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Term 4 Week 8

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Eight

✏️ Literacy

This week, our spelling focus was the ‘ou’ sound, and in grammar we explored contractions. The children enjoyed working with partners to identify and create contractions before building their own contraction bricks using Lego and word cards. This practical approach helped reinforce how two words can be combined to make a contraction.

Our Magical Door adventure continued as we travelled to Future World, linking to Global Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. The children imagined meeting Aila, a child from the future, and wrote conversations between Aila and a planet protector, discussing energy challenges and possible solutions. This gave the children a chance to apply both their speech mark and contraction skills in meaningful writing.

To complement this learning, we created shoebox worlds. Using small wooden doors, the children designed and decorated magical entrances before creating a world inside their shoebox. Some chose worlds we had already discovered through the magical door, while others invented entirely new worlds of their own.

🔢 Maths

This week our maths learning took the form of a Dragon Academy, with a different challenge each day!

On Monday, the children became Dragon Potion Masters, learning about volume and capacity by carefully measuring ingredients to create a range of dragon potions. After successfully completing five potions, they earned their very own Potion Master Certificate. There was great excitement as we mixed colourful potions while learning to measure accurately.

Tuesday’s Dragon Academy focused on measure. The children explored grams, kilograms, length and size through a variety of dragon-themed activities. They created dragon eggs from Play-Doh to specific measurements, measured dragon tails, and worked out the sizes of objects needed for a dragon habitat.

On Wednesday, we introduced division through an edible maths lesson. The children practised sharing sweets equally into groups and quickly discovered that division can be both fun and tasty!

On Friday, we combined maths with teacher-led PE during our Frog Olympics. Using clicker frogs, we investigated distance and measurement by comparing how far the frogs could jump and then measuring whether we could jump further ourselves.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

This week, we worked alongside Primary 1/2 as part of our café enterprise project. The children took part in café interviews, discussing the different roles available and helping allocate jobs across the various café teams.

This was a fantastic opportunity to practise communication, teamwork, confidence and decision-making skills while continuing to develop our understanding of how a business operates. The children showed great maturity when discussing which roles would best suit their skills and interests.

🌱 Wider Learning

This week also marked our final visit to the polytunnel, with the last group enjoying the opportunity to help with planting and visit the animals. The children have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in these sessions over the past few weeks and have learned a great deal about growing plants and caring for living things.

It has been another busy and creative week, filled with dragons, future worlds, enterprise activities and plenty of practical learning!

Term 4 Week 7

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Seven

✏️ Literacy

This week, our magical door transported us to Ocean World! When the children returned from the long weekend on Tuesday, they discovered that the classroom floor had been “flooded,” with seaweed, stones, shells and beach-themed objects scattered near the magical door. This created lots of excitement and curiosity about what might have happened when the door opened.

As part of our writing, the children imagined having a conversation with a sea creature, learning about how pollution is affecting our oceans and marine life. This linked beautifully to Global Goal 14: Life Below Water.

We continued developing our understanding of speech marks, while also exploring more exciting alternatives to the word said. Our grammar focus looked at how emotions can be shown through speech and how different verbs can help bring conversations to life in our writing.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we began a new focus on measure, linking this directly to our Building a Business topic. The children recognised that running a café involves both money and measurement, from designing spaces to preparing food.

We started by exploring metres, taking our learning outdoors and around the classroom with practical measuring activities. Later in the week, we introduced centimetres, using hands-on tasks such as estimating and measuring Play-Doh snakes. These activities helped the children develop confidence in estimating, measuring accurately and comparing lengths.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

This week, our café project became even more realistic as the children completed their job application forms and began developing their interview skills in preparation for applying for roles in our class café.

This has been a fantastic opportunity to develop important real-world skills such as communication, confidence, responsibility and self-awareness, while encouraging the children to think about the qualities needed for different jobs.

💻 ICT / Global Learning

This week we explored the Earth Cubs website as part of our learning about protecting the oceans. We completed the “Plastic is Not Fantastic” lesson, which linked beautifully to both our literacy work and Global Goal 14.

The children enjoyed engaging with the songs, quizzes and activities while learning about the impact of plastic pollution on sea life. It was a fantastic way to reinforce our learning about caring for the environment.

🥔 Wider Learning – Potato Day!

