This week in p2 the Squares maths group have astounded Mrs Gallagher with their Maths skills. We have been learning how to add multiples of 10 together and everyone in this group has shown that they can do this very well. Mrs Gallagher is going to have to think very hard to come up with even more challenging Maths work for this group for next week!

The Circles group have been learning how to add 10 to a number and Alfie was very good at recalling the facts for these sums very quickly and accurately.

Well done to all our marvellous mathematicians!

Also this week we have been learning more about Castles. Our latest challenge from Nicolas the knight is to be able to name parts of a castle. We already knew lots of names for parts of castles but we learned some new ones too. We learned about a portcullis, a barbican, the keep, the curtain wall and the bailey.

We have been reflecting on what we are getting better at in school, here are some of our responses:

Gemma ‘I’m getting better at balancing in PE’.
Denholm ‘I’m getting better at adding up to 100.’
Jess ‘I’m getting better at singing.’
Lucas ‘I’m getting better at knowing more facts about castles.’
Euan ‘I’m getting better at reading my reading book.’
Alfie ‘I’m getting better at running in PE.’

This week we received a special letter. The letter was from a knight called Nicholas who wants to help us to learn about castles. Nicholas is going to set us challenges to complete and has promised us that if we complete the challenges we will be rewarded with a banquet.
Our first challenge was to learn about the job of a knight and to make a coat of arms to reflect our family. We learned that in medieval times boys would start their training to become a knight aged 7 or 8. This job was called a page. A page had lots of things to learn including how to carve meat and serve food, how to hunt with birds of prey, how to use a sword, how to play chess, how to read and write, how to dance and how to ride a horse. They also had to learn good manners. We are going to be rewarded with extra dojo points when we use good manners in class.
We made our own family coat of arms which showed things we enjoy, things we are good at or things we would like to achieve in our lives. Some of us also included our family names on the coat of arms.
We think we have successfully completed our first challenge and look forward to seeing what Nicholas wants us to do next. 🙂

This week in p2 we had a visit from some special visitors. Claire from Rintouls Pet Shop came to visit us and kindly brought some pets for us to learn about and to touch and hold. We really enjoyed this visit, even though we found some of the animals a bit scary. There was a rabbit, a guinea pig, a tortoise, a tarantula, a corn snake, 2 bearded dragons and 2 giant snails. We learned that giant snails are very hygienic pets to have as they carry very few bacteria.

William “I liked the snake.”
Alfie “I liked the snake and the tortoise.”
Amy “I liked the rabbit.”
Hannah “I liked all the animals.”
Katie “I liked the rabbit but I didn’t like the snake.”
Mrs Gallagher “I liked the tarantula and I loved getting a chance to hold it!”

Here are some pictures from our visit:

We also really enjoyed our visit to the pantomime this week too. We thought it was really funny.

A reminder that our Christmas party is next Thursday afternoon. The cost of £2 should be paid to the school office if it has not been already.

It’s been a busy term in p2 and we have certainly all made progress which Mrs Gallagher was delighted to share with our parents at parents evenings this week.
Here are some of the things we have learned and enjoyed this term:

Ranna ‘I enjoyed the drama work about the Toy Shop.’

Alex ‘I liked making new friends.’

Miles ‘I have learned a lot about my senses.’

Euan ‘I have enjoyed Maths this term.’

Katie ‘I liked drawing and Maths.’

James ‘I enjoyed art.’

Catriona ‘I enjoyed PE.’

Joshua ‘My highlights of the term are Maths, PE and reading.’

We are delighted that some of our pupils have reached step 3 before the October holidays. Well done to Ranna, Amy, Catriona, James, Hannah and Skye, keep up the hard work and excellent behaviour!

Have a lovely holiday everyone!

Here are some of the things we have been learning in p2g this week:

“We have been learning to add doubles in Maths. I liked the song for adding 6-10 because I didn’t know those ones.” Rhuan

“In PE we were learning to work in teams.” Annabelle

“We were learning to say hello in French.” Baillie

“We have learned how to use ipads.” Alfie, Emma and Ava

“I learned what a terraced house is.” Demi Leigh

This week we learned about our right to an education. We learned that we are really lucky to be able to come to school as some children in other countries are not allowed to go to school and have to work instead. We heard the story of Aklima who lives in Bangladesh. Aklima wanted to go to school but spent her days scaveniging in rubbish dumps trying to find scraps to sell. We felt very sorry for Akilma and decided that even if there are things in school that we don’t enjoy doing that it is still much better than having to spend time on a rubbish dump each day.

