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Term 3

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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