We had Bikeability on Wednesday. We had a 10 minute free cycle assessment to begin with and then had 3 stations.  At one station we had to slalom in between the cones and then throw a bean bag into a hoop.  At another station we had to cycle down the hill and stop in a safe zone without skidding.  And at the last station we cycle round in a circle and had to look over our shoulders to see a number that was being held up and also at this station we had to complete different actions.

The orange group have been doing symmetry and have been researching symmetry which they have put into a Powerpoint.

The pink group have been calculating distance, speed and time.

The white group have been working out fractions of numbers. They have been working on word problems.

The yellow group have been interpreting data from various graphs.

All reading groups have been reading their own novels and working on predictions and summarising.

On Monday, we researched different inventions that can fly.

With Mrs. Watson in bounceback we drew pictures of our happy place and what we are scared of. We also made a love logo for a gang.

We have a new pupil! Zahara has joined us this week!

The white group have been finding fractions of numbers, and some very big numbers too!

The orange group have been learning about symmetry and looking for lines of symmetry.

The pink group have been calculating distance, speed and time.

The yellow group have been reading bar graphs.

The red group have been reading Little Manfred.

The purple group have been reading Friend or Foe.

The blue group are reading the Eighteenth Emergency.

The green group are reading The Frankenstein Teacher.

We have started our new topic which is flight.

It has been digital learning week. Mrs. Bishop came in to our class on Monday and we used chrome books to access a programme called Sway.

In music we were using hand bells to make our own Scottish waltz.

In P.E we are doing badminton with Miss Black and have been doing athletic’s stations with Mr. McMillan.

In Bikeability we had three stations; one where we had to throw beanbags into hoops as we were cycling. Another where we had to follow a narrow, wavy path. And one where we had to hold the beanbag out in one hand as we were cycling.

Today we went to Whitecraigs to do a rugby session with 3 other schools Kirkhill, Uplawmoor and Neilston primary school.  We rotated around different stations. We worked on tackling, caching co-ordinating running speed and aim passing kicking.

In music we were using instruments to make a Scottish waltz.

In P.E we did badminton and athletics stations.

We had bike-ability this week. We had three stations, one worked on our balance, the other our co-ordination, and dismounting our bikes safely.

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The pink maths groups have been doing co-ordinates using positive and negative numbers.

The white group have been finding fractions of numbers and amounts.

The orange group have been doing 3D shapes and making shapes from nets.

The yellow group have been reading the time.

The purple group have started reading Pinnochio

The blue group have started 18th Emergency

The red group have started Horrid Henry’s Underpants

The green group have started The Frankenstein Teacher

Google expedition came to our school.  We each had a V.R (Virtual Reality) headset. We went on a journey to Jupiter and we saw inside the space modeule Juno.  We also had some time to look at the Taj Mahal, Rio, The Great Wall of China, Sydney and some sharks!

We have been doing athletics in P.E and had different stations including shot putt, realy races, hurdles, long jump.

We did more bikeability this week too!

The pink group have been doing co-ordinates in maths.

The white group have been continuing their work with fractions and finding fractions of amounts.

The orange group have been learning about 3D shapes.

The yellow group have been continuing their work on time.

In writing we had to describe a scene using descriptive language such as adjectives, adverbs, personification, simile, onomatopoeia and alliteration.

We started bikeability this week. We were out in the playground and had to complete 3 stations. We had to cycle in a circle and had to follow instructions like “touch your head with your left hand”, in the second station we had to cycle in a straight line and stay as close to the cones as possible and in the third station we had to follow a zig-zag line and keep our front tyre as close to the line as possible.

Today is crazy hair day and dress as you please. The houses have also been collecting money for the money-mile competition.

In P.E we started athletics. We have been using a baton and practising our passing of the baton whilst running.  We have also started badminton with the P.E specialist from Eastwood High School.

In art we looked at medieval writing and created our own medieval intial.

We had our first house spirit afternoon and we designed a house mascot.

We have been learning the dangers of smoking we had to come up with an advert or radio.

Slessor have the most house points for March and they get a special treat.

The pink group have been learning about different types of triangles and measuring their angles.

The white group have been simplifying and finding equivalent fractions.

The yellow group has been learning about 2D shapes and tiling.

The orange group have been doing more subtraction.

In writing we used descriptive language to describe our character’s emotions the night before the battle.

In science we made open and closed circuits.

Today is red nose day and some people brought in a red nose.

We created our own tartan in art. We used oil pastels to draw our tartan on to a kilt.

In maths the white group have been learning about equivalent fractions and how to simplify fractions. The pink group have been dividing using decimals.  The orange group have been working on subtraction puzzles.  The yellow group have been creating tiles with 2D shapes.

We have been continuing with our creative dance in P.E. We had to create a dance that had a jump, stretch and balance in it.

In language we set the scene for our story. We used different descriptive language including adjectives, adverbs, simile and personification.

We were learning about William Wallace in topic.

We have been doing character descriptions in language we used adjectives adverbs and similes to create our own character.

We have been creating our own shields in art.

We created Scottish landscapes using oil pastels.

The pink group have been multiplying with decimals.

The white group and orange group have been working on addition and subtracting.

We created a Vincent Van Gogh poster.

We have been learning more about Scottish Wars of Independence.

In P.E we have been doing creative dancing.

In ICT we were doing coding.

Livingstone had their reward afternoon and watched a movie.

This Friday we had our first assembly of 2017.

The pink group started algebra.

This week white group started measurement.

We’ve been focusing on global goals.

We did a basketball tournament in PE.

We’re getting a new PE teacher next week.

We started doing boccia with Mr Mcmillan.

The orange group has been doing time and date.

This week we’ve been doing a task called moja island.

The yellow group have been working on their addition.

We have been doing a lot of assesments in language.

This week we got a Spanish teacher and learnt some Spanish.

We entered a harry potter competition.

We wrote an introduction to a spooky story.

We did a maths assessment.

For golden time today we are going to do some Charles Rennie Mackintosh art.

The white group have been learning about data analysis and how to interpret information from graphs.

In P.E we played benchball, tig and dodgeball with Mr. McMillan.

In language we wrote a persuasive piece about our school.

The orange group have been learning about division.

We did the first morning run of 2017!

We have been trying new problem solving maths questions which are ,meant to challenge us and make us think very hard!

We had visitors from Explore Learning who ran a workshop in Roman Numerals (More Maths!!!)

The Pink maths group have been working on algebra.

We found out about Charles Rennie Mackintosh, looked at some of his famous work and used tracing paper to write in his famous style of writing.

In maths the yellow group have been learning about addition and how to carry numbers.

We have a new P.E teacher from Eastwood High School called Miss. Black. On Tuesday she did an exercise pattern that we had to copy.

Mr. Crocket, the music specialist, taught us a song called’ The Sands of the Shore’. We learnt about; solo, chorus and introduction.

We had a Spanish lesson with Mrs. Amigo. We learnt how to greet each other in Spanish.