Mrs Keegan

Welcome to Primary 2/3

Hello and welcome to the Primary 2/3 blog.

We have had a super first week of term and the children have all settled in really well. We have done lots of ‘Getting to Know You’ Activities’ and the children created wonderful self –portraits. We also used our Spanish skills to introduce ourselves.

We have read The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl and have had lots of fun writing our own sentences about the story and creating chalk illustrations in the playground.

We even worked in teams to do a ‘Who Am I?’ challenge using the characters in the story. In maths we created pictures of the Enormous Crocodile using 2D shapes and Primary 3 were able to label their shapes as well. We also talked about the feelings of the Enormous Crocodile and wrote labels for our class display.

Another highlight has been creating our Class Charter. The most difficult part was choosing which of the many wonderful ideas we would use.

We all agreed that we would like a Superhero theme for our classroom door then completed Superhero identity cards to show our special powers including kindness, perseverance and friendship. What fantastic qualities to have in our class!

Amazing P2/3

It has been another busy week in Primary 2/3 and the children would like to share some of their learning highlights.

Kuba – I liked the Daily Mile because I was running really fast.

Alishba – I liked doing fitness with the Body Coach.

Calvin – I liked art when I drew a chicken. It looked fantastic!

Matthew – I liked doing Sumdog because I finished my challenge and I got a new animal.

Andrew – I liked Big Writing because we thought about what would happen if we had no toilets after learning about Global Goal #6. My story was funny.

Pawel – I loved Ninian’s Natter because my mum was there and I showed her the pink and green in my learning. My mum loved my writing.

Levente – I liked working in groups to make posters showing where food comes from.

Kasia – My highlight was maths because we were adding and taking away within 100.

Chloe – I liked doing fitness with the Body Coach.

Annayah – I liked the Daily Mile because I got a dojo for running so fast.

Maeve – I liked writing a story because we were writing about the toilets closing and mine was really funny.

Zuzanna – I liked maths when we were doing bigger and smaller numbers. I hit a dip but I used a number square and I asked a friend for help and I got out of the dip.

Matthew and Maeve – we liked talking to the Rights Respecting Assessors and we heard at assembly today that we might have a chance of getting our Level 2 Accreditation!!

Rachel – I liked when we prayed together.

Harry – I liked doing the Daily Mile because I was fast!

Brooke – I liked getting ready for the Talent Show.

Have a lovely weekend.

From P2/3, Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley

P2/3 Weekly Update

It has been another fantastic, busy week in Primary 2/3.

The children would like to share some of their highlights:

Angel and James – I liked looking at our Local Area. We thought about how land is used in our local area and made maps. We used Google Maps to help us.

Alishba and Aaron – I liked Big Writing because we wrote about how milk comes from cows. We made posters in groups too.

Andrew and Jakub – I liked PE because we played a game with the parachute. It was really fun! We played another game called Sharks and Lifeguards too. When you’re a shark you have to pull someone under the parachute and they become a shark. Then the lifeguard has to save you.

Harry and Matthew – I liked playing dodgeball in PE.

Zuzanna – I liked creating a character in literacy. I named my character Teresa.

Maeve – I liked making a character description. I called mine Yana.

Brooke – I liked the assembly when we found out the results of the elections for house captains.

Chloe – I liked the P1R assembly because it had Spanish songs.

Levente, Annayah and Pawel – I liked learning about Global Goal #6. We learnt about a school in Kenya where they didn’t have clean water and we listened to a song about clean water too.

Oma and Calvin – I liked doing Sumdog because I got more coins and a pet and I completed in the West Lothian contest.

Carly – I liked Spanish because we were learning high numbers up to 30!!

from P2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan.

P2/3 Weekly Update

It has been a hot and busy week in Primary 2/3 and we have all learned lots!

Some of the children’s highlights are:

Matthew – I liked doing my CEM test.

Levente – I liked doing PE because we did scissor kicks for the high jump.

Harry – I liked doing the maths quiz on the CEM test.

Carly – I liked learning about Ascension and making 2D models.

Chloe – I liked doing maths and learning about odd and even numbers because we did lots of activities.

Oma – I liked doing Sumdog because the games have been updated.

Alishba – I liked handwriting because I’m trying to make my handwriting neater.

Rachel – We held a minute’s silence to think about what happened in Manchester.

Annayah – I liked CEM tests and especially the maths quiz.

Brooke – I liked doing the literacy carousels and especially the reading comprehension activity.

Kuba – I liked reviewing my goals and writing new goals for the rest of the term.

Maeve – I liked going to Mass because we were learning about Ascension.

Michelle – I liked making diagrams in writing because we got to write about our salad.

Have a lovely weekend!

From Primary 2/3, Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley

P2/3 Weekly News

What have we been learning in P2/3 this week? Here are some of the children’s highlights.

Carly, Annayah and Dominic – I liked planting seeds. I had to follow instructions and think about what plants need to grow.

Alishba – I liked making salad and it was yummy!

Harry and Calvin – I liked PE when we did the high jump. I jumped really high.

