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Whole School Scotland Focus ECC-P7
As a school, we have been learning about Scotland during the month of January. Please see our SWAY of Learning highlighting all the different learning activities each class participated in. The SWAY also includes a summary of the P7 Burns Breakfast and our Scots Poetry Finalists.
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Primary 5 have been enjoying reading ‘Coraline’ as our class novel and have been working very hard using Active Literacy strategies such as Inference and Visualisation to discuss what we have read and develop our understanding.
As part of our comprehension tasks, we have been story mapping, using the Pie Corbett approach, to show the main ideas and key points from each chapter to show that we can identify what took place and start to consider the important points of the text. We have also completed a story board task to summarise and show our comprehension of each chapter.
When story mapping, children consider the key events and use a mixture of images and descriptive words to create a summary. We then use this to re-read throughout the week and build upon, enhancing our knowledge and securing our understanding of each chapter. We think about what images would represent the concepts of the sentences we are writing and use these to help us quickly identify parts of the chapter, which we can use for follow up tasks.
Have a look at the Sway below to see some examples of our super work!
Primary 5 are continuing to develop their understanding of fractions through the use of concrete materials such as counters and fraction walls to focus on comparative fractions and finding fractions of a set.
We used the materials to work through some worded problems and discussed the strategies we use to help us split and compare amounts.
The children worked together to create their very own mythical Scottish creatures.
Take a look at P4 skimming and scanning for evidence related to inference questions.
P4 have been busy learning about Scottish Castles for Scottish fortnight. We researched castles and then presented our findings to each other. In numeracy, we applied our knowledge of perimeter and created a castle floor plans using Lego. We then had to record the perimeter of each room.
We had a lovely afternoon baking shortbread. We will be continuing to make some lovely Scottish recipes. Next time we will try to make sure there is enough for the grownups too. 
Primary three have been learning about mythical Scottish creatures. This week the children are investigation facts and theories about Nessie. The children are rating the information they are being given and then they will use this to decide if Nessie is real or not. The children must give evidence to support their argument.
We have been learning about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots over the past 2 weeks. Today, we had a mock murder trial where we debated who killed Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
Some children played the roles of the suspects Mary, Queen Elizabeth and James Hepburn. While others played the judge and his assistants who were in charge of presenting the case to the rest of the class who acted as the jury.
It was a very fun afternoon with some very heated debates about who was guilty and what their reasons for murdering Henry Stuart would have been.
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