This week has been a busy one in Primary 3G. We started the week by discussing and adding to our new class ‘learning pit’ display, linking this to our understanding of Growth Mindset thinking skills. On Tuesday we got to put these skills into action as we took part in a tennis workshop where pupils definitely showed a growth mindset as they worked hard to develop some tricky tennis skills by showing perseverance and not giving up.

We are moving on to look more at imaginative writing in class and have started to develop some story plans, thinking carefully about the detail we can include in our writing to make sure all readers are entertained and interested.

Within maths a new topic of Time has been introduced. This is something that pupils can also begin working on at home as they identify a range of different times on an analogue clock face. ‘O’clock’ and ‘half past’ times have been covered so far in class.

Self-reflection and assessment has been successful in the class too as pupils did a great job of identifying progress and achievements across the curriculum and these were shared and discussed at parent’s evening. We will continue to record our progress and plan next steps for learning as we get into the final term of P3.

Overall, the pupils in P3G have done a wonderful job of making me feel very welcome as a new teacher at Murrayfield and we are all looking forward to sharing our learning with everybody throughout the rest of the school year.

Miss Calder