September 2022 – P6.24 Blog 2023/24

September 30, 2022October 4, 2022

Maths Week Scotland

It’s been lovely to be in class with 5.17 this week.

Here are some of the things we have been doing:

We took part in the Sumdog competition. We liked all of the games.

The Maths Leaders told us about Numeracy Blueprint boards and we used these to work on rounding numbers.

We did an outdoor scavenger hunt. The class enjoyed working with partners and it was great fun running to find the questions.

We practised our times tables whilst playing hockey!

We used chalk to create giant clocks with sticks.

We have been using our maths skills in the kitchen to calculate the weigh of ingredients needed.

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

Sourcing our Ingredients from our Eco-garden 🪴

Today we enjoyed a visit to the eco-garden where we spent time digging the potatoes and leeks that we planted last year with Miss Trouten.

We are going to use these ingredients in our next Gastronomers dish, potato and leek soup. We also collected some raspberries which were fully grown 🍓

September 15, 2022

Today Group 1 of Gastronomers were in the kitchen and continuing with our Scottish theme we made our own shortbread. We measured butter, sugar and flour before mixing and kneading our shortbread together.

After some decoration and a short time in the oven they were ready to eat! 😋

September 14, 2022

Remembering Queen Elizabeth

Today in P5.17 and across our school we celebrated the life of Queen Elizabeth. We began the day with a whole school assembly where we looked back on her life and many achievements and commitments.

We then looked at memories of the Queen from those at Mearns and in our class, it was great to hear the many different stories from those who had met her along the years.

We then enjoyed some cucumber sandwiches and shortbread in her memory together in class.

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022

Writing – Fact Files ✍️

In Literacy we have been developing our note-taking skills through watching informative videos on the 7 Wonders of the World.

We have then created fact-files from the information we gathered and presented this under sub-heading to grab the readers attention.

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

Gastronomers 2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍳

We had a great day in the kitchen with our second group of Gastronomers making our Haggis, ‘Neeps and Tatties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We have been developing our bridge cutting technique and meta-skills including communication, focus and collaboration.

September 1, 2022

Cooking Scotland – Vegetarian Haggis Neeps and Tatties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Today our first group of Gastronomers was in the kitchen and worked together in groups to make the first of our Scottish dishes.

We began with wrapping the vegetarian haggis in tinfoil and placing it into boiling water to cook for 30 minutes. We then cut and prepared potatoes and neeps before adding them to a pot to cook.