We have been learning about the senses that our body has. We looked at smell and had great fun experimenting with using our nose without using our eyes. We had 10 different smells to try and guess including washing powder, mint, lemon, shower gel, vinegar, vanilla, coconut, coffee, soy sauce and blackcurrant juice. The easiest ones to guess were coffee and lemon. Vinegar was the one that divided people, some hated it and some loved it.

We have also written facts about all the senses and are in the process of making up our own non-fiction books on the human body. We are going to add in a blurb, a contents page, index and glossary. We have done our front cover already and can’t wait to add more pages.

How does human smell work? – BBC Bitesize

This is information on what P2/3a will be learning this term.

P2 3a – Curriculum Information – Term 3 2025 2026

We have started our healthy bodies topic. We have been looking at skeletons. The class have enjoyed these games:

Skeleton games – Teaching resources

Bones of the Skeleton – Map Quiz Game – Seterra

We drew around 3 pupils and the pupils tried to label as many bones as they could remember. It was lots of fun!

The bairns have loved making the shields this week, doing an up helly aa themed silhouette picture and enjoying our play areas that are set up like a galley shed.

P3 shared what they have been doing for leadership with the rest of the school at an assembly last week. They did a super job standing up and telling the school how hard they had worked.

Here is the PowerPoint they put together to share.

Shoebox Appeal PPT

We have been using these maths games in class.

Number Fact Families – Topmarks

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

Thanks for the deep end test certificates and swimming medals that have been brought in to show the class. We have put up photos on our ‘Wow Wall’ which shows our wider achievements outwith school.

If anyone has any achievements they would like to share with the class then feel free to take them in.

Here is our curriculum information for this term.

P2 3a – Curriculum Information – Term 2 2025

We watched a video about the shoebox appeal.

Blythswood Shoebox Appeal 2025

We made posters and we are all very excited about getting items donated. We made a video too. We can’t wait to start putting the shoeboxes together.

Primary 3 Shoebox Appeal

We looked at shadows as part of our focus on sunlight in our weather topic. We went outside and used toy dinosaurs to make big and small shadows and we drew around them with chalk.

It wasn’t as easy as we thought it was going to be. The sun kept going behind the cloud so we had to be patient.

Light and shadows – KS2 Science curriculum – BBC Bitesize