End of term news in P2

Primary 2 have had an excellent second term in school this year. Take a look at some of their learning.

Literacy.
The children have been learning to write instructions. During our inventors topic, the children wrote instructions for how to work the inventions that they came up with. The children have also been learning use their imaginations and to include adjectives in their descriptions when they continue a story.

The class are continuing to develop their phonics knowledge and reading abilities through their learning to read lessons 4 times a week.

Listening and talking
As part of the inventors topic the children worked in groups of 4 to develop their inventions. The children then presented their ideas to the rest of the class and answered questions about how their invention would make a job easier.

Maths
The children have been developing their addition skills within 20. They have used tens frames, numicon and number lines to add within 20. The children have also used their problem solving skills through answering missing number questions.

The class have also been learning about time. They have been learning about Seasons, Days of the week and Months of the year. The children have been ordering and using the vocabulary before and after. The class have been revising telling the time on digital and analogue clocks to the hour, and have moved on to learning to tell the time using half past.

During our stand alone maths lessons, the children have been learning about the properties of 2D and 3D shapes. They have also been learning to identify and create patterns.

Health and Wellbeing.
This term the children have been learning about the SHANARRI indicators “Achieving” and “Nurtured”. Within Achieving the class have been learning about confidence and how to b kind with their words and actions. Within “Nurtured” the children have been learning about food groups and the importance of healthy food choices.

In P.E the children have been developing their hockey skills. They have been learning to hold the stick with 2 hands, to dribble the hockey ball and to pass it to a team mate.

IDL
Inventors and Inventions.
The children worked in cooperative groups of their own choosing for during this IDL topic. They were given a range of jobs and had to come up with an idea of an invention which would make that job easier for people. The children had to create posters of each invention and present their poster to the rest of the class. One invention from each group was then chosen to be made from recycled materials. During writing lessons, the children wrote instructions for how to build and work their inventions. The inventions that were created were; The Campervan classroom – teachers can transport their class anywhere in the world, past or present, for a class trip. The Pizza robot – Chefs can use the robot to instantly create amazing pizzas which the robot then transports to the delivery address. The fire plane – firefighters use the plane to pour water over forest fires. The Police teleporter – Police officers can instantly teleport to the location of a crime, arrest the criminal and teleport them back to jail. The Robot Doctor – The doctor uses the robot to scan someone to find out what it wrong with them. The robot doctor also treats the patient instantly too.
The children voted for their favourite out of all the inventions. The teams for the top three inventions (campervan classroom, police teleporter and robot doctor) had to present their inventions to Mr Sturrock and the house captains. The winning team from P2 was the Robot doctor!

St Peter’s Arts festival
The children have been very busy practising for the Nativity performance. All their hard work paid off as they did an amazing job singing the songs and doing the actions. The children also created their own stars which were featured on the backdrop of the stage.
The class are also learning to play musical instruments for a special song that will be shared with parents via a special card online at the end of term.

The class worked very hard to bake oreo truffles for the school fayre. We made 34 bags of truffles and sold out before the end of the fayre!

This is our Faith.
For Catholic education week, Mrs Martin visited the class to teach the children about a range of Saints and why they are so special. The children thought about what they can do to follow in Jesus’ footsteps.
The children have also been learning about the events of the Nativity, especially the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary and the Shepherds. The children enjoyed acting our the visitation of Mary in our puppet theatre.