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P2b

Hi I hope you have enjoyed viewing the photos of our visitors on p2a’s blog page. I think the special dog was the favourite.

Once again we have learned lots in a short week.
We started learning “Being Cool in School” we learned that nobody can help having feelings – they are part of everyone. We feel different things all day long as different things happen to us. It is important not to be ashamed of having feelings. Everyone has them – good and bad. What counts is what we do about our feelings – we can all learn to show our feelings in ways that are helpful to us and to others, not ways that are hurtful.

We thought about what we already know about money and will use this knowledge as we learn more this term.

Did you know that some trees loose their leaves in Autumn to help the tree conserve energy during winter?
We looked at some drawings to see how artists use line to draw trees. We compared drawings and identified what we thought made some drawings better than others. We think that using pairs of lines to make branches and twigs worked well. Lots of short branches worked well too. Not colouring in but using lots of lines also made the tree drawings good. We applied these ideas and made drawings we are proud of.

Our class novel this term is called The big blackout. The front cover told us the title, the author and the illustrator. We liked the illustrators use of colour and his use of line.

P2bg enjoy the sun!

It has been great to see the sun this week and has linked in perfectly with our Weather topic. We learned about what the sun is and why we need it here on Earth. We discussed ways of keeping safe in the sun and we all know why this is very important. We made posters to tell others what they can do to stay safe in the sun.
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Lucas told us that the sometimes the sun is shining in his front garden and then it moves to his back garden. We know that this is because the Earth is moving and is at different angles to the sun at different times of the day. This led to us discussing why our shadows are not the same size and in the same place for the whole day. We learned that shadows are made when light cannot travel through an object. We measured shadows at different times of the day. We found out that our shadows are shortest during the hottest part of the day, between 11am and 3pm.

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We have enjoyed learning about the sun and we hope the sunny weather continues for the next 2 weeks of term. We can wear sun cream and bring a hat to school to help protect us in the playground on sunny days.

Article 28 The Right to an Education

Lots of learning in P2bg

This week we have been experimenting. We were testing materials which would be good to use to make an umbrella. We enjoyed putting water onto different materials and finding out what would happen. We learned that paper and cotton would not be very good materials to use but plastic would be very good. We discussed the fact that although some materials like metal and glass are waterproof they would not be suitable to use to make an umbrella but they are good for using at other times when you need something to be waterproof, for example when you are cooking using water or drinking water.

We have also been learning how rainbows happen. Campbell gave us a super explanation of how rainbows are formed and was awarded our pupil of the week certificate for doing so. We know that rainbows are not a type of weather but they happen when you have rain and sun at the same time. We made some tissue paper rainbows which have brightened up our classroom. 🙂

In writing this week we were learning about onomatopoeia. Although this is a BIG word, we know that it has a simple meaning – a word that describes a sound. We enjoyed listening to a Dr Seuss story with lots of sound words in it and then we listened to some weather sounds and thought of good words to use to describe them. We then created posters showing onomatopoeia weather words.

We look forward to sharing our learning in school with our parents and carers on Wednesday 27th May @ 8.55am.

Have a lovely weekend!

Article 28 – The Right to an Education

Celebrating Success in P2bg

This week in P2bg we have had lots of celebrations for achievements and successes in our class. We enjoyed performing Zip Ah Dee Doo Dah at Celebrating Success. We are proud of Alfie, Hannah, James and Ranna who were all awarded certificates.
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We are also proud of Amy who received an award for outstanding achievement in P.E this session.

Our pupil of the week this week is William who has been trying hard to write independently and our RRS award went to Teighan for being respectful and fair.

Well done to all our successful pupils, keep up the hard work!

This week we have been learning about clouds. We learned about the water cycle and did some small experiments to demonstrate this. Our challenge is to try an experiment at home putting a small amount of water into a dish and keeping it in a warm place. We are hoping to see that over time this water will evaporate and that will prove to us that the water cycle really happens! Our discussions about water reminded us that we have the right to clean and safe drinking water. We knew that not all children across the world have access to clean and safe drinking water and that in some countries it does not rain very much which stops plants from growing. Mrs Gallagher was very impressed with our knowledge!

We listened to the story Little Cloud by Eric Carle and then wrote our own stories about the adventures of a cloud. We also made some cloud shape pictures which will be displayed in the classroom beside our stories.

Article 24 – The right to safe drinking water.
Article 29 – Your education should help you use and develop your talents and abilities.

This week in p2bg

This week we have been learning how magic e changes the vowel sound in words. Mrs Gallagher introduced us to Walter the Wizard who is going to help us to read and spell words with magic e.

We have been working hard on rehearsals for our p2 show and had our first whole run through yesterday. Our homework task is to design a backdrop to be displayed during the show. Mrs Innes will be picking the winning designs next week.

For our Castles topic we have been learning about The Stirling Heads in Stirling Castle. These are wooden carvings of kings, queens and historical people which have been restored and are displayed on a ceiling in Stirling Castle. We used these as a stimulus to create our own portraits. We learned how to draw eyes, nose and mouth correctly and Mrs Gallagher is very pleased with our finished work. They will be displayed outside our classroom, please come and take a look.

Well done to Kiara who achieved our rights respecting award for last month for always being kind and respectful and to Gemma for achieving the award for p2 pupil of the month in drama. Gemma has worked really hard on her solo performance for the p2 show and has shown great confidence in singing on stage.

Marvellous Mathematicians in P2bg

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.’

A special letter for p2bg

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. 🙂

Special visitors in p2bg

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.

End of term reflections from p2bg

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!

What p2g have been learning this week in school

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

Personal Targets for p2g

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.

Highlights of P2

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

An enjoyable week for p2lg

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.

Pancake making in p2

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 in p2lg

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 in p2lg

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.