For the past few weeks we have been super busy with a variety of different curricular areas. In mathematics we experimented with a new medium that was commonplace for a lot of the new generation – The Playstation.

It was odd to get used to at first due to the tight control system needed to pull off tricks. We got there however!

We used the game for long multiplication and division as the characters gain trick combos as they pull off various tricks. We paused the game after a combo and attempted to work out these complicated sums as quickly as we could. It showed us that maths doesn’t just exist in the classroom.

Our designer project also came to an end recently so we thought it best to update you on our final session.

We had architects from St Luke’s High School join us to finalise our design project and they offered us new and innovative ways to further develop our final piece.

It has turned from this

Into this

Feel free to check it out when you are in the school!!!

We are back and better than ever!

The last few weeks have been busy to say the least. We have been taking part in a lot of varied learning including our debates, designers project and various types of literacy and numeracy tasks.

Within our Mearns Masters project we have been working on designing our outer skeleton. We got very technical and precise with our measurements while completing a variety of problem solving tasks. We smashed them out of the park this week and our structure is looking good!

Next step is to get our floors in so that we can begin to bring you the skyscraper of tomorrow where we aim to minimise travel pollution and create a community sustainable for all.

Furthermore, we investigated our novel “Divided City” by answering some tough questions. This has allowed us a direct insight to the ideas explored within the novel and created some great discussion work for us all to talk about.

We also changed up our debating last week, incorporating drama to help give us a new edge. We took on the roles of various characters fighting either against or for social media.

Some stellar performances led the way with a lot of heated but fair debating taking place. Progress here has been exceptional and this is something we plan to continue just as soon as we are all back!

See you soon!

Welcome back to weekly blogs folks! We have eagerly been waiting to share exactly what we have been up to these past few weeks and now we can finally show you.

First things first, we have been further developing our ideas for Mearns Masters this week through editing our original ideas with annotations and more developed decisions so that we could delve deeper into the design process. We have attached a few photos of these designs which allow you to see our thought processes mapped out both visually and in writing!

Here is one idea that takes into account the surroundings. Hydro powered future anyone?

Stay tuned to see all of our ideas being combined in the coming weeks!

Oh! Did we mention that we have also been furthering our debating skills this week!

Instead of classroom debates this week, we have set up pairs and trios to delve deeper into specific interests of ours. We have been working in our pairs and trios to find factual evidence on our chosen debate topics to further build our arguments and plan for persuasive writing projects.

We are also really enjoying the topic and it is helping us consider one another’s opinions with care, respect and intrigue!

See you next week!

When our clay models were dry we got to paint them. The painting was really fun, and everyone enjoyed it! This was a great STEAM activity.

For STEM week we got to go on a google meeting to listen   to some engineers and learned some good facts about them. They gave us lots of advice about becoming an engineer in the future.

We got in groups and one of us at a time would go out and look at a sheet with a human skeleton on it with labels saying which and where the bones are, and we would come back and write them on a whiteboard

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It was very tense but exciting. The competition helped us to learn the body parts quickly.

We were learning about what alcohol can do to your body and labels the affects on the body. We drew around someone in our group and stuck on some body parts.

We learned about the different classes of drugs as well.

Some of us did some fun maths and we found the area of the shapes.

We had so much fun when making our clay models. We got in little groups and chose a U.S.A landmark and designed them.

 We had a lot of fun learning about the good drugs and we got to design our own good drugs and labeled them.

We researched parts of the hand and designed a bionic hand for stem week. It was very hard and challenging but worth it in the end.

We we had fun writing our novel and working in our literacy circle groups.

We did a fun STEM Kahoot!

We learned new maths.

We designed and and wrote about our own planet and alien.

Blogged by, Emily, Hollie and Zainab.

This is the day when we got to sit on cushions for the day.

Here is when we were getting ready for the film festival. We all had a laugh trying on all of the costumes🤣🤣🤣

This is when it was snowing and 6.23 were allowed to go on the pitch and build snowmen. It was great fun and everyone enjoyed it a lot.⛄️⛄️⛄️

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This is when we were learning the recovery position and CPR. We practiced the CPR on the Annie dolls and we practiced the recovery positions on each other in groups of 2 or 3.

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As you know we have been making our own films for everyone to see! And now we have finally finished them.Take a look!

We watched all the movies and we did the oscars here is a list of people/movies who won an Oscar!

~Acting:Charlie and Emily

~comedy acting:Donald

~Film making:Apollo 911 and The operatin

~Best settings:The unwanted past

~Best script:The Hunted

~The Best Film:The jesters coming

Wow! Well done 👏🏼🎥

We have been improving our badminton skills! 🏸

We have also been super excited to show you some of our pictures when we were rallying and using our skills!

Here are some of 6.23  amazing badminton skills🏸😃

These are 6.23 persuasive letters to Nicola  Sturgeon

We are writing letters to Nicola Sturgeon to ask her to look in to the situation in fast fashion

As as you know our last Mearns Masters was Cooking then Designers and now we are the campaigners we are starting a campaign against fast fashion here are some photos from us researching.We were also learning how to put people in the recovery position and cpr if a problem happenes.

6.23 have been trying something new in literacy called literacy circle

Here are some photos of us working in our literacy

This was a really fun way of doing our learning literacy instead of comprehension 😃

For internet safety week we got some toothpaste and put a little bit on a paper plate and then tried to put it back in to show how online bullying can effect someone’s feelings. 🦷

We had so much fun doing this😃😁.

For our topic with our new student teacher she is teaching us about the USA 🇺🇸  we went in our literacy circles and picked out a state from a box.

From our bloggers this week Maheen and Saskia

During the week we done:

Outdoor P.E – There was 3 different stations, Manahil and Maheen lead a Hula Hoop game, Niko and Macy lead an obstacle course and Logan lead a fish treasure game.

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Indoor P.E – We did indoor P.E with 6.21, we played badminton. We went in pairs and did a rally then got into a 6 and numbered ourselves. 1 2 and 3 would go on one side and 4 5 and 6 would go on the other. Number(s) would be called out and you would play for points for your team. After you went in pairs and we saw which pair had the highest rally, Charlie and Ruaridh had the highest rally with 17.

Film Festival – We were filming for our film festival in our groups, it was really fun to film and everyone had a lot of fun. We did that 3x during the week.

Science – We did magnetism individually with Mrs Arbuckle in science.

Persuasive Letter – We wrote persuasive letters about things like Fast Fashion, Child Labour and what Boris Johnstone did (He went to a party during Covid), we planned the letters out in our writing jotters then redrafted them on lined paper and when everyone is finished we are going to post them to the people that we wrote to.