Primary 3

September GIRFEC theme – SAFE

Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)

GiRFEC is the national approach in Scotland to improving outcomes and supporting the wellbeing of our children. To help make sure everyone – children, young people, parents, and the services that support them – has a common understanding of what wellbeing means, we describe it in terms of eight indicators. (see wheel)

Each month we focus on one of the indicators in class and at assembly. This month we will focus on SAFE.

In school some of the activities we will do the develop this theme are:

House Captain assemblies to look at being safe in school
Fire alarm drills to make sure children know what to do in the event of a fire
Every child will identify 5 key adults they can talk to – at school or at home

Working together at home is a really valuable part of this topic. Below are some ideas for family learning around this theme. We would love you to share how you get on!

Repeat a road safety routine whenever you are out and about.
Introduce your child to people who help us in the community.
Discuss how to make an emergency call and the dangers of doing this when there is no real emergency.
Make a list of people and their phone numbers your child could contact in an emergency and display it in your house.
Discuss the best way to react/respond to this situation with your child – a stranger makes contact with your child online and asks for their personal details. What should they do?

Hola!

Wow – what a week in Primary 3!

Health & Wellbeing

We are working really hard to remember our special St Ninian’s message – Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Safe which is central to our Class Charter. Our aim is for this simple but powerful language to be part and parcel of our everyday ethos. Well done Primary 3 for making a fantastic start!

Interdisciplinary Learning

We have loved using Flat Stanley as one of our contexts for learning.

“In Writing, we wrote letters to someone in our family telling them all about Flat Stanley .” – Ephraim. Watch out for these letters arriving in the post soon as Primary 3 will be posting them to you!

Next week, Primary 3 will be writing a newspaper report on the museum burglars from the story and how Flat Stanley saved the day. On Monday we will be discussing as a class the layout of a newspaper and the purpose of a newspaper report. A great preparation would be perhaps talking with your child about this beforehand as this can help their contribution to the discussion.

Primary 3 loved the part of the story where Flat Stanley disguised himself as Bo Peep. Just like Flat Stanley they disguised themselves to see what it was like.

Lucy – ‘I had a mask and a summer hat on, it was fun!”

Dawid – “I was dressed as a skeleton and I had a mask on too!”

Stefan – “I was dressed up as a firefighter. I had a firefighter helmet on. It was very weird!”

Klaudia – ‘I had a firefighter hat and a police outfit. I had glasses on that made me dizzy!”

Dexter – “I was a skeleton and I was wearing a summer hat for some reason.”

Adam – “I wore a red and blue scarf!”

Primary 3 also learned about some of the machines that a letter goes through on its journey to its destination.”

“One of them is called IMP and it takes a picture of the address so it can read the post code!” – Kerr.

“The Sorter Balls sort the letters that are too fat from the ones that are flat.” – Esmee

Numeracy

During Number Talks we have been talking about the strategies we use to help us work out which number is halfway between. We also met Odd Todd and Even Steven for the first time to help us with odd and even numbers. We will be consolidating our understanding of addition within 20. We know this is really important as these will form our building blocks for manipulating larger numbers.

This interactive Number Facts activity is helpful for extra reinforcement.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Literacy

“I love my new reading book” – Leigha.

Word Boost & Handwriting– we have loved our Word Boost Story this week, it was called ‘Six Dinner Sid’s Highland Adventure’. Primary 3 have been so receptive to the story and all of the associated activities to extend their vocabulary. Words for this week have been agile, require, dare, swoop, defend and appetite. We have been practicing how to form certain letters using an appropriate size and trying especially to stay on the line.

Spanish

Mrs Scott was very impressed with how many Spanish Greetings Primary 3 could remember! We will be working on developing confidence at using them with each other.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, from Primary 3.

Adios!

Mrs Scott & Mrs Conway

Primary 2/3 Weekly News

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

I liked running in PE Bernice

I liked doing sport in PE Aiden and Marcel

I liked handwriting Abby

I liked using numicon in maths Paul and Serren

I liked learning colours in Spanish Isla and Abu Bakr

I liked reading my new book Mirren

I liked doing the Daily Mile Casper and Oliver

I liked working with others to make a 100 square JoshuaI

I liked writing a poem about an owl Poppy, Nathan and Wiktoria

I liked Emotion Works when we learnt how to name feelings Abigail

I liked doing collage in Smart Start Mark K.

I liked writing i, l and t in handwriting Daniel and Blake

I liked skip counting on the smartboard Rafay

I liked adding and subtracting in maths Freda

We all loved working on skip counting using two games on the Smart Board. The links are below if you’d like to try the games at home. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/BalloonPopSkip.htm

http://www.abcya.com/number_bubble_skip_counting.htm

Everyone enjoyed our Word Boost book, Baby Brain, and was able to use the boost words in games and in sentences. Our boost words were occasion, vast, local , popular, repeat and mumble.

