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March 16, 2023
by Mrs Maclean
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Learning in Rm 3 this week, 16th March

This week in Maths we have begun studying fractions, decimals and percentages with Mrs Nixon.

You can use an interactive Fraction Wall here  

And here you can have a go at dividing a circle into equal sized parts.

With Mrs Maclean, we are finding out how to solve equations. You can find out more about expressions and equations here.

Try to solve some equations below.

Algebra Worksheet — Missing Numbers in Equations (Blanks) — All Operations (Range 1 to 9) Algebra Worksheet — Unknown Variables in Equations – All Operations – Range 1 to 9 – Any Position

We have also been finding out about pollution in the oceans and rivers, through a live session with Dynamic Earth and a visit from Lianne,  National Trust Ranger at Mar Lodge. You can work through this learning activity on BBC Bitesize to find out more.

You can also watch this video about marine plastics with Emily from Macduff  Marine Aquarium.

 

We are going to include some of our learning about oceans and rivers and how this links to Global Goal 14 ( Life under Water) in our Scratch games.

March 5, 2023
by Mrs Maclean
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Our Learning in Room 3

This week we held a Family Learning session for parents and carers. We focused on reading across the school. In the older class, parents were taken through a mini reading session. We condensed our 3 day reading rotation into a one hour lesson. Parents read with groups of children and then took part in discussion of the text linked to the children’s chosen comprehension strategy. The children explained the range of strategies we use and then the parents had to complete tasks from the pupil-made taskmaps.

Our visitors said that they enjoyed seeing the kinds of activities we do to help us understand what we read. We gave them leaflets about Reflective Reading and a comprehension compass to take home.

reading leaflet final

On Friday we enjoyed finding out about our personality types using My World of Work. We thought about our preferences in different scenarios and then generated our ‘Animal Me’ profile. We all agreed that most of the profiles were very accurate. Next time we will be finding out how our interests can relate to different jobs.

   

We also talked about the skills we are developing both in and out of school and how these are important both now and in the future. Our list of skills had lots which overlapped with the Meta Skills Framework. We are going to be doing lots more work on identifying and developing these skills this term and next.

   

 

 

February 24, 2023
by Mrs Maclean
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Our Learning in Rm 3- a busy week!

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!

 

February 20, 2023
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Learning about Binary Code

We have been learning about how networks work. We found out how information is sent via the internet and how all information is broken into tiny pieces to be transported and then reassembled at the other end.

We then watched this video to help us understand the binary system. We practised converting decimal numbers to binary numbers.

 

 

February 3, 2023
by Mrs Maclean
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Learning in P5-7

This week in class and in Assembly we have been learning how to stay safe online, in preparation for Safer Internet Day next week. We talked about all the things we enjoy doing on the internet, but agreed that sometimes we might see or hear something we don’t like. We learned that it is important to talk to an adult if we see something which makes us feel uncomfortable. We looked at age ratings on apps and games and were very surprised by some of them!

We also found out about the work of a Cybersecurity expert. We had a go at writing a computer algorithm to find a secret number on Scratch. We used this website to investigate what makes a good password. We found that using a mix of letters, symbols and numbers made the best passwords.

In Literacy, we created our own mythical creatures, based on the work we have been doing on Scottish myths and legends. We wrote fact files about our imaginary creatures.

Here is Eilidh’s Lapushka Wolf factfile.

 

 

January 27, 2023
by Mrs Maclean
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Working with artist Ali Berardelli

Before Christmas the pupils in Rm 3 had the opportunity to work with Ali as part of her Masters in Arts and Place. Her project focused on the Narrow- headed ant, found only in one heathland of South Devon and in the Cairngorm pine forests.  The artwork, poetry and voices of the pupils form part of her final project. Click here to visit her Tiny Translocation Agency.

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