We have had lots of fun this week!

In literacy we have started our new writing unit – Character. We have started by describing Matildas teacher Miss Honey. We have also started reading the book by Roald Dahl. We did our spelling as normal this week, looking at the sound ‘ie’. We also had our weekly spelling test which went very well.

In maths we have been reviewing our 2 and 5 timetables. We have been working on visualising the multiplication questions to help us in our understanding.

In Health and Wellbeing we have been learning about road safety. We created rules for crossing the road, 1. Stop 2. Look 3. Listen 4. Think 5. Wait or Cross. We have been really enjoying learning about how we can be safe when walking somewhere. We made a poster or a short story book to help show what we learnt.

On Thursday we had a very fun day! We had visitors from the common wealth games, including their new mascot ‘Finnie’, the giant magical unicorn. The class loved meeting Finnie! We also went to our local library for world book week, and we were able to each pick a book to take back to school and we return them in the new year.

This week we have been continuing our topic of Inventors. We have been looking at Alexander Graham bell and how he invented the telephone. We also went to our creative playroom, were we had lots of challenges from making paper phone cups to inventing a marble run with straws and paper plates.

In literacy we completed spelling this week, like always. In writing we have been looking at how to describe a setting, we have been making sure we describe the setting and are not creating a story with the setting as part of it. We have improved so much since we started this unit 3 weeks ago, and we have all been successful in our learning. We also did a comprehension on Alexander Graham bell. We read the passage as a class and then answered the questions in pairs.

In maths we have been building on our times tables, developing confidence as we use them more frequently. This week we also completed a maths assessment on Sum Dog. We all got 200 coins for completing it successfully. Then we were allowed to become friends on Sum Dog, to then send gifts to our peers through the app.

In our eco group this week we discussed the importance of not littering. To help our environment we went litter picking and even found a cardboard banana!

We had a great week! Thanks for reading.

This week we have continued with our IDL topic of Halloween. We have designed and completed a collage art piece of a pumpkin. We used orange paper to cut and glue squares to make our pumpkin design. During our open afternoon for Maths, we made number monsters with dienes. This week we also learned about the life cycle of plants; we created one for a pumpkin and discussed what plants need to go and thrive. On Halloween we looked at “haunted” settings and discussed what we would see, hear and smell if we were there.

We have continued our work on shape and have started our work on money.

During Eco this week we have been looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint. We have been working in pairs to create a poster to show people how easy it is to be eco-friendly.

We have also designed and made emojis to show different emotions on our Health and Wellbeing Wall.

In PE we have been focusing on class games, working in a group and being a good loser and winner! We will be continuing to this during the next few weeks.

On Tuesday with Miss Newton, we designed, drew, and wrote about our monster. We also looked at counting in 3s as we are focusing on times table in maths.

This week we have been having lots of fun settling into our new classroom with Mr McColl. We started our week by making our new class charter. We designed a star that showed our personality. We also played two truths and a lie to help us get to know our teacher better.

We have don’t some maths and literacy this week as well. We reviewed our topic on place value, making skeletons with dienes and we also worked on our estimation skills. In literacy we have been busy writing about our holiday adventures and our reading assessments.

We have also been extremely busy working on our RME topic on Diwali and our IDL topic on Halloween. We have been to our playroom to complete stations on our Halloween topic. We have also been busy making Diwali candles in art.

We also read a book called “The enormous crocodile” which we really enjoyed. Finally, we did some work in our Eco Group looking at renewable and non-renewable energy sources as it was international climate action day – trying to prevent global warming.

Hope you have enjoyed hearing about our week! We are all excited to continue our learning for this term on Monday.

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

Last week we told you that we were going to collect plastic bottles in order to raise money to help save an endangered animal. This week we can tell you that we have overwhelmingly decided that that animal is the LION. We learned that there are a number of reasons why the lion is becoming endangered. Some of these include the illegal fur trade and poaching, the loss of habitat as humans start taking over the land the lions live on. They are also being affected by climate change and disease. The regulation of the legal trade in wildlife is poor and therefore not everyone is abiding by the rules.
This week we have begun our collection of plastic bottles. We have also been  making posters to raise awareness of our campaign.

This week we have been having emotional check-ins to ensure that everyone is being supported with their feelings and emotions.

We have been designing our own superheroes with their own super powers and costumes. This will lead into some writing next week.

We have been learning how to write a report. We made a plan and then wrote a report about starfish. We found out some interesting things about starfish. Did you know that they catch their prey with their arms and then their stomach comes out of their mouth and digests the prey before retuning back through the mouth again? We didn’t but we do now! They also have hundreds of legs on each arm.

We have been learning about endangered animals and thinking of ways we can help them. We are going to collect single use water bottles and then take them to Lidl for recycling. The money we earn from that we are going to put towards sponsoring an endangered animal. We can let you know which one, next week. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!
If you have any bottles at home, please do not throw them out. Send them in to help the animals!

We are also going to be picking litter from our playground. We ask you not to throw litter on the ground because the little animals might eat it. Then they would choke and maybe die.

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

P3b Curriculum Newsletter – Term 1 2025-26

We have been enjoying a book called Amazing Grace. This week we have been making predictions in a crystal ball and then  looking at the character’s traits from the book. We have been writing sentences and adding capital letters and full stops in the correct places. Some of us found this a bit challenging, We have also been looking at how to use a calendar and reading and writing dates in different ways. We are learning how to use Elkonin boxes for our spelling. We were learning to code like a pirate and writing directions to find objects on a map.
On Thursday we  watched a show called Alice in Wonderland. We enjoyed it very much.

Welcome to Primary 3b. We are looking forward to sharing our learning journey with you.