We had an assembly about having a positive mindset. We played a game that taught us things like The Power of Yet and Life is a Mirror. In the afternoon we had a workshop with Jen where we had to work together to complete some puzzles. We discussed perseverance and how we learn from our mistakes and to not give up on things. We found out that Ed Sheeran had to work very hard to become a good musician and he didn’t always sound as good as he does now!

I took part in Yoga, Drama and Chill out. I liked all of them.

Great work P2B. It looks like you’re all doing a wonderful job!

We have been using our wood bench to create models. We selected pieces of wood then stuck our model together with wood glue. We had to think carefully about the shapes we wanted to make.

We have been busy learning all about castles. We have had fun making and painting castles. Some of us drew a plan of our castles then worked as a group to build them.

We used polystyrene to press print castles and we used our paint brushes carefully to paint castles with lots of detail.

We have had a very busy first week back after the Easter holidays.

This term we are going to be looking at Spring and growing. We have had lots of suggestions from the children about what they would like to grow both indoors and outdoors – thank you! We have an investigation tray, so if you have anything that shows signs of spring please bring them in!

We were also drawing some flowers on the computer using colour magic.

Some of the afternoon children found worms in our garden so decided to make a wormery for them. We had to use google to find out what worms like to eat too!

We made fruit salad for snack and were practising our fine motor skills by cutting up all the fruit.

It was so sunny on Friday that we took a walk up to the back of the school to use the “mugga” and have a picnic snack. On the way back we noticed that there were lots of signs of spring. “daffodils” “bumble bees going buuuzzzz” “birds tweeting” “green grass”.

On Wednesday we created a very simple water cycle.

We had warm water in the bowl.  We put cling film on the top to stop the water vapour escaping.  We then put the ice cube on top to represent the colder atmosphere.   Condensation formed on the clingfilm and gathered together.  It then created water droplets and fell back into the bowl, precipitation.

We took our RME lesson outdoors as it was such a beautiful, sunny day.

We heard the Bible story of David and Goliath and learned the message about being assertive when people are unkind to us.

We had expected Goliath the Giant to win the battle in the story but, were surprised when it was David who was much smaller who won.

We are going to think about times in our own lives when we can use the message from this Bible story.

We have been looking at making strong structures and as part of a Challenge Play session Primary 2 went into the P3/4 playground to build our structures using larger materials. The challenge was not in building the strong structures – it was in the strong wind blowing the foam shapes about as we tried to build.

We needed to work well together and share the materials.

We tested our structures to see if they were strong by pushing, pulling and leaning on them.