Friday was our much-anticipated Potato Day, which was packed full of learning across the curriculum.

We began by exploring Global Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and 13 (Climate Action). We watched the Earth Cubs video Potato Dream, which helped us think about where our food comes from and the journey food takes from farm to table.

The children then created their own potato people, giving them names, personalities and even passports. This linked to our geography learning as we explored where people come from and different nationalities around the world.

After break, we put our new measuring skills into practice. We measured the height and circumference of our potato people and then learned about grams and kilograms, estimating and then weighing them. We also completed some fun practical challenges, including estimating how many potatoes would make a metre and guessing the combined weight of three potato people before checking our answers.

Next, we read Potato Pants and discussed how clothing is designed and made. After lunch, we linked this to sustainable fashion, exploring how our clothing choices affect the environment. The children were amazed to learn facts such as how it takes approximately 15,000 litres of water to make a single pair of jeans – roughly the amount an adult drinks in 15 years!

Using recyclable and reused materials, the children designed and created outfits for their potato people before taking them down the catwalk in our very own fashion show.

To finish the day, we learned how potatoes are turned into crisps and enjoyed a small crisp tasting session while reflecting on all the learning we had packed into one potato-filled day.

It has been another wonderfully busy week, full of creativity, practical learning, global citizenship and real-world skill building! 🌊🥔✨

Term 4 Week 5/6

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Weeks 5 & 6

As Mrs Teale was out of class from Tuesday–Friday in Week 5, this is update is a combination of the last two weeks into one update — and what two busy weeks they have been!

✏️ Literacy

Over the past two weeks, we have continued developing our literacy skills in lots of creative ways.

In grammar, our focus has been on speech marks, learning where they go and how to use them correctly. We explored this through superhero comic strips, which made the learning fun and practical, and the children have really enjoyed applying this skill in their writing.

We have also continued our Story Blast and Ninja Comprehension work, developing reading comprehension skills through a range of texts and activities.

Our Magical Door writing theme has continued too! In Week 5, the magical door took us to Tiny Village, where the children imagined what life might be like in a miniature world. They explored what jobs the tiny villagers might have and even took part in a job interview with a tiny person! We also created beautiful “Through the Keyhole” artwork inspired by this theme.

This week, our magical door brought a new frozen surprise, with animals asking for our help who had been frozen in ICE! This has inspired our writing, where the children are exploring different viewpoints through a debate-style piece between a planet protector and a business owner, linking beautifully to our global learning.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we have continued building confidence with money through a range of practical, real-life activities.

The children used Lidl supermarket shopping booklets to complete challenges involving comparing prices, ordering prices, and estimating totals. This week, we extended this learning to focus on working out change from £1, helping children apply their skills in realistic contexts. And again looked at money in real life context, estimating and comparing prices on the Nando’s website – this just made us all very hungry!!

We have also continued practising our times tables to keep our number fluency developing.

💻 ICT

In ICT, we have continued using digital tools to support our learning. This week we used Blooket to practise our money skills, helping reinforce our classroom learning in a fun and engaging way.

Over the next few weeks, the children will begin presenting their PowerPoint research projects  to the class, developing important CfE listening and talking and digital literacy skills, alongside key meta-skills such as confidence, communication, organisation, and critical thinking.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

Our Building a Business Together topic continues to grow!

We planted herbs for our café garden, thinking ahead to how we might use them in our business. This gave the children a hands-on opportunity to think about sustainability and growing their own produce.

We have also explored job roles in our café, and this week the children are completing job application forms to apply for the roles they would like when we begin running our café. It has been wonderful to see them thinking seriously about responsibility, teamwork and the qualities needed for different jobs and linking these to Meta Skills.

💛 Health & Wellbeing

As part of our Mental Health Awareness learning for Mental Health Awareness week(week 5), we explored feelings and regulation strategies. Using the theme of monster feelings, we talked about recognising emotions, understanding how we feel, and identifying strategies to help us regulate our emotions and support our wellbeing. We also painted some amazing giant feeling monsters

We also continued our RSHP learning, focusing on important life skills and relationships.

🐝 Wider Learning

This week we explored World Bee Day, listening to an Earth Cubs podcast called Bee Brilliant. This sparked fantastic discussions about the importance of bees and what would happen if bees disappeared.

