Last week was a very exciting week in P3 as we visited Mill Farm as part of our topic around Farming.  We really enjoyed it and got to see a variety of animals and have fun on some activities.

Some of the things we enjoyed were….

• Trampolines
• Wooden Slides
• Flying Fox
• Stone and Bones
• Adventure Zone
• Tractor ride

We really enjoyed seeing the animals- here is a list of some we saw…

• Sheep
• Smokey the pig
• Ferrets
• Guinea Pigs
• Fluffy Rabbits
• Lambs
• Horses
• Donkeys

A lot of us really liked the rabbits because they were so fluffy and cute!

Here are some pictures from our trip!

This week we also finished our time topic in maths and will begin to revise all the concepts learned over the year.

We made our own fruit kebabs as part the healthy living topic we have been covering as well.  We tried pineapple, mango, banana, and strawberries.  Its safe to say the mango was a popular choice!

Reminder for parents-  Review jotters will be sent home at the end of this week with an activity to be completed at home.  Please return these back to school by the end of term.

Last week was filled with lots of different exciting activities, here are some of them…

Moving on day

We met our primary 4 teacher, Mrs Little on moving on day and we did lots of fun activities including; Bingo, name labels, drumming, and we did some handwriting. We also lrevised the 2 and 5 times tables. We are really looking forward to going into Primary 4!

In science we were learning about dissolving solids into liquids. We also made our own food chain which also links with our topic all about farming.

In maths we have continued with time and we have been working on changing analogue time into digital time.  We also learned that there is 5 minute intervals between each number.

In R.E. we were learning about the synagogue and the different areas and what they represented.

In grammar we were learning about similes and we learned that we use this when we are comparing something to something else using like or as for example; Mia is as fast as a cheetah!

Reminder- Parents evening is Monday and Tuesday this week and also P3 have their trip to Almond Valley this Wednesday 14th June.  If you have not returned payment or forms please return this asap.

What a wonderful week we have had in P3a! 

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Ammie-Leigh- I have enjoyed learning all about time in maths!

Lily- I enjoyed all of sports day and even though I fell, I got up and kept running!

Callum-  I enjoyed sports day because I won the potato and spoon race!

Kai- I enjoyed sports day because I came 2nd in the potato and spoon race.

Luke- I enjoyed the sack race!

Donna- I enjoyed our trip to Xcite to take part in the multi-sports morning.  My favourite part was Tae Kwon Do!

Murray- I enjoyed going to Xcite and I enjoyed the badminton the most!

Mia- I enjoyed the obstacle course with hurdles at Xcite.

Erin-  I enjoyed the rugby at Xcite.

Ellis- I have enjoyed learning more about time in maths.

Jodie- I enjoyed the badminton at Xcite.

Achievements

Kai is now a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Sophie and Nathan both achieved step 4- well done!

Callum is another step closer to the Golden Club!

Ellis is almost on grade 1 in piano!

We hope you enjoy the holiday weekend and we will see you back on Tuesday!

This week has been a bright, sunny week in P3a, here are some of the things we got up to…

In our topic about farming and healthy living we have been learning about Fairtrade.  We have learned that we get a lot of our food and drink products from different countries around the world.  If we buy products with the Fairtrade logo on them that means that the farmers who produce cocoa beans for example, will receive a guaranteed profit that helps them provide for their families.

Have a look at what you put in your shopping basket to see if its Fairtrade!

Literacy

In grammar, we have been learning about onomatopoeia and how this can make our writing more interesting.  We use onomatopoeia in writing to describe sounds for example, Moo, click, boom, crash and bang!

We wrote an imaginary story about farming when chose to be an animal.

We learned how to infer from pictures- this means information that we can gather from things we see.  For example, if we looked in someones bin, we could learn a lot about what they like to eat, who lives there and if they have any animals or babies.

Maths

We have been learning where fractions lie on a number line and we have also been measuring weight and capacity.

Achievements

Pupil of the week – Jodie

Dojo winner- Cameron

Mia have moved up a level in swimming.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and the sun keeps shining for you!

This week has been filled with lots of exciting learning.  Here are some of our favourites…

Tamsyn- I enjoyed fractions in maths this week.

Blaire- I enjoyed learning maths outside.

Maisie- I enjoyed getting a new book in reading.

Sophie- I enjoy watching my plant grow everyday.

Farrah- I enjoyed designing my own smoothie as part of our topic.