Rachel – I liked designing my own fidget spinner. It had to be symmetrical!

Matthew – I liked doing symmetry in maths when we designed symmetrical fidget spinners.

Michelle – I liked rounding numbers to the nearest ten in maths.

Chloe and Brooke – I liked making the salad because I got to learn different holds for cutting and it tasted good!

Kuba – I liked the Achievements Assembly. I was proud of James and Harry when they had to stand up because they brought in their new belts and certificates for Kicking Kids.

Zuzanna – I liked writing to Mrs Purdie because we could write about what we like at St Ninians.

Maya – I liked slicing the food when we made salad.

Pawel – I liked teaching my friends the Polish words for our salad ingredients.

Levente – I taught everyone how to say salad ingredients in Hungarian.

Hasan – I liked doing the CEM test.

Andrew – I liked eating the salad we made!

James – I liked the Achievements Assembly because I was an achiever!

Oma – I liked doing PE because we did the high jump and I could jump really high.

Angel – I liked rounding numbers to the nearest ten in maths. It was quite hard at first but I kept trying and it got easier.

Maeve – I liked doing number talks because they were quite tricky but they got easier when we shared our strategies.

We have also been thinking about Global Goal No. 3 and talking about what it means. Look out for our posters!

If you would like to try making our layered salad at home, here is the recipe http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/attachments/eb941dd0-5377-4c95a2df64fd.pdf

Symmetry has been a big focus for us in maths this week. This is one of our favourite websites to improve our skills https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

We’ve also been working hard on our Spanish conversation skills. Our phrase of the week has been ¿Cómo estás? Try and ask us this question and find out how we are feeling!

We hope that you all have a lovely long weekend.

from P2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan

P2/3 Weekly Update

In Primary 2/3 this week we have been really busy in lots of areas. Thank you for all the pictures that the children have sent in of their cress plants. Their growing skills are very impressive!

We’ve continued our learning about Food and Farming and had some super discussion in pairs in Science about the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow.

Read on for some of our highlights.

Harry – I liked changing tables because I’m a Whizz Kid now and it will be my last table in P2/3 before I move to P3.

Hasan – I liked painting a butterfly. Mine looked good and I learned symmetry.

Oma – I liked doing learning about the month of Mary in RE. We used paint to decorate the word ‘Mary’.

Maeve – I liked sorting living things into different categories.

Levente – I liked playing the symmetry game on the smartboard. I played it at home too.

(In Maths we have been exploring symmetry. Try this activity at home to help reinforce learning https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching)

Alishba – I liked writing to Farmer Jess to thank her for coming to visit us.

Brooke – I liked being outside for PE and playing jacks and boules.

Rachel – I liked learning about empathy and learning challenges in class dojo.

Kuba and Andrew – I liked PE because we were jumping over the hurdles. I was good at the hurdles.

James – I liked running fast in the Daily Mile.

Annayah – I liked praying the ten rosaries.

Aaron – I liked designing pictures of Mary.

Matthew – my cress is growing really fast at home.

Michelle – I liked maths because I learned loads about symmetry.

Carly – I liked the literacy carousel because I made my words in playdough.

Maya – I liked when we were painting symmetrical butterflies and I liked learning lots of new things to say in Spanish. I liked High Five Spanish.

In Spanish this term, the children have planned their learning to develop their skills in asking questions and answers. Do ask your child what’s hey learned in Spanish this week. There are lots of great activities on the BBC languages website to help wth these skills.

Sneak preview! Next week in writing we’re writing to Mrs Purdie to tell her about all the things we like best at St Ninian’s. Have a chat with your child about this and they can share their ideas in Big Writing on Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Primary 2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan

P2/3 weekly news

It has been a short week in P2/3 but we have managed to cram in lots of learning! Here are some highlights from the children:

Matthew – I liked growing cress as part of our farming topic. The trickiest part was getting the seeds in the right place.

Kuba – I liked PE because we were outside and played running games. I was fast!

Carly and Brooke – I liked learning even and odd numbers then making Venn diagrams. We got more confident with odd numbers and even numbers.

Levente – I liked working on our new Farming topic. I liked learning about the parts of plants.

Aaron – I liked doing the new Farming topic because I liked planting cress.

Alishba – I liked when we were doing committees because we looked at all the school questionnaires in the pupil leadership committee.

Rachel – I liked the 1 plus 2 committee and I’m looking forward to our Spanish party.

Chloe – I liked the Community Links committee because I was helping prepare food for the Learning Families.

Andrew – I liked the Eco Committee because we’re going to clean up the pond.

Annayah – I enjoyed making a mask in the 1 plus 2 committee.

Maeve – I liked making Venn diagrams in maths. We were all really good at it!

Harry – I liked PE because I got first place in a race. I was really really fast.

Oma – I liked doing multiplication and division in maths.

Hasan – I liked Number Talks. I told the class how I subtracted using tens and units. I liked the Sport Scotland Committee because we were playing frisbee golf. It was interesting but also hard.

Michelle – I liked following instructions then planting cress.

