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.

This is the word list for practising this week. It is the final list of term, thank you for your support in helping your children to learn the words.

Mrs Lloyd and Mrs McGilp

The pattern is double l ‘ll’

1. ox

2. run

3. from

4. will

5. bell

6. doll

7. skull

8. there

9. they

10. windmill

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!

On Monday p2 enjoyed a sunny sports day where they took part in six different activities including a beanbag shuttle, shooting basketballs and running over hurdles. Everyone was competing for their House and it was great to hear them cheering each other on.

There were sprinting races at the end and here are the winners.

Well done to everyone for taking part, doing their best and being good sports!

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!

This week we learned about alphabetical order and where things are listed in alphabetical order. We used a dictionary to find words and write them in order and learned that the class register is alphabetically listed by surname. We worked in pairs to arrange words and we looked at indexes at the back of non fiction books.

We wrote words that rhyme with ‘ow’ such as snow and window. We wrote a story ‘Lost and found’ and answered a question about our reading books.

In maths we learned the names and properties of some 3D shapes, and what the ‘D’ stands for.

We also began the concept of multiplication through grouping cubes into sets.

In art we drew and painted a koala.

Here is the list of words that p2 are learning this week. The list is a mix of words that can be blended, tricky words and words in a set.

The lists are sent home with the children so please practise them at home if you can.

Thank you,

Mrs Lloyd and Mrs McGilp

1. up

2. man

3. crab

4. Friday

5. Saturday

6. Sunday

7. today

8. come

9. some

10. weekend

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.

This weeks’ practical maths was weighing classroom items using a two pan balance. We counted how many cubes, beads and pegs were needed to balance scissors, sellotape and a glue stick.

Today we watched assembly and reflected on how we use Skipper’s toolkit to help us when the river of life feels like difficult water. We enjoyed the story ‘The Rabbit Listened’.
Our spelling focused on the days of the week so our recount writing was ‘Monday’. Lots of children wrote about after school activities or things they do with their families.
We thought about words that rhyme with ‘ob’ and ‘all’.