What have we enjoyed from term 1?

“I have enjoyed Art this term.” Niamh
“I enjoyed the church service.” Katie
“I enjoyed writing a story called The Most Magnificent Thing.” Murray
“I have enjoyed building cars from the K’nex.” Dylan
“I liked our Wallace and Gromit inventors theme.” Ranna
“I have enjoyed reading this term.” William
“I have enjoyed Maths this term. I like doing sums.” James
“I liked building a Kronkiwongi in the Lego challenge.” Zara and Miles.

This week we have been working on addition, including learning how to add 2 digit numbers vertically. The children in the Maths Marvels group did this very well. We also finished off our inventors topic with a Lego challenge. Our challenge was to design and build a Kronkiwongi. A kronkiwongi can be anything we imagine it to be and is built from Lego. Here are some of our models:

Mrs Gallagher is very sad to be saying goodbye to us all today but knows we will all continue to work hard for Mrs Clark for the rest of this school year.

Have a wonderful holiday everyone! 🙂

This week we have continued our focus on rhyming words, reading the story ‘The Rhyming Rabbit’ by Julia Donaldson. We enjoyed listening to the poems made up by the rabbit and trying to guess what words the rabbit might have used in his poems. The story links in to our next focus on rhyming poems.

We have been working on our addition skills and have been using our counting on skills to add within 100.

For our technology theme we have been learning collaborative group working skills. This week’s challenge was to build a bridge from paper that could hold a toy car. 2 groups managed this successfully and Amy and Campbell also worked very well showing good problem solving and team work skills.

We are looking forward to sharing our learning with parents and carers at Shared Start on Wednesday 7th October.

Well done to Zara who was our class dojo champion for the second time and to Skye who was awarded pupil of the week for her knowledge of addition doubles. We also have lots of pupils on step 2 and 3 now, keep up the great behaviour everyone 🙂

P3/2 have been reading for information to discover more about famous inventors and their inventions. We learned that inventions are not always machines, for example James Naismith invented the game of basketball and Edward Jenner invented vaccinations to stop people from dying from diseases. We also learned that Louis Braille invented the language of Braille for those with sight impairments.

We worked in groups to produce posters about an inventor and then shared this information with others.

Next week we will be starting to create some inventions of our own.

Have a lovely long weekend, see you on Wednesday! 🙂

We have been reflecting on what we have enjoyed in school this week. Here are some of the things we said:

“I’ve enjoyed Maths this week. I like working with big numbers.” Amy

“I enjoyed writing, we were writing Rules for School.” Rory

“I’ve enjoyed Maths, I like playing the more and less game.” Catriona

“I enjoyed learning joins in Handwriting.” Skye

“I enjoyed making a timeline of old to new inventions.” Zara

“I enjoyed doing handwriting.” Eva

“I enjoyed learning about the village of the Great Oak Tree in Drama with Mrs Hay.” Katie

“I liked drama too, it was fun.” Spencer

“I’ve enjoyed everything this week!” Alex

Well done to Zara who was Pupil of the Week for her working hard and setting a good example to others and to Alex who was our Class Dojo winner. We now have lots of children on step 1 towards the Golden Club too, well done to them too! 🙂

This week we have been learning…

“About inventions. We learned who made the telephone.” Amy
“Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.” Ranna
“We watched Wallace and Gromit to help us to learn to be inventors.” Alex
“We learned what makes something an invention. We sorted pictures of things that have been invented and that have not. An egg and a rabbit are not inventions!” Zara
“We designed our own inventions.” Hannah
“In Maths we have been learning numbers to 1000. We were finding numbers before and after 3 digit numbers.” Miles
“We have been looking at tens numbers and counting in tens.” Spencer
“We were learning about rhyming words and we made rhyming flowers.” Niamh

We enjoyed making number lines in the playground with Mrs Jamieson. We counted in 10s or 100s and then had to guess where a number she shouted would be on our number lines.

We enjoyed listening to a rhyming story, ‘The Shark in the Dark’ and making our own rhyming flowers for our classroom display. We also looked at how some rhyming words don’t follow the same spelling pattern, e.g chair and care.

We watched some Wallace and Gromit clips about inventions and learned that inventions happen when someone has a problem or question. We thought of problems that we have and created inventions to help solve them. Mrs Gallagher created a sockinator that washes and pairs up socks so that she doesn’t end up with odd socks! 🙂

Well done to Joshua, who was pupil of the week for his detailed invention drawing and to our class dojo winners this week, Skye and Catriona.

Since coming back to school we have been settling in to our new class and making new friends. We have been learning about our rights. We have the right to play and have had time to play within our classroom and have made suggestions of things we would like to play with over the school year. We learned about our right to be kept safe from harm and thought about some adults in our life who help us to have this right.

We have enjoyed PE with Mr Jeffries and Drama with Mrs Hay and we have been enjoying our Maths work on numbers and counting. We are going to spend some time this term looking at rhyming stories and poems and Mrs Gallagher is encouraging us to bring in any examples of these from home, as well as bringing our own books or comics to read in class if we wish too.

Next week we look forward to starting our learning theme ‘Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention’.

Pupil of the week for this week was Lucas for an excellent start to P3 and our Class Dojo of the week was Ross. Well done to you both and well done to everyone for such a good start to P3/2.

