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Maths – Measurement

October 5, 2017 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Today during Maths time, we have been exploring length. We have been measuring to show “longer than” and “shorter than”.

We sorted objects to show longest to shortest. We had to be careful to line up each from the bottom.

The ruler is longer than the water bottle.

The stethoscope is longer than the ruler.

We found objects all around the classroom.

When P2 finished their measuring page, they sorted themselves out from tallest to shortest.

Well done Georgia!

September 8, 2017 Mrs Smith 1 Comment

We love to hear how you are getting on with your learning out with the school too. We were delighted to be sent these photos of Georgia enjoying doing her capacity homework outside in the fresh air. Keep up the good work Georgia!

Primary 2 – Afternoon Activities

September 8, 2017 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Primary 2 have been enjoying their quiet afternoons but are looking forward to helping P1 settle into full days next week. P2 have been reading in groups and working together on alphabet tasks. They’ve been really keen to start their spelling tests and dictation work … just like P2 last year and have been learning how we need to set this out in our jotters. They have worked together on practical capacity work in Maths and have been developing their estimation skills. Topic work has been centred around lessons on Our Body and we’ve been keeping our bodies fit in class PE.

Everyone has enjoyed working together to explore capacity and trying out our estimation skills.

Dictation takes a lot of concentration to listen to the words and sounds and write them down.

We set out a cube every time we heard Mrs Smith say a word in the sentence.

The cubes helped us to remember how many words we needed to write and helped us to see where we should put a finger space.

Mrs Tait helped P2 to learn about the major organs of the body.

In class P.E. we have been working on listening to and following instructions first time and developing our ball skills.

Active Maths

June 15, 2017 Mrs Smith 1 Comment

The end of term is fast approaching but we’re still busy working on our Maths. Some pupils had to work together to choose a starting number and write the following numbers in sequence. Then they had to work together to find the number that was half way between and mark it in a special way. That seemed to be the easy part! There was a lot of discussion and negotiations to be worked through first but we got there in the end.

The rest of the class were working out number problems and after being given a total to make, they had to find a partner who would help them make that total. They also had to choose the correct plus or minus sign to go with their sums.

Outdoor Education Day – 18th May

May 18, 2017 Mrs Smith 2 Comments

Thanks to the glorious Shetland weather, we were able to do all our planned activities today! We started off at the Boddam play park to do an experiment on forces. Then, in groups, we had to show forces at work using the play equipment. After some time inside looking at Electricity with Mr Rose, it was back outside to do a spot of reading before we joined the rest of the school on our whole school walk. A full day of learning and fresh air!

We wanted to test what would happen if we let a tractor run down different heights of slope.

We needed to make sure the tractor would run off smoothly.

On the flat, with no push or slope, our tractor was going nowhere.

We measured how high up we wanted to start our test.

To be fair, we had to let go and not push the tractor.

We tried it again, but further up this time.

We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.

We just had to try it right from the top!

The girls had to use a force to get the spin started.

Denley and Christina had to PULL hard to get up!

A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!

This group had to find smooth surfaces that would make the tractor run easily and quickly.

Anders and Ryan were looking for rough surfaces that would slow their tractor down.

P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.

French Food Fun!

March 30, 2017 Mrs Henderson 2 Comments

P1/2 have been using the laptops to research French food this term as part of their Food topic. Some food sounded really yummy – macarons, crepes, baguettes and tarte tatin just to name a few. Others were a bit surprising. Have you ever tried frogs legs and snails?!

We decided that we wanted to try making some of the yummy treats for family and friends to enjoy. Once we found some simple recipes, we wrote shopping lists and began the preparations for our French afternoon. Invitations were made and sent out. Then it was time to begin making and baking! We also made a milk chocolate tarte and a white chocolate tarte but forgot to take photos!!

Roma was busy making her own notes on French food.

Ryan and Elijah worked as a team to find out about baguettes and took notes to share with the class.

P2 were super helpers for the P1s. There was a lot of information to look through and they had to decide what was important to write down.

Conor carefully looked through the recipes to make sure he had included everything in his shopping list.

Elijah read out the ingredients for Freya to add to her shopping list.

Everyone enjoys cracking the eggs! Watch out for egg shells!

Conor made sure Aiden poured just the right amount of milk.

Roma takes a break from beating her eggs to check the milk too!

Leo and Freya worked as a team to pour and measure the right amount of milk.

Everyone was busy pouring, measuring and mixing.

Iona begins mixing all of the ingredients together.

When the pupils finished each croissant, they added them to the tray.

Georgia and Elijah worked together to lightly brush some egg on top of each one.

Exploring Money

March 30, 2017 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

P1/2 have been learning about money during Maths time and while at play. Our gallery of photos show some of the practical activities they’ve been doing.

Leighton thought the till was untidy. He sorted all the coins for us! Good work Leighton!

Playing with friends while learning about money.

Data Handling

February 5, 2017 Mrs Henderson 1 Comment

Following on from our fruit tasting afternoon, we gathered together all the results and worked with a partner to create a bar chart on the laptops. Then we worked together as a class to make a giant bar chart for our classroom wall. I wonder which fruit was the most popular?