Primary 3 – Page 17 – St Ninian's Primary School

Our first week in Primary 3

What a fantastic start to the school year we have had in Primary 3! Everyone has settled in so well and it has been lovely to see so many smiling faces. The children did a particularly great job of creating our new class charter. Please read on to find out more about our highlights.

Oliver – I liked adding.

Ibad – I liked building a trap for a crocodile.

Leon – I liked Fun 31.

Jiya – I liked exploring our new classroom.

Cooper – I liked reading the Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl.

Riley – I liked making a snippy snappy crocodile.

Christopher – I liked building a trap for a crocodile.

Evie – I liked drawing a crocodile.

Abigail – I liked making a trap for a crocodile.

Kayla – I liked using our new library.

Maya – I liked making a class jigsaw.

Alisdair – I liked using kapla to build at smart start.

Joshua – I liked reading the Enormous Crocodile book and building a trap.

Eve – I liked reading in BEAR time.

Amelia – I liked planning our topic.

Victoria- I liked building a trap for a crocodile.

Seren – I liked BEAR time.

Mateusz – I liked singing a crocodile song.

Milena – I liked singing a crocodile song too.

Mark – I liked making a snappy crocodile.

from Mrs Keegan and Mrs Caskie.

P2/3 Weekly Update

This week our highlights have been sports day, moving up morning and harvesting our crop of potatoes. It was lovely to see so many of our families at sports day when the children worked so well together, displaying lovely sporting manners and team work. We’re all looking forward to the final week of P2/3 – what a fantastic year it has been!

The children would like to share some of their highlights from the week with you:

Casper – I loved taking part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition.

Mark D. – I loved Free Writing Friday.

Joshua – I liked playing with my friends in the big playground.

Wiktoria – I loved meeting my new teacher on Moving Up morning.

Nathan – I loved making potato soup.

Marcel – I loved meeting my new class.

Abu Bakr – I loved showing our visitors around the school.

Bernice – I loved sports day because I won the race.

Poppy – I liked making potato soup.

Lloyd – I liked digging up our potatoes. I got a big one!

Paul – I liked making my initials with my new teacher.

Seren – I liked making potato soup.

Abigail – I loved listening to the story of the Bolds.

Freda – I loved Free Writing Friday.

Rafay – I loved sports day.

Aiden – I loved using the play room.

Daniel – I liked PE because we played dodgeball.

Blake – I liked grating potatoes to make soup.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Keegan, Mrs Caskie and P2/3

P2/3 Health Week News

Wow! What a super busy week we have had. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan are exhausted never mind the children!

Here are the highlights of health week in P2/3.

Rafay ” Golf was my favourite.”

Aiden ” Tough Mudder was the best.”

Rutendo ” I liked Parkour.”

Blake ” I liked dance with Miss Stryke from St Margaret’s.”

Daniel ” Capture the flag with P 3 was my favourite.”

Paul ” Tough Mudder was the best.”

Mark K ” Taekwondo was my favourite.”

Wiktoria ” Dungeon keep fit was the best.”

Isla ” Parkour was fantastic.”

Seren, Mirren, Oliver ” We liked Parkour the best.”

Poppy ” I loved Tough Mudder because I got all messy and wet!”

Abigail ” I loved everything.”

Freda ” Tough Mudder was my favourite as it was really tough!”

Lloyd ” I loved Parkour because I liked hanging off the really high bars.”

Marcel ” I loved doing Fit and Flex.”

Casper ” I loved capture the flag.”

Mark D ” Tough Mudder was the best.”

Joshua ” I loved everything.”

Bernice ” I liked doing capture the flag.”

Abu Bakr ” The golf was really cool.”

Abby ” Dancing was my favourite.”

Nathan ” Parkour and football were my favourite.”

Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan and P2/3.

P2, P2/3 and P3 Health Week Challenge 1

Try out this 5 minute exercise routine at home tonight. Good luck.

Jog on the spot for 1 minute
10 star jumps
Jog on the spot for 1 minute
10 squats
Jog on the spot for 1 minute
10 rocket jumps
Jog on the spot for 1 minute.

