Can you believe we are in term 4 already! It’s going to be a busy term ahead with lots of learning and fun times. Please see the below links for our P1 and P2 Window into Learnings which will give details on the specific areas of learning for the children.
LVPS P2-1, P1 Window into Learning Term 4
LVPS P2-1, P2 Window into Learning Term 4
Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely Easter break. This week the children have enjoyed sharing their news from the holidays. It has been lovely to see their confidence when talking to their peers as they shared their news. We also held spontaneous talks about our family.
In Phonics P2 have been learning about silent letters with a particular focus on w and b. Mrs Clyne was impressed when Cara spotted some silent letters during one of our reading sessions. P1 have been continuing to learn set 3 sounds and focused on oa, a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e. They were successful learners when they used their knowledge of phonics to build words with these sounds.
In Maths P2 have been continuing to develop their understanding of length by measuring using centimetres and considering length within addition problems. P1 have been further developing their understanding of number bonds to 20 and enjoyed exploring these using Numicon.
As a school we have been learning about Children’s Rights and on Tuesday some of our class joined children from across the school to take part in an interview about our work on Children’s Rights. We were all delighted to hear today that the school had been awarded Silver Level accreditation for the Rights Respecting Schools Award.
Today we had a whole school assembly where we learned about Earth Day. Earth Day was founded to make people think about the Earth and how to look after it. This year’s theme is Invest in Our Planet. We talked about lots of ways we can help to look after the Earth including planting more trees, walking to school, litter picking and recycling. We also enjoyed learning a new song about how we can make a difference.
During our assembly Mrs Smith told us about World Vision and their Child Sponsorship programme. Over recent years, the school has been supporting a boy called Mulageta but he has now grown up and does not need our help anymore so we have a new sponsor, a 5yr old boy called Amza Augustine. We will be thinking about different ways that we can raise money to support Amza, his family and the village where he lives.
Today some children were acknowledged for their excellent treehouse designs for the Chief Forester’s Challenge STEM Competition 2022. Here is the picture of those who received certificates in our class.
We hope you have had a lovely week and enjoy a restful weekend.
Miss Whigham and Mrs Clyne
At the start of the week P2 discussed children’s rights, what these rights mean to them and how they can help others. Well done to the two pupils who represented P2 at the RRS accreditation meeting which took place this week. A big shout out to Mrs Smith and the whole school for achieving our Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award! This week P2 have been using rulers to measure in cm the length and height of things around the classroom. The children have also been practising their numeracy targets, some have been skip counting in 4’s while others have been counting on or back from a given number. In literacy the children have been revising sounds and spelling patterns with the ire, ure, and are sounds. Today in assembly we learned about Earth Day and thought about what we could do to help the environment. Please see below for the children’s comments:
Happy Earth Day!
Elyas – I liked learning about Earth Day. We have to learn how to look after the earth, we only have one earth. I am going to eat healthy and pick up litter.
Nathan – I like reading my book. It is called Cluck. The mum gave the girl an egg and it was hot!
Ella – We were learning about Rights. A right is something that you are born with.
Thea – I enjoyed learning about Earth Day. I wrote about it in my Free Writing Friday book. I am going to recycle bottles and plant trees!
Josh – I enjoyed my holiday in South Africa I took two planes and one taxi. It was twelve hours on the second plane and the first plane was one and a half hours. The taxi was half an hour so it was probably twenty hours all together when you add in airport time and taxi! It is good to be back in school to see my friends!
Willow – I have enjoyed doing numeracy. We have done measuring and we were using rulers to measure things!
Caleb – I was making a box for the Star Wars cards.
Jack – I have enjoyed Free Play. I was making a box with Star Wars cards in it and gems!
Oliver – I enjoyed PE. We were racing with the eggs and spoons to see who could collect the most eggs. It was difficult to balance the egg and go through the hoop!
Georgia – I liked the song we sang in assembly it was about kindness I think!
Alexander – I loved doing Free Play. We were playing a game with the cards. You had to put your hand through the hole and pick out a card. If you get a good one you get a point!
Rhy-Lee – We learned about Earth Day. We need to plant trees to help the earth!
Olivia – I liked PE yesterday. I thought it was great fun when we were doing the egg race including when we went over the benches. It reminded me of cheerleading because it has big beams you have to cartwheel across!
Louis – I love earth because I love nature and space. Today it Earth Day. I am going to pick up rubbish out off the sea!
