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STEM

Campaigners – Promoting Swap Shops

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Today in our Mearns Masters we used Canva, a graphic design platform to create posters and leaflets which promote the benefits of hosting/visiting swap shops.

Over the last 4 weeks we have been learning about the shocking working conditions in factories around the world as well as how the ‘fast fashion’ industry is leading to mass amounts of clothing waste. Therefore, we decided that our campaign will be to host our own swap shop to recycle old clothes that we used to wear and give them a second home.

We will spend next week organising our clothes, preparing for our swap shop showcase and sending out invitations to invite other pupils and staff to come and shop with us in 6.22!

P.E

P.E – Basketball

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Our Friday P.E has moved to our fantastic gym hall and over the last few weeks we have been developing our basketball skills.

We have been working on dribbling, passing, shooting, teamwork and communication!

We have particularly enjoyed our small team games and challenges, we even had a chance to play against 6.24!

We are looking forward to more basketball over the coming weeks!

  

Literacy

Literacy – Class Novel

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Today in 6.22, we finished our first class novel – the Girl of Ink and Stars. We all agreed that it was a beautifully written and lyrical story of friendship, discovery, myths and magic, with lots of twists, turns and adventure.

We then spent time writing a book review, summarising our thoughts, highlights and the plot of the novel. We even gave it a star rating out of 5!

We enjoyed the story which followed Isabella, a young girl who was forbidden from leaving her island and who dreamt of the faraway lands her father once mapped. When her closest friend disappears into the island’s Forgotten Territories, she volunteers to guide the search. As a cartographer’s daughter, she’s equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars, and is eager to navigate the island’s forgotten heart.

The class have all contributed daily to reading the novel aloud and completing comprehension questions, there has been great progress in these areas throughout our weeks at school.

Religious Education

R.E – Researching

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Today we began our first lesson on Religious Education. This is an area of the curriculum that our class were interested in learning more about in Primary 6.

In Scotland, we have a diverse range of religions which are celebrated by different people across the country. Using the Chromebooks, we were tasked with researching the creation story of any religion of our choosing.

We enjoyed having discussions and celebrating the unique beliefs of each religion. Across the class we looked at the origination stories for:

  • Hinduism
  • Christianity
  • Buddhism
  • Sikhism
  • Islam
  • Catholicism
  • Judaism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We enjoyed finding symbols and facts to represent each religious story and are looking forward to exploring different religions more in the coming weeks.

Mearns Masters

Campaigners – First Aid

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Today in our Mearns Masters, we continued with our block on Campaigners! Over the last two weeks we have been learning all about fast fashion, fair treatment in the workplace and the real life struggles for factory workers in countries around the world.

Our lesson this morning focused on learning about how to administer first aid to an unresponsive casualty in our ‘factory.’ We followed the excellent guidance from the St John’s ambulance service and learned how to safely take a primary survey, move a casualty into the recovery position and perform CPR.

 

We realised how fortunate we are to have excellent emergency services in Scotland who are always there to help us!

Mathematics

Maths Journals – Displaying our thinking

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Today in 6.22, we spent time using our maths journals to show the new concepts we have learned and our individual mathematical thinking.

In rounding, we have really enjoyed using our ’rounding rollercoaster’ to help us. And our maths vocabulary is something we use daily in our problem solving, word problems and mental maths.

 

Our journals are bright, colourful and full of information which helps us with learning new maths concepts.

Literacy

Literacy – Remembrance Day Poetry

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On Remembrance Day this week our class took a closer look at some famous poetry, namely the well known ‘Flanders Field’ poem by John McCrae, who was an army doctor, in 1915 during the First World War.

Flanders Fields is a name given to several First World War battlegrounds which were situated near the border of France and Belgium. The battles which created Flanders Fields began in August 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium.

Through our analysis of the poem, we learnt when the land began to recover after the war and the grass and flowers returned, poppies became a symbol of remembrance!

P.E

P.E – Rugby Visit

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We had a very exciting start to the week on Monday as we had a visit from Whitecraigs rugby player Nicole.

Due to the wet and windy weather our lesson was moved indoors to our Street area and we had an excellent first session learning about the techniques for scoring a try, carrying the ball and passing the ball. Afterwards we enjoyed team challenges in small groups.

Fingers crossed for a dry day for our next session!

Art

Bonfire Night – Chalk Cityscape Art

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Remember, remember the 5th of November!
At the end of last week in 6.22 we were really excited to celebrate Bonfire Night over the weekend – and even made our own city scape using chalk.

This piece of art required us to use a range of skills from designing our buildings, cutting out our skyline, using small and large chalk to create the night sky scene and smudging to create a glow effect.

Our art is now on display outside of our classroom but here is an insight into our chalk masterpieces!

Mearns Masters

Mearns Masters – Campaigners – Fair Fashion

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Today we started our new Mearns Masters Block – Campaigners! We spent out lesson researching Fast Fashion around the world and how this impacts on workers and clothing company brands.

Then we translated our research into an informative an eye-catching poster here are some of the facts that we discovered:

  • The “fast” in fast fashion refers to the speed that the clothes are manufactured by brands.
  • Many sweatshop workers are forced to work 14-16 hours 7 days a week.
  • The global fashion industry produces over 92 million tonnes of waste per year.
  • In 2019, the Global market value of fast fashion was over 30 billion pounds.
  • According to UNICEF, 170 million children are forced to work in the clothes production industry.
  • 93% of brands surveyed by the fashion checker are not paying their workers a living wage.
  • Overall, 100 billion clothing items are made each year. However, the majority are discarded and most go to landfill.

Our class were shocked to find out about the working conditions in the factories of some of the most well-known brands in the world which we have shopped in ourselves!

We are looking forward to gaining more insight into fast fashion and forming our own campaign which will focus on creating a sustainable form of clothing production and recycling.