to make the best choices 🙂

The doubles sums we are trying tot learn by heart – quiz us at home to check if we know them!

Have a great holiday weekend. Remember swimming kit on Wednesday when we are back next week 🙂

Some of the things we have been learning this week  –

• alternative ue phonics spellings
• identifying and writing co-ordinates
• writing directions using left, right, forward and back and north, south, east and west
• discussing out topic theme of equality and making positive change
• investigating some different charities which have helped people with a disability or other learning needs
• reading stories to help understand discrimination
• acting out scenarios using a prop
• playing team building games
• evaluating our targets from last term and setting new ones

Writing some co-ordinates and giving directions

Acting out being George from ‘This is our house’. We used the hat as a prop to remind us that anything unkind we said wasn’t actually us but George!

We discussed how George was discriminating against people that were different to him. Here is our very inclusive class wearing their labels with something that could identity them 🙂

Term 4 already – how did that happen!

Class 2 wasted no time getting straight back into lots of hard work this week, especially with it being a short week.

Here are some of the things we have been working on  –

• following and giving directions
• naming compass points
• grid references
• improving our speed answering 2, 5 and 10 times tables sums
• revising all our different spelling strategies
• different spellings for the oa phoneme
• writing sentences including certain words
• using different openers and connectives in our writing
• playing rounders in P.E
• completing our leaflets advertising Harris, sharing all our learning from last term
• saving and inserting pictures into a powerpoint
• editing text in powerpoint
• control signals and problem solving in PATHS
• learning the Easter story
• decorating our own Easter eggs
• taking part in an Easter egg hunt

Our different spelling strategies to learn our weekly spelling words

Different long ‘o’ words – counting the sounds in the words and sorting into spelling groups

Enjoying the sunshine, problem solving and exercising at Adventure

Our thoughts on ‘direction’ before we started this unit in maths

Giving and following directions outside

Practicing co-ordinates in class

Rounders with P6/7

Working with a partner creating our leaflets to advertise Harris

Look at our fantastic completed leaflets 🙂

Have a lovely long holiday weekend and don’t eat too many Easter eggs!

We have been working hard this week, leading up to our well deserved holiday! Here are some of the things we have been learning –

• non-fiction features in texts
• alphabetical ordering
• writing a report on our BBC trip
• giving change from a variety of money (taking away or using shopkeeper method making up to the total)
• days of the week in Gaelic
• playing rounders
• alternative ie phonics
• features of a leaflet/brochure
• self control and anger management

There have been a few celebrations of different things this week also so we will complete our topic from this term during the first week back, completing our brochures to encourage people to go to Harris, before deciding on our new topic.

We thought of lots of different long i words.

After investigating lots of brochures about the Western Isles we wrote a list of features we could include in our own leaflets and things to do with Harris that we will advertise.

A special assembly to celebrate Miss O’Hagan getting married.

We have also been packing the classroom up today to prepare for our classroom being refurbished over the holiday! So when we get back in April our classroom will be looking shiny and new – we will post some photos in Term 4 for you to see!

Have a fantastic holiday 🙂

As part of our Harris topic we have been learning about the weather there and how it affects life on the island. This week we visited the BBC in Glasgow and had a tour of the weather studio from Judith Ralston the BBC weather presenter! The class had great fun doing  some of their own weather forecasts.

The class’ thoughts on weather and how it affects life in Harris after watching several videos

Arriving at the BBC and spotting the BBC Alba sign which we know from our Gaelic lessons!

Getting shown around the building by Murdo and asking lots of questions

Judith Ralston explaining about the weather forecast and how it works

Mariam and Kit spotting themselves on one of the monitors!

Amazing Class 2 weather presenters! 🙂

A group photo with Judith before we left

Judith tweeting about our visit 🙂

In other topic learning this week we looked at lots of different Harris Tweed products and learned about how this material is made.

Handbags, gloves, coasters, shoes, purses.. but our favourite was the cosy scarves!

