Congratulations to Lily for winning the Drama award for Primary 2

Pupil of the week-Whole of P2 got award for an excellent performance of The Caterpillar Boogie

Busy week performing The Gingerbreid mannie to P2/1 and being filmed for Education Scotland.Well done everyone- you were amazing ! Thank you Mrs Innes we loved doing it all with you especially The Rap !

We made Easter cards and nests. We completed wordsearches and Easter maze sheets.

We were amazed by our performance of Caterpillar Boogie when we saw ourselves on the dvd ! It was so much fun to do …

Here are our comments this week:-

Isla- I ‘m going on holiday to Florida

Florence,Sophie S.- We liked making the Easter nests today

Niamh- I liked making my nest today.I had a pink and a purple egg in it

Rory- I liked making my nest. I had two yellow eggs in it

Ellie- I liked watching The Gingerbreid mannie today

Dylan- I liked being Tod in The Gingerbreid mannie.A tod is a fox !

Nina- I liked taking a grumphie onto stage today. A grumphie is a pig

Lily-I liked being a tyke in The Gingerbreid mannie.A tyke is a dog

Sophie M.- I liked being a frog in The Gingerbreid mannie

Ross- I am going on holiday to Berwick

Kaycee-I liked being a narrator in The Gingerbreid mannie

Luis- I liked The Gingerbreid mannie we performed today and we were filmed and I was a person

Jess- In the holidays Nina and I might have a sleepover

Eva- I can’t wait to have a sleepover with Niamh

Eden- I liked dressing in blue today for Autism Awareness Day

Katie-I liked being the gingerbreid mannie in The Gingerbreid mannie P3/2 Show

Archie,Harris-We liked watching the dvd of The P2 show

Max- I liked being Mr Albert  Moore in The Ginger breid mannie

DIARY DATES

Holidays begin Friday 31st March

Holidays end and return to school Tuesday 18th April

Happy Easter everyone !

Golden Time on a Friday is lots of fun. w

We sign up for an activity on a Monday and hope  to earn 5 minutes every day. We work hard in class and play in a caring,friendly manner to earn the minutes.

Here are our comments for this week:-

Nina and Max- We chose The Puppet Theatre for Golden Time. We are using lots of different puppets. The best puppet for Nina was the French one and Max’s favourite is the bear

Sophie M., Archie, Katie, Luis and Dylan- We chose lego this week. I like helping Luis make his ship-Katie. I like building my mum’s house-Sophie M.  Dylan and and Archie are building a mansion. Luis I like making my ship.

Lily,Isla, Florence, Harris and Ross- We are playing Gold diggers and Sonic Dash

Kaycee, Jess, Eden,Ellie and Zara- We are decorating biscuits and cakes. We are using icing and toppings

Sophie S.- I am reading Ernest the heroic lion tamer

Rory, Grace, Noah, Eva and Niamh- We are playing on own but chatting aswell

Shared start in P3/2 is Tuesday 14th March at 9.10am-Please join us for this if you can 

What a busy and exciting week in school .We celebrated World Book Day with an informative Gathering on Monday and we learned books that our teachers loved…Quite a few liked Guess how much I love you !

We have started taking a teddy and a diary home every day and reading with it at home..It is exciting waiting to see who will be chosen next…

We had such fun decorating potatoes into book characters..There were Harry Potter models, Humpty Dumpty, Elsa to name  a few..

HERE ARE OUR COMMENTS :-

I had fun decorating my potato as Harry Potter-Archie

I liked making my character out of a potato. Mine was Humpty Dumpty and I also built a wall out of lego-Ross

I liked making my potato into FERNO-Rory

I made Horrid Henry-Max

My potato was made into Paddington-Grace

I liked when we all read in school for 15 minutes-Florence

I liked doing my potato as Meg from Meg and Mog- Eden

I liked Golden Time this week and I ‘m dressed down-Isla

I liked doing the Super Hero wordsearch-Zara

I liked reading “The adventures of Super diaper baby”-Katie

We hope everyone had a good World Book Day-Harris,Luis

We liked P1b’s Assembly this morning-Noah,Nina,Jess,Ellie,Lily,Dylan,Kaycee

I liked Dress Down Day today. I am dressed as Tinkerbell-Sophie S.

I liked Dress Down Day and I am wearing my stripy tshirt and leggings-Sophie M.

