Category Archives: P2

P2, P3

P2/3’s STEM Challenge

Primary 2/3’s STEM challenge for the week was to build a tower with only 25 Lego blocks that was strong enough to hold a bottle of water. We worked in teams to draw a blueprint of our design before collecting our Lego pieces. Once built we measured the height of our towers and compared our models with each other. It was then time for the big moment, would our towers hold a bottle of water? There were lots of excited reactions when all groups successfully completed the challenge! Take a look at our designs!

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Our Week in P2/3

This week has been very exciting for us! We have been reading Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and received a letter from Mr Wonka himself! He set us the challenge to find out where chocolate comes from and the journey it takes from bean to bar. We have been enjoying exploring and sequencing the process and are continuing to make predictions and summarising what we have read so far.

In numeracy some of us have started to use an empty number line to think about the position and value of numbers. This strategy will then be used to help us solve addition and subtraction problems. Some of us have been using rekenreks to think about the different ways that we can make a given number and have also been using this for addition. In mathematics we have been looking at shapes and their properties.

We have been continuing to make predictions about what might happen next in our reading books and have been using clues from the title, pictures and words to help us. We have been enjoying using Iggy the Iguana to encourage us to think out loud about our predictions when reading.

P2, P3

Maths Week With Primary 2/3

Primary 2/3 had great fun working like mathematicians during maths week. As a class we spoke about some of the skills you need to be a mathematician, made a plan to start and then shared our findings. We used our growth mindset to tackle a well known maths problem called ‘Bridges of Konigsberg’. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring the different ways they could approach the problem and were keen to share their learning with each other.