In our literacy work we have been learning about non-fiction features. We have been discussing these and finding them in our reading books. When we are reading our non-fiction books at home make sure you ask us to find headings, captions, labels, the contents, index and glossary! We have also been learning about alternative ai sounds in our phonics, as well as continuing developing our knowledge of connectives in writing. This weeks handwriting letter was e / E and again the sun shone for us to go outside to practice our letter formation in the playground.

Finding, sorting and spelling alternative ai phonics

Writing small and capital e as well as some e words

During circle time we have been learning about friendships and have been thinking about how to make new friends and what is important. The class split into groups to act out scenarios of a child trying to join in with 2 existing friends and the others had to guess were they acting being a good friend or a bad friend.

Things to remember when making new friends 

Super acting from the class as they pretended to not know the 2 people already talking and join in, either in a way that would make friends or would not!

Have a super weekend, ready for the last week of term!

For homework this coming week (Monday 18th – Friday 22nd) we are asking pupils in St Albert’s to make a donations to two very worthy charities we are collecting for.

We are collecting donations for Glasgow South East Foodbank and clothing for Barnardos Scotland. If every child was able to donate one thing then by the end of the week we would have a huge collection to donate to those in need. Many thanks for your help with any donations you are able to make.

It has been another busy week with some changes in our timetable. Here is what we have learned –

• ordering words alphabetically
• practising our 2, 5 and 10 x tables
• totalling coins
• paying with fewest coins
• addition of money using a decimal point
• using connectives in our writing to improve our sentences
• the numbers from 0-10 in Gaelic
• asking questions about our reading book
• sequencing events from a text
• alternative spellings for the ‘ai’ phonic
• understanding self control and anger management
• God’s Loving Plan (for our P6 and P7 pupils)
• Handwriting for the letter d and D
• Listening to Primary 3’s assembly and their learning about Scotland
• Discussing friendships and the best ways to make conversation and be fair taking turns with new friends

Some of our ‘ai’ words

Taking advantage of some sunny weather and practising our ‘d’ and ‘D’ formation outside

Tylor worked all week, with P6/7, with the Barrowland Ballet creating a fantastic dance performance. Well done Tylor!

Our P7 pupils have been on some exciting adventures this week with Tylor attending the residential P7 trip in Abernethy and Isaac participating in the alternative P7 activities. They have both been having a great time!

Back in class we have been busy working away on lots of interesting things!

During our writing we are looking again at connectives to improve our writing. We learned about some new connecting words and when we use them and created some sentences of our own. We have continued with our focus on questions in our reading work and are answering questions abut the text to show understanding as well as creating questions of our own.

In maths we started our next focus and are learning about money. This week we have practised lots of different skills – recognising coins, ordering coins, totalling coins, selecting coins to pay, converting pence to pounds.

After our Class Assembly we have returned to our learning about different aspects of life in Harris and this week have been looking at peat cutting. Peat is basically mud that is cut from the ground and dried and then used to burn on fires like coal. We looked at pictures and videos of Miss Hewitt cutting peats with a traditional peat iron back home in Harris and then created instructions abut the different steps of peat cutting.

On Thursday for karate we were practising our hits and kicks with a new piece of equipment. We started doing some elbow punches too.

Today is International Women’s Day and we have been talking about women who are special to us and why. Make sure and be extra nice to all the lovely ladies in your life today! 🙂

Happy weekend!

Hazel from PATHS was visiting St Albert’s last week and delivering some lessons to help her find out what all the classes had been learning about. She was blown away by how fantastic Class 2 were at describing their different feelings and showing off their work on display outside the class!

In fact, she was so impressed she tweeted about their amazing work so that all the other schools she works with could see their fantastic work! Here is a screenshot of her lovely comments and a link to twitter for you to see the original post.

How amazing is this? Class 2 @StAlbertsG41 have been learning about the brain during #PATHS LOOK at their wonderful work! Mrs H is very proud and so am I ❤️ @PATHSEdUK @BarnardosScot pic.twitter.com/HMEaVKd9Dt

— Hazel Russell (@mcgeoch_hazel) February 28, 2019