P3
Miss Gowdy
Contact: sgowdy100@c2kni.net
2023-2024
Happy Halloween 🎃👻
➕ ➖ ✖ ➗ MATHS WEEK ➗ ✖ ➖ ➕
P.3 had lots of fun recapping all our 2D shapes and getting introduced to 3D shapes.
We used objects in our classroom, around the school and even our bodies to make different shapes. This was all done with super teamwork too!! 🤩
P.3 love making Maths fun.
🍎🍇🍊 Free Fresh Fruit Fridays 🍊 🍇 🍎
European Day Of Languages
A fantastic first day in Primary three! 
🐝 Bee Bot Directions 🐝
We had great fun today using our knowledge of coding, directions and movement to programme the bee bots and use the bee bot apps today as part of our numeracy lessons!
☀️☁️❄️💨💧 Weather Forecasting ☀️💨☁️💧
Primary Three absolutely loved their work on the weather and looking at weather forecasts!
To begin we looked at different types of weather and what they may look like. We then looked at a weather forecast app and discussed the different features such as rain percent chances and wind speeds. We then took a look at a BBC weather forecast and had a go at making up our own weather forecasts! It was great fun!
🍬 Sweet or Sour?! 🍬
Primary Three loved their sweet tasting experience and telling the difference between sweet and sour tastes. The children were able to describe how the two tastes were different and distinguish between what a sour taste was and a sweet taste!
We then listened to some scientific information about how our taste works and the way our tongues and brains communicate!
🍿🌭🧂🎵 Food Themed Music 🍿🌭🧂🎵
Today we had great fun when we explored the new musical instruments in school to go alongside our topic, Yummy Yummy!
We used Claves, maracas, egg shakers, tambourines and xylophones to create sounds and music to match different foods like popcorn popping, sizzling sausages, sugar shaking and crunching!
It was great fun!
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🧁🍰 Celebrating our First Penance 🧁🍰
🐑 First Penance 🐑
Congratulations to all the boys and girls who completed the Sacrament of Penance!
We are so proud of you all!
📚 World Book Day 2022📚
💻⌨️ RESEARCHERS IN THE MAKING 💻⌨️
We absolutely loved using the Chrome Books as part of our Report writing this week! We used the Chrome Books to research different types of bears 🐻 to link with our topic, Going Wild! We really enjoyed this and can’t wait to get using them again in the future!
Where The Wild Things Are!
This week we have been focusing on the story ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak! We have loved meeting Max and his Wild Things! We have created our own Wild Things, wrote about what it would be like to be King and used adjectives to describe the characters in the story!
Today we made our own Wild Things using paper plates, markers and card!
They turned out truly
❄️🌎 Frozen Planet 🌎❄️
Primary 3 had great fun today exploring a frozen eco garden! We spotted lots of frozen gems, including a very adorable little paw print from a furry guest!
We also loved chilling in the hammock!
🎥 Make your own Cinema Project! 🎥
I was so impressed with Primary Three’s amazing project work in December!
They worked hard to design their own cinemas and I think we can all agree how fabulous they all look!
⭐️ Well Done Boys & Girls ⭐️
🎅🏻🎄⛄️ Happy Christmas to All 🎄🎅🏻⛄️
🎅🏻 Christmas Crafts 🎅🏻
We had great fun making our reindeer today!
☕️ Making Hot Chocolate ☕️
This week we continued our work on instructions but with the cold weather we decided to make something to warm us up! The P3’s did fabulous sequencing and writing of instructions on how to make hot chocolate so we just had to make it as a special treat! 🤗
🍞 Making Toast Instructions 🍞
After writing such fantastic instructions on how to make toast, today we had lots of fun making our own toast and of course, even more fun eating it all up!
🧍🏼♀️🧍🏻 Pairs Work on Instructions 🧍🏻🧍🏼♀️
We had lots of fun today working in pairs to order instructions on how we get ready in the morning! The children showed great team work skills and worked brilliantly at this task!
❌ Lego Multiplication ❌
This week we were introduced to multiplication. We were focusing on the idea of sets and groups and so we had lots of fun creating multiplication sums using Lego to reinforce our learning!
👻🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃 👻
🚦🚗 Our Road Safety Assembly! 🚦🚗
What a huge well done to all the boys and girls in Primary 3 for their first ever Parental Assembly! I am so proud of all the hard work you put in to learning your lines and all your practicing!
Treats on Monday for such a fantastic assembly! 🍬
🐧🐦🐤Colourful Birds Artwork! 🐧🐦🐤
We had fantastic fun making our colourful birds using crepe paper and glue! We all used as many colours as possible to make our birds eye catching and beautiful!
👉🏻Pop it! Phonics 👈🏻
This week we used our new Pop-it’s to help learn the QU sound in phonics! We used the pop-it’s to help sound out and blend a variety of qu words and then discuss the sounds and spell the words! This was great fun!
📏 We are learning to measure 📏
Today we were learning all about measuring using a metre stick! We learnt that a metre is a unit of measure which is the same all across the world! We then used our metre sticks to measure lots of things in our school and we also learnt about making estimations!
Tick Tock, Tik Tock, can you draw a tick tock Clock? ⏰
Today we went outside to draw our own clocks, we focused on insuring that the numbers we had were correct and our clocks had minute and hour hands! Plus we had great fun too!
