Our House Captains are super excited to have received their badges! what an asset they are to our school community!
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Eyeball Art
Primary 7 created these spoooooooky eyeballs! We put out skills with a compass to the test and used chalk pastels for blending!
they look so effective and very scary!!!!
Spooky Character Descriptions
We started a scary Victorian Mystery story for active literacy this week.
The Hanged Man Rises by Sarah Naughton is set in Victorian London, where a mysterious figure called The Wig Man is on the loose!
We spoke about urban legends and created our own spooky characters to send chills down your spine!
Equivalent Fractions
today we investigated EQUIVALENT FRACTIONS! we used a packet of skittles and counted how many we had in total to find the denominator. Then we organised the skittles by colour to find the different numerators. We used multiplication skills to create equivalent fractions that have the same value as the original.
We then created a proper fraction using a domino. We used multiplication skills to create equivalent fractions for our domino!
Spooky Limericks
Today we learned about the structure of a limerick!
A limerick is a funny poem where lines 1, 2 and 5 all rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. The poems should also have a natural flow and bounce using a beat.
Mrs Clarke was very impressed with some of our limericks, we wrote them on spooky gravestones as epitaphs for Halloween characters!
East Ayrshire Children and Young People’s Climate Conference 2021
We were so happy to be invited to the EAC Children and Young People’s Climate Conference via TEAMS today. We joined with other primary 7 classes across the authority to listen to speeches and take part in question sessions using the interactive presentation app, MENTI.
The 4 main themes for today’s conference were ENERGY, WASTE, TRANSPORT and ENVIRONMENT. The council also launched their new Clean Green School Award which our 2 Class Climate Reps and House Captains, Aiden and Mason, will be taking forward.
At the end of the afternoon, all children were encouraged to make a Green Pledge; something they will strive to do to help with the climate crisis. Here are some of our pupils sharing their pledges:
Completed Jigsaw!
Well done to the boys who before the holidays had been working collaboratively on this flags of the world jigsaw!
I think all our geography has improved and we had lots of team spirit!
Maths Jokes
To celebrate maths week, we laughed at some maths based jokes! Do you know any good maths jokes? Pop them in the comments below!
Poverty Proofing
As part of our initiative to Poverty Proof the School Day, we read “The Invisible” by Tom Percival. It highlighted to us the importance of gratitude and how poverty can impact communities.
We created our own gratitude jars to tell each other all the things we were grateful for in our own lives. We realised we all had a lot more in common than previously thought.
Feelings Poetry
our author of the month for October is the poet Joseph Coelho.
We we’re inspired by his feelings poem to create our own using figurative language and description.
