In the afternoon, P3FS visited P1C to start building our castle.

We were fantastic builders today and we worked well as a team. We worked together in small groups on different tasks. Some of us made grass and windows whilst another group started to try put the boxes together. Joining the boxes together was the tricky part! We used photos and drawings of Urquhart Castle to give us a rough idea of how we wanted the castle to look.

There were also some very helpful pupils in P1C and P3FS today! It was lovely to see pupils cutting sellotape for others, helping others by holding boxes, sharing scissors and doing lots of other kind things to help.

We think Nessie looks right at home behind our Urquhart Castle! What do you think?

Thank you to all the parents and pupils who brought in cardboard for our castle!

Write and practise spelling words: night, light, bright, high, might or hatch, thatch, match, patch, catch

Maths: Practise the 3 times-table. Complete sheet on counting in multiples of 3.

Fact finders: Find out two facts about Robbie Burns. Remember to wear something tartan for our Robbie Burns Day on Friday.

Fact-finders and  spelling homework is due on Thursday (23rd January 2014).

Reading homework should be completed each night (Mon-Thurs) and page numbers are written in purple diary. Pupils should bring their purple diary and reading book to school every day.

As part of our topic we have been learning about different types of castles. We found out that Urquhart Castle is a Stone Keep castle. As part of P1C’s topic, they’re learning about Loch Ness. They kindly asked if P3FS would help them build their castle. Of course we said yes, so the construction begun this week! Before we started our building, we had to do a visit to Mr Cook’s classroom and check the measurements. We used photographs of the castle, alongside pictures of Mr Cook’s classroom to assist with our plan.

On Tuesday we started our construction, using a mixture of black and white paint with PVA glue to make the brick work of Urquhart Castle.

We’ll continue to work with P1C next Monday and Tuesday. We’ll put up more photos once it is built!

Miss Shimmield and Mrs Fraser

Our topic is about castles in Scotland. We will be learning about castles and ruins. We want to find out about when the first castles in Scotland were built, who lived in the castles, how people built castles long ago and why were castles built.

We are planning to build a castle with the P1C class. We are going to use cardboard boxes to make a big and strong castle for P1C! We will need to sponge paint the boxes. We will be kind and helpful to the P1 pupils.

We have been drawing pictures of different castles. We have learnt about two different kind of castles. They were called a Motte and Bailey castle and a Stone Keep castle.

Please see our topic questions below. If you have any suggestions or information that would help us to answer our questions please let us know.
P3FS

When were the first castles in Scotland built? (Pupil) 

How did people build castles long ago? (Pupil)

Who was in charge of the castle? (Pupil)

Who lived in the castles? (Pupil)

How do you deliver a talk to an audience that is interesting and informative? (Teacher)

Why are there ruined castles in Scotland? (Teacher)

What were castles made from? (Pupil)

How does daily life in a castle long ago compare to our life now? (Teacher)

How can we work together as a team? (Teacher)

How is a product designed and created? (Teacher)

Happy New Year from P3FS! We all hope you had a lovely winter break.

2013 was a very exciting year for us. We moved from P2 into P3 and P3 has been very busy so far! Some of our highlights are:  learning about ocean habitats and animals, conducting water experiments, learning about helping others in our community and learning about charity projects that help people in other countries, creating and selling our class calendar for charity, organising and collecting the Blythswood Shoeboxes and taking part in an infant years nativity!

Here are our pupils for Pupil of the Month in P3 so far:

Well done! We will be finding out the Pupil of the Month for December this week…

We are also delighted to tell you that we raised £115.50 from our class calendar!

A BIG thank you to all those who bought a calendar and supported our project.We hope you enjoy them! We will be deducting our print costs and the total profit will be split equally. We will be donating to the Highland Hospice and the SSPCA!

We are looking forward to more excitement and challenge in 2014!

P3FS

– Write and practise spelling words:sail, tail, paid, rail, nail or white, wheel, why, which, when
-Fact finders: Find out the name of a castle and where it is located. You can draw a picture of the castle if you like! We will be adding our information to our class map.

Factfinders and  spelling homework is due on Thursday (9th January 2014).

Reading homework should be completed each night (Mon-Thurs) and page numbers are written in purple diary. Pupils should bring their purple diary and reading book to school every day.