Primary 3 had so much fun playing tennis with Derek Brown from Strathgryffe Tennis Club on Monday. We developed our tennis stance, our underarm throw and hitting the ball to a partner. We also loved the ‘hot chocolate’ balancing game!

P3 tuned in to the Authors Live event with Ross Collins who wrote one of our favourite books ‘There’s a bear on my chair’! Ross Collins read us the story and told us how he thought of it and the characters. Then he showed us step by step how to draw the bear. Here are some of our pictures!

Some of P3 were learning about information handling today using Skittles! We sorted our colours, recorded the information and displayed it in a bar graph. We compared our graphs with each other to see who had more or less of each colour and after counting how many Skittles we had altogether we realised that not all packets of Skittles have the same number of sweets inside! Maths + sweets = great fun!

Primary 3 had a fantastic visit from Debbie and Megan from ‘I Am Me’ Scotland. They spoke to us about what it means to have a disability and how people who have a disability are often treated. We watched a short movie about a boy and a dog who both had disabilities. We also learned that when we see the ‘I Am Me’ Keep Safe sticker in a public place then it is a safe place to go if you are lost or need help.

P3 have been developing their hockey skills this term. We have been learning how to hold the hockey stick correctly. We learned to dribble the ball, stop the ball, shoot and score. We have been enjoying the dry weather and had fun outside today. Pupils can wear joggers and jumpers for outside P.E.

P3 Fair Trade Fortnight

P3 were given the challenge to find out as much as we could about Fair Trade bananas. We have also been searching our cupboards for Fair Trade items and looking closely at packaging to see where food comes from. We met Pablo the Super Banana who taught us about how bananas are harvested and what Fair Trade means for banana farmers.

P3 World Book Day

We had a book-tastic day dressed up as our favourite characters! Thank you to everyone for the fantastic effort! Can you spot you favourite?

P3 Pug Pals!

We were delighted that Joe and Lynn Feran came to visit our class today with their two pugs Gizmo and Lexi. We saw some super cute pictures of Lexi’s litter. We also learned that Gizmo is the father to 66 pugs! Just like in our story ‘Pugs of the Frozen North’! Here are some of the things we learned:

Pugs can’t see colour. They see everything in black and white. Amelia

They like to sleep a lot. Carmen

They shed a lot of hair. Murray

Pugs can run really fast. Nina K

Pugs can be fawn, apricot or black. Kayleigh

We absolutely loved having our visitors! Strangely, lots of members of Wallace staff happened to pass by Primary 3 this afternoon! Coincidence?!

P3 ‘Pug Fest’ Event

Dear P3 Parents and  Carers,

To celebrate the children’s hard work on the novel ‘Pugs of the Frozen North’ we would like to invite you to our ‘Pug Fest’ event on Wednesday 14^th February at 1.30pm until 2.45pm in the gym hall. There will be displays of the children’s work around the hall. There will also be a raffle where children can guess the pug’s birthday with the chance of winning a cuddly pug. We will also be selling pug cupcakes to help raise funds for our class. Pupils will be released from class at 3pm as usual. We look forward to seeing you there!

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Stuart

P3 Pug Visit

Sorry for the short notice!

We have just heard back from a local Pug breeder who is willing to visit the class with 2 of his pugs and talk about them on Friday 2^nd February. For health and safety reasons the children will not be allowed to touch the dogs. If you have any concerns about your child being involved with this please let us know as soon as possible.

Thank you

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Stuart