🎨Artists in the Making! 🎨
This week we learnt about the artist Kandinsky! We enjoyed learning about his life and his art! We learnt how he loved using colour and shape to create his pieces! We focused on his artwork using circles and I think you’ll agree we have some fantastic artists!
👋🏻 We are learning to Sign! 👋🏻
Primary Three are really enjoying learning to use sign language! This week we learnt how to sign the song “Hot Cross Buns!” 🧁
We also learnt our colours which we really enjoyed as it linked to our topic Colour Chaos!
💵 Miss Curran’s Bakery 💵
Today the boys and girls had a chance to visit Miss Curran’s bakery. They all had a chance to visit the shop and pay for their buns by making different amounts of money!
This helped teach the pupils important lessons such as recognising coins and creating amounts as well as the important social skill of paying for goods! Oh and it was yummy! 🤗
Learning our FUN-damentals!
Today in PE we focused on some of our
FUN-damentals! We focused on our jumping skills working on jumping from 2 feet to 2 feet, 1 foot to 2 feet, 2 feet to 1 foot and 1 foot to 1 foot! We also played Icebergs and Mr Men to get us nice and warm!
💞 Class of 2020-21 💞
Wow! What a strange and wonderful year we have had this year! I cannot believe this year is over already...it feels like we have just got started!
The boys & girls have worked like shooting stars this year and I am so proud of all the work they completed both in school and at home 🌟!
Thank you parents for all your support and all the teaching you did during at home learning!
I will miss our little class community so much but I just know you will all have the best year in Primary 4!
Have a happy, safe and sunny summer! 🌞
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🌞Summer Fun in Primary 3! 🌞
Today we had some fun in the sun with our friends from Primary 1! We enjoyed some fun in the park, playing football, ice lollies in the community garden and then we had a yummy party at school! We enjoyed watching the new Disney movie, Luca!
🪱 Comma Critters 🪱
Today we focused on using commas in a list by adding our fluffy little comma critters to our sentences in the correct places!
We really enjoyed using this fun approach!
✏️📏 Primary Three RULE! 📏✏️
This week we have been working very hard to learn how to use a ruler to measure and draw lines using centimetres!
We learnt that there is 100 centimetres in 1 metre and that a ruler is 30 cm long!
We looked at how to hold a ruler properly and how to measure and draw lines of different lengths! We worked in pairs to check each others work!
🥇🥈🥉 Look at our homemade medals 🥇🥈🥉
🔥🔥Making our own Olympic Torch🔥🔥
We had lots of fun learning all about the Olympic torch and the why it exists today! We learnt that in Ancient Greece the torch was lit from the sun and torch bearers ran with it to the different competition points- similar to today!
We loved getting creative and making our own torches from paper and tissue paper!
🍱🍣 Sushi Tasting 🍱🍣
We just absolutely loved our sushi tasting experience as part of our topic, Life in Tokyo, looking at the host city for the 2021 Olympic Games! Our final topic of the year! We all gave it at least a little lick and some absolutely loved it! We all loved the chop sticks so Miss Curran is going to try and teach us to use these in the last 6 weeks of school!
🌲🌳🌸Outdoor Learning🌲🌳🌸
Look at all our fun and learning we are having outside! When we play, we learn so many skills for life! How to share, communication, negotiation skills, working with others and helping our confidence grow! As well as all the physical advantages to being outside!
⚽️ Dodgeball Week ⚽️
We loved our fun and exciting games with Jenny this week for Dodgeball Week! The Rainbow Drops and the Dodgeball champions really meant business!
🐑Sacrament of First Penance 🐑
Today Primary Three completed the sacrament of First Penance!
Well done for all your hard work and preparation in school and at home! You all did so well!
🍫🐇 Miss Curran’s Easter hunt 🐇🍫
Miss Curran managed to talk the Easter Bunny into leaving a few extra treats around the eco garden for primary 3! They had a fun search for their bunnies and eggs!
💚❤️ Easter Bunny visit 💚❤️
A huge thank you to the Easter bunny and Fiona and Michelle from Eurospar for our lovely Easter Egg hunt! We had so much fun hunting for eggs!
🐇🐇Clay Easter Bunny art🐇🐇
We had lots and lots of fun creating Easter Bunnies from clay! We had to sculpt and create our bunnies with lots of focus and using our best delicate fine motor skills! We had so much fun making these and enjoyed the messiness too of course! I am sure you will agree they look excellent and very cute!
🌈Q&A with Smriti Halls🌈
We absolutely loved the BookTrust event on Monday. We were able to have a question and answer session with real life author Smriti Hall! She was so lovely and answered all of our fantastic questions!
We had been completing lots of work, art and discussion on her story, Rain Before Rainbows, and even got our own copy to bring home! OH and we got to wear our pjs to school! What a great day!
Easter Art Work
Look at our beautiful Easter creations! 🐣🐇
Exploring Colour and mixing!
This week we looked at primary colours and experimented with mixing and creating secondary colours! We really enjoyed the chance to explore and create together!
St. Patrick’s Day fun!
Primary Three had lots of fun on Green Day! We had lots of fun in our green clothes, Ceili Dancing, listening to some Irish music and having fun art with Martina! We also enjoyed making Pot of Gold Adjective Rainbows!
🥞 Santa Pancakes 🥞
Today some of the boys and girls decorate Santa Pancakes! They loved using the squirt cream and seeing how big they could get Santa's beard! They didn't taste too bad either!