The children then created beautiful contrasting artwork, showing a world with bees and a world without bees, helping them think deeply about biodiversity and caring for our environment.

🎨 Play Provision

Our play provision over the last two weeks has been full of imaginative learning opportunities.

This week, we created a Teddy Bears’ Café, linking beautifully with our business topic. The children took on different café roles and developed communication, role play and teamwork skills.

We also had a water tray fishing activity, where children practised working out change from £1, with each fish costing under £1.

To support our grammar learning, we also included speech mark and superhero literacy activities, helping children continue practising their skills through play.

It has been a wonderfully busy couple of weeks, full of creativity, practical learning, and lots of excitement! 😊

 

Term 4 Week 4

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Four

✏️ Literacy

We continued our Magical Door writing theme this week, exploring a new world: Jungle World. On Monday morning, we arrived to find sand at the bottom of the door, an animal footprint, some bananas, and a mysterious note!

This sparked lots of excitement and led to some fantastic writing. The children created fact files about the jungle and animal profiles about jungle animals, linking our learning to Global Goal 15 – Life on Land.

We have also been learning how to peer review and edit with a partner. This has been lots of fun and is a great way to spot mistakes, make improvements, and add more detail to our work.

Following our literacy focus last term, we were very excited to receive a letter back from Julia Donaldson. We had written lovely letters to her telling her all about our favourite books. She also kindly sent us some stickers!

In grammar, we continued our work on pronouns through pronoun art and a pronoun phrase mix activity. We also worked on comprehension using Story Blast and Ninja Comprehension, exploring texts about the United Kingdom and Mahatma Gandhi, with a focus on filling in missing information and checking understanding.

💻 ICT

In ICT, we finished our personal research projects. The children used Kiddle to research their chosen topics and then learned how to use PowerPoint to present their information clearly to the class.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we continued learning about money, building our understanding of coins, values, and how things are bought and sold. This links closely to our Building a Business Together topic.

We also continued working on column subtraction with exchanging, and developed our doubling and halving Speed Skills. The children created beautiful doubling flowers to help show their understanding.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

Our business topic continued through our money work, helping us understand how money is used in real-life situations such as buying and selling in a café.

🌱 Wider Learning

On Friday, we had a full David Attenborough Day to celebrate his 100th birthday. We read the Little People, Big Dreams book about David Attenborough, watched clips from some of his documentaries, and learned more about his life and work.

The children created fact plaques, made mini animal documentaries, and recorded a birthday message video. We also created large leaf art pieces, adding our own promises to the planet, which we hope to turn into a tree for our classroom door. The full film will be shared with families by email.

We also enjoyed attending the P4/5 assembly on Friday, and another group visited the polytunnel this week to help with planting and support our school community.

🎨 Play Provision

Our play provision this week has included lots of creativity and imagination. The children enjoyed dressing up, creating and performing with a puppet theatre, and developing their observational art skills through still life drawings of daffodils using watercolours.

Term 4 Week 3

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Three

✏️ Literacy

This week we continued our exciting Magical Door writing theme. When the children came into the classroom, they discovered that Mrs Teale’s spoon had turned into a giant spoon, leading us to imagine that the world behind the magical door was a giant world! It wasn’t so good for eating her lunch!!

This sparked lots of creativity, and the children wrote about the dangers they might face in a giant world, thinking carefully about how everyday objects might become challenges. They then wrote a diary entry titled “My First Day in Giant World,” describing their experiences and feelings as they explored this new and unusual place.

In grammar, we focused on pronouns, taking part in fun games to help us identify and use them correctly in our writing.

🔤 Spelling

Our spelling focus this week was the ‘au’ sound. Everyone is enjoying using Sumdog Spelling to consolidate their new words. Who’s been having a go at home?

🔢 Maths

At the start of the week, we continued our work on fractions, building on our understanding of parts of a whole.

We then moved on to a new topic of money, where the children explored coins and notes, looking at what they look like, how they feel, and how much they are worth. We discussed how values work (for example, 100p = £1) and took part in hands-on activities to support understanding.

The children also used Sumdog to consolidate their learning through interactive activities focused on coin recognition.

💻 ICT / Languages

This week we had fun combining movement and language through a French yoga session, helping the children practise their French in an active and engaging way.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

As part of our Building a Business topic, we focused on the skills and qualities we each have that could help us in our café.

