Primary 3b Wallacewell Primary

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.

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P3b Curriculum Newsletter – Term 1 2025-26

This week we have been really busy with lots of work going into our snapshots. We have moved tables this week and now have 7 tables of 4!

In maths this week we have been working on division! We have also been working on how we can use our number line with Mrs Dedecker. With Mr Milligan we have continued to calculate change from £1 or £5.

In literacy we consolidated our spelling from the last 3 weeks. We also completed a reading comprehension on the Loch Ness Monster. With Mrs Dedecker we looked at nouns, adjectives and verbs, and had to underline words in different colours. In writing we continued with our persuasive writing and had to write a persuasive text in our new groups about whether we should watch movies on a Friday. We had great fun thinking of how we could write this as a team! We then completed a talking and listening activity where Mr McColl gave us instructions on how to draw Loch Ness!

We also went to the playroom this week and had stations on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, silly sentences with Scottish words, building Scottish landmarks with Lego or stem straws and glockenspiel.

This week we have had a really fun time learning lots of new things !

We have had a busy week in primary 3B! We have started our snapshot jotters which we are excited for you to see!

In literacy we had our spelling open afternoon. We were able to show some of our parents or adults the important work we do using our magnetic boards. We have also started our persuasive writing. We looked at different opinions and decided if we agreed or disagreed. We then made a plan on what we were going to write. We ended the week writing our persuasive text.

In maths we looked at number visualisation and completed a number of the day task. We had to show the number in words, tally marks, a picture and even used the number in mathematical sentences. We have continued with division, extending our learning and looking at missing number problems. With Mr Milligan we have been looking at how to give change when dealing with money.

We have been learning about scotland in IDL, and have been busy making kilts, completing word aware tasks and finding out about the main cities we have using a map. In PE we played some new games, including “Andy’s Coming!” which was a game related to Toy Story and rounders.

This week we have been so excited for our holiday and break from school. We had our christmas disco where we danced and played games. Our favourite songs were last christmas, soda pop from K-pop demon hunters, good deeds from wicked for good, dance monkey and feliz navidad!

We have also been working on changing our art wall, and we decided to take inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh and recreate his famous painting ‘Starry night’. We had to create different shades of blue by adding white or black. We also copied his brush strokes and painted in circular motions.

In literacy we made christmas acrostic poems and enjoyed having to create sentences or think of words that started with a specific letter. We also used our description knowledge and described an elf called Bobby!

In maths we created a Venn Diagram on christmas and non-christmas items! We had to think lots about what would go in the middle. We also made a pictogram with Mr Milligan. We also became detectives with Mr Milligan and had to crack the code to answer the question – Who ate the pie? We found out that Rudolph ate the pie!

Mr McColl would like to thank everyone for the lovely cards and gifts! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We have been continuing our writing on character description; this week we decided to describe Miss Trunchbull from our class novel Matilda. We also got to pick a scene from our book and create a comic strip of pictures. We also consolidated our spelling this week, we had lots of words which we practiced like always. We continued to work on our dictionary skills, and this week Mr Milligan got us to put words in alphabetical order.

We have started a new unit in mathematics, date handling. This week we have been looking at graphs and how to plot a bar graph successfully. We have also been continuing our work on symmetry and this week looked at grid references and how these can help us to create a symmetrical shape. We have also been using Sumdog in our maths this week, completing our diagnostic to make sure our questions are at the correct level.

In the playroom we were set a challenge to create 3D snowflakes using doily paper. This was quite a challenge, however, we all had fun! We also had a role play station where we had to act out certain characters and perform. Finally, we used the Knex to design and build a mini-Santa sleigh.

We are all excited for the last week of term!