P6 took their trip to the Scottish Parliament as part of their social studies topic on politics. We learned all about the history of the newer Scottish Parliament as we as the longer history of Scottish politics. We also learned a lot about the design of the building and how the architects added symbolic meaning to the design. Can you spot the Saltire?
We get to take the start of a story home and we talk to someone in our family about what is happening and what we think the end is going to be. Big Talk is fun because we get a chance to talk about our ideas before we write our story in class. We like to get the start because it gives us the plot for the story.
By Cara
In circle time P4 have talked about bullying behaviour and the effect it has on people. They talked about the way different people would feel – the person who displayed the bullying behaviour, the person who was the target of the bullying behaviour, the teachers , other children , the parents etc. They hope to use this information and create some literacy work from it.
We worked collaboratively to research a variety of Paralympic events. We made posters which included a title, facts and interesting graphics. When we had finished, we shared our learning with the rest of the class by presenting our posters to them.
When P4 were doing bounce back they looked at social justice. They learned that social justice was about being fair and caring for all people in the world. They discussed the different groups who try to make sure that things are fair for all people. Save the Children was mentioned as well as many other charities.
In writing the children wrote thank you letters to Mrs. Strang for the work that she does for Save the Children and making things fair for children across many countries.
P4 looked at some art work that represented social justice and had an interesting discussion about how they managed this. They then used the visual elements of line, shape, colour and pattern to create their own piece of art work showing the image of a handshake.
Here are two of the letters by Ruby and Rhys.
We used our senses on a walk in the playground to describe what we saw, heard, smelled and felt. We then created these poems about our walk.
Pr. 3 took part in an assembly about Numeracy and Maths. We spoke about the different ways in which we used our maths skills. Through our Social Studies topic on the Rainforest we measured the length of a typical rainforest tree, we made symmetrical butterflies and we located rainforest animals in the playground using map grid references. We were GGGRRREAT and the assembly was enjoyed by all.
We (p2b) have buddied up with primary 6 to share and develop our reading skills! The buddies come into our Bloom’s book groups to listen to us read and then we go off with our buddy and listen to them read to us, although some of us like to share the reading. Some of us even like to question each other about what we’re reading to see if we’ve been paying attention!
