P2 have been doing games skills in PE with the focus on Gross and Fine Motor Skills. We learnt that fine motor skills used smaller parts of our bodies like fingers and that gross meant big so gross motor was big body movements.
IDL – Fairytales
Our topic for term 2 has been fairytales. We wanted to learn about castles and dragons, we shared stories, folktales and learnt facts about where and why castles were built. We’ve enjoyed a range of art and design activities for IDL – we focus on the process of creating art work so all our paintings and drawings are unique and allow us to be creative in the design process.
In literacy we’ve been learning about ‘adjectives’ – we thought of adjectives to describe our dragons and added adjectives to our literacy working wall to help us with our writing.
‘castles were built on the hill to stop the bad guys getting there quickly’
’castles were built with stones because they don’t burn and are strong!’
We linked our World Book Day door display to our IDL too by creating a door that takes you into Fairytale land.
Primary 2A Blog – A Week of Magic, Vikings, and Pancakes!
Wow! What a week we’ve had in Primary 2A – we’ve been busy learning, creating, and having so much fun! Here’s what we got up to in our action-packed week:
🥞 Flipping Fantastic Pancakes! 🥞
We started the week by making pancakes, and let’s just say, some of us have a real talent for flipping (and some of us need a little more practice!).
Pupil Voice: “I was really proud of my pancake because I flipped it without dropping it!”
It was a great way to practise our hand-eye coordination and patience – important skills for life!
📚 Book Week Bonanza! 📚
It was Book Week, so we spent lots of time reading in the classroom and sharing our favourite stories.
Pupil Voice: “I loved reading with my friend because we helped each other with tricky words.”
On Thursday, we dressed up as our favourite characters, and the classroom was full of wizards, superheroes, and fairytale creatures. Even the teachers got involved !
🚪 A Magical Door to Fairyland! 🚪
We designed and created a magical door into Fairyland using our creativity and teamwork. This activity helped us develop our imagination and problem-solving skills, as we worked together to decide what Fairyland might look like. The children did a great job and P2A even won the door display competition!
🔎 Character Hunt & Classroom Play! 🔎
We had a character hunt around the school, spotting famous storybook characters hidden in different places. This was a great way to practise our observation skills and teamwork with our families. After, we came back to the class and had a play with our friends.
🛡️ A Viking Invasion! 🛡️
To top it all off, we had a visit from the Bressay UP HELLY AA squad! The whole school joined in, singing Viking songs with real energy.
What a week, Primary 2A! We used so many metaskills – from creativity and collaboration to resilience and confidence. Now it’s time to rest (and maybe practise a little more pancake flipping) before another week of adventures!
P2A’s Busy Start after Half Term!
We are back from our half-term break and have jumped straight into some exciting learning in P2A!
In Numeracy, we have started the Numeracy Project, focusing on telling the time. Right now, we are learning about o’clock and half past, and the children have been showing great enthusiasm in mastering this new skill. It’s been fantastic to see them so engaged and eager to practice telling the time throughout the day!
Another highlight of our week was taking part in our Leadership Assembly. As Kindness Officers, we shared how we have been spreading kindness in our school. We wrote our kind actions on sticky notes and read them out at the end of the day, reminding each other of the importance of being kind. We also created a kindness flower, writing ways we can be kind on its petals. Our class made beautiful posters with messages like “Kindness makes us happy” and “Kindness is respectful”—a wonderful reminder of the positive impact kindness has on everyone.
Pupil Voice;
“Kindness makes us happy”
“Manners are kind”
“O’clock at the top”
Dance
We started the year in PE doing a dance block. We did lots of different little tasks using different themes. We had to
- travel in different ways – fast, slow, creep, etc
- hold still shapes
- follow a partner
- move between 2 different actions
- move like a stream of water, flowing and turning, then freeze, hold and melt
- be the drip of water off a roof, freeze into an icicle and melt again
- follow a folk dance
- move like toys – a clown, dancer, robot and penguin
- to move with heavy and light movements.
Here we are in action
Our Magical Week in Primary 2!
This week in Primary 2, we have been diving into the world of fairy tales! Our story of the week was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We had lots of fun reading about Goldilocks and thinking about how she could have made better choices. As Kindness Officers, we wrote letters pretending to be Goldilocks, apologizing to the bears for eating their porridge, breaking Baby Bear’s chair, and sleeping in their beds! We talked about how being kind means thinking about how our actions affect others.