🎄☃️🎄☃️ Ho, Ho, Ho! 🎄☃️🎄☃️
A few snaps of our Christmas fun in Primary 3!
Holidays are coming...
🏋️♀️ Weight Work 🏋️♂️
We were working hard on comparing, estimating and weighing different objects in our class! This was great fun and we had lots do and say!
🔴⚫PE with Coach Liam🔴⚫
We absolutely love our weekly GAA sessions with coach Liam!
Liam teaches us all our fundamental skills and also teaches us important skills like listening and the importance of being part of a team!
Some future GAA stars in the making!
🎂🍰🧁 Miss Curran's Bun Shop 🧁🍰🎂
This week we had been working hard on using our money skills to £1. To help practice these money skills, Primary 3 got a visit to Miss Curran's bun shop! Of course all the buns were home made (I promise 😄) and the boys and girls had to pay an individual price for each cake!
They really enjoyed it and they showed off some great skills! With a yummy treat too!
☕ Hot chocolate treats! ☕
This week we have been working on instructions and putting instructions in order correctly!
We were working on instructions to make hot chocolate!
Primary 3 worked very well to order their instructions correctly and as a special treat we were able to have some yummy hot chocolate! With cream and marshmallows too of course!
⬆️➡️ Outside Learning! ⬅️⬇️
As part of our outdoor learning day, we took off outside to learn about directions, position and movement outside!
We played over and under and discussed the importance of verbal and non verbal directions.
Then we had a go at directing our friends around our school, making sure to use our left and right directions carefully!
Some boys and girls even had a go at directing Miss Curran! We even seen two cool para gliders! We discussed what directions they were going! P3 tried to call them our way for a chat but they must have been ignoring us!
📽🎬 Lights, Camera, Action! 🎬📽
As part of our new topic, Primary 3 used their creativity to turn their favourite characters into puppets!
We had lots of fun doing this and then we had even more fun and laughter with our puppet show!
Our puppet show allowed us to build our creativity, work as a team, share ideas and listen to others!
⬇️⬅️ Mr Bee Directions➡️⬆️
We had lots of fun with our direction work today!
We learnt some helpful hints to remember our left and right directions, gave blindfolded directions to some of our classmates, and helped Mr Bee navigate his way!
We had lots and lots of fun and did super learning too! (Even if Mr Bee was silly and went the wrong way a few times on Miss Curran!)
We were very busy this week having lots of Halloween themed fun and work! We created our own monsters, wrote monster poems and even had Halloween comprehension!
We finished our week with a fun Halloween party with dancing, scary movies and pass the ghost!
I hope everyone enjoys a happy and safe Halloween break! 🎃
📕Happy Homework📕
Primary Three have been working so hard on their homework at home and using our Google Classroom! Have a look at all those fab question sentences and beautiful Saint Fact Files! Well Done Boys & Girls!
🤸♂️Boys and Girls come out to play!
In Our Eco Garden, HORRAY! 🤸♀️
We had the most exciting day EVER! We were the first class in our school to get out and play in our new eco garden!
We had so much fun and the photos speak for themselves!
❗ Important Information ❗
Please see below for the guidance from PHA.
🦸♂️Playing like Superheroes 🦸♀️
Today we enjoyed some superhero themed activity based learning. We use our activities to teach many different things such as creativity, imagination, sharing and turn taking, as well as helping with our literacy, numeracy and world around us skills!
Today we had 5 super fun activities to choose from and I have to say P3 were fantastic with how well they completed their activities and their maturity during this time too!
Well done boys and girls!
🌍 Our Beautiful Eco Garden 🌍
This week we enjoyed a lovely VIP tour of our brand new eco garden before it opens next week!
We were so excited to see all the new amazing areas for us to play and learn in!
We heard a lovely story after we explored the different areas!
🥔 Supertato Week 🥔
We had lots of fun this week with our learning being focused around one of our favourite book collections, Supertato!
We did lots of fab work on this story and enjoyed creating traps to catch the evil pea, making new food superheroes and our where is supertato prepositions work!
The Evil Pea even snuck into our classroom to cause trouble!
Below you can see us play find the veggies in PE!
🔴◼◽🔸️ Superhero Shape Cars 🔸️◽◼🔴
Primary Three absolutely loved creating their own Superhero shape cars this week.
We have been focusing on recapping our knowledge of 2D shapes and so we used our knowledge to create our own shape car fit for a superhero!
We even expanded outside the world of cars and had superhero unicorns, buses, motorbikes and boats!
It was great fun! 😁
💻📱🖱⌨ Google Classroom💻📱🖱⌨
We worked very hard today using the I-Pad's to get our Google Classroom up and running!
Google Classroom will be used to help learning at home in a fun and interactive way!
The children were absolute super stars at getting their usernames, passwords and class codes entered! They even sent me a lovely hello message! I was so proud 😁
Invisible Sam
Today we made the most of the sunshine 🌞 and got outside to complete some PDMU.
We met Sam. Sam is a P3 who keeps speaking negatively about himself and each time he does so, he disappears a little bit more!
We discussed what Sam could say to be more positive!
We then drew our own Sam and said a positive chant together!
🔥Superhero Circuits 🔥
To begin our PE lessons this year, we focused on getting fit and healthy just like Superheroes do!
