This week we were working on our procedural writing as well as recapping some of our maths and reading knowledge that we have been learning this year. We finished our personal posters and some children have shared their one with the class. We also finished off our sun and moon art from last week – They are all looking fantastic! Finally we were learning all about what a siege is in our topic work and what people used to do to prepare for them.
After being awarded our Eco Schools Green Flag last June the eco committee have worked hard to develop a new action plan to take our efforts even further. This is a two year plan and as a school we have already achieved a lot thanks to many of our wonderful pupil committees. On our new action plan we are focussing on –
Climate Action – Encouraging the use of sustainable transport and recycling.
Biodiversity – Improving our biodiversity knowledge and why it is important. As well as trying to encourage different birds and insects to our school grounds.
Global Citizenship – Taking an active role in the local community and raising awareness of global issues.
These actions all contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. Our focus will be on Goal 15: Life on Land.
Over the past couple of weeks we have been working on our comprehension skills in reading and working on being able to take inferences from the texts. We have completed report writing and will now be moving on to procedural writing. In maths we are applying our maths knowledge to solve word problems using the 4 operations (+, -, x, ÷ ). In the Creative play area some children were working hard to create information leaflets about a Scottish Castle. They showed fantastic enthusiasm and lots of effort went into to this. Finally we have been creating posters on a topic of our choice for our talks that we will be doing next week. 
We’ve had an enjoyable week and were lucky enough to spend some time outdoors, making the most of the sunny weather. In maths, we focused on comparing fractions, while in writing we completed our report writing unit by creating reports about Stone Keep castles. We also continued developing our athletic skills in the sunshine and took part in a community litter pick. To finish the week, we visited the bug hotels and had fun searching for insects.
In literacy this week we have all been reading non fiction books and been learning about the features of the book and how to use them to find information. We have also began a class novel about a centipede called Harry. This inspired our writing this week as we wrote information reports about centipedes. In Maths we were comparing fractions to identify which were bigger or smaller. Our Creative Play area now has a focus on castles as that is our new topic. We had some great art work as well as some fab Lego castles. We took advantage of the beautiful weather and practised our athletics skills outside. Finally we finished the week celebrate the 850th year since Glasgow became a burgh. We went on a virtual tour of Glasgow then made a persuasive poster to encourage others to visit Glasgow. We then listened to the Glasgow song and the Jeely piece song before ending the week making jeely pieces which were very popular.
We had a fun last week before the Easter holidays finishing our Vikings topic and getting outdoors to enjoy some of the sunny weather we have had. In writing we made a start at how to write an information report as that will be our writing focus next term. We used our knowledge of the Vikings to produce some fantastic reports using book creator and then shared these with each other. In maths we were working on estimating and weighing. Lots of fun was had using the scales and holding the different weights. We also made a class Viking Longship using the STEM straws. It was fabulous to see them all working together and they made a ship that the whole class was able to fit in to, complete with oars, a mast and a dragon head. They have all worked extremely hard this term and hope everyone has a fantastic Easter 
and are looking forward to term 4.
After the success and hard work of our showcase we had a more relaxed time last week doing a little bit of revision at the start of the week. We wrote a setting description of Andy’s room from Toy Story and worked on our different multiplication and division strategies. Later on in the week we were looking at number patterns and worked on our fitness in PE. In our topic work we learned about the Viking Longships and made information posters.
They children also had fun working together to see how big a tower they could build with the straws. They managed to get it to reach the roof!
Primary 3 have had a very busy week rehearsing and completing work for our Easter showcase, which was today. They delivered their lines fantastically, sang loudly and danced with enthusiasm. I am extremely proud of every single one of them as they all had to speak and it can be very scary when you have an audience. Our learning this week in maths was on interpreting pictographs. We also combined our maths and our art skills to help us learn about symmetry. You may have spotted our fabulous symmetry butterflies on the wall at the showcase.
Last week we created our own surveys to ask the class and then displayed our data in a bar graph. We were also working on using number lines to help solve subtraction calculations.
We celebrated World Book Day with a special assembly where some children shared a part of a book they enjoy. In class we made corner bookmarks to put on our own reading books and completed a Book Day quiz.
Finally we completed our tulip pictures by painting them and they are looking fantastic.
This week in literacy we were learning how to use commas in a list as well as completing tasks related to our reading books. In maths we moved on to data handling and learned how to display and read data on a bar graph. In our topic work we created a timeline to show the main events of the vikings. We ended our week with some spring art based on the style of the famous artist Romero Britto. Some children have began to paint theirs and they are looking fantastic.