We discussed different job roles within a café and how our personal skills could match these roles. The children began thinking about how they might apply for a job in the café and what they would need to do to be successful in that role.

🥣 Health & Wellbeing (RSHP)

We began our RSHP learning, focusing on important life skills. This included:

  • Recognising and understanding feelings
  • Learning about healthy behaviours
  • Exploring friendships and relationships
  • Knowing how to seek help and stay safe

🌱 Wider Learning

We were very lucky to enjoy a visit from the Shetland Folk Festival, where the children experienced a live concert. It was a fantastic opportunity to enjoy music and culture together.

We have also begun visiting the polytunnel, where small groups of children will take part in planting over the coming weeks. Our first group went this week and had lots of fun helping with planting and learning about how things grow. We are looking forward to everyone getting a turn!

With the lovely weather this week, we also made the most of outdoor play, enjoying time outside and staying active.

🎨 Play Provision

Our play provision this week has been very hands-on and engaging. The children explored a tinkering table using tools and an old till to investigate how things work, developing problem-solving and practical skills.

We also set up a shop role-play area, where the children used money to practise their maths skills in a real-life context. This supported their understanding of money while encouraging collaboration, communication and imaginative play.

It has been another busy and creative week, with lots of excitement and enthusiasm across all areas of learning!

Term 4 Week 2

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week Two

✏️ Literacy

This week in literacy, our spelling focus has been the soft ‘g’ sound. We have also introduced Sumdog spelling, which the children have been using in class and can continue to practise at home as part of their homework.

Our writing this week has continued with our exciting Magical Door theme. The children arrived to find part of the classroom had been turned upside down, with the suggestion that gravity had been switched off when the magical door opened!  Mrs Teale had had a traumatic morning when the gravity had gone off and  great hilarity followed when they saw  the photo Miss Hunter took of her floating around the classroom(and yes, it’s been added to the blog images as per the children’s request!)It has created lots of excitement and curiosity across the school this week.

Using images and discussion prompts, the children wrote imaginative pieces about what might happen if gravity was turned off, describing objects floating and unusual events taking place. Alongside this, they also created fact files about gravity, learning about how it works in real life. This learning has been linked to the Global Goals, particularly thinking about how our world works and how we can care for it.

We also continued developing our comprehension skills using Story Blast, with a focus on understanding and responding to texts.

🌍 Global Learning

This week we also celebrated Earth Day. We read the story Michael Recycle and created some beautiful artwork linked to caring for the environment. This tied in well with our ongoing focus on the Global Goals, encouraging the children to think about how they can help look after our planet.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we have continued our work on fractions. This week we explored fractions of amounts, using practical resources such as pom-poms and counters to help us visualise and understand how to find fractions of a group. The children are developing a good understanding of how fractions apply in real-life contexts.

💻 ICT

In ICT, we continued our research projects using the Kiddle search engine. The children have been developing their skills in safe searching and using key words to find information. They are now working towards turning their research into PowerPoint presentations, which they will present to the class.

🍳 Topic – Building a Business

As part of our topic “Building a Business Together,” we have continued developing our café project. This week, we explored different job roles and responsibilities within a café and discussed what makes a café run successfully. We also looked at the different skills and abilities each job role would require.

🍰 Wider Learning

On Monday afternoons, we have been enjoying baking sessions with Miss Farmer as part of our café topic. This week the children made tiffin, following a recipe and working together in groups.

While some groups were baking, others worked with Mrs Teale on Story Blast comprehension tasks, ensuring everyone had the opportunity to develop both practical and literacy skills.

🥣 Health & Wellbeing

This week we took part in a Healthy Living Breakfast in the hall, where the children had the opportunity to try a range of foods and discuss what makes a healthy breakfast.

We also began our RSHP lessons, with a focus on keeping our bodies clean.  helping to build confidence and understanding in important areas of health and wellbeing.

It has been another busy and exciting week, with lots of creativity, teamwork and curiosity across all areas of learning!

Term 4 Week 1

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 4, Week One

✏️ Literacy

This week in literacy, we have been focusing on grammar, specifically proper and common nouns, and continuing to build our understanding of how these are used in our writing.

In comprehension, we began using Ninja Comprehension, with a focus on sequencing skills, helping us to order events clearly and understand the structure of texts.