We did some super star jumps, fantastic frog leaps, magnificent marching, really quick running, jumping for joy and superman posing!
We had great fun!
🥳🥳End of Year Message 🥳🥳
Dear Primary Three,
I cannot believe that it is the end of the school year already! We would be spending our time having lots of fun and celebrating all the hard work you completed this year!
It has been a very strange year and I am so sad that we missed out on our last few months together! I will definitely never forget this class for so many reasons!
You were all fantastic in Primary Three and should be so proud of all your learning this year, both in school and at home!
Have the best summer and I cannot wait to see you all in school soon!
Miss Curran ❤❤
If you have any questions or would like to send me some pictures of any of the fantastic home learning that has been going on! Please email me on:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
📚 Monday Message- 22nd June '20 📚
Hi all,
Hope you are continuing to do well and have fun learning at home! I cannot believe that this week would have been our final week of Primary Three! What a crazy year it has been!
I would like to encourage everyone to sign up to a fun, exciting and free Reading Challenge! 📚
The Reading Agency and Libraries have announced their 2020 Reading Challenge!
This is a great opportunity to promote reading for children of all ages throughout the summer! Reading is such an important skill for all children and should feel fun and exciting! Therefore, we are asking you all to take part in 'The Silly Squad!'
'The Silly Squad' will focus on funny books, happiness and laughter! It will be run through a safe online platform which allows for exciting interactive reading experiences, including eBooks and audiobooks. There will be online activities, videos, quizzes, games and rewards to unlock along the way. Every child who completes their own Challenge will receive a downloadable certificate.
When creating an account, select Libraries NI as your local Library authority!
Sign- up for FREE at: https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
🖍🖌 Monday Message- 15th June '20 🖍🖌
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all safe and well! I know you are all working so hard and summer is just around the corner for you all to have a good rest! 😊
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
🤩 Exciting News! 🤩
We have some exciting news this week! We have a new PE 1/4 zip to announce for all pupils this week! This can be worn every day and will help us look good and stay comfy for PE and after schools etc!
Please follow the link below for details on how to order:
https://www.stnicholaspsardglass.com/news/detail/launch-of-new-pe-14-zip-for-pupils/
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ Spelling ✏🖍
I know you have all been working very hard on our spelling tests! This week I would like you all to focus on being able to spell our commonly used words! Please see the words below:
⭐ Subtracting ➖➖➖➖
This week I would like you to focus on your subtraction work.
Here's a few things to remember:
🔹️ It can be called subtraction, taking away, finding the difference or make less.
🔹️ You cannot start with a smaller number. Always start with the big number.
For example:
Find the difference between 32 and 62.
You need to do 62-32 ✅
You cannot work out 32-62 ❌ (yet!)
🔹️ If it is a difficult sum like:
85- 12
You can break up the sum!
We know we can break 12 into 10 and 2.
So, we can take away 10. So, 85-10= 75
Then, we are left with 75, so 75-2= 73.
⭐ End of Year Project - 🏝🏜🏖🗻🏗🌃
Continue to work on your end of year project to Create Your Own Planet!
I can't wait to see the results!
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
😊 Monday Message - 8th June '20 😊
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all safe and well! I know you are all working so hard and having some fun at home! I miss you all so much!
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
I hope you got your new packs and are working your way through those! Please message if you have any questions regarding these!
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ Using Speech Marks
Practice your work on how to use speech marks!
Remember:
🔹️We call them 66 and 99's sometimes because of how the look!
🔹️We use them when someone is speaking!
🔹️ There are lots of different ways to speak, if could be whispering, shouting, laughing or talking! They still need speech marks!
🔹️ Here is an example:
You need to clean your room! said mum. ❌
"You need to clean your room!" said mum. ✅
⭐ Greater than and Less than > <
Practice your greater than and less than number work!
Remember:
🔹️ When we are looking at greater than and less than we use these symbols > < and =
🔹️ So, let's look at an example: we have the number 17 and the number 9. We know that that 17 is bigger than 9.
So we would write 17 > 9 because 17 is greater than 9.
🔹️ If we has the number 1 and 5.
We know that 1 is less than 5. So we would write 1 < 5.
⭐ End of Year Project - 🏝🏜🏖🗻🏗🌃
Continue to work on your end of year project to Create Your Own Planet!
I can't wait to see the results!
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🖌🖍✏ Work From Home! 🖌🖍✏
🌞 Monday Message - 1st June '20 🌞
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all safe and well! I know you are all working so hard and having some fun at home enjoying the beautiful sun! 🌞
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
I hope you got your new packs and are working your way through those! Please message if you have any questions regarding these!
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ Sports Day Practice 🤾♂️🏃♀️🤸♂️🤸♀️
This week we are asking you to all take part in Our Annual Sports Day! 🥇🥈🥉
This Friday we would have been hosting our sports day and though we may not be at school, we would like you to practice and take part in our sports day!
So, get some photos and videos of you taking part in the following races and send them in to myself or Mr Burns:
- Sprint
- Balance (using a pair of socks!) Race
- Obstacle Race
- Potatoe and Spoon Race
Have fun and I cant wait to see the pictures!
⭐ Writing 📗📝✏
This week I would like you to practice your writing. I have put some writing prompts in your pack and you can use these, or your imagination to help practice!
Remember:
- You must use capital letters and full stops.
