We’re having a fantastic week in P2/1 celebrating the Kingsland Festival.

On Monday morning we put up bunting outside and made some bunting for our classrooms. We then all worked together to create a giant piece of artwork with bubbles floating from one page to another. In the afternoon we watched our films and had an ice lolly treat!

Yesterday we did a scavenger hunt in the morning. We had to see how many different things we could fit in our little boxes – we all did a great job helping each other!

In the afternoon we played some parachute games and had a picnic in the playground. We finished our wonderful afternoon with some bubbles.

It has been a lovely end to the term – thank you for all of your support and to the children for being such fantastic learners in a tricky year.

We had a very exciting start to the week this morning.

We were signing with Mrs Ryalls when a hedgehog ran past the P2/1 classroom! It then ran past the P1 classroom to the garden before running back. It was quite confused and zigzagging across the playground.

Mrs McGilp opened the door to check where it was and very nearly stood on it! It had stopped outside the P2/1 classroom door. Mrs Collins scooped it into a box and Mr Collins collected it and contacted the SSPCA.

We had regular updates and later found out the hedgehog is expecting hoglets. Mr Collins released it back to a safer spot in the school boundaries where it can hopefully have its hoglets in peace.

We did some fantastic drawing and recount writing about the hedgehog.

We’ve had another busy week. On Monday we had great fun at Sports with Mrs Fletcher and the rest of the P2s. We then wrote about this and drew some lovely pictures.

Also this week we’ve returned to data handling, looking at creating and interpreting information. We created our own class pictograms of our favourite flavours of ice cream and our favourite pets. Today we used tally marks to collect our data, finding out our favourite thing to do at school. Numeracy was most the popular, followed by PE and lunch!

This week we’ve also started doing some junk modelling which we will continue next week. We’ve had robots, ramps for cars and tunnels for a guinea pig!

In our art this week we stayed on the ice cream theme and made a collage of our own favourite flavour, painting the background a summer shade then taking our time to cut out and glue lots of little squares. We finished off with a choice of sprinkles.

We were also very excited to see our tigers on the wall outside our classroom. Thank you Mrs Ryalls for the great display!

This week’s spelling words have a ‘ff’ focus:

1. red
2. win
3. drum
4. off
5. cliff
6. stiff
7. cuff
8. said
9. here
10. chaffinch

Thank you for practising these at home.

Mrs McGilp and Mrs Lloyd

We’ve had another busy week. Thank you for practising the spelling words at home. We wrote them again this morning and everyone did a great job.

This week we were excited to start multiplication. We’ve been looking at adding sets, using cubes and Lego to help us, and then using the times sign.

To mark the start of June and the warmer weather this morning we worked together at our tables to make summer scenes using plasticine. We took turns to share our ideas, negotiated a theme  – from an ocean to a garden to a desert island – and then everyone contributed a plasticine model. 

The children’s highlights this week have been:

• Learning to multiply
• Making the plasticine models
• Reading
• PE
• Lunch!

We’ve had a lovely week in Primary 2/1.

We started the week learning the signs for the characters in the Gruffalo with Mrs Ryalls. We then watched the story and learned lots more signs including ‘terrible’!

One of our highlights this week has been taking our plants home. We were astonished to see how much they had grown over the weekend! On Wednesday we wrote instructions about how to look after these at home – they can now be planted in the ground or in a bigger pot. We have been learning how plants need water, sunlight and the right temperature.

This week we have revisited the  ‘er’ sound and we have enjoyed making our own Rosseau inspired tigers. We painted the tigers using black paint, cut them out and then added tissue paper leaves.

We’ve also being doing lots of reading this week – by ourselves, in our groups and to a grown up. We have also been sharing books with children in different reading groups.

Thank you for going through the spelling words at home. Our words this week are:

1. it
2. dog
3. bran
4. Monday
5. Tuesday
6. Wednesday
7. Thursday
8. you
9. your
10. yesterday

P2/1 will bring these home tomorrow.

Mrs McGilp and Mrs Lloyd

We’ve had lots of fun this week learning about the benefits of walking for Walk to School week. We’ve been enjoying the videos and powerpoints from the JRSOs introducing a different superhero each day – we’ve had Super Strong, Super Smart, Super Smiley, Super Safe and Super Sustainable.

On Wednesday we worked together at our tables to draw a map of Peebles and discussed our different routes to school. We talked about safe places to cross and all of the lovely things we see on our walks.

At the end of the week we had great fun tinkering with the beebots. On Thursday we learned how to program them to go through or around obstacles and this morning we put them on our map and instructed them to go for a drive around Peebles!

This week we’ve also been planting, learning our ‘ar’ spelling words, learning about proper and common nouns and writing about the rabbit in the school playground. In numeracy we’re continuing with numbers to 100. The children’s highlights include:

• Writing about the rabbit in the garden
• Playing with the beebots
• Planting pumpkins in the garden
• Making statues
• Pressing the buttons on the beebots
• Sharing and taking turns with the beebots

This week in P2/1 we’ve been learning about sunflowers – we planted our own, drew very detailed black pen pictures and wrote an information report about them. We also did a sunflower collage in art that we put up in the corridor.

This morning we planted some lettuce in the school garden and are keeping a close eye on the radish that we’ve already planted. Our mangetout seeds have germinated in the windows and the runner beans will shortly be coming home for the children to continue growing there.

This week we’ve also revisited the ‘qu’ sound. Thank you for helping with the ‘qu’ spelling words at home. We’ve also been learning about proper nouns, looking at names of people and places.

In numeracy we’re coming to the end of our work on money, this week focusing on adding coins to £1. We’re continuing our problem solving, this week using our communication skills to discuss the different ways we can sort shapes.

In health and well-being we’ve been talking a lot about how things are constantly changing and while some change is expected, some isn’t. We used the seasons as a starting point and then in circle time thought about what else is changing – we realised how much we are all changing – from height to hair to wobbly teeth to our intelligence!

We’ve had a busy week of planting this week. On Tuesday we planted runner beans in pots and this morning we planted radish in the school garden.

We’ve also enjoyed revising the ‘ng’ and ‘ou’ sounds this week and had lots of fun making a mouse in a house.

Some of our  highlights this week include:

• Making mice – Arthur
• Planting – Amber
• Making a house for a mouse – Finlay D
• Planting with Mrs Thomson – Daniel