EWHCF Class of 2022

This week, p5a have made Mrs Nisbet and I extremely proud of all their hard work during what has been quite an emotional time. On Thursday, we learned about flamenco dancing and practised some flamenco clapping and stamping before we watched a short film about the cultural importance of flamenco to gypsy life in Andalusia.  On Friday, we made a chain of paper people to represent our class and wrote promises about things we will do to make the world a happier place while the school is closed.

Your kindness towards one another and your willingness to make a positive difference in the world has been so inspiring to me this week, I am so sorry that your time with me in class been cut short and I will miss you all very much.  Despite this, I am also very excited to see all of the super things that you get up to on our Google Classroom adventure!

~ Miss McKendrick

 

Euler have been learning more about multiples and factors. It is a bit tricky to remember what each one is. Multiples are part of our times tables and factors are numbers which can be multiplied to make a number. We also learned about l.c.m, h.c.m, h.c.f and l.c.f

Turing have been learning about symmetry and have been creating symmetrical shapes.

In Literacy we were reading some First News and were answering questions about the text. There were lots of interesting articles.

In Social Studies we have been comparing land use in the countryside and in cities.

In PE we have been working on our tennis skills. It has been really fun. We have been trying to keep control of the ball. We played mini tennis but with our hands! We were trying to keep the ball in control with the help of our partners.

We have finished redrafting our letters for the engineering competition and we are ready to send off our entries next week. We are excited to hear from the engineers about our creative designs.

We are very proud of the people in our class who came runner up and got an inspiring ideas award in the Make it hAPPen competition. Dilraj got to see how an app was made and she told us all about it.

Today we have been prefecting, we were split across the classes and some of us were in P1. It was lots of fun!

This week we have been redrafting our engineering letters for our competition. We are looking forward to sending off our great ideas!

In PE we have been working on our tennis skills. We were learning to control the ball by bouncing it up and down on the tennis racket and then we had to move around and bounce it at the same time. We had to really concentrate.

On Thursday the winner of the Make it hAPPen competition was awarded. The winner was someone in P6b. It was a really fun competition and lots of people were awarded an inspirational idea award and there were some runners up. We are very proud of Elise.

We have been focusing on setting this week in writing and we were describing a forest. We were trying to include our senses and feelings throughout our writing as well as using similes and metaphors to help create a clear image.

In ICT some of us were filling in our application forms to become digital leaders. We are working hard to finish them.

In maths, the cubes have start to learn about pie charts and data analysis. We have started to interpret data from different types of graphs.

In Literacy, Mrs Tear was working with us on comprehension. We are working hard at reading the question carefully and going back into the text to find the information.

This week in maths, Pythagoras have started their new maths topic, volume and capacity. Mrs Lamont brought in cups and they were all filled with a different volumes  of water. We had to estimate how much was in the cup who chose and then measure it with a measuring jug. Euler have been continuing their angles topic. We were doing complementary and supplementary angles.

In ICT we have been finishing off our holiday brochures. We got to choose our dream holiday and search up facts about it. Then, we had to put all our facts into a PowerPoint and encourage people to come to our chosen place.

In drama we were given a sheet of paper that had a line of words on it that we needed to act out.

In PE we were playing game where we needed to aim a ball to a cone if we hit it we got the cone. There was a cone queen or king.

Yesterday as part of World Book Day we did a scavenger hunt, a quiz and had a maths team challenge. It was great fun!

It is Fairtrade Fortnight and we have started to research and create fact files about Fairtrade and why is it important.

This week, we asked primary 5 what they enjoyed learning about.  Here is what they said:

 

(Ruby) In maths, we did a World Book Day Quiz where we got some questions and we had to decide who won the costume competition using our maths skills.

 

(Aaron) In ICT, some people were filling out their applications to be a Digital Leader.

(Elise) In assembly, we had a book disco- it was so much fun! J

(Muhammad) In P.E. we have been doing football.

(Eilidh P) The P7’s arranged a Book Day scavenger hunt.  They hid books around the playground and we had to find out information about each one.

(Hirah) In literacy, we were talking about Malala Yousafzai.  We were talking about her children’s book ‘Malala’s Magic Pencil’ and we wrote a story about what we would do with a magic pencil.

(Adam H) On Wednesday and Thursday we had parents’ evening.

(Harry) In maths, the Cubes were doing Data Handling and we started doing a survey in partners.

(Ailsa) In writing, we were writing a persuasive letter to persuade the engineers to build our invention.

(Noor) During parents’ evening some people went to the gym hall to help at the Fair Trade stall and to buy some books at the book fair.

(Julia) For World Book Day, five people from our class went to the nursery to read to the children there.

(Nicolas) In assembly, some children from the nursery came to see us to teach us a song.

