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P3/4 News and Home Learning w/b 23/3/26

Thank you for joining us at our Assembly on Friday 20th March and we hope that you enjoyed watching as much as we enjoyed performing at it. P3/4 would like to extend a Happy Eid Mubarak to all the children and families and we hope that you had a lovely shared time on Friday and over the weekend.

This week, we will continue to look at money in maths and we will start to revisit our four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) that will be a big focus of working with number next term.

In literacy, we will be continuing to write our class imaginative adventure story. We will also be adding more dialogue and paragraphs to the adventure in our chosen country that we are writing individually. Class readers will not go home until next Monday as we have still work to complete using our Literacy Detectives that involve our books.

In Science, we are going to look at how sound travels and this will happen over the next two weeks. In Art, we will be producing work for our frames in the school stair gallery. The theme for art will be the book ‘Just Ask’ by Sonia Sotomayor, a wonderful book about diversity. inclusion and understanding, please take an opportunity to read it with your child here is a link to You Tube JUST ASK by Sonia Sotomayor Read Aloud

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I am looking forward to meeting parents and carers, on either Thursday or Friday for our Parent Consultations to allow us to share your children’s learning. If you are not able to make your appointment or require to make alternative arrangements please contact the office.

Home Learning, this week, will be sent home in the bags on Monday and should be returned on Friday. There will be the weekly spelling words challenge, the Rainbow Maths Strategies sheets, a book to read for pleasure and the other curriculum challenge grid.

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P3/4 News and Home Learning w/b 16th March 2026.

It will be a busy week for P3/4 as they prepare for their Assembly on Friday (20th March at 11am) and we hope to see you there. Ms De La Cruz left on Friday to return to University but she will be back to visit for the Assembly and will return after Easter to teach in P6.

In maths, this week. we will be starting a new colour on the Rainbow Maths Mental Strategies, yellow – Number Recognition. We will continue with looking at money in maths and finish off work on fractions.

In writing, we will be continuing our imaginative adventure stories using dialogue and structured paragraphs that are set in our chosen countries. We hope to be able to share some of our previous writing with you at the Assembly on Friday.

Home Learning, this week, will go home on Monday in the bags and should be returned on Friday. Home Learning, this week will be weekly spelling challenge, other curriculum challenge grid, a book to read for pleasure and the new Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheet.

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P3/4 News and Home Learning w/b 9th March 2026

This will be Ms De La Cruz’s last week in P3/4, however it will be a busy one with rehearsals for P3/4 Assembly underway and the filming of our information videos on our Scottish Inventors completed subject to editing. Ms De La Cruz will be returning to teach in P6 after the Easter Holidays so we will still be able to see her and she will be helping at the P3/4 Assembly on 20th March. In Maths we will be finishing our work on fractions and will be continuing to look at money and the change we are able to calculate from different amounts.

In Writing we have started looking at writing imaginative adventure stories focusing on paragraphs and dialogue using our chosen countries from our personal projects to fire our imaginations.

Home Learning will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag, this week, will be the weekly spelling challenge, class reader, the Rainbow Mental Maths Strategies sheet and the other curriculum challenge sheet. Thank you for all the lovely work that has been sent in so far about the country of Peru, it has been very informative and exciting.

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P3/4 Home Learning w/b 23/2/26

Welcome back, I hope that you had a restful and fun packed holiday. This week we will be starting fractions in Maths and our new topic a Personal Project on a chosen country. We will also start filming our short information films about our Scottish Inventors which we hope to showcase at our assembly in March.

This week home learning will be go home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag this week will be the weekly Spelling Challenge, a book to read for pleasure and please continue with the RMPS Rainbow Mental Maths challenge sheet before and after.

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P3/4 Home Learning and news

We had a lovely time last week getting to know Ms De La Cruz and she is very pleased to join us until March. On Thursday we will be going on a trip to a Royal Ballet workshop, in the Grassmarket, This brilliant opportunity links to our current learning in PE, dance and understanding how to control our movements when undertaking a sequence of moves.

Home Learning will be sent home on Monday and should be returned on Friday. In the bag this week will be a class reading book, the weekly spelling challenge sheet, the Rainbow Mental Maths strategies sheets and the other curriculum challenge grid.