We have had a very special week in P3/2 this week.
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On Wednesday we went to Edinburgh Castle with our friends from Miss Adam’s P3 class. The children had a fantastic time and all behaved impeccably. I was extremely proud when a lady came up and commented on how well behaved, engaged and sweet the children were. Well done P3/2, you are a credit to yourselves and Murrayfield PS.
Some of our favourite parts of the day were looking at all the weapons on display in the Great Hall, the Prison of War and the looking at the canons and imagining we were firing at the enemy! 🙂 I believe the children got a lot out of the trip as it let them see in a real context what we have been learning in class.
Hammocks in the Prison of War Being locked in a cell! Lauren trying out one of the beds
“Miss Preston, let us out!!!”
Digital Story Writing
Today we were extremely privileged to be chosen as the one and only class to represent all of West Lothian primary schools in a Digital Story Writing activity that has been running all week via GLOW. Each day one class from a different region across Scotland has written a part of the story. Today it was our turn to write the penultimate part. The children came up with some fantastic ideas and myself, Ms Macrae and Mrs Bruce were blown away by the adjectives, adverbs and general vocabulary provided!!
A HUGE well done to each and everyone of the class!!
The story can be found by following this link. We wrote chapters 18 and 19.
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/learners/storytelling1/SitePages/Home.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
Planning our part Posing after completing our part
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The class have been working with Ms Miller over the past few weeks on Chinese New Year. They have created some super art work which we have on display within our class. This week the children were making ‘Hong Boa’ little red money envelopes. Pics will be uploaded on Monday.
Art
We have been using our topics of Scotland/Burns and Castles as the basis for our art work this term. Here are some pictures of our class – I am sure you will agree it is looking fantastic!
Our Castle Classroom Some of our tartan and castles
Reading & Grammar
We are trying out a new system for reading and grammar lessons. We had our first ‘carousel’ of activities on Thursday and we were very lucky to have Ms Macrae pop in to see us all hard at work. The aim of the carousel is to let the children take part in a variety of activities while learning grammar rules. I will keep you up to date as to how this goes.
Successes
Our class won the Fair Trade contest with an amazing 121 Fair Trade wrappers/stickers collected over the two weeks.
We won lots of Fair Trade goodies 🙂
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Danny for remembering facts about jobs in a castle & Leona for remembering her spelling sounds and patterns.
Star of the Week
Our star of the week this week is Nivyn. She won her award as an Effective Contributor.
I am sure you will agree that this has been an extraordinary busy and varied week! I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and enjoys a well earned rest!
Miss Preston x
What a fantastic time you’ve had P3/2! I wonder if you heard any voices speaking French when you were down in the Prison of War at Edinburgh Castle?
Of all your hard work, I particularly like your contributions to ‘The Unknown Secret’ digital story. Talk about teamwork! Children from all over the country were involved. I was lucky enough to meet Cathy MacPhail a few months ago, she is a fantastic writer and a lovely person. Did you know that she won an ‘Scottish Children’s Book Award’ last week for her latest novel, so she’s been almost as busy as you!
Keep up the good work P3/2