19.05.22

National Outdoor Learning Day

We took our learning outdoors today. Working in pairs, the pupils completed their own traffic survey. Using tally marks, they recorded all the different colours of car they could see.

13.05.22

The girls and boys were very excited to invite Rosalind back in to the classroom this week for our first face-to-face Kodaly music session. What fun they had!

6.05.22

This week, Caley Thistle came in to provide the girls with a football taster session. The taster sessions relate to gender equality in football, challenge stereotyping through the Disney characters, and promoting positive HWB whilst having a great deal of fun!

In literacy, the boys and girls have been learning about how writers develop characters through a variety of techniques. This week, we have been thinking about how certain characters behave and what this reveals about them.

27.04.22

P3A Term 4 Learning Overview

Overview - term 4

22.04.2022

World Earth Day takes place on the 22nd of April each year. Earth Day is celebrated across the globe to reflect on the world and the environment around us. This year's theme for Earth day is "Invest in our Planet."

Today the boys and girls were given the challenge to up-level basic sentences at each 'Blether Station'. Each station had a sentence which needed improving. By working together, they were able to change the vocabulary and add in additional information to create more interesting sentences.

25.03.22

Good Afternoon, we have had a another busy week in p3A. Today we were learning to play an ancient Roman game. Three Men's Morris is a simple strategy game for two players. We had great fun trying to outsmart our opponents!

18.03.22

Well done to everyone who turned up in pjs or dressed down today for Comic Relief. You all looked super! As a school we have managed to raise a fantastic £287.91 so thank you all!

This week we have been learning all about money and we have been laying out the exact coins to pay for items. The girls and boys worked well together, taking turns to be the shop keeper.

4.3.22

We had great fun on World Book Day, where we celebrated the joy of reading. What super costumes they had!

11.02.22

This week in school we were celebrating Children's Mental Health Week. The theme for this year is ‘growing together’. During the week, the children explored the concept of growing emotionally and thought about ways to help each other grow. The children created their own support balloons by identifying the people in their lives that help them grow and develop as individuals. On Friday the children dressed to express their emotions and feelings. We had lots of fun and happy outfits and a few onesies too!

4.02.22

Over the last few weeks the boys and girls have been learning all about instructional texts. Today they had great fun making jelly in class! This activity will lead into the children writing their own set of instructions.

28.01.22

We've had another busy week in Primary 3A. The children have been enjoying their gymnastic lessons in the gym hall. Today they were developing their balance skills by taking the weight of different parts of their bodies. They had to able to hold the balance for a minimum of 3 seconds. It was quite tricky but they did incredible well!

The children have also been learning how to tell the time and identify quarter past and quarter to times on digital and analogue clocks.

21.01.2022

P3A Term 3 Learning Overview

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FbBLsLpEezJ7gMYGQhxL3J8dBsk5y-Kg/view?usp=drive_web&authuser=0

14.01.22

It's been a busy week in P3a! The boys and girls enjoyed their first Active Play session with Connie from CALA. They enjoyed working together, building their own dens.

We also started working on our new topic for this term 'The Romans'. We discussed what we knew and what we want to find out. The children then worked in little groups to carry out some research. We even managed to do some painting for our wall display.

17.12.21

Primary 3A have enjoyed creating their own Worry Monsters. The children designed an opening which allows them to feed the monster their worries. This will hopefully encourage the children to express their worries and externalize them.

10.12.21

The girls and boys dressed to impress for their Christmas lunch today.

Our Star Writers

A big well done to our star writers!! They used lots of adjectives to write an interesting description of the story setting.

Maths

Primary 3A have been learning to follow and give instructions involving the terms turn left, turn right, whole turn, half turn and quarter turn. We were instructing a friend from one position in the classroom to another. It was quite tricky remembering our left from our right!

3.12.21

The girls and boys have been learning to identify right angles. We made templates to check for right angles and then we went on a right angle hunt around the classroom.

We enjoyed some time on Sumdog.

It was a cold, crisp winter morning but that didn't stop us enjoying our PE lesson.

19.11.21

Children in Need

The boys and girls managed to raise a huge amount of money for BBC Children in Need. They particularly enjoyed beat the goalie! A huge thank you to the P6 boys who organised it.

4.11.21

Outdoor Classroom Day

P3A took part in Outdoor Classroom day. The boys and girls have been learning all about 3D shapes and their different properties so today we got our clipboards out and we went on a 3D shape hunt around our school.

We noticed that this hedge was one massive cuboid!

1.11.21

We've had a busy first week back! First of all we'd like to say a HUGE thank you for all the food bank donations on Friday. The girls and boys certainly enjoyed the dress up/down day.

Science

The children enjoying working together exploring different materials and their properties.

October 2021

This term the children have been estimating and measuring the length of different objects. They particularly enjoyed taking their learning outdoors where they measured the real length and heights of different Artic animals using metre sticks. We were amazed by the length of the narwhal!

Welcome back everyone! We have had a fantastic first week back. It has been so lovely to see the children again and we've enjoyed hearing all about their holidays. We've had a busy week, More details about the class and what we will be up to will be shared within the Termly Overview, which will be uploaded on to the Blog shortly.

The weather has been beautiful and the children enjoyed being outside for their drama lesson. They particularly enjoyed the role play scenarios!