I liked taking the teddy and diary home and I read “Lost for words”-Eva

Thank you for the £1 coins for Dress Down Day

Remember tickets for Caterpillar Boogie for P2 pupils please ..the date is Thursday 23rd March

have a super weekend everyone..see you all on Monday !

On Tuesday we were so excited as we had our trip to The Forth Bridges Visitor Centre and The Rail bridge bistro for our lunch. We learned so much on our day out of school. We learned that Elaine who took us was a civil engineer. We learned that the final piece of the new bridge The Queensferry Crossing will be put in place this weekend,weather permitting ! We knew so much already and Elaine was extremely impressed with our knowledge and our team working skills.

Here are our comments:-

I liked learning about the new bridge called The Queensferry Crossing. I also liked learning about The road and rail bridges too-Eva

We liked building with the jenga blocks-Luis,Rory,Dylan,Sophie M., Sophie S.

We liked the walk beside the beach and under the Rail Bridge-Max,Archie

On the walk beside the Rail bridge we liked seeing the waterfall-Eden,Katie

I liked looking for deer on the walk under the bridge-Niamh

I liked being number 4 in the name tags when we were in teams. Mine was called Russky-Harris

We liked wearing the PPE for our teams-Ross,Zara,Lily

I liked looking at all the model bridges in the visitor centre-Noah

We liked eating our lunch in the bistro and we liked looking at all the pictures on the walls-Nina,Grace,Jess,Isla

I liked looking at the model train in the Rail Bridges bistro-Kaycee

Congratulations to :-

Pupil of the Week for an excellent recital of The Wee Rid Motor-Lily

Primary 3 winner of Scots poem-Ross- for an excellent recital of The Twa Leggit Mice

MVP For Primary 2-Nina

Reminder :-

Valentine’s disco Wednesday 8th February P1-P3 5.00-6.00pm

Holiday weekend begins Friday 10th February until Wednesday 15th February

ARTICLE 31 the right to have rest and play

Have a super weekend P3/2 🙂

PS photos of our trip to follow !

We have been learning lots of new facts about Scotland. We have all learned a Scottish poem and it was very difficult choosing 2 representatives for the final on Monday. Ross and Lily were our class reps.

We are really excited about our trip to the Forth Bridges visitor centre on Tuesday.

Here are our comments for our Scottish focus.

Isla,Max,Dylan,Luis,Eden-” Donald where’s your troosers?” is a Scottish song

Lily,Katie,Sophie S.-We like dancing and singing to “Donald where’s your troosers?”

Nina,Ross,Jess,Niamh- We are learning about Nessie and we are writing a newspaper article about finding her

Archie- I like learning facts about Scotland.It is fun

Zara,Rory- We like dancing and singing to “The wee rid yo-yo”. It is a Scottish song

Harris- My Home Learning Challenge was Nessie, irn bru and shortbread

Sophie M. -My Home Learning Challenge was a castle

Eva- I liked being the first craw in the song ” Three craws”

Grace- I liked making my Home Learning Challenge. It was Edinburgh castle. I also brought in the book ” Greyfriars Bobby” to read in class

Florence- I can’t wait until our trip on Tuesday to The Forth Bridge Visitor Centre

Congratulations to Dylan Pupil of the week for his enthusiasm for Reading

Have a super weekend 🙂

We are learning about Caterpillar Boogie for our P2 show.We don’t know it all yet-Sophie S.,Archie,Nina

We watched the Tortoise and the hare.The Hare thought he’d win over the slow but steady tortoise but he didn’t !-Jess,Harris,Dylan,Ross

Growth mindset means you are continually learning-Grace,Eva,Lily,Sophie M.

I liked learning about the snowy owl with Jess-Zara

We liked being out in the snow today-Florence,Max,Luis

We are enjoying learning about the Forth Rail Bridge. One fact we learned was 200 trains go over it every day-Katie,Niamh,Eden

I liked getting Pupil of the Week on Growth Mindset-Isla

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control our excursion to the Forth Bridges Visitor centre has been postponed until Tuesday 31st January 2017..We are so looking forward to our visit there.

Keep practising your Scottish poems and add a few actions in if you can !

