We hope everyone had a great Easter and didn’t eat too much chocolate. We are now raring to go in our last term of Primary 3. Our highlights of the week include:

• We have entered a Radio Times Art competition. Designing a front cover for the Royal Wedding addition.
• We wrote imaginative stories about taking part in the Commonwealth Games for the Young Writer of the Year competition.
• In Maths we learnt about data handling. We sorted Commonwealth flags on Carroll Diagrams and Venn Diagrams.
• We had a reward afternoon.
• We learnt about the history of the Commonwealth Games and researched about some of the Scottish Athletes.
• We have been learning about verbs

We have been preparing for the Easter Fair this week and have been doing some quite messy art making Easter Cards for our stall. Our highlights of the week include:

• Learning about the Easter Story and writing about it.
• Doing some orienteering and maths outside.
• Taking part in the Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow competition
• Learning about Easter in France and how their bells fly to Rome on Good Friday before returning filled with chocolate on Easter Sunday.

We have been busy this week as we have had to prepare for our Mass all about St Joseph. Some of us had to do bidding prayers and we have had to practice the hyms. Our highlights of the week include:

• Learning about the charity SCIAF for whom we raised money with our Fairtrade raffle
• We wrote imaginative stories about Amazing Chocolate Bars inspired by our reading of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
• In our work about Fairtrade we learnt about farmers who grow cocoa beans and ‘The Journey of Chocolate’.
• In Maths we have been subtracting with 2 digit numbers without bridging
• We learnt about the life of St Joseph and gave our work to father Paul to look at.
• We were given our Heritage hero Certificates for our hard work during our Linlithgow topic.

Week beginning 5^th March 2018

It’s good to be back in school after all the snow from last week. We have been continuing our learning about Fairtrade. Thanks to Rosa for bringing in cake on her birthday to share and Ellie for some scrummy homemade bread. This week’s highlights include:

• We wrote Fairtrade Recipe’s and then made some Fairtrade Chocolate Cornflake Clusters on Wednesday
• We have organised a Fairtrade raffle using some items given to us by Tesco on our trip last week
• We have been continuing our work on subtraction in Maths
• We are celebrating World Book Day today
• We have been creating some artwork for Mother’s Day

Good Morning Primary 3. I wonder what you will get up to today? As the school is closed today I have attached some activities you can complete at home. In addition, can those children preparing for the Reconciliation Service please practice their prayers, particularly the Act of Sorrow.

Snow Day Primary 3

It’s been a short week but a hectic week with lots to talk about. It’s been Valentines day, Ash Wednesday, Pancake Day, Kai’s Birthday and Chinese New Year! This week’s highlights include:

• We made Valentine’s day cards
• We were given our ashes on Wednesday
• In Maths we have learnt about symmetry, creating symmetrical shapes and patterns
• We learnt about St Valentine during our reading comprehension work
• We have learnt a little about Chinese New Year
• In French we have been learning the days of the week. Il y a sept jours.

We have been learning historical facts about Linlithgow this week and we went on a tour of the town with Mrs Chalmers. As we write this Primary 3 would like to say thank you to Beatrix as we are enjoying her birthday cakes! This week’s highlights include:

• We have completed our work on time and we did an assessment of our work.
• We did some big maths beat that
• On Tuesday it was internet safety day and we created 5 rules to help us stay safe.
• We have been learning about the holy trinity.
• We used books and leaflets and the internet to find out more facts about Linlithgow
• Our walls have all be painted. We now have a white classroom!

Big news in Primary 3, our classroom is going to be painted so we have had to take everything off our walls! This week’s highlights include:

• We have been learning about the importance of trust in friendships and we read the story the fox and the crow.
• In writing we wrote imaginative stories about the palace.
• We have been designing a historical walking tour of Linlithgow using maps of the town to help us. We are looking forward to our walking tour on Monday.
• Mrs Logan came in on Wednesday to help us with our maths work on time. We have been learning to tell the time (half past, quarter past and quarter to).

This week we have been celebrating Scotland, with learning about Robert Burns and Poetry work. This week’s highlights include:

• We made information pages about Robert Burns
• In Maths we did some ‘Check Ups’ on our addition work
• In French, we played a snakes and ladders game to practice the french months
• We looked at our poems and translated them from Scots to English
• We attended Mass presented by P4.
• We have been practicing our Scottish Poems and we are performing them later today!
• In Re we had to correctly arrange the prayer ‘Our Father’
• We now have a display of the Mackintosh art we created last week.

It has been a very wintery week at school with lots of snow to play with outside. This week’s highlights include:

• We had shiny Friday where we got to work in our committees and masterclasses
• We have been creating some artwork in the style of Charles Mackintosh
• In Maths we have been learning to add using vertical recording and the three times table
• Some of us have started our Reconciliation lessons with Mrs Taylor
• Our value this week in Health and Wellbeing has been friendship
• We created Gruffalo wanted posters using Scots words
• We have been looking at and learning some Scots words and poetry
• We have been learning the months of the year in French