As part of our work in Literacy Evolve, we have been reading ‘Christophe’s Story.’ A book about a boy who had to flee war in Rwanda and came to England. We discussed the United Nations Conventions of the Rights of the Child and linked these to parts of the story. We chose an article to look at and we identified where Christophe’s rights were or were not being met in the story. This was very though-provoking in understanding that not all children across the glob have access to their rights.
During the open afternoon we planted a lot of plants big and small, all gifted by Tesco. We have been discussing what we need to do to take care of our plants and how that is similar to taking care of ourselves and others!
Whilst discussing how to become the best rights respecting ambassadors we can be, we decided that something important we need to work on is our resilience. We were given cups, rubber bands and string in our groups and we had to work together in our teams to stack the cups without touching them. This was a difficult task which we needed to use our resilience for and also help our teammates be resilient. We enjoyed smashing them down at the end and watching in slo-mo!
In P5/6, we created Newsround style dramas in groups based on our UNCRC rights! We had a lot of fun and enjoyed watching each others’ performances and guessing the right that they chose. We all especially enjoyed Connor, Seth and Eli’s performance, we think they will be film stars one day.
As part of skills academy for term 1 our topic in primary 6/7 was the solar system. The class were set a challenge in groups to create a real life model of the solar system using items which were found in the classroom. The groups were challenged to think about the size of planet, the colour of planet and the order in which they appear in the solar system.
As a class we worked together to talk about our Rights and Responsibilities. We looked at the UNRC articles and discussed what we felt was most important in our classroom.
Have a look at our Class Charter to see what we will be focusing on…
It has been a busy few weeks in Primary 3!
We had lots of applicants for this years Pupil Council…
The successful candidates were…
Eimear as Pupil Councillor and Alivia as Vice Pupil Councillor.
Well done to everyone who took part, we are so proud of you all!
Primary 3 have been learning about 3D shapes and their properties. Recently, they were given a challenge to create 3D shapes using straws and playdough. They had to think about the number of edges, faces and vertices of each shape. Look at the results!
Primary 3/4 have been learning more about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We discussed Articles 7 and 8 (Right to a name and identity) and we took part in learning singing games and French games involving our names, wrote our own wee book introducing ourselves, made our names using different materials and created our Superhero Selfie artwork.
