This week P2B have been exploring energy and character description through our interdisciplinary learning theme of super heroes. The pupils designed their own hero and wrote a description of their character. They also experimented with moving paper with static electricity and later in class discovered how we generate electricity from green energy sources. Next week we will be making simple circuits to create light
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It’s been a very busy first few weeks of term 2 for primary 2a. We began in full Harvest Festival mode, with show rehearsals, dancing, singing and learning our lines. Along with primary 2b they delivered an amazing showcase, we were all very proud of how the children done showing bravery and enthusiasm to perform. Thank you again to everyone who came along to support on the day.
The following week was Halloween week where there was loads of excitement for the disco and trick or treating for those who celebrate. We begun the week with an amazing workshop with Donald from Wildside Nature who taught us all about Halloween themed animals.
Last week the excitement continued with Bonfire night. The class made some incredible firework scratch art to celebrate it.
Along with these exciting occasions primary 2a have done the Room on the Broom and Superhero topics in the playroom and the classroom and done amazing while learning division.
Last week for Halloween we had began making 3D haunted houses. They were tricky to make and so took us a little longer than we thought so began this week finishing them.
In maths we continued on with measuring this time using a metre stick and we were also trying to estimate lengths.
We began our block of tennis this week in PE and starting by getting use to holding and controlling a raquet.
Lastly we began our new topic which is the Body Systems. We made our own skeleton which we will label next week.
This week primary 1b have worked incredibly hard in numeracy. We enjoyed exploring addition using concrete materials and practised writing sums 
using the mathematical symbols + and =.
This week in P1b we 
started our new IDL topic of Superheroes in the playroom. The children took part in a range of activities including role play, mask designing, exploring kinetic electricity and building a new superhero headquarters.
Primary 1C have had another wonderful week. We started our new IDL topic of Superheroes in the playroom. The children took part in a range of activities including role play, mask designing, exploring kinetic electricity and building a new superhero headquarters.
In literacy the children completed some wonderful writing using onomatopoeia to describe fireworks, and we learned the c and k sounds, and practised CVC words using the 5 finger spelling strategy. Take a look at our fabulous letter formation and magnetic board work.
In maths we are learning all about 2D shapes, and numeracy the children have worked very hard on number work and addition. We have had another great week packed with new learning and as always I am incredibly proud of the progress all the children are making. Well done P1c!
This week we have been focussing on measure during our maths lessons this week. We have learned how to use a ruler correctly and to measure different items in centimetres.
We have been reading about a baby Barn Owl called Plop, in the book The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. We have visualised his home from the description and drawn what we think it looks like. We also created a piece of art from the story using two different types of mediums and two different art techniques. We used oil pastels and paint, to create a picture which had used both the skills of drawing and printing.
We have also looked at the 3 steps for calming down this week in our HWB lessons. We will be using this technique to improve how we deal with upsets.
We have continued our active play this week. The children have really enjoyed our active play sessions and they are becoming more and more creative in their play, as well as being more able to join in with staff led games.
Primary 1 designed and created their own superhero and skyline.
A lot of creativity and effort gave fantastic results.
This week in PE we started Scottish Country dancing with p7a. We got off to a flying start, learning the Gay Gordons in the playground. We got very competitive showing Miss Stevenson the badminton skills we have been practising at Springburn Leisure Centre, with a very high energy game of around the world.
We have been doing some more film literacy this week, looking at camera angles and showed great understanding of how these can impact the viewer.
We have looked at the structure needed in report writing and will continue to do more work on this next week.
In Maths we have been working on multiplication and have been making great progress with this. We even managed to do some problem solving activities.
We have been continuing to work on our study skill sin PATHS and have identified things that distract us in class and have committed to trying to reduce these together as a team.
Primary 1 are superheroes this week. They have been learning to count and add. They have also compared the qualities of a good friend and a superhero and discovered that deep down we are all superheroes.
They had great fun learning about friction and static and were able to create enough static electricity to stick balloons to the walls and ceiling and make our hair stand on end.
They have been using instruments to create superhero onomatopoeia sound effects like bang, boom, crash, pow. Noisy but fun and effective.
Watch out for more superhero adventures.
