We have been thinking about one of the key messages in Wonder which is ‘chose kind’. We created our astronauts and had to go around the class writing a nice message for everyone. We had to think about why our classes are important, what we admire about them and why they are special. It was really nice to read all the comments at the end.

Euler designed their own theme park this week. They had to use their knowledge of scale to help them draw a scale drawing map of their theme park. They had to create a key and meet the deign specification. It was very enjoyable.

In writing we wrote a reflective piece about an experience which has help to shape us. We had to include our thought and feelings and ensure we were reflecting back on how this event has impacted us. It was hard to make sure we didn’t end up writing a recount.

This week we have had auditions for Crookfur’s Got Talent and we hope members in our class get through to the final!

We really enjoyed continuing to work on our gymnastics and are becoming more confident using the apparatus. It was really fun to learn how to do front flips!

We used our tone and shading skills to create a drawing on the moon landing as we have been learning about the Space Race this week.

We loved watching P6’s assembly all about China, the rap was fun!

We are delighted that Tiya is back from her holiday and we have enjoyed catching up with her 🙂

In maths Turing have been learning about equivalent fractions and how to simplify fractions. We are getting the hang of it.

We went to Easter Code at the Baptist Church on Wednesday and it was great. We took part in lots of different activities and learned about the story of Easter. We created am Easter egg tree by scratching paper to give us various colours and patterns.

A new Scott Trophy has been made and we are excited that someone in P7 will receive this exceptional award soon.

We took part in lots of activities for World Book Day. We enjoyed the treasure hunt and reading with our little buddies. The whole school made a story and we listened to it at the end of the day through the tannoy.

Today we had a brilliant workshop from the SPCA. We played a card game and learned lots about animals. We also created a robotic rabbit and used coding to control it, it was very cool!

We have been learning all about space travel this week and have created our own space travel timelines. It’s been fun and interesting to see how technology has evolved over the decades.

In art we were learning to create different textures by drawing different patterns. It was great!

We started a new science topic, it’s all about Space. We created a slide on Google Classroom to tell Mrs Lamont all of the things we wanted to learn about space and we asked lots of questions. We have learned about our solar system and black holes so far, it’s really interesting! Scientists have found a black hole that is 1600 lightyears away from us. Black holes don’t have surfaces like planets. We blew up a balloon and wrapped tinfoil round it to represent a star, we then popped it with a safety pin to show a star exploding. The tin foil was then crumpled up to show a black hole forming and consuming space. We also used a cardigan, a hockey ball and marbles to show the gravitational pull that a black hole can have. The edge of a black hole is called the event horizon and anything that goes past that point will be sucked into the black hole and will not be able to escape.

On Wednesday we were doing gymnastics in PE. We moved round six different stations: handstands, wall squats, hula hooping, using a spring board and vault, steps and balances, balances and forward rolls. It was really fun, everyone enjoyed using the springboard.

In writing we finished our leaflets and added in pictures and different fonts to make them eye-catching. We enjoyed being able to share information this way.

Pythagoras have been working on calculating the probability of different events happening.

Turing have been learning about equivalent fractions and have started to simplify fractions as well. It is becoming easier for us.

In Art, we have been focussing on patterns this week. It’s been very interesting to try and create different patterns using line. Some of the patterns were quite tricky as they were becoming more complicated.

P1b did a lovely assembly sharing what they have learned about toys, we enjoyed listening to them sing.

Skulduggery Mania                 

Read to Succeed

Julia and Zaynab are the leaders of Read to Succeed. Our aim is to make reading more enjoyable for others by: recommending books, reading books to children and letting them do activities on it, reviewing books, putting up quotes to encourage reading, having a reading record of 10 minutes every time we come into school and after playtime and lunchtime with lots more included!

We have been extremely successful, and reading is becoming more and more popular.

These are some of the quotes we have put up:

“Have you heard, that you’re not a nerd? If you read, you will succeed”- Read to Succeed.

“Did you know that sparrows fly south in the winter!?” Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy.

“The more you read, the more you’ll know. The more you learn, the more places you will go”- Dr Seuss.

Primary 2’s Reading Time

Every Friday at Golden time we gather up 4 children and read them a book. Here are the names of some of the books: Stick Man, The Smartest Giant In the town and many more. While we are reading the books, we ask them questions about the book, for example what happens next? When we are done, they do an activities that shows that they have been paying attention!

