We were inspired by Paul Klee to make some art using shapes. Our display is up in the canteen.
Meta skills included are creativity, curiosity, feeling, communicating and focusing.
Numeracy Week – Bingo
We LOVE playing bingo!
Meta Skills included – focusing, communicating and leading.
PE 23rd September 2024
P3A are working on racket activities at the moment in PE. This week they put so much effort in, working so hard, that Mrs Ritchie gave the class a Super Effort certificate.
Racket Activities
We are developing our hitting in tennis, table tennis and badminton, using the different equipment to hit to ourselves and forward to others and targets.
Large Ball skills
In PE we have started the year with large ball skills. Through activities and games we have been working on developing our basic skills of throwing, catching, bouncing, kicking and aiming.
Here we are in action.
Curriculum Information for Primary 3a
P3 Swimming
Dates for Swimming in p3 are:
- 23rd August
- 30th August
- 6th September
- 13th September
- 20th September
- 27th September
Back to school – P3a
We are back from our holidays and have started p3a. We have been playing with lots of new toys. There are army soldiers in the middle wing and there is a space station. The favourite has been the phone and the computer to play pretend offices.
We have written about what we did in the summer holidays and Mrs Anderson has put them up on the wall.
Drawing has been fun.
We went to explore our p3 outdoor area and we have fun at the Adventure Playground.
Move up afternoon
We had a lovely afternoon visiting our new class.
Orienteering
We had a great time in the multi doing an orienteering task. We then had an explore in the wildlife area and there was a very friendly red admiral butterfly going from one set of rocks to another, it nearly landed on us a few times.
Sports Day 2024
We had a great day! Thank you to the parent helpers who counted, timed and generally helped out. It was very much appreciated. What a busy morning it was!!
“I liked watching the mini marathon”
“I liked doing the running races”
“I liked doing the jumping over the triangle”
“I liked doing the speed bounce”
“I liked playing with my friends”
“I liked everything”
To relax in the afternoon after a busy morning we decided to watch The Snale and The Whale.
Primary Two – Our favourite bits..
We were discussing all the fun times in primary two. The pupils had so many times to talk about, we ran out of space on the white board and had to use some mini- whiteboards to add all our ideas on to.
Some of the highlights of the year were:
- Outdoor learning – we have done lots but the favourites were the stoney beach and the burn
- Baking – pancakes and gingerbread men
- Fruit testing
- Parties
- Play
- Map making
- Swimming
- Museum visit
- Bookbug visits
- Going to the library
- Story time
- Having parents in to do maths games
- Making circuits
- Gym time
We made acrostic poems on our favourite experiences.
Being in the green zone is best!
We have been learning more about the zones of regulation and we have been using a few fun songs to help us get into the green zone which is the zone we need to be in to be ready to learn.
Numbers Song Let’s Count 1-10 New Version (youtube.com)
Shake Break Exercise Song for Kids | Pancake Manor (youtube.com)
Outdoor Learning – Data Handling
We did maths outside yesterday. We have been learning about tally marks so we went outside to record the variety of coloured cars we could see. To record it clearly and accurately we used tally marks. We have been learning that it is important to use a finger space between each group of 5. We know we can read it clearly if it is neat and has a space. We saw lots of white cars! And hardly any pink, purple or brown cars.
Meta skills we covered were focusing, communicating, curiosity and collaborating.
Plants
We had a visit from Cheryl and Naomi from Morgan Sindall to speak to us about plants. The pupils loved the videos of the exploding seeds. We saw tiny seeds and a picture of a coconut as that is the biggest seed.
They have left us resources so we can do our own planting in the next few weeks. Thank you!
Health and Wellbeing Week
We had outdoor plans for Thursday afternoon but it was REALLY wet so we decided to have an afternoon of games. What a lovely idea for a rainy day.
Health and Wellbeing Week Story Time
We read this lovely story today. It is called Amazing Me Amazing You by Christine McGuinness. We spoke about how we are all unique and we have some similarities and some differences but we all like that we are our own people.
Fruit Tasting as part of Health and Wellbeing Week
We loved getting fruit for snack! Lots of pupils were trying blackberries, cherries, kiwi, melon and plums for the first time. I was so impressed with how keen they all were to try new fruits.
Thank you to Grays and Tesco for the yummy fruits!
Under the Sea DrawIngs
P2A have been using visual information to help them compose drawings of under the sea. They will use wax crayons to colour some details and paint washes for the sea and sand.
Road Safety as part of Health and Wellbeing Week
We have been making Road Safety posters in P2a.
We looked at this website first to have a go at the challenges and watch the videos to remind us of what we learned in term 2 about Road Safety.
Click on the link below to have a look at the useful website and play the games.
First (P2, P3, P4) – Road Safety Scotland
Health and Wellbeing Week – Orienteering
We had a great time orienteering in the wildlife area today. We had to look for 8 fruits and could only do one fruit at a time. We all had fun! The winners were Conan and Tymon finding all the fruit fastest!
This kind of task certainly covered a few of the meta-skills we are thinking about at Sound School. We were focusing, adapting, using our initiative, communicating, collaborating, leading, sense-making and critical thinking.
