Welcome back! We hope you had a great break.

Primary 2A have been busy with a lot of exciting tasks this week-

This is our highlights…

Grace-I loved playing football with Planet Soccer

Willow-I liked reading by books this week

Daniel-I liked writing about Autumn

Bailey-I loved listening to P7’s assembly songs

Tommy-I enjoyed my maths games this week

Aiden-Going to the Hub to visit was fun, I liked the hot chocolate and popcorn

Lucy-Writing about Autumn and Halloween was fun and I liked Planet Soccer too

Ethan-Danny and Derek were fantastic with us at Planet Soccer

Robyn-Planet Soccer and seeing my friends were my highlight

William-I loved Planet Soccer

Amelia-Beating the goalie was fun in Planet Soccer

Kieran-Eating popcorn in the Hub was great fun

Michaela-Practising my spelling was my highlight

Brooke-Painting Autumn trees with Mrs Spence was fun

Devyn-I liked painting this week

Mason-I liked painting my tree

Georgia-I liked scoring goals with Planet Soccer

A busy week in P2A.  We have been learning a lot of new things.  A reminder to parents to book a parents night appointment online please.

These are our highlights…

Logan-I loved learning about RESPECT during our infant assembly

Kieran-I enjoyed PE this week

Grace-I like being in my reading group

Bailey-I liked the assembly this week, it was fun!

William-I think my reading books are fab

Ethan-I liked learning about showing RESPECT at assembly

Michaela-My homelearning was fun this week

Daniel-I liked singing the Balbardie Anthem

Tommy-Learning ng in phonics was good fun

Robyn-I liked showing respect

Amelia-I liked sharing my news at circle time this week

Georgia-I had fun learning my quarter past in digital time

Devyn-I liked writing about being a teacher in storywriting

Lucy-Singing the Balbardie Anthem with my friends was fun

Aiden-I liked the assembly this week

Brooke-The videos in the assembly were great

Church Service reminder-now on Thursday 11th at 1.30pm

Another busy week of learning in p2A.  For our European Day of languages we looked at famous French landmarks and made super Sleeping Beauty castle drawings from Disneyland Paris.  We really liked watching the firework show there. We learned our colours and numbers to 10 in French too.

Thank you to everyone who made MacMillan Coffee morning a success 🙂

Kieran-I liked playing musical statues in PE

Grace-I liked doing my review jotter this week

Willow-I liked my reading book-Frisky and the Ducks

Aidan-I really liked drawing the castle

Bailey-I liked the bubble game

Robyn-I liked learning about digital time

Brooke-I liked playing new games in PE

Georgia-Playing with my friends was fun this week

Lucy-I liked our group work in PE

Devyn-I liked playing digital maths bingo

Mason-The coffee morning was fun

William-The coffee morning was great fun!

Michaela-I enjoyed writing about my favourite toy, my bike!

Ethan-I liked buying my toys at the coffee morning

Daniel-Writing about my favourite toy was fun

Tommy-Thinking about what I find difficult in my review jotter was fun but tricky

Reminder: Please book a slot online for your child’s parents night evening, many thanks.

This week we had Maths Week and we had fun doing all of our activities.  Wwew made 2D shape monsters, 3D shape towers and were really fortunate to have Marc from MoneySense working with us on a money workshop.

Grace-I liked counting up to 200

Willow-I liked making our 2D shape monsters

Bailey-Counting up to 20 was fun

William-Making 3D shapes was great fun

Ethan-Practising my numbers up to 100 challenged me

Robyn-Adding was fun this week

Georgia-Playing the bubble game in PE was great fun

Brooke-I enjoyed writing about a sea monster

Mason-Making my monster was great

Aidan-Shape monster making was my favourite

Logan-I was proud to get my maths excellence certificate

Michaela-I like having different teachers

Tommy-Shape making was fun to do with my friends

Devyn-Golden Time is my favourite activity

Daniel-PE this week was fun, I love the bubble game

Lucy-I really liked PE this week and playing hedgehog tig

Well done to Willow and Logan for getting their certificates this week-Miss McDougall is proud of her whole class.

Have a lovely September holiday 🙂

We have been busy learning our br, cr sounds this week and have been enjoying all of our spelling activities.

Here are our highlights from our week…

Kieran-I have really enjoyed getting a Headteacher and Depute sticker for my hard work

Grace-I enjoyed reading this week

Willow-I liked my adding up

Tommy-I loved getting to outstanding and playing with Aidan

Bailey-I practised my adding this week

Georgia-I loved getting my stickers this week

Mason-I loved my takeaway sums

William-I enjoyed my writing

Brooke-I liked PE games this week

Ethan-Playing with my friends was a highlight

Lucy-I liked writing about an underwater adventure

Devyn-I made new friends this week

Amelia-I like reading in the Cosy Corner

Daniel-Playing the Bubble game was good fun

Michaela-I liked being helpful in class

Robyn-I liked my homework and playing this week

Aidan-I liked playing maths games with Tommy

Money week is next week, have fun playing with the activities 🙂

We have had a very busy week learning in P2A.  Here are some of our highlights…

Kieran- I liked playing the games outside for Outdoor PE

Grace- I had fun playing head, shoulders, knees and cones with Mr Jeffries in PE

Daniel-The Bubble game was awesome!

