Author: Mrs Leslie

I have attached the overview of learning and what will be happening in Term 1 (Sept – Oct) in Primary 3/4. Please do not hesitate to contact me through the school office or by the school email if you have any questions. Regards Mrs Leslie.

I hope that you all had a restful September Weekend. Today P3/4 were issued with their home learning bags. I have enclosed a letter explaining when the Home Learning bag should be retuned to school and what will be issued as Home Learning in P3/4.

The Home Learning bags will be issued on a Monday and should be returned on Friday with any completed work. Please complete as much as you can as you and your children have very busy lives. Home Learning is for sharing your child’s learning and is quality time that you should spend with your child so they can explain to you what they have learned.

In the bag you will find paper copies of maths, literacy and other curriculum tasks and I will place the PDFs of any work on the blog to be available from the Monday. I have also enclosed a pencil and scrap paper to support your child’s home learning.

Maths – up until the October Week your child should attempt challenges from the Royal Mile Mental Agility Progression Rainbow. I have placed both Activity Sheet 3 and 4 in the bag and your child should date and initial the challenge they have attempted.

Sumdog – included is Sumdog password and can be used in conjunction with home learning. I will attach a task each week but this is an extra.

Reading – reading books from the previous week will be sent home. Please return them in the bags on Friday with the other home learning. Children who have not finished their book during the week and are reading the book over more than one week will have a book to read for pleasure from the class library or Book Box.

Spelling – a copy of Spelling Words linked to our Sound of the Week that is being learnt in class will be sent home with suggested challenges. This will be changed weekly.

Other Curriculum – a topic challenge grid on the Ancient Egyptians that can be completed up to the October Week.

Please find attached the Overview for learning in Primary 3 for Term 3.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if there are any questions.

Regards Mrs Leslie

It was lovely to see parents for the Read Write Count Book Bag launch on Friday and for the class to be able to undertake our active challenge of designing an adapted animal to beat the cheetah in the book ‘There’s Nothing Faster Than A Cheetah’ by Tom Nicoll. I have attached the link to the website for more activities that you can try at home to share and encourage reading. https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/read-write-count-at-home

It is Road Safety Week and we will be looking at keeping ourself safe when out and about on these dark days. We will be making posters in writing and we will be continuing to focus on multiplication and division in maths.

Home Learning this week will be issued on Monday and should be returned on Friday. Due to the busy week we had last week we will be sending our reading books home next week but in the Home Learning bags will be a book to read for pleasure and the children will have their Read Write Count bags with their new books. There will be a mental Maths challenge based on our Rainbow Mental Math Strategies and our weekly spelling word challenge. Please continue with the other curriculum challenge grid that will cover the next three weeks.