Things were getting spoooooky today in 6.22 as we created our own Halloween pop-up cards! We enjoyed adding the ghosts, bats and haunted house to our design and learning how folding and cutting the card in certain places meant that the scene would look 3D when you open it.
Afterwards we added to our spooky setting through creating windows for our haunted house, using metallic sharpies to decorate and adding spiders web.
We are looking forward to our dress-up costume day tomorrow in school to get into the Halloween spirit even more!
Today in 6.22 we were looking at Hurricanes and Cyclones as a part of our natural disasters topic.
We now know that cyclones build in strength as they move over areas of water. They do this because the air above the warm water acts as a fuel. As it warms and rises it is replaced over and over again by new air. This creates the cycles of the storm and why we see the size of many tropical cyclones grow as they move across warm areas of water.
Using water, washing up liquid and glitter we made our own cyclones in a bottle. After turning the bottle upside down, holding it at the neck and quickly moving the bottle in a circular motion meant that we could see a mini cyclone spinning round!
Yesterday in 6.22 we held an online showcase for our last week of Mearns Masters Designers. We felt proud to show our projects to everyone at home and we were also joined by Miss Hunter, Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Curran in class!
All of our groups presented fantastically and explained our design process to those at home and in school.
Here are our final project photographs: 
We all really enjoyed making our eco-homes and can’t wait for our next block of Mearns Masters!
As part of Maths Week Scotland, we have been learning about Alan Turing a famous mathematician, best known for his role as a code-breaker in World War II.
Here are some of the facts we discovered about him:
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician. During the Second World War, he worked as a codebreaker, cracking German codes created by Enigma machines. His work helped shorten the war by 2 years.
- Alan Turing was born on 23rd June 1912. He had an older brother called John. Their father worked for the British civil service in India.
- Turing’s parents wanted their sons to be raised in Britain so the boys stayed with family friends while their parents were in India.
- In 1936, Turing created the idea of a special machine that could follow simple codes. He called this the Universal Machine.
- These machines are now known as a Universal Turing Machine and they formed a lot of the ideas behind computing.
- Turing died in 1952
- On 15th July 2019, the Bank of England announced that Alan Turing’s image would be featured on the new £50 note to celebrate his pioneering work with computers.
Our finished profiles have now been displayed on our maths week board and we hope that other classes in the school will learn more about him from reading our work!
In literacy we have been working on our own project in school and at home – creating our very own novels on Book Creator! As a class we love imaginative writing and were excited to write our very own story. The class has chosen a wide range of genres including adventure, comedy, action, horror and sports.
Before we began writing we looked at the important features of a beginning, middle and end to a story. We worked together on identifying the who, where, when and what for our opening chapter. Then we moved onto planning the build up/dilemma of a story should which needed to build up a sense of excitement that something is going to happen, create a challenging problem and eventually have a resolution. Lastly, we decided if our story would end on a cliff-hanger, with a twist or a happy ending.
Using the chromebooks, we then designed the front cover of our novel and uploaded it onto our class library.
We will continue to work on our novels this term and we are very excited to share our different stories soon!
In our final week before our showcase our designers groups were busy creating our own advertising campaigns for our new eco-homes.
We created a brochure online which outlined key features of our build as well as the price, location and unique features. We had to consider the colours, layout and presentation to make sure that these would attract buyers and stand out.
W are now looking forward to our virtual showcase on Thursday the 7th of October at 2pm.
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