Pawel – I liked reading in the literacy carousel.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Primary 2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan

Primary 2/3 Star in Egyptians Assembly!

Well done to Primary 2/3 for all their hard work in planning and performing in their Ancient Egyptians assembly and to all the parents and grandparents for coming along and providing a fabulous audience.

Some of our highlights this week have been:

Kuba – I liked rehearsing for our assembly.

Annayah – I liked singing songs in the assembly, especially the mummy song.

Alishba – I liked when we were drumming in music and keeping the beat.

Levente, Aaron and Andrew – I loved the mummy song in our assembly.

Pawel – I liked Big Writing and making props for our assembly.

Carly – Farmer Jess told us about crops that grow in Scotland and she showed us lots of pictures.

Chloe – I liked doing the Daily Mile because I’m getting fitter and faster.

Harry – I liked going on a walk and looking at the land around our school then finding out what it was used for.

Zuzanna – I liked Big Writing because we wrote about our walk.

Rachel – I liked our assembly because I loved the songs.

Angel – I liked it when Farmer Jess came to visit and showed us oil seed rape seeds and we got to hold them.

Oma – I liked rehearsing for our assembly. We used our singing skills and our listening and talking skills.

Matthew – I liked doing Sumdog because I got lots of coins. Sumdog helps me get better at maths.

Maeve – I had great fun when Farmer Jess came to visit because she talked about lots of animals and we found out about wee and poo from cows!!

Have a great weekend!

From Mrs Howley, Mrs Keegan and Primary 2/3

Welcome back P2/3!

It has been a busy start to the term in Primary 2/3 and we have thoroughly enjoyed using the outdoor environment to develop our learning during Outdoor Week.

Read on for some of the children’s highlights:

Carly enjoyed planning our Food and Farming topic with her elbow partner.

Harry enjoyed PE outside with Mrs McMullen, especially playing tig.

Maya enjoyed doing our alphabet challenge outside where we had to use all of our senses to find something for each letter of the alphabet.

Brooke enjoyed our full stop hunt in the playground – you won’t believe how many full stops we found!

Aaron liked everything!

Andrew enjoyed writing about his trip to London during Big Writing.

Kuba enjoyed today’s assembly.

Oma enjoyed making a graph in the playground to show what we collected in the garden.

Chloe enjoyed Big Writing because she wrote about her friend and her holiday.

Maeve enjoyed Big Maths Beat That and our alphabet challenge because she even found a holly tree for the letter H.

Alishba enjoyed finding out about the vision of Jesus in RE.

Rachel enjoyed our full stop hunt in the playground.

Calvin enjoyed information handling when we sorted out information about food.

Levente enjoyed our Sumdog assessment.

Angel enjoyed collecting leaves and stones so we could make a graph.

We’ve also been busy working on our assembly for next Friday. We hope that you can join us at 9am. We’re especially looking forward to sharing our Egyptian songs with you!

from Primary 2/3, Mrs Keegan and Mrs Howley.

End of term in P2/3

What a fantastic week it has been in Primary 2/3! Lots of learning to finish a super term. It was lovely to have so many parents visit during Ninian’s Natter to share the children’s learning.

We were thinking about World of Work during Ninian’s Natter and all drew a picture of our dreams for the future. Watch out for us becoming football players, doctors, you-tubers, super heroes, artists, gymnasts, teachers, tennis players, rock stars, clothes designers, basket ball players, karate players and astronauts. Some of our work is below.

During Ninian’s Natter we also took the opportunity to reflect on our work over the term. You’ll spot lots of green and pink post-it notes in our jotters where we’ve highlighted the work that we’re really proud of and areas we’d like to improve.

Numbers all around

On Thursday we went outside to work on our maths skills. We were working on number sequences to 100 (and beyond!), skip counting in twos and in tens. Can you see our fabulous numbers in the playground?

Library visit

On Tuesday we went to the library to choose new books. We’re loving reading our new books and even managed to sneak in a quick visit to the park on the way back to school!

Our international education continued this week when we got an amail from our link school in Spain, CEIP Maria Immaculada. We were so excited to learn all about their carnival traditions.

Other highlights include:

Annayah, Oma and Dominic – I liked drawing Cleopatra because we learned how to be real artists.

Chloe – I liked PE because we did the bleep test and its going to make me faster in the Daily Mile.

Maya – I loved drawing numbers outside.

Alishba – I liked comparing numbers. I like it when I make a mistake because it helps me learn more.

Maeve, Harry and Andrew – I liked decorating eggs in art and thinking about patterns and colours.

Kuba – I liked writing the letter from the Easter Bunny thanking the animals for helping save Easter. I worked with Aaron and that improved my writing.

Pawel – I liked making 3D Easter bunny baskets.

Michelle – I liked writing because I used interesting vocabulary.

James – I liked writing the letter from the Easter Bunny. I tried hard to use connectives.

Brooke and Carly – I loved the literacy carousel because we read with partners.

Have a lovely holiday!

From P2/3, Mrs Howley and Mrs Keegan