This week was the turn of the second half of our class to showcase their gastronomy learning. Unfortunately our invited guests, the director and head chef of G41 in Shawlands had to cancel at the last minute due to weather…..but the guests who filled in for them were delighted at the cancellation! I am sure you’ll agree the food looks incredible and according to the guest, tasted wonderful too.
We had visitors from Calderwood Lodge Primary on Wesdnesdayvmorning who told us a bit about Judaism and the celebration on Hanukkah.
One of the things we focused on this week in literacy was identifying parts of a sentence. We used some cards to make silly sentences then identified the subject and predicate in each of them. Working together like this was a lot more fun and interesting than simply writing things out in our jotters!
We were lucky to welcome, a visiting minister from Mearns Kirk, she told us about traditions, religion and celebrations across the world focussing on Pakistan, Vietnam, Germany, Bolivia and Zimbabwe.
This week, one half of the class organised a showcase for our Mearns Masters gastronomy pathway. We worked hard on planning the showcase, making the menus and invitations and making our dishes. The guests, Peter the janitor, Mrs Cameron and Chris, the cleaner, were delighted.
The joyous sound of the winter concert rehearsal was how we ended our week. Luckily we were able to watch it. In the rehearsal there was a lot of music and a few fortunate individuals got to perform in it. It was really exciting to watch our Continue reading Week beginning 5th December →
This week has included lots of fun and lots of learning. As usual we worked together with 7.27 to improve our badminton skills playing a variety of fun games to improve our hand eye co ordination as well as our racket skills.
On Thursday we enjoyed an online Google assembly all about internet safety.
Our Dutch Delights gastronomy group had a very successful session in the kitchen enjoying creating our own planned recipes to produce a marvellous six course tasting menu.
And of course Wednesday was St Andrew’s day. Those of us who enjoy a school lunch were treated to a great Scottish style meal by the dinner ladies and in class we spent time researching and creating posters at about this special day in Scotland.
We really enjoyed analysing poetry this week, beginning to understand how complex poetry is and just how important imagery is. We also created some of our own poems.
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