Category: Primary 3

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

Abu Bakr and Blake – my highlight was learning fractions in our Fractions Factory.

Abby and Wiktoria – I loved listening to the story of the Demon Dinner Ladies.

Casper – I loved using the netbooks to write stories using Microsoft Word.

Bernice and Lloyd  – I liked doing the high jump in PE.

Aiden – I loved using the Chatterpix app then showing Abu Bakr how to use it.

Freda – I love Free Writing Friday.

Poppy and Seren – I like BEAR time.

Mark K and Mark D – I loved building with Kapla.

Oliver and Rafay – I like Fun 31.

Mirren – I loved learning to divide.

Daniel – I liked using the play area.  I like to use the kinetic sand.

Marcel – I loved gymnastics in PE.

Joshua – I loved making electrical circuits.

Rutendo – I loved seeing my name on the praise board.  My name was on it 3 times!

Nathan – I liked using numicon in the Fraction Factory.

Paul – I liked using the iPad to write a story during Smart Start.

Abigail – I liked learning about getting a sound sleep at night.

Isla – I liked writing a description.

Everyone has brought home a letter today about our exciting trip to the Scottish Owl Centre on Wednesday 15th May. Completed forms should be returned on Wednesday.

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Keegan, Mrs Caskie and P2/3

We cannot believe Term 3 is nearly over! Time flies when you are having fun!

It has been a very busy week for Primary week. Here are some of the highlights;

In Maths this week we have been learning about division with remainders. We have learned how to work out division calculations using the standard method. This has been a big challenge for us but in Primary 3 we love a challenge! Here is a video to help us.

On Monday the SPL cup came to St Ninians with Lomond the Lion during our ‘Supermovers’ assembly. We loved learning to count and dance with Lomond.

Check out Twitter to see some pictures!

We enjoyed playing football this week out in the playground for PE. We had a mini tournament allowing us to play different teams in our class. He have been developing our ball skills over the last few weeks and was great to see us apply these skills when playing a game.

We also got to take part in the Tennis festival at James Young on Thursday. It was a fantastic afternoon and we all enjoyed meeting boys and girls from different schools. We got to play some games using tennis rackets and balls to help develop our skills. We had a ball!

In writing this week we continued to develop our skills for writing a recount. We read the true story of Grace Darling and wrote a recount of the story. We know that a recount should have an orientation, sequence of events and a personal comment.

Tomorrow some of the children in Primary 3 will make the Sacrament of Reconciliation. They have been preparing very hard for this special day. Please keep all of the children in your thoughts and prayers as they embark on this journey.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Wassell and Primary 3

We cannot believe Term 3 is nearly over! Time flies when you are having fun!

It has been a very busy week for Primary week. Here are some of the highlights;

In Maths this week we have been learning about division with remainders. We have learned how to work out division calculations using the standard method. This has been a big challenge for us but in Primary 3 we love a challenge! Here is a video to help us.

On Monday the SPL cup came to St Ninians with Lomond the Lion during our ‘Supermovers’ assembly. We loved learning to count and dance with Lomond.

Check out Twitter to see some pictures!

We enjoyed playing football this week out in the playground for PE. We had a mini tournament allowing us to play different teams in our class. He have been developing our ball skills over the last few weeks and was great to see us apply these skills when playing a game.

We also got to take part in the Tennis festival at James Young on Thursday. It was a fantastic afternoon and we all enjoyed meeting boys and girls from different schools. We got to play some games using tennis rackets and balls to help develop our skills. We had a ball!

In writing this week we continued to develop our skills for writing a recount. We read the true story of Grace Darling and wrote a recount of the story. We know that a recount should have an orientation, sequence of events and a personal comment.

Tomorrow some of the children in Primary 3 will make the Sacrament of Reconciliation. They have been preparing very hard for this special day. Please keep all of the children in your thoughts and prayers as they embark on this journey.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Wassell and Primary 3

This week our highlights have been:

We loved the tennis festival at James Young High School.  It inspired us to play more tennis and we enjoyed meeting new friends from other schools.

We have been busy making Mother’s Day Cards (sshh, it is a secret!).  Everyone used a range of skills to create beautiful work.

