This week we have been continuing to learn more about fractions decimals and percentages and have been creating games to help each other understand new concepts more deeply.
On Wednesday we attended a Holocaust exhibition run by ‘Gathering the Voices’ at Calderwood Lodge. It was a very serious and somber visit as we heard from some children of Holocaust survivors tell their parents’ stories. We learned of some of the horrors they went through and showed great respect throughout our trip.
In the afternoon we joined a National Assembly to celebrate Robert Burns run by education Scotland. We heard pupils from across Scotland recite poems and also heard from a teacher from Banff Academy who recited To a Mouse.
In school we had a Burns Celebration where we heard from children across the school who were judged by professional judges who visited us for the day.
we rounded off the week by learning a bit more about drawing and shading. Some of our final products were incredible.
Another busy January week for us with an author visit:
some challenging problem solving:
Learning some Scots language and creating a class poem and exploring a new technique to make our writing more interesting and engaging.
As well as all this we learned about drawing techniques and created some marvellous pencil portraits.
Welcome back everyone after a fabulous break over the Christmas period. We have been very busy since our return getting back into the school routine and welcoming Miss Taylor back too.
Some of our learning this week included using some materials from Tree of Knowledge. We listened and watched a video and had some fun playing a game to help us explore different types of advice we might receive from different people.
Back into our class novel Holes after a break before the holiday to focus on Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, we analysed questions to develop our reading skills then used what we had read to create a newspaper report based on an event in the book.
We looked at some artists work and discussed abstract art and realism. After that we created our own pictures taking inspiration from the artist Ed Mall.
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