Category: School Updates

In math’s P2 have been learning about measure. We all put our measuring skills to the test using informal units. Our focus was on length and height. Firstly, we worked in pairs to estimate the length or height of a classroom object. Then we measured it and recorded our results. We also compared objects and tried to use language such as short/shorter, long/longer, tall/taller.

Emily measured one of our books and was able to explain that it was 27cm long!

Ciaran had a great idea and used two rulers to measure the height of a chair. He was able to explain that by adding the two measurements together he would find the total.

The following day, we all focussed on using rulers to measure length in (cm). We made objects, shapes and lines out of play dough to measure! Although our focus was on whole numbers, some of us were able to understand and measure in cm with a decimal point.

Literacy

In pairs we tried a new literacy game called read and roll. We sounded our words out that had our sounds in them that we had been learning this week. We did this with a partner and it was great fun!

On Thursday morning, we were looking at the purpose of persuasive writing. We have focussed on this before, but we wanted to have one last go at it! As we all knew, the Deans Gala Day was on Saturday so we decided to create a persuasive poster that included some persuasive sentences to encourage people to attend. Miss Beattie was very impressed with our eye catching posters and the ideas/sentences we came up with that would convince others to come along!

P2 were also learning about the responsibilities of owning a pet. The RSPCA kindly gave us some resources to use in class. We were given a travel cage that had 2 robotic rabbits in it, a water bottle, 2 food bowls, a syringe (without the needle) and a blanket. As a class, we discussed the importance of having the right products for good rabbit ownership. We each got a chance to handle the robotic rabbits to demonstrate how to hold a rabbit properly, especially so the animal feels safe.  We gained lots of knowledge and we feel more confident about caring for pets such as rabbits.

The RSPCA also had a chat with P1-3 and gave us more information about pets and wild animals in Scotland.

Finally, it was time to say goodbye to 4 of our little amphibian friends. They started off as frog spawn and we watched them grow from tadpoles into little froglets. As the froglets now have lungs they need to eat small insects which we can’t provide them with in class, so it was time to release them back into the wild. Miss Beattie dropped them off at a local pond where they can now grow into adult frogs!

P2 have been super busy this week!

We enjoyed an afternoon of health and wellbeing. We have been learning a lot about this subject and our mascot Jigsaw Jo has been very proud of all our hard work. We wanted to find out more about what a balanced diet looks like and where different types of food belong.  We worked as a whole class to organise our food into the eat well plate.

We had the author Chris Duke visit our school on Tuesday. He wrote the book called “Lucy’s Blue Day”. This linked in well with all of our health and wellbeing lessons and we know that it is ok to feel lots of different emotions. It is important that we learn to talk about them! The talk given by the author was inspiring.

In the past few weeks, P2-P4 have been taking part in vertical learning. It has been going so well and the children are thoroughly enjoying the experience. This week I had the “Jane Goodall” group and we were learning all about adaptation and how marine animals are able to live in the ocean. We watched a few clips from “Our Planet”, we had lots of discussions and we asked each other lots of different questions. Our main activity was having to create our own marine animal using our imagination and we had to show two ways that it had adapted so it was able to survive in the ocean!

Yesterday afternoon, P2 were learning all about the Spanish artist/architect called Gaudi.  He used a special technique that involved mosaic tiles. He broke colourful tiles into smaller pieces and stuck them together to make a new creation. This technique is called “trencadis.” P2 thought his art work looked amazing and it looked like he was putting together a jigsaw puzzle! We especially loved Gaudi’s dragon found in Parc Guell in Barcelona.

We decided we wanted to create some art work of our own using Gaudi’s famous technique. We used scissors, glue sticks and we cut up small pieces of coloured paper to make them look like mosaic tiles.

Today, Joe brought in a model boat that he made out of wood with his Grandpa! It looks fantastic and it has a lot of detail. Guess what? It can even stay afloat! P2 are so so impressed! You have worked very hard, especially seeing as you finished this in 1 week. Well done Joe, keep up the great work.