Luke- I enjoyed measuring different objects outside in the playground.

Callum- I enjoyed learning more about fractions.

Brooke- I enjoyed the measuring in the playground.

Donna- I like making my own fraction sums outside with chalk.

Erin- I enjoyed using the pom poms in our celebrating success performance.

Jodie- I enjoyed working out halves and quarters of different numbers this week.

Kai- I enjoyed learning how to dribble in basketball.

Achievements

Pupil of the week- Ellis

Table of the week- Brooke, Nathan, Murray, Mia, Samuel and Donna.

Effort and Improvement- Shelbi

Demonstrating school values- Murray

High Standard of work- Farrah

Head Teacher Award- Donna Forsyth

Primary 3 have had another interesting week, this is what we have been up to…

Maths

We were very lucky in maths this week as Mrs Hay came to see our learning.  We finished division and we started fractions.  We have been learning about wholes, halves and quarters.

LAC

In topic this week we planted some seeds and learned about how plants grow.  We made predictions on how some plants grow depending on whether they have enough water and light etc.

We were very lucky to have Lucas’s brother Dylan in helping us and we think he really enjoyed himself and even tried singing our celebrating success song!

Literacy

In writing, we planned and wrote an imaginary story about a magic box.  We had lots of different ideas on what happened when we opened the box and we can’t wait to finish this next week!

Mrs Haddifon did a listening task with us which was really fun!

Next week is our celebrating success and we really can’t wait to share our achievements with you and sing our song!

Achievements and other news!

Pupil of week- Ruby!

Ellis went to his piano concert and had a great time and ate lots of yummy food at a BBQ afterwards.

This week in P3a we have been designing a coat of arms for our float competition in school!  We really enjoyed this and there are some good designs.

LAC

We learned about the Eat Well Plate and we made our own where we had to match foods into the correct food group such as; fruit and vegetables, bread, rice, and cereals, meat, sugary foods, and dairy.

We also learned about food farming and how we get food from animals.

Maths

In maths we have been continuing with division and have been relating multiplication to division.

We have also been learning about remainders.

Literacy

In spelling we did a spelling challenge where we did  dot to dot of all our spelling words and wrote over them to help us learn our words.  We also did a book review of Mr Stink describing what we liked about it and our favourite part.

In grammar we learned the rule of ‘s’ and ‘ies’ when we change words from singular to plural.

We have also been learning our celebrating success song. We can’t wait to perform it!

Achievments and other news!

Charlie has been learning new moves in Karate

Table of the week- Nathan, Kai and Samuel.

Murray won his blue belt in Karate!

Maisie won another medal in golf and has qualified for the European Championships later this month!

Lucas has reached level 4 in swimming.

Kai got his red belt in Tae Kwon Do!

Ellis is going to a piano concert tomorrow!

We have had a great week of learning in P3a from introducing our Celebrating Success song to working out division sums outside for maths…

Maths

This week we have been revising our division and moving onto trickier calculations.  We had time to really put our strategies into practice by participating in an game where Mrs Palmer shouted out an answer and we had to work out what is was divided from and run to the correct side of the playground.  We then followed this up by making our own sums up and drawing them out on the playground using chalk!

We have also been using a range of measuring instruments to measure length and height.  We found this quite hard as we had to revisit what we learned in estimation and use the same skills to estimate and then check our answer by using our measuring instrument.

We have also started our new topic all about Farming and have already identified the difference between Arable and Livestock farming.  We used our knowledge of rhyming to also create a poem about farming!

Achievements

Pupil of the week – Sophie!

Table of the week- Lucas H, Lucas K, Sophie and Ammie-Leigh!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy your Monday off! 🙂

We had a fun but busy first week back last week in P3a! These are some of the things we got up to…

Firstly we did some snapshots of our Easter holidays to help us in our writing.

We also learned about exclamation marks and where we use them in our writing.  We are looking forward to putting them in our writing to show where someone may be shouting, to add expression and to show surprise.

We described our favourite character from our class novel ‘Mr Stink’ and used words and pictures to say why we liked them.  We are really enjoying reading Mr Stink!

In maths the pentagons and pyramids were working on their 8 times tables and we were using strategies such as drawing an ‘array’ and using ‘repeated addition’ to work the answer out.

The spheres were working on the 4 times table and testing their problem solving skills with a range of questions.

Nathan got a new reading book and has been practicing reading new words and did very well!

Achievements

Table of the week – Brooke, Ammie-Leigh, Callum and Murray.

