Happy New Year and welcome back.

Every January each class has a Scottish Poem to learn and recite. Primary 3 have been working on The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate.  We have learned a verse each day and have enthusiastically stood in front of the class in pairs or in groups saying each newly learned verse.  Well done everyone.   Next week we will be thinking about making sure we are speaking loudly and clearly, at a good pace and adding some actions.

You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man!

         Your pinkie? Deary me!

Noo, juist you haud it that way till

          I get my specs and see!

My, so it is- and there’s the skelf!

       Noo, dinna greet nae mair,

See there – my needle’s gotten’t out!

        I’m sure that wasna sair?

And noo, tae make it hale the morn,

        Put on a wee bit saw,

And tie a bonnie hankie roun’t,

Noo, there na – rin awa!

Your finger sair ana’ ? Ye rogue .

       Ye’re only lettin on!

Weel, weel, then – see noo, there ye are,

       Row’d up the same as John !

We read The Gruffalo in Scots and enjoyed working out the meaning of the Scottish words.

In numeracy, we have been revising all the strategies we had been taught in addition.  We have been learning and chanting our number bonds to 100.   Please continue to practise using Topmarks Hit the Button.

We have continued to work on long vowel letter patterns in spelling and our words are on the website Spelling City.

In Health and Wellbeing we completed our work on Similarities, Diversity and Respect studying what we have in common and what is different.  We then chose four children to be – Me, as a Special Person and wrote all the lovely things about them around their self-portrait. Next week, every day a different set of four children will be chosen.

For 2022 we thought about a goal and designed a trainer with our New Year’s Resolution.

Rory – to learn to play the guitar

Logan – to make a very big Hot Wheels Track

Drew – to improve my gaming skills

Mia – to be kinder to my brother

Lucy – to get better at football

Ayla – to spend more time with my bunnies

Well done Primary 3, you have all worked very hard and settled back into the school routine after your holiday.