P3 have had another great week, keep reading to find out more:

• Maths- We have been learning to calculate change. We have been using our subtraction strategies for this. We enjoyed playing lots of games to practise giving change.
• Literacy- In Writing, we have been learning about characterisation, we wrote a character profile for a Disney character thinking about their internal and external traits. We also learned about pronouns and wrote some sentences to practise using them correctly.
• HWB- We have discussed how to keep healthy such as brushing teeth and washing our hands. We also learned about emotional triggers (the Yellow Cog) and identified strategies to help us.
• RERC- We have learned how to pray the Rosary this week. We have also discussed each Joyful Mystery of the Rosary.
• Social Studies- We learned about desert animals and how they have adapted to live in their environment. We created a slide on our laptops about a desert animals.
• Science/Art – We have continued to learn about the skeleton and we made skeleton pictures using paint and cotton buds. We also tried to identify the bones as we painted.

P3a have had a very busy and successful term after Christmas, keep reading to find out what we have learned!

• Maths- This term we have learned about data handling where we have learned to read information and create our own bar and tally charts as well as pictograms. We have also worked very hard on division. We know that this is the opposite of multiplication so we have continued to practise our tables to help us with our division strategies. We have also been learning about time. We can read o’ clock, half past, quarter past and to on analogue clocks. We have learned to read these times on digital clocks as well. Some of us have learned to read 5 minute intervals on analogue clocks too!
• Literacy- In Literacy we have continued to practise our reading skills through answering Blooms questions both orally and written. We have continued to use Reflective Reading to practise reading skills. Our favourite activity is Blankety Blank where we have to guess the missing words in a passage. We have also learned lots about poetry this term, focusing on rhyme and rhythm.
• Health & Wellbeing- We have revised our Class Charter this term as well as learning all about the Sustainable Development Goals. We chose Goal 3- The right to good health and wellbeing, we thought of ways that we could improve this in our school. We have also been thinking a lot about friendship this term, linking this to Emotion Works. We have also been completing weekly tasks based on our right of the week.
• Social Studies- We have been really enjoying learning about the Ancient Egyptians this term. We have prepared talks about Gods and have combined our learning with STEM challenges. Our favourite one was designing a model Shaduf, which was a tool used to water crops in Ancient Egypt.
• Science- This term we have taken part in lots of STEM challenges, we have designed catapults and pyramids. We have also been learning about freezing and melting.
• RERC- We have been preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation this term, to prepare for this we have been learning about the symbols of Baptism and forgiveness.
• Expressive Arts- We have linked our artwork this term to our topic. We enjoyed creating portraits of a pharaoh using oil pastels. We focused on skills of line, form, shape and colour in this task.

This week P3 and P3/2 have been busy learning lots of new things across all of our curricular areas. Keep reading to find out more!

• Maths- We have continued to learn about fractions. This week we learned to find halves and quarters of amounts. We have learned that we can draw pictures to help us solve these problems. We also learned about doubling and halving.
• Literacy- In Reading this week we have enjoyed creating a new character for our books. We labelled our character and then wrote a description about them. In Writing, we have learned how to write a description. We know these tell us about a person, place or thing. They describe what they look like and what they can do.
• HWB- We have learned about the right to privacy. We know this means that we can have a safe place. Adults have to help us protect our right to privacy, especially on the internet.
• Social Studies- We have been learning about the phases of the moon. We know that this can appear as different shapes because of the way the light hits the moon. We also learned about shadows, we made shadow puppets and learned how shadows are created.
• RERC- We have been praying for people who are special to us. We created memory crosses. We have also been thinking about what makes us special.

This week P3 and P3/2 have been very busy learning lots, keep reading to find out what we got up to:

• Maths- We have continued our Money topic this week. We have been learning how to estimate the cost of things. We know that an estimate is a guess. We have also learned to partition using ten frames e.g. 10 is made of 9 +1.
• Literacy- In Reading we have been answering Blooms Button questions about our stories. In Writing, we have continued to learn about Recounts and we wrote our own about tidying our rooms and we will use this to help us at home.
• Health & Wellbeing- We have been learning all about our emotions. This week we listened to a story called ‘My Many Coloured Days’ by Dr Suess. We then matched up the colours with emotions e.g. blue represents sadness. We created new characters that would fit in to the book based on the emotion we were given.  In PE, we played Eliminator and we also did some fitness drills.
• Topic- We continued our Sun, Moon & Stars topic. We learned the way that the Sun, Earth and Moon orbit each other. We now know that this is the reason we have day and night.
• Art- We created a picture of the Sun, Moon and Earth showing their sizes and their positions. We used oil pastels and focused on light and shade to show day and night on Earth.
• RERC- We learned all about Remembrance Day. We know this is a day where we think and pray for those who passed away in war.
• Music & Drama- Miss Doolan helped us to learn all about rhythm, we went outdoors and created rhythms using outdoor objects like sticks and stones.

