EWHCF Class of 2022

(Emma) This week we started rehearsing for our Christmas show, ‘A Christmas Window’.
(Harry) We put up a display in the ICT pod, all about Queen Victoria.
(Muhammad) In ICT, we showed our presentations on the Seven Ancient Wonders of the world.
(Noor) As part of our Victorians topic, we took part in a Victorian job fair.
(Elise) The Cubes have been learning about complementary angles.
(Abbie) In Big Writing, we were writing a leaflet about jobs available to children in the Victorian times.
(Sabre) The pyramids have been learning about whole numbers. (Leon) The cylinders were doing symmetry in maths, the whole class went outside to find symmetry in nature.

Euler is learning about weight. There are 1000g in a kg, we have been learning to convert weights. Pythagoras have been learning about multiples and factors. We played a game with a partner which was fun.

We created posters to advertise our Victorian Jobs and we had a job fair where we went round taking notes and learning about different jobs Victorian children could have had. We then had to decide which job we would want and why. We had a great time! In writing we created a leaflet using our notes about the various jobs children could have had in the Victorian times.

In spelling we have been learning about the suffixes ship and hood. We have been creating different words with these suffixes and completing different active spelling tasks.

In ICT we have been presenting the slideshows we created to the class. It has been great to share our knowledge with each other and learn how to create engaging slideshows.

In Science we continued to learn about the digestive system. We did an experiment to see how the digestive system works. We mashed up food and mixed it with salvia, stomach acid and bile (water). We then put it through a pair of Mrs Lamont’s tights (the intestines!) and cut a hole at the bottom. It was very interesting and fun to watch! It was also a bit gross!!

We have been learning about how to stay safe on the roads. We watched a video about how we can design cars in the future to be safer. We created a road safety poster and different fun activities to do with being safe.

In French we have been learning about colours. We have been speaking and writing in French!

In music we have been working on Tam o’Shanter. We did a listening test this week to see what we need to work on.

We have started our Christmas Window preparations and we are excited to perform it in two weeks!

 

This week, both classes went on a trip to the Summerlee museum as part of our Victorians topic.  The children had the chance to take part in an interactive workshop where they got to dress up like Victorian children, have a go at writing using a quill and ink, and play with some traditional Victorian toys.
Next, they got to visit a reconstruction of a mine and hear about the jobs that Victorian children might’ve done.  Finally, we spent some time in the museum which had information about Coatbridge and Glasgow throughout the ages- everyone enjoyed having a dance in the reconstruction of the Barrowland Ballrooms!

Thanks again to all of our parent helpers who made the trip run so smoothly! The children had a brilliant time.

We have been learning about how alcohol can impact our bodies in different ways. We have been creating TV adverts to show what we have learnt.

Pythagoras have been working on complementary and supplementary angles. To find the complement of an angle you need to start at 90 degrees and subtract the angle you have to find the missing angle. We enjoyed doing a treasure hunt in the class about this.

Euler have been working on division and have started to look at word problems.

Turing have been learning about compass points, directions and have been continuing to work on building confidence with division.

In PE we have been learning more about rugby and have been increasing our skills so we are more confident at throwing and catching a rugby ball, passing, tackling and scoring tries. We have been playing non-contact rugby with bibs tucked into our shorts. It’s been great fun!

This week we finished our Queen Victoria posters and have started to learn about the industrial revolution. We were looking at different sources of information to find out what life what have been like back then. It was a very hard time for a lot of people during this time as they were very poor, their jobs were awful and there was only one toilet in the whole street! The houses were very small, lots of families would share one room. Next week we will be doing our famous Victorians/inventions solo talks to the class. We are looking forward to sharing what we have learned with each other.

In writing we were creating Bonfire Night poems using AABB rhyming pattern and trying to use onomatopoeia. They were great!

In maths, Pythagoras have been learning about different types of angles for example acute, obtuse, right, straight lines, reflex and full rotations. Euler have been working on their place value knowledge of five digit numbers. Turing have been learning about compass points and directions moving clockwise and anti-clockwise.

In writing we created Halloween poems and were trying to use an ABAB rhyming pattern. It was good fun.

We have created Victorian timelines this week to show key events that happened in the Victorian era. We created a human timeline and then worked together in groups to create our own.

In Science we started to learn about the digestive system. We were learning how our food travels from our mouths through our digestive system. We started to label the key organs involved to the digestive system and are learning what each one does to help our digestion. We learned that the medical term for throat is oesophagus!

