Primary 7 created these fantastic line drawings of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after reading Harry’s first view of the castle.
We focused on using basic shapes to create the building, before adding hatching for sharing creating depth to our castles.
Today we created these fact flap books all about Queen Victoria.
We used tessellation skills to draw 7 hexagons and cut them out to look like a flower with attached petals.
We did a line drawing sketch of Queen Victoria in the centre of our flowers using a portrait found online.
We brainstormed facts we knew about Queen Victoria and shared information with each other!
Lots of skills development from across the curriculum on display here!
This week is Book Week Scotland! Every day this week we will be doing a Drop Everything And Read session using books from our class library.
Here we are today reading at our desks… I wonder where you will catch us reading tomorrow?!
We used an extract from the WW1 novel “War Horse” to create these blackout poems for Remembrance day. Pupils circled the words and phrases from the text to create a poem to be read from top to bottom. They are so effective!
We had a fantastic virtual visit from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from “Zoom Through History” to kick off our learning about the Victorians.
We took notes about what Queen Victoria and Prince Albert told us, and we brainstormed what areas of Victorian life we’d like to learn more about.
Today we learned about relative clauses! We found out that a relative clause adds detail an description to our sentences. We created pop open pamphlets to show how adding a relative clause to a sentence can make them more complex and add detail.
We used the “sentence burgers” to investigate how to construct a sentence using a relative clause.
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!
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!
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.
As part of our learning around “The Boy At Ghe Back Of The Class” by Onjali Q Raúf, we investigated attitudes towards refugees both in the news and in popular culture.
We read Bill Bilston’s poem “Refugees” which when read from bottom to top has a different meaning from reading top to bottom.
We used our class colours of the world pencils and crayons to create drawings of an Afghan refugee girl, and wrote the poem inside her Hijab.
