St Martin's Primary School

Primary 3, Miss Ward

Adverbs

P3 enjoyed learning about adverbs and playing a guessing game with their partners. One person showed a verb and an adverb for example 'smiling happily' or 'shouting loudly' and the other had to guess what they were showing.

Easter colouring competition

Well done to Cora and Adam on winning the centra colouring competition in P3.

Mathletics Winner

Well done to Liam for winning Mathletics wizard for Term 2.

World Around Us

To begin our new topic - The World of Dinosaurs - the children worked together to sort dinosaurs into different groups. Some grouped them by the number of toes they had, some by when they lived and some by their size.

Time

Working with our table to understand durations of time. We sorted the activities by whether they would take 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour or 1 day.

Number Fluency Fun

Revising our odd and even numbers with a fun game in the sunshine!

Outdoor Numeracy

The children had alot of fun making use of our wonderful outdoor areas to aid our learning. They worked together to make their own carroll diagrams using chalk and counting teddies.

St. Patrick's Day 2025

Sporting all our green attire in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. As part of green day we had a lovely assembly where we performed the poem 'Magical Celebrations'. We had singing, dancing and musical performances from each class to get us in the spirit for St. Patrick's Day.

Inside the Castle Walls Topic

To conclude our learning on castles the children designed and made their own castles using recycled materials. They loved this activity and all showed their creative flair during it. It was lovely to hear the children using key words from our topic such as battlements and drawbridge when discussing their designs.

World Book Day 2025

World Book Day Parade 2025

World Book Day 2025

On World Book Day we turned into detectives. We searched through our classroom library for book titles and authors that met our clues. We had to find books about sports, animals and ones written by someone with the same initial as us.

Problem Solving Friday - 7th March 2025

Fermanagh Feis 2025

Look at some of the beautiful artwork created for the Feis this year in P3. Can you guess what the theme was?

Shrove Tuesday

Numeracy - Capacity and Volume

This week (24th February) we have been exploring capacity and volume. We used four different containers and estimated how many cups of water it would take to fill each cup. We then worked with our table to measure each container accurately.

Numeracy - Problem Solving Friday's

This week we had a delicious problem to solve.

Mrs Maw has phoned the bakery to order 5 cakes each with 5 cherries on top for her daughter Georgia’s birthday.

When Mrs Maw arrives at the bakery to collect the cakes she discovers that Mr Mess the baker has make a mistake and does not have the correct number of cherries on each cake.

Mrs Maw has a clever idea. She decides to cut each cake into quarters and then re-arrange the quarter cakes so that every new cake has 5 cherries.

Can you help Mrs Maw arrange the cakes so that each cake has five cherries?

Play - Week Beginning 24th February 2025

WAU

We had such fun in our World Around Us lesson this week. We focused on music and found out about instruments and music from medieval times. We learnt some new names for instruments such as lute and hurdy gurdy before we got to practice playing and making our own rhythms.

St. Brigid's Day

To celebrate St. Brigid's Day we met with our P6 buddies and they taught us how to make a St. Brigid's cross. We enjoyed learning about why we celebrate St. Brigid and learning a new skill together.

PATHS

The children enjoyed role-playing in their pairs. They showed us to use the control signs poster to resolve conflicts we may face at home and in school.

Grandparents Day Crafting

Play in Primary Three

WAU

Within our new topic 'Inside the castle walls' we have been learning how to draw castles in our sketch books. The children then labelled all the key features such as portcullis, barbican, moat, bailey and arrow loops.

Numeracy

Within our numeracy this half term we have been focusing on measure. We have learnt about measuring length, weight and temperature and enjoyed lots of practical activities such as taking our friends temperature, measuring our teacher and helping weigh items for dinner at home. The children have thought about why they would need to know these things outside of school and what jobs they would need these skills for.

Christmas Baking

Thank you to Mrs Leslie for making Christmas rice krispie buns with us as a special Christmas treat

Christmas Dinner

What a festive day we had! We loved showing off our Christmas jumpers before eating a delicious Christmas dinner with our friends. Thank you to all the kitchen for a beautiful dinner.

Christmas Cards

This year we gave the children free choice with the Christmas card they wanted to make. Some of them decided to follow a step by step drawing, some used paint and some drew their own design! They were all very creative and made some lovely cards.

A Toy Story Topic

In our WAU we have been exploring toys. We loved getting to bring in our favourite toy to show everyone and play with.

