Hello everybody,

We have had a great first week in P2/1 and have been learning lots of fun things.  Here are our favourite bits:

Poppy – ” My best bit was making Superhero Potions to start our writing lesson”

Liam – “I liked learning about superheroes”

Rory – “I really liked seeing the gym hall”

Max – “My best bit was getting a letter that had superhero challenges in it!”

Teigan – “I liked the gym”

Cameron – “I liked meeting Mr Jeffries”

Rocco – “I liked playing with the floam and making my numbers with it”

Regan – “I liked everything!”

Leah – “My best bit was playing at the number table”

Ellie – “I liked making my name with the letters”

Breaghannon – “I liked the messy area where I painted a rainbow”

Brandon – “I loved the songs at the assembly”

Leila – “I liked going to gym”

Romeo – “I liked everything at school”

Jonah – “The best day of the week is a Friday because I like Golden Time”

Keegan – “Everything was great!”

Rio – “I liked fishing out letters with the fishing rods”

Marley – “I like learning to write both my names”

We can’t wait to come back to school next week for more learning through play!

RRS – Everyone has the right to play! 

Hi everyone!

We have had an amazing last full week at school, especially because we got to take part in the Golden Club event (even Mrs Mansfield and Mrs Hay had a shot on the bouncy castle!)  We really liked soaking the house captains with sponges and some of us even got a wee bit from wet from being splashed!

In literacy we have been reading new books in class and have been writing about what we would like to do over summer!  We can’t believe how fast this year has gone but hope the summer holidays are nice, long and sunny!

In maths we have been learning about odd and even numbers.  We played games to help us learn the pattern of odd and even and managed to complete some really tricky problem solving at the number table this week!

We finished our learning about ‘Going on Safari’ and ‘Eid Celebrations’ this week and have really enjoyed all that we have learned.  We had a look at which foods were Fairtrade and are now able to identify the Fairtrade symbol.  The best station this week has been construction because we have got to develop our Thinking Skills.  We were set the challenge to build something that was useful in an African village and our ideas have been very creative!!

We want to say a big good luck to Sandra who is moving back to Poland! We will really miss her in Primary 3 but hope she keeps in touch!

Achievements this week

• Jay was Pupil of the Week
• Annie got moved to the competition class in her gymnastics club
• Charlotte and Brooke did really well in the first night of their dance show
• Lewis got another certificate from his swimming
• Liam was Playground Pupil of the Week
• Alfie L won a trophy because he was the fastest runner
• Jackie won a medal from his go-karting club

We hope you all have a lovely week!

From

Primary 2b

This week for our Learning across the Curriculum topic, we made wonderful Kenyan sunsets using charcoal. We had fun smudging the pieces together!  We also started making our collages of African animals and masks. Next week we will look at camouflage and how the different safari animals hide in the wild.

We had lots of fun with Mrs Mansfield and we learned the song Belly Mamma, played boomwhackers and learned about polyrhythms.

Achievements this week

Maisie and Tamsyn got golf certificates

Charlie got Playground Pupil of the week

Lucas and his brother Dylan got good behaviour charts

Lucas won a football trophy

Samuel moved up a swimming level

Kaycee won trophies for Judo

Pupil of the week Brooke

This has been an excellent week in Primary 2b!  We are so excited to share our learning with you through our blog!

Literacy

The best bits of this week have been:

• creating a P2b scrapbook to be passed to Mrs Ghafoor for when we are in P3.   We had to write about ourselves and think this will help Mrs Ghafoor get to know us better!
• using the book ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ to help us visualise what the story would look like!  We then created our own lands that we would like to visit the top of the Faraway Tree!  Mrs Mansfield really enjoyed this as it is one of her favourite books!

Maths

We really enjoyed these bits of maths this week:

• learning the way to tell the difference between our left and our right hand.  We liked singing songs to help us remember this and are getting better at being able to give directions using left and right
• directing people using quarter turns and half turns – it was funny trying to direct people to different places in the classroom

Learning Across the Curriculum

Wow!  What a week we have had for learning across the curriculum.  These are the highlights:

• having a look at animal print and using these details to create a beautiful animal print picture
• talking about the ways that mummy animals look after baby animals and the food that babies eat
• Mrs Hay came in to show us a picture of her when she was a little girl growing up in South Africa.  She was playing with a lion cub, it was really cute!
• learning about Fairtrade.  We think it is very important that farmers are paid well for their work.

