A huge thank you to the parents and grandparents who were able to come along and support the children today. They were delighted to work with you and plant their seeds. We will watch them grow over the coming weeks and the children will bring them home before the Easter holidays. We hope you had a fun morning with us!
SHARING THE LEARNING IN PRIMARY 3!
What a day! Great fun was had by all in P3. We started our day by coming to school in our pyjamas – we could get used to this!
We did a reading doodle activity before putting our detective skills into action and setting off on a Where’s Wally picture hunt! Back in class we were joined by P4 and we all took part in a live World Book Day football quiz. Lots of schools across the country were taking part in this and we had to answer a series of questions from famous footballers.
Throughout the day we have done some paired reading, reading crosswords and word searches, designed book covers and took part in authors live (Scottish Book Trust) We watched and listened to Catherine Rayner who shared her picture book “Arlo: The Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep“, a beautiful story about finding peace and calm. Catherine also gave us a sneak peek at her sketchbook, and showed us step by step how to draw Arlo the lion. We had our pencils and paper at the ready!
In the afternoon we enjoyed Paired Reading with Primary 6 and we all enjoyed this and asked to do it again soon. Lots of us in Primary 3 brought in a book from home for the whole school book swap which will take place next week.
We will be bringing home a £1 book token home today which is valid to use until the end of March.
We love World Book Day!
Bella – It’s been a fun day and I liked doing the football quiz.
Cody – I am going to get a new book with my book token.
Stella – I liked coming to school in my pyjamas and getting a token.
Peter – I liked drawing the lion. (From Authors Live)
Alexander – I liked drawing a potato character.
Jessica – I liked doing the word search. I found them all.
Iza – I found all the Where’s Wally pictures apart from number 8.
Kiera – It was fun when P6 came in and I read a book with Bailie.
Rocco – I liked Paired Reading and I read with Cora-Linn.
Jaxon – I liked the football quiz and Where’s Wally.
Luke – I love World Book Day!
A huge WELL DONE to all of our Primary 3 stars for practicing their poems at home this week! We were blown away with how well you remembered the words and had confidence to say your poem to all your friends in class! On Friday morning the whole school gathered in the hall for our annual Scots Poetry Competition. Congratulations to the children in Primary 3 for sharing their Scots poem to the whole school. We are so proud of you!
Primary 3 are sending lots of Valentine’s love to everyone!
Have a wonderful, happy, safe and fun February holiday!
~ ROBERT BURNS ~
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and song writer. He is known around the world as Scotland’s national poet. Burns Night is celebrated every year on 25th January, Robert Burns’ birthday. Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759 in the village of Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland. Burns had a very humble start to life. He was the eldest of seven children and his father was a tenant farmer so the family often struggled for money. From a young age, Burns worked as a farmer but his father knew education was important so he taught his children how to read and write. Some of Burns’ poems were based on the things he saw whilst he was out ploughing the fields. He wrote ‘To a Mouse’ after he turned over a field mouse’s nest with his plough. He wrote his first love song at the age of 15 but it wasn’t until the age of 27 that his poems were published. Burns died on 21st July 1796 at the age of 37. One of Burns’ most famous poems is Auld Lang Syne. It is sung all over the world on 31st December.
Primary 3 enjoyed learning all about this famous Scot. We did lots of fun activities in class to celebrate him!
Karlie – He was very famous because of his poems and he worked on his dad’s farm. Everyone knows who he is.
Cody – He was a Scottish person and he wrote amazing poems.
Kiera – He is very famous for poems.
Jaxon – He had lots of children and he had brothers and sisters. He was only 37 when he died.
Bonnie – His first poem he wrote was when he was 15 and it was about a wee mouse.
Rocco – His house is a museum now.
Stella – I liked doing a fact file about him.
Jessica – We made Burns cards. There are lots of statues of him around the world.
Damon – We listened to Auld Lang Syne and sang it.
ECO SCHOOLS
Throughout all my learning, I take appropriate action to ensure conservation of materials and resources, considering the impact of my actions on the environment. TCH 1- 02a
I can consider ways of looking after my school or community and can encourage others to care for their environment. SOC 1-08a
Primary 3 have been learning about some of the ways they can be eco-friendly. This means encouraging people to engage in their environment by allowing them the opportunity to actively protect it. It starts in the classroom, it expands to the school and eventually fosters change in the community.