Sometimes in the activities there is a prize. The prize is two house tokens. Every Friday when we do Read to Succeed they always enjoy this.

We interviewed two of the children and they said…

Alexander-” I like doing the activities because they are fun!”

Myra-” I like to do the activities and getting read books to!”

Skulduggery Has Taken Over

Julia and Zaynab were asked to recommend 5 books to our class, and one of them was called Skulduggery Pleasant which was a popular choice in the class…

Mrs Watson enjoyed the excerpt from the book so much that she used it for some comprehension tasks.  We all really enjoyed the tasks and loved exploring the language and all the different writing skills the author used.

The next week two pupils brought in a Skulduggery Pleasant book and they were loving it. So, more people brought in a Skulduggery Pleasant book into school, we ended up doing a full comprehension on the 3^rd chapter of the first book of Skulduggery Pleasant and I think that persuaded them to get a book!

Fun Fact: Mrs Watson, our teacher, bought the first and second book of Skulduggery Pleasant!

Read to Succeed will continue to support and encourage all the children to read and enjoy books and texts of all genres.

On Monday, we had our maths standardised test, and we all worked really hard to complete it.

Today we have completed the mini-mudder.  We had to complete an obstacle course and we all got very muddy but it was very fun.  We also got to watch P5B’s WW2 assembly, it was very entertaining to learn about different families in the war.

Turing and Newton moved on to a new maths topic.  We have been looking at data analysis and we made misleading graphs to put on an advert for a new product that we created.

Euler and Pythagoras are working on word problems in maths.  We have been working on our problem solving skills.

In art we made mosaics out of old magazines.  It was very messy, and slightly tricky, but very fun!

We got to join with P7B for P.E today with Mr Brown.  We played a great game of islands and it was very competitive between the two classes.

On Wednesday we did orienteering in P.E with Mrs Lamont.  We had to find the markers around the school using a map.  It was great fun!  We also created leaflets in writing about a topic of our choice.  Next week we will add more information and pictures to our leaflets.

In social studies we have made plays of different Greek myths.  We performed them to the class and got lots of good feedback.

We also got to find out what our next science topic will be – Space!!

In ICT we have continued to look at internet safety.  We completed the last interland. This was all about being kind.  Being kind on the internet can make people feel good, and we know that we should never cyberbully.  We also learned how to be an up stander online, helping those who are being cyberbullied.

Unfortunately, it is Miss Dunn’s last day today.  We are all very sad that she is leaving.

It has been another action packed week for our class.  It was a hard start to the week with our standardised test on Monday.

Standardised Test :

We had our maths test on Monday and we are all pleased that we did our best. It was really tricky and we all think we need to do more work on 2d and 3d shapes and tricky word problems.

PE:

We are on our third week of gymnastics and have learned so much.  Lots of us have made super progress and are doing things now that we didn’t think we could ever do like handsprings over the boxes, controlling our jumps from high blocks, putting our skills other to create a sequence and holding our handstands. Matthew and Amber have really helped us develop our skills as they are confident with lots of the skills we are working towards.

Numeracy:

The Classy Calculators have been working on finding the area and perimeter of shapes like rhombus and kites.  They have also been exploring how these come together within 3d shapes and solving some tricky problems to do with 3D shapes.

The Division Destroyers had a busy week revising place value and different mental maths strategies.  They are also continuing to work on the order of operations – some people like to call this BODMAS.

The Rockin’ Rulercoasters have been solving problems using a formula and exploring how letters can represent words within a formula.  It has been good fun and really made us think carefully.

We also worked on collaborating with one another during problem solving – this was great fun and taught us a lot about how we share ideas with others.

Literacy:

We are almost half way through “The Nowhere Emporium” and have enjoyed analysis the different characters within the story.  We have also created a super wall display that shows key objects and characters within the story.  We have also been thinking about our opinions of the story and why we feel certain ways about different texts.

In writing we are working to create leaflets that provide information about something we are really interested in.  Mrs Watson and Mrs Fry are excited to learn all about things like Fortnite and our favourite Netflix shows.

Tough Mudder:

It was a muddy day today (Friday) as we all took part in our tough mudder to raise money for the activity trail.  It was great fun but really messy.

