Category: Primary 3

The final week in January has been a busy one in Primary 2/3.

P2 have continued their investigations into people in the past with local significance and investigated James Young this week.  Look our for the fabulous fact files which they have produced!

P3 have continued with rehearsals for their show and it is looking great.  The show promises to be fantastic!

Everyone is looking forward to Safer Internet Day next week.  There are lots of great resources for parents at https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/digital-parenting/archive .

This week has seen the start of our time topic in maths.  We began by looking at the seasons of the year then the months of the year.  Everyone loved learning the months of the year through this song.

We also had fun sequencing the months of the year by playing this game.

Now that we’re all confident with the seasons and the months we have moved on to telling the time to o’clock and half past – quarter to and quarter past will follow this week.  We found this website useful to help us work on these times.

In reading we had the opportunity to reflect on our recent reading.  Everyone chose their favourite character from their reading book and drew their character then explained why they liked that character best.  It was great to see so many amazing adjectives in this writing.

Everyone was so excited to arrive in school on Friday and to see that our Mighty Writer board had been mounted on the wall so we can use it as much as we wish!

We had a fabulous discussion about feedback on our learning this morning.  23 of the 24 children decided that they liked spoken feedback rather than written feedback on their work so we’re trying to build more time for  this into our classroom.  We’ve explored Glow this week and tried recording feedback on our OneNote profiles- look out for more of this over the next few weeks.

Have a lovely weekend!

from Mrs Keegan and Mrs Caskie

This week has been a very busy week for Primary 3 as we prepare for the big show ‘A Blast from the Past’ and some of the children are preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Here are some of our highlights of the week!

Klaudia – I enjoyed doing sum dog in my smart start this week. I got lots of money questions right!

Esmee – This week we had our P3 class mass. I enjoyed doing a bidding prayer.

Brooke- We were learning action hymns for mass.

Sophie- We have been learning about money this week. I can give change from 20p.

James I enjoyed writing invitations for our school show. I hope you can all come to see it.

Kaitlyn- This week me Leigh and Kyle was the star writer for my Scots language Sentences from last week.

Dawid- Iam enjoying preparing for my first reconciliation . This week I learned I can go 2 different directions Ican make good  choices or bad choices. Itry my hardest to make good choices.

Ephraime-I like showing different ways of making money amounts.

Leigh- I am enjoying learning about what school was like in the past through our school show.

Lucy- I am enjoying practising for our school show . My favourite song is navy blue knickers.

Dexter- I have loved learning actions to go with the song six of the best.

Kyle- I love doing my song navy blue knickers.

Have a fantastic weekend. Stay safe and keep warm.

Mrs Wassell and Primary 3

This has been a very busy week for P3 as we are preparing for lots of upcoming events. We have enjoyed rehearsing for our show ‘A Blast from the Past’. Remember to practise your lines and songs at home.

Next week P3 will be going to St Phillips Church for their class mass. We have been practising our hymns and some of the children have been working on their bidding prayer. We would love if you could join us on Tuesday.

As our topic this term focuses on school in the past and how different they are from our school today, we have been doing Venn diagrams looking at objects you might find in schools in the past, present or both. We cannot believe children in the past were disciplined using a cane or belt!!!!

This week we have been celebrating Robert Burns. We learned about who he was and what he is famous for. We read some of his poems that were written in Scots.

We explored Scots language in more depth.We have created some silly sentences using Scots language and alliteration.

Riley – The doo was daft and cannae feel his bahooky.

Klaudia – The daft dug disnae daunce.

Amber – The dauncing dug is clarty.

This week in numeracy we have been working on subtraction. We have been looking at different strategies to work out calculations.

How many different strategies can you use to solve this calculation?

76 – 12

Have a super weekend

Mrs Wassell and Primary 3

What a busy week it has been in P2/3.

In Spanish we have revised our learning on numbers to 31 and have been working on saying our age to each other.  We had great fun using our language to play games and sing songs.

Everyone loved listening to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk in Word Boost this week then discussing nouns,  verbs and adjectives. Our learning then too k us on to write our own stories about Jack and the Beanstalk using Mighty Writer.

We have extended our digital skills this week by using Microsoft Word to type our spelling words. We had great fun changing sizes and fonts.

In maths we have worked on addition, giving change and number sequences to 100. You can work on number sequences at home by counting in ones from different starting points such as 21, 39, 43. Remember to try and cross a decade when you’re counting.

Work has continued on our One Note profiles and it has been lovely to read of the children’s activities in the Wider Achievement section.

P2 have continued to investigate historical figures with local relevance and made fabulous fact files about St Margaret this week. Do visit our classroom to read the fact files.

Rehearsals continue for our P3-5 show and P3 are working extra hard to learn their lines and songs.

from Mrs Keegan and Mrs Caskie

Preparation is underway for our school Christmas Fayre next week when P2/3 will have responsibility for the toy stall. We’ve been busy learning about coins and making posters for our stall. We’re still looking for donations so please hand in any toys to the office before Wednesday.

We’ve had great fun celebrating Book Week Scotland and loved our reading lunch on Thursday. P2/3 found some really creative places to cosy up and read.

Everyone loved receiving their Read, Write, Count bags and were excited to share all the literacy and numeracy gifts with their families. We had a lovely time in class sharing the stories and used the ideas to plan our Mighty Writer lesson for next week.

We’ve made the most of Book Week Scotland and everyone enjoyed cosying up in front of our (virtual) crackling fire to enjoy stories.

In writing this week we used Mighty Writer to help us to retell the story of Goldilocks. Look out for our stories on our writing jotters. In our version Goldilocks didn’t eat porridge but something else that was scrumptious! Congratulations to Abu Baker and Lloyd who were this week’s Star Writers.

Everyone is looking forward to hearing about the children’s favourite books next week and it has been lovely to read of the children’s thoughts on our school values this week in homework jotters and in online profiles.

In our topic this week we have looked at the role of the dentist in the community and thought about the skills that a dentist needs.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Hi everyone

Another very busy week in Primary 3!

During Catholic Education Week which continues next week too,  Primary 3 showed great insight and maturity in their understanding of what poverty means – in terms of what you really need to survive.

We have been celebrating Book Week Scotland this week.  On Thursday we were able to ‘Bring a Book to Lunch’ on Thursday which was fun! Along with Primary 4, we were also lucky enough to attend an Author Visit event at the Lanthorn Library. We actually got to meet Badger the Mystical Muff – wow! Here are some comments:

“We love reading…” and “This was the best day ever!”

This morning it was the gifting session of our Primary 3 Bookbags as part of the Read, Write, Count nationwide initiative. Thanks so much to the parents who were able to manage along to our event. We hope it was informative as well as enjoyable for you too! The presentation powerpoint and other documents will be available via the app for you to access.

In Number, Primary 3 have begun to look at Subtraction and have really been focusing on the thinking process they use individually. To support this they have been recording their thinking on a number line – this has proven a little tricky as Primary 3 have also been challenged to create their own number lines. We have been using maths language such as to the decade, crossing the decade, multiples of ten, single digits etc. We will be continuing to build on this next week and use the context of our Enterprise topic to add/subtract money.

Next week, Primary 3 will be busy preparing for our Lollipop stall…. They will be working in teams to create the lollipop bases and make posters etc. A huge thanks to everyone who has taken the time to donate lollipops, shoe boxes and prizes – it is much appreciated!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

From Mrs Scott and Primary 3.