- You need proper spaces between your words and writing should be on the line.
- Sound out all your words carefully.
- Your handwriting should be nice and neat.
- You can use question marks and exclamation marks to make your writing more interesting!
⭐ Money
Practice your money skills!
- You should know and be able to identify all the coins from 1p to £2.
- You should be able to make amounts of money up to £1.
- You should be able to give change for items (using your taking away skills!)
- Remember you cannot get a 3p, 7p or 9p coin, how else could you make these amounts if you need to use them?
⭐ End of Year Project - 🏝🏜🏖🗻🏗🌃
Continue to work on your end of year project to Create Your Own Planet!
I can't wait to see the results!
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🍎 Monday Message- 25th May '20🍎
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all keeping good at home!
This week you will have a new home learning back with some revision packs and some end of year tests!
So you can prepare for the end of year test, please focus on these topics this week:
⭐ Literacy- Comprehension 📖
Continue to work on your reading skills and how to understand what you read!
Remember, always answer your questions with full answers!
For example: Who climbed the Beanstalk?
'Jack climbed up the Beanstalk'
Is a much better answer than 'Jack'
⭐ Numeracy- Word problems 🔎🔎
Remember to read the question carefully!
Is it adding or taking away?
Count VERY carefully!
Remember to use your 100 square to help you!
⭐ End of year project -Create your own world project! 🌍🏖🏕⛰🧭🏝🏞🏛
You must tell me the following things about your planet:
1. What are the rules on your planet?
2. What does your planet look and feel like? (Is it warm, cold, purple or pink!)
3. What foods do you eat on your planet?
4. What activities do you do on your planet?
5. Who would live on your planet with you?
Stay safe,
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
⭐🌈 Monday Message- 18th May '20 ⭐🌈
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all safe and well! I know you are all working so hard and having some fun at home!
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
I hope you got your new packs and are working your way through those! Please message if you have any questions regarding these!
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ 🐻 OUR VIRTUAL FAMILY PICNIC 🐻
This week we would like to invite you all to have a picnic with your family! I can't wait to hear all about your picnics and see some lovely pictures!
As part of our big picnic I have set some picnic based work below!
⭐ Instructions
I would like you to write me some instructions on something you made for your picnic!
Maybe it will be:
HOW TO MAKE JAM SANDWICHES 🍞
HOW TO MAKE BUNS 🧁
HOW TO MAKE FRUIT SALAD 🍑🍏🍊🍐🍓
It is totally up to you! I cannot wait to see all your instructional recipes
⭐ Measures
I would like you to write about the different measures that you used to create your picnic!
For example
1 picnic blanket
2 bags of crisps 🍿
5 teddy bears 🐻
6 jam sandwiches 🍞
1 bottle of diluted juice 🥤
⭐ My Under Water Picnic
I want you to imagine you are having an underwater picnic!
Which animals would you have at it?
What foods would you eat?
What would it look like?
Write about this!
⭐ End of Year Review
I would love to hear how the children felt about their time in Primary Three (even though it has been shorter than we would have liked 😔)
I have some questions below and I would like to hear their replies! Please email their responses to my email: ccurran822@c2kni.net
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
📚 Monday Message- 11th May 📚
Hey everyone,
Hope you are keeping well and enjoyed a beautiful Bank Holiday Weekend! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
I received so many beautiful pictures last week and so many great projects on the cages vs dogs debate! So well done to everyone! Remember please message my email with any lovely pictures or questions you have! It can be found at the top of this page! 😊
This week:
⭐ Literacy- Comprehension
I have attached a comprehension based on our topic 'Jazzy Jellyfish!' Please read the comprehension carefully and answer the questions.
⭐ Numeracy- Tens and Units
This is a good chance to recap our knowledge of tens and units, and maybe if you work really hard you could even look at hundreds, tens and units!
Let's look at an example:
The number 87
We split the number into TENS and UNITS
T U
So we have 8 tens> 8 7 < so we have 7 units
Remember that the 8 isnt just 8...its 8 sets of ten so is actually the number 80!
⭐ World Around Us- Acrostic Poems
This week I would like you to create your own seaside themed acrostic poem!
Each line must begin with the different letters in the word seaside!
I have attached a template that you can use as a guide or print off and use!
Stay Safe,
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🌈Monday Message- 4th May 🌈
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all safe and well! I know you are all working so hard and having some fun at home!
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ May Alter 🌺🌼
Fr McCloskey has encouraged the children to get involved in creating their own May Alter in their home.They can use things already in the house. If you don’t have a statue at home you can print out a picture of Mary and stick it to a piece of cardboard or put it in a frame.
Photos of your May Alter can be shared with Fr on the Parish facebook page or can be sent to myself and I can share with Fr Mccloskey.
⭐ What make better pets, cats or dogs? 🐕🐈
This term we would have been working on our persuasive writing skills. We would be working on how to persuade and make an audience think a certain way!
This week I would like you to work on this style of writing through the topic 'What makes better pets, cats or dogs?'
I have enclosed worksheets on this in your recent packs.
There is a planning sheet which pupils can plan their ideas on, maybe you want to discuss this topic as a family? Have a vote? Ring a relative and ask them what they think?
Pupils can then use the next lined sheet with the same title to write their ideas in full!
⭐ Multiplication 2️⃣❌5️⃣
This week I would like you to work on your multiplication skills!