Our writing focus this week has been introduced through a mysterious magical door that appeared in our classroom! The children have been full of excitement, imagining where the door could lead and what might be behind it. We have linked this to the Global Goals, encouraging the children to think about different places in the world and how we can help people and protect our planet. This has led to some very creative ideas and discussions, which we will continue to develop in our writing.

We have also continued working with the Highland Literacy approach to spelling, focusing on syllables, rhyme, parts of speech, prefixes and suffixes. This week we introduced Sumdog spelling practice, as well as more targeted worksheets, to support and challenge the children in their learning. The children can also continue practising their spelling on Sumdog at home as part of their homework, helping to reinforce what we have been learning in class.

🔢 Maths

In maths, we have continued our work on column subtraction, building on our previous learning and developing confidence in setting out our calculations clearly.

We also introduced fractions using practical resources such as pom-poms in bags to explore different parts of a whole. The children learned about numerators and denominators and began to understand where fractions are used in real-life contexts.

💻 ICT

This week in ICT, we learned about safe searching online and how to use key words effectively when researching information. Each child chose a topic to research and used Kiddle to create their own research paper. These will be used to create PowerPoint presentations, which the children will share with the class.

🌍 Topic – Building a Business

We have started our new topic, “Building a Business Together.” Firstly, we started looking at hygiene and our baking skills by making chocolate crispies. We discussed the difference in making it for ourselves and the extra steps required for making for others or to sell.

 We also discussed what we already know about cafés and shared our ideas as a class. We created a class mind map titled “What do we need for a café?”, thinking about elements such as food, drinks, staff, menus, money, customers and safety.

They all came up with some amazing ideas and I think they are all future business entrepreneurs!

🚢 Wider Learning

As part of our wider learning, Mrs Smith led a session on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. The children explored Morse code and created detailed drawings of the Titanic, linking history with creativity.

🎨 Play Projects

Our play project this week was inspired by the Titanic, linking to our wider learning. The children showed fantastic creativity, creating:

  • Games and quizzes
  • PowerPoints and digital images
  • Spot the difference activities
  • Junk models and block constructions of the Titanic

It was wonderful to see the children working collaboratively, sharing ideas, and applying their learning through play.

🎨 Wider Life of the School

We have also been busy creating a bright and welcoming classroom door display to start the new term. The display is based on crayons, representing a colourful and positive term ahead.

Each child designed their own unique crayon, including a self-portrait and their own personal goals for the term. This has helped set a positive tone for the term and encouraged the children to think about what they would like to achieve.

Term 3 Week 12

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 3, Week Twelve

Literacy

This week we rounded off our Julia Donaldson focus by writing a letter to Julia Donaldson. In our letters, we shared how much we have enjoyed her books, talked about our favourite stories and characters, and even asked her some thoughtful questions. It was lovely to see the children reflect on their learning and express their ideas in a meaningful way.

 Maths

In maths this week, we revisited column addition and subtraction, building confidence in setting out our work clearly and accurately.

We also created our own Top Trumps cards based on the mix-up animals we designed previously. The children thought carefully about giving fair and reasonable ratings  combining creativity with numeracy skills.

 Topic – People Who Help Us

This week we finished our learning about medical emergency services and medicine safety. The children developed a better understanding of how medicines should be used safely and who helps us when we are unwell.

Class Novel

We finished our class novel, The Wild Robot, and enjoyed watching the movie as an end-of-term treat.

To add to the excitement, we took part in an Easter egg hunt around the school and grounds, collecting treats to enjoy while watching the film.

We continued the theme of robots into this week’s play projects and the children created some brilliant models, pictures, drawings and digital  creations.

We also took a class vote for next terms class novel – The Explorer by Katherine Rundell won!

Wider Life of the School

We ended the term with Big Play, where the children had the opportunity to play across all classrooms with the whole school. It was wonderful to see them interacting with different age groups, building friendships, and showing great behaviour as role models.

They also enjoyed a visit from the P5,6,7 class who were sharing their knowledge their topic with the class including interactive and games and fun.

Term 3 Week 11

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 3, Week Eleven

✏️ Literacy & Writing

Our spelling sound this week was ‘ie’.

Our writing focus was inspired by Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson. The children took part in a fun animal mix-up art activity, where they created their own imaginary animals using parts from different creatures — from giraffe heads to mermaid tails!

