Mrs Henry introduced the ideas of chance and uncertainty in real life and why it is important to think about the probability of things happening. For example, Mrs Smith had to wait for a day which she thought it was unlikely to rain so she could take the p1’s into Stranraer for their day of fun. They learned about vocabulary such as likely, unlikely, certain, impossible, sometimes and never.
The older boys and girls used numbers to record the probability of an event e.g. 1/5 chance, even chance etc. They played a dice game where they considered the probability of getting a certain number e.g. a 5 or a 6 in 6 rolls then compared this with what they actually got in real rolls. They realised that probability can help to think about the likelihood of events but it is not always right!