Have a fantastic Christmas everyone and see you in 2017…

here are our comments:-

Zara- I liked story writing about “the forgotten present”

Harris,Ross,Rory- We liked the Christmas church service today

Sophie M.- I liked singing the songs at the Service

Grace,Lily-We hope you all have a Merry Christmas

Florence,Niamh,Sophie S,Nina,Jess-We liked the pantomime this afternoon Sleeping Beauty

Luis,Archie,Dylan-We liked singing at the pantomime this afternoon

Katie-I liked acting the songs at the pantomime

Isla- I ‘m looking forward to Christmas

Eden- Thank you Mrs Aitken and Mrs Spence for the present and card

Congratulations to :-

Katie- Breakfast Club winner

Rory- Pupil of the Week for super story writing

Florence, Noah, Niamh, Grace, Katie, Jess, Dylan and Nina-Advent calendar window openers

We have been busy eating in Maths.We used wraps and thins to work out fractions. What fun !

We have been singing the Christmas songs as often as we can …we love them, especially ” Happy Christmas ! ”

In Literacy we planned then wrote a story about Santa and his workshop and a tired little elf…

In RME we made lotus flowers for Buddhism with Mrs Spence.

Grace,Dylan- We liked opening the Advent calendar this week

Harris- I enjoyed writing this week about Santa’s workshop

Nina,Ross-We enjoy being in the Christmas library corner

Lily,Sophie M-We are enjoying learning about Australia at Christmas

Zara-Outdoor PE was fun this week. We had to join up hoops and move about in a small group. Fun !

Florence,Niamh,Sophie S, Eva,Max,Rory-We liked painting our lotus flowers with Mrs Spence

Archie-I liked eating in Maths. We used wraps and thins for fractions

Luis- I liked Maths when we were using pizza pictures for fractions

Katie- I liked winning the Breakfast Club prize- a  playdoh set.It was from the film “Frozen”

Jess- I hope Golden Time is fun again this week

Isla- I like PE every week with Mr Jeffries and Mrs Aitken

Noah- I liked PE with Mrs Aitken this week

Gabriel-I liked the Assembly this morning about Christmas

reminders:-

Christmas lunch in school- 14th December

P3 Christmas Party in the afternoon -14th December

P2 Christmas Party in the afternoon- 20th December

Christmas Church Service – 21st December in the morning

CONGRATULATIONS TO:-

Advent calendar openers -Isla and Nina

Star writers this week are-

Primary 3-Max, Eva and Florence

Primary 2- Grace, Eden, Sophie M., Isla and Harris

Pupil of the week for giving 100% in all areas of the Curriculum-Archie

Talent show entry-Eva

New step 5 children -well done !

Comments-

Harris- I was Star writer for my Christmas photo frame instructions sheet

Grace,Ross-We got a badge, letter and wrist band for reaching Step 5 from Mrs Dunbar

Nina- I liked being chosen today to open the Advent calendar and I ate the little chocolate too !

Dylan-I like dressing up in my suit today for Dress down  day

Noah-I like having snack in the hub. This week it was Sarah’s birthday and we had cake to celebrate

Eden-I like getting to step 5 this week

Florence- I liked planning the Justino story

Lily-I liked dressing up in my reindeer jumper today

Max-I like dressing down day today and I’m wearing my Adidas trousers and shoes

Sophie M.- I like wearing my star leggings and black tshirt for Dress down day

Zara- I like dressing down today and I am wearing my favourite dress

Isla-I liked opening the first window yesterday of the Advent calendar and putting the number one on the wooden blocks

Rory- I liked writing the poem “Cold” in my neatest handwriting

Jess- I hope I can be chosen soon to open the Advent calendar in class

Luis-I like learning the Christmas songs for the church service

Archie- I liked writing about Justino after watching the clip on the smartboard

Eva- I liked being in the Balbardie Factor on Monday.I did Highland dancing. My mum and dad came to the show in the afternoon. I felt excited !

Niamh- I liked writing about Justino this week even though I was absent on the planning day

Katie-I like saying au revoir and a demain to Mrs Aitken at the end of the day

Sophie S. – I enjoyed writing about Justino this week

What a busy week of Learning in P3/2. We started with St Andrews Day Gathering on Monday and we even had a glimpse of the performers in Balbardie Factor. Well dne Eva for your Highland dancing! We learned more about volcanoes and facts we shared from our Home Learning. We worked so hard on symbols in Maths greater than, less than and equals. We have started singing the Christmas songs this week in class although we had started with Mrs Innes during Music. We learned about Advent with Mrs Spence and made lotus flowers for our Buddhism using clay. Next week we will paint them in lovely bright colours.

Have a super weekend everyone !