It’s been another busy week in Primary 2! In our learning about Road Safety, we explored safe crossing places and discussed the importance of holding an adult’s hand when crossing the road. In numeracy we have been finding numbers ‘more than’ and ‘less than’ and making numbers to 20 using practical materials. We also practised handwriting some patterns and the tall letter ‘l’ and had great fun creating art magic pictures using crayon and paint. In gym, we practised aiming with a small ball at a target and played some team games. This week we also chose our representatives for the Pupil Council and we are pleased to announce that Poppy and Arya will represent Primary 2 this year. They are very excited and  looking forward to their first meeting on Tuesday!

This week we have been thinking about our mindset for learning. We have been working on some positive thinking and how to change what we say to be more open to new things. For example “I can’t do it.” becomes “I can’t do it yet.” or “I’m not as good as she is.” becomes “She is good at this, maybe she can help me.”

We have also been looking at our rights and have learned many more that we didn’t know about before.

We have elected our Pupil Council representatives for the year and they are Ben and Elise. The great thing was that 8 people went for it and some had to overcome lots of nerves to stand up and say their bit. I am very proud of them.

During our reflection time this week there was a common theme around applications for House Captains and Sports Captains.

Holly – Writing my Sports Captain speech was so hard. I couldn’t decide what to say.

Emmie – I had so many things to say in my House Captain speech and it was hard to decide which ones to keep so it didn’t go on too long.

Kaitlyn – The House Captain speech was hard to write because I’ve never done anything like that before.

Katie – I feel like in my writing I don’t use big words but I did in my speech for Sports Captain and in my poem too. I am getting better at writing.

Harry – I did better than I thought I would in the basketball trials. I enjoyed writing my House Captain speech even though it took me about 4 times to get it right.

Well done P7. Your willingness to give things a go is most impressive, and also I love the way you don’t just accept ‘good enough’ and always try to improve. That’s growth mindset in action.

We’ve had another busy week!

Newsround reported on the fact that energy drinks could soon be banned for under 18s.  This caused some debate so we investigated why energy drinks are harmful to children and young people and wrote a short report on our findings.

“Energy drinks have lots of sugar and caffeine which can affect your brain negatively and also how you behave.” – Zoe

“They can make you feel dizzy, have chest pains and you can also start shaking.” – Finlay

“They can cause you to put on extra weight because there’s so much sugar.” – Leon

Miss Greig taught us how to say and order the days of the week in Spanish.

“It was really fun and I loved the games!” – Katy

“I liked the game that you had to put the post it notes on the board!” – Luke

“I enjoyed the song!” – Leon

“We all thank Miss Greig!” – Charlie

Some people delivered a short talk to the class about why they should vote for them to represent P6 in the Pupil Council.  Our winners were Luke and Aiden.

“I’m thankful for all my votes!” – Aiden

“I’m happy to be representing P6!” – Luke

Some people tried out for the Basketball team this week and are looking forward to finding out on Monday.

In maths we spent some time exploring what is meant by place value and we worked from thousandths all the way up to billions.  We got to grips with using Cuisenaire rods again and we had a go at representing 2 and 3 digit numbers using the Base 10 materials.

“We played a good game (Who Wants to be a Hundredaire?) but it was quite hard.We did it in the end!” – Rowan, Charlie & Natalie

We watched a video about Whitaugh Park (school camp) after letters were sent home this week.

“I’m really excited for all the activities!” – Rowan

“I can’t wait to see the lodges.  There will be no adults in our room!” – Ainslie

“I hope we get to do the abseiling and archery.” – Charlie

“I hope we do the same activities as my sister’s year because she said it was really fun and exciting!” – Callum

“I hope we get to do the flying fox/swingy thing!” – Logan F

We also completed our Class Charter (with the exception of a few bits to finish from people who were absent). The rights we chose to be reminded of are:

Article 13 – You have the right to find out things and share what you think with others, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people.

Article 29 – Your education should help you to use and develop your talents and abilities.  It should also help you learn to live peaceful, protect the environment and respect other people.

Article 31 – You have the right to rest and play.

It’s been a lovely start to the new school year and P2 have settled in very well to their new class. This week we have been establishing classroom routines and the children can now order their lunches independently! We began our Road Safety topic by discussing and drawing pictures of safe places to play. Next week we will explore safe places to cross the road and begin learning the Green Cross Code. In numeracy we revised number sequences to 20 and played some fun interactive maths games to help us work out the number before and after. We also enjoyed our welcome back assembly led by Mrs Mill where we discussed our school values.