P3 Week Beginning 1st December 2025

Hello P3 families!  I cannot believe we only have 2 weeks left of school before the Christmas holidays!  Here are this week’s learning highlights from The Red Pandas:

Maja enjoyed examining a descriptive piece of writing called ‘My Grandma’.  This is our last piece of writing from the genre.  We have planned a special piece of descriptive writing ourselves.  Be sure to read next week’s post when we reveal what it was about!

Viaan has continued to like our maths lesson on addition within 100 using the upstairs, downstair chimney method.  Next week we will progress to learning what to do if the answer to a column is greater than 9.

Laaibah said the learning highlight of her week was making information posters.  She chose to make hers about the beaver.  The instructional drawing made a super focal point in the middle of her poster.  Her layout serviced as an example of one that met the success criteria: name of animal included, picture of animal included, large font, spaced out facts (taken from last week’s note taking exercise), a Scottish flag (to show it is a Scottish wild animal) and colourful to make it eye catching.  Laaibah chose to do hers as part of a group.  Super teamwork ladies!

Nathan enjoyed watching Elf on Tuesday as part of a Christmas treat after the delicious Christmas lunch.  A big thank you to all the kitchen staff for this tasty lunch!

Amelia and Tyler T both report that Scottish country dancing was the best part of their week.  The children have grown so much in confidence since we started our lessons a couple of weeks ago.  We will be ready for when it is our party on Monday 15^th.

Alex and Dawid both agree that the outdoor learning session this week with Kids Gone Wild was thee best part of their week.  Thankfully the weather was on our side!  The children went to a local woodland and for a few hours, enjoyed playing!  I witnessed a lot of creative, imaginative play.  There was also den building with sticks, the zipline, slackline and chill time in the hammocks.  It was a FAB experience for all!

Danvith loved being the Kids Gone Wild teacher’s helper!  He helped her carry the equipment we needed and assisted her putting it up and taking it down.  Thank you Danvith!

My highlight was seeing the children work together on the zipline, supporting one another, encouraging one another, working co-operatively holding the ladder while their friend participated and then bringing the handle back up the zipline ready for the next person.  Wonderful!

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown