Welcome back everyone!

We got stuck into our work right away and produced lots of good work this week.

Our literacy focus this week was writing an informal letter. We looked at the structure and the content of letters. In our book Private Peaceful, Tommo found out that his brother Charlie and his friend Molly had been lying to him. We decided to use the skills we worked on through out the week and wrote a letter as if we were Tommo. We used lots of adjectives to describe how hurt and upset we were.

During the war recruitment propaganda was used to convince people to come and join the army. We looked at posters and discussed what the images and the text were promoting. We planned and designed our own posters.

In maths this week we were looking at different ways to approach subtraction calculations. We used number lines to help us count back and count on to help solve the calculations.

We did it!

On Thursday we performed and delivered two performances of our ‘Alloa’s Great War’ show. A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Smith from Tapsalteerie Theatre Company for working with us to produce such a fabulous show. We had parents, members of the public and a lot of our school friends come to watch. Quite a few of us also took on extra roles due to last minute changes and we worked hard to deliver our new lines. As well as singing, acting and performing, we also learnt a lot of local history about what was happening in Alloa during the First World War.

It was Poverty Awareness week and we had a visitor from The Gate Charity. She came to talk about what the charity does to support people who are struggling as well as working with people of all ages. We created mind maps highlighting the activities and support that is on offer.

We also took part in a BBC Teach lesson all about emotions and mindfulness. We’ve heard some great ideas about good ways to relax our body and our mind and how we can express our emotions.

We’ve had a busy week continuing to rehearse for our show. Mr and Mrs Smith have been in most days and are helping us to develop our acting skills and projecting our voice.

It was Scottish Maths Week this week and we carried out a lot of problem solving tasks using all the knowledge we already have as well as trying new strategies to find the answer. We also turned detective and had to solve lots of different tasks to identify the villain of a crime. We worked together to collect clues and cracked the code to catch the villain.

We have been enjoying our class novel Private Peaceful and we discussed what we liked and disliked about the story so far. Some of us are enjoying the adventure and friendships the characters are experiencing and a lot of us really don’t like Grandma Wolf.

On Monday, it was Redwell’s 5th Birthday celebration where we all came together in assembly to celebrate the school and everyone in it. Then on Thursday, along with P6S we performed a song at our Harvest Assembly.