Each day, Monday to Thursday there will be pictures of staff caught reading. Can you guess who they are? The answers will be revealed at the end of the week! Here is Monday’s!
Whole School Reading Challenge Grid – Give it a go!
Category: Primary 3 Blog
Scottish Book Week 13th – 17th November
Royal Mile Primary will be taking part in Scottish Book Week (13th – 17th November). We will have fun and exciting activities for the whole school and in the classes during the week and we are hoping that you and your children will be able to join us in our reading week at home.
We will be launching Book Bugs P1 -3 on Friday 17th November and a separate invite will be sent from the class teachers with a time to join the class.
We will have book competitions that the children can take part in and win a book prize. This year we have a Draw Your Favourite Character from a Book competition for Nursery, P1 and P2. We have quizzes for P3-4 and P5-7 and a chance everyday to guess who was caught reading in school. There will be a reading challenge grid on the School classes Blog and we hope that you will help the children complete some of these challenges and send in either the challenge or pictures that we can share their achievements.
Staff will be reading in different classes over the week and sharing their love of reading.
The challenge in class this year is for children to agree a Recipe for Reading in Royal Mile Primary so please discuss with your children at home what they enjoy about reading and what makes them want to read. We will compile all the ideas and use that to encourage more great reading in school.
We are passionate about creating a Royal Mile Primary Reading Community and hope that you can share sometime with your children next week to read with them or even tell them about your favourite book as a child.
LETS GET READING!
Thank you.
P3 Home Learning
Another great week in P3 and a thank you to all the parents who came to visit the classroom and to see the children’s learning on Friday. We hope you enjoyed it and will be able to return on Friday 17th November for the annual P3 Book Bug Launch as part of Scottish Book Week more information will be sent out this week.
Home Learning is attached and will be sent out in the bags on Monday to be returned on Friday. This week is the last week of our Mental Maths Strategies focusing on addition and subtraction, next week we will be starting to look at our Mental Maths Strategies for multiplication and division. I have attached a simplified/pictorial version of the math’s chilli challenges so have a go. Please continue with the Article 31 activity grid and I have attached this week’s spelling words with challenges. As usual there will be book in the bag for reading for pleasure.
P3 Home Learning w/b 30th October and P3 New Bulletin.
I hope that every one had a lovely holiday and it was great to see the whole class back to school refreshed and ready to learn last week. This week we will be very busy with some people taking part in Halloween events and others starting back with their local clubs but I know that the class will meet these challenges enthusiastically. Last week, due to returning on Tuesday I did not issue any home learning but the class had a discussion and indicated that they wished to take their Spelling home to learn. This was voted on by the class and out of 15 pupils who were present to take the vote 12 have chosen to ask for spelling home learning. Therefore you will find spelling words and spelling chilli challenges in the home learning bags.
Last week we finished our Viking topic with a nail biting quiz in class and we celebrated the completion of our Viking boat. It has been a fun topic and we are now ready to move to our next topic which is weather and climates around the world suggested by one of our class. It has so far sparked lots of discussion about what we are going to look at, so watch this space.
In Religious and Moral Education we will be looking at our Hinduism topic and covering Science topics- Magnets and Forces and Topical Science. In PE we will be undertaking dance on a Tuesday, team games on Wednesday and cardio/fitness on Thursday. It would be a great help if you could provide a gym kit, in particular a t-shirt and trainers so that the children can feel comfortable when undertaking the PE lessons. In art we are hoping to look at some well known artists and their work this term, Rangoli Patterns and create some self portraits when work on symmetry.
Home Learning, w/b 30/10/23 will be sent home on Monday to be returned on Friday for discussion, feedback and self correction. This week the home work will be a maths chilli challenge from our Mental Maths Strategies and I have once again put a pictorial example on the sheet to support the learning. There will be a book to read for pleasure from the book box or class library, the Spelling challenge, children should practice/use the Spelling words from the group that they work in in class. However they can challenge themselves by using and looking at the other spelling words.
We have been looking at the UN Rights of the Child in class and in particular Article 31 and attached/in the bag is a grid to cover the next four weeks home learning curriculum challenges for the children to undertake, research or write about at home, then discuss in class. You can put all the home learning in the jotter that was issued to support your child. Regards Mrs Leslie
maths week 2023
What an exciting maths and numeracy week we had! 🙂
Look for yourself:
Launching maths week with a whole school assembly and an Ipad challenge all about PLACE VALUE
Royal Mile learners buddying up and completing a playground challenge all about
TELLING THE TIME:
Maths walks and more outdoor learning:
Outing to the MONEY MUSEUM:
and lots of positive feedback about activities pupils enjoyed…
such as QR code online games and singing number songs in different languages 🙂
And now to the big reveal of the PLACE VALUE RIDDLE:
and the answer is…
Already looking forward to
next year – 2024! 🙂
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