Although this week has been a short one, we have managed to pack a lot of learning in!

In Numeracy, Mrs. Shankland introduced us to a resource called Numicon that helps us to see numbers in a new way. We were able to explore how numbers bond together and made the stories of 10 and 20. Concrete materials are a great help when we are working with numbers and we are excited to use  the Numicon tiles again.

In Writing with Miss Henderson, we have been focusing on using the senses to make our writing come to life. After Miss Henderson marked our jotters she identified the next steps in our learning are to use more varied openers and connectives. We will try hard over the coming weeks to improve our openers and connectives!

In Grammar and Punctuation with Mrs. Robertson, we have been looking at how to punctuate speech accurately. We used comic strips to identify direct speech and were able to use inverted commas (66 and 99) to punctuate dialogue. This is a punctuation skill that is new to some of us and we need to keep practising! After our lesson some of us were discussing the use of speech marks in our reading books. This shows that we are beginning to link our learning across Literacy areas.

Our P3 pupils went to Dechmont Infant School on Friday to take part in a potted sports event. The children thoroughly enjoyed their day and all came back sporting (no pun intended) a gold medal!

Our P4 pupils took this opportunity to group together with Miss Clark’s P4s and we took part in some heats for our upcoming Gala Sports day. 3 boys and 3 girls from P4 have to be selected to take part. We will keep you informed when we have made a final decision on who is taking part.