We have had a fun and festive week in Primary 3! A highlight was our trip to the pantomime to see The Little Mermaid. Everyone had a fantastic time, and the children represented the school beautifully.

Literacy
This week, we focused on developing our visualisation skills. We worked on using clues from the text to create clear pictures in our minds, then used our five senses to help describe what we imagined.

Maths
In Maths, we have been learning how to calculate change when working with money. This week, we practised giving change from £1. Next week, we will continue building this skill by learning how to give change from £5.

Other Learning
We also learned about another important inventor—Thomas Edison. The class discovered how he invented the light bulb and helped bring electricity into people’s homes.

World Book Week

This week we celebrated World Book Week with a special whole-school assembly where a pupil from each class shared a piece of reading.

Literacy

In literacy, we have been learning how to use commas in a list. In our writing lessons, we are focusing on character descriptions and using descriptive language. Last week we described Little Red Riding Hood, and this week we explored the character of Miss Honey from Roald Dahl’s Matilda.

Maths

In maths, we continued to practise using different combinations of coins to make the same value. We also used arrays to help us solve division calculations and deepen our understanding of the concept.

Science & Technology

This week we learned about non-renewable energy sources and how they will soon run out and are damaging our planet. We also created our own stop-motion movies, which we shared with the class. Finally, we designed and drew our own characters, then brought them to life using a digital animation app.

Other

Our sports leaders have returned for their second block of sessions, and we enjoyed starting the week with a fun and active PE lesson led by them.  Finally we had a Commonwealth Games assembly where we me the new mascot ‘Finnie’ .

Remembrance Day

This week we began by learning about the importance of Remembrance Day and why we commemorate it.

Literacy

In literacy, some of us practised making notes from our non-fiction reading books, while others with fiction texts focused on using their senses to visualise the setting. We also began learning how to sort words into alphabetical order and used this skill to find words in a dictionary.

Maths

In maths, we explored a range of division strategies and solved calculations using the 2, 3, 4 and 5 times tables. We also practised using different coins to make the same value of money and investigated symmetry in 2D shapes.

Topic

As part of our topic work, we looked at how televisions have changed over time and compared old and new technology.

Creative Area

In the creative play area, we made cup telephones to explore sound and communication, and we created artwork inspired by pointillism.

It’s been a busy and exciting week filled with Halloween-themed activities!

Literacy:
This week we focused on visualisation, using our senses to imagine and describe a setting from our reading books. We then used our descriptive writing skills to create detailed descriptions of a Gingerbread House, making sure to include a range of vivid adjectives. To finish, we worked in pairs to write our own Halloween acrostic poems, which we enjoyed sharing with the class.

Maths:
In maths, we began exploring money. We started by identifying different coins, then moved on to converting between pounds and pence. During our Open Afternoon, we focused on place value and made some creative place value skeletons. It was lovely to welcome so many visitors and share our learning.

Science & Art:
In science, we learned about the lifecycle of a pumpkin, and combined our learning with art by creating beautiful mosaic pumpkin pictures. They look bright and colourful on our classroom walls 🎃!

Halloween Fun:

We also enjoyed our Halloween discos, with lots of fantastic costumes and dancing. To end the week, we took part in a Halloween scavenger hunt, which was great fun for everyone! 🧙🏻‍♀️

Two years ago, our school community came together to raise funds for the Beatson Cancer Charity. Cancer impacts countless lives in different ways, and the Beatson continues to make an incredible difference through its compassionate care and unwavering support.

The Beatson Cancer Charity works alongside the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre – one of the leading cancer care facilities in the UK – providing vital funding for specialist staff, innovative research, and improved patient wellbeing. From emotional support and complementary therapies to cutting-edge treatments and clinical excellence, the charity ensures that patients and their families receive the best possible care at every stage of their journey.

We are proud to continue supporting the Beatson and the life-changing work they do for so many across Scotland.

This year, some of our amazing staff will be taking part in the Glasgow Santa Dash 2025 with Beatson Cancer Charity on Sunday the 7th December at Glasgow Green. Please help us to raise our fundraising target by donating to our Just Giving fundraising page. Click on the link below to access –

https://www.justgiving.com/page/miss-d-ht-8?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

Every little counts and everything is very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance. 🧑‍🎄🎅🏻

From Miss D (HT) & Team Wallacewell

It’s been our first week back after the October break, and we’ve started lots of exciting new learning!

Literacy:
This week we focused on using a range of adjectives in our writing, thinking carefully about size, texture, and colour. We then used these skills to write a description of a beach setting, using our senses to help us visualise and bring our writing to life.

Numeracy:
In numeracy, we are focusing this term on multiplication and division. We began by recapping our 2 and 3 times tables and different strategies we can use to calculate multiplication problems.

R.E. and Art:
As it was Diwali this week, we learned the story of Rama and Sita and how they were guided home by the lanterns lit by the villagers. To celebrate, we created our own Diwali art lamps, decorated beautifully with golden glitter to shine brightly in our classroom 🪔 !

A shorter week for the end of term and we spent it completing our comic strips which look fantastic.

In science we looked at the properties of different materials.

Finally we had fun in our creative play area examining autumn leaves and using them to create some leaf art, using 2D shapes to create rockets and continuing our materials theme to make a large different textured top.

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.