Tommy-I liked playing with Aidan at Golden Time

William-Tunnel Tig was my favourite this week

Willow-In writing we wrote about what we are looking forward to in P2, I am looking forward to doing exciting PE

Devyn-I liked writing in my review jotter

Georgia-Mental maths was fun this week

Robyn-Writing this week was fun

Lucy-I am pleased I am now on stage 5 books

Brooke-I loved mental maths games

Michaela-I had a fantastic lunch this week 🙂

Aidan-Playing with Toomy at Lego was great fun

Amelia-I had great playtimes this week

Ethan-Playing with my friends was good fun!

Mason-I liked showing Mr McCabe my good work

Logan-I liked playing on the tablet in class, practising my maths

Bailey-I loved playing with my friends

This week in maths we have been learning about using our number lines, improving our mental maths skills and practising our division sums. We had fun beating the Smartboard in our addition and subtraction challenges.

We have been learning about different African foods and we have had fun sharing our class talks on our African animal.  Miss McDougall was really impressed with all the learning.

We had fun on Thursday morning watching the P7 show of ‘Jungle Book’ and we loved seeing our carers as animals.

We have been busy learning about dodgeball with Mr Jeffries for P3 and we have been learning to take turns and share space in the gym hall.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Hollie

Elena and Akasha have been practising their scooter tricks

Lexi has learned how to play ‘Star wars’ on her guitar

Daniel has got his black stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Reminder: Church Service is on Friday 30th of June

In art this week we have been painting fantastic African midnight sunset paintings using tone and shading and we wrote super stories about going on safari.

In maths work, we have been busy practising our addition and subtraction sums and we found this really tricky!

In P.E we learned how to play rugby and we have been practising our strategies of tag and team work.

Achievements this week

Well done to all the sack race, sprint and lap race winners who gained their certificates 🙂

Daniel gained his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Emily has been practising her swimming

On Wednesday we met our new class teacher, Miss Wilson, and we got to see our new classroom.  We looked at patterns and made very interesting cat pictures. We made super holiday buckets, all about me writing and Miss Wilson looked at our writing. We had fun with our new P3 teacher and we are looking forward to going into P3 after the summer.

We made holiday snapshots with Miss Bollen and we listed our P3 worries and things we are looking forward to achieving.

In drama we have been practising our potted sports and we loved bouncing on the bouncy hoppers and running over the hoops.

Achievements

Hollie has been practising her gymnastics

Elena learned how to back flip

Luke has learned how to do a length in swimming on his back

Jude has been practising his swimming

Artjom is on level 4 in swimming and we wish Artjom well in his gymnastics competition

Sarah has been practising her gymnastics

In grammar this week we have been learning more about adjectives and verbs to make our stories more interesting.

We had a fantastic Sports Day and the sun shone brightly! Well done to everyone who took part and well done to all of the medal winners, we are very proud of you!

We are looking forward to the procession and we hope everyone has a fantastic time.

Achievements-

Pupil of the week Jack

Medals for sprint-Kyle and Luke

Overall P2 champion-Kyle

Elena moved up a level in swimming

Hollie has been practising her front flips

Luke has learned how to do a back flip in the water

Eva has moved to level 4 in swimming

Daniel has got a blue stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Kyle has got his brown belt in Tae Kwon Do

This week in P2A we have been trying to be more considerate when sharing and taking turns.  We have been very friendly and we thank Miss Knight for helping us with all of our work this week.

We have started to learn about adjectives and we are trying hard to make our writing more detailed using great describing words.

It was Shared Start this week, thank you to all of the parents who joined us for the Growth Mindset topic.

We learned a little bit about our rights through our review jotter targets and we learned that we are very lucky to have Children’s Rights and have choices, as not all children in the world have them.

Reminder that Sport’s Day is on Wednesday (weather permitting) at 10.30.  We hope to see you there 🙂

Achievements this week-

Pupil of the week-Lois

Kyle got a green stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Rowan has been practising her cycling without stabilisers

Elena has been practising making pleats at home

Lexi won 2 swimming races and got 2 medals

Emily has been practising hers maths work

This week in P2A we have been practising our area and looking at perimeter.

We made some seagulls and jazzy boats that Mr Grinling would see out of his lighthouse window.  We are planning to add these to our class display along with our lighthouses we have been busy making for homelearning.  Reminder these are due in on Tuesday 23rd of May.

We had fun yesterday going outside for Outdoor Classroom Day and we acted out the story of Hansel and Gretel in our groups and presented it to the class.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Akasha

Celebrating Success Awards-Hollie, Luke, Lexi and Jude 🙂

Kyle has got his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has got his first green stripe on his green belt in Tae Kwon Do

Elena won the float competition