Primary 3 had a fantastic time at the STEM event. There were lots of different activities to be part of and scientists who could give us lots of information. Making our own snot was definitely a highlight!

Today some members of P3 took part in a tennis competition to end our block of tennis.

What a fantastic day they got for it! Well done everyone involved.

P3 Victorians
P3M and P3A have been working together on an ICT project about important people from the Victorian Era.
The people we are learning about are:
– David Livingstone

– Charles Darwin

– Queen Victoria

– Isambard Kingdom Brunel

– Florence Nightingale

– Alexander Graham Bell

– John Cadbury

To find out more and see what we’ve learnt you will need to come to this year’s school show…
We look forward to seeing you there .

P3 have been lucky enough to have specialists in teaching tennis! For 5 weeks we will be up on the MUGA learning new skills and working towards a mini tournament.

Here is what some of us thought:

Luke R: It’s been really fun and I feel better at tennis.

Millie: You get to use racquets and balls to practise.

Luke C: I’ve enjoyed having lots and lots of exercise.

Keiran: I think I’m getting better at serving

This term we have been learning all about toys. As a class we created our own toys and a campaign to sell them to other children. Below are our two winners as voted by the class.

Congratulations to the winners of the Scottish Poetry Competition from P3! All four P3’s did an excellent job presenting their poems to the whole school. They were able to use fantastic expression and they even used actions to help tell their poem’s story.

Last week we all went to the pantomime. We really enjoyed travelling to Perth and sitting in the concert hall. It was great helping the characters and catching the sweets they threw!

Some of us had never been to a pantomime and thought it was really exciting.

Both P3 classes recently attended a ‘Farm to Fork’ workshop run by Tesco. At the workshop we had the chance to look behind the scenes in Tesco Blairgowrie. We had fun using the staffroom to complete different tasks, including finding different foods with wheat in them. We continued this into the store and had enjoyed using the products in the aisles to find wheat. The highlight of the day was going inside the freezer!

This week we were visited by BASC. They held 2 workshops for us which gave us the chance to look at local wildlife.

In workshop 1 we tasted a range of different foods that were locally sourced. This included tasting local produce like venison, nettle pesto and blackberry leather. Everyone tasted something new and had the chance to vote for their favourite.

In workshop 2 we looked at different animals in the local environment and how they can affect farming. We also held a variety of deer antler and found out how to identify different deer.

Here is what we thought:

Iona: I liked the tasting because you got to try new things.

Dionne: We got to feel deer antlers. I liked it because it felt weird.

Keiran: I liked when we tasted the blackberry leather because it had so much flavour and it was healthy!

Mackay: I enjoyed the antlers because at the bottom it felt bumpy and at the top it was smooth.

Primary 3 have been out in the local woods using the environment. We have been creating journey sticks that show the path we have taken in the woods. Each pair had a stick and we used pins to secure interesting things that we had found. We then described the journey we had taken by looking at our sticks and sharing our interesting items with others.

Back in the classroom we will be using these to create personal maps of where we were and the journey we took. We are looking forward to going back in to the woods to learn more about the local environment.