Today, our Rights Respecting Committee added a right to the displays in school. They already surveyed the school and decided which displays related to which right.
Reading for Enjoyment featuring Quality Street
Today, at the start of our literacy lesson, we were asked to choose our favourite Quality Street and the reason why we picked it. Some of us chose the chocolate based on having tried them before, the flavour or even the wrapper.
Mrs Connell then asked us to choose a book from a selection and give a reason why. Some of us chose a book based on the cover, blurb, author or genre.
We pick books the same way we pick our favourite sweet treats.
Peer assessment
On Thursday, we shared our writing across the whole school. We wrote instructions on how to make the most disgusting sandwich. We certainly put Mrs Connell off her lunch. We peer assessed in pairs, then groups, using the success criteria and sentence starters to leave feedback.
On Wednesday, we braved the February chill and warmed up by planting trees in the community. We dug holes, planted the trees, surrounded them with leaves and gave them a good water. Watch out for our fruit trees next time you are passing through Sorn.
We had a visit from Generation Science where we learned about electricity. We made a circuit, powered by a battery and saw how electrons travel round a circuit.
Then we made a magnetic field which pushed the electrons around the circuit. 
Then it was our turn to test out different coils and magnets. We measured how much electricity we generated using an ammeter.
We used our knowledge to charge up our Hexbugs for the race of the century.
Spelling
It was consolidation week this week… we used magnetic letters to spelling our words with the ng, ph and wh.
Circulatory System
Today we were learning about the circulatory system and the function of the heart. We made our own pumping heart to investigate the flow of blood.
CSI
We had a very exciting visit from Ayrshire College who turned our classroom into the scene of a crime: The Case of the Missing Sweets. Mrs Mackay, Mrs Connell and Mrs Connelly were suspects!
We analysed saliva samples, a ransom note and checked the patterns of our fingerprints. We discovered that Mrs Mackay was the culprit but we did get a sweet treat for our hard work solving the crime.
Our in school science centre 🧫🔬
Following our fantastic visit to the Science Centre yesterday, we decided to have our own version in school.
We got to take part in lots of activities making straw oboes, colour mixing and seeing how long we could make a ping pong ball float.
February Maths Calendar
Are you looking for a challenge? Have a go at Rigour Maths Problem a Day challenge. There’s a question each day from all aspects of maths. Give the first level one a go or, if you fancy a challenge, try second level.
