Category: Whole School

Well done to our Primary 2 Nativity super stars, what a fabulous show they put on!

Primary 3 have been busy making Kelpies out of clay, they are looking fantastic.

In Literacy this week we looked at the features of a poster. We made posters for our Christmas Stall, our success criteria was to:

• include important information
• use big, bold writing
• use bright, eye catching colours
• Include pictures of the product

In Maths we continued our work on addition and subtraction, looking at strategies to solve missing number sums. We are making the link between addition and subtraction to help us to do this. For example:

? + 10 = 15         15- 10 = 5 

In Art we learnt about blending using chalks. We studied the Northern Lights and created beautiful pictures showing the Northern Lights over the Arctic. Then we followed step by step instructions on how to draw an arctic fox. We’re very proud of our pictures!

Here are some photos of our crafty Christmas creations:

Have a great weekend!

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince 🙂

 

Literacy

We have been learning how to give feedback to each other and how to peer assess each other’s work. We were working on using different sentence openers and used a highlighter to identify the openers our partner had used. We then coloured in the smiley face that we thought they had achieved. We said what we thought was good about their work and gave them a next step.

It was Scottish Book Week this week so we were reading some of the Katie Morag books. We read ‘Katie Morag and the 2 grandmothers’ then compared the characters in the story. We had to find words in the book to support our answers. We read a different Katie Morag story each day and talked about the different characters that we met. We also created a giant Katie for our topic corner. We thought of words that described her and added them to our display.

We finished our BFG story this week and we have loved every second of it! We used the story as a stimulus to talk about bullying and being kind to each other. The Giants are not kind to the BFG and it makes him sad so we talked about what we could do in that situation. We made posters to help people remember what to do if someone is being unkind to them.

Numeracy

In numeracy we were using our knowledge of number bonds to 10 to help us recall the bonds to 20. We noticed a pattern! We used a rhyme to help us remember the number facts. We made number socks to show the pairs that made 20. We worked with a partner to make our socks symmetrical. We are going to hang them on our washing line.

 

Other

It was our last week of rehearsals for the Nativity. We are all very excited to perform to a proper audience. We have been very busy sorting costumes and props. Well done to Harrison for winning the Enjoyaball trophy. We are very proud of your achievement. Well done to Zara for moving up a level in swimming. So nice to hear about everyone working hard outside of school.

We have also been busy doing Christmas crafts this week. We have made ribbon wreaths for the Christmas Fair. We also made paper plate angels to hang on the Christmas tree. It was very sparkly with an explosion of glitter in P2A!

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Mudd and P2A

 

As part our our GIRFEC  ‘Safe’ Wellbeing Indicator, we learned about keeping safe on roads this week.  Thank you to Mrs McAlpine and her Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) for sharing this year’s campaign, ‘Slow Down, Save Lives’ with us. Children have been  learning  about the dangers of speeding drivers and are asked to remind their adult to slow down when driving to help prevent deaths on the road. An important message delivered well. Thank you to all involved.

Miss Baillie x

 

We are super stars! Miss Baillie and Mr Wells were so impressed with how hard working, kind and sensible we are that we won class of the week! Miss Prince is very proud of us.

In Literacy this week we have been retelling the story ‘The Secret of the Kelpie’, we picked out the main points in the story and ordered them in the correct sequence. We also worked on punctuation – full stops, question marks and exclamation mark. This was tricky but we learnt that we use exclamation marks if the sentence is exciting, surprising or if the person is shouting.

In Maths we have been working on subtraction – 2 digit take away a single digit. We enjoyed solving subtraction sums on robot function machines. We used number lines to help us and remembered to jump back in 5s and 10s to solve subtraction sums quicker.

In Art we learnt how to draw a Kelpie. We also painted a Scottish landscape for our Kelpie to live in. We found that mixing green with blue created a realistic colour for the loch. We’re really pleased with how our pictures have turned out:

Have a great weekend,

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

 

 

 

 

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n Science we had great fun experimenting with sound – very noisy but we learnt a lot.

In P.E we have continued with Gymnastics and Mrs.Reid says we’re doing really well.

We have started adding 3 digits together in Maths and have talked about strategies to use. The children are really good at explaining how they worked out the answer.

In Literacy, we have been learning how to write an informal letter and used the stimulus of our class novel “Christmasaurus” to write a letter to the bully to ask her to stop.

We learnt the colours in French with our P6 pals.

• The children have been finishing their Collages of characters from Katie Morag and have made a brilliant job. Very impressive.