Achievements this week

• Jackie, Jay and Aaron got to Step 5
• Orla was pupil of the week
• Olivia got a trophy from her dancing
• Charlotte and Brooke are working hard for their dance show next week
• Annie received a medal from her swimming lessons

We hope you all have a lovely week!  We can’t believe next week is the last whole week of P2!

We have been having a great week this week in Primary 2b and have enjoyed challenging our learning.

Literacy

In our reading detectives we continued to practise our visualising, this time through the context of the beach.  We were able to apply this skill in our writing to write imaginatively about being at the beach.  We focused on what we could hear, smell and see.

In writing we started to make Safari animal fact files.  We understand what a fact is and were able to use a layout to add information about our chosen animal.  We were able to choose from a mountain gorilla, a chimpanzee, an African lion, an African elephant or a black rhino – we enjoyed learning about where they live and what they like to eat!

Maths

In maths we have been revising our learning about money.   We have practised our adding to find totals and this week have started to look at finding change when we buy something in a shop.  Our favourite activity was the shopkeeper game where we got to play the role of a customer or a shopkeeper to find total amounts and give change.

Learning Across the Curriculum

We have been learning lots of information about Africa.  So far we have looked at the types of houses that exist in some African countries and were shown pictures that Mrs Mansfield’s cousin took while she was working there.  We learned that the houses are very different!  There were no windows and that made the houses very dark – we thought that would be quite frightening!  Also, that the houses are made using mud to hold it together – we didn’t think that would be a good idea in Scotland as our houses would fall apart in the rain!  We also realised that we had some things in common with some of the children in Africa.  We looked at stories from 4 African children and they spoke about liking football, helping their mums to cook and that some of them enjoyed maths at school.

We also started learning about some African animals…we look forward to learning more next week!

This week we also loved being able to go to the park for Sports Day.  We had a great time in the sun and were so pleased we could support our friends in their races too.

Achievements this week

• Sandra won 2 medals at sports day
• Olivia won a medal at sports day
• Hannah was pupil of the week
• Olivia, Jamie, Liam, Alfie B, Rory, Sandra, Brandon and Holly received stickers at sports day
• Alfie L moved up a level in swimming
• Brandon won a medal at his football training
• Hannah got up to level 12 in her swimming lessons
• Olivia moved up to level 5 in swimming
• Annie moved up to level 4 in swimming
• Ruby was first place in her horse-riding race.

We hope that everyone has a great holiday weekend!

(Please note that there is no homework this week to allow everyone to enjoy the holiday – new homework will be issued on Wednesday!)

This week we have enjoyed Shared Start with our parents/carers-Thank you for visiting us and helping us to make boats for our Lighthouse Keepers Lunch topic.

In maths work we have been busy learning fractions and finding a fraction of a number.

In topic work we have been learning about circuits and we had fun connecting the batteries and switch together to make the bulb work.

In writing this week we have learning how to make stories more exciting by including adjectives in our work.

We read a super book at storytime today and we practised how to say hello in 43 languages.

Achievements this week

Kai won a new football trophy

Maisie won a golf medal

Charlie won a new Karate belt

Pupil of the week-Tamsyn

In our topic work this week we learned how a lighthouse works and we designed and then made wonderful lighthouses for our class display.

In drama we made dragons we made castles to use in our work.

In P.E this week we learned how to play Chaos Tig and did different kinds of class races.

We have been busy practising our handwriting and we are improving on our presentation and writing using capital letters and full stops.

Well done to everyone who attained a certificate at Celebrating Success yesterday-you are all stars

Achievements this week

Brooke got a Celebrating Success award for effort

Jamie has been very helpful at home

Farrah has moved up to level 5 in swimming

Sophie is now on level 5 in swimming

Ruby has been a super helper at home

Charlie got a Karate medal

Erin moved up a level in swimming

Maisie and Tamsyn won golf medals, gaining second and third place

Shared start for P2 is on Wednesday 18th May-we hope to see you in our class

We have been busy bees learning about sharing and grouping in our division work.  We look forward to learning about fractions next week.

We had a fantastic time at the P2 show and we have been busy watching the DVD of Tadpole Rag-We were BRILLIANT actors, actresses and singers.

