This week we have been continuing our electricity topic of ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’ by making a working circuit using a battery, wires and a bulb.  We experimented with our wires to see how to connect the circuit correctly and we discovered that we needed to have the 2 wires connected together to the battery and the bulb in order to light it up.

We have been continuing to practise our Celebrating Success song and we hope to see you there on Tuesday 16th of May at 1.30pm 🙂

We have been busy writing about our seagulls Fred, Bob and Bert who were really naughty to Mr Grinling, eating his lunch and going on adventures.

Wee reminder to build your own lighthouse at home as part of homelearning.  I’m looking forward to seeing them all finished 🙂

Achievements this week-

Pupil of the week-Charlotte

Elena has learned how to tie her laces 🙂

Kyle has gained his white belt in Tae Kwon Do

Hollie has moved up a level to the Senior class in her dancing

Artjom is competing in a gymnastics competition-good luck!

Akasha has been practising her balances

Lexi has learned how to play a new song on her guitar

This week has been a very busy week in P2.  We had an inservice day and a holiday on Monday.  However we did a lot of important learning this week.  We have been busy learning our Celebrating Success song and we are looking forward to performing this with our class and showing to parents and carers.  Reminder to bring in a white teeshirt for our performance on the 16th of May at 1.30pm.  Gym teeshirts are fine to wear.  If this is not possible please let Miss McDougall know ASAP, thanks 🙂

We have been continuing to practise our division sums and we have been setting the scene in our writing for ‘The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch’.

Achievements this week:

Kyle has been practising his golf and is getting much better

Jude is now on level 1 in swimming

Jack is on level 10 in swimming

Teigan has been busy practising her reading

Archie has learned new tricks in swimming lessons

Sarah has been busy practising her gymnastics

Hollie and Akasha are getting better at tying their laces

This week in maths we have been practising our division using our number line and jumping back strategies. We have also been practising more of skip counting to get us faster at our mental maths.

We started our new topic of The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch and we are looking forward to making our electrical circuits to see if the lighthouse keepers bulb works well!

We had a very exciting trip to Stirling Castle on Thursday and we loved dressing up as Kings, Jesters, princesses and servants.  We were told all about the weapons and armour in Medieval times and we enjoyed exploring the castle rooms and vaults.

Hollie- ‘I liked smelling the boxes in the Vaults and dressing up’

Elena-‘I enjoyed the music room’

Kyle-‘I liked dressing up as the King’

Daniel’I liked learning where the dungeons are’

Archie-‘I thought it was funny when Luke dressed as a Jester!’

Akasha-‘I liked playing the organ with Rosie’

This week we have been busy practising our songs for the Easter Service on Friday.  We hope to see you there.  We have been busy making our Easter baskets and we hope that the Easter Bunny visits us with a nice surprise.  We watched the Easter story and sequenced our pictures to make an Easter flip book.

Today is Autism Awareness Day and we learned lots of facts about children with Autism.  People with Autism can be sensitive to sounds and smells and can sometimes find it challenging to be around large groups of unknown people.  We learned that there are ways we can help 🙂

We made and designed our ‘A’ for Autism and are looking forward to displaying our ‘A’s at the gathering.

Achievements

Pupil of the week-Lexi

Daniel has got a grey stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Kyle has been practising his backflips

Emily is now on level 6 in swimming

Elena has been practising her gymnastics

We hope everyone has a super Easter holiday and we shall see you back at school on the 18th April 🙂

This week has been a very busy week for P2.  We had our Tuesday dress rehearsal for our show ‘Caterpillar Boogie’ and we had fun trying on our costumes.  The show was on Thursday and we loved giving our special person a bunch of flowers. Very emotional! Miss McDougall and the rest of the P2 staff are very proud of all the P2 children.  They did a fantastic job!

In P.E we learned how to work collaboratively in teams and we enjoyed learning our new games.

Reminder about the Easter competition for the 27th of March to bring in a decorated hard boiled egg.  There will be prizes!

Achievements

Well done to Eva and Emma who won first place at their cheerleading competition

Well done to Eva who won the Safety Banner competition.  She will have her winning design made into a banner and displayed outside the front playground.

