This week we have been busy rehearsing for our upcoming school show! We were given our final scripts of the show, told about our costumes and we practised singing some of our songs. Some of us have even been practising our dances at lunchtimes! Next week we will be using the stage for our daily rehearsals. We have also started making props which you can see from our photos.

Given that it is Burns Night this week we drafted our very own poems using the Scots language. This was challenging at first because we had to learn some Scots words and research what they meant. Afterwards, we applied our prior knowledge of rhyme and the ABAB structure to help create our poems. Next week we are going to finish and uplevel them.

In maths one group has been learning about decimals and fractions. This involved ordering decimals starting from smallest to highest and then we wrote decimals in two other ways (tenths, hundredths, thousandths and in fractions). Another groups has been estimating and then completing calculations by rounding to the nearest ten. One of the other groups has just finished angles and directions. For their final lesson they used to the BeeBots and the maps to plan routes using directions and angles. You can see some of work below!

Our second last lesson of the natural disasters topic involved learning about tsunamis. We discovered how they formed and how destructive they can be.

We had a great time creating our own music this week with Mrs Melville!

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Excellent work so far everyone with the school show! Can I please remind everyone to keep on practising and learning their lines and song words at home. As noted in the costume letter that went home earlier in the week, can all outfits be brought into school by Friday 31/1/20. Please do not purchase any costumes as we can help with this. Everyday next week there will be a rehearsal resulting in the weekly timetable being altered.