literacy – Retired 2022

April 1, 2022

Week beginning 28th March

Hello welcome to P7.28 and our weekly blog. This week Suhanna and Emma bring to you some of the highlights of the week.

We had a visit from Alison from the chaplaincy team who recapped some of the stories of Jesus leading up to Easter and got us thinking about how some activities are better and indeed easier in person rather than online or from a distance. Isabella and Sarthak acted as her assistants to help show this…..unfortunately we didn’t have any charge in the iPad to capture them in action though.

Here we are tackling one of our literacy tasks this week. We have some thinking involved in this activity… have a look and see if you can figure it out!?

Our teacher Mrs. Kelly gave us 1 cup for each table full of random pieces of paper, or so we thought! We had to figure out what those pieces of paper were to figure out our lesson. We joined a few papers together and figured it was Prefixes and Suffixes GENIUS FUN and LITERACY!

Another piece of learning this week involved some creative and fun art pictures to produce. Let’s take a quick look!

Mrs Kelly was fairly obsessed with keeping the pencils organised….she was also impressed at how well we did with putting them all back so well right enough!

We all made colourful, Creative birds and some of us even made our own imaginary birds with different colours than normal. We were tasked to create our own background, anything we liked, for example tropical or forest something like that. The best thing about this particular art work was that we used these special pencils called paint pencils. We first sketched our picture and our backgrounds and then we used a few selections of paint brushes with water and it turned into paint. But the best part of the art lesson was how everyone used their Creativity and imagination!

March 4, 2021April 1, 2021

World Book Day 📚

Hello everyone!

We celebrated World Book Day over Google Meet today where we played a World Book Day themed Kahoot quiz, shared our favourite books and some of us decided to dress up as famous characters from books!

Throughout the week some of the pupils of 6.24 have created different things in celebration of world book day. Some pupils created 3D models of famous scenes from books and other pupils decided to create ‘fan pages’ on Google Sites!

Check out some of the google sites by following the links below:

Olivia: https://sites.google.com/u/0/d/100u8nTwy3aeWifxhrZhM-7qRWT7QFtZI/preview

Bilal: https://sites.google.com/er.glow.scot/harry-potter/home

Roma: https://sites.google.com/er.glow.scot/aliceinwonderlandfanwebsite/home

Suhaana: https://sites.google.com/er.glow.scot/harrypotter/home

Kyle: https://sites.google.com/view/the-danger-gang/home?authuser=1

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

Occasional Poetry 📝

Primary 6 have just finished their poetry writing block. Over the last five weeks the pupils have enjoyed learning about the different style of poetry and the rules that come with them. For their final poetry lesson primary six were challenged to create a piece of occasional poetry. Strict poetry rules were removed in order for the pupils to express their creativity and create something that was personal to them. The pupils were asked to draw on personal experiences and what is going on in the world to inspire the theme of their poem.

The pupils were shown Amanda Gorman’s poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ as inspiration. They then had to choose a line from the poem that really stood out to include in their own poem. You can watch her recite her poem at President Biden’s inauguration here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4YuEvJ3y4

Here are some OUTSTANDING pieces of poetry created by Isabella and Alexander which were inspired by Amanda Gorman’s poem. Both of these poems capture the message of hope and unity that Amanda Gorman’s poem sought to inspire!

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

Financial Education 💸

6.24 have received a series of lessons on financial education over the last month. The pupils have really enjoyed learning about money and banks. This week the pupils were tasked with creating their own bank, they had to create a name, design a logo and decide which services their bank would provide.

Whilst completing this today Olivia asked if she could create a google site for her bank. This inspired both myself and some of her fellow classmates to do the same and create a website for their bank! Such a creative way to reinforce their learning and digital skills! 🌟

Click on the GIF below to view Olivia’s website!

Sophie also made her own site and even designed a debit card! Click on the GIF below to view her website.

Here is Suhaana’s website, click on the picture below to view the website!

An outstanding example of pupil led work!

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

Safer Internet Day – Fake News

In P6 we decided to learn more about ‘fake news’ for safer internet day 2021. We looked at the definition of fake news and the reasons why some internet sites choose to deliberately create and spread fake news. Fake news can have a lot of consequences on society if we do not learn to identify and disprove it.

As a follow up task p6 were shown a clip from the Harry Potter films of Rita Skeeter, a journalist for the Daily Prophet, interviewing Harry. She deliberately exaggerated and made up information in her article to cause controversy. We concluded that her articles could not always be trusted and that she would not be considered a reputable source due to her actions!

We then had a go at writing our own newspaper articles based on an incident that happened at Hogwarts. The Success Criteria asked the pupils to write an article that was accurate and did not contain any exaggeration or misinformation. Have a read at some of the examples below!

December 18, 2020

Wonder

Yesterday we finished our class novel we have been reading called ‘Wonder’. Instead of having a Christmas movie treat for our last day of school in 2020 we decided to watch Wonder in class! We have thoroughly enjoyed studying Wonder and a lot of learning has stemmed from the novel.

We have looked at bullying and analysed the morals of the characters in Wonder. We learned about genetics and inheritance because it was mentioned in the novel and we were interested in learning more about it. We have also learned about ‘precepts’ and discussed the importance of the precept mentioned in the novel, which is:

“when given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind”.

We made an effort to make small acts of kindness more visible and celebrated in 6.24. We have a compliments box in our classroom and every week children can write a post it note to someone to recognise something kind they have done. It is a simple and lovely way to show appreciation and it puts a smile on everyone’s when we read them out at the end of each week.