Despite being only a 4 day week we have crammed in a huge amount this week!

In Maths we continued to work with decimals,  including multiplying by 10, 100 and dividing by 10 and 1oo. We are very much looking forward to showcasing and teaching our parents some of our learning at our ‘Pupils as Teachers, Parents as Pupils’ session on Tuesday morning from 11 – 12. Follow the links below to see some of the games and activities we have used to support our ongoing practise of our multiplication tables – some of us have achieved our first targets and we will be evaluating these again next week and making new targets.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/carroll-diagrams/multiple

On Tuesday we very much enjoyed and benefited from a visit by Philippa Mason, a UK Parliament Senior Education and Engagement Outreach Officer (see photos above). She brought to life our learning over the last couple of weeks, on the subject of democracy. We particularly enjoyed a short role-play where she demonstrated how a Bill would become an Act in parliament. Next steps are to find out more about Scottish democracy and the organisation of the Scottish Parliament.

On Wednesday and Thursday we worked on narrative writing, demonstrating that we are very imaginative and have many amazing ideas. This was evident too during Miss Dixon’s RME lesson when we discussed and made our own laws for life following a discussion on The Ten Commandments  and their relevance today.

Alexis and Robin travelled to Aboyne Academy for their first transition visit on Thursday where they met pupils from Ballater, Crathie and other feeder primaries.

On Friday the children were introduced to  ITZA and given passwords so that they can participate in the Rewilding Challenge. The class are looking forward to watching videos, reading information, then taking part in quizzes to win points.