Over the last few weeks primary 6 have been busy creating our own versions of some classic fairytales in drama. We applied a variety of drama techniques to use our body movements and expressions to tell the story before adding in some narration. Our purpose for preparing the fairytales was to share with the nursery class and highlight the rights that were not being met for the characters in the story. Some were easy to identify although for some others we needed to look a bit further. As a class we have really enjoyed this and we are sure our audience enjoyed it too. We were all impressed with our nursery audience! On Friday morning we had a visit from some of the nursery boys and girls who had made us a special gift to say thank you, we have it displayed in the classroom and it has given us some inspiration for our topic next term!

 

We have continued to work on our drama skills through a series of workshop style lessons. We have now all been assigned a family member of one of seven Chinese families to develop through our drama over the coming weeks.

This week we celebrated World Book Day 2019. To coincide with this we had been completing a reading challenge as well as having a go at entering BBC Radio 2’s 500 words competition. We can identify and explain the important link between reading and writing. We have had several pupils enter the competition, remember to print out your certificate if you entered as well!

On World Book Day we looked at picture books aimed at children younger than ourselves. After reading them we developed ‘lesson ideas’ that we felt could be used to analyse and evaluate the story. From ‘Wanted’ posters to Venn diagrams we were able to make an extensive list. After we had a go at some of our activities and we have decided we would like to visit some of the younger classes to try them out. Look how focussed we are!

     

Later on in the afternoon of World Book Day we joined with primary 3a to do some ‘buddy reading’. Both the big buddies and little buddies were a credit to themselves as we spent quality time sharing our books. We would love to do this again soon!     

In writing we are creating leaflets based on China. We are looking at different aspects of the country and using a leaflet to share our information. We will continue working on these next week. To help emerge ourselves in to our China topic we used the Class VR headsets to visit the Great Wall of China. Hopefully we will use these again to visit other Chinese landmarks. 

Our numeracy focus has been data handling so we are linking this to China as well. Since we have been using excel to create charts and graphs we have been gathering information about the Chinese population and creating a wide range of graphs. On Friday we were plotting the birth rate in China over the last 50 years.

On Friday we had visitors from the Scottish SPCA. At assembly they talked about their role to protect animals against cruelty then later on in the day we were invited to join in with a workshop creating our own ‘wild animals’. Using coding we built a range of Rhu the Rabbit. This was great fun and we would like to do this again soon!

 

Look out for some Chilling news in next weeks blog…