Mrs Gillespie P3

A bit of excitement in P3 this week….A World Cup Sweepstake! We each picked two teams ‘out the hat’, wrote our names on them & put them on the poster. The winner & runner up will both receive a prize! 🤩⚽️🤩 Ask us at home which teams we got. #antohandwb #worldcup2026 🥳⚽️🇺🇸🥳⚽️🇺🇸

More fantastic class talks this week from these #ConfidentIndividuals. #antoliteracy #antohandwb 👫👏🤩👏👫

Wishing today’s birthday girl a Happy Birthday! #antohandwb 👫🎶🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎶👫

We planned our T4W hot task today by explaining how we made our Spring Sweetie Kebabs. 📝 We used bossy verbs & chronological order too! #antoliteracy #nonfiction 🍡📝🙌📝🍡

The weather might have stopped our Sports Day outside but we still had a fab time competing in the hall! Great enthusiasm & sportsmanship…well done P3! #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🤩🥇🥈🥉🤩👫

What a busy but productive afternoon in P3!! 🙌🙌 We’re just about ready for our Spring Fayre next week! 🍡🍡 Please check schoolbags for permission slips if children would like to help sell our Sweetie Kebabs at our stall on Wednesday. #antoenterprise 🤩🍢🤩🍡🤩

Today in grammar, we learnt about bossy verbs. We then created a poster using these to help bear advertise her babysitting service! 🐻 #antoliteracy 📝🤩📝

In our Enterprise teams, we started preparing for the Spring Fayre today! #antoliteracy #antoenterprise #antohandwb #antoexpressivearts 👫🎨📝🍬🍡🍢🙌🍢🍡🍬📝🎨👫

We worked with our partners to discuss & highlight interesting vocabulary & super openers in our Talk for Writing non fiction model text! #antoliteracy #Talk4Writing 👫🤔💭📝💭🤔👫

Busy laminating the posters we made to remind everyone to turn off the taps properly in school 🚰. Ask us how to protect our water resources at home too! #antohandwb #GlobalGoal6 #CleanWaterAndSanitation #ResponsibleCitizens 👫💦🚿☔️🚰👫

Practising our dribbling skills & teamwork to prepare for our Sport’s Day next month! There was some great encouragement to our teammates! #antohandwb #antoliteracy 🏃‍♀️⚽️🏃‍♂️🙌🏃‍♂️⚽️🏃‍♀️

In the Reading Forest, we chose a new book for enjoyment…we then read these with our friends! #antoliteracy 👫📚🙌📚👫

What a fun Kids in Charge Day all planned by the children themselves! We’re already saving our Dojo £s for the next one! 🤞🤞 #antohandwb #antopupilvoice 👫🙌🥰🥳🤩🥳🥰🙌👫

In our Art & Design leading the learning group today, we were developing our drawing skills! We sketched a picture with an ‘Under the sea’ theme & then peer assessed them. We’ll paint these using watercolours when we meet again next month. #antoexpressivearts #antopupilvoice 👫🎨🐟🌊🐠🐳🐙🪸🪼🐚🦀🐋🎨👫

So proud of Primary 3 today! They delivered an excellent assembly to share their learning about Ancient Egypt. Thank you all for coming…we hope you enjoyed it! #antoIDL #antohandwb #antoliteracy 👫👏🌟👏👫

Today we learnt how to create a keynote presentation! We worked with a a partner to add text & pictures to the slides. We also adjusted the size of the pictures & positioned them on the slides! Well done P3! #antoSTEM @connectedfalk.bsky.social 👫📲🙌📲👫

Today we participated in an online lesson to learn about finance, advertising & shopping. Ask us about it at home. #antonumeracy #reallifemaths @financialeducation.bsky.social 👫🙌👫

Wishing Sunday’s birthday boy a Happy Birthday! #antohandwb 🎶🥳🎂🎁🎈🎶

Today we learnt what a pledge was then discussed ways we could protect our water resources! After designing our own water/sanitation superhero, we agreed what our class pledge will be. 🦸‍♀️💦🦸🏻‍♂️ Watch this space to find out more over the next few weeks! #antoclimatefocus #@antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🙌👫🙌👫

Global Goal 6 - we discussed & sorted ways water is wasted & also how we can save water. We also learnt more about clean water & sanitation in other parts of the world. #antohandwb #antoSTEM @falkirkstem.bsky.social @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🌍💦🌍💦👫

We started our Global Goals focus by working in our groups to discuss & note why water is important. Ask us at home to tell you some of these reasons. #antohandwb #GlobalGoal6 @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🤔💦💭💦💭💦🤔👫

Wishing today’s birthday boy ‘Happy Birthday’! 🎶🥳🎂🎁🎈🎶

Using our listening skills in the drama workshop this morning! #antoexpressivearts #antohandwb 👫🎭🙌🎭👫

We thanked our high school helper on his last day with us & he’d very kindly baked us Easter cookies! 🐣 We had egg-cellent fun at our party: Dancing💃🏻🕺🏽 Musical Statues🎶 Icepoles & sweet treat😋 It was such nice weather, we also went out for a wee play in the sunshine with our friends! #antohandwb

Wishing today’s birthday girl & next week’s birthday boy a ‘happy birthday’! #antohandwb 👫🎶🎂🎁🎈🥳🎶👫

We did some baking this morning & made some egg-cellent Easter chocolate nests! 🪺🐣🪺 We then finished creating our Easter baskets & filled them with some Easter goodies! #antoexpressivearts #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🎨🪺🐣🐰🐣🪺🎨👫

Thank you to Denny HS’s young STEM leaders who taught us all about mummification this morning! #AntoIDL #AncientEgypt #antoliteracy #AntoSTEM @falkirkstem.bsky.social 👫🙌🏺📝🏺🙌👫

