PATPAL- Pupils as teachers, parents as learners.

This week we have been preparing for our literacy- focused Family Learning session, taking place next Thursday morning. We chose a book or a chapter from a book we know and made up our own reflective reading taskmaps. We will invite our parents to read with us and then will help them to complete the taskmaps. We had to make sure our questions were in the correct section of the taskmap. This made us think carefully about what the different kinds of questions looked like.

In Literacy we have also been writing a recount. We came up with a list of success criteria together, then got to work writing a recount of our ski days. We also added photos to our piece of writing.

This week our lunch clubs started up again. Alexis and Robin did a great job running Dance Club on Wednesday, despite the internet being down! Michael from Active Schools ran a Multi Sport club on Thursday. Next week Alex and David will start up their Lego Club.

We started our new IDL project on Oceans and Waterways with Miss Vanheusden. We are looking forward to finding out about marine wildlife, pollution and tsunamis!

And finally, today we started our Genius Hour projects in P5-7. There’s  a wide range of topics from fashion design and dressmaking, building Braemar Castle on Minecraft, finding out about rare Pokemon cards, jaguars ( the animal, not the car 😁) transport and art. I’m looking forward to watching the learning progress over the next few weeks.

All that and 2 days at Glenshee!