We have been busy learning about The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch and we made super puppets of Mr and Mrs Grinling, seagulls and Hamish the cat.

In PE with Mr Jeffries we have been learning how to play Shadow Tig, we think it is really fun.

Achievements this week

Luke is Swimmer of the Month in his swimming club

Mia got Dancer of the Month

Charlie is starting Tae Kwon Do lessons

Cameron moved up a level to level 6 in swimming

Murray is on Soccer 4 in football

Samuel is now on level 6 in swimming

Well done to Nathan who is now on step 4

Reminder to all parent that Celebrating Success Assembly for P2,3,4 is on Thursday 12th May at 1.30pm.

Wow!  We have had an amazing week!  This is what we have enjoyed learning about.

Alexander – I have learned how to write neater

Alfie L – I have got better at reading this week and liked making words using magnetic letters

Jay – I have learned how to make my wriitng better

Alistair – I really enjoyed when I challenged myself when we were counting with actions

Brandon – I was really excited to hold a sword on our school trip

Bryce – I liked it when I got to hold the chainmail, it was very heavy!

Shaun – My favourite bit was the school trip when we got to look around the castle with the knight

Kyle – I liked it when we went searching for dragon marks around the castle.  I saw some of the ceiling and on the walls.

Noami – I liked visiting the castle the best

Rory – I learned how catapults work, it was really funny when the knight fired a boulder on one

Anna – I liked that we all got to have a picnic when we went on our trip

Ellie-Rose – I liked it when we got to dress up as the King and the Queen of Stirling Castle

Jackie – I enjoyed learning about and seeing some of the weapons in the castle

Holly – I learned that years and years ago only the Royal family were allowed to wear purple

Brooke – My favourite bit was holding the sword…but I really liked everything

Sandra – I liked holding the sword and dressing up too

Lewis – I learned about the murder holes in the castle, I didn’t know about them before

Charlotte – My favourite part was when we went into the Queen’s bedroom

Ruby – I liked it when Lord James told my mum to take off her jacket because it was purple and isn’t royal

Aaron – I liked it when the knight showed us lots of sword tricks

Orla – I have learned that Stirling Castle was very old and I liked our trip

Annie – I liked it when the Knight got volunteers to dress up in all of the Castle clothes

Liam – My favourite bit was when the knight showed us tricks and tried to teach us how to juggle

Alfie B – I thought it was funny when Jay dressed up as a jester and told us all a joke

Owen – I really liked dressing up and going to the jester room at the castle

Olivia – I learned that the King and Queen had to use hay after they had been to the toilet

Jamie – I liked it when I got to meet the people that lived in the castle!

Thanks,

Primary 2b

(A note from Mrs Mansfield –

Please remember that costumes for the school show need to be brought in by Monday 25th of April AT THE LATEST as we have a dress rehearsal on the Tuesday.  In case the letter has been misplaced the costumes are as follows:

Tadpoles – black t-shirt and black trousers/leggings

Frogs – green t-shirt and black trousers

Frog Spawn – white t-shirt and black trousers

Narrators – spring/summer clothes

Teacher – white school shirt and black trousers/skirt

Some children have been issued with a letter about face paint, could these also be returned ASAP.

Special Person letters should have been returned by Friday 22nd April, if you have forgotten these will be accepted on Monday 25th.

Any questions please do not hesitate to ask)

Welcome back after the Easter Holidays.

This week we have been busy redrafting favourite stories for the Young Writer competition.  We found it a challenge to do our best handwriting and presentation.

We have been busy practising our times tables and we are getting faster at our table challenges.

We have had a handwriting focus this week and we are trying our best to write on the line and use capital letters and full stops correctly.

In the gathering we learned how to resolve our conflicts by making good choices.

Achievements this week

Murray got his green belt in Tae Kwon Do

Maisie and Tamsyn are competing in a golf competition

Tamsyn won a medal for her first golf tournament

Kaycee moved up a Judo level

Well done to Luke-MVP for P.E this month

Hello everyone!

We are super excited because it is now the end of the week and…that means it’s the Easter Holidays!!!  This week at school we have enjoyed:

Noami – I liked choosing activities for the number station.

Alistair – I have enjoyed learning how to tell the time (this means I can now check when my bedtime is)

Hannah – I have really liked reading stories in cosy corner.

Bryce – I liked spending time in the cosy corner Castle tent.

