We have had another jam packed week in P3/2.

PE

We had a visit from Andy for a Jammin’ Fitness session on Monday … We all had a fantastic time learning a variety of new dance routines!

                               

HWB (Interdisciplinary Learning)

Our Health and Well-being focus for this term is teamwork.   We have been developing and self-evaluating our team-work skills through a variety of activities and areas of the curriculum this week.

Castle models: In our topic groups we have been applying our knowledge of the features of a castle to design, plan and build a model castle. The results have been fantastic!

 

Problem Solving: We had a ‘problem solving carousel’ afternoon on Wednesday. Each station required us to use a different problem solving skill. As each station required a different skill it was not what the children were used to! I was extremely impressed with the honesty and true self-reflection shown by each and everyone of them. As a class we have decided that this is an area of teamwork we need to develop and we will definitely do again.

 

Busy busy bees 🙂

Numeracy

Investigating a variety of strategies for our number work is an area we are going to be focusing on. We are doing this through our mental maths and numeracy problem solving lessons.

 

We are continuing to work on Time and Fractions.  All the children are working extremely well on both these subject area.  Telling the time and fractions, particularly when you move on from fraction of a shape to fraction of a number can be exceptionally difficult concepts to grasp.

 

Literacy

As ‘imaginative writing’ is the whole-school focus for this term, in P3/2 we used a ‘Spooky Castle’ picture as a stimulus for our writing this week. This was only the second time we had used a picture as a stimulus for writing and already it is clear to see a development in the children’s imaginative writing.

Successes

Head teacher awards

I am extremely proud to say that we have 4 head teacher awards from P3/2 this week!

Zander was given his award for his fantastic effort in the Medieval weapon homework challenge!

Sasha, Cara and Anton all received their awards for their consistently high level of effort in their Reading Journal homework

Skillionaire

Cara and Anna were our class winners this week for the Skillionaire challenge of ‘Analysing’.

Well done girls!!

This week’s Skillionaire challenge is Remebering.   Good luck everyone.

Star of the Week

This week’s Star of the Week is Zander!

Zander has been working extremely hard on improving his spelling, he is showing some fantastic imaginative writing skills and handed in his amazing homework challenge weapon just ONE day after the challenge was set!

Well done Zander! Keep up the good work!

NEXT WEEK

We have an extremely busy week ahead of us next week!!

On Wednesday we have our class trip to Edinburgh Castle (apologies once again for the mix-up with the consent forms. However, it did prove to be a perfect example/lesson on the risks of making mistakes if you try to do too much and rush your work!).

On Friday we have something extremely important to do! …. WATCH THIS SPACE!!

Our class has been chosen to not only represent Murrayfield PS but the whole of West Lothian in an exciting writing activity via GLOW. Full details to follow!

We would like to wish Morgan all the very best in her new school! Good luck Morgan!

Miss Preston x