P2B 2025/26

Friday 12th December 2025

A very busy week full of nativity performances and other Christmas traditions held at school...

🎄Christmas Dinner! 🎄

Lots of smiling faces and full tummies after our Christmas dinner!

🎉🎄Christmas Crackers! 🎄🎉

We had so much fun pulling our Christmas crackers with our friends before we went for our yummy Christmas dinner!

🦃 Turkeys in Disguise! 🦃

We have been learning about the festival of Thanksgiving that is mainly celebrated in America and Canada at this time of year. One of the main meats to eat is Turkey so we made Turkey headbands who were in disguise as they were running away from the thanksgiving meal!!

🎄'It's a Baby!' Nativity 2025 🌟

We have all performed beautifully at our Christmas Nativity this year! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we have practicing and performing for you all!

Friday 5th December 2025

Our first week of December, who can believe we are in the last month of the year already!? We have had some mischievious additions to our class this week from the North Pole...!

📖 Paired Reading with P6! 📖

We have had a smashing time during our paired reading sessions with P6! It is lovely to see the love of reading being shared by older and younger pupils!

🎨Watercolour Backgrounds 🎨

We had the special watercolour paints out this week to make beautiful watercolour backgrounds for our latest piece of art so stay tuned for updates once our backgrounds have dried!

🥳Wow Moment 🥳

We have a wow moment to celebrate from our martial arts superstar!

Friday 28th November 2025

Our last week of November is upon us and we continue to be superstars in our learning! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below!

🤩Stars of the Month 🤩

Here are our two Stars of the Month who received certificates at assembly this week! Well done to you both! Well deserved indeed!

❄️ Snowflake Shape Poems ❄️

We have been doing super work on our verbs this week and made lots of verbs to help us make our poem about snowflakes. Just to make it trickier we had to make our poems fit into the shape of a snowflake too!

🐧Penguin's Progress 🐧

We are almost finished our first class novel of the term which is Penguin's Progress by Jill Tomlinson! Take a look at the awesome art work we have been working on!

🌐 World Children's Day! 🌐

We participated in an online event to celebrate World Children's Day! We learned that we are very lucky to have the lives that we have as there are many less fortunate children around the world that may not have a home or food in their tummies. We also learned of ways that we can help and important people in our country can do to help too!

Friday 21st November 2025

It has been a very quick week indeed in Primary 2B! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below!

📚Book Week Scotland 📚

To celebrate Book Week Scotland, we spent some time going through all the treats and books that we received in our Book Bug Bags from the Scottish Government! The smiles say it all!

💻Chromebooks 💻

We had so much fun working on Chromebooks this week. Our favourite thing to do on Chromebooks is Sumdog!

🌍 Cop 30 🌍

To take part in COP30, read this book and had lots of discussions about how we can all do small things to help save our world!

❄️Paper Snowflakes ❄️

We were practicing our paper folding and scissor cutting skills to make beautiful paper snowflakes for our class wall display on our class novel, 'Penguin's Progress'.

Friday 14th November 2025

We have been working very hard this week and have ended the week with a fun dress down day for a rather important cause...

🤩Children in Need 🤩

We took part in raising money for Children in Need. We had a dress down day and took part in fun stalls in the gym hall that were being run by Primary 5 pupils, and of course we made the most of the delicious baking!

🧝Elf Postcards! 🧝

We worked extremely hard to write detailed postcards to the Elf workshop at the north pole as we desperately want an elf to visit our classroom in the lead up to Christmas!

🪖Remembrance Day -

Pointillism Art 🪖

We took part in the national 2 minute silence on Remembrance Day. We also learned about Pointillism art and made our own Poppies using this method using black pens for the middle and red paint on cue tips for the petals!

🗓️Months of the Year 🗓️

We have been working hard putting the months of the year in order and being able to explain which season is associated with particular months.

Friday 7th November 2025

Another week full of fun and learning in Primary 2B! Please have a look at what we have been getting up to below...

Please find our learning overview for the term ahead in the link below.

P2B-Blog-Learning-Overview-Term-2-2025/26

😚Mehndi Hand Patterns 😚

We have completed our work on Diwali by learning about beautiful Mehndi hand patterns and decided to make some of our own! We cannot wait to show you all of our designs when we take them home to you!

