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.
Our achievements page has been updated with this week’s values awards. Please be sure to check this out by clicking the link below and share any achievements with your child.
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.
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.
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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