P2 had a wonderful time at Edinburgh Castle on Thursday this week for our class trip. We have been learning about Scotland and looking at castles and the different defences that some castles had. We learned so much about Edinburgh castle, it was brilliant!
Last week we were visited by a lady from The Dogs Trust.
‘We learned how to be safe around dogs’ Mia.
‘We should be quiet around dogs and if they have taken one of your socks or toys tell and adult. Be gentle, they don’t want cuddles, they want a wee stroke. Leave dogs alone when they are eating.’ Kayla.
‘We were seeing what kinds of buildings were in Main Street’ Mia.
‘We drew pictures of the buildings in Main Street. We made a pictogram to show the information.’ Alexus.
‘We were playing with the parachute in PE. We had to run underneath. We made a tent and sat underneath. We sat on it to hold it down.’ Fawn.
We had fun.
This week in P2 we have been busy creating for our East Calder project all about East Calder Main Street. We have been creating some of the businesses and houses you might see on the street. We have created leaflets all about what you might see on East Calder Main Street. We were lucky to have Dog’s Trust in to speak with us about how to take care of dogs and keep them happy as well this week. It was great!
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It has been a busy week back from the Easter holidays in P2. We have been working on capacity in maths and measuring different sizes of containers to see what they would hold. We played maths games in numeracy to continue working on our addition and subtraction skills and we have enjoyed working on our handwriting on the desks.
We have been working hard on tally charts and data handling in maths and we have begun to look at creating our own bar charts. We have enjoyed looking at procedure texts in writing and creating our own. We have been working hard practising for our Easter assembly this week as well. It was also our last session with our music project leader, Dave, we were very sad to see him go but we loved having him at ECPS for our music sessions this term.
This week in P2 we took part in science week and did the curly wurly challenge. We had to work in teams to try and stretch the curly wurly as much as possible and then measure it to gather our results. We have been looking at tally marks and graphs in numeracy this week and created our own data. It has been great to see that during the pupils play they have been working on numeracy and maths skills as well. Lots of exciting things happening in P2 before the Easter holidays.
‘This week we have been learning about Barbara Hepworth. She made sculptures.’ Alfie.
‘We used clay to make shape sculptures.’ Kayla.
‘Mine was called the Tunnel Tree’ Leonor.
It was Science Week this week. Mrs Beattie set us all a challenge.
‘We had to stretch a curly wurly’ Mia.
‘We had to warm it up first’ Maris.
‘If we didn’t warm it up it would break’ Jenson.
Our longest curly wurly was 110 cm!
Hi everyone,
Our children in Nursery have been very busy playing and learning – please find out more from our latest Nursery Newsletter.
Chess club have been learning about the rules of chess and how to correctly set up a chess board. We spent time learning about all of the pieces on the board before beginning to challenge each other in our chess league.