Kyle – I enjoyed the construction challenge this week because I could make machines to help Harriet get the eggs to the farm safely.

Owen – My favourite bit of school was the writing table this week because I got to use my imagination.

Olivia – Construction was my favourite because I got to make a farm.

Orla – I liked learning about the Easter story because I understand what Easter is about now.

Shaun – I liked messy table because I could use my creative skills to make new things.

Jay – I really liked everything!  Especially the number, writing and messy table station.

Anna – I enjoyed using art skills to paint and draw an Easter bunny picture.

Lewis – I liked maths because I got to do time this week.

Charlotte – My favourite bit was the imagination station because I wrote a new story.

Annie – My favourite time was when I went to imagination station because I liked writing my story and drawing my pictures.

Ruby – I liked imagination station because I got to write lots of stories.

Ellie-Rose – My favourite was role play because the King and Queen were getting ready for Easter this week.

Jackie – My best bit was construction because I got to use lego.

Brandon – I liked construction too because I liked the different challenges.

Rory – My favourite bit was construction because I got to build a ship to get across the water with the eggs.

Alexander – My best bit was mental maths because we got to play exterminate!

Aaron – I liked construction too because I used my brain to fit all the eggs in my boat.

Holly – I liked role play because I got to pretend I was different people all the time.

Alfie B – My favourite was cosy corner because I got to listen to a story and go in the castle tent.

Alfie L – I liked construction because I got to make a massive boat to cross the river!

Jamie – Writing was my favourite because I got to write about when the Easter Bunny ran past me.

Liam – Mine was construction because I got to build a truck and a person to drive the truck.

We hope everyone have an amazing Easter holiday!

From

Primary 2b!

Literacy

In literacy we have been developing our Higher Order Reading Skills and can now use connections to make predictions.  Mrs Mansfield says she is very impressed with how good we are at making connections! Especially because we can sort connections into three categories: text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world!

We have been learning to continue story writing when provided with story starters and have been using our imagination in lots of different ways too – even managing to create stories about adventures we have been on with our pet dragons!!

Maths

In practical maths Miss Brown has been teaching us about how to tell the time.  We have practised reading o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.  Some of the class have also been learning how to count on time in hours and have enjoyed playing ICT games to consolidate this learning.

Dungeons and Dragons

This was a very exciting week for our Learning Across the Curriculum context as we finished off our learning with a Medieval Banquet.  We got to try lots of foods including pancakes, tomatoes, grapes, pork pies, honey, bread, apples, strawberry juice, bananas, cheese and ham.  We discovered that lots of us liked honey (especially when it was on our pancakes!)  We also showcased our dances that we have been working on in PE with Mrs Mansfield and got to watch a short clip of a film.  Lots of us enjoyed pretending to be jesters and telling lots of jokes to entertain people.  We also liked playing the game ‘Bow to the King’ to finish our banquet!  We have learned lots and lots about castles, dungeons and dragons through our Learning across the Curriculum focus!

Thanks for reading!

From Primary 2b

This week in our dungeons and dragons topic we have been making a senses book about dungeons-we really liked sharing our ideas with each other.

With Miss Owens we had fun designing our Medieval costumes for our knights, princesses and soldiers. Have a look at our funky costumes…we have displayed them in class.

In our maths work we started a new topic-length and we measured various items in our classroom to see what ones were shorter and longer.

We practised our editing techniques this week when we copied out our Trapped Dragon stories.  We are trying hard to put capital letters and full stops correctly into our writing.

We learned a new game in P.E with Mr Jeffries called The Bear game and we had fun learning the rules.

We continue to practise our words and actions for the P2 show.

Achievements this week

New step 3 person is Nathan

New step 4 person is Kaycee

New step 5 people are-Lucas, Jodie, Lily, Charlie, Evan, Kai and Sophie

Maisie and Tamsyn came 3rd place in their golf competition

Evan got his red stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Kaycee is now a yellow belt in Judo

In class this week we have been learning about the symbols of Easter and writing about what we would have in our Easter baskets.

As part of our Dragon and Castles topic we made dragons and dragon masks to use in our learning.

We were introduced to another little dragon this week called Zog, and he helped us to write about a dragon escaping from the dungeons.

We continue to add to our classroom castle and we have now made blocks for the outside of our castle walls.

We had fun making playdo dragons and Komodo dragons with Miss Owens.

