Monthly Archives: January 2011

Fairyland Grand Finale- a date for your diaries!

Dear Parents and Carers, We will be celebrating what we have learned and achieved during our Fairyland Storyline this term on Thursday, 10th February beginning at 1:45 pm. Please come and see what P2P have been learning. Then feel free … Continue reading

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Outdoor Numeracy Today

Today we took our Number Counts lesson outdoors to get some practise counting forward and back in the fresh air of the school courtyard. We used our Fairyland theme to count the number of times that Jack climbed from leaf … Continue reading

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Super Story Writing: Jack and the Beanstalk

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Upcoming Class Trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

Next Wednesday (February 2nd) Primary 2P will be taking a class trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh where we will be learning about plants that we can eat. This is linked to our Jack and the Beanstalk topic … Continue reading

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Outdoor Learning

As part of our efforts to take our learning outdoors several times each week, today we did our daily journals outdoors just before morning break.

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A Visit from the Keeper of the Stories

Today was a very busy day and we have a lot of things to share. Here is a post from our two bloggers of the week, Sam W. and Nathan D.: The  Keeper  of the Stories  came to the music … Continue reading

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Measuring with Giant Feet

After our PE session yesterday we stayed in the gym hall to do some measuring with Giant feet! We worked with partners to measure the length of the gym, the length of a bench and the width of a door. … Continue reading

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Wanted: Large Castle for Mean Giant

When we walked around the school last week to see all the exciting changes taking place in classrooms, we spotted a classroom with a giant-sized keyhole on the door. Inside was a giant key. We thought that perhaps it might … Continue reading

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Bean Sums

Yesterday we worked in our Numeracy groups to complete Jack and the Beanstalk themed counting tasks. The Triangles did some bean sums. The Squares counted the number of leaves that Jack leapt over as he climbed up. the beanstalk. The … Continue reading

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In the Style of Joan Eardley

Primary 2P have been very busy recreating characters for Jack and the Beanstalk. We looked at some photographs of art by the Scottish artist Joan Eardley. We liked the way she was able to make children look sad and worried. … Continue reading

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