Dojo winner- Farrah

Maisie won a first place medal and second place medal in golf!

Charlie and Murray have been learning new moves in Karate.

We are starting our new topic about Farming this week and look forward to sharing our learning with you!

Last week we were so busy with the final assembly practices before we presented it to the school on Friday.

For our assembly we shared all our learning from our topic Ancient Egypt.  For our assembly we had to make a lot of the props ourselves like the heart which was weighed against a feather to see if the god would enter the afterlife.  We also coloured pictures of different gods which helped us tell a story.

Most of all we enjoyed learning and sharing our songs with everyone, especially the mummy song!

Maths

In maths we have been working on our times tables.  We have been revising our 3 times tables and also learning our 6 times tables.

With Miss Holwill we have been working out change from certain amounts of money.

Literacy

We have been working on our handwriting in class to make it the best so people can read all our lovely work.

We also had lots of fun writing a newspaper report all about the finding of Tutankhamun’s tomb.  We enjoyed this because we got to write about the explorer Howard Carter and what he found in Tutankhamun’s tomb.

We also looked at internet safety and watched a Hector’s world episode which looked at keeping your personal information safe.

Achievements

Pupil of week last week- Kai

Star of the month in drama- Ellis

Star of the month in P.E. – Murray

Table of the week- Callum, Brooke, Ammie-Leigh and Murray

Tamsyn won a football medal

Charlie is now super at his karate!

Evan received his red belt Tae kwon Do

Ellis is playing piano in a concert!

Lily finally managed to swim in the big pool!

Last week was a very exciting week in P3a…

Maths

In maths we were all working on estimating and rounding numbers on a number line.

We know now that estimating is like having a rough guess.  We carried out activities when we had to guess how many glue sticks, pencils etc we could fit in a bag and then actually count how many we did fit in.  Some of us had the opportunity to go around the school and find more objects to estimate.

Literacy

We have been learning our lines for our assembly and have been practising our singing and acting during this.  We have also been doing more work on analysing texts by answering questions about a passage.  We are getting really good at this!

LAC

In groups last week we worked really well together to make pyramids out of sugar cubes.  Some cubes were really tricky to stick but we did our best and they look really good.

Achievements

Murray received a trophy for P.E.

Pupil of week last week was Charlie and this week is Lily.

Callum reached Step 4 and Lucas made it into the Golden club!

Charlie is now a white belt in Karate.

Luke has reached the last level in swimming.

Donna is now on step 3 in swimming.

Ellis has a yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Evan received his grading in Tae Kwon Do and is now a red belt.

Maisie received 1st place in a golf competition.

Ruby won a drawing competition.

Kai is also a yellow belt in Taw Kwon Do.

Sophie is now on level 5 in swimming.

Callum won a medal at football.

This week in P3a we have been getting very excited as we have been learning one of our songs for our assembly. We have been learning lots of other things which we would like to share with you…

LAC

In our topic we have been learning all about the mummification process.  We have found out that they pulled out the brains with a hook through the nose of the person being mummified.  We also learned that they put some of the organs from the body into canopic jars.

We have designed our very own canopic jars which we are going to make out of clay next week.  We got to choose whether we wanted  a jackal, baboon, human or falcon as the design.

Maths

In maths we have been learning how to add numbers together using the strategy of ‘upstairs, downstairs’ sums.  This is going to help us add up money with Miss Holwill.

Literacy

We have been developing our listening skills by doing listening activities with Miss Owens, we are really enjoying these. We have also been looking at verbs and adverbs to make our writing more interesting.

We have finished our Ancient Egypt writing and we will be putting these up on display in the next week.

Health and Wellbeing

We learned what to do in an emergency and even learned a song all about calling 999.

Achievements

Murray has got a green belt in karate

Pupil of the week – Evan

Charlie has started karate this week

We hope you have a lovely weekend everyone !

Unfortunately our post did not work last week so here is an update from this week and last week…

Maths

In maths we have been learning more about subtracting and strategies of taking away numbers like 11,21,31,9,19, and 29.  We have been able to transfer what we learned from adding these numbers to help with subtracting them.  We have also been learning how to take away two 2 digit numbers which has been quite tricky but we are getting the hang of it!

Nathan has been learning how to add within 15 and he is really enjoying the challenge!

Literacy 

In literacy we have been working on our listening skills by carrying out small tasks which involves Miss Owens giving us an instruction and we have to complete it on our activity sheet, we are getting better at this every week.