They then wrote a detailed fact file about their new animal, including where it lives, what it looks like, what it eats, and whether it has any special powers. It was fantastic to see their creativity and descriptive writing skills develop.

We also explored opinion and reasoning in writing. The children were asked: “Would you rather be your animal or Mrs Teale’s animal?” They had to clearly state their opinion and give reasons to support their answer, developing their ability to justify their thinking.

🔢 Maths

In maths this week, we focused on consolidating our learning. We:

  • Continued practising times tables

  • Completed some assessments

🎭 Assembly Preparation

We performed our Maths Spectacular Assembly today and it all went amazingly well! The children showed fantastic confidence and teamwork, and we are incredibly proud of them.

Throughout the week, we focused on developing key performance skills, including:

  • Bringing the performance to life through expression and confidence

  • Using props effectively

  • Understanding how music enhances performance

  • Learning about stage positioning and each person’s role

It was wonderful to see all of their hard work come together. A video link will be sent out so you can enjoy the performance too!

🏊 Wider Learning

We enjoyed another swimming session this week, with just one week left to go. The children continue to show great enthusiasm and confidence in the water.

🌍 Topic – People Who Help Us

This week we had several exciting visitors linked to our topic.

We learned about germs and hygiene with a visit from Environmental Health. The children used special Glow Bug handwashing kits to see which areas they had missed when washing their hands, helping them understand the importance of effective handwashing.

We also welcomed paramedics, who spoke about their role and what their job involves. The children asked thoughtful and interesting questions, showing great engagement with the topic.

Our class roadmap display is now up on the wall, showcasing the different emergency services and the important roles they play in helping others.

🧪 STEM Learning

As part of St Patrick’s Day, we took part in a STEM challenge based on the story How to Catch a Leprechaun.

Working in small groups, the children designed and built their own leprechaun traps, developing skills in:

  • Problem-solving

  • Teamwork and communication

  • Measuring and building

  • Creative thinking

🎨 Play Projects

Our play project this week, led by Miss Farmer, was based on the rainforest, linking to our Monkey Puzzle learning.

The children showed fantastic creativity, building:

  • Rainforest homes and habitats

  • Digital creations and presentations

  • Large construction models

One particularly impressive creation was a forest scene complete with a flowing waterfall. It was wonderful to see the children working collaboratively, using imagination, and applying their learning through play.

Term 3 Week 10

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🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 3, Week Ten

✏️ Literacy & Writing

Our spelling sound this week was ‘ai’. Our writing was inspired by The Scarecrow’s Wedding by Julia Donaldson. We zoomed in on the crows in the story, imagining what they might have been up to and using adjectives, adverbs, and punctuation to make our writing more descriptive.

We also looked at a non-fiction fact file about scarecrows, learning about the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

On Friday we used Play-Doh to explore sentence structure and punctuation in a hands-on way. The children created punctuation marks and used them to build sentences while listening to a short story about a Viking who liked icing, which made the activity both creative and memorable.

🔢 Maths

In maths we continued developing our understanding of the jump strategy, this time applying it to subtraction. The children practised moving along number lines and explaining their thinking as they solved problems.

We also continued exploring ordinal numbers and introduced fractions, using Play-Doh to model and divide shapes into equal parts. This practical approach helped the children visualise halves and quarters more clearly.

🌍 Topic – People Who Help Us

Our topic work continued this week with a focus on emergency services. The children learned about how to make a 999 call and took part in role play activities where they practised being both the caller and the call handler. This helped them understand what information is important in an emergency situation.

🎭 Assembly Preparation

We are nearly ready for our Maths Spectacular Assembly next week. This week we finished creating our props, tried on costumes, and continued rehearsing our lines and drama scenes. The children are working very hard and are excited to perform.

🐉 Wider Learning

On Friday we had a special visit from the SMUHA Vikings, who were in great voice and brought lots of energy and excitement to the morning. In the afternoon we held our own galley burning ceremony, linking to the local traditions.

🎨 Play Provision

This week’s play included;

  • Large construction play using giant Lego blocks

  • Viking-themed play with the galley returning to the classroom

  • Creative craft activities where the children made kindness cards and Mother’s Day cards to share with others and take home

These activities encouraged creativity, collaboration, and kindness.