Well done to Finlay Couper in P2/3 who walked for the Chest, Heart and Stroke charity last weekend, in memory of his Dad.
What an amazing achievement Finlay! We are so proud of you!
Miss Baillie x
P2/3 working with P4.
Mrs Newton’s class have been working with P2/3 on SUMDOG. They were very helpful teaching P2/3, the skills of logging onto the netbooks, the internet and finding SUMDOG. The P4s talked the children through the different areas of the Maths’ games.
Thank you P4!
P2/3’s Research for the 1960’s.
For their Homework, the P3 children found out about the 1960’s and brought in their research and artefacts. They confidently talked about their writing, pictures and artefacts.
Eilidh told us about her slide rule and her granny being a Flower Girl in the Linlithgow Gala Day.
Aleisha had talked with her Grandparents about their favourite music and children’s programmes when they were younger. We have enjoyed listening to the music, suggested by Aleisha, and watching some clips.
Dean talked about his Grandad’s school photo and his record, as well as other things he brought in.
Finlay had found out lots of interesting information, which he shared clearly with the other P3s.
Daniel brought in some interesting styles of knitting patterns from his Granny.
Mark had a great selection of Boy’s comics, which he shared with everyone.
Charlie had lots of pictures of his Grandad  and Granny looking very smart! So we were able to talk about some of the fashions of the time. He had also found out lots of facts and information that was super!
      Layla brought in a treasure trove of items, including her Grandad’s very special medal. She was able to give excellent descriptions and stories about her items.
It was interesting and fascinating listening to all their information. Super effort, well done!
P2/3 Victorian Research.
The children were set a task to find out information about the Victorians, out and about where we live and places they had visited. Also, they were asked to bring in artefacts and be able to talk about them. Here are some of their findings and special things from the Victorian times-
We now have our own museum of information and artefacts.
Thank you for all of your wonderful efforts!
P2, P2/3 and P3’s Victorian Day- Part 2
We have had a wonderful couple of days being Victorians. On Thursday, the children dressed as Victorians and had a session at a Victorian School. Then they had ‘gruel’ for breakfast.
Some children wanted ‘MORE’!
The children had their daily march. They played some traditional games.
The children made kites. Freya is studiously measuring the string she needed. I was very impressed with her measuring skills.
The children were very busy with a tricky task.
Fortunately, it was a windy day to test the kites!
The P5s came to observe our kite making skills.
The children also made peg dolls. There were some interesting characters!
P2, P2/3 and P3’s Victorian Day
On Thursday P2, P2/3 and P3 had a Victorian Day in school and dressed up how Victorian children would have in the past. On the morning we practiced some Victorian handwriting and also carried out some times tables drills aloud. We also got the opportunity to try some ‘gruel’ …. yum!
In the afternoon we split into three groups and rotated around three different activities:
- Making a kite
- Making a peg doll
- Taking part in Victorian games
We all really enjoyed our Victorian day and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for all of their help, including those who helped to make  costumes and the frames for the kites!
We are all looking forward to flying our kites at the weekend!
Have a lovely weekend from P2, P2/3 and P3 🙂
                          
                          
                                  
                            
 
Fizzy Fingers!
We are very proud to show you pictures of our Fizzy Fingers group who work with Mrs Manlove once a week to develop their fine motor skills. What superstars they are! Thank you so much to Mrs Manlove for the effort and care that she puts into facilitating and supporting this group. What happy children they are!
Miss Baillie x
Our week in P3
We have had such a fun filled week this week! Here is what we have been up to…
In literacy we have been learning our sound ‘ea’. We have been keeping our eyes open for words which have the ‘ea’ sound in them, and have been practicing them during the week. Here are some photographs of our learning in progress!
  
In maths this week, we finished off our multiplication and began to look at division. We have been learning about what division is and different strategies to help us carry out division. In class we had a go at some sums which involved dividing by 2 and used the cubes to help us visualise what we were doing.
  
 
On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. We took part in lots of different activities during the day including designing our classroom entrance, making bookmarks and book tokens as well as reading and sharing our favourite books! On Friday we also got to dress up as characters from our favourite books, it was really funny to see everyone in their costumes!
  
We hope you have a lovely weekend! From P3 x
P2/3 Victorians’ Assembly
P2/3 and Mrs Law ‘wowed’ us all yesterday with their fantastic assembly about Victorian times and in particular New Lanark. Well done to all children involved and especially Layla Inglis who gave a stunning solo singing performance.
Have a super weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie xx
New Lanark/ Victorian Assembly.
Some clips of our assembly today about New Lanark and Victorians.
The children sang and danced to Food Glorious Food from Oliver. They also sang beautifully- Daisy Daisy and My Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow wow.
The children spoke very clearly.
A timeline showing the beginning and end of the Victorian Era, to the 1960’s (a comparison for P3s) and present day.
Different jobs that the children would do- miners,
millworkers,
watercress seller and pure finder.
Emily was a great schoolmistress!
 
Layla sang a solo of Coulter’s Candy.
One very proud teacher today! Excellent effort by all the children!
