Monthly Archives: February 2025

Weekly Update

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This week we have started learning about weight. We’ve been investigating equal balances and converting grams to kilograms. Some of us were writing weights in fractions and decimals.

At the start of the week, we looked at books that had been kindly donated to the school. We got the opportunity to take some home with us… there weren’t many left.

Finally, we rounded off our week with another donation, this time from the school to the community. We were lucky enough to get new football nets for our playground and decided rather than throwing our old ‘pre-loved’ ones away, we could donate them to the community. With the help of P4-7 and Mrs Connell, we carried them up to the field where we positioned and tested them. A member of the public said it was so nice to see us out having a kick about and thought leaving the goals was a brilliant idea.

World of Work Week

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This week we have been delighted to welcome many visitors to our school to talk about their jobs. We’ve had:

  • police
  • a minister
  • waste management officer
  • school nurse
  • secondary school geography teacher
  • STEM coordinator and science teacher
  • doctor
  • EA Council Housing officer/Clean Green Award organiser
  • journalist

We learned about their jobs and linked their roles to the skills and qualities we have been learning about. Also, we thought about our own skills and qualities and applied for our class jobs, learned about job stereotypes, note taking, creating questions and budgeting. Phew…

We finished off our week with a performance of The Wizard of Oz and got to see how the actors worked together to make the magic happen. They answered our questions about their jobs and we linked their roles to our transferable skills.





Weekly Update

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We started learning about area this week. By counting the squares or multiplying the length and breadth, we can find the area.

In science, we have been learning about the water cycle and how to filter water. We experimented with different materials to find which cleaned the water best.

  

Then we explored climate change and the effect that the rising temperatures have on our planet. We made chains to show the many effects that climate change is having.

Clean Green Award Update

Clean Green Award,

We have been working hard to earn each part of Windy. So far we have achieved the foundation, base tower, mid tower and top tower. This month we are working towards winning our blade 1. We have created an energy checklist for each classroom. This means when we leave for break, lunch and home time, we are saving energy by switching electrical items off and closing windows and doors. Can you try switching off devices when you leave home or switch lights off when you leave the room? Have a look at our checklist for inspiration.

Here’s Windy’s energy saving top tip.