Category: Primary 3 Blog

Another great week for P3 and it was busy! P3 were out and about this week on Tuesday to the Museum on the Mound for Maths Week and on Thursday we went to the Poetry Library for National Poetry Day to hear a reading by the Scots Poet Susi Briggs. At the Museum on the Mound we looked at different forms of money and coins from around the world, the history of coins and we toured around the museum to look at how money is stored both now and in the past.

At the Poetry Library will listened to Susi Briggs a Poet and Scots Writer read two of her rhyming poems. Then we drew a concrete poem of our favourite animal and the noise it makes.

It was lovely to meet parents on Thursday and Friday to share the P3’s learning and to discuss how far they have progressed in the first weeks of P3. I look forward over the session to share lots more of the P3 learning, thank you once again for coming and if you were not able to attend and would like to discuss your child’s learning please contact the office by email or phone.

Home Learning, this week will be sent out on Monday to be returned on Friday and will consist of a book to read for pleasure, the Viking grid of activities and the Mental Maths Challenge grid. I had spoken to the class and received feedback about the Maths challenges, some of the class have found the number of challenges and how to do them overwhelming and with this in mind I have reduced this week the challenges to three, mild, hot and spicy. I will still send the challenge grid home in its complete form but have also included a pictorial challenge sheet that the children have been shown in class to build their confidence in using the Mental Maths Challenge Grid.

It was a very short week but I must thank you for the great work that had been done at home for both home learning and homework. I must also thank you for your support in returning the home learning bags. Home Learning will be sent home on Monday in the bags and will contain the Mental Agilities Rainbow chilli challenge grid, the Topic (Vikings) grid and a book for home reading for pleasure. Today the children chose their books from the Book Box to take home on Monday.

Next week is Maths Week and there will be lots of fun activities for them to undertake during the week. We will have Maths Week launch at Assembly on Monday and on Tuesday P3 will visit the Museum on the Mound to take part in three workshops about money. Today we focused on Time, o’clock and half past as you can see every one was working hard on different activities about time.

We will be starting to write Poetry next week and have been invited to the Poetry library on Thursday to listen to poems being read by their writer as it is National Poetry Day. On both trips we will be walking and I would be grateful if you could provide a coat. Thank you for all your support.

I hope that you had a great learning day yesterday and I am looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Please remember to bring your Home Learning bags back to school and any maths and literacy work and homework that you were able to complete. The home learning today is maths, once again a more challenging place value challenge. In Literacy continue to practice your spelling but use Read, Write, Cover, Check and your literacy challenge is to create a story using your spelling words. See if you can use them all.

Good Morning P3 I hope that you were able to work on the learning that was sent to you yesterday. Today’s Learning is in the same timetable format as yesterday but with different Maths and Literacy tasks. Have a go at the more challenging Place Value questions using Deanes and today’s Literacy is practicing your group spelling words, that you were given on Monday, using rainbow writing. We have used this challenge in class and now it is time to try it out, once you have done this use your words to create silly sentences or you can even use other groups spelling words.