Christmas Tree Decorating

Thank you to the local mens shed for providing us with beautiful wooden Christmas trees to decorate and bring home.

Nativity Play Treats

After all our hard work for our wonderful nativity play, we deserved a little treat. We met up with the P1's and 2's and enjoyed a movie day with popcorn and juice.

P6 Buddies and Literacy

What a fun, festive day with our P6 buddies. Our buddies helped us write a very important letter to Santa with all our Christmas wishes. Later in the week we took a walk to the postbox together to post our letters.

ICT & WAU

Using ipads with our partner to research facts on Teddy Bears to create a factfile!

P3 and 6 Buddies

We really enjoyed our morning with our P6 Buddies. We picked a story for them to read to us and enjoyed a little chat. We can't wait for more activities with our buddies throughout the year!

Happy Halloween!

What a fun day we had showing off our costumes to everyone at the school parade, taking part in some Halloween crafts and enjoying some treats at our Halloween party. It was a well deserved fun day after a lot of hard work in our first half term together. Well done P3!

National Coding Week 2024

Macmillan Cancer Support Coffee Morning

What a lovely morning we had raising money for such a worthy cause. Thank you to all the friends and families that joined us.

Noun Hunt

After learning what nouns are and listening to our favourite noun song, we took our learning outside and went on a noun hunt. We had to sort the images into person, place or thing.

Role Play Fun

The children worked in groups to re-tell our whole class guided reading text on the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We discussed the role of a narrator and how we can use our body language to show emotion.

Inference Window

As one of our whole school literacy targets we have been developing our inference skills. One way we are doing this is through our inference window - each week we explore an image and the children provide ideas about what could be happening using the clues and what they already know.

Sketching

This class has a very artistic flair so we have been developing our sketching skills. Our first task was to sketch our house to discuss with our friends. We have also been sketching the feelings we encountered in our PATHS sessions.

Play Sessions in P3

Our first learning walk of the year!

We had a lovely afternoon exploring our local area with our friends. We had a sheet with us showing the different types of houses we had learnt about and we had to tally the number of houses we seen with our partner. We then used this information to make a graph on the computer to show which houses were the most popular. This fun walk helped us with our World Around Us topic, numeracy skills in data handing and our ICT skills.

The Three Little Pigs

We recreated the houses from the three little pigs as part of our science experiment on materials and their properties. Some children used straw, some used sticks and some used lego bricks. Can you predict which house survived?

How do you get to the local shop?

Miss Ward wasn't sure of her way around Garrison so we created a map to help her find her way to Gilroy's shop. We wrote directions to accompany our map.

Houses and Homes Topic

The children enjoyed learning about the different types of houses we see and matching them up with their friends. They are very confident in naming the different types of houses.

Fun in Numeracy in the first half term!

We have explored place value outside, played numeracy and addition games, worked on our problem solving skills, explored 2D shape, made symmetry portraits, worked on our time-telling abilities and began to explore money.

Welcome Back Everyone!

Primary 3, Miss Ward

Welcome to the P2/3 class page

Easter 2024

Well done to all the winners during today's raffle and celebration assembly. Thank you to everyone for their contributions to the raffle for trocaire and for your support throughout the year so far!

Winners

St.Patricks Day Centra Colouring competition - James and Aoife

Mathletics Wizards - Mairead and Rose

100% Attendance Term 2 - Rose, Eabha, Ruairi, Aoife, James, Dara, Mairead and Ben

Raffle Winners - Cormac, James, Aoife, Mairead, Saorlaith, Liam, Max, Dara and Rose

P2/3 have been using the search engines on our interactive board and our ipads to research all about sloths, in line with our Rumble in the Jungle topic! Using all the information they found we created a factfile all about sloths.

World Book Day 2024!

The P2 children had lots of fun going back up to the P1 area to pick some of the vegetables they planted in P1. They worked hard with Miss Keown to clean, peel and dice the vegetables to make a delicious and nutritious soup.

On Thursday 7th December we enjoyed a delicious Christmas Dinner with our friends and teachers. Thank you to all the staff for preparing and serving our festive feast.

We loved getting active and taking part in the 'Santa Daily Mile Run'

On Friday 24th November we took part in Ditch the Dark to raise awareness for dressing brightly in the darker mornings and evenings. We walked to school together and were greeted by juice and toast in our classrooms. We were then lucky enough to recieve a talk from the PSNI about their vehicle and equiment. We even got to sit in their car and put on the sirens.