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We did our daily mile on Friday last week and got a shot of a ball so we could do some shooting in the netball hoop.

We were getting better by the end!

This term both P3 classes have been working together in music. We have used their Human Body project to help us with our rhythm work. We matched up three project related words ‘skeleton’, ‘muscles’ and ‘joints’ to the three rhythms ‘ti-ri-ti’, ‘ti-ti’ and ‘ta’ as shown here:

 

Then we used these words to help us read different rhythmic patterns. You can see that our patterns included one beat rests which means that we had to count a beat of silence in the rhythms.

We then worked together to suggest ways we could put these rhythmic words together to create our own composition which you can see below. We even added a repeat sign at the end of each bar to make our piece longer.

The next step was to add the musical notation under the images to create our piece of music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P3 have been doing general games to develop the skills we need in lots of different games.  These skills include decision making, spatial awareness, communication, dodging, weaving, changing direction and ball skills like throwing, catching and kicking.

 

 

Zander was in the Bressay Up Helly Aa today. The squad came to visit us at school. We liked it when the band played Postman Pat. Zander looked amazing and presented the school with a mini shield.

Literacy Week

We have enjoyed doing ERIC (Everyone Read in Class) time in class every day this week.

We had a visit from Bookbug. The pupils have a suspicion that they know who was under the costume.

We loved the Book Fair in the library and we have raised lots of money for our school. We will buy some books with that money.

We watched a couple of stories on the whiteboard.  We liked that there was a capybara in Zagazoo. Here are the links if anyone wants to watch them again.

CBBC – Zagazoo

BBC One – The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

We made a door display – we chose George’s Marvellous Medicine.

We have had fun making our own medicines in the water tray and mixing them up.

We wrote our medicines for our class writing task. We had to chose what went in to our medicine and write out how to make our medicine. We also got to use our imagination to think about what the medicine might do to you if you took some. Some medicines made you grow, some made you explode, some made your hair fall off, some made you turn into a balloon and some made you turn into a different colour. It was very exciting!

We made a display for the canteen. We had to pick interesting vocabulary from our library books.

We learned about Braille with Mr Dally. It is a way of reading for people who are blind.

There has been a lunch time book club. Thank you to the parents who have helped out in the library.

We had fun dressing up for World Book Day!

It has been a very busy week.

P3A recently finished a block of Shetland and Scottish Dance in PE.  We covered several dances, learning that dances are made up of small sections which are repeated.  We also discovered that once we have learnt an action, it can be done in a variety of different dances.  For example, we learnt to cast off in the Grand Old Duke of York and then repeated this part in 2 other dances.

The dances we learnt were

• Circassian Circle
• Norsk Polka
• The Ferry Boat
• Grand Old Duke of York
• Witches Reel
• Waves of Troy
• Boston 2 step
• Gay Gordons with a modified hold

We finished the block making up our own Shetland dances.  Here we are in action.

We have had fun playing doctors. We love watching Operation Ouch when we are having our snack.

Michael and Megan came in for a visit to our class and we got to go outside and meet Bravo.

We have been learning about senses as part of our healthy bodies topic. We had fun finding out about noses and smell. We had 10 different pots to smell and try to guess what the smell was. We had cinnamon, orange, soy sauce, garlic, vinegar, vanilla, cheese, washing powder, hot chocolate powder and mint mouthwash. There was lots of funny faces pulled.

We had a fun morning visiting the street to see the vikings. We also got to see them in school  and show them the shields that we had made. We both had Viking Runes on our shields.

Click on the website below to have a shot at the skeleton game where you have to assemble the bones in the correct places.

Learn the Skeletal System – A Fun & Interactive Game • ABCya!

Here is what we will be working on in term 3.

P3 – Curriculum Information – Term 3 2025

Yesterday we went to the gym for our Christmas party games with the P3B’s.

We look amazing in our lovely Christmas jumpers/dresses/tops.

We had a few changes to the equipment this week.  The wide box was a section higher, the narrow beam came after the wider benches and at the frame, the ropes were out.  When discussing the equipment set up, we spoke about changes of height, direction and width.

Here we are in action.

 

Here are pictures of our first week exploring the equipment.  We loved it and worked so hard.

We spent the first two weeks in gymnastics on the mats developing our floor skills.  We worked on balances, jumps, skills that involved our core muscles, rolls, handstands and cartwheels.  When we have the equipment out, we will have more time on the mats to continue developing these skills.