This morning we had a visit from engineer David Ferguson, he told us all about his journey into his Mechanical Engineering and the current projects that he is working on 🚆
Afterwards we moved onto science and we made our very own Water Cycles! We will continue to make observations and watch out for the evaporation, condensation and precipitation processes for the remainder of the week 💧
We were then given an engineering challenge to create our own building using cocktail sticks and jelly tots. We considered which shapes create the strongest structure and were given 30 minutes to complete our brief 🏗
We showcased our completed projects to our class and tested the strength of the structure by placing books on top of our building 💪🏼
All groups worked well together to create a strong, stable structure! Well done to our winning group from Ravenclaw whose building held a total of 15 books (and counting) 😆
We had a very busy and exciting start to STEM week today in 6.22! This morning we began with a Maths themed investigation specifically focused on identifying symmetry in nature 🌿 we recognised that animals, flowers and plants possess symmetrical patterns and characteristics. We were then set a challenge to replicate symmetrical patterns of animals and flowers. This required attention to detail and full class focus!
We then moved into science and watched a live lesson on Space with Brian Cox 🪐🛰 he explained the development of space travel, experienced what it would have been like to travel to space on Saturn V mission and life on different planets. We then created scientific posters to showcase our learning!
In the afternoon we moved onto an engineering challenge. We were given a brief to design a marble maze using Lego. We worked together in groups to engineer and design a challenging and engaging maze that included doors, twists, turns and bridges! 🏗
We then had an opportunity to share our learning and see if we could complete other groups marble maze! We spent time reflecting on our design process and what changes we could make to improve our engineering process.
This week we began a new area of writing and learnt that a persuasive text is a text which argues a point of view, to convince the reader to agree with the author. Using strong, clear, emotive language helps the reader to agree with you.
Our motion this week was ‘School Uniform Should be Banned.’ In many countries around the world, it is compulsory for children to
wear a school uniform. The rules can be very precise and schools may even specify what hairstyles pupils can or cannot have. However, there are also many schools around the world who do not require their pupils to wear a school uniform and children are, within
reason, allowed to wear almost anything they like. There are
arguments in support of both perspectives, our class discussed these within their persuasive pieces of writing.
We really enjoyed the start of this new topic as it encouraged us all to share our own beliefs and debate different ideas!
Over the last month we have spent time developing our creative writing skills through exploring characterisation and descriptive setting. Our Learning Intention today was to incorporate those skills into our own story which we spent time planning.
Miss Hardie was blown away by the fantastic descriptive writing that was used and the level of detail that we had included in our stories to transport our reader to the setting.
Now we will progress onto learning about persuasive writing techniques!
In our maths, we have been developing our confidence in place value and handling decimal numbers. For our Monday Mission we were set the ultimate decimal challenge of multiplying 90 decimals by 10, 100 or 1000 whilst timing ourselves.
After completing the challenge we peer assessed our answers and gave ourselves a final score.
Well done to our top 2 finishers who both scored 90/90 and completed the challenge in under 7 minutes!
Today we began the preparation for our Showcase event at the end of our Mearns Masters Block of Coding.
We created posters which summarise our game and give instructions on how to play. We then created encrypted invitations which reveal the secret time and location of our event if de-coded correctly.
We look forward to sharing our Scratch games with others next week!
Today we began a new topic in our writing – characterisation. Now we have developed our descriptive language through setting the scene, we are confident in moving forward to create our very own characters.
First we analysed excerpts from famous texts including Harry Potter and Treasure Island. We were able to identify the character’s appearance, personality and special skills successfully.
We then moved on to using our character prompt pictures to create our own profiles. We discussed the importance of using VCOP to add detail and clarity to our writing. We look forward to more characterisation in the coming weeks.
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