Monthly Archives: November 2022

BGE, Health and Wellbeing, Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Week beginning 21st November

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This week our first group created their own six course tasting menu which has been successfully planned, ordered (within budget), prepared and cooked after some tremendously dedicated effort and strong team work. Here are some photos of us during this week’s cooking session. Huge thanks to our parent volunteer, without your help this would not have worked out so well.

We engaged in some great collaborative learning tasks week as we explored and reinforced our understanding of fractions together.

 

Although Friday morning was chilly we had a great outdoor session playing one of our own recently created games. It was a great success enjoyed by all after the creating team adapted and improved the rules following feedback from the rest of the class.

BGE, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy

Week beginning 14th November

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We were lucky this week to enjoy a marvellous treat when. We visited the cinema as part of the Intu Film Festival. Thank you to all our parent volunteers who accompanied us and helped look after us. Without you we wouldn’t have been able to go on this trip.

in the kitchen this week the other half of the class had their first session learning how to separate eggs and finely chop herbs. It was a huge success with no wasted eggs and some delicious food for us all to enjoy together at the end!

BGE, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy

Week beginning 7th November

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This week all of our parents were involved in Parents’ Nights where they discussed our learning and development with Mrs Kelly. Many thanks to everyone for attending and engaging in this important time for your children.

In class we enjoyed listening to some fabulous solo talks based on our future careers.  It was amazing to hear all about all the different careers each of us are interested in. It was also impressive to hear how flexible everyone is too, who knows where our futures lie….

Our first group session took place in the kitchen this week and it was a huge success. We learned how to safely and finely chop herbs and how to separate and egg. The result of our hard work was a very tasty dish of crispy cauliflower with a garlic and herb dip. We did have a little bit of a failure with our home made mayonnaise, but fortunately the school kitchen had a wee bowl of mayonnaise spare, so it all worked out in the end!

BGE, Literacy

Week beginning 31st October

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We learned about how to answer inferential questions this week and also had a go at creating our own. Working collaboratively on this was a huge success and we all enjoyed our reading sessions this week as we continued to develop our reading skills. We also enjoyed creating some art work based on our class novel ‘Holes’. After choosing our preferred media, We had to read carefully and ensure we included every element of the lizards as described in the book.

Last week was Diwali, the festival of light which is celebrated by many of our families in our school community. We were very fortunate to receive a gift of a diva each from some of these families. Here you can see we decorated them in class.

 

BGE, Digital Technology, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Week beginning 24th October

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Despite it being a four day week after the October holiday, we managed to pack a lot in!

Here are some of the activities and learning we’ve been involved in this week:

M&M theatre company presented us with Sleeping Beauty. Thanks to the PTA for funding this.

Our Spark Park fundraising sports event was great fun, we completed all the challenges and were lucky enough to have lots of pupil volunteers from Mearns Castle who helped it all run really smoothly.

Miss Hunter was invited to visit our class on Wednesday as we wanted her to see how well we were working in teams to improve our reading skills as we played ‘Reading Race’ in the classroom. She was really impressed and said we should definitely try to share our method with others to help them improve their skills in reading carefully and answering questions in a more in depth way.

Our Mearns Masters Showcase took place on Thursday. We invited the Primary five classes to our computer arcade and they played the three level games we created in our coding masterclasses. Everyone had a great time and the P5s were really impressed with our games.

Friday saw us outside on a rather chilly and wet morning to play some more of the games we created ourselves a few weeks ago. Everyone enjoyed their chance to teach and learn new games. We also took part in some peer assessment and worked really well on offering suggestions for improvements on each of the games.