Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

We have completed our class talks and what a pleasure it has been listening to our them. They have truly been entertaining and I am amazed how much I learn about the pupils and their lives outwith school. My goodness, can we ask questions!

Well done everyone.

Literacy circle is getting to the exciting stage and we are  predicting how our books are going to end. There are many imaginative ideas.

We are continuing with our Big Writing Adventure as superheroes. We have written our hero descriptions and 3 diary entries about what they have got up to.  A local newspaper now want us to write up an article for the next edition.

Our class novel is Ruby McCraken, Tragic without Magic by Elizabeth Ezra. We will be meeting the author 12th June at the Rugby Club and so far we are enjoying the early chapters.

In maths, we are starting to look at information handling and how to ask questions about the data we collect. Next week we will construct graphs and interpret them.

In science we have begun sound as a form of energy. We had a very lively carousel session investigating musical instruments, voice and tuning forks.

Next week we will look at pitch and vibrations.

Please ask your child how they made water jump!

We submitted our posters to Transition Linlithgow,  “we support  Linlithgow’s last straw” campaign. The were really detailed and gave  a powerful message.

I would like to say a big thank you to all our pupils for their hard work on Wednesday when we had a follow up visit from our visitors who came in  January . They were so delighted with how well we are all doing. We even got 22 pegs this week, amazing!

Let’s hope this great weather continues. Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Tulloch

So proud of everyone in P1B today!  You all did a fantastic job during our assembly , it is not easy standing up in front of such a large audience and Mrs Kennedy was very impressed with how well we did and how confident we were 🙂

As well as practising our school value of ‘confidence’ during our assembly, we have also been practising another important school value – ‘resilience.’  We had some tricky tasks to do and we had to think about how resilient we were when we did them – did we keep trying although it was hard?  Did we try again when it didn’t work the first or second time?  We had a tick sheet to mark down how we thought we got on in each task.   We also liked the story of ‘Jack and the Flum Flum Tree’ where Jack’s motto is ‘Don’t get your knickers in a twist!’  when is faced with a problem, he just tries to look for a solution.

In maths this week we have been looking at quite a tricky concept – linking addition and subtraction facts.  We used the large ten frame and looked at the spots to make sums.  In these pictures we were writing all the addition and subtraction sums for 2 and 3:  2+3=5, 3+2=5, 5-3=2 and 5-2=3.  We tried it for other numbers too.  In our workbooks we were doing addition and subtraction sums on the same page and had to be careful to look at the sign to see if it was ‘+’ or ‘-‘.

T and E brought in a wasps nest this week that they found at their house.  They told us all about it and the children were very interested, asking lots of questions.

A and her big sister, R, both got swimming certificates this week.  Well done girls, you are both excellent swimmers.

It was lovely to see you all at assembly.  Enjoy the weekend.  P1B and Mrs Kennedy

A hectic week in Primary 2B. We finished designing our posters for “Linlithgow’s Last Straw” – ask your children to explain what they’re for! Hopefully they’ll remember!

To finish off our block on division we made function machines for multiplication and division. Then we have  been doing some work on area. We found who had the biggest and smallest foot by drawing round our feet and using cubes to see how many we needed to cover our footprint, used handprints to see how many we needed to cover a table, drew animals on squared paper and used counters to find areas of leaves. So good fun and great discussion afterwards.

We have made words into plurals using ‘es’ and started to talk about adding ‘ies’. Also we have worked on a comprehension exercise and the children are getting very good at answering in sentences.

Next week we’ll be learning about the country of Japan so if anyone has anything relevant to this, I would be very grateful.

Have a lovely weekend with lots more sunshine hopefully.

Miss Prince is delighted with our Literacy learning this week. We have been learning how to use speech bubbles and some of us have even been writing speech into a sentence using speech marks. We know how to form speech marks correctly (remembering 66 and 99), we know to put speech marks around what the character is saying and to finish the sentence by saying who has spoken. As we love a challenge in P2/3, some of us even had a go at using words instead of ‘said’. Here is a selection of our fantastic work:

In Maths we have been continuing with our work on length. We made sensible estimations and accurate measurements of our hand span and foot length. We enjoyed problem solving, such as finding out the length all the way around our foot using a piece of string.

On Wednesday we had a drama filled IDL afternoon, taking on the role of an animal and acting out scenes from The Messy Magpie story. We had some special visitors who were very impressed with how we used our voices and bodies to become the character.

In Art we studied the environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy. We worked in teams and used natural resources to create our own natural art:

Thank you for reading our blog, have a lovely weekend!

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x