We have had a very busy and successful week in P3/2.  We have been finishing off our mini-topic in preparation for starting our new topic next week.  Our new topic is Castles.  We are working on and developing a number of areas within the core subjects this term.  Our literacy focus is imaginative writing and the children have been planning an imaginary story about ‘My Monster’!  In numeracy we have two focus areas: telling the time and fractions.  Please note that our PE days have changed to a Monday and a Wednesday.

Scottish/Burns mini-topic and assembly

The children did extremely well with this topic and enjoyed the challenge of learning through a variety of curriculum areas, including Literacy,  Numeracy, the Expressive Arts and Social Sciences.

Here are some examples of their fantastic work:

Some of the highlights of our mini-topic chosen by the children were:

• The challenge of designing and making their own bagpipes!  (I would like to offer a huge thanks to all Parents and Carers for your support with this homework task.  We were all completely blown away by the diversity and creativity of what you and the children came up with!)
• Learning words in Auld Scots.  The children all engaged in this extremely well and found some of the words very funny, for example ‘horn’ for spoon and ‘skinking’ for watery 🙂
• Learning ‘Strip the Willow’ for our assembly and as part of our PE program.

Personal and Social Development

On Thursday we made the most of the snowy weather and decided to take our learning outdoors!  The purpose of the lesson was to give the children a first hand experience of the importance of effective and appropriate behaviour when working as part of a team.  The class were split into groups and their task was to work together to build a snowman.  We have some fantastic photos which I will upload on Monday.

Success Stories

We had a number of individual success stories this week:

Star of the Week

I have introduced this to our class and will choose one child each week that shows skills, commitment and attitude over and above what is expected from them in line with the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence:  Successful Learner, Confident Individual, Responsible Citizen, Effective Contributor.

Our star of the week is Ryan.  Ryan won this award for his outstanding effort and commitment during the Scottish topic.

Ryan is a Successful Learner. 🙂

Well done Ryan!

Skillionaire

This week’s whole school target for Skillionaire was ‘Understanding’.  Our class winners were Nivyn and Emma for their excellent understanding and ability to translate a variety of words from the Auld Scots language.

Well done girls!

Next week’s target is ‘Evaluation’ … Good luck everyone! 🙂 🙂

Head Teacher Award

I am extremely proud to say that we had a number of children receive an award from Ms Macrae this week:

• Leona for super use of punctuation in her homework
• Sasha and Cara for consistently high level of effort in their homework
• Ryan for a fantastic Scottish Fact File

Well done and keep up the good work!

 

Well done P3/2, you have all worked extremely hard this week.    I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

See you on Monday.

Miss Preston x