Pupil of the week-Emily

In P2a this week with Miss Taylor we have been learning all about Stirling Castle and finding out many different facts about the castle, we found out that Mary Queen of Scots lived there. We created our own Stirling Castle fact file during our Dungeons and Dragons topic.

In maths this week we have been looking at comparing lengths and what we can use to measure length, we used cubes to find out the length of our hands. We also estimated how many cubes it would take to measure our hand. Using different lengths of paper we ordered the paper from shortest to longest.

During writing we wrote about what we needed to do to be a special friend, we found out we needed to be helpful and use kind words to our friends.

P2a have been busy this week making Easter cards for the soldiers working away, they will be very happy when they receive their cards.

Achievements this week:

Kyle received pupil of the week this week.

Elena managed to jump very high at jump station and Rowan has practised to jump higher in PE.  Isla and Jude has been practising triple back flips at home and getting much better at this.

This week Hollie has learned to put her own bobble in her hair.

Daniel achieved a red stripe in Tae Kwon Do, while Akasha has learned the Kirlia Pose at home.

This week in P2A we have been learning more in our topic of Dungeons and Dragons. We have been learning about the life of a Knight and we made wonderful Knights and chalk backgrounds with Miss Taylor for our class display.  In our writing we wrote a letter to King Thistle asking the King to let the dragon out of the dungeon.  We also had fun designing our banquet menus.  We found out if you are a rich Knight you might be able to afford 3 horses and you need to be 14 to be a squire.

We have been continuing practising our 2,3,4,5 and 10 times tables and using our flashcards to find the answers.

In P.E. this week we worked well together as a team and played a fun body game.  We also won our second fireball.

For World Book Day we chose our own books, chose our characters and described our favourite characters. We read the story of ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ and we also made our character puppets….it was fun!

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Daniel

Elena has learned how to pencil jump

Archie has been improving his swimming skills

Eva and Emma won a cheerleading trophy and came 3rd place

Hollie and Luke have been learning how to summersault in the water

Akasha is on level 1 in swimming

Daniel has achieved his dark blue stripes in Tae Kwon Do

This week with Miss Taylor we learned about the life of a Knight during our Dungeons and Dragons topic and we learned that we needed to be 7 years old. Knights have important tasks to do, for example keeping the castle safe and protecting the people who live in the castle and looking after the Prince and Princesses. We learned that dungeons are very scary places…not somewhere we would like to live in!

We have been busy learning the 4 & 5 times tables in our maths groups and we had fun with flashcards, games, worksheets and we liked using the ‘under the Sea’ game on the Smartboard.

In writing this week we wrote about a day in the life of a Knight and we have written wonderful stories.

In drama this week we have been busy practising for the P2 show on the 23rd of March…Reminder for the butterflies to bring in skin coloured tights, and the face painting permission letter 🙂 All other characters for our show will have costumes supplied.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week: Luke

Kyle won trophies in Tae Kwon Do for working hard and being Pupil of the Month

Archie won a rosette for a clear round in his Pony Club

Lois has moved onto level 5 in swimming

Akasha is trying hard at her swimming and is trying hard to get to level 2

Emily and Artjom have been practising their swimming skills

Elena can now do a handstand in the swimming pool

This week Miss Taylor started our new topic of Dungeons and Dragons. Dan the Dragon wrote a letter to the class as he accidently breathed fire on the King’s castle and it made the King really cross and very sad.  P2A have a job to make the King happy again by learning all about life in a castle and completing their challenges.

In writing this week we wrote a letter to King Thistle to help him make his castle better again.

In maths this week we have been learning about symmetry and halves and quarters for our fraction work.

In drama this week we have been continuing to practise our Caterpillar Boogie show.  We look forward to seeing you on March 23rd at 9.30 am…tickets and letters will be handed out soon 🙂

Achievements this week

Eva is nearly on level 4 in swimming

Akasha has been practising her swimming skills

Luke and Hollie have achieved their backstroke level, now on level 5

Emily has been practising her gymnastics

Artjom and Rowan  have been practising their swimming skills

Daniel has achieved his Space stripe and a green stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Elena is getting better at roller skating

Teigan has been practising her cartwheels and is getting better at them

Lexi is getting better at playing the guitar

In our artwork this week we made magical Merida Castles and we used our knowledge of tone to make a super sunset backdrop.

