Today our P6 children were working on a game from Word wall called Whack-a-mole.  This was to increase their number fact recall of number bonds to 10.  They not only had to identify which numbers paired to make 10 but almost as importantly, those which did not.  They had so much fun that they wanted to share this resource with our P7 pupils.  We have decided to make this a  homework task to improve our number bond knowledge.

There are a whole variety of activities that you can search for and practise through Word wall.

wordwall.net/resource/9759385/number-bonds-to-10

We had our walk around your lovely village of Ochiltree. Thankfully the weather was on our side with just the odd drizzle.

We have all explored the audio story “The Impossible” from Visible Fictions. The story was based on aeronaut Amelia Earhart. The children  were able to interact with their flight decks whilst listening to the story and all feedback was very positive.  What an amazing experience!

And so it continues:

A bit later in the morning :

The design process is under way ahead of our visit from Visible Fictions :

P7 children have been taking their senior roles within the school very seriously. They have been supporting P1 children as buddies, to help them to be happy and have fun at school. Our younger pupils have really appreciated having their buddies to rely upon in the playground and to help them make friends, join in games and sort any worries or issues our P1s might have.  They have also enjoyed being Leaders of Learning for our P1/2 class. Our P6 children have also been supporting P2s in these Learning sessions. The P7s have been planning and organising fun activities which they set up in the playground or the play room on Fridays. As you can see our senior pupils have just as much fun as their buddies.

This week we have continued to work on place value, ordering and sequencing up to 8 digit numbers. We have used our place value strips and digit cards to understand what happens in large numbers when adding on 10s, 100s and 1000s.

Here are some of the pictures from our celebration of food. The children organised everything from setting up the tables, to welcoming and serving their guests and writing the speeches. We all had a great time.

P7 children have had a fabulous journey working alongside Dumfries House staff. They have been involved in planning the school garden, planting and caring for the crops, harvesting the fruits and vegetables and then cooking for their celebration of food afternoon with their parents.

P6/7 have been exploring place value in numbers up to 8 digits… and beyond! They have been working together, challenging each other to create the biggest number from sets of chosen digits and to compare numbers using the comparative symbols for less than, greater than and equal to.  The children have enjoyed working through a variety of activities, making this learning more active, fun and much more meaningful. The  activity they have been particularly keen to engage with is our Place value team challenges which has children going head to head to identify the values in given digits within large numbers. Our next steps in numeracy will be looking at decimals and working on estimating, rounding and ordering.