Winnie the Witch sent Primary 3 some letters asking for their help. She needed her hat, tights and cauldron decorated with curved, straight and coloured patterns. Everyone was very keen to help and created some amazing patterns.

Here are some of the finished cauldrons for Winnie.

 Cauldron for Winnie by Ailsa

 Cauldron for Winnie by Lily

Cauldron for Winnie by Stewart

Primary 3 have been learning about the ‘Jewish Harvest Festival of Sukkot’ and we finished off the topic by building ‘sukkahs’ in class and eating our fruit in them. The Primary 7s helped to build and decorate the sukkahs with the decorations we had made in class so a huge thank you to them!

Primary 3 had a small Hallowe’en Party in class and lots of people also went to the Maxi Hallowe’en Disco.

The costumes were amazing. Can you spot who is who?

We have been using ‘Active Spelling Strategies’ to help us to learn to spell our phoneme words and our common words in Primary 3. We used magnetic boards, wordsearches, Elkonin boxes, rainbow writing and a ‘Build a Word’ activity to help us to learn. We worked independently and with partners. Everyone worked really hard! Keep it up Primary 3!

We have been using active spelling strategies to learn our new phonemes. A phoneme is a sound. We have been learning these phonemes:

     wa   (was)             ea  (head)           th    (bath) .

Miss Pollock did 4 active spelling activities and everyone worked really hard to learn words with the new phonemes. Look how well everyone is learning.

Everyone is concentrating on their work.  Some people are helping each other to learn. Some people are working independently.

Not everyone was as keen as Lucy and Jai to handle the mini-beasts, but everyone hunted for them. Stewart is recording how many he found with tally marks.

The Primary 7s helped us and we found lots of mini-beasts because it was still summer. Lucy was quite happy to hold one of the worms we found.

We found bees, spiders, snails, slugs, flies and worms.

Primary 3 started the year with some Outdoor Learning. This work is linked to our Weather topic and our Science topic which is about living and non-living things.

‘I really liked it because it was really fun going outside to find mini-beasts and I found lots of them!’ Thomas.

‘It was interesting because it’s nice to see the animals in the summer!’ Chloe.

‘I liked it because when we went hunting, I loved it because you had to find the beasts and I loved it!’ Grace

‘I liked doing the mini-beast hunt because I liked learning outside.’ Jack