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Time SQA: Progress!

We have been finishing up our Time SQA unit this week and looking back at how much progress we have made:

Amber has been working on telling the time in digital formats and calculation the duration of events.

Hugh has been working hard to recognise the time to the hour and thinking about how long tasks take to complete as well as ordering events and routines of the day.

Alysse and Leo have learned to read o’clock, half past, quarter to/past times and are now exploring time to the nearest minute.

Tyler and Emma have moved on to learning to read quarter to and past on an analogue clock. 

We have been very successful learners this year during our SQA groups, well done Beech!

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Literacy: Responding to Ideas in Fiction SQA

We have celebrated all things bees and honey this week in the Beech class to help celebrate World Bee Day this Friday.  We read the story ‘Willbee the Bumblebee’ by Craig Smith and Maureen Thomson and then completed a range of activities based on bees, their life cycle and how they help our planet.

We attempted to make honeycomb and honey biscuits in cookery this week, too but we were not very successful! 😳

Here are some of our more successful ventures!  Our favourite activity was a pollination experiment where we tested how easily pollen spreads from flower to flower using crisp crumbs!   

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Music: Producing a Sound – Term 3

*Confident Individuals*                        *Successful Learners*

We have started to explore musical notation in the Beech class during our music sessions.  We can identify a stave and can match some of the notes on a stave to the letter it represents.  We have even learned an acronym to help us learn the order of the note letters!

Today we were set a challenge to identify the letters of the blank music notes on a set of staves and then play the notes to identify the mystery tune!

Alysse was the first pupil to guess the correct tune by listening to the sound of the notes played all together!

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Confident Individuals – Using a Hot Grill

The Transition class made cheese on toast this week (or is it roasted cheese?). They were Confident Individuals using different kitchen equipment but were very confident and safe using the hot grill. The made sure they had their oven gloves on and kept a safe distance.

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Confident Individuals – SQA Cooking

There was a lot of focus in the cookery room this week. The Transition class were Confident Individuals when they tried to make the neatest sandwich. The class worked on their motor skills by spreading, slicing, grating, squeezing and finally cutting before enjoying a cheese and ham sandwich. The sandwiches would be too dry on their own, cups of tea had to be made!

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Successful Learners – SQA Coooking

There was a lot going on in the cooker room on Wednesday. The class were Successful Learners making mashed potato, plant based hot chocolate and scrambled eggs. Everyone contributed very well and seemed to enjoy the different hot chocolate. The opinions on the vegan cheese were mixed!

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Successful Learners – SQA Community Activity

The Transition class took advantage of the snowy weather last week to demonstrate their planning skills for their SQA Community Activity unit. The were Successful Learners reading the weather forecast before selecting extra clothing to go outside. They also chose their litter pickers and bag holder. We will continue this in the coming weeks, hopefully with less snow!

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Successful Learners – Literacy

The Transition class were Successful Learners when they used their literacy skills to express their opinions. They added text to their favourite characters and then spent some time discovering dislikes. This was a hard task because everyone seemed to like everything. We soon found some things that no-one liked!

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Successful Learners – SQA Literacy

Throughout the week the Transition class were Successful Learners when studying their class book. This week was all about favourite characters and reasons why they were chosen. Quite a few pupils chose the baddie! They all picked words or symbols to explain their choices. At the end of the week when discussing Lord Asriel, the class started to make an airship similar to the one at the start of the book.

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Successful Learners – SQA Numeracy

There was lots of great numeracy skills on show this week when the class worked hard on their pictogram SQA work. The class were Successful Learners when they created pictograms from data collected in class choosing favorite colours and matching eye colour. They also interpreted ready-made pictograms by translating the graph into building blocks before looking at the highest and smallest and relating that to the favorite and least favorite. Some very hard work completed – well done!

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