In reading the Lions have been on stage 6 for a couple of weeks now and are really seeing an improvement in their reading skills and have been enjoying reading the books focused on Harry with his snake, seal and lots of other animals.

The Koala’s and Monkeys are still enjoying the challenge of small novels and are expanding their vocabulary well.  The Zebra’s are enjoying their stage 9 chapter books and soon the Tigers will be on stage 9 too!

Nathan has been working on Stage 3 books and is able to answer questions about the book and has drawn some pictures to retell the story.

We have also been working on our Ancient Egypt writing piece where we travel back in time to Ancient Egypt and something bad happens and we need to describe what happens and how we find a solution to our problem.  We have enjoyed sharing our writing in class and can’t wait to have our final pieces displayed in our classroom!

LAC

In our topic Ancient Egypt we have been learning more about what the Ancient Egyptians wore and we made our very own collars which we will post photos of next week!

We have been learning who Tutankhamun was and why he was important. We will look more into the gods of Ancient Egypt next week.

Other news! 

Pupil of the week – Tamsyn, well done!

Nathan has started Tae Kwon Do and is really enjoying it!

We can’t wait to share more news with you next week!

We have been learning new things in P3a this week, here are some of them…

Maths

We have been learning subtraction this week and have  started this in our number talks too, we are really enjoying the challenge.

We have also been learning more about money and we really enjoy the interactive game we play to get our brains working.

Nathan has been working really hard on his numbers to 30 and can do this all by himself now!

French 

In French we have been learning all about the months of the year and also different types of weather.

Mrs Aitken worked with our class and we learned about colours and coloured in a French flag- this was really fun!

Literacy

The Tigers and Lions were working on saying and spelling words with Snake and Ladders.  The Zebras, Monkeys and Koalas started reading new passages and answering questions about them independently- we really enjoyed the challenge.

Science

In science we learned all about inheritance and we know this means that we inherit things from our parents and we have things in common with our siblings such as; hair colour, eye colour and skin colour.

Achievements

Brooke received the Star of the Month for Drama

Pupil of the week- Maisie

Table of the week- Mia, Blaire, Kai and Ellis

Further Achievements

Ellis received his black stripe from Tae Kwon Do.

Tamsyn won a football medal.

Samuel has designed a big hotel on his minecraft.

Ruby built a rocket on minecraft.

Charlie is becoming very good at playing WWE.

Last week was so exciting in primary 3A.  This is some of the things we got up to…

Literacy

In writing we created our very own Christmas story all about an Elf helping other people at Christmas time.

With Miss Holwill we wrote about what would happen if everyone in our family forgot about Christmas.

Maths

We started our maths with our number talks – we really enjoy this as it gets our brain working hard!

We carried on with adding 2 two-digit numbers and have started adding this mentally in our heads.

We also worked out more strategies to add numbers together through partitioning and splitting numbers.

We had different activities to work on this such as; maths jigsaws, worksheets and games.

Christmas lunch and Christmas Party! 

On Wednesday we had our Christmas lunch with Miss Owens in the dinner hall- it was very yummy!

We then had our Christmas party in the afternoon and had lots of fun dancing and playing games like ‘Pass the Parcel’ and ‘Corners’.   We got very excited when we were singing ‘Jingle Bells’ because Santa came to visit and we were very lucky to receive a present from him.

Golden Club!

Some of us were very lucky to attend the Golden Club event on Friday where a magician came to our school.  The magician was very good and he had lots of good tricks and was very funny.

We have had a busy couple of weeks in P3a and we wanted to share some of the fantastic work with everyone…

Literacy

We learned how to make a mind map for our class novel The BFG.

In our writing we wrote how we would feel if we saw the BFG for the first time.

Maths

In maths we were learning how to write numbers in words up to one hundred and one thousand.

We were learning about 3D shapes with Miss Holwill.

Science

We made playdough shapes with Miss Holwill and tried to see if we could turn them back into their original shape afterwards.

Learning Across the Curriculum- Our Community

We learned about the different jobs that people have in our community and why they are important.

Achievements

Pupil of the week- Samuel

Murray won a Subway medal for running- well done Murray!

Luke, Ammie-Leigh and Mia moved up a level in swimming- Super!

Charlie competed in a race and won a medal!

Kaycee won a Judo medal at the Bathgate Academy Judo Rumble.

Maisie won a golf trophy at Woodhall Spa.