Category Archives: P2/1

A busy second last week of term in P2/1!

My apologies for not posting this last week but here is a little update of a few of the things that we have been doing even though it is just about holiday time!

As you may have seen on Twitter we have enjoyed learning about the Scottish artist Steven Brown and were even more delighted that he retweeted our post and obviously some pictures of our art work too.  I’m sure you’ll agree that there could well be some famous artists in P2/1 some day soon! Here a few more of the finished McCoos.

As the weather was nice last week we went outside to do some “wild writing”.  This is part of the outdoor classroom initiative and we were able to write about anything we chose although spiders did seem to feature in quite a lot of the stories.

One of the reading groups was recently reading about a book about World Instruments which included the didgeridoo.  MissMcDermott just happened to have a didgeridoo in her loft so she gave it a good clean and we all had a go at trying to play it. However, it was not as easy as it looked so we did some internet research ( which also said it was fun and easy!!!) and gave it another go.  With a lot of perseverance we finally managed – well, some of us did!

On Thursday some of the P6a buddies game to our classroom to join us in playing a variety of maths games.  We have been practising telling the time and money skills throughout the year and these are something that ideally we need to keep practising over the holidays. We would like to say a big thank you to the buddies for all their help this year!

P2/1 sun safety videos

As part of our  Health and Wellbeing learning P2/1, have  been learning about staying safe in sunny weather. You can watch us singing our sun  safety song on these video clips.  Well done to all the boys and girls who dressed up – we had hoped to make our video outside but as you probably know it has more or less poured with rain all week in Linlithgow! Fingers crossed we can practise our sun safety tips throughout the summer holidays! 😊

https://vimeo.com/220784385

https://vimeo.com/220784461

P2/1 celebrate 50 years of LPS!

This  week we have enjoyed lots of birthday celebrations including sharing our learning about 1967 – the year our school opened at Preston Road.  Thank you very much to everyone who came along on Wednesday evening and well done to the tour guides who certainly seemed to have learned lots!

Today the children looked fantastic in their 1960s costumes. They enjoyed the 1960s disco which was organised by P7a.  The class did not go together today but with their P1 or P2 peer group which they seemed to enjoy.

After a very busy day we enjoyed some ginger beer (a favourite of Enid Blyton!) and a little piece of Mr Kipling cake ( first sold in 19671) to toast “Happy 50th Birthday!” to Linlithgow Primary School.

 

P2/1 Golden Time Visitors!

If you read our blog regularly you will know that we love having visitors in P2/1!  Today we had some very special visitors because they were invited by the P2 children in our class and came along to join us for Golden Time.

The P2 children wrote invitations to their friends in P2a and P2b and delivered them this morning.

 

Then at Golden Time we were delighted that they could join us.  Everyone played very nicely and Mrs Smith brought in a special game called Bagatelle which we enjoyed playing too.

Over the next few weeks the P1 children will have the opportunity to invite their friends to come along and join us for Golden Time too.

P2/1 and P6a – Outdoor Classroom Day

This afternoon P2/1 and P6a celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day by taking part in a joint scavenger hunt around the school grounds.  The theme was weight and measure which is the focus for P2/1 maths learning at the moment.  The children had a long list of things to find and do – some of them much trickier than others! Here are just some of the photographs.

Primary Engineer Young Leader!

Last month P7 and P2 and P2/1 were learning all about engineers and engineering skills. We found out about what engineers do and the process they use to solve problems and design solutions.  As part of this, the pupils identified a problem in today’s world that they wanted to solve and designed a machine to solve it.  These designs were entered into the Primary Engineers Young Leader Award.

After sorting through over 20,000 entries, the experts at Primary Engineers selected Aimee from P7A as a prize winner for her design for a rubbish bin!  She is now on the shortlist for the overall winner from each age group.

The shortlisted entries go on show at Barony Hall, Glasgow on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th June 2017.  Good Luck Aimee!

https://universeofengineering.com/primary-engineer-leaders-award/

P2/1 learn about 1967

This term P2/1 are learning about 1967 – the year that the school opened on Preston Road. We are creating some displays to share our learning at our open evening in a few weeks and we really hope that you will come along.

Today we were learning about February 1967 and our team challenge was to create our own Sooty, Sweep and Soo puppet shows. Here are just few photos and  video clips – more will follow of the other groups next week.

Cluster K’Nex Challenge

A fantastic morning with Primary 6 pupils from all cluster schools coming together to take part in a Cluster K’Nex Challenge. The teams had to construct a wheelbarrow to carry a house brick through a challenging obstacle course.  The wheelbarrows were all tested in the gym hall and the ‘ladder of doom’ ended the fate of many of them. All of the teams did a brilliant job and a huge well done to Winchburgh Primary who constructed the wheelbarrow which was the most successful.

Our team of master constructors and their model, well done boys.

P2/1 Famous Artists – Picasso

As part of our famous artists topic this term we have been learning about Picasso and have been very busy creating our own Picasso style art works.

We took part in in a whole class challenge to make funny faces – everyone drew  2 eyes, a nose and a mouth and then we swapped.  The challenge was to make to make sure that we each still  had 2 eyes, a nose and a mouth at the end before we glued them together!

We learned that when Picasso was sad he painted using shades of blue and this was called The Blue Period.  We mixed different shades of blue and created our own “Blue Period” paintings.

This term we are practising to write our surnames. So, just like Picasso, we have been signing our artwork with our surnames!

We have been enjoying listening to the stories The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home.

We took part in a team challenge to use crayons to draw things the wrong colour – just like in the story!

 

P5b authors visit P2/1 to read rainforest stories!

This morning P2/1 were delighted to welcome some authors from P5b who had written and illustrated their own rainforest stories.  As well as reading their stories to the boys and girls they had made some super props too!  Thank you very much P5b  – you have obviously been working very hard and had lots of good ideas – we enjoyed your listening to your stories.