On Thursday we were at the Golden Club event. There were 4 activities for us to enjoy – bouncy castle, soak the house captains, ice lollies and inflatable slide. Here is what we had to say about the event:

‘I liked soak the house captains and the ice cream.’ Jess
‘I liked the ice lollies.’ Denholm
‘I liked the terror slide.’ James
‘When Catriona and I went down the slide she was sitting on my knee, it was funny.’ Teighan
‘I liked bouncing down the slide.’ Alfie
‘I tried to do a 360 down the slide.’
‘I liked the terror slide.’ Hannah

It’s great to be in the Golden Club and we are all going to try hard to get there again in Primary 3.

Article 28 – We have the right to an education.

As we prepare for our move on day visit to P3 we have been thinking about what we have enjoyed about being in P2 this year, here are some of our responses:

‘I love Maths in P2.’ Amy
‘I like my teachers in P2.’ James
‘I liked the P2 show.’ Joshua
‘I like reading, writing and maths.’ Lucas
‘I liked learning new things, especially about weather.’ Jess
‘I just like learning.’ Alex
Euan, Kiara, Sofiye and Skye all liked the trip to Stirling Castle.

Next Wednesday we will spend a day in P3 with our new class and teacher.

This week we have been learning how to split numbers into hundreds, tens and ones. We have been very good at identifying the value of digits in numbers.

We have been learning that the wind is moving air and that there are different words to describe the strength of the wind. We were really keen to find out more about extreme weather conditions after finding out about hurricanes and tornadoes. We thought about some questions we wanted to know the answer to and we will be researching using the internet next week to see if we can find the answers. Here are some of the things we want to know more about:

‘Where was the worst flood in Britain?’ Kay
‘Why are there not hurricanes and tornadoes in Scotland?’ Sofiye
‘What kind of weather do they have in the jungle?’ Alex
‘Where do hurricanes happen?’ Jess
‘Why do bush fires happen?’ Euan
‘How does thunder happen?’ Skye

Amy, Kiara, Hannah, Alex and Sofiye are very excited about being flower girls in the procession tomorrow and Euan, Murray and Campbell will be on our school float. Gemma, Spencer and Teighan are also walking with the school. We hope everyone has a great day at the procession tomorrow and has a lovely holiday on Monday.

This week in P2bg we have reflected on what we have learned this week. Here are some of our responses:

‘The 10 times table.’ William
‘How to make a prayer mat.’ Tanatswa
‘New games in PE.’ Euan
‘I learned la tete is your head in French.’ Ranna
‘About the festival of Eid.’ Jess
‘Before and after numbers to 100.’ Alfie

We started our new topic – Olaf’s Coat (weather). We watched a clip from the film Frozen and discussed why Olaf wanting to experience summer was not a good idea. Next week we are going to carry out an experiment to see if a Olaf wearing a coat will help him to stay Frozen. Most of the class don’t think this is a good idea but Miles thinks the coat will stop him from melting. We are excited to see who is right.

Have a lovely holiday weekend!

Article 28 – The Right to an Education

On Thursday both p2 classes visited Stirling Castle. We really enjoyed our day. We were all able to look around the castle and identify the parts of the castle we have learned about like the portcullis, the battlements and the curtain wall. We enjoyed exploring the castle vaults where we got to play some medieval musical instruments, dress up in medieval clothing, learn how dyes for clothing were made and see a court jester. It was also great to see the Stirling Heads in real life too, we thought they looked great!
After lunch we had a special workshop with a lady called Kirsten. We visited the palace bedrooms and the kitchens and we had a chance to play around with some knight’s armour and weapons.
We talked about what we enjoyed the most:
Teighan, Spencer, Tanatswa, Alfie and Kiara all liked dressing up.
Campbell, Jess, Kay, Joshua, Euan and Miles all liked being able to play with the weapons.
Denholm enjoyed everything because it was the first time he had visited a castle.
Alex liked meeting the Queen’s lady in waiting.
Amy liked visiting the kitchens and seeing what they ate in medieval times.
Sofiye liked seeing the real Stirling Heads.
Gemma liked going into the vaults and being able to touch things from the past.

A reminder that p2 shared start is on Wednesday 25th March at 8.55am.

Have a good weekend!

This week in p2bg we worked hard creating our art work for the art exhibition. Our work has a Scottish theme and you’ll be able to view and buy at at the exhibition at the end of the month.
In Maths we’ve been working hard to practise our addition and lots of pupils have improved their big maths scores this week.
We are learning more songs for our p2 show, some of us even have solo singing parts.
For our review jotters this week we thought about what we have enjoyed most in school, here are some of our responses:
Amy – ‘I liked the new role play area in class.’
Teighan – ‘I enjoyed doing class talks, RME and Big Maths’.
Murray- ‘I liked using the ipads in Maths’.
Lucas- ‘I enjoyed RME, Maths and reading this week’.

Last week we were the first class to perform our assembly in our new gym hall. Our assembly was ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’, linked to our learning about day and night. We told the story of Plop, a baby barn owl who was afraid of the dark and was helped to overcome his fears by some people who showed him that dark can be fun, interesting and beautiful.
We talked about what we enjoyed most about performing to an audience, here are some of our comments:

Murray: I liked seeing my mummy and daddy there.

Kiara: My favourite part was singing.

Euan: I liked everything!

Spencer: My favourite part was the song.

William: I liked it when the cat helped Plop.