Welcome to Primary 3 with Miss Pollock!
Home Learning Week Beginning 18th May 2020
Here is our new Home Learning Grid and resources for this week. You will also find each of these on Teams.
Term 4 – Home Learning 18th May
The Story of Pirate Tom (Rags to Riches Tale)
Term 3
For the first few weeks of term 3, we will be focussing on Scotland through exploring Scottish artists, language, songs and landmarks. We are very excited to learn about Scots Language which will include reading and writing different types of poetry as well as learning to recite our poem ‘A Dug a Dug’ for our Scots poetry competition! We are currently learning about the Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist, Charles Rennie MacKintosh and have created our own line drawings of the MacKintosh rose design.
In numeracy and maths, we will be focusing on money and time as well as continuing with our number work. We will be using our skills to count coins and notes up to the value of £20 and calculate change. We will also be learning to tell the time in 5 minute intervals and smaller using both digital and analogue clocks. We will then focus on using our skills to apply our knowledge and understanding to unfamiliar and real life contexts.
Check out this group using a range of coins to make different totals!
In I.C.T, we have read Buddy’s Internet Safety story to learn about how to stay safe online. We created posters to share safety tips with other children in the school.
In Mandarin, we have been learning the colours. We have been learning a song with Miss Lili which we will be performing at the Carrick Centre at the end of the month as part of the Mandarin Showcase.
Check out P2 and P3 at the Mandarin Showcase!
A huge congratulations to our Scottish poetry finalists; Finlay McDermott, Imogen Crossan and Ellie Martin. Primary 3 also learned ‘Donald Where’s Yer Troosers’ to perform at the Scottish Concert.
P3 had a great time at the Parent Council’s sponsored bounce. Lots of red faces by the end of it!
Primary 3 have enjoyed taking part in Number Talks sessions and playing with numbers to reach their target number. Take a look at some of these fabulous strategies. We are looking forward to testing out our new whiteboards from Count On Us too!
Term 2
In term 2, our interdisciplinary learning topic was My Amazing Body. The children have researched the position and function of the skeleton and the major organs and through health and wellbeing, have explored what they need to do to keep them healthy.
Primary 3 have been very busy this term rehearsing for the nativity performance ‘Lights, Camel, Action 2.’ We have been working alongside primary 1 and 2 to learn our lines and lots of songs. To help with our knowledge and understanding of the Christmas Story, pastor Bill came to visit us. He also brought his guitar so we could sing some Christmas songs too!
Primary 3 had a great time getting organised for Christmas. We enjoyed making lots of Christmas crafts for the Christmas Fayre and we had a ball at our Christmas party!
Term 1
Throughout term 1, we have focussed on farming as our interdisciplinary learning topic. The children have explored different forms of agriculture in Scotland and the foods associated with these. We were very excited to welcome Lilias from the Royal Highland Education Trust who visited us to tell us more about food and farming. She brought lots of exciting things for us to look at. The children also had the opportunity to work with their parents on ‘Construction Tuesday’, where they built their own farms and tractors using Lego and K’Nex.
Primary 3 enjoyed a visit from the SSPCA and the opportunity to take part in the Rabbit Rescuers workshop. We learned all about rabbits and how to look after them. Some of the children even got to try on the vets uniform!
