Category Archives: Outdoor Learning

Health & Wellbeing, Home, Literacy, Outdoor Learning, Primary 7, Remote Learning, Technologies

REMOTE LEARNING TAKE 2: DAY 2

Today is day number two of 7.27’s remote learning experience. I have taken the children’s views from their Jamboard into account and have created an interactive poster for them to show their learning for today.

If we had been in school today, this morning would have seen the start of outdoor learning with Mrs. Kelly for three periods. The class would then have had three periods of either recovery time in the kitchen, or recovery time with me – where we would have hosted the ‘Mearns Film Festival’ to watch your creations.

For this reason, today’s learning has been designed closely to what we should have been doing in school, and we will still celebrate the Film Festival when we return as the children worked so hard on their projects.

It seems everyone enjoyed their learning today! Here is a snippet of what some pupils got up to…

Aatish, Wint, and Zaina completed some film reviews of their favourite moving images.

Ibrahim took his learning outdoors today and created a map of his local area. Very detailed!

Amaya also undertook some outdoor learning and sent a hilarious video of her completing an obstacle course that she designed.

Delisha went outside and investigated which 2D and 3D shapes she could make with natural materials. She also created an amazing animation too! What a busy day of remote learning.

In the image below, you will see that Olivia took part in a scavenger hunt in her garden with a little help from her Mum hiding some rocks for!

Jamie decided to build on his filmmaking skills by planning and producing an animation. Well done Jamie!

Lea has also created an animation which is BRILLIANT but unfortunately too large to upload, so I will post a screengrab of her film instead.

Lucy spent a lot of the day writing and working on her film as well. Unfortunately it is too large to upload the whole thing but here is a little taster of it…

Some people chose to bake as well. I said that I would have a go at the banana bread recipe, as I had some bananas going off, and I didn’t disappoint. Below is my bread in the oven and then once it was out and cooled. I must admit, it doesn’t look great but it tastes amazing. I had to drizzle some extra chocolate on top to make self-isolation a little bit ‘sweeter’!

Jemma baked banana bread as well, she did this completely independently with only a FaceTime to her gran to find out how to work the oven and mixer. Amazing! Jemma also confirmed that it tasted scrumptious.

Here is Olivia’s banana bread mix before it made its way to the oven.

Not everyone made the same thing, Lewis and his family baked some brownies together. I think that’s something that I’ll be trying next time. Sounds delicious.

I hope everyone continues to stay safe. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

Well done everyone. Day two – complete!

Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Numeracy, Outdoor Learning

MATHS WEEK PART 3

 

Maths this week finished sensationally last week with us being crowned runners up in the P7 East Renfrewshire Quiz. We were so excited and the tense atmosphere in the class was so exciting!

This week we’ve taken aspects of maths week that we loved and used them during a normal week to make sure that we are all engaged and motivated in our learning. The children were keen to continue the outdoor learning so we went outside to work as a group and decode various ciphers as a treasure hunt activity.

After researching famous mathematicians during maths week we were really interested in Katherine Johnson and the discrimination that she faced being an African-American woman. This got us thinking about the Black Lives matter movement and also the women’s rights campaign and women’s suffrage.

We chose an area that interested us, researched it and produced a piece of writing. We generated our own success criteria depending on what type of text we were creating. Some of us made posters, me leaflets and others wrote newspaper reports.

Alesha continued to impress us by writing out pi to 100 decimal places! Well done!

We explored budgeting and worked as a group to make sure that our  fleet had enough equipment.

 

We we are very much looking forward to the October week and a well-deserved break. We have been working so hard in P7 to recover learning and relationships that suffered during our months in lockdown. We are learning and progressing in fun, engaging ways and everyday we try out best to meet our potential! Keep up the great work 7.27.

Numeracy, Outdoor Learning, Primary 7

OUTDOOR LEARNING

A week ago we went outside to apply our problem solving skills. We had been learning about angles within triangles and quadrilaterals, and also different types of these. We drew some outside and then got our peers to answer questions about these. We asked people to find the missing angles and also challenged others to find some exterior angles too! It was great.