In spelling we’ve been working on our P2 and P3 word lists. The P2 words were all, are, as, at , be and but and the P3 words were about, an, back, because, been, before , big and by. We had great fun creating spelling pyramids using these words.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

Family Fun Morning – 1 plus 2 Languages

Please click on the link below to find out more about a family event taking place on 8th September from 10am – 12noon.

Learn to dance Flamenco and enjoy a croissant in the French café!
Please register your interest with your school by Monday, 3rd September to book your place! Cost per family: £1

1+2 Family Fun Morning Flyer

Welcome to P3!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Primary 3, with Mrs Scott and Mrs Conway!

We have been so impressed with how well our pupils have settled in during their first week of Primary 3. It has been a whirlwind week with lots of new things to learn and lots of fun things going on.

Our learning context for the next few weeks is ‘Flat Stanley’, a book about a boy who gets crushed ‘as flat as a pancake’ – the boys and girls have enjoyed hearing parts of the story and have enjoyed follow up tasks such as making a flat Stanley of their own and finding things in and around our classroom that are as flat as Stanley. Maybe over the weekend they could make pancakes as flat as Stanley?? Yum!

Our PE days are going to be TUESDAY and THURSDAY. Mrs Scott will take the class for class teacher PE on a Tuesday, and Mr McCurdy will take the boys and girls on a Thursday PE session. This week Mr McCurdy had the class growing and shrinking as they played ‘Mario Tig’ – what great fun!

By the end of next week the class will receive their homework diaries and their reading books. For the first few weeks we will run with reading homework only, and build on this as we get further into the term.

If your child is keen to explore other areas of their learning at home they may want to write letters to family members as we will be exploring this in our writing sessions. Perhaps they could build on their mental maths skills by playing games through Sumdog and Topmarks;

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We will also be looking at measurement in maths, and have already used rulers for measuring this week;

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/measuring-in-cm

Our Class Charter has been completed around the following three school rules;

Be Ready
Be Respectful
Be Safe

We explored these in group work and through drama to come up with some pointers to keep us right – one thing you can help us with is ‘get a good sleep’ which was suggested by the Smarty Pants Group.

We can’t wait to meet you all and get to know our boys and girls even better over the coming term!

Ps. there have been a few good secret handshakes taught to us this week – keep them coming!

Welcome to Primary 2/3

Welcome to Primary 2/3! The children have all settled really well into their new class and we have had great fun getting to know each other. We’ve also started our novel study and have loved getting to know ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson.

PE days this year will be Tuesday and Thursday.

The children will bring home new reading books and diaries next week so look out for those in their school bags.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Caskie and Mrs Keegan

1+2 Languages Family Fun Event

Please click on the link below to find out more about a family event taking place on 8th September from 10am – 12noon.

Learn to dance Flamenco and enjoy a croissant in the French café!
Please register your interest with your school by Monday, 3rd September to book your place! Cost per family: £1

1+2 Family Fun Morning Flyer

School Bank West Lothian Clothing Appeal 25th – 29th June

The School Bank are a local charity who help families in need within West Lothian and who provide clothing/footwear to children for the school day. There are a small number of parents from our school who volunteer with this charity and we are organising a collection of clothing, footwear and school bags to help this local organisation and ultimately to help children within West Lothian. In addition, it would help us all reduce our carbon footprint by re-cycling. It’s a win win!

The School Bank are looking for USED SCHOOL UNIFORM AND GENERAL CLOTHING. This could be:

– All school uniform e.g. shirts, trousers, skirts, pinafores, jumpers, cardigans and gingham dresses
– Gym kit
– Jackets
– Shoes and trainers
School bags
– General clothing – both kids and adults

To help you organise any uniform / clothing to donate we will have dress down days on the last two days of term – Thursday 28^th and Friday 29^th June.

P2/3 Snowy Day Tasks – Friday 2nd March

Good morning everyone! Here are some more activities you might like to try today.

Well done to all the children who have sent in pictures of what you have been doing. It is lovely to see all of your activities.

I’ve set up a new snowy day challenge on Sumdog which runs for today only. Log in and try to earn an extra 250 coins.

Draw a picture of yourself in the snow and write a few sentences underneath to describe your picture. You can bring it in to school on Monday.

Why not try some baking? I’m going to do some baking later and I’ll share my picture on Class Dojo. You’ll need to read your recipe and measure your ingredients.

Read lots of books or if you prefer listen to online audio books http://www.storylineonline.net/ Primary 3 children can also update their Reading Passports. Primary 2 children can keep a note of books read and we’ll add them to our class chart next week.

Stay safe in the snow.