P5 Assembly:

We loved watching the P5 asssembly and were so impressed with all the information they knew about WW2.

Space:

Today we helped Mrs Watson plan our science learning.  We will be exploring Space and she wanted to know what we were wanting to learn about.  It was really good to think about what we already know and what we want to learn about.

Congratulations:

Well done to George and Jonathan who won achievement awards at our assembly last week.

In maths, Euler and Pythagoras have been focusing on finding percentages of numbers and have been doing activities. It can be quite tricky so we have been getting lots of practice.  Turing and Newton have completed their work on time, and have now moved on to data handling.  We have looked at different types of graphs and the scales that they go up in.

In PE we have just started gymnastics. We focused on our balancing skills and we got into partners or groups of three and made up a sequence.  Our sequences had to have six different steps in them, and they all had to start and end with a balance.

In social studies we have been looking at Greek mythology. We completed our comic strips about our chosen Greek myth.

In art we created Valentine’s Day paintings using 3 different paints and using them to create more shades.

Today we received fobs for beat the street. We got given a fob and map of where all of the lampposts are. At the end the school with the most points with be rewarded with a £300 gift card of their choice.

In writing we wrote our names on a bit of paper and cut round it to make a character. We used similes, metaphors and adjectives to create a piece of descriptive writing.

In science we have been looking at buoyancy and density. We did an experiment using two chocolates (Mars bar and Milky Way) and we put them into water to see which one would float and which one would sink. The Milky Way floated and the Mars bar sunk.

In literacy, we continued with skimming and scanning.  We used our skimming and scanning skills to quickly read a text and find words within it to complete a timed reading challenge.

In ICT, we have been working on internet safety, and we have completed different stages of the Google Interland.  This week we were focusing on Tower of Treasure.  We looked at ways to make a secure password, and why this is important.

In Spanish we were learning numbers to twenty. We played bingo, it was great fun!

We had our assembly today it was all about WWII. It was really fun and we were excited to share our learning with our parents and the rest of the school. We worked very hard to memorise our lines.

We began researching information for our Lord Provost debate. It is about whether children should have social media or not. 7.6 million children under 13 have a Facebook account and 5 million of them are under 10! We were very surprised with some of the statistics we have found out so far.

We created posters in RME about what our core beliefs would be if we had our own religion. It was very interesting. We tried to make the posters as engaging as possible by thinking about the colour and size. We also had to make sure our posters make sense.

In PE we were learning about tennis. We started to play matches with each other. It was fun!

Pythagoras have been learning about negative numbers. We have learned how to add and subtract negative numbers.

Euler have been about squared numbers and triangular numbers and are also using algebra to describe sequences.

We finished Think Me Back and we really enjoyed it. We created posters in our reciprocal reading groups about the characters, plot and what happened in the book.

We have been learning about Air Raid Precautions (ARP) during the WWII. It had been very interesting. We were looking at different types of shelters and have created an information leaflet all about them.

In art we used our tone, line and sketching skills to create amazing snow globes!

We started our advent calendar, we love watching it each day!

In RME we were learning about Hanukah, why it’s important and how it is celebrated.

In Science we planted cress seeds and we are comparing the rate of growth to see if fertilisers make a difference.

We watched P1s dress rehearsal for their nativity this week and it was lovely to see their singing and dancing.

At assembly we got to listen to the Community Unity Choir singing their songs, it was very impressive.

In Science we have been learning about fertilisers. We learned that you can have organic and inorganic fertilisers, some are chemical and some are manure. We designed an experienced to test the effect of fertilisers on the rate of growth of plants. We are ready to start our experiment on Monday.

Pythagoras have been designing their own theme park using ratios and scale drawings. It’s been really fun being able to apply our knowledge and skills.

In Literacy we have almost finished reading Think Me Back. It was a really enjoyable book. We liked the mix of history and supernatural elements to the book.

In Technology, we were looking at a Dyson fan and the design process. It was very interesting hearing from James Dyson and watching the processes that design engineers go through to create a final product. We were surprised to learn that James Dyson had 5,126 failed attempts at making a hoover without a bag.

P4b did a wonderful assembly today all about the Knights of Templar. It was very interesting to learn the history of our local area.

We have made ceramic Christmas tree decorations for the Christmas Fayre, they look beautiful!

In RME we have been learning about marriages across religions.