Science
Kilmarnock College: CSI Workshop
The P5 and P6 pupils from each class enjoyed an exciting afternoon last week at Fenwick Primary as Derek and Shona from Ayrshire College brought the excitement of CSI to life! The pupils came together to participate in an engaging session filled with several investigations.
The pupils were tasked with unraveling the mystery of the sweetie thief. The P5 and P6 detectives got involved in a series of experiments and investigations. They demonstrated great observation and problem-solving skills, and worked in teams to crack the case.
We owe a huge thank you to Shona and Derek for their dedication in delivering such an engaging and informative workshop.
World of Work Fayre
On Friday, the Primary 5 to Primary 7 pupils attended the World of Work fayre. They spoke to lots of visitors throughout the session about their jobs. They asked lots of questions that they had planned in advance, giving them an insight into the opportunities that may be available to them when they are older. A successful day all round!
British Science Week: Science Centre Trip
Primary 5/6 had an excellent time at the Glasgow Science Centre! They loved exploring a range of topics such as space, energy, and the human body. One of the highlights was visiting the planetarium, where they looked at stars and learned about the universe. The pupils smiled all day long as they participated in a whole host of hands-on activities.
The pupils enjoyed all of the floors but most of all enjoyed floor 3 – The Body Works. They loved getting competitive on this floor whilst investigating how the body works.
Primary 5/6 really were great role models and represented our school spectacularly throughout the whole day.
Reading for Enjoyment
Recently Mrs Ross and Mrs Wilson held a whole school Reading Schools assembly where pupils from each class shared what they have been reading with the rest of the school. They showed other pupisl their book, discussed what they liked or disliked about it and answered any questions about it. These three pupils from Primary 5/6 were very confident and enthusiastic when sharing their books and thoughts. Well done!
Literacy: Writing
Biography Writing
Last week Primary 5/6 learned all about biographies and what type of information they included. They then participated in a class discussion to set themselves a success criteria for writing a biography. Following this they created questions for Mr Houston that would provide them with the information required to achieve each aspect of their success criteria.
We then invited Mr Houston along this week to be interviewed by the class. Throughout the interview process we regularly referred back to each aspect of the success criteria to ensure that we were gathering the appropriate information. The pupils took notes as and when their questions were being answered.
Finally, the pupils used these notes to write their own biography all about the life of Mr Houston. Not only did they find out lots of interesting information about Mr Houston but they also produced some excellent pieces of work.
Have a read at this week’s STAR WRITERS work!
Literacy: Reading Schools
As part of our work towards becoming a Reading School, Mrs Sweeney arranged for the East Ayrshire mobile library to visit our school. The mobile library will be visiting regularly, providing all pupils from the ECC through to P7 the opportunity to access a wider range of books. Any books borrowed from the mobile library must be kept in school as these are borrowed on a school library card (as per the librarians requests). Today was our first visit and the excitement was real! Nearly all pupils in Primary 5/6 selected a new book to read during our ERIC (everybody reading in class) time which was lovely and calm just before lunch.
Digital Literacy
During digital literacy this week, Primary 5/6 have learned how to delete unwanted e-mails (clearing their outlook inbox), forward an e-mail to another person so that they can share information, carry out an online search for an image then save it to a specific location on their laptop.
They also had some more practice at accessing MS Teams, where they were able to locate links which took them to some revision tasks for numeracy.
Digital Literacy: Glow
Last week the Primary 5/6 pupils updated their ‘All About Me’ pages in their e-portfolios. They were able to edit the colour, font and size of the text on their All About Me page. They then composed an e-mail by searching for Mrs Wilson in the address book, selecting her as their recipient, then composing and sending a short email. Finally, all pupils were able to access Microsoft Teams through their Glow account and access their homework tasks. Some pupils found this helpful so that they could do this at home.
Throughout the whole lesson, pupils were encouraged to think about and discuss what would be appropriate and not so appropriate to use Glow e-portfolios, Outlook and MS Teams for considering that these are educational platforms and they were very sensible with their suggestions.
Literacy: Roald Dahl Day
13th September 2023
Last week it was Roald Dahl Day (the authors birthday) so we used this as a stimulus for some of our learning. During grammar, the pupils continued practicing using parenthesis to add extra information to their writing. They used the books, Matilda and The Twits, written by Roald Dahl to find some sentences they could ‘up-level’. They did a fantastic job – I am sure you will agree!
In the afternoon, P5/6 buddied up with P1/2 and told them who Roald Dahl was then shared some of his stories with the P1/2 pupils. Primary 5/6 were focusing on using expression and reading with fluency. They also used some of their metalinguistics skills to explain the emaning of unfamiliar words to the younger pupils.
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