This week has been a busy and fun week. We’ve enjoyed the good weather and had a lot of out door playtimes which is great.

In language, we wrote coded letters from Mary, Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned, to her allies. First we looked at the code that Mary used when writing to her friends. Then we typed up a different code to write messages. We gave each other words and messages to decode using our new code. We discovered that you have to be really careful when using a code otherwise it doesn’t work!

In maths we are working on rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and also to the nearest 100.

We are also learning to match digital and analogue times. We are finding this a bit tricky and need more practice!

In french we learnt the months of the year and made wheels to show what happens in each month.

In science we started planning a game using our understanding of circuits. We are looking forward to making them next week!

In P.E. we have been learning hockey skills. We have been playing lots of small sided games learning about controlling the ball and working in a small space. We enjoy playing truck and trailer.

Ben is very proud that he has learnt to ride his bike without stabilisers.

Our table of the week is green

Pupil of the week is Charlotte for doing excellent roleplay in health and wellbeing.

Golden Steps – Step 3 Katie Armstrong

Article 28 – the right to an education

Primary 6b
Fiona – I enjoyed baking in golden time this week. We baked truffles. We got crushed digestive biscuits in a bowl, we added condensed milk and mixed it together. Then we added cocoa powder and mixed it all together. Then we scooped it up with our hands and rolled it into a ball.
Aidan – I enjoyed the auditions on Wednesday and found out our parts today. I was happy because I got the part I auditioned for.
Robyn – I also enjoyed the auditions because me and Skye got the parts we wanted.
Harry – I wanted a part in the play so I’m happy. My character is called Bunghole.
Lewis – This week we were learning to count to twenty in French
Katie – In maths I learned to write numbers in words.

Important Assembly Date Change

Please note our class assembly date is now on Friday 28th of October and not on 11th of November as previously stated.

In maths this week we learned a bit more about 3D shapes and we split into groups to find out the properties of 3D shapes and we made some wonderful alien and animal 3D shapes to help us.  We were very lucky as Mrs Spence joined us for our maths lesson.

We continued to focus on our imaginative writing and wrote a wonderful story about a very helpful dog/cat.  We are trying to make our stories more detailed by adding lots of describing words.

We had a very special visitors to P2 as we had Digger the Guide dog, Lisa and Rosie’s Dad visiting us. Digger is a 8 year old black retriever and has been helping Lisa for 7 years.

Achievements this week

Pupil of the week Artjom

Drama award of the month-Archie

Kyle has got a rainbow stripe in Tae Kwon Do

Emily has moved to level 4 in swimming

Luke managed to swim 2 lengths in swimming

Hollie is getting better at dancing

Akasha is on level 1 in swimming

Elena has been practising her cartwheels

This week we have had a really busy week.  We learned the sounds ‘n’ and ‘o’ and tricky words ‘to’ and ‘do’.   On Tuesday morning we had our first shared start and that was great fun.  On Thursday morning we went to the Library and a lady called a Librarian, read us 3 stories.  We then had to decide which was our favourite story.  We kept ourselves safe walking to the library by listening to adults, holding hands with a partner and wearing high visibility vests.  When we were crossing the roads, we waited for the green man and checked for traffic before crossing.

I enjoyed learning our sounds ‘o’.  Amber

Megan learned the sound ‘n’ and remembered her aeroplane wings!

We have learned 1-10.  Carley (We are learning 1-20 already!)

I like coming to school every day.  Justin & Emily

James liked going to the library.  James

I liked going to the library and reading the stories.  Olivia S

I loved going to the library and reading the stories.  Mac

I liked doing the letter ‘o’.  Holly & Aileigh

I like playing at golden time.  Aaron

I like when it’s golden time.  Jude

We’ve been learning that people that look after us, our mummies, daddies, grannies and granddads. Carley

We’re learned that the teachers look after us in school.  Ada

A fireman also helps us.  Olivia S

The police help us. Mac

A paramedic also helps us! Jude

The lollipop man helps us cross the road.  Jack

I enjoy playing the in the playground before school.  River

I enjoyed iPad time.  Ed

I like playtime. Ellis

Have a lovely weekend.

Hello everyone,

What a week we have had in P2/1!!!   It has been a week full of adventures and surprises for us – here are our best bits from this week!

Regan – “Writing about the coffee morning in our jotters”

Keegan – “Dress down day is always good fun!”

Rory – “I liked assembly where they sang the songs”

Marley – “Mrs Dunbar giving me my certificate and getting all my stickers!”

Breghannon – “Singing songs”

Ellie – “I liked going to the library because we got to read nice books”

Millie – “My favourite part of this week has been learning about o.  I liked making the octopus”

Brandon – “Learning about phonics and how to use sounds to write words, I made a phonic flower with Mrs Mansfield”

Poppy – “When we were talking about the ladybirds we made and put them on the wall”

Leah – “When we were practising the church songs”

Max – “I liked doing the rockets when we learned about ck. It was a bit messy”

Rio – “I liked phonics this week.  My duck got put on the Wow Wall”

Emily – “Doing shapes, I liked learning about how many sides there are in shapes”

Leila – “I liked writing station this week because I got to practise writing in fun ways”

Jonah – “I liked maths, I made a shape pizza”

Liam – “Learning about squares.  I liked making and drawing the shapes”

Rocco – “Making a duck in phonics, the feathers tickled me”

Romeo – “I liked assembly because the class sang a good song”

Teigan – “When we went to the library”

Cameron – “I liked shared start because mum got to come to our class”

What a week!  Only one more Friday until our October holidays, we are looking forward to lots of busy learning before we break up from school”

From,

Primary 2/1

(A note from Mrs Mansfield – thank you so much to all the parents/carers/family members that managed to make it along to our shared start on Tuesday.  I hope you found it beneficial to seeing how your child learns in our class – if you have any questions please feel free to catch me at the end of the school day! I hope you all have a lovely weekend!)

Well here they are! Our Low Port Photos and video – enjoy!

Noah: Last week in writing we were learning to write a news paper article about Apollo 11.

Brooklyn: I enjoyed researching facts about Apollo 11.

Lennox: I really enjoyed learning the strategy of doubling in maths.

Sophie: I enjoyed learning about estimating in maths.

Ty: I enjoyed learning to multiply by 10, 100 and 1000.

Special person: Brooklyn

Important Assembly Date Change

Please note our class assembly date is now on Friday 28th of October and not on 11th of November as previously stated.

This week we have been practising our Being Cool in School activities.  We learned about Tom, Kit and Jen and how Tom dealt with his anger. He made good choices by taking some breaths and having some time out.  We think this is a great COOL strategy to use and we are looking forward to seeing what happens  next.

We have been busy learning our big numbers and counting up to 100.

In writing we wrote brilliant stories about a Magic Leaf using Emma’s fantastic colourful leaf that she found in our Autumn Walk.  We are fabulous explorers in P2A!

We had a fun visit from Angela and Sandra from the RNIB and Sandra has been blind from birth and she showed us how to read Braille and Angela showed us some talking books and we listened to some stories.  We had a fantastic time!  We are really looking forward to the Guide Dog visit next week too 🙂

Achievements this week

Archie has been busy practising his reading

Hollie has been practising her new dances

Eva has been busy in her cheerleading classes practising her moves

Luke has been showing the class how to do the splits!

Kyle has been working hard in Tae Kwon Do

Emma has been learning lots of fun things in her dancing

Pupil of the week-Hollie

Starwriters-Akasha, Archie and Elena