In our French work this week we learned the names of animals and we had fun playing some games.

In our maths work we were introduced to playing Bingo with our times tables, and we look forward to playing this again to help us get faster at getting the right answers.

Achievements this week

Well done to new step 4 people-Charlie, Evan, Lily, Jodie and Ruby.

New Golden Club members-Shelbi, Arran, Luke, Lucas, Cameron and Brooke

Well done to Murray-MVP for P.E

Murray took a yellow grading in Tae Kwon Do

Maisie and Tamsyn are looking forward to going to a golf tournament-we wish them good luck.

Jodie is going for her red belt grading in Tae Kwon Do

Ellis is now reading stage 6 books

Well done P2A

As part of our Dungeons and Dragons topic we have been learning about the different jobs people used to have when they lived in a Castle.  We learned what Puff the dragon would get up to and we are hoping that he will come back to visit us.

We continued to learn more about symmetry and we made our own shields with symmetrical patterns.

The Spheres maths group have been continuing to practise the 4 times table and have been practising the 3 times table.  We are getting faster at our answers.

We continue to practise our songs and dances for the P2 show which we are looking forward to performing after the Easter holidays.

In RME work with Miss Owens we learned the stages in the Easter story.

Class Dojo winner this week-Mia

Pupil of the week-Mia

Achievements this week

Arran won a football trophy

Jodie is hoping to get a red tag at Tae Kwon Do

Kaycee won a Judo trophy

Mia has started new swimming lessons

Charlie won a baseball trophy

Tamsyn won a go-karting medal

Sophie continues to do well in swimming

Well done to Arran-step 5

Well done to Ruby, Charlie and Evan-step 4

We’ve  been working really hard – here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been learning…

Maths

In our number work we have started learning about sharing and dividing.  We are working really hard to get better at this and, because of our work learning multiplication facts, are picking up this process very quickly.  We are now able to make links between using practical resources to solving more complex, written and mental problems.

In practical maths we have started to investigate time and know that there are lots of different ways we can measure this.  This week we learned about ordering days of the week and months of the year where we made big calendars for in the class.  Next week we are looking at special events that happen in each month (we are most excited about sharing which month our birthdays happen in).

Literacy

This week in literacy we have been recognising tricky words, blending new phonic sounds and are continuing to progress with our reading.

The Gruffalos have been working on extending stories to create new texts while the Hungry Caterpillars have been learning about the difference between facts and opinions.  The Zogs are continuing to develop their questioning skills and the Elmers have been very successful when using guided response to read new reading books.  We started to play a new game this week called the Invisible Man which helps us to spell tricky words – it might even be becoming our new favourite!

Learning across the Curriculum

We have a brand new context for learning this term and have been learning all about Dungeons and Dragons.  Mrs Mansfield and Miss Brown have taught us the names for different parts of a castle and what the different rooms were used for many years ago.  We have been very busy creating pictures, crowns and collages this week (some of us were even brave enough to design and build some tools that would help us catch a dragon!)

We have learned so much already and are so excited to see what other information we are going to find out!

Thank you for all your help with our learning!!

A note from Mrs Mansfield:

This is just to remind parents that, due to the new way books are issued within the class, reading folders and book bags no longer need to be brought to school on a Thursday or Friday.  Homework bags will be sent home on Wednesdays as normal and won’t need to be brought back in until the following Monday.  Any problems or questions please let me know.)

We started our Castles topic this week with Miss Owens and we labelled the parts of a castle correctly. We look forward to learning more exciting facts about Castles in the weeks to come.

The Cylinders and Pyramids were introduced to the 4 times table this week and we are getting faster at our times table challenges.  Our time challenge is now set at 8 seconds.

With Miss Owens we have been learning more about Symmetry and making shapes symmetrical.

In P.E we have been practising our games including 4 corner dodgeball and tunnel tig and using our team building skills better.  We also learned how to run safely and quickly.

We continue to practise our P2 show ‘Tagpole Rag’ and we are busy learning our speaking parts for our show after the Easter holidays.

In our writing this week we created a wanted poster for our own dragons who might be helping us with our Castles topic.

Achievements this week

Kaycee moved up to a new swimming level

Erin has starting swimming and gymnastics lessons

Charlie won a baseball game

Luke has now graduated into the bigger swimming pool

Samuel build a huge house in Minecraft