We have been learning about halves and quarters and we have been representing this visually with our open ended maths challenge.

In writing this week we wrote scary stories about being lost in the dungeons!

In P.E this week we are busy trying to earn our fireball and we only need one to get!

We have been busy practising our words and songs for Caterpillar Boogie, the P2 show which is on Thursday 23rd March at 9.30.  Further details will follow.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week-Lucas

Starwriters this week-Luke, Akasha, Jude and Rowan

Rosie won a certificate in gymnastics

Luke and Hollie have moved to level 5 in swimming

Elena is level 2 in swimming

Well done to the new step 4 and 5’s for the Golden Club

We have been very busy this week in class making our potions to help us with our potion writing. We made super invisibility potions, potions to make us jump to the moon and potions to turn us into dogs! We then wrote our instructions.

We learned about Robert Burns on Burns’ Day, where he was born, what he did and we had a Scottish quiz to help us remember.  We learned how to dance to the Dashing White Sergeant in class which we found a little bit tricky but fun!

In our maths work we have been learning time challenges and our time to beat the clock is now 31 seconds…a new record.

Achievements

Pupil of week-Rowan

Starwriters this week-Maddison, Sarah, Elena and Lexi

Kyle has got a red and blue stripe for Kicking Kids

As part of our Scottish topic we have been making Dioramas of Merida’s family.  We have included lots of background detail and made super characters.

We watched the story of ‘Brave’ and we really liked when the bear turned back into Eleanor!

In French this week, we have been practising how to say ‘Bon Appetit’ and learning about how to say the names of some fruit and vegetables and practising them in class.

We have also been busy designing a poster for recycling waste at The Centre and we are hoping that we will be successful 🙂

In drama we have been practising for our P2 show ‘Caterpillar Boogie’-more details to follow for our show.

In P.E we are very excited as we now have 4 Fireballs! We only need one more in order to be the P.E. teachers!!

Pupil of the week-Isla for writing a wonderful story about Merida and her brothers.

Achievements

Starwriters this week-Luke, Hollie and Charlotte

Happy New Year from P2A!

We hope you had a lovely Christmas holiday 🙂 We have been busy thinking about what we could have as New Year Resolutions and we had a lot of great ideas… ‘Getting up earlier for school’, ‘trying to save up more pennies for holidays’,’ getting more sleep’…to name but a few 🙂

We have been busy writing our thank you to Santa letters and we had some lovely things to say, we haope Santa has a nice rest!

We have been busy improving our mental maths this week and adding and subtracting our numbers.

Achievements this week:

Kyle for MVP in P.E

Emily has been practising her coordination skills

Elena has learned to swim underwater

Archie has been practising his swimming skills

Rosie has been practising her gymnastics

This week in our Christmas Around the World topic we looked at Japan and we learned how to make an origami Xmas tree.  It looked really tricky to do!

We made lovely moving Santa models and the boys from the 2/1 class joined us for this activity, we had lots of fun 🙂

We have been busy practising our mental maths this week and we are getting faster at our maths challenges 🙂

P2A would like to wish all the parents and carers a Merry Christmas and we hope you have a lovely holiday!

Achievements this week

Teigan has reached level 4 in swimming

Kyle has raised £20 in the READATHON 🙂

Lois has raised £10 in the READATHON 🙂

Eva has reached level 5 in swimming

Akasha has reached level 2 in swimming

Pupil of the week :- Sam

We started our new topic ‘Christmas around the world’ and we learned about the different customs people in Mexico follow at Christmas.  We learned that Poinsietta’s are a Mexican Christmas flower and we had a lot of fun making our handprint poinsietta paintings.

We have been busy practising our French words and we now know how to say pen (stylo), pencil (crayon), rubber (gomme), ruler (regle) and scissors (des ciseaux).

