Category: Achievement

As part of Book Week Scotland Primary 2 received their Read, Write, Count bags. As a class we read the book the Biggest story and used this as inspiration to try and write our own imaginative stories. We were confident individuals when  playing the game act it out where one person would act out an animal, object or sport and the rest of the class had to try and guess what it was.

To celebrate children in need today we took part in the live Joe Wicks work it out quiz and workout where we had to work out the answers to 20 general knowledge questions and act out the answers. We managed to get all of the questions right but we were very tired by the end of it!!

This week P5 have been showing how they are successful learners as they have demonstrated a good understanding of their class novel. The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie, through a variety of activities.

 

A fitting way for us to finish our learning about WW2. We made our own poppies for Remembrance day. We wore them to go and lay a wreath at the memorial in Pumpherston. We walked from the school to the memorial  on a beautiful sunny morning to lay the wreath from the school. We spent some time there thinking about the soldiers who had given their lives for us. We also had a minute silence in remembrance of all lives lost from WW1 until today,  in conflict.

 

P4 have been successful learners by demonstrating their problem solving skills.  They were each given a different word problem to solve and used their knowledge of multiplication and division strategies to solve them.  They also remembered to answer in a sentence.

This week in Primary 2 we have been looking at our persuasive writing. We watched a reading of the book ‘Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus’ and then identified all of the ways the pigeon tried to persuade us to let him drive the bus. We then worked together to come up with a list of reasons for why we thought he shouldn’t drive the bus. #effectivecontributors

After we had our list of reasons for both sides, we had a go at being persuasive ourselves, by writing a letter to the bus driver. Our letters had to either persuade him to let the pigeon drive the bus or persuade him not to let the pigeon drive the bus. We used out knowledge of the four sections of persuasive writing (Title, Statement of Position, Series of Arguments and Concluding statement) to help us structure our letter. Here are some examples :

This week we have been learning to multiply 2 digit numbers by 10. We have been using concrete materials to demonstrate what is happening. By using concrete materials the children become confident individuals because they can see what is happening,

  These are the fantastic WW2 Anderson shelters that were brought in as part of the class home learning, choice board tasks. I am absolutely delighted at the work and detail that has gone into making these. We have all really enjoyed this topic and will be able to apply some of what we learned to our new Discrimination topic.

This week in Primary 2 we have been listening out for our word boost words in our story Goat Donkey and the Noise Downstairs. We have added them to our word wall alongside the words we have learned from our first two stories (Who’s at the door & The Storm).

In numeracy we have been learning about place value. We are practising using concrete materials as well as digital resources to help us work out our hundreds, tens and units.

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