After learning about headings & sub headings today, we worked together to sort & stick the correct text under the correct sub headings! #Talk4Writing #NonFiction #antoliteracy 👫📝💭📝👫

Working together with our partners this morning to research key facts about the River Nile. 🔎Ask us at home to tell you why this river was & is still important to the Egyptians! #antoIDL #antoSTEM @connectedfalk.bsky.social 👫💭📱🙌📱💭👫

We loved seeing our special visitors today…Ruby & her calf, Rhona! #antohandwb #antowidercommunity 👫🥰👫

After learning about hieroglyphics, we created our own cartouche! ⚱️ Watch this space for our finished designs! #antoIDL #antoexpressivearts #AncientEgypt 👫⚱️🎨⚱️👫

In #Talk4Writing today, we drew our own story map to retell the information in our non fiction model text - Rainbow Dragons. #antoliteracy 👫📝🎨📝👫

Today, we learnt how a dictionary can help us & then worked with a partner to check some spelling & definitions! #antoliteracy 👫🙌📚🤔📚🙌👫

We walked around the school today to look at everyone’s door designs we created for @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social Well done everyone…they were all fab! #antoliteracy #antoexpressivearts 👫🎨📚🎨👫

After visiting the book fair, we started creating our classroom door display. Watch this space to see what our door looks like! 😊 We also read our favourite books with our friends to finish off a fantastic @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social #antoliteracy #antoexpressivearts 🎨📚👫📚🎨

What a great Live Lesson with author @jamiesmart.bsky.social this morning. We drew our own Bunny & Monkey characters with him & then created our own comic strip! #antoliteracy @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social 👫🎨🙌🎨👫

Lots of discussion today to find out what we already know & what we’d like to learn about our new topic ‘Ancient Egyptians’. #antoIDL #antoliteracy 👫🙌🇪🇬🙌👫

We have been learning the P.A.N.T.S rule to keep us safe. Ask us about it at home. #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social @nspcc.bsky.social 👫🙌👫

Practising our French numbers to 20 today before playing a game of Lotto (bingo)! #antoliteracy @falkirk1plus2.bsky.social 👫🇫🇷🎶🇫🇷🎶🇫🇷👫

We had a great Kids in Charge Day today! We’re already saving our dojo £s for our next one! #antohandwb #pupilvoice #hardworkpaysoff 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

We have been learning to use speech marks in our writing. We worked with a partner to practice this with macaroni! We then wrote some sentences with speech marks. #antoliteracy @piecorbett.bsky.social #Talk4Writing #grammar 👫📝💬📝👫

Today we learnt all the things our body & mind needs to stay healthy. We also discussed who can help us with this. Ask us at home to share these with you. #antohandwb #Article24 @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫🤔💭🙌💭🤔👫

After learning about Chinese New Year today, we used a Venn Diagram to sort & compare Chinese with Scottish new year traditions! #antoSTEM #YearoftheHorse2026 @falkirkstem.bsky.social @falkirk1plus2.bsky.social 🇨🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌕🧧🐎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇳

We started innovating our model text today by noting our own ideas on a story mountain. #antoliteracy #Talk4Writing 👫📝🤔💭🤔📝👫

Practising the 3 times table with some music makes it fun & will help us learn it! #antonumeracy #antoexpressivearts 🎶👫🙌👫🎶

Wishing tomorrow’s birthday girl ‘Happy Birthday’ today! #antohandwb 🎶🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎶

Thank you all for sharing our learning at our Health & Wellbeing open afternoon today! We hope you enjoyed: Chair Yoga 🧘🏻‍♀️ Internet Safety 👨‍💻 Making fruit kebabs 🍌🍎🍓🍇🍓 #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social @antomissstevenson.bsky.social

Showing some attitude in our dance off! #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social 🎶💃🏻🕺🏽👏🕺🏽💃🏻🎶

Warming up for our dance workshop this morning! #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social 💃🏻🕺🏽🎶🙌🎶🕺🏽💃🏻

We consolidated our online safety learning with a game of ‘Band Runner’ on the iPad. 👫🙌📱👫 You can play this at home too: www.ceopeducation.co.uk/8_10/ #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social

After learning how to stay safe online, we designed our own Avatars…ask us at home to tell you how we can keep ourselves safe! #antohandwb #CEOP #onlinesafety2026 @connectedfalk.bsky.social @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫👩🏻‍💻👨‍💻🙌📱💻👩🏻‍💻👨‍💻🙌👫

Wishing today’s birthday boy ‘Happy Birthday’! #antohandwb 🎶🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎶

We’ve had a great first week if our Health & Wellbeing focus. 🙌🙌 On Friday, after Fischy Music, we listened to the story ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox & The Horse’. This led to lots of discussion about ways to be kind…ask us about it at home! #anyohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social 👫❤️😊❤️👫

We’re having a great start to the day with #FischyMusic this morning! #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social #Article31 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

We had great fun & learnt some new cooking skills today. I was VERY impressed with these young chefs’ culinary skills! 🔪🥕🫛🥒🫑🙌🌮 P3 enjoyed tasting the Terrific Tacos we made! 🌮🌮 #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social

Learning new skills with the help of Denny Karate Club this morning! 🥋🙌🥋 We also learnt about the different food groups & tasted some fruit & vegetables with the ladies from Asda! 😋🍎🍓🍇🫐🥒🥕🫛🫑😋 #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social

What a great start to our Health Focus Fortnight with Andy from Jammin Fitness! #antohandwb @antorightsps.bsky.social #Article12 #Article24 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

After exploring more Hindu beliefs & traditions today, we used our creating skills to design our own mehndi pattern. We then peer assessed them…well done P3! #antoRME #antoexpressivearts 👫🎨✋🕉️✋🕉️✋🎨👫