It has been a busy week back in P2 after the holidays. We had a lovely chat all about our holidays and got straight back into our learning again. Pupils were very keen to get back to learning about our Space project and we were looking at the International Space Station this week. We have continued looking at division in numeracy and begun looking at symmetry and measuring in maths. We enjoyed working with random partners to talk about our writing on information reports.
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This week in P2
It has been a very busy couple of weeks in P2 with lots of activities going on. We have been looking at division through sharing using playdoh to help us. We have had a visit from an author to read some of his books to us as well. We started looking at measuring and measured the elves using a ruler and then put them into height order. We have also been learning how to say a festive phrase in different languages as well. We all very much enjoyed our Christmas party and had lots of fun and snacks.We hope you all have a lovely holiday and we will see you again in January. 
Language Learning Across the School
Our 1+2 Languages ambassadors have done a great job of promoting languages this term across the school. They suggested having a Languages ‘Advent Calendar’ where every day in December classes would learn how to say ‘Merry Christmas’ in a different language. All of our pupils really loved doing this and it gave them a chance to share the different languages spoken at home by many of our children and their families. We also learned a lot about different cultures and customs across the world at this time of year. Here are some children from Mrs Turner’s class enjoying their daily dose of languages!
Five Sisters Zoo for The Hive
Eoin and Dan have had a lovely few weeks at the Five Sisters Zoo. We saw lots of animals, and even got to feed some. We have learned a lot about the animals and their habitats.
Santa Letters in The Hive
The Hive children have been getting very excited about Christmas. Our Writing lesson was writing a letter to Santa. We used the Smyths toy magazine for inspiration and ideas. Fingers crossed we get what we asked for!!
Microbit coding in P6
Much like a tiny, pocket-sized computer, the micro:bit encourages us to learn basic coding and programming skills to prepare us for today’s tech-savvy world. We were having great fun with coding using Micro:Bits. We made some flashing animations and then had a turn at coding the game ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’.
I can explore core programming language concepts in appropriate technical language TCH2-14a
TV Star in P7/6!
Our very own Erynn in P7/6 was lucky enough to audition for and get a part in the CBBC Live Saturday Mash up!
Her and her mum went on the show and had to sing songs and finish the lyrics or get slimed! Erynn won the show and even got a prize!
We are very proud of you Erynn, congratulations!
This week in P2
This week in P2 we began looking at division using sharing to help us. We used play-doh to show how to share equally. We have been discussing the skills we use in our lessons and thinking about where else we might use these. We really enjoy our handwriting lessons each week and use Ruby our noise dragon to help us focus on our learning. We have also been learning how to say Merry Christmas in a different language each day looking at the languages that people in our school speak. Lots to look forward to over the next couple of weeks!
Book Week Thanks!
A huge thank you to everyone who came along to school recently to support our learning and enjoyment of books as part of Book Week Scotland.
A very special thank you to all of our wonderful Secret Readers who volunteered to read to classes as part of our Book Week celebrations. Sometimes our lovely volunteers can feel a little daunted at the prospect of reading aloud to classes, but we would like them to know how much we value their support. It is so important that pupils can see that other adults read, not only teachers in school. The classes love having a visitor and they enjoyed a wide range of great stories.
We had many parents and carers visiting our Travelling Book Fair. Thanks to the purchases made we received commission and this will be used to buy reading resources for our learners.
We are very grateful to you all for supporting reading enjoyment and the love of books in our school.
P3 Literacy
We have been learning how to write a discussion this term. We have to think about arguments for and against a topic. We have completed several this term including ‘Should we get a class pet?’ and ‘Should children be made to wear school uniform?’. We write our plan one day and then the nest we write our Discussion text. We have been trying really hard to remember our capital letters and full stops and are getting better at using our word logs for spelling.
We have started learning about verbs. We have been copying actions in a song and coming up with actions of our own. We have worked with random partners to find verbs in a passage and come up with sentences using interesting verbs.
