Category: Whole School

The children are really settling well and working hard. We did some writing of news at the beginning of the week, which I’m using as an assessment. But we have started working in our jotters. They have done their first dictation using their spelling words from this week. The dictation will go at the back of their jotters although some forgot that instruction this week.

We have begun working with our P6 Pals on I.T skills and practised logging on and off this week and played a Maths game when we’d managed this successfully.

The children have enjoyed some Beatrix Potter stories this week and particularly enjoyed the Squirrel Nutkin one. They have used a variety of materials to create their own squirrels which you’ll find on display in the corridor. We are also doing a display of one of our favourite books”Aliens love Underpants”. The children loved designing their own Aliens and Underpants!

In Maths we have continued with our work on numbers after,before, in between and 2 more and 2 less.

Have a lovely weekend.

Love from Mrs.Burton and P2B

Having fun doing French. More photos to follow

We have had a busy week in Primary 6. We continued learning about place value and even explored reading and writing 9 digit numbers. The class also had fun trying to solve some place value riddles!

We have worked with our P2 pals to help them with their ICT skills and are looking forward to helping them with their reading too.

In pairs the class researched different rivers around the world. We created interesting and informative posters about each river which we are going to present to one another next week. We will then have a vote as to what river we want to take a closer look at and compare to the River Forth.

Our class novel, Wonder, has us gripped. We are really enjoying the story and discussing the many different issues and barriers that the main character is encountering. This week we wrote a diary account from the perspective of the main character.

Mrs McVay was really impressed with our feedback from our Science lesson with Mrs Tulloch. We were able to tell her about all the different types of energy. These included sound, light, heat, magnetic and kinetic to name just a few.

We have also learned about the art of Piet Mondrian who used parallel and perpendicular lines. We have made our own Mondrian artwork which will be on display at Meet the Teacher – we look forward to seeing parents at 6.30 on Tuesday evening.

We all have our homework set for the term. Spelling goes home each Monday and is due back the following Monday.

We were delighted to be Class of the Week and have ten minutes extra Golden Time as our prize for being so good!

Another busy week in P2A, we are setting a super example to the new Primary 1 children by behaving sensibly and we’ve earned lots of pegs for walking quietly around school. We are also getting quicker at our morning and end of the day routines.

On Monday our lovely P6 Pals came to see us. They helped us to practise logging onto the laptops. Some of us had time to play on this fun game called Build Your wild Self, this is a fun one to play about on at home:

http://www.buildyourwildself.com/

In Maths this week we have been learning how to find numbers before, after and in between. We used a 100 square to help us. We enjoyed playing this game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

In Literacy we were working in our phonics groups; these groups are very flexible and mean that we are working on the digraphs we need to revise. We are focusing on saying sounds and using sounds in words. We practised writing our sounds in lots of different ways:

During IDL we learnt more about animals that hibernate – we know that hedgehogs, dormice and bats hibernate. We also learnt what animals do to survive hibernation – you could ask us about this at home.

This week we have been listening to stories by Beatrix Potter. We loved the story about Squirrel Nutkin!

We loved it so much that we decided that we would like to make squirrels in art. We learnt how to create texture by layering different materials. Miss Prince was very impressed with how well we worked with our partner to create a squirrel’s tail.

In PE we learnt some yoga poses and practised breathing deeply. We demonstrated resilience when we were learning the tree balance – it was tricky!

Here are some photos of our free play fun:

Looking forward to meeting you all at Meet the Teacher on Tuesday evening.

Have a great weekend!

Love P2A, Squirrel Nutkin and Miss Prince x

This week has flown by. The children are settling in to their new reading books. All on the next stage up and next week we’ll get into a regular routine.

We have been doing Phonics assessments this week and have split the children into 2 groups between myself and Miss.Prince.  The class have been revising letters of the alphabet and practicing the formation of letters,both upper and lower case.

In connection to the book we read “The Giraffe,the Pelly and me”, we have designed our own sweetie jars. Some great ideas. We have been practising our common words and concentrated on “the” this week.

In Number we have continued with ordering and sequencing numbers to 100 and the children have enjoyed asking each other questions related to this.

Our outdoor learning this year is about Woodland animals and we have been talking about which animals live in the woodlands and what their habitats are like.

We have been discussing respecting other people’s property in Circle time.

Have a lovely weekend and hopefully the sun is going to shine.

Anne Burton

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