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P3 pupil leading our learning

As our IDL topic this term is The Human Body we are looking at the  skeleton and internal organs. Bonnie taught us about 1 major organ, the pancreas. Bonnie had some books which taught  us all about the pancreas and diabetes. She had her little teddy, Ruffles who has diabetes and she used him to show where he can have his injections and blood checked. We were very interested and enjoyed learning from Bonnie, we asked lots of great questions.  Thank you Bonnie.

Craft and Construction club

Craft and construction club started last week and we are enjoying the freedom to be creative. We started with a Lent theme last week and moved onto Spring this week. We enjoy playing with the train track, Lego and blocks and we have enjoyed colouring and creating craft pictures. This week we made some Spring trees with blossoms. They will be beautiful when completed.

Coding in Primary 3

This week we had the opportunity to use our problem solving and coding skills with the Bee-Bots.  We gave our Bee-Bot a sequence of instructions to navigate around the classroom. We had to be confident with left and right and work out directions for the Bee-Bot to follow.

Once we were confident with the basic coding instructions we then used maps where we could navigate the Bee-Bots around the roads.

Art and Design in P3

We have really enjoyed learning about famous artists this year. As our IDL topic is a  Scottish focus we wanted to learn about a famous  Scottish  artist.  We learned about Gillian Kyle who is a textile designer. She is greatly inspired by all things Scottish. We learned that she was born in Renfrewshire and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. She creates designs for products such as aprons, cushions and table mats. She takes her influence from lots of Scottish products such as Tunnocks Teacakes, Caramel Wafers, Irn Bru and haggis. We used Scottish products and looked at the design of their packaging and then created a piece of art in the style of Gillian Kyle.

P3 update

 

We have enjoyed learning about a very famous Scottish dog, Greyfriar’s  Bobby. We have used ICT to do our own research about Bobby and we found some very interesting facts. We wrote our own information reports all about Bobby.

We explored the use of line to create pencil drawings of Bobby. We used straight and wavy lines to draw his fur and features. We tried to make it look as realistic as possible.

We had the opportunity to share our learning with the whole school at assembly on Monday. We invited the school to challenge themselves to save energy. We explained that you can do simple things such as switch the lights off when you leave a room, unplug chargers when not in use, don’t leave the fridge door open for long, turn the tap off when brushing your teeth and wear warm clothes inside instead of turning the heating up. We all had our parts to say and we spoke confidently and clearly. Well done!

 

 

P3 update


It has been another very productive week in P3. Nativity rehearsals are well and truly underway. We have been on the stage, learning our lines and singing the songs. We have all worked very hard.

We have also made a Christmas poster which will be displayed on the wall in the dinner hall.

Ellie – I made winter trees for the poster

Luke – I made a snowflake

Cody – I used paint to make the snowy mountains

Karlie – I made the golden ticket

Iza and Bella –  we  made glittery snowflakes