Primary 3

November 10, 2022

Primary 3 Weekly Update

This week in Primary 3 we have been very busy.

Numeracy – We have been continuing to develop our knowledge of how to skip count in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s up to and beyond 100. We have been looking for patterns when skip counting, using a 100 square to help us.

Literacy – Miss Walkingshaw modelled a lesson on how to create a narrative piece of writing. The story was called ‘The day where everything was backwards’. We loved helping her create this piece of writing and can’t wait to write our very own narrative stories next week.

Music – This week we have been practising our songs for the Nativity and learning about ‘pulse’ using our new resource – Charanga. We loved finding the pulse in different pieces of music and completed the GOLD level!

Well Done Medal Card by Katie Phythian from The Dotty House

Our focus for next week is to work on our manners and being a kind friend.

November 4, 2022

P3 Weekly Update

This week we have been developing our knowledge of how to use a 100 square. We wanted to learn how to use this properly as we realised that this would help us with a lot of our learning.

We also completed our second week of Fun Fitness Friday with James from Broxburn Athletic FC where we built on our knowledge of positive mental health and found out more about the importance of water.

September 9, 2022September 8, 2022

P3 Weekly Update

This week we have been focusing on learning our common words. We have been completing active learning tasks to help us with doing this.

In numeracy, we have been focusing on our knowledge of number bonds using Numicon and number lines. In maths, we have been recapping our knowledge of time where we focused on telling o’clock and half past on an analogue clock. We used many interactive resources to help us with this.

Well done to our certificate winners this week – Hanna and Aiden.

Well done to our achievement assembly winners this week also – Tyler and Hanna.

Well done triangles decals for furniture - TenStickers

August 30, 2022

Primary 7 Class Charter

We spent a lot of time considering which articles, from the UN convention of the rights of a child, were most suited to us in school.

We read the articles.

Highlighted the one that applied to us in school/class.

We considered the most important to us.

We then thought how we as Rights Holders could keep these rights and how the adults as Duty Bearers, can help us maintain our rights.

From Primary 7

August 30, 2022

Primary 3: Our Class Charter

Over the first two weeks of this session, we have been working hard on creating our class charter. We used the book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt as our inspiration.

By doing this, it allowed us to focus on the main purpose of the story which is to show an understanding of empathy, problem solving and inclusion. In other words, it showed the children how it feels to walk in another persons shoes as each of the crayons shows the emotions of people which they can relate to.

We focused on the important role that the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) plays in their lives and chose certain rights that we felt linked to our life in school. Our charter makes reference to Rights Holders (children) and Duty Bearers (adults) as you can see from the charter display.

June 10, 2022

This week, Primary 3 continued their ‘Visit Paris!’ topic. So far, we have created our own tour company called ‘Bonjour, Paris!’, learned about the role of a tour guide and talked about travelling issues such as passports and security.

Next, we had to start planning our tour by researching famous Parisian landmarks. We worked in pairs to research landmarks, drew pictures and listed facts about them. #successfullearners

Have a look at some of our work below:

Our next job is to use the information found to plan a tour for our customers.

Check in next time to see what else we have been learning!
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂

May 27, 2022

Primary 3

This week, Primary 3 were getting to know their bodies!

First, we learned that even though we are all different, there are some characteristics that we share (e.g. shoe size, hair colour, eye colour, height).

Then, we worked in teams to create body shapes on giant pieces of card and were challenged to write down all of the body parts that we knew. Miss McLaughlin was so impressed – we had labels for ‘spinal cord’, ‘bladder’ and ‘veins’! On looking at our diagrams, we noticed that for some of our more ‘private parts’, we had been using different vocabulary. We learned the correct terminology for these parts and annotated our diagrams. #responsiblecitizens

Below, you can see our team diagrams.

Check in with us next week to see what we have been up to!
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂

May 20, 2022

Primary 3

Please use the link below to see the fantastic work Primary 3 have done over the course of their Victorian-themed ‘Revolution!’ topic. #successfullearners

May 13, 2022

Primary 3

This week, Primary 3 took on a bridge-building challenge!

We learned that construction of the Forth Rail Bridge began during the Victorian times and used a unique design known as ‘cantilever’. We decided to try to make our own bridge models using art straws.

To begin with, we worked in two separate teams to construct our bridges. After many trials and tribulations, we combined into one whole team to complete our project. #effectivecontributors

Have a look at our model below.