Thinking about what we learn in school helped us to set some personal targets for this term. Here are some of our goals:

“To improve my reading.” Robyn

“To listen better.” James

“To get better at number work.” Finn

“To get better at drawing.” Ava W

We will regularly review these targets to see if we are making the improvements we hope to.

In our review jotters we thought about our highlights of P2. Here are some of our highlights:

Lucie:

1. Tennis in Fitness Fortnight

2. BIG start

3. Reading

 4. Having the tadpoles in the classroom.

Noah Y:

1. Castle trip

2. Sports day

3. Balbardie’s Got Stars in their Eyes

4. Houses and Homes topic

Megan:

1. Reading

2. Cooking with Mrs Jamieson

3. Sports day

4. Fitness fortnight

Ross:

1. PE with Mr Jefferies

2. Castles topic

3. Making seagulls for The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch

4.  Making model houses

As you can see there has been a wide variety of enjoyable learning happening this session. I would also like to share my highlights of P2.

Mrs Gallagher:

1. Billy No Buzz

2. Gruffalo in Scots assembly

3. Shared start

4. Having such an enthusiastic, happy and hard working class.

I would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday. Good luck in P3 to everyone in P2lg 🙂

Mrs Gallagher

This week we have been very busy and have enjoyed a variety of things. On Tuesday everyone attended the Golden Club event. We had lots of fun. Below you will see some pictures of us doing the Conga!

On Wednesday afternoon we were invited to join p5 for their party. We had fun hour playing games with our buddies in p5.

Another enjoyable activty this week was our art lesson. We looked at Aboriginal art from Australia and created our own pictures of turtles in the style of Aboriginal art. We enjoyed using the cotton buds to paint instead of paintbrushes.

Pupil of the week this week was Rory. He made Mrs Gallagher smile at Circle Time when he said that if he had a wish from a genie he would wish for flowers for his mum. Mrs Gallagher thought that was really kind. He also did a super piece of aboriginal art work too. A great week for Rory 🙂

Next week is Fitness Fortnight, remember to be dressed for sports activities Monday -Thursday. Sports day is on Wednesday, let’s hope ths sun comes out for us.

This week we made pancakes with Mrs Jamieson. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed eating them as a snack. We also had a pancake tossing competition. It was very funny.

 Liam “We had to put eggs, milk, flour, sugar and salt in a bowl and mixed them together.”

Noah Y “It was fun trying to toss the pancake.”

Aaliyah “I liked it when Noah flipped the pancake and it landed on his head.”

Megan “I had syrup on mine, they were delicious.”

***Pupil of the week*** Noah Y is pupil of the week for always working hard and behaving well. Well done!

We are looking forward to our parents visiting next Friday morning for the open morning.

This week we have learned about Chinese New Year. We watched a video showing a dragon dance and learned about the historical story of the animal race which started the 12 years in the Chinese zodiac. This year is the year of the snake. Most of our class were born in the year of the dog but Caitlin was born in the year of the pig.

We started to think about our new topic of castles. We shared what we already know about castles and thought about what we would like to learn. We also gave Mrs Gallagher some ideas about what we would like to have to play with in the classroom. She liked some of our ideas very much, especially creating a throne for our classroom.

*** Pupil of the week *** Lennox is pupil of the week this week for trying hard with his listening skills. He also impressed Mrs Gallagher with some lovely handwriting.

This week we have been working hard on counting and ordering numbers to 100. Next week we are going to learn how to tell if a number is odd or even.

In reading we are learning about non-fiction texts. This week we learned about the contents page. We learned that the contents page helps us to find information on specific pages of the book.

In our learning about The Senses we learned about animals which have very good eyesight and animals which have very poor eyesight. We also did some blindfold touch exepriments where we had to put our hands into some different substances including ketchup, washing up liquid, feathers, flour and play doh. It was a bit messy but lots of fun!

Well done to Liam who was pupil of the week this week. Liam received 2 certificates, 1 from Mrs Gallagher and 1 from the Breakfast Club. 🙂

We are working hard on our assembly for next Friday and are looking forward to seeing some of our family and friends there next week.