What a lovely sunny week we’ve been having so far to welcome us back to Term 4!

This week in Numeracy and Mathematics we have been going over how to solve multi-step word problems, with a little help from bar modelling.  Many of us found this challenging and it is something we will continue to practise. We have also started a unit of work on time and have revised how to tell the time on analogue, digital and 24 hour clocks.

Our reading and writing has focused on researching for information and making notes in order to write a non-chronological report.  Each pupil worked with a learning partner to find out about pandas and then used their findings to present a report either as a PowerPoint, leaflet of word document.  Everyone made sure to find information from more than one source.

S.T.E.M took the form of the Mission to the Moon Rocket Competition.  The class were challenged to build a rocket using K-Nex and junk modelling materials.  There were some rules though: it had to be able to stand on its own, have a window and nose cone, have fins, be at least 20cm tall and display the ‘Clean Green East Ayrshire’ logo.  Everyone made a great effort but only some of the rockets made it through the strict success criteria to reach the voting stage.

Well done to Riley, Aiden and Logan who came in 3rd place.

Well done to Millie, Loren and Nevaeh in 2nd place.

Congratulations to Kammy whose rocket was the winning design.

Primary 7 Personal Research Projects: the success criteria and instructions have been given out for this homework task, pupils have had a chance to look at examples and ask questions, it is now up to them to decide what they would like to research for their project.  Final projects are not due in until the 24th May, so there is plenty of time to get stuck in and complete the task.

Sports Championships: Over the next 4 weeks we will be training for and carrying out the P6-7 Sports Championships. It would be helpful for pupils to have their gym kits with them daily as there will be some additional P.E sessions to allow all events to be completed.