Primary 3b Wallacewell Primary

This week in literacy, we focused on developing our listening and talking skills by practising how to follow instructions carefully. We completed comprehension work based on the story of Sebastian Saye, the fastest marathon runner in the world, and used our understanding to answer questions about the text. We also got new reading books and wrote thoughtful book reviews, sharing our opinions and recommendations. In writing, we explored explanation texts and created our own pieces explaining how a plant grows, using clear sequencing and scientific vocabulary.

In numeracy this week, we focused on reading and understanding digital time, practising how to recognise and record times accurately. We also completed our Maths Assessments (MALTs), giving us the opportunity to showcase all the learning and progress we have made across different areas of maths.

In our wider learning, we followed step-by-step instructions to create our own funky line art drawings, experimenting with different patterns and designs. We also completed detailed observational line drawings of our own shoes, carefully focusing on shape, detail, and line techniques to create unique pieces of artwork. We also looked and created our own posters on our Word Aware for the IDL ‘World of Sports!’

What a busy and exciting week we have had in class! In maths, we focused on comparing time using digital clocks, helping us build confidence with reading and understanding different times throughout the day. In literacy, we celebrated Sir David Attenborough’s birthday by learning about his incredible life and writing about his achievements.

We were excited to receive a new floor book filled with thoughtful questions about our school, encouraging us to share our ideas and opinions. On Wednesday, we enjoyed a fantastic Sports Day—thank you to everyone who came along to support and cheer on our teams. Later that afternoon, some of us took part in Play Along with Maths, where learning was both fun and interactive.

In science, we explored the life cycle of a sunflower before having the opportunity to plant flowers as part of our Eco-Committee activities. In French with Mrs Johnstone, we created beautiful artwork inspired by a famous French artist, showing great creativity and effort.

To end the week, we attended a special assembly where we discovered that Ben Chonzie was the winning house of sports day – Well done to everyone for another wonderful week of learning and fun!

This week has been another busy and interesting one in our class. In maths, we have been learning all about time. We explored the different roles of the hour hand and the minute hand and how they work together on a clock. We practised telling the time using quarter past, half past and quarter to, which helped us build our confidence.

As part of our IDL topic, “World of Sports,” we had lots of fun inventing our own new sports. We worked creatively to think about rules, equipment and how the game would be played.

In writing, we started a new genre: explanation writing. We worked in pairs to write an explanation of what a toothbrush is and how it is used. This helped us practise organising our ideas clearly and working together.

We also completed a form on our Rights, thinking about how we show respect and responsibility in our school. It has been a productive week, and we are proud of all our hard work.

Our first week back after the Easter holidays has been really busy and exciting. In maths, we focused on addition and subtraction, using both partitioning and vertical sums to help us solve problems more confidently. We also took time to write about our holidays, sharing what we did and practising our writing skills.

At the start of the week, we made personal goals to work towards this term, thinking carefully about how we can improve and challenge ourselves. In art, we began our cherry blossom project, which we are looking forward to working on next week.

We also visited the playroom to launch our new IDL topic, “World of Sports,” which sounds really fun. As part of our learning, we created life cycles for different animal groups, including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, and insects. This helped us understand how animals grow and change. Overall, it has been a great start to the term, and we are excited for what’s ahead.

We have had a very busy week, practicing for our showcase. We have been learning our songs and dance, while also completing work in preparation for our show.

In Literacy, we looked at plural and when you add an ‘s’ or an ‘es’ at the end of the word. We also had a new spelling sound this week. We practiced our diacritical marking using our words from this week. We looked at acrostic poems and completed one using the word ‘easter’.

In maths, We continued with fractions and looked at fractions of a whole number and how we can use arrays to help us in our learning. We then challenged ourselves to extract information from a word problem

In IDL, we have started our new topic of Easter in preparation for our Easter showcase. This week we discussed spring and used our Maths knowledge to make butterflies which were symmetrical. We also looked at the story of Easter, looking at a comprehension piece and a story sequencing. With Mrs Dedecker we looked at spring flowers and used chalk pastels to blend colours.

Thank you for all the Easter Bonnets that have already come into school – Just a reminder that they are due for the 27th April 2026. We are excited to continue our show practice next week and to learn more about Easter!

We have had a great week in P3B, being very responsible and kind. We got new coloured pencils and have been able to keep them organised very well!

In literacy we made cards for international woman’s day. We got to decorate them using paint and our fingerprints. We then wrote a message inside for a woman who inspires us! We made an Easter acrostic poem for our showcase and had to write them out very neatly with bubble writing and coloured pencil. With Mrs Dedecker we worked in partners with one of using reading a sentence and the other explaining how it made them feel. We were also looking at vowels with Mrs Dedecker.

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued with our unit on fractions. We looked at how a fraction can be more than one. We were really good at this and understood it well! We then went on to look at how you can find a fraction of a whole number using our division skills. With Mrs Dedecker we looked at metres and centimetres.

In IDL we have started looking at Easter in preparation for our showcase! We all have parts in our show and the lines are in our homework jotters. This week we have been focusing on our songs and adding actions and also practicing our lines for the upcoming performance.

Mr McColl is very excited to see all your easter bonnet designs! We would like to remind you that we are still collecting plastic bottles to raise money to adopt a lion. Thank you for all your help so far!

This week in literacy, we started our new writing topic – Procedural Writing. We looked at the important features of instruction writing! we then read some instructions on how to plant a seed and how to make a pizza. We then used a book ‘How to give a woolly mammoth a bath’ and used this to write instructions. we did this in our table groups and did a great job! We also looked at how we can summarise a piece of text we had read a book about a curious clownfish and had to write a summary on it. All of these activities helped us to celebrate World Book Day. We are excited to continue this learning next week!

This week in maths we have continued with our work on fractions. We used our knowledge of more/less than and were challenged to order fractions from smallest to biggest. We have gotten really good at this and are all impressed with our learning!

This week in IDL we went to our play area and were set different activities we could choose from. Lots of us were most excited about the parrot collage. This week we also continued our work on food chains and learnt about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, we created posters defining these words and drawing pictures to go along with them. We also looked this week at our carbon footprint and how we can reduce this.

We had a lovely week and excited for next week!

In literacy, we started to look at fact files. We related this to our IDL topic of the Rainforest. We also finished our persuasive writing. We also looked at ambitious verbs with Mrs Dedecker. This we got a new sound in spelling looking at the ‘ey’ sound.

In maths, we continued our unit on fraction looking at more/less then, and how we can use this symbol accurately. We luckily had Mrs Cattley in to help us with our learning. With Mrs Dedecker we looked at area.

This week we also had visitors from the Chinese School. They came in on Monday afternoon and taught us how to make and decorate lanterns. Some of us have joined the afterschool football club and enjoying it very much! Our plastic bottle collection is going very and P3B would like to thank you for all the bottles people have brought in.

Just a small reminder about PE kits – our PE days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Thank you for reading!

This week we have had a great time!

In literacy, we worked on our talking and listening with the P4 class. We had discussed what diversity means and we got the chance to ask the p4s all about how and why they are different to us. We had a great time asking and answering questions about ourselves!

In maths, we worked on our fractions. We played fraction bingo and worked on using our more or less than symbols. It was great to get some of our work into our jotters and get better at laying out work neatly. We also worked on doubling and halving numbers, which we are getting really good at.

We also managed to finish our rainforest scene, using our creativity! Finally, we learnt about ramadan and we made lanterns to celebrate. This was get fun and a chance for us to work on our measuring and cutting skills.

Although this was a short week, we still managed to get lots done! See you all on Monday.