Today marks the end of another busy term and we had great fun participating in our 2nd Digi Day. Thanks to our Digi Champs for planning such fun activities and to our P7 leaders for supporting us in our play. We have been playing Sumdog on the iPads and laptops, feeding Easter eggs to the teddy in the game Teddy Numbers on the Smartboard and tried to build a tower to hold an egg. We also had a visit from some P5s who had been busy building a vehicle and let us try it out!
This week we have been learning about Needs and Wants and considering Children’s Rights. We know that we need clean air, water, clothing, shelter and medicine to survive so these are the things we need. We discussed the things we would like to make life more comfortable and some of us wanted tvs, phones and computers. I wonder how many of us could live without these if we had to?
Our P7 leaders came to talk about Sustainability Goals and in particular Zero Hunger, they gave us a super presentation. We discussed that some people do not have much food and that we should be grateful for what we have to eat and not waste food. We talked about how some people do not have much food and need to use Foodbanks, we can help by giving donations to the Foodbank if we are able to.
In Literacy, we continued with revising set 2 and set 3 sounds and the P2s were practising words with consonant blends. In Numeracy, we have continued to practise our number bonds to 20 and we have begun to explore measure using a ruler.
In RME we were learning about why we celebrate Easter. Theo reminded us that “Easter is a celebration of Jesus’ sacrifice” and Ethan told us that people celebrate by having egg hunts. Cooper reminded us that “the egg is for the stone that was rolled away”.
Our Almondell House winners enjoyed a lovely egg hunt in the school garden and also enjoyed some Easter crafts in the gym hall.
Miss Whigham and I would like to wish all our children and families a very happy and safe Easter and we look forward to seeing the children back on Tuesday 19th April.
Today we were very excited to lead our first ever class assembly. We chose the theme of Mother’s Day because this Sunday is when we celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK and we can say thanks to our mums for everything they do for us. We drew some lovely pictures of our mums and told our audience why our mums are special to us. These are just some of the reasons we gave.
“My mum is special because we do lots of fun things together.” Cara
“My mum is special because she is kind to me.” Mohnish
“My mum is special because she cuts my hair and she is the best cook ever. She gives me brand new toys.” Dexter
“My mum is really funny. She plays pranks on me and tells me jokes and it makes me laugh.” Ethan
“My mum is special because she takes care of me and my family.” Dylan
“My mum is special because she makes yummy breakfast for me.” Jack
These are some of the beautiful pictures we drew of our mums.
As part of our assembly we learned some new songs but our favourite one was The Mother’s Day Song, have a listen and you’ll see all the great ways (or not!) we can help our mums. We have also been busy creating a special surprise for our mums which we are sure they are going to love!
In Numeracy this week we have practised odd and even numbers, revisited number bonds to 20 and begun to explore measurement by considering length and height. We had great fun trying to find items which were shorter and longer than a spoon and then we practised measuring different items in the classroom using non-standard units from around the class.
In literacy we have been revising our Set 2 and Set 3 sounds with a particular focus on consonant blends ng and nk for P2 and the split digraph i-e for P1. We have also been practising our red words to build up our fluency in reading. If you have time please practise these at home by clicking on this link, red-words.
This week we have been enjoying the lovely weather and we hope the sunshine continues over the weekend for our Mums’ special day! Have a great weekend.
In P3 this week, we have been learning…
In Numeracy and Maths, we started learning about fractions. Looking at the numerator, denominator and fraction bar. Then learned about unit and non-unit fractions. We used the concrete materials to build a Fraction Museum and took our partners on a tour of our Museum’s! We then were able to show our understanding of fractions by answering questions in a Kahoot quiz.
We took part in some wonderful lessons from the National Museum’s Scotland all about Dinosaurs which linked in well with British Science Week this week!
The STEM leaders worked with the class today to plant seeds into gloves using cotton wool balls. We will watch these grow and develop.
Happy Red Nose Day everyone!
Ella – I have enjoyed PE. We were doing hockey. I was dribbling with the ball and we were controlling the ball.
Grace – I liked going in the gym hall for assembly. It was about red nose day.
Josh – We were trying to stop the ball before it hits the white line. You had to keep the hockey stick on the right side and turn.
Kyra – I enjoyed crazy hair day. We are raising money for Red Nose Day!
Rhy-Lee – I enjoyed making seed bombs. We had to put water in the big bowl. Then we had to rip up paper and put it in the water. Ms King used a blender to mush it all up. Then we put in blue food colouring. We mixed in seeds. Then we put the seed bombs in the ice cube tray and let them dry.
Willow – I enjoyed making the seed bombs. We put a lot of paper into a bowl with water in it. Then we waited five minutes. We put food colouring in it. We mixed seeds in it. Then we put them in trays.