We also continued working on our 5+ facts and linking them to our interests—some of us even used Pokémon to make our facts more exciting! Did you know Pikachu’s tail looks different depending on whether it’s a boy or a girl? That was one of the cool facts we learned!
In writing, we practiced our uppercase and lowercase letters, making sure our letters were neat and clear. It’s been great to see everyone improving their handwriting!
There were lots of extra fun activities this week too! We had a visit from Childsmile, reminding us how to keep our teeth strong and healthy. We also got to play outside in the wildlife garden, exploring nature and enjoying the fresh air.
With Valentine’s Day coming up, we made beautiful Valentine’s cards for our families and friends. Some of us even got creative and started making our own stuffed toys using paper and pompoms—so fluffy and fun!
It’s been an exciting and creative week in Primary 2, and we can’t wait for more fairy tale adventures next week!
Dogs against Drugs and Fairytales!
This week has been packed with excitement and learning in our class! We ended the week with a very special visit from Dogs Against Drugs. A friendly dog named Bravo came to see us and shared some important messages about making safe and healthy choices. The children were thrilled to meet Bravo and asked lots of questions about how dogs help us stay safe.
After our visit, we got creative during our play time. The children wrote little notes for our stuffed toys, sharing kind messages about how they’ve been looking after their friends. They even designed a beautiful castle for Dizzy our Dragon—a project that has really brought our fairytale world to life in the classroom. Dizzy now has a proper home where he can join us on our adventures!
We also spent time listening to more fairytale stories, which filled our imaginations with magical worlds and brave characters. The stories inspired our writing and drawing activities, and we even talked about what makes a good hero and a magical setting. It was wonderful to see how excited everyone was to share their own ideas about these enchanting tales.
In numeracy, we had fun exploring numbers by adding on ten. The children were very enthusiastic about seeing how numbers grow when we add ten more, and they enjoyed using their creative thinking to solve little challenges during our activity.
To wrap up our week, we have had insightful show and tell sessions. A few children brought something special to share. Their presentations were full of enthusiasm and helped us all learn from one another.
Outdoor Learning – Numeracy
We have been learning how to collect information/data using tally charts and how to display our data in bar graphs and pictograms.
P2 suggested our next survey be to gather data about the colour of cars coming down the Sound Brae. P2 really enjoyed this experience:
Pupil Voice:
“Silver was the most popular car, I have 34 tallies”
”Blue cars were the least, I only saw 4”
”I forgot to use a diagonal line for 5 so I have taken one off the end and put it diagonally… I have 9 red cars in total”.
P2 shared their data with each other, discussing the most frequent, least, any differences and some were counting in 5s to total their information. We added our data to bar graphs, using multiples of 2 as our number topic with Ms Mitchell is counting on 2s we were applying our skills from her maths into data handling.
We’re a moving on to chance and uncertainty as our next numeracy topic with Mrs Sjoberg.
Here is what we have been up to in week 2 of the term:
Fact Families Fun
In maths, we’ve been learning about fact families. They’re groups of numbers that all work together to make different sums and differences. For example, 2 + 3 = 5, 3 + 2 = 5, 5 – 2 = 3, and 5 – 3 = 2. By the end of the week we were getting the hang of it and doing a great job with our sums.
Archery Adventures
We also had our first-ever archery lesson this week. The kids said they had a “great time.” It took a while to load our arrows and learn the basic technique. However, practice makes perfect and in our next session this process should be a bit easier.
Fairy Tales & A Dragon (Yes, Really!)
We’re diving into fairy tales this term, and this week, we read Jack and the Beanstalk. We spent the week reading the book and focusing our writing on the story. During free time some of us have been helping to paint a beanstalk to our wall so we can “climb” into fairyland. Talking of fairyland, our class got two visits from Dizzy the Dragon! He left footsteps on the floor, a trail of glitter and two letters! Dizzy has tasked us to read as many fairytales as possible throughout the term, along with turning our classroom in to a fairyland! The process has begun. 🐉
Kindness Officers On the Job
Our new role this term is being Kindness Officers. We’re coming up with ways to spread kindness in our class, like helping friends who need it, cheering people up, and giving out compliments. This ties nicely into our school values of respect and inclusion for the term. 
—Primary 2
