Primary 3a Wallacewell Primary

A slightly shorter week but we did lots of fun learning.  We began by building  3D shapes and working on using number lines to help with our subtraction strategies.

Continuing on our Superhero theme in writing we wrote our own superhero stories where they used their super powers to save the day.  We then turned these in to comic strips which are looking fabulous and we will post some of these next week.

In literacy we continued our learning about the features of a non fiction text and worked with a partner to create some fabulous posters to help us remember.

We ended the week learning about leaf identification and how you can tell the type of tree by the shape of its leaves.

This week, we continued developing our superhero characters, thinking carefully about their superpowers and the supervillains who might try to stop them. There were lots of wonderful and well thought out ideas shared. We then moved on to creating our own comic-style pop art pieces, which look fabulous displayed on our classroom walls.

To end our block of report writing, we looked at real-life superheroes—such as police officers, doctors, and firefighters—and explored the amazing work they do to help others.  In Literacy, we began learning about the differences between fiction and non-fiction texts.

In Maths, we’ve been working hard on using number lines and are becoming more confident counting in 2s from any number.  We then finished the week with our Health and Wellbeing Open Afternoon, where we created our own emojis to represent different emotions. It was so lovely to welcome so many visitors and share our learning with you all.

As part of our Eco journey Primary 3 are going to be saving used bottles and cans to raise money to adopt an endangered animal. Despite Mrs Potter trying to convince the class we should save an orangutan she was outvoted and it was decided we would work to adopt a lion.  We therefore made this our writing focus this week. We used our note taking skills to gain some information then used these for this week’s information report writing.   In numeracy we were working on adding using number lines and will continue that next week. We also created our own superhero, had a visit from some sports leaders  and have been completing tasks in our Superhero themed Creative Play area.

It’s been a fun and full week in P3a, with lots of exciting learning taking place!

 We began the week by exploring the months of the year and the seasons they belong to. The we continued on to look at adding tens and multiples of ten to any number. While some of us found this a little tricky at first, we showed fantastic resilience and worked hard to build our confidence and understanding.  Everyone received a new reading book this week. We’ve been working on developing our comprehension skills, and we’re making an effort to explore both fiction and non-fiction texts to widen our reading experiences.

In writing, we continued with our report writing, this time focusing on endangered animals. We were able to share our knowledge at the end of the week s P3 are leading the school journey towards our next Eco flag.

To end the week, we also had a go at coding our superheroes to save items or people. We will continue this next week.

Well done, P3a, for another fantastic week of learning!

Click on the link below to view our Term 1 Curriculum Newsletter.

P3a Curriculum Newsletter – Term 1 2025-26

We have all now settled back in to school routines and enjoying being in Primary 3.  We started the term by discussing what was important in our class and together created our class charter.

We all now have our reading books which we will take home each night so we can practise our reading and in class have been working on comprehension.

Our writing focus has been on writing an information report.  We are making great progress and this week we were writing about people who can help us.

In maths we were working on place value, and looking at hundreds, tens and ones as well as 3D shapes.

Finally we we lucky enough to watch a live performance of Alice in Wonderland which we all really enjoyed.

Welcome to P3a. We are looking forward to sharing our learning journey with you.