Well done if you have completed this.

Primary 2/3 Weekly News

The children in P2/3 would like to share all their highlights from this week’s learning adventure with you.

Aiden – I liked joining letters because I am working hard and getting better.

Casper – I liked writing an information report because I shared it at our showcase. My mum thought it was amazing.

Freda – I liked reading because I am really good at it.

Wiktoria – I liked learning to type using BBC Dance Mat typing.

Joshua – I liked the showcase because I showed my mum my book and told her all about owls.

Abu Bakr – I liked doing maths with my talk partner. Sharing strategies makes us more confident.

Abby – I liked RE because we got to perform.

Poppy – I liked BEAR time because I love reading to my bear.

Bernice – I liked PE because we were throwing and catching.

Mark D. I liked building in smart start.

Rutendo – I liked handwriting because I’m getting much better at it.

Oliver – I liked sharing the story of the Owl Babies with my grandad and my brother.

Marcel – I liked doing maths when we were doing division. I love doing maths.

Seren – I liked doing my reading task when my work went on the Wonderful Writing line.

Daniel – I liked using the play area.

Mirren – I liked the showcase. My mum gave me a 6 star review!

Mark K. I liked listening to the story of The Bolds. It makes me laugh.

Abigail – I liked learning new Spanish.

Paul – I liked working with my talk partner. Working with my talk partner helps me learn better.

Nathan – I liked creating in the play area.

Have a lovely weekend!

from Mrs Keegan, Mrs Caskie and P2/3

Have your say! How can we use PEF to support all children and families at St Ninian’s?

Last year we received £63,000 funding from the Scottish Government’s Pupil Equity Fund to help close the poverty related attainment gap.

We used this money to:-

Have an extra support for learning teacher (Mrs Scott) to provide extra literacy and numeracy support in all classes
Employ a Polish Pupil Support Worker to support children who are learning English
Run a PEEP (family learning) class for parents and nursery children
Reduce the cost of after school clubs, camps and trips
Employ a Speech & Language therapist to work with identified groups of children from nursery – P3
Provide high quality professional learning for all staff.
Purchase new writing resources for P1-7 to improve children’s attainment in writing
Employ an extra teacher to support us with Number Talks across P1-7
Purchase a numeracy home learning kit for P2-4 pupils – these will be launched in August
Purchase new netbooks and iPads for each class

We will receive £60,000 PEF funding this year.

What do you think our school should STOP, START and CONTINUE to do to help all our children make progress and to support all families?

Please add your comments below.

Weekly news from the amazing P2/3

It has been a really busy week in P2/3 and the children would like to share their highlights.

Blake – I liked doing the quiz at the Owl Centre.

Abby – I liked using Kahoot!

Poppy – I liked learning about owls at the Owl Centre.

Rafay – I liked building stamina in PE.

Wiktoria – I liked visiting the play area at Polkemmet Park.

Abu Bakr – I liked sending and replying to emails.

Rutendo – I liked using adjectives in writing.

Casper – I liked construction at Smart Start.

Bernice – I liked making compasses.

Mark K. – I liked using my OneNote profile for my learning conversation.

Nathan – I liked Fun 31.

Freda – I liked the play area.

Daniel – I liked programming the BeeBot.

Marcel – I liked reading in the reading corner.

Oliver – I liked reading and I love my new book.

Paul – I liked the shop at the Owl Centre.

Isla – I like listening to the story of The Demon Dinner Ladies.

Joshua – I liked helping to take photographs for National Numeracy Day.

Mirren – I liked dividing in maths. I liked working with Joshua.

Aiden – I liked using Letter Join.

Lloyd – I liked writing a description of my school bag and using boost words.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Caskie, Mrs Keegan and P2/3

P3 Weekly Highlights

Jarred – I enjoyed the sumdog challenge for homework this week.

James – I enjoyed Maths this week making a human graph outside.

Dexter – I enjoyed learning about Mary in RE. I know we think of Mary during the month of May.