In Art we created Easter pictures with Mrs Young.

In PE we had great fun playing ball and running games.

Miss Young, a B.Ed student, has been working with us this week and we have loved having her in our class.

We have been busy caring for our potatoes in Science and we have been so excited to see them begin to grow.

Look out for our new ladders which we have created to help us when we are stuck.  Everyone brainstormed their ideas then we created our own ladder.

Our multiplication and subtraction skills are really improving and we’re looking forward to moving on to division soon.

We have all got our own ‘fuzzy’ and they help us when we’re sad, as part of our Building Resilience with Skipper programme. Everyone has shared experiences of when their ‘fuzzies’ have helped them this week.

In PM Writing we have continued to work on recounts.  Everyone agrees that it is easier to write our recounts in stages and that our recounts have really improved.  We have loved looking for verbs and adjectives in the texts.

Some children are looking forward to making the Sacrament of Reconciliation tomorrow and have worked really hard to prepare for this important step in their Sacramental journey.

Update from Blake, Mark D., Abu Bakr, Joshua, Lloyd, Paul, Mirren, Nathan and Abby.

This week we had a lovely visit from Arch Bishop Leo Cushley.

On Tuesday we investigated Shrove Tuesday traditions and sampled some pancakes.  This led us to write imaginative stories about a runaway pancake on Wednesday.  We also  took part in our  Ash Wednesday service to mark the beginning of Lent. We have spoken about our Lenten promises.

We celebrated World Book Day and had a super DEAR (drop everything and read).  We also listened to one of our favourite authors, Alex T. Smith, speak about how he finds inspiration for his writing and then visited ‘Story Detective Stations’ to create our own stories.  The stories we created were fantastic!  There was much excitement as Mirren and Abby headed off to Waterstone’s to choose some new books for our class library and our new books have been much in demand.

Karen from RHET visited us on Friday and helped us to plant potatoes as part of our Science topic.  We’ve entered a competition with other schools to see who can grow the heaviest crop of potatoes – but we’re most excited about eating our potatoes.

Another highlight on Friday was our story massage session when Mrs Stewart and Mrs McCabe taught us how to use massage.  We all agreed that it helped us to feel peaceful and calm.

Our work in writing this week has focused on recounts and we’re developing our skills in using nouns, past tense verbs and time and sequence words.  Look our for our recounts next week.

In maths we’ve been working on subtraction and multiplication. P2 developed their digital skills during maths when they made videos to demonstrate how we use arrays to solve multiplication problems.

Have a great weekend.

From Mrs Caskie, Mrs Keegan and P2/3

Myles – “I enjoyed making fair trade cake”

James – “I enjoyed starting our Science topic learning about living things.”

Sophie – “I liked using paints to make a seasons picture.”

Amber – “I have liked learning about time. I can tell the times quarter past, quarter to, half past and o’clock.”

Brooke – “I enjoyed making krispie cakes. They were delicious.”

Kaitlyn – “I enjoyed learning all about analogue time.”

Leigha – “I enjoyed learning multiplication. I liked playing the times table games on sumdog.”

Mackenzie – “I liked designing a poster about the characteristics of living things.”

Kyle – “In writing this week we wrote a bedtime story for the children in the nursery. I liked reading my story to the children in the nursery.”

Kerr – “I liked learning about multiplication using arrays. I like playing buzz to help me learn my times tables.”

Riley – “I really learning science. I can’t wait to do some experiments.”

Dexter – “I loved writing a bedtime story for the nursery. I read my story to some children in the nursery.”

Kayla – “I liked cooking this week. I made a krispie cake with milk chocolate. I loved liking the spoon and bowl at the end.”

Jarred – “In Spanish we made Spanish celebration cakes. They were amazing!”

Adam – “We got to write our ages in icing on our cakes.”

Sahara – “I have liked playing with the fairy dolls this week.”

Hayley – “I liked playing the pac man game in PE.”

Klaudia – “I liked learning all about living and non-living things in Science.”

Stefan – “I have enjoyed learning new vocabulary in word boost.”

Esmee – “I liked playing football in PE.”

Have a great weekend

P3