P3 August 2023 |

Welcome to our class page! We look forward to sharing our learning here with you.

Week Beginning 3rd June 2024

Here’s a look at all the different activities we have been up to during Health Week – it’s been a busy week!

Tennis coaching
Dance lesson
Football coaching
A visit from Archie our therapet
Fruit tasting
Basketball coaching
First aid training

Week Beginning 27th May 2024

Here is an update on our learning this week.

A music lesson with the Youth Music Initiative
Continuing to develop our reading skills
Choosing new books from the Book Bus
Watching the new osprey chicks on the live webcam as part of our Living & Growing topic
Learning how to subtract tens and ones
Discussing how we can be a good friend

Week Beginning 13 May 2024

Here is an overview of P3’s learning for this week.

Learning about people who help us and the wider world of work
Practising to show different times on analogue clocks
Developing our own experiments to find out what plants need to grow
Creating art using wild flowers we collected from the woods
Continuing to develop our writing skills
Singing with Big Noise

Week Beginning 29 April 2024

Here is some of the learning we have been doing this week!

Using our imaginations to create art work using a stick – thank you to all the parents who joined us for this lesson!
Using our senses to explore the community garden with the help of Shona
Learning how to respond in emergency situations and how to keep ourselves safe around medicines
Practising for Sports Day in P.E.
Continuing to develop our writing skills

Week Beginning 22 April 2024

P3 have had a busy start to term 4. Here are some highlights from our week…

enjoying our weekly session with Mary from Big Noise where we learned a new song
learning to assess and manage risks to enable us to keep ourselves and others safe
creating arrays to help our understanding of timestables
discussing what we know and what we want to learn next about our new topic “Living and Growing’
continuing to develop our reading skills – making predictions about a book using the title and front cover, learning to tell the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts and learning to sound out words as we read
developing our handwriting skills
using a 100 square to solve subtraction problems during Number Talks

Week Beginning 25 March 2024

It’s been a busy last week of term! Here’s a selection of some of our learning from this week…

developing our subtractions skills
learning to say when?, who? and where? in our story
choosing books from the Book Bus
exploring our senses
developing our understanding of multiplication

Happy Easter from everyone in P3! 🐣

Week Beginning 18 March 2024

Here’s what P3 have been up to this week –

using the title and front cover to make predictions about a text
learning how to use alphabetical order
using our senses to detect and gather information
learning about the parts of the eye
developing our ball skills in P.E.
continuing with our Big Noises sessions

Week Beginning 11 March 2024

This week we were very excited to perform at our ‘Celebrate Scotland’ assembly. Thank you to all the parents/carers who joined us!

We made hats to wear for our performance where we shared our learning about Robert Burns and sang ‘You Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus’. This week we have also been developing our writing skills and we wrote a story about going to the swimming pool. We have been practising our addition skills, adding 3 numbers together and sharing our strategies with our classmates. We have also been continuing to learn how to develop our resilience and about Ramadan.

Week Beginning 4 March 2024

Here are some of the activities we have been doing for Book Week!

We began the week with a visit to the Book Bus and have continued to read our class novel, “The Day I Fell into a Fairytale”. On Tuesday we enjoyed a story and songs from Claire McNicol and on Wednesday we got to wear our PJs and bring our favourite stories into school. On Thursday we buddied up with the P7s for reading and by Friday we had completed our door display ready for the classroom door competition!

Week Beginning 26 February 2024

Here’s a look at what we have been up to this week!

We have been continuing to develop our writing skills, using colourful semantics to create sentences, thinking about strategies we can use to make us more resilient, using rekenreks to develop our numeracy skills, continuing to learn about money and using peer feedback and a growth mindset to develop our drawing skills.

Week Beginning 19 February 2024

This week we have been …

… using peer feedback to improve our drawing skills, practising to read and write tricky words, developing our ball skills, learning to write in sentences, developing our knowledge of money and learning about rhythm in our Big Noise sessions!

Week Beginning 5 February 2024

Here’s some of the learning we have being doing this week.

We have been developing our addition skills and learning about ‘fact families’, making predictions and learning to sound out words correctly in our reading groups, practising our spelling rules and continuing to develop our racket skills in P.E. We have also been developing our art skills by learning to draw a thistle as part of our Robert Burns topic and had our weekly visit from Big Noise.

Week Beginning 29 January 2024

This week we have…

…visited the community garden to see how it has changed since our last visit in the autumn, practised how to sound out words correctly, developed our maths skills, performed the Circassian Circle for our parents/carers, had fun doing a variety of Burns themed activities and played games at our pyjama party as a reward for filling our marble jar!

Week Beginning 22 January 2024

Here’s an update on our learning this week.

A visit from the Book Bus, developing our drawing and writing skills, creating our own tartan as part of our learning about Robert Burns and developing our racket skills in P.E. We have also been practising to add 2 numbers together and count in 5s!