Kerr – I liked doing PE this week working on our stamina by running.

Dawid -I liked making a data gif on the computer this week with my learning partner.

Amber – I liked doing Art this week creating a farm scene using patterns and colour.

Lucy – I liked sprinting in PE this week.

Esmee – I enjoyed making the farm house in Art.

Sophie – I liked writing a description of my school bag in writing.

Leigha – Sprinting was fun.

Kayla – I liked art this week using colour and pattern to create a farm.

Kaitlyn – I liked learning about bar graphs and tally marks this week.

Romera – I liked writing all about my school bag.

Sahara – I enjoyed going to the park with my friends.

Myles – I liked doing leaf rubbings this week in the garden.

Stefan – I enjoyed creating graphs this week on the computer, paper and a human graph.

Adam – I liked doing the human bar graph too.

Mackenzie – I enjoyed reading in the garden this week.

Check out Mrs Wassell’s twitter for lots of pictures of our learning.

Hope you all have a lovely long weekend!

Mrs Wassell and Primary 3

Primary 2/3 Weekly Update

The children in P2/3 would like to share their highlights from this short but busy week.

Rafay – I liked sending emails using Glow during Smart Start.

Wiktoria – I loved hearing the story of the Owl Babies.

Abu Bakr – I loved creating electrical circuits with Wiktoria and investigating which materials conduct electricity. The answer was metal!

Freda – I loved Free Writing Friday and dividing in maths.

Blake – I loved our Word Boost story of the Highway Rat.

Paul – I liked using Sway on Glow.

Poppy – I liked division in maths.

Abby – I liked our division check up in maths. I was good at it.

Mark K. – I liked handwriting. We’re joining our letters.

Marcel – I liked playing Sumdog on the netbooks.

Rutendo – I liked writing about the Owl Babies.

Mirren – I liked working with my talk partner to divide in maths.

Aiden – I liked linking multiplication and division in maths.

Lloyd and Casper- I liked Free Writing Friday.

Oliver – I liked doing high jumps in PE.

Abigail – I loved all the Owl Babies activities.

Bernice – I loved using the play room and making model furniture.

Seren – I liked being the teacher in Number Talks.

Joshua – I liked showing Mrs Roy my Glow account.

Mark D. I liked Number Talks because I like numbers.

Nathan – I liked writing about Owl Babies.

from P2/3, Mrs Keegan and Mrs Caskie

P3 Weekly News

We have had a fantastic week. It has been very busy with lots of exciting learning. Here are our highlights;

Kayla – I liked making missing posters for ‘Fing’ and using adjectives to write a description of him.

Kerr – I liked learning about fractions this week.

Kaitlyn – I enjoyed making posters about Scottish farming.

Myles – I liked making traps to catch ‘Fing’ when he went missing.

Amber – I loved doing the high jump in PE.

Sophie – I liked learning about farming.

Klaudia – I liked learning about writing description in PM writing.

Dexter – I liked using ICT to research about Scottish Farming.

Stefan – I liked seeing ‘Fing’ get caught in the trap.

Jarred – I learned how to find fractions on a number line.

Mackenzie – I liked learning about fractions this week too. I loved playing the fraction games on sumdog.

Leigha – I enjoyed assembly this week and liked the video about always looking up to your champions when you fall down.

Romera – I liked learning different jumps in PE this week.

Riley – I enjoyed doing fractions this week because we got to play fun games.

Esmee – I liked doing the long jump in PE.

Ephraim – I enjoyed working in groups to research Scottish farming.

Adam – I liked doing the words in a word challenge with my group.

Dawid – I liked learning about the eat well plate.

Lucy – I liked doing my fraction sumdog challenge. I won 250 coins.

James – I enjoyed writing descriptions of ‘Fing’ on missing posters.

Kyle – I enjoyed doing the high jump in PE this week.

Here are some of the songs we learned to help us learn about fractions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTce7f6KGE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZaXtOHNh6s

We hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend.

Mrs Wassell and Primary 3