I have enclosed worksheets on the 2,5 and 10 times tables in your latest packs and I would like you to complete these!
Using the arrays worksheets can be helpful as it helps visualise the multiplication sum!
For example: 6 x 2
Using arrays or simple drawings can help!
🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 The pupil can now work
🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 out 6 groups of 2!
⭐ The Great White Shark 🦈
This week I would like you to write and draw some facts about the great white shark! I would love to see some super scary facts!
Here is a link I found to help: https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/sea-life/great-white-sharks/
⭐ Recapping the 'ure' sound 💬
Have a look over the ure sound! Here are some links to help:
https://youtu.be/YwCzf71flBA
https://youtu.be/IK8m-5JQmso
https://youtu.be/hMBHPq-j8R0
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🌈 Monday Message- 27th April🌈
Hi everyone,
I hope you had another lovely week! Missing you all lots and lots!
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
I hope you got your new packs and are working your way through those! Please message if you have any questions regarding these!
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ Reading 📚
Please log on to Collins Connect or Bug Club and read every day! You can pick how you would like to do this, a book every day, half a book, ten books! Whatever you wish but if you would like somewhere to start, remember that we focus on 2 books per week. One book split across Monday and Tuesday and a new book on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday can be used to read a book together 😊
⭐ Grammar
I have enclosed a variety of grammar style worksheets in your school back. This week I would like you to pick 2 of these topics to work on. It could be commas, speech marks, compound words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, which ever you like. Please choose at least 2 to focus on!
⭐ Fractions 🚫
Focus on the topic of fractions.
- Pupils should be able to identify half and a quarters of shapes
- Pupils should be able to identify half of numbers
- You can use a variety of objects but my favourite to use is FOOD! Especially food like pancakes 🥞, sandwiches 🥪 and fruit 🍊 which would be easy for the children to cut and work with themselves!
⭐ Under the Sea Diary 🐬🐋🐳🐠
I want you to pretend that you are living under the sea, write about what you
- see
- hear
- smell
- touch
- taste
- feel
⭐ Recapping the 'ear' sound 💬
Have a look over the ear sound! Here are some links to help:
https://youtu.be/EneZ1UubxSA
https://youtu.be/dHe3Ripnt08
https://youtu.be/3rGhTUc6zbE
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
📚⭐ Super Star Workers ⭐📚
⭐🍎 Monday Message- 20th April ⭐🍎
Hi Primary Three,
I hope you are all working hard and enjoying the beautiful weather! 🌞
I'm sure you all had a lovely Easter and ate lots of yummy treats! 🍡🍩🍫 (I know I did 🙊)
Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
New packs are available this week on Wednesday (22nd April) with loads more resources and stuff to focus on for the kids!
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ Reading 📚
Please log on to Collins Connect or Bug Club and read every day! You can pick how you would like to do this, a book every day, half a book, ten books! Whatever you wish but if you would like somewhere to start, remember that we focus on 2 books per week. One book split across Monday and Tuesday and a new book on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday can be used to read a book together 😊
⭐ Time ⏰
This week I would like the kids to focus on the concept of time! A few things they should be able to do:
- Recognise the 'big' and 'small' hands as hour and minute hands.
- Recognise o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.
- Know that the clock works in 5 minute intervals and be able to count this around the clock.
- Know time facts such as 30 minutes in half an hour, 60 minutes in an hour, 15 minutes in a quarter and so on
⭐ Parts of a Fish 🐠
I have sent home a worksheet focusing on the parts of the fish in our new packs! In preparation for completing this I would like you to do some research on the different parts of a fish and the names of these parts!
⭐ Recapping the 'ai' sound 💬
Have a look over the ai sound! Here are some links to help:
https://youtu.be/Fbmpw192MSg
https://youtu.be/vzDqKXOQGTU
https://youtu.be/K-vehzhMSEg
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🌈⭐📚 Monday Message- 6th April 📚⭐🌈
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all keeping safe and well at home! Remember, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or queries or would like to send me some pictures of all the hard work going on at home!
My email address is:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
A few key things to focus on this week:
⭐ Nouns, verbs and adjectives
Can you sort words into nouns, verbs and adjectives?
Remember :
Nouns = person, place or thing 👦🏞🎈
Adjectives = describing words like colours 🌈
Verbs= doing words 🛌🏊♂️🚴♂️🤸♂️
Can you find 10 examples of each?
⭐ Addition and subtraction
Focus on the skills of adding and subtraction - use lots of fun games to do this like HIT THE BUTTON!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
⭐ Underwater animals
Pick an underwater animal to research and create a factfile on that animal.
Can you find 3 facts about the underwater animal?
⭐ Recapping the 'igh' sound
Have a look over the igh sound! Here are some links to help:
https://youtu.be/OYCR2RZ4ZYY
https://youtu.be/A3vW-DnKEho
https://youtu.be/Xj1fge3ylWY
https://youtu.be/xSs2BYDdajc
Stay safe
Miss Curran 🤗🤗🤗
🐝 Busy Bees 🐝
I have received so many lovely pictures this week of how hard P.3 have been working at home!
Well done boys and girls! Keep up the hard work and being so well behaved! I am so proud of all of our class 🤗
Lola has been working very hard at home! Her book review looks fantastic, especially her amazing picture! Those buns look absolutely delicious! Super duper Lola! 🤗
📚⭐Monday Message- 30/3/20🍎🌈
Hi Primary Three,
I hope you are working really hard at home and doing the best you can! I really miss you all and all the fun we would be having in school! I hope you are keeping safe and helping out at home!
