17.05.19

PC Grant came to visit Primary 2 today.  He told us all about the work he does and we even got to try on his uniform!  Don’t we make convincing police officers!

10.5.19

Congratulations to our Star Writers.  They all wrote very persuasive letters!   Well done.

10.5.19

What fun primary 2 had with the Spheros!!

10.5.19

Primary 2 have been very busy this week.  We’ve been growing plants in different conditions (for example, by varying levels of light, water, air, soil/nutrients and heat) to find out what they need in order to grow and develop.

We have had

Have a look at our Learning Overview for Term 4.

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In maths , the children are learning about fractions and have made a display of their work. They folded some shapes in half and then coloured each half  a different colour. Doesn’t it look brilliant?

Welcome Back to Term 4. I hope you all enjoyed the brilliant weather in the holidays. It was lovely hearing all about the children’s adventures.

Please remember to send a change of shorts and t-shirt in for gym as soon as possible.

Homework has started this week and I have put the maths homework on Sumdog. The children know what to look for and they have till Sunday to complete it.

The children had great fun hunting for eggs today. Tomorrow we will find out who is the  winner of the hunt.

29.03.19

Well done to Eve, our March pupil of the month. She has fantastic listening skills and she always works very hard.  Great stuff Eve!!

Primary 2 have been learning all about area.  Today we were using cubes to measure the area of different shapes.   It kept us very busy!

Just a reminder that the Collaboration with Chromebook evening planned for Wednesday 27th March has been cancelled.

21.3.19

Primary two have been using a balance to compare weights.  They were making predictions about how many cubes they needed to make it balance.   They weighted one water bottle and it took 140 cubes to make it balance!   

Isla, Niall and Niamh really enjoyed representing our school today. They did really well at their long distance running competition and they were still ready to run when they came back.

After our reading lesson the children started to use the new resources to spell some words.

A huge thank you to our Parent Council for providing us with funds to buy some new resources. Today, we received the first of the items we ordered. A lovely set of scales, a till and a literacy game to practice making words with the consonant blends we are learning.

Daniel, Hazel and Josh are our Star Writers this week. They wrote brilliant instructions for making pancakes!

What a lovely morning we had with all the families visiting today. The children were so excited and enthusiastic showing their families their hard work.

Just a reminder that there are lots of exciting healthy activities to bring your children to at the school this evening  and everyone is welcome. There is no cost and you can play football with Inverness Caley Thistle, make a smoothie and join in laughing yoga.

We had a lovely day today! The children were delighted to bring in things that made them happy and tell us why their item made them happy. In the afternoon, we discussed different words for happiness and talked about how we feel inside our bodies when we are happy.

Here we are all dressed down for Happiness Day.

15.02.19

A big well done to this week’s Star Writers!!

15.02.19

Last week Primary 2 made stick dogs.  The children thoroughly enjoyed looking after them and they certainly got lots of exercise in the playground.  Today the children wrote all about their new pets.  They were able to use lots of interesting adjectives to describe their dogs appearance and personality.

Today the boys and girls in P2 were busy measuring. First they were asked to throw a rubber ring as far as they could.  They were then asked to estimate and measure the length of their throws using meters and half meters.

Over the last three weeks the children have been learning a variety of jumps in their PE lesson. They are brilliant and as you can see, they were so fast it was incredibly hard to catch their jumps on camera.

Primary 2 have been learning about volume.  We know that we can compare volumes by pouring to find out which containers hold more/ less.  We can also put containers in order of volume.  

Hi there

Just to let you know there has been a change of date for the open morning.   The open morning will now take place on Wednesday 13th March at 9.15 -10 am.

We hope to see you there!

Mrs Beattie

It was a snowy day but we were all keen to go out for our walk in the community to discover the different features of our community and look for patterns and shapes. The children were thinking about how our needs are met in the community and from their learning about children’s rights they were able to identify whether the features were something we ‘need’ or ‘want’. They developed their skills in taking photographs and here are some examples of their work. Apologies for the lack of photos of the children,  I got so carried away with their enthusiasm in using the cameras I forgot to take photos of the children!!

The  parent meeting times have now been allocated, so please check your child’s reading diary for the day and time of your meeting.

In our art lessons we have been exploring what happens to colour when you add black or white. Inspired by Claude Monet’s  painting, the Water Lily Pond, the children used different shades and tones of green.

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The children have been exploring 2D shapes in and around our school. They can identify, name and describe the features using appropriate vocabulary.   We went on a shape hunt in the playground but we couldn’t find any pentagons!  Can you find any of these shapes at home or on the way to school?

Welcome back everyone! I hope you had a lovely holiday.

Just a reminder that  Parent/ Teacher meetings  are on Wed 30th and Thur 31st January and there is a letter in the reading folders to be returned, with your preferences noted, as soon as possible.

You are all warmly invited to the  Open Afternoon on  Thursday 13th December in Room 1 at 2.00pm till 2.45pm. We have some fun activities planned and look forward to seeing you.

We are learning subtraction in our maths lessons. Here are some photos of us using interactive resources to help us know our subtractions to 20 really well.

Today, Primary 2 made a delicious fruit punch. They enjoyed chopping, cutting and peeling the fruit but the best bit was when they got to drink it! After all that hard work they then wrote their own recipes.

Mrs Beattie  

A big well done to our star writers.  They all tried really hard to write clear and easy to follow instructions.  I’m very impressed! 

What a busy day we had today! Here are the pupils working hard at their creations this afternoon.

We listened to our songs for the nativity and decided who would like to stand up before the audience and speak. Parts are not finalised yet and as some children will have quite a lot to say I think we may have to give out more speaking roles!

This week, we are sending home the Sumdog login details for you to access Sumdog at home. Your homework is to play a little Sumdog at home. The letter  with the login details is in the maths homework jotters and will be sent home on Tuesday.

Here is the learning overview for Term 2.

The weather has turned quite chilly so please remember to send your child to school with a warm and waterproof jacket for break times.        P2 learning overview term 2

What a busy term we have had and the holidays have come round really quickly! The pupils have worked really hard and we had a fantastic trip to Cromarty. Next term we have a small trip to Vue Cinema as part of the Intofilm Festival on 12th November. A letter will be sent home at the start of next session with further details and a request for adult helpers to assist us on the trip. Thank you for your support this term and we hope you have a lovely holiday.

Primary 2 have been learning to tell the time. We can read o’clock and half past times on analogue and digital clocks. Today we began to explore durations of time. We used stop watches to measure the time it would take to complete a range of activities. How long do you think it would take you to do 20 star jumps?

What a fantastic day we had at the seaside. We climbed up to the top of a (small) lighthouse and found out about the air valves used to keep the fires going in olden times and how the lighthouse keepers communicated with each other through voice pipes.What an amazing view we had of the harbour and the seaside!

Then we found out all about the work done by scientists at the lighthouse and held dolphin’s and seal’s jawbones and teeth. Also, we found out about the different sounds made by different sea animals.

Finally we did a beach clean up and got creative with the different materials on the beach. We found some plastic and net on the beach and learned about the effect litter has on sea animals. We had amazing stone art and different kinds of sandcastles with moats. Thankfully no one fell in the sea, though some of us had wet toes when we didn’t run away from the waves fast enough. We didn’t make it to Rosemarkie which was just as well as we had some very sleepy children!

The children thoroughly enjoyed using natural materials to create their own symmetrical pictures.  Haven’t they done well!

Welcome back everyone.

Here is our learning overview for Term 1

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