Author: Miss Copeland

Please see this term’s intended learning.

Many thanks,

Miss Copeland

Scottish Portrait Gallery

Paintings, photos, glass(!) and sculptures – we found so many different mediums of portraits!

Robert Burns’ portrait and sculpture were a big hit and it was ‘so cool’ to see the portraits of kings and queens.

Ken Currie’s Unknown Man, 2019 Portrait of Professor Dame Sue Black and Three Oncologists intrigued the pupils and we had a discussion around their red eyes and ghostly like appearances.

We noticed how a lot of the people were not smiling in the paintings and how it could be because it would take such a long time to paint, that their faces would hurt by the end!

We also admired the frames in real life, having worked from photographs to make our own. We spotted some repeating patterns that looked a bit like… pasta, pea, pea, pea, pea. Maybe try mixing up dinner time and frame your food!

Portrait photo shoot

Inspired by a visit to the Scottish Portrait Gallery, we experimented with costumes, facial expression and body position when being photographed. Here is just a snippet, before we choose one to go inside our frames…!

British Science Week

Timing helicopters falling, helping preserve apples last for a long amount of time and timing how long we can dunk biscuits… we had a great time!

Edinburgh Science Festival

We were lucky to get early access to the ESF at the City Art Centre. We had lots of fun at Energy Makers, Little Sparks and Imagination Playground!

Ann taught us about Finland and her holiday there

Olivia taught us about tattoos

Mustapha taught us about the body

Yasmine taught us about Algeria

Were you inspired by Science Week?

Check out these Time related activities you can do at home!

Money

As society moves towards a becoming cashless, more pupils in Primary 2 have seen their grown ups pay use a mobile phone than pay with coins!

It is vital that pupils experience handling money – looking at the shapes, sizes and values of coins, paying with them, receiving change and receipts.

To make it even trickier for young learners, did you know that most coins do not have numbers on them anymore? They were replaced with words!

Your child should be able to…

• Identify all coins to £2.
• Apply addition and subtraction skills and use 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins to pay the exact value for items to 10p.

Click the link below to see an array of money games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

Can you sort the coins?

• By colour – Gold, Silver, Bronze
• By shape – Circle, Heptagon, Dodecagon
• By size – Smallest to biggest
• By value – lowest value to highest value

Mirabelle’s Show and Tell about Ghana

“I like the flag” Eddy
“You spoke very clearly” Olivia
“I like the flag” Charlie
“Have you been to Ghana?” Yasmine
“I like rice too” Eddy

Loai’s Show and Tell about his new house and new sibling

“I like the pictures your mum drew” Charlie
“What does your room look like?” Lola
“I like your new house” Yasmine
“I like your poster” Charlie

Red Nose Day Assembly

We were tasked with telling 3 jokes to the whole school. Here are our 3 brave comedians!

Aiden – Why did the Chicken want to fly? Becoooors!
Charlie – What did the artist draw before bedtime? The curtains!
Olivia – What did the whale eat for dinner? Fish and ships!

Gymnastics

“We’re setting up for P.E” Olivia
“We were lifting the mats to keep us safe if we fall” Mohamed

“We did balances on the benches” Mustapha
“I am balancing on one leg” Mirabelle

“I done a star jump” Mohamed
“I did a tuck jump” Mustapha
“I done a straight jump” Aiden
“I am spotting for Clay so he can jump off it and land in my hands” Lola

Art – Framing

We have been learning about ways of displaying work.

“We’re making frames out of cardboard. We were allowed to stick anything we wanted on our frames like pasta and bottle tops.” Charlie
“We had to make patterns. The corners are the same.” Eddy

Maths – Money

In this shop, pupils added dot card ‘money’ together to purchase Lego!

“I was getting to buy a tower Lego. I was taking the money and giving it to Colin.” Yasmine

In this shop, pupils had to select the correct coin to buy items.

“I’m being a shop keeper. They buyed food with money.” Aiden
“I’m asking for a chicken leg. It costs £2 and so I paid with a £2 coin” Mustapha

Lola created a poster all about her birthday party. She likes taking photos and having her photo taken. She can take photos on her camera, tablet and phones!

“You spoke very bravely” Mirabelle
“I like the pictures of your key chains when you’re smiling” Aiden
“How many photos are there?” Loai, “11 pictures!”
“You spoke very confidently” Olivia
“I like your pictures” Eddy
“I like the photo that has been edited” Charlie

Gymnastics

P2 are learning the 4 parts of gymnastics; Rolling, travelling, balancing and jumping.

To learn a forward roll, we have been using a slope. It is very important to tuck our head in when we roll, as not to hurt our neck.
We also have to reach forward to help us stand up. Practising rocking to sit, and rocking to stand are ways you can get stronger at home
https://www.facebook.com/www.wickersgymnastics.co.uk/videos/rock-and-roll-to-stand/1274601362744653/

Using the climbing frame helps build our core strength. Playing in playparks and climbing frames are super for building our muscles, which in turn helps us when we sit and write at a desk!