It has been a very busy few weeks in P3/2C. We have been learning lots about our new topic Food and Farming. We even paired up with a farm in Stafford shire and had a Skype chat with Katie the farmer where she answered our questions and showed us around the farm. She even sent us the winning rosettes that her Border Leicester sheep won.
It is also maths week this week and we have been taking part in many different activities to support our addition skills. What a fab and very busy week.
In term 4 last session, our Primary 7 and Primary 7/6 pupils were lucky to work with Fiona Shaw from Education Scotland – Fiona’s role is to work with schools to ensure everyone has equality of opportunity, particularly with careers and subject choice. Pupils engaged with a variety of tasks which raised awareness of stereotypes . There was a lot of thought provoking conversations which really made them all consider unconscious bias. Our staff are excited to welcome Fiona Shaw back to East Calder, along with the staff from Kirknewton Primary, for more work on improving the gender balance and stereotypes in our October In Service day.
This week is Maths week and we have been looking at visualising numbers. This helps us get a picture in our mind of how big or small numbers are and how we can show this. We looked at how patterns can help us to count and work out amounts quickly.
We coloured in dot patterns to show numbers to 30.
We drew long lines with chalk in the playground and we had to visualise where the numbers would go on the line.
We cut out dots of coloured card and used them to show 2 digit and 3 digit numbers…and even 4 digit numbers!
Well Done P3R! Super number work.
Its great to be back!