(Above) Ben and Eilidh working with children from primary 2- comparing jotters and giving each other super feedback.

(Above) The Cubes were learning about volume in maths, they completed a series of interesting lessons in which they had to estimate and measure volume with a variety of instruments.

This week, we asked Primary 5a what they enjoyed learning about.  Here is what they said:

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Joseph- The navy came and showed us some of their equipment.  They gave us a tour of their boat and we got to try their VR headsets.  (Charlotte) One of the stations demonstrated how an engineer on the boat would fix a leak in an air pipe.  We had a test of strength when we tried to close the pistons. (Adam H) They also showed us spheros and we learned how to make them jump around and animate them.

(Elise) In P.E. we played a game that when we had to pass the ball to each other and header it on the side of the fence to score a point.

(Ailsa) With Ms Eddie we made mindfulness bottles, we mixed water and glue and glitter glue and we used glitter to decorate.

(Harry) Today we have a special menu for lunch in celebration of international learning day.

(Ruby) In the class, we got Nessy spelling fixed. So some people got a chance to do it at the beginning of literacy.

(Julia) In social studies, we were learning about the Clyde and how it has been polluted since 1918-2010.  Nowadays it is less polluted. (Noor) We made posters about The Clyde and had the chance to finish these off.

(Abbie P) In Big Writing we made Valentines poems. I wrote mine to my little sister.

(Eilidh P) Today, the Brownies, Cubs, Scouts, Beavers, Guides and Rainbows got to wear their uniforms because on the 22^nd it was the birthday of Lord and Lady Badenborfer.

(Joseph) This week we are sad to be losing Sabre for 2 whole months as he goes back to New Zealand.  Have a great holiday Sabre J

 

 

 

On Thursday the Royal Navy came in and did some STEM workshops with us. We used VR headsets to fly helicopters and a jet. We also got to create circuits using a motor, we managed to make them very powerful so that the helicopter fly up into the air. We got to control and program Spheros, we made them colourful and got them to dance! One station was about hydraulics it was really fun we had to wear safety goggles and we got to see what would happen if something exploded. There was also a giant TV which showed us round a submarine, it was like a video game, we got to see where the crew would sleep, eat and do their jobs. We had so much fun 🙂  Have a look on Twitter to see some pictures of us.

Euler has been learning about different types of angles and how many degrees they have.

We have started to work in groups to create a poster about the pollution in the River Clyde. We were looking at different sources to gather information about pollution in the Clyde. We are trying to convince people that cleaning the Clyde is important.

We are going to start an engineering competition next week to create something to help the planet deal with the big litter problem it faces. We have already started to think of great ideas!

In ICT we have been creating holiday brochures of our dream destinations. We had to persuade people to come to our destination and make it eye catching. We also had to think about how you would get to the destination and activities you could do there.

In writing we wrote some fabulous Valentine’s Day poems. We were using similes, metaphors, repetition and rhyme.

We asked the children what they enjoyed learning about this week, here is what they said…

Charlotte: We had a new seating arrangement.

Noor: In maths, the pyramids were making a Powerpoint about 3D shapes and doing some online research.

Sabre: In assembly, we were talking about Chinese New Year and learned about the Chinese zodiac.

Eilidh P: In maths, the cubes were learning about time- it was quite challenging.

Hirah: In social studies, we planned our research in which we compared another country’s landscape with Scotland’s.

Muhammad: In literacy, the apostrophes read an instruction manual on how to download photos onto your desktop.

Ruby: On Tuesday, in PE we were doing fitness and we were running around the MUGA doing as many laps as we could in 10 minutes.

Abbie: In Big Writing, we were writing about our character getting trapped in a cave. (Leon) 3 of us got to read our stories out to the class.

Owen: In maths, we played a challenging game in which you had to move a car to the correct coordinates, we also played a game in which you had to guess if a net would form a cube or not.

This week we did some artwork as part of our celebrations for Chinese New Year. We created dragons and wrote our names in Chinese. We have made a lovely display of our hard work J .

As part of our Scottish Landscapes topic we created a slideshow with our partner. We compared Scottish landscapes to landscapes of another country. We got to choose our other country and do some research and next week we are going to start presenting our presentations to each other.

In skills academy those of us in learning for sustainability made plant pots out of papier-mâché. It’s really fun. Design and manufacturing were painting cardboard boxes as part of our design challenge to create a town. In life skills we were learning how to do a running stitch using different shapes. In digital technologies we were looking at a new app called Scratch. We animated characters and started to create some games. It was great fun.

Pythagoras have been learning more about time and calculating time durations. They have a new time booklet which they are enjoying.

The Comics started a new book called the 18^th Emergency. It is about a boy who is being bullied and he seems to have plan for any type of emergency. The Magazines finished Granny Nothing, which was great, and are excited to start their new book next week.