If anyone at home would like to send me some pictures of all the brilliant work you have been doing or has any questions at all, please send me an email at:
ccurran822@c2kni.net
This week I want you to continue to work hard but theres a few things below to focus on:
⭐ I want you to design a poster for someone you would like to thank who is working hard to keep us all safe! It could be a doctor, nurse, care worker, police man or shop worker! Make a poster to say thank you and say a prayer for them every day!
⭐ I want you to focus on the oi sound to recap! Here are some fun links to help:
https://youtu.be/IRTITdRL_cU
https://youtu.be/9hpF25WMaF0
https://youtu.be/V8wMxkvsFpY
⭐ Please make sure you know your odd and even numbers from 1-100! Remember our helpful hints: do they have a mate? and this catchy song https://youtu.be/-kHtGbnYKGc
Stay Safe,
Miss Curran 🤗🤗
😎 Busy Boys 😎
I was absolutely over the moon to receive these awesome pictures of a few boys in our class today!
They have been working so hard and definitely need some prizes when we are all back together! ⭐
Curriculum Links
Literacy
Phonics
Plays play: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
NOW FREE! Use the username: march20 and password: home
This is a really fab resource and even better with full free access!
Phab Fonics songs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCib2P_sJbxH9tJ3fpww-jKQ
Reading
Collins Connect: https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/portal.aspx (all logins available and easy access to texts which can be read together or independently by your child).
Bug Club:
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk
(All login ins available and lots of fun texts to be read independently or together)
World E Books- free access to thousands of free electronic books, both fact and fiction
Spelling, Grammar and punctuation
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=40
https://www.funenglishgames.com/readinggames.html
https://www.homespellingwords.com/spelling-games
https://www.turtlediary.com/games/spelling.html
http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames.html
https://www.wartgames.com/themes/grammar.html
Phonics songs and websites
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCib2P_sJbxH9tJ3fpww-jKQ
Https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthruchris
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
Access to online worksheets for all topics
Twinkl - www.twinkl.co.uk
Twinkl offer a wide range of free worksheets across all areas of learning. Just type in what you are looking for in the search bar and find a variety of resources.
Worksheet Worksheets - https://www.worksheetsworksheets.com/literacy-worksheets/
A variety of spelling, grammar, punctuation, phonics and handwriting worksheets which can be printed for free.
World Book Day - https://www.worldbookday.com/resources/
The World Book Day website has a wide variety of literacy based activities and worksheets to be used across all age ranges including comprehension, creative writing and make and do worksheets.
Jumpstart- Reading and comprehension worksheets-https://www.jumpstart.com/parents/worksheets/reading-worksheets
A variety of reading and comprehension worksheets across all age ranges which can be downloaded and printed for free.
Numeracy
Mental Maths
Hit the button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button (focus on number bonds, addition and 2, 5 and 10 times tables)
Mental Maths Train: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train (focus on + and - )
www.themathsfactor.com
Odd and Even:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/place-value-odd-and-even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHtGbnYKGc
Place Value:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
Times Tables:
https://www.timestables.co.uk/
Times Tables songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlVJhAIruCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4EN7mFHCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyDZ7f1RfE
Topic Maths
Time:
https://www.splashlearn.com/time-games
https://www.primarygames.com/math/timeclock/
Shape and Space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTeqUejf3D0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting
https://pbskids.org/peg/games/symmetry-painter
(Symmetry is a good topic to focus on!)
Money:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=payusingonecoinv3
Data handling:
http://toytheater.com/fruit-fall/
https://www.softschools.com/math/data_analysis/tally_chart/
http://toytheater.com/fishing/
Problem Solving:
https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Bobbie-Bear/
https://primarygames.co.uk/pg2/powerlines/powerlines1.html
World Around Us
Under the Sea:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zmxqxnb
Hi there,
I know for many this will be a hard time and I wanted to send a little message to all my class in terms they would understand! I hope this may help explain things a little more to them!
"My favourite movie is 'Toy Story'. I love to watch Woody and the Gang! We know that Woody is a rootin, tootin cowboy, but deep down he is just a big softie!
I remember when Woody, Buzz, Rex and the rest of the gang had to stay apart for a while until a big problem could be solved! When they did come back, they were even better than ever!
This is one of those times. We have to stay apart for a little while to make sure that we can come back together again and be better than ever! Everyone is worried about a bug that is making people sick and doctors and nurses are all working very hard to try and find a cure, and we know they will!
But until we do, we have to be apart as a gang for a little while. We have to be brave and listen to the people in charge who are trying to keep everybody safe!
I will be teaching you a little bit differently for a little while but I hope you know I am still here, teaching, listening and caring for you all!"
I can't wait to see you all soon!
Miss Curran 🤗🤗
🐑 Sacrament of First Reconciliation 🐑
Today, Thursday 12th March, the Primary 3 pupils celebrated making their sacrament of First Reconciliation. It was a lovely day celebrated with all our loved ones.
We are so proud to you all and your brilliant preparation and behaviour!
Well done!
