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Term 3

Week Beginning – 30/03/26

Our last week of term! We have enjoyed many Easter themed activities – dance sequences, numeracy challenges and crafts. We have thought about seasonal changes and what we can see in Spring, comparing this to other seasons. This week we have focused on practising spelling our common words. We have reflected on our Term 3 targets and identified our highlights from across the last term. We discussed how Easter is a Christian celebration and learned about the different ways it can be celebrated. On our last day, we celebrated with an Easter Egg hunt and a whole school Easter assembly.

Thank you all for your support this term with coming along to our Numeracy open afternoon, parents evening and our assembly. We have lots of exciting things to look forward to next term with our school trip to Aigas, Health Week and School Sports. I wish you all a wonderful holiday and look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday 20th April.

P2/3 Class Assembly - Friday 27th March

Thank you for coming along to our class assembly, the children were excited to share their learning with you. The children should all feel very proud of themselves for being able to present to such a large audience! We hope you enjoyed hearing about our learning and listening to our songs.

Week Beginning – 23/03/26

We have:

· Created a poster to share our inventions and presented them to the rest of the class

· Worked in small groups to create a routine to showcase the gymnastics skills we have been practising in PE

· Used the ‘ure’ trigraph

· Rounded two- and three-digit numbers to the nearest ten

· Used our problem-solving skills to solve money problems

· Joined letters 'ub'/'th' in handwriting

· Been very busy rehearsing our class assembly (update to follow!)

Week Beginning – 16/03/26

We have:

· Enjoyed both of our taster sessions for Kung Fu and Tennis

· Identified features of a diary entry and had a go at writing our own from the perspective of a Victorian child

· Calculated change from £1 and 10p

· Used the ‘air’ sound

· Used mnemonics to help us learn to spell common words

· Developed our use of punctuation – using question marks, exclamation marks and full stops

· Balanced number sentences using the correct symbol ( +, -, =)

· Identified items invented by Victorians and reflected on whether they are still used today

· Joined letters up/ib in our handwriting

· Learned about more than and less than symbols and used these to compare numbers

· Designed and created our own inventions inspired by the Victorians

Week Beginning – 09/03/26

This week we have engaged with activities as part of our whole school STEM week.

We have:

· Had a visit from a structural engineer. We identified the tallest building in Inverness and from around the world. We discussed different materials that can be used to build with. Children were able to use what they had learned to design their own tower. They were then tasked to create a tower that could stand on its own using marshmallows and spaghetti. It was lovely to seem some excellent teamwork.

· Watched P7 perform a drone flying show – we were excited to see the different tricks

· Explored our STEM play resources

· Contributed towards a whole school Lego City

· Enjoyed visiting the planetarium where we followed the story of Ted and the plant as they explored different planets

· Participated in some house STEM challenges in assembly

· Enjoyed a visit from an engineer who helped us learn about magnets. We really enjoyed exploring a variety of magnetic experiments.

· Practised spelling words that use the ‘ear’ sound

· Added up totals of money and creating amounts in different combinations

· Developed our understanding of the equals symbol and have balanced number sentences to be the “same” on both sides

· Solved missing number problems

· Created a comic strip sequencing a typical day in the life of a Victorian child

Week Beginning – 02/03/26

This week we have enjoyed various activities for Book Week on the lead up to World Book Day.

We have:

· Practised vaulting in gymnastics

· Used the ‘or’ sound – identifying, reading and writing words that contain this sound

· Reflected on similarities and differences between Victorian houses and present day houses

· Created totals of money using various combinations of coins

· Designed a book token

· Created a book illustration

· Engaged in various Authors Live events hearing authors discuss their books

· Joined letters ‘du’/’ay’ in our handwriting

· Joined in with the whole school ‘Drop Everything and Read’

· Designed a shield filled with our favourite book characters

Week Beginning – 23/02/26

This week we welcomed Nessie to our class!

We have:

· Developed balancing on low level apparatus in gymnastics

· Recalled information from our reading books to demonstrate understanding

· Identified and ordered coins as we begin our unit of learning about money

· Reflected on toys that were played with during the Victorian times and designed our own based on what we had learned

· Used the ‘ir’ sound. We listened to a story and wrote down all the ir words that we could hear

· Practised using the written method for addition and subtraction

· Created a story map to sequence a text chronologically

Week Beginning – 16/02/26

A super short week! I hope you all had a lovely February break. Since we have returned to school we have:

· Used our sequencing pictures to help us write a set of instructions on how to make a jam sandwich

· Practised spelling targeted common words

· Discussed and found examples of equivalent fractions

· Identified what people wore during Victorian times and designed an outfit based on our discussions

· Enjoyed meeting up with our P5 reading buddies to share a paired read

· Engaged with activities related to Chinese New Year

Week Beginning – 09/02/26

This week we have:

· Started a block of gymnastics in PE – we have moved our bodies in different ways, created shapes and balances. We worked in small groups to create a short sequence of these

· Focused on finding half of numbers, some practised finding a quarter

· Learned how to play times table bingo to practise recalling our table facts – this activity could be practised at home if you fancied a game!