Through listening to stories and carrying out research we have been finding out about how we can save energy and become more energy efficient. We shared our learning with each other and designed posters to highlight this. We have made a commitment to turn the lights off in our classroom every Friday morning after playtime to save energy.
We wondered if any other classes would like to do the same?
If you turn them off when the light is not needed, even for a short period of time, you will be saving a lot of energy and reduce electricity demand which has a rippling effect.
Karlie – You can do lots of things like switching lights off, turning taps off so you don’t waste water, recycle old things and re-use them too so you are not wasting things.
Damon – We made posters about saving energy. I’m trying to do some of the things at home like turning lights off when they are not needed.
Jaxon – Have a short shower and save electricity and water.
Jessica – Don’t use your tablet for that long because it needs to be charged up. You can play with other games instead or read books.
Rocco – Walk to school rather than the bus or car.
Bonnie – Turn the heating down in your house and wear warm clothes when it’s cold so you don’t need the heating on that long.
Cody – Close the windows when the heating is on. If it’s a sunny day you don’t need the heating on.
Ellie – If the washing machine is on, don’t have it up high (temperature).
Jacob – Turn off the TV and other things (devices) when you aren’t using them and don’t leave them on standby.
REMEMBER – Saving energy is really important to help protect the environment and save money on the household bills. Our teachers have set us a challenge to do some energy saving activities at home over the coming week!
Thank you to the families who were able to come along to support our Christmas Fair this morning. Primary 3 made tasty chocolate treats and pretty Christmas light jars. A great day was had by all…
Primary 3 have had another busy week! It’s been all go with Nativity practice well underway, Scottish Book Week, Catholic Education Week, Lunchtime & After school clubs and lots, lots more!
As always, our teachers are very proud of the hard work and commitment we have been showing to our learning and Miss Pritchard popped in to class to say how proud she was of the amazing progress we are making. She was looking through our jotters and was blown away at the high quality of our work!
As a whole school we are focusing on ‘Wonderful Walking‘ throughout the school when transitioning from the classroom to different areas in the school and we are trying really hard to do this every time we leave the classroom.
Here are some photos of our Book Week Scotland and Catholic Education Week activities and Information Report Writing pieces…
Catholic Education Week 2023
Today marks the beginning of Catholic Education Week. It starts each year on the Feast of St. Margaret of Scotland (this week – 16th November) until the Feast of St. Andrew (30th November).
The Catholic Church in Scotland encourages schools, parishes and other agencies to work closely together in order to celebrate the successes of Catholic education particularly during one week each year. Catholic Education Week highlights the significance of education, not only for our children, but for society as a whole.
This year the theme for Catholic Education Week is “Pilgrims of Faith” and children across the whole school will explore this in different ways. They will be introduced to the Catholic understanding of saints and how they continue to influence our lives as models of holiness. They will discuss examples of saints and how they could be preserved as role models in our journey to draw closer to God. They will identify ways we can be followers of Jesus in our daily lives. Children will also focus on the meaning of “pilgrim” and “faith” and learn that a pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place and a person who makes that journey is a pilgrim. To have faith means to have belief and trust in God and faith is a gift from God.
CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK PRAYER
Jesus our Teacher,
in your love for us,
help us to develop our own talents
so that we may become like you
and lead lives of goodness.
Bless all learners
and all teachers.
May our Catholic schools continue to serve our families,
our communities and our country.
Help us, through our learning,
to believe in you
and to celebrate the life of your Church.
Help us to grow in holiness
as we grow in friendship with you
and try to become saints.
We make this prayer
in the name of Jesus, our Lord. Amen
Happy Halloween from all the children in P3! They look brilliant in their amazing costumes, and so far they are having a fun morning – roll on the Halloween party after playtime!
We have a birthday boy in P3 today too, a big happy birthday from all of your friends!
Well done to Primary 3 for working well together in groups to create posters to celebrate Maths Week Scotland! We spoke about what we think about Maths and how we use it in our every day lives. Children spoke about what they enjoy and what they find tricky. We spoke about the different resources we can use to help us with our Maths learning.
Thank you to all the parents for coming along on Friday morning to our Sharing the Learning event. I am sure you will agree, our children are shining stars! Your support is always very much appreciated, and it was lovely to see such a great turn out.
Well done to the children for working so well on homework tasks on Seesaw. We appreciate the time and effort going into all homework tasks and it is wonderful for us to see children engaging so eagerly in their homework!
