Hello from Primary 2 and Miss Smith who have enjoyed a very busy first term!

The children have all settled in well to primary two and have produced excellent work across the curriculum. They have all particularly enjoyed our topic ‘dinosaurs’ and as a class we have researched how they lived in the past. The children have used a range of books and the internet to explore different sources of information and recorded this in a variety of ways within their tasks, activities and play.

The children were able to deepen and develop their understanding of dinosaurs through purposeful play tasks, such as; construction, creative, storytelling and reading, role play, writing and drawing, maths, iPads and smartboard, and playdough. We even went exploring down Barons Haugh to investigate the reports of a dinosaur sighting, to find a freshly laid dinosaur egg. The children had great fun constructing nests to keep the eggs safe in case any more dinosaurs should make an appearance.

The class have not only had lots of fun and learning within IDL, we have been hard at work in numeracy, learning all about place value, the impact which maths has on the world and rounding numbers. In literacy we have been doing lots of reading and story writing, with some amazing narrative stories being produced.