· Brainstormed words that use the ‘ar’ digraph – we have sound marked our words and played games to practise spelling our word list

· Revised vocabulary of French weather

· Continued to practise our joins – iv/hu

· Recapped what we had learned about Victorian schools and wrote some sentences about whether we have liked to attend school in the Victorian times or not, including reason why.

Children’s Mental Health Week – 2026

This week we have had a health and wellbeing focus and engaged with activities for Children’s Mental Health week. We have thought about what mental health is and how we can look after our mental health. We have practised some different breathing techniques as a regulation tool. In addition, we have had the opportunity to try different activities that can improve our mental health such as singing, dancing, drawing, and playing games with friends. We have thought about the feeling of belonging and created an island displaying all the things/people/places that make us feel like we belong.

Week Beginning – 02/02/26

This week we have:

· Focused on punctuating our sentences accurately

· Discussed gratitude and identified something we are grateful for

· Learned about the ‘ur’ sound – identifying words that use this sound and using them in an appropriate context

· Identifying bossy verbs and their place in instruction writing. We came up with some super examples of how they give a command to do something

· Solved division problems by sharing and equal grouping.

· Enjoyed learning more dances from around the world. This week we have learnt dances from Greece and India

· Practised writing fractions and have found ½ of shapes and numbers

· Created a visual sequence of steps required for getting ready in the morning and then created an instruction text

· Used repeated addition and arrays to solve multiplication problems

· Continued to practise baseline joins – aw and ar

· Continued to develop our understanding of the text - ‘How to trap a Dragon’ and used our imagination to create an animal we would like to trap

· Compared the experience of school for Victorian children with school in the present day

Scots' Poetry Competition - Friday 30th January 2026

Well done to all the children who recited their poems during the class heats and semi-finals. Congratulations to our P2/3 winners across their stages!

P2 Stage Winner

Caeden

P3 Stage Winner

Sophia

Week Beginning – 26/01/26

This week we have:

· Enjoyed learning dances from around the world. We focused on sequencing movements during a dance from Africa

· Continued to develop our reading fluency

· Used the ‘er’ sound – identifying this sound usually comes at the end of words

· Used colour and line elements to create a tartan pattern

· Ordered words alphabetically

· Focused on punctuating sentences correctly whilst writing a personal reflection on what we like to do in our spare time

· Used repeated addition and arrays to solve multiplication problems

· Continued to practise baseline joins – ine and ime

· Studies the text ‘How to trap a Dragon’ and sequenced events in the correct order

· Started thinking about our new topic – identifying when the Victorians lived and who Queen Victoria was

This week we hosted heats for our upcoming whole school poetry competition. I really enjoyed listening to the poem recitals. I was so impressed at how hard the children had worked to project their voices, learn their words and add in expression/actions too. Well done to all the children who participated in the heats and thank you for supporting at home with this too.

Week Beginning - 19/01/26

This week we have:

· Enjoyed a taster session from Highland Ballers (see pictures below)

· Recalled multiplication facts for the 2-, 5- and 10-times table

· Practised using the a-e split diagraph – brainstorming words and marking the sounds within identified words

· Applied our learning of French colours to a task - identifying colours of the rainbow

· Worked cooperatively in PE to come up with dance sequences practising rhythm and coordination

· Identified rhyming words

· Learned some new Scots language words. We have been singing ‘Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’ and have been learning the words to the popular Scots rhyme ‘Three Craws’. We matched up Scots words and identified their meaning.

· Worked on joining letters um and am in handwriting

· Our health and wellbeing focus has been on positive thinking. We have reflected on our magic word ‘yet’ and identified things that we can do to work towards our targets eg – “I can’t swim yet but I can keep going to swimming lessons”

Highland Ballers

This week we had a taster session with Highland Ballers. The children were very excited to try the activities.

Week Beginning 05/01/26 and 12/01/26

Welcome to Term 3! I hope you all had a lovely holiday. It has been great to welcome the children back to school and they have settled back into our routines well.

This week:

· We have revised and consolidated strategies for subtraction

· Skip counted forwards and backwards by 2, 5 and 10

· Identified initial blends, brainstormed words using the blends and used these words in sentences.

· Started to identify the vocabulary for colours in French

· Engaged with some team games with a focus on playing fairly and including others

· Focused on sorting words into adjectives, nouns and verbs

· Practised note taking, we listened to facts about polar bears and recorded them.

· Worked on joining – an and im in handwriting

· Created an image of a polar bear using our cutting and sticking skills

· Our health and wellbeing focus has been on positive affirmations and focusing on what we are and can do.

We have a busy term ahead! I will share a termly overview of key learning with you next week. If you have any questions, please get in touch via the school office.

Termly Learning - Term 3

Please see below an overview of our key learning this term.

Termly Learning -Term 3 25-26.pdf

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