In Health and Wellbeing we were learning about how smoking can impact our body. It can turn your teeth and fingertips yellow, it can create tar in your lungs and make you look older.

This week, P5a enjoyed having two French guests in the classroom.  One of them taught us some French songs and told us a little bit about life in Cannes (Emma).
In maths, the cylinders enjoyed creating and solving their own calculator problems for one another (Harry).
We started our new social studies topic, ‘The Victorians’ with a lesson on Queen Victoria which helped us to practise our note-taking (Ailsa).
In ICT, we finished our presentation on the Seven Ancient Wonders (Jamie).
In literacy, most of the groups have been attempting some trickier comprehension to challenge themselves (Muhammad)

In maths we have been learning how to read scales. We have to decide how many jumps we are having to do between numbers for example going up in 2s, 5s or 100s.

We have started our new IDL topic which is the Victorians. We spoke about what we wanted to learn about. We were learning about Queen Victoria and working on our notetaking skills.  Did you know she had nine children, forty grandchildren and thirty seven great grandchildren? She also married her cousin Albert.

We have been working hard on creating presentations about solutions to the plastic pollution in our Oceans. We presented these to the class this week and enjoyed it.

In writing we were continuing a story about a ship that had something dark and mysterious swimming underneath it. We were trying to use our VCOP skills to create an engaging story.

Yesterday we had a French teacher in our class and we got to ask her questions about what school life was like in France. Did you know French children go to school on a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8.30am-4.30pm but they have a two hour lunch break! We are very lucky because we have an interactive whiteboard in every classroom but in France they don’t have this. They always have cheese for dessert during their school lunches. It was a great experience getting to meet a teacher from France. After this we wrote a story about what it would be like to live in France.

In PE we have been learning how to pass a rugby ball and catch it correctly. The rugby world cup is happening just now in Japan.

In music we were learning about Tam o Shanter and have started to listen to music along with the poem.

Today we started our skills academy. We enjoyed all of the different experiences. Some of us made: cereal bars, created tables from paper, thought about reduce, reuse, recycle and started to plan plastic bottle pencil cases and others were learning how to use spheros. It has been a busy day!

 

For our class blog this week, P5a were asked about the most interesting parts of their week at school, here is what they said…

(Ailsa) We finished our Seven Natural Wonders of the World topic with a special lesson about Rio de Janeiro.
(Elise) In art we learned how to draw Keith Harring art by drawing stick men and going around the lines to make them into distinctive shapes.
(Owen) This week we learned some Portuguese words and watched a video of a man on top of the statue of Christ the Redeemer.
(Leon) The boys in the class did a drawing competition.
(Sabre) In maths, the spheres used the geo-boards to make shapes.
(Affan) In P.E. we have been playing bench ball.
(Abbie) In the cubes we were drawing houses and using rulers to see how long they were in centimetres.
(Thomas) When we were learning about the seven natural wonders, we had to shut our eyes as our partner described a picture to us so we could draw it.

We now have four digital leaders in our class who will be able to help us with all IT work.

Pythagoras have been learning about converting weight. We have been working on word problems which are tricky. We are working hard to try and decide which operation to use to solve the problem.

Turing have been working on dividing and are becoming more confident using multiplication squares to help.

Newton have been learning about symmetry and have created symmetrical patterns. We have all been working on questions in Sumdog to help with our rapid recall.

Euler have been learning about converting lengths. We are working on key vocabulary to help us work out if we need to add, subtract, multiply or divide.

We were learning about the street artist Keith Haring in Art. He used bold colours, black outlines and movement lines to create different pieces of art. We had fun creating our own.

This week we have been reflecting on our writing. We had to look back at what we have done so far in P5 and pick out pieces of writing which show our use of VCOP. We spoke about what we were most proud of and have created targets for next term.

In Science we were learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and how much litter and plastic is in it. We have been researching solutions to the plastic pollution with our partners and have created slides on our Google Classroom. We can’t wait to present them and tell everyone about the work that is going on the try and solve this problem. This will help us with our Mission 2030 aim about creating sustainable living.

In French we have been learning how to say I like, I don’t like, I hate and I love.

 

Having learned about Rio Harbour as part of their Seven Natural Wonders of the World topic, the class decided they wanted to learn more about Brazil and the statue of Christ the Redeemer.

In class, we watched a video of the statue being repaired and listened to some examples of famous Brazillian music.

The children created posters in their jotters encouraging visitors to come and see Cristo Redentor.  They included lots of interesting facts, persuasive language, and even some Brazillian Portuguese- ótimo!