Primary 5.16 were invited along to see all the amazing models made by the Primary 7 pupils! We were all very impressed by the incredible pieces that were made!
Developing skills during maths week…
Maths week and our Mary Jackson research gave us the opportunity to develop many skills such as our agility and speed when we ‘Trained like an Astronaut’!
We also got to practise our problem solving skills creating and solving a tangram puzzle… it was harder than it looked! 
Straw Rocket Creations!
As part of maths week, the class created wonderful videos about Mary Jackson in small groups. They found out that Mary Jackson was the first black, female NASA engineer! Inspired by her achievements and love for space we created our own straw rockets and tested them out.
The best part was testing them out and seeing how far they could fly!
Outdoor shape exploring
What a fabulous morning we enjoyed learning all about the properties of quadrilaterals. We discussed similarities and differences between each of the shapes and used a variety of materials to create and change shapes around as we investigated the importance of side length and angles.
Miss Hunter came out to visit us and she was really impressed with what we had learned.
First Day of Maths Week
Day one of maths week and P5.16 have been outdoor for most of the day learning about Quadrilaterals with Mrs Kelly.
This afternoon P5.16 adapted some of their favourite games KO and Chaos tig to incorporate an element of maths into their games.
Pupil’s have also found out their mathematician who they are going to learn about this week is Mary Jackson. They have come up with lots of key questions that they hope to learn throughout the week.
We’re going to be busy throughout the week!
Map reading
After a warm up game revising place value using rainbow sticks we moved on to some map reading and orienteering fun.
Despite the constant drizzly rain we learned lots and returned to class with lots of happy smiles. 
Class Representatives
Many pupils in the class put themselves forward to represent the class as part of the Pupil Council or the Eco committee group.
Pupils had clearly thought hard about qualities that are important for each of their roles and the class had a secret ballot to vote for the best candidates for each position.
We were all very impressed at the standard of oral presentations from everyone, well done all! Our winners will be announced by management hopefully in the near future!!
Shelter building and shape investigating
After a slightly damp start to the day it dried up and we managed to learn lots in pretty nice weather.
We learned all about how to build structurally secure shelters ensuring we had the correct tension and angles and we had great fun making our shelters before playing a game categorising and sorting shapes.
Orienteering games
Learning new skills in reading maps and working on courses marked out with markers, we all enjoyed playing a variety of orienteering games this morning. We also learned how important it is to identify north on a map and hold our maps the correct way round while we were working.
Everyone particularly enjoyed the clock game where we had to uncover and record different nouns against each number on the clock….then we set challenges to put them in alphabetical order and find appropriate adjectives to describe the nouns.
Outdoor learning
What a brilliant afternoon we had learning about maps.
Here are our birds eye view maps of the school grounds. We thought carefully about using natural materials and creating maps to scale. Great team work meant that we did all this and still had time to play a few games and explore the