Primary Three have had a super week with lots of fun learning. Keep reading to find out more!

• Maths- In Maths, we have been learning about Addition. This week we have started to learn some fact families. We can do a mixture of adding and subtraction sums using a group of numbers. We learned that we can switch the numbers round when we add and we can get the same answer!
• Literacy- In Writing, we have been learning to write descriptions. We created our own superheroes and we used wow words (adjectives) to describe them. In Reading, we read our books and completed a comprehension sheet about them.
• HWB- We learned about road safety and keeping safe outside. We know about the green cross code and crossing the road safely.
• RERC- We have been learning about the Moses. We know Moses was asked by God to give the Ten Commandments to the world. We know a commandment is a rule from God that we must follow.
• Art- We have been learning about an artist called Claude Monet. Did you know that he was born in France and that he paints landscapes? We recreated the painting ‘Bridge over Waterlillies’. We used paint and sponges to make our own version.
• Music & Drama- We went outside and collected some natural materials to build the witch’s house from the story.
• Science- We were investigating how distance affects sound. We worked with a partner and played a musical instrument while changing the distance we stood at to investigate how loud or quiet the sounds were.

This week in P3 we have been learning:

• In Maths, we have began to learn about place value. We have been learning to read and write 3 digit numbers (using hundreds, tens and ones). We also had a go at building numbers using Dienes materials which helped us to see how many hundreds, tens and ones. We did some Maths outside by clapping 3 digit numbers and our partner guessed what number we had made.  We learned the importance of zero as a place holder.
• In Literacy, we have been learning about prediction. We know that a prediction is where you make a guess.  We had a go at predicting what would happen in a story called ‘Little Boat’ and we enjoyed finding out if we got the right answers.
• In our topic ‘Matilda’ we learned all about Matilda’s parents. We had a think about the qualities that she had. We learned about what parents have to do to look after us and keep us safe.
• In RERC, we have been reflecting on our choices that we make. We discussed the difference between good choices and bad choices. We now know how we can help others with our actions.
• In Art, we continued our learning about the artist Kandinsky. This week we looked at another piece of art he created and we had a go at creating our own shape collages.
• In Music and Drama we learned all about the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We completed different tasks to deepen our understanding.

Hi everyone,

Please find attached this week’s home learning grid. These activities are a continuation of our Fitness Fortnight. Please remember to send us a couple of pictures of your child’s learning with a sentence about what they have enjoyed.

Please contact the school mailbox if you have any issues.

Thank you for you support during this term and we hope when Friday lunchtime rolls around you have a wonderful summer holiday. The boys and girls have worked very hard and have shown how responsible they can be leading their own learning. We are very proud of them!

Miss McCormack & Mrs Canning

Fitness Fortnight Week 2 (1)

Primary Three have been working very hard this week. We are very impressed by the positive attitude that you continue to show in your learning!

In Literacy, we learned new spelling patterns through active spelling tasks. In Reading, we have been digging deeper into texts by using our Blooms Buttons to answer questions but also to create comic strips of a plot.  We continued to watch Newsround to develop our note taking skills and we used our notes to create our own version of Newsround. In Writing, we watched David Walliams read some of his book, ‘Gangsta Granny’ which we used as inspiration to create our own adventure stories using a family member as the main character.

In Maths, we learned all about Time. We know how to read a clock and some of us have had a go at adding time. We created a flyer for a fair and had to timetable all of the different events. We revised our knowledge of the seasons looking at the months, weather and wildlife you might expect to see. We used exercise to develop our estimation skills, guessing how many we could do in a set time and then having another go using a timer. We used this information to complete a table. We created a time table of our daily routines.

In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about different occasions that people would eat together. We created a set of rules for our dinner hall based on what we know about table manners.

In Social Studies, we learned more about Ancient Egyptians. We researched the River Nile and why it was so important to the Egyptians. We learned about a tool they used called a Shaduf and researched how to create our own. We also researched everyday life in Ancient Egypt and compared it to our own. We used the information we had gathered to complete a table.

In Science, we have been learning about Water. This week we created our own diagram to show the Water Cycle and how rain is created. Some of us completed an experiment to create rain in a bowl.

In Art, we learned about the artist Heather Galler. We looked at one of her famous paintings and discussed what other paintings of flowers we know. We used materials we had at home to create our own versions of the painting. This helped us learn about colour, tone, line and pattern.

Our Technology challenge this week was to design and create a chair using materials we had at home. We sat a toy on it to check it worked and made adaptions if it was too weak or too small.

We know that May is the Month of Our Lady. In RERC this week we have been learning to pray a decade of the Rosary to Mary. We looked at icons and pictures of Our Lady from around the world and drew our own picture of her. We know that Mary has many different names. We listened to three different hymns about her and wrote down all of the names she was called. We wrote these around her picture.