🕯️Rangoli Patterns🕯️

We have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali in class and we have been busy making Rangoli patterns. Hindus make Rangoli patterns on their doorsteps with coloured rice or powders and they are used as a beautiful decoration to welcome good luck and fortune into their homes!

🐧Chalk & Charcoal Penguins! 🐧

Our class novel this term is 'Penguin's Progress' by Jill Tomlinson. We have been busy making the main character Otto who is a baby penguin with lots of questions! We used white chalk and charcoal and our fingers for blending to make Otto look as fluffy as possible!

Friday 31st October 2025

It has been a spooky first week back in term 2! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below!

🥳Fun 31! 🥳

Here we are particiating in our favourite Children's Rights Article number 31!! Fun 31 is our right to play and a lot of us chose to do Halloween pictures this week!

👻Halloween Stories 🎃

We have made a spooktacular job of our Halloween monster stories. We had so many creative ideas to share!

👹2D Shape Monsters! 👹

We have been learning all about the properties of 2D shapes this week. Here we are making our very own Halloween 2D shape monsters using 2D tiling shapes!

🤩 Wow Moment! 🤩

Lots of dancing medals for this P2 star!

Friday 10th October 2025

Well that is us at the end of our first term together in Primary 2! What a fantastic term it has been indeed! We have finished off the term with lots more fun activities to share with you all!

🥳Ruthven House Event

UNICEF Activities🥳

Our last day of Term 1 was so much fun! We came to school in our 'Dress to Express' clothes and paid a donation towards UNICEF. We played football with ICTFC players and even had a Primary 2 disco! A lovely way to end a fabulous first term together!

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🚦Road Safety Comic Strips 🛣️

As part of our community topic we wanted to show how we travel to school safely. We made some comic strips showing all the steps involved in us getting to school as safely as possible.

🌄 Term 1 Open Morning! 🌅

It was wonderful to welcome all of our special people into our classroom this week! We do hope you had fun creating our kindness buckets with us and seeing around our classroom!

🦉 Farewell Plop! 🦉

We have had a wonderful experience reading about Plop the Barn Owl in our class novel this term! We have finally finished our book this week and thought we would create an owl stack surprise piece of art work. We all thought it looked like Plop falling out of his tree in the book!

Friday 3rd October 2025

We are officially in the spooky season and have reached October in Primary 2! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below...

🦉 Owl Eyes 🦉

We got our hands messy in our art this week by creating spooky owl eyes. We learned that using the chalk pastels at different angles can provide us with different textures! We cannot wait to show you our finished results at our open morning next week.

🦸Superhero Blinks! 🦸

We have been enjoying our superhero creative writing this term. This week we were writing about our superhero power of transportation. If we blink we could transport ourselves anywhere in the world!

🎯PE Games! 🌋

We have been having so much fun in PE this term. We have been learning lots of new games and trying our best to encourage and support each other to have a sense of team spirit! This week we had loads of fun doing our own version of, 'The FLoor is Lava' and 'Line Tig' amongst many more!

🎲 Maths Dice Games 🎲

We have been practicing our amazing addition skills through maths dice games! Here we are playing 'Knockout' and 'Pig'. Ask us and we can show you how to play at home!

Friday 26th September 2025

We are almost at the end of September! We have a lot of learning to share with you so take a look below...

🐿️ Save Our Red Squirrels! 🐿️

We have been learning about our red squirrels as part of our local community topic. We learned about the awful squirrel pox that hurting the red squirrels and making their numbers become so low. SO we decided to make posters to help save our local squirrels!

✍️Superhero Creative Writing 🦸

We have been really enjoying our creative writing sessions this term on Superheros! We have been writing about what superhero power we would like to have and whether we would keep our power a secret or not!

🛞STEM Engineer Visitor 🛞

We had a STEM engineer visit us. Natalie Moore is the STEM Engagement Lead for the Transport Scotland A96 projects (Jacobs). Natalie came into school to deliver sessions on Sustainable Development and UNCRC. FOr our class we were drawing all of our favourite things!

Friday 12th September 2025

We have had another busy week in P2B! The school will also be closed on Monday and Tuesday to pupils so will see you all on Wednesday! Take a look at our learning from this week below...

🤩 Star of the Month Awards 🤩

We have our first two Star of the Month Awards that were awarded at assembly today. One is for being a super mathematician and one is for beautiful presentation of work across the curriculum! Well done to both of our superstars, so proud of you!

