Welcome back! Primary 2 have had a great start to the term.  We have been drawing fruit and vegetable portraits in the style of the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.  We created a story map of the events of the story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’.  We have been measuring in non-standard units using our hand span and feet in the playground and classroom.

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.

Primary 2 have been learning all about Fairtrade this week.  We have been learning about the journey of the banana and designing Fairtrade Fortnight posters which were displayed at the Fairtrade community event on Friday night at Linlithgow primary.  We worked in pairs to produce a story map of the story of ‘Whistleless’ a bird who lost its whistle.  We used talking tins to record our stories putting the events in the correct order.  We dressed up on Friday to celebrate ‘World Book Day’.

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