Category: Primary 3 Blog

Last week was a short week but we were able to have a visit from a retired farmer from the Royal Highland Educational Trust volunteer service. It was wonderful to listen to the class ask really interesting and well thought out questions to find out about life as a farmer and what was produced on the farm. At the same time they compared farming to experiences that they had come across in their own lives.

We will be starting singing with our National Youth Choir of Scotland input on Monday. We will be changing our Wednesday PE slot to Monday after lunch as P4 will be starting a block of swimming week beginning 22 May and P3 will be continuing with PE. An email will be sent to P4 parents to make you aware of what equipment is needed for attending swimming at Abbeyhill Primary.

Home Learning this week will be sent home on Monday in the Home Learning bag and should be returned on Friday. In the bag to be undertaken at home will be the Weekly Spelling Words, Maths Challenge sheet, non fiction reading book, Mental Maths Rainbow Challenge sheet and Other Curriculum Challenge sheet – Farm to Fork.

Welcome back from the Spring Break and we are already into our second week. We have busy week ahead with our Commonwealth Athlete visiting on Monday afternoon and providing an active workshop and assembly for the whole school.

We will be starting on our Farm to Fork topic this week and this links to our challenge Home Learning for our Other Curriculum. Our Farm to Fork topic will look at aspects of farming in Scotland and will link with our science about Life Cycles for animals and plants, data handling in Maths and in art we will be using the landscape to learn about line and landscape drawing.

In maths this week we will be starting with weight when looking at all aspects of measure in beyond number. In number processes this term we will be returning to multiplication and division to enhance our skills and learning in this area of the four operations.

In Writing, this week, we will finish off our imaginative stories, from the end of last term, using dialogue and paragraphs. Then next week we will start a block of persuasive writing looking at leaflets, blogs and posters. In reading we will be focusing on non fiction books and how to find information through taking notes.

Home learning will be issued on Monday to be returned in the bags on Friday. In the bag will be the weekly spelling words challenge sheet, a book to read for pleasure, the Rainbow Strategies Mental Maths sheet, the Farm to Fork Challenge Sheet and an additional maths challenge sheet.

Can I please remind everyone that PE will take place on Wednesday and Thursday and this term we will be focusing on tennis and athletics. Please provide appropriate PE kit -change of T shirt is useful as the weather is now warmer and ensure that your child is wearing trainer style shoes or has a pair of indoor plimsols. Please could you also provide a water bottle as the classroom is now becoming warmer, no sticky juice please only water.