Another Busy Week

Our new topic is about The Rights of the Child. We discussed the rights and we chose 3 that we thought were the most important. We chose:-

• Adults should do what is best for you
• You have the right to live
• You have the right to make friends.

We wrote some persuasive pieces of writing about one of the rights to explain why it is so important. The right we chose was ‘the right to have good health’. We read a book called ‘For Every Child’ and we used some ideas to illustrate one of the rights.

In maths we are focusing on written methods to solve addition problems. P3 are practising 2 digit numbers and P4 are practising 3 digit numbers. We sometimes have to remember that when a column adds to more than 9 we have to carry over the tens digit to the next column. We are continuing to practice our speed tables and we are all doing very well at beating our scores. Matthew is very close to catching up with Mrs Allan’s score. We are also continuing to improve on our Big Maths Beat That score. 3 pupils in P4 can complete all 40 questions in 90 seconds. Josh is now trying to complete the 40 questions in 30 seconds but it is a very hard challenge. 6 pupils in P3 are completing all 17 questions in 30 seconds and 4 are able to complete in 20 seconds. P4 have started to practice ‘Coin Multiplication’ and are able to multiply any number by 1, 2, 5 and 10.

In reading we are continuing to read our novels and we have been making some popplets about our different characters to practise the strategy visualisation. We have to find facts from our book that tell us about the characters and we must always remember to include page numbers to explain our reason.

For PE we have started to keep a record of our scores at 4 different activities and we will see how our scores improve over the next few weeks. The 4 tasks are running, skipping, hopping and an obstacle race.