Alexander – we were doing hockey we were doing a race and had to control the ball around the cones and then come back. You had to dribble the ball all the way.
Louis – We made seed bombs. We needed scrunched up paper and some seeds. Then we put it into a tiny pot. Then they dry up and that’s when we can throw them.
Elyas – I liked doing the seed bombs. We put paper in bowl and then we blended it. Then we also put food colouring in and mixed it. We put flower seeds in and then also mixed that. Then we put them in little containers and waited for them to dry.
Olivia – I enjoyed doing the seed bombs. We needed to tear up paper in warm water and it felt so nice. Then Ms King used the blender and got covered in the paper mixture. We put in some food colouring and then we mixed in some seeds. Then we let it dry.
Oliver – I enjoyed PE. We were doing hockey. We were controlling the ball. We had to dribble through cones.
Caleb – We made a box to capture a Leprechaun. I made it so it was like a box and I would pull the stick back and that would shut the box.
Georgia – I liked free play. We were trying to play a song we really liked. I had a jingle thing and Willow had a clicker thing. Rhy-Lee had the tambourine and Kyra and Ella had the maracas. Grace was using the guitar.
Arianna – I liked crazy hair day. I had bunches.
Jack – I made a castle with the big blocks. We just stacked each brick and we made gaps for the gun holes.
It’s British Science Week and we’ve had great fun developing our knowledge and understanding of magnetism, minibeasts, growth and human blood.
We developed our understanding of magnetism by exploring a variety of different materials. We made some predictions about which items would stick to the magnets and which items would not. We concluded that metal items would stick but Dylan reminded us that not all metal things are magnetic and we decided that plastic things and items made from paper are not magnetic. We were interested in why sometimes the magnets push away from each and would like to explore this further.
On Tuesday we participated in the National Farmers Union’s Science Farm Live lesson Fantastic minibeasts and where to find them. We learned all about minibeasts, their habitats, and the important jobs they do for British farming. We developed our understanding of lots of new scientific vocabulary including the terms habitat, pollinator, exoskeleton and larvae. We hope to go on our own minibeast hunt when the weather gets a bit warmer.
On Wednesday our Young Stem Leaders from P7 led our learning and taught us about growth when they helped us to complete the Handy Garden activity. We planted a different seed in each finger of a glove and discussed what the seeds would need to grow. The gloves are taped to the classroom window and we are excited to see which seeds grow the best.
Mrs Clyne has been introducing us to the world of engineering and on Thursday we learned about Ameya who is a biomedical engineer. He likes to help people stay healthy and designs blood tests to see if people are ill. We read a story called A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers and made our own blood in class. We learned that our blood is made up of red blood cells which carry oxygen around our body, white blood cells which protect us against diseases (they wrap themselves around the germs and eat them) and platelets which form a plug to stop the bleeding when we cut ourself.
Today we celebrated Red Nose Day with a whole school assembly and crazy hair. Thanks to all who gave a donation, it is much appreciated and will be sent off to support Comic Reflief and their funding efforts to help the organisations that are supporting people in the Ukraine just now.
This week in P2-1 we have been busy developing our knowledge of place value within 50. We have been considering different ways of representating numbers and have been ordering and comparing numbers to 50. We have had great fun playing the Caterpillar Ordering game. Primary 1 have also been learning about quarters and enjoyed playing Karate Cats.
In Literacy P2 children have been revising the split diagraphs and the important job of Magic e in changing vowels from their sound to their letter name, for example, pin – pine, cub – cube. We enjoyed singing The Magic E Song . Primary 1 have been revising Set 2 sounds and impressed Mrs Clyne this week with their word building skills.
For Health and Wellbeing we tuned in to Authors Live with Tom Percival who was reading his book The River. It is a beautiful, thought-provoking story about managing unpredictable feelings and Tom showed us how to drawing emotions in our own illustrations.
Today we had our first whole school assembly since March 2020. We liked being with all the other classes and singing together. Miss Hamilton and some of the P7s were telling us more about Skipper and the tools he uses to help Build Resilience. We can use these tools to help us when things are not going so well.
Rory “I liked Fischy music in the assembly and counting to 100.”
Dexter “I really liked making the train station with the blocks.”
Minny “I liked drawing along with Tom in the Authors Live.”
Dylan “I enjoyed learning numbers to 50.”
Theo “I liked seeing our old head teacher back in the school.”
Cooper “I liked drawing with Tom.”
Hunter “I liked doing Maths and making halves.”
Cara “I liked seeing Mrs Mill back.”
