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W/E 20th September 2018

For maths week we received a visit from a nurse who explained how she used maths in context in her real life job and how important this was to her patients and her multidisciplinary team.

The children had learned to create a SWAY presentation or a powerpoint based upon theirĀ  science topic of the power and uses of water.

They began to share them with the class this week and will continue to do so over the next few weeks until all children have presented their work.

Primary 6a began to read “Street child” by Berlie Doherty as their class novel. This is related to their Victorians topic. In literacy we have been looking at adjectives as part of our grammar lessons and characterization as a reading skill. The children worked co-operatively to create character descriptions of some of the characters we have been introduced to so far in the novel.

Well done to Artur who created an amazing Victorian factoryĀ  at home from recycled material. He kindly brought this in to share with the class.

 

Mauritius update

As you are aware, we wrote to a school in Mauritius to establish a penpal relationship with them. Ā The class teacher said that her pupils were excited and delighted with their letters! A Ā number of our pupils have now received replies as the other school have asked their parents to write and post letters as opposed to paying for postage by the school.We are hopeful that most pupils will have a response by the end of term.

Many parents will know Margaret Mary through her involvement with St Johns Church. She has family in Mauritius and has visited several times. She kindly spoke to the children about her first hand experiences of their culture and island and brought in several photographs, maps and shells for the children to see.