Week beginning 9th January

January 13, 2023 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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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Week beginning 12th December

December 16, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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!

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Week beginning 5th December

December 14, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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 →

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Week beginning 28th November

December 4, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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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Week beginning 21st November

November 26, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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.

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Week beginning 14th November

November 19, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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!

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Week beginning 7th November

November 11, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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!

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Week beginning 31st October

November 4, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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.

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Week beginning 24th October

November 1, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

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.

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Week Beginning 3rd October

October 7, 2022 Mrs Kelly Leave a comment

After an incredibly busy week last week in Lockerbie, we had a calmer start to our week with PE, some personal reading and some writing tasks related to our week away. We also enjoyed creating some art work and music for our Fresh Prince of Bel Air performance and moving towards completing this term’s Mearns Masters coding challenge.

Thursday saw us attending our 5-7 Leadership Assembly where we celebrated leadership in all its forms across the school. Many of our class received certificates and badges to start them off on this special and final year of leadership for many of us in Mearns Primary. We also had an opportunity to think about leaders we knew and what qualities and skills they possess that make them successful.

Committees and groups were announced as well as prefects, house captains and vice captains and also head pupils. Here are some photos of us being presented.

And finally a photo of all the 7.28 pupils who have leadership responsibilities this year.

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