During Book Week Scotland the three shortlisted books were read to us by Mrs Hollands, Mr Taylor and Mrs McKenzie. All children have now voted for their favourite book………………..
In 3rd place with 95 votes was “Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit Book Burglar”
In 2nd place with 105 votes was “Mouse’s First Night at Moonlight School”
In 1st place with 129 votes was “Never Tickle a Tiger”
Well done to “Never Tickle a Tiger” a worthy winner. The results of our vote will now be forwarded to the Scottish Book Trust.
During Book Week Scotland, children were asked to design and create a page for a comic book. We were blown away by the number of entries. The library afterschool club had an extremely difficult job deciding on the winners.
Primary 1 winner
Primary 2 winner
Primary 3 winner
Primary 5 winner
Primary 6 winner
Primary 7 winner
Primary 4 winner
The winners were:
Primary 1 – Orla, Primary 1b
Primary 2 – Sarah, Primary 3/2
Primary 3 – Eve, Primary 3b
Primary 4 – Jack, Primary 4b
Primary 5 – Connor, Primary 5a
Primary 6 – Erin, Primary 6b
Primary 7 – Marek, Primary 7a
All the winning entries have now been framed and are displayed in school. All entries will be made into books for our library. Well done to all the winners.
It was a busy first day back after the holidays here in Primary 3! After we shared all our holiday news with the rest of the class, we started to make some New Year Resolutions. We have been reflecting about what we enjoyed about 2015 and what we are looking forward to in 2016. At the moment, we have been thinking of resolutions that will help us achieve personal targets, such as learning to swim, learning to do stunts on a BMX bike and being a good friend. Soon, we will start to think about achievement in school and set ourselves a new target for Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing to work towards this term.
We also had a lot of fun in a Nycos session this afternoon with Mrs Poynter. We enjoyed a “Play and Sing” session, which gave us a taste of what happens in these workshops. We will be coming home with a leaflet to provide more information of local classes that Nycos will be running as part of the Youth Music Initiative.
We also received some very special letters today – from Katie Morag!! During our topic last term we wrote to Katie Morag with lots of questions and she was obviously very busy replying to us all. We each opened and read our letters today – sharing some of the answers we had been waiting for. We have been reflecting on our Katie Morag topic and checking if we have learned everything we hoped to at the beginning of the topic.
Yesterday, Primary 3 had a fun-filled day of Christmas celebrations! We were off to the Panto in the morning to see Aladdin at the Howden Park Centre. Some of us shouted ourselves hoarse and had lots of fun booing the baddies! Our teachers thought we did a great job representing Williamston Primary and behaved wonderfully.
As if that wasn’t enough excitement for one day, we then had our Christmas Party in the afternoon! It started with games and dancing in the big hall and then we came back to the classrooms for party food and a rest! We then headed back to big hall for a very special visitor. Primary three ave obviously been very good this year, as Santa arrived with quite a few presents!
We would like to take this opportunity, along with our teachers, to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This week has been very busy. We had lots of helpers in to help us make clocks for Mr Minute’s factory. The classrooms were a hive of activity each afternoon and the clocks everyone made are all fantastic! Great job everyone! Mr Minute will soon be contacting you all about getting jobs in his factory.
What was your favourite part of the afternoon? What do you like best about your clock?
This week four children in each class were given their achievement certificates. I wonder what they got their certificates for? What could you do to get a certificate next time?
We had a lovely Christmas lunch on Thursday and are all looking forward to Christmas activities next week.
On Monday Primary 2 have their Christmas party. On Tuesday Primary 1 have their nativity and party. On Thursday Primary 3 are going to see a Pantomime at Howden Park Centre and Primary 2 and 1 are watching a pantomime in school. Primary 3 also have their party on Thursday afternoon. Phew!
Can we take this opportunity to wish all family and friends of Primary 3/2, 2/1 and 2 a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.
Today in class, six of our children received achievement certificates for their fantastic work over the past couple of weeks.
First up, for doing a super job at sharing his learning at the showcase, we have Luca!
Luca says “I liked getting a certificate. I feel happy!”
Next, for his wonderful Katie Morag short story, we have Roan!
Roan says “I feel epic. It was exciting and I can’t wait to show Mum and Dad”
Next, for working in a successful partnership to create their model island, we have Ryan and Eve!
Ryan says “I feel amazing!” and Eve says “I fee outstanding. I can’t wait to show my Mum and Dad”
And last up, also for working in a successful partnership to design and make their model island, we have Morgan and Ethan!
Morgan says “My Mum and Dad are going to be so pleased! I feel epic!” and Ethan says “My Mum and Dad are going to be so happy with me. I feel epic too!”
Well done to our achievement certificate recipients! You have worked so hard and Miss Robertson and P3b are proud of you all!
Last week in primary 3a and 3b, we were very excited about having our family into school to share everything we have been learning in our Katie Morag topic.
Our special guests arrived at 9.15 in the morning and we welcomed them in the small hall and got started right away with sharing our work.
We performed the Canadian Barn Dance and Gay Gordons in the small hall, and then even asked an adult to dance with us! We were very impressed with the effort and enthusiasm from our guests.
In our P3 classrooms, we performed our Katie Morag puppet shows. We have been working very hard with Mrs Thomson to plan and script our puppet show and then made puppets and backdrops for our performance. We also showed our guests our 3D model islands. As Katie Morag lives on an island, we have been exploring island life and designed and made a model island of our own. We had to explain how we did this to our guests.
We shared stories with our guests in the library. Primary 3a have written a whole class Katie Morag story and read this to our guests and Primary 3b have been working on individual Katie Morag short stories and shared these with their guests. We also took the time to relax with a Katie Morag book.
To finish off our busy morning, we went back to the small hall to sing some Scottish songs. We sang “Ye cannae shove yer Granny aff a bus”, “The world must be comin’ tae an end” and “three craws”. We have also been working on a traditional Gaelic song with Ms Macdonald and performed this too.
We had a wonderful time showcasing our learning to our invited guests and our teachers think we did a wonderful job of explaining everything we have been doing in our topic work.
Reading stories
Singing
Scottish Country Dancing
Puppet shows
Storytelling
Some of our Guests
More singing!
Showing our islands
Here are some of the comments that have been made by our special guests:
“I can’t seem to pick a favourite as everything was great! A big thank you Ethan, P3’s and teachers – the effort and quality of work blew us away!! Good job everybody!”
“I thoroughly enjoyed the event. It was nice to see Hamza’s interest and involvement in every part of the event – especially dancing and singing.”
“I enjoyed everything. It is lovely to get an insight into what your children do at school and how they interact on a daily basis.”
“It was fabulous to see all the hard work undertaken by the pupils – loved the opportunity to see Roan’s work after hearing all about it over the past few weeks.”
“Primary 3 Katie Morag showcase was amazing! It was great for parents to gain a better understanding through participation.”
“Great interaction, allowing the child to showcase what they have learned. Really enjoyed the morning – a very proud Dad.”
At the African Drumming Club, we enjoyed showing off our new talents and skills to parents, family and friends at our last session. We played a selection of rhythms, using a Christmas theme, on various instruments. But our favourite was The Rumble!
We really enjoyed performing our assembly to family members and Nursery to Primary 3 today. Miss Trotter was very proud of us all.
We have been learning a lot about the value of the month, Friendship. We know how important friends are to us and how to be a good friend. We will treat our friends like we would like to be treated because…. ‘The only way to have a friend is to be one.’
