Broomhill School P1 Room 5

Remember to look out for the supermoon on Sunday!

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What a very busy week we have had!  This week we have been learning all about the work of engineers.  We completed 4 challenges to help us develop skills that engineers use at work.    We also listened to industry professionals and asked them questions about their work.

Challenge 1 – Who’s been eating my porridge?

Through music and drama we learnt how crops grow and are harvested.

Challenge 2 – The Potter

We discussed what materials different items from Baby Bear’s house would be made of and why.  We looked at different objects and talked about their properties e.g. shiny/dull, rough/smooth, heavy/light, what it was made of etc.  We also had to guess the material/object using only a description of its properties.

Challenge 3 – Baby Bear’s Den

We constructed models of dens for Bear Bear.  The boys and girls talked about their models with the class.  Lennon and Jackson’s den had a mechanical roof and a secret entrance!  Lucas and Nicol made a boat den!

Challenge 4 – Baby Bear is Bored!

We designed a garden for Baby Bear to play in.  We had lots of exciting and fun things for Baby Bear such as bouncy castles, swings, slides, trees and even hot tubs and cold tubs.  We also had to think about what materials we would need which included bark, slabs, grass and bricks.

Industry Professional

We listened to John, an engineer, who explained to us what jobs he does.  We also asked him questions.

We will be finishing the week with a whole school assembly.  We would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all involved in making this week possible including the Tech Fest team, Live Wire and Chevron.

Remember Fruity Fridays!  Children will get a tick on their chart if they bring in only fruit/veg on Fridays.  They will receive a certificate at the end of each term if they successfully bring fruit/veg every Friday.

This week we attended a workshop run by Explore Learning.  We had fun making human bar graphs and found out that:

• there are more girls than boys in the class
• chocolate is the most popular flavour of ice-cream, closely followed by strawberry
• rabbits were the most popular animal and cats were the least popular

We also recorded information on a pictograph.

We also took our maths learning outside this week.  When Miss Aitken called a number we had to race around the wildlife garden.  We worked on our numbers to 10, numbers before/after/between as well as adding and subtracting.  We also raced to line up in the correct order.  It was lots of fun.  We also practised our number formation with chalk.

Two more songs added to our phonics page.  Click on tab top right.

We have another trial of the homework part of Education City. Usernames and passwords are in your homework jotter. From a PC or Mac you can sign into Education City at https://ec1.educationcity.com/. From mobile devices you will need to download Puffin Academy (click here for instructions).  At home you will only have access to the homework part of Education City.  If you are unable to access this at home please let Miss Aitken know.

Have a fantastic October break.  I will be looking forward to seeing you all on Monday 24th October.

Miss Aitken

We said goodbye to Mr Carter today and wished him well on his retirement.  The whole school gathered together in the hall to sing songs composed just for him.

We made a retirement plan for Mr Carter.  Here is a selection of ideas we put in it for him!

Gym kits  and smocks will go home today to wash and to check everything still fits.  Please return to school on the first day back.  Thank you!