🔴⚫ GAA Coaching 🔴⚫
P3 have been loving their weekly coaching sessions with Amy! We have been working on all our FUNdamental skills and having an absolute ball! Lots of future GAA and LGFA stars in the making! 🌟
💻📱🔌 Safer Internet Day 💻📱🔌
As part of Safer Internet Day, Mr Sweeney, our ICT co-ordinator, came to teach P3 and P4 all about how we can stay safer online! We heard the story of the three little pigs getting mean messages, Goldilocks and scary images and Cinderella buying things online without permission!
The child all gave good suggestions about how the can stay safe in these situations and it was made clear that they are never alone and should always tell a trusted adult!
We also heard how we should all 'Take a Minute' to switch off our screens and relax when it all gets too much!
Grandparents Day ❤
As part of Catholic Schools Week, we loved having our grandparents and loved ones with us to work!
We focused on the story of The Lost Sheep to help understand Our First Penance!
We made sheep cupcakes and little fluffy sheep!
🏆 Kick Boxing King 🏆
Finn brought in a very special award today! Finn had won a special award for his great dedication to his kick boxing! Well done Finn! We all loved seeing your trophy!
🧚♂️ Where the Wild Things are 🧚♀️
This week we looked at the story 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak.
On Monday, we designed our own wild things and then we made our creations out of clay! It was fantastic fun!
🥞 Pancake Fractions 🥞
This week we looked at fractions using pancakes.
We introduced the concept of quarters and recapped what we already new about a half!
The best bit of this lesson was getting to eat our resources!
🎬 Lights, Camera, Action! 🎬
Today we had lots of fun based around our topic, Lights, Camera, Action! We spent the afternoon completing activities all about film, cinema and tv! There were 5 stations to choose from:
1) Design a new character for a movie or TV show
2) Using Lego, build a cinema!
3) Design a costume for Tigger!
4) Create your favourite character using clay
5) Make a pinhole camera
We had lots of fun!
🎄 Busy, Busy, Busy! 🎄
We have had a busy few weeks in Primary 3 getting ready for our fantastic Christmas Nativity and working hard! We have been learning all about instructions in literacy and as part of this we focused on two main things: How to Brush your teeth and How to make Hot Chocolate
In numeracy we have been working hard on numbers to 100 and learning directions, particularly left and right! In World Around Us we created our favourite characters using different methods such as painting, oil pastels, markers, paper and pencils!
👐 Sign Language Classes 👐
Today we had our first sign language class! The boys and girls loved learning to sign the alphabet and sing the alphabet song! We also learnt how to clap in sign language- the boys and girls found this very interesting as they had never thought about this before! We can't wait for our next signing lesson next week!
🔴⚫Down GAA Coaching🔴⚫
Today we had our first GAA coaching session with coach Liam! We loved building the fundamental skills of the game and these will help in all sports but especially the GAA! Liam praised the children for their good listening and participation skills!
💃 Dancing Diva Ellie 💃
Ellie has been dancing her socks off again! She won lots of trophies at her latest irish dancing competition, including an amazing 1st place! Ellie will need a huge trophy cabinet soon! Well done!
Action Cancer Talk
Today we had a very informative talk from Action Cancer! Tanya introduced us to Lazy Liza, Terrible Tar Jar, Fizzy Sherbot and Mr Blister! We learnt about the importance of exercise, smoking, healthy eating and sun safety!
🎃Pumpkin Carving🎃
Today we practised our pumpkin carving skills for the class pumpkin carving competition! We decided on a spider design and enjoyed looking at the pumpkin seeds and insides...though they weren't too fussed on the smell! 😂
Super Spellers and Magic Mathematicians! 💫
Today we celebrated our termly spelling and mental maths awards! These awards are given to pupils who work extremely hard in these areas and have achieved top results! We had a discussion about why it is important to work hard in these areas and aim high in all areas including work and behaviour!
📚Learning Together Afternoon 📚
On Friday, we came together with our parents, guardians and loved ones to learn together! We listened to the story of 'Supertato and the Carnival Castro-pea', then worked hard at creating our own veggie superhero costumes! We had tons of fun!
🎃Halloween Problem Solving🎃
We really enjoyed our problem solving lesson with Mr Burns! We worked in teams to make magic potions! ⚗
The children had to use spiders, lizards and bats to make their concoctions but were only allowed to use 24 legs!
It was great to see the pupils develop their problem solving, communication and team work skills!
🌍World Culture Day🌍
As part of our World Culture Day Celebrations we sampled breads from around the world! 🍞🥐🥖🥨🥯
The children loved sampling naan bread, Wheaten bread, Baguette, Croissant, potato bread and pancakes! The children all voted for their favourite bread and we created a class tally using our mathematical skills! Naan bread was the class favourite, but the kids say the canteens was nicer than Miss Currans!
💃Ellie is the Star of the County Down 💃
Ellie has been a very busy girl attending lots of Irish Dancing competitions since we have returned to school! Ellie has danced her socks off and has plenty of silverware to show for her efforts! Well done Ellie, keep up the hard work! We are so proud of you!
🔎 Measuring Investigation 🔎
The children loved venturing around the school using different non standard units of measure, such as our hands, feet and bodies, to measure lots of our school! The children were able to predict, estimate and measure!
😊 Skipathon 😊
In PE we have been practicing really hard for our up coming skipathon! The child have been working hard to brush up on their skipping skills! We even have some experts who can skip backwards!