In drama this week we have been busy practising the songs for the Church Service on Wednesday 21st, we hope to see you there 🙂

Achievements this week

Well done to Hollie and Luke who raised £12.50 each 🙂

Well done Akasha who raised £42 🙂

Pupil of the week-Maddison

Kyle has attained his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has attained his white stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Archie has been practising his swimming skills and can now do a handstand under water

Emily has been practising her gymnastics

Rosie has been practising her swimming skills

Isla is trying to learn how to swim with her arm bands

In writing this week we have been writing about The Magic Christmas Tree.  Miss McDougall has a tree up in her classroom and she thinks the tree comes alive when the children are away from school! Magic adventures! We had some lovely writing about what the trees looked like and had some fantastic describing words.

This week in maths we have been learning about data handling and making bar charts.  We found this to be good fun!

Well done to Hollie for participating in the school talent show and a big well done to Ellis who won for P1-3.

Thank you to all the P2 helpers who helped out at the P2 stall, we had a great time and sold out of hot chocolate reindeers and Santa lists.

Achievements this week:

Well done to Daniel and Jude for raising money for the READATHON challenge! Daniel has raised £40…a brilliant achievement for helping sick children in the UK 🙂

Daniel has got his black stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Elena learned how to whistle

Teigan earned a ballet achievement

Emily has an orange cap in swimming

Pupil of the week-Emma

As part of our Sergeant Stubby and Friends topic, we have been learning about a famous carrier pigeon called Cher Ami.  This means Dearest Friend.  Cher Ami was involved in over 12 flights over the WW1 battlefields, carrying messages and taking photos of where the soldiers were positioned.  We made super Cher Ami masks which we are going to display in class.

We have been learning new games in P.E with Mr Jeffries, ‘Unicorn Tunacorn’ which is a tig game and ‘Shipwreck’ which is a team building game.

We have been busy making posters in our writing this week to show at the Christmas Fayre, they look great!

Achievements this week:

Well done to new step 3,4 and 5 people

Pupil of the week-Sarah

Emily has moved up to level 5 in swimming

Hollie and Luke are going to be dance teachers/helpers for the day

Rowan, Luke and Hollie have been busy practising their cheerleading

Daniel has got his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Lexi has moved into the Green Caps in swimming

Lois has into into level 4 in swimming

Remember to keep reading your books for the READATHON challenge!

We had a fantastic Children in Need day and the classroom was taken over by lots of Pudsey bears and Blush bears! We all looked fab! Well done and thank you for raising money for this charity.

We have been busy making Santa lists and hot chocolate reindeers for the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 26th of November.  We are selling them at this price…£1 for the reindeers and £1 for the Santa lists.  If you wish to buy beforehand you can 🙂

We have been learning about the 50p coin and counting in 10p’s and 20p’s up to £1.  We found it a little tricky so will be keep practising our coin work.

Achievements this week:

Rosie has been practising her roly polys

Archie has now managed to learn the butterfly stroke at swimming

Luke, Lois and Emily have been practising pool gymnastics

Kyle and Daniel continue to work hard at Tae Kwon Do

Daniel has earned his dark blue stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Well done to everyone who is now on step 3,4 and 5

Pupil of the Week-Daniel

This week we have had a very thoughtful week and we have been thinking about the soldiers in all the wars.  We made poppies as a reminder to remember those soldiers on Armistace Day.  We remembered those soldiers in our school assembly today at our one minutes silence. We made Sergeant Stubby masks as part of our topic.  Sergeant Stubby was a very brave dog who helped the soldiers in WW1 by alerting the soldiers to poisonous gas and would wag his tail and bark when he discovered hurt soldiers in the battlefields.  We are looking forward to finding out more about what he did.

In French this week we have been practising how to say our ages and we had fun practising in our teams.

We wrote about our favourite day ever! as part of our writing this week and we paired up with our elbow partners to discuss our favourites activities.

Achievements this week

Daniel and Kyle gained their blue stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Luke has been practising his diving, sitting and gliding in swimming lessons

Emma is on step 10 in dancing

Artjom is on level 8 in gymnastics

Akasha is trying hard in swimming to get onto level 2

Pupil of the week-Lois