🤗 French Greetings 🤗

We have been learning about French greetings so we are now able to say Good Morning, Good Evening and Good Night, as well as how we say hello and goodbye to our friends and to adults!

🤖Meet our Robot Hoover!! 🤖

Mr Hays our fabulous Janitor came in to class with a very special guest this week! It was our Robot Hoover! MR Hays showed us how the robot scans the room to make sure it hoovers up all the floor space at the end of the day. Mr Hays says our robot needs to have a name so we have to think over the long week and hold a vote when we are back in class. We all thought our robot was so cute!!

😄 Fun at PE 😄

Everyone in P2B just loves PE! Mrs MacIver had a hard job taking pictures of everyone as they all were running so fast!! We always enjoy our wind down stretches and exercises at the end of our PE sessions too.

😮Feeling Scared....😬

We have been doing more work on our class novel. We have been sharing things that we are scared of in real life! Some of us are scared of snakes, or spiders, or nightmares!

Friday 5th September 2025

We have completed the first week of September and have a lot of learning to show for it! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below...

😜Fun with Numbers! 😜

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We have continued to work with numbers through dice patterns and movement this week. We certainly worked up a sweat with all the number dance moves!

🙃 Having fun with 'ee' 🙃

Here we are playing fun games to help us practice the 'ee' digraph.

🕸️ Wellbeing Webs 🕸️

Every term we complete our wellbeing webs so we can share whether we feel we are safe, healthy, achieveing, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. Here we are completing our webs for our first term of P2!

🗺️ Sketch Maps 🗺️

We have been busy making sketch maps of our local area. We decided to put our school in the centre and identify important buildings that are nearby.

🦉 Meet Plop! 🦉

We have really been enjoying the character of Plop in our class novel this week. So much so that we decided to make our very own Plop owls for our classroom wall display! Here are some photographs of us putting all the sections of Plop together. We even made his eye pop out by using cupcake cases and bright gold for Plop's irises to help him see in the dark!

Please find attached to this post, our termly overview for you to peruse, so you can have an idea of what we expect to cover in our learning during this first term together.

P2B-Blog-Learning-Overview-Term-1-2025_26.pdf

Friday 29th August 2025

We have completed our second week back at school and our first full week. We have been up to lots of fun activities this week and cannot believe it will officially be the end of August this weekend!

🌈🐟The Rainbow Fish 🌈🐟

We read the very popular story called. 'The Rainbow Fish' in class this week. It is all about friendship, sharing and being kind to others. Just like we already are in P2B! Here we are making our own Rainbow fish out of tissue paper. We will show you the finished display soon.

🤩Wow Moments 🤩

We have some sporting super stars who we will add to our Wow Wall in the classroom! If you have any other wider achievements from out of school that you would like to celebrate please share and we can add all of them to our Wow Wall in class.

🏃PE Games 🏃

We have made it to the gym hall to play some fun team games! We all had rosy cheeks at the end of our session in the gym hall!

🙂Spelling Games🙂

We have been working really hard on the 'oo' digraph sound in class this week. Here we are having fun with some 'oo' spelling games.

🌜🦉The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark 🦉🌛

Our class novel this term is The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. We have all fallen in love with the main character Plop and how funny he is. Here we are labelling the correct parts of an owl and also drawing where Plop lives in the story!

Friday 22nd August 2025

We have had a wonderful first week in Primary 2B! Take a look at what we have been getting up to below...

🐝Our Class Charter 🐝

We have agreed pupil actions and adult actions for our class charter which will make our classroom environment the best possible place for learning and to have fun whilst do so! Here we are making our cute little bumble bees for our class charter display. We will share a picture of the finished display soon.

😃🔢Fun with Numbers! 😃🔢

We have done a little bit of consolidation of numbers to 20 this week and have been practicing the formation of all of the number digits. We are working hard on making sure the numbers all face the right way!

🎂P2B Birthdays! 🎁

We have each designed a birthday card for when it is time to celebrate each of our birthdays! We also made birthday lollipops for our classroom display so we don't forget those special dates!

🏖️Holiday Snapshots 📸

We have been busy sharing with each other all of the amazing adventures we have got up to in our Summer holidays! We then put our words onto paper to add to our star writer wall in our classroom! We have super writers in P2B already!

Meet the Class of P2B 2025-2026!!

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