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Term 2

Welcome back to Term 2!

PE days are still Tuesday, indoors and Friday, outdoors. However, this may change once our Bikeability dates are confirmed with Bikeability Scotland. Please check this blog regularly for updates.

Homework has been assigned via Education city. This is a revision of Numeracy skills and has been assigned for 4 weeks to allow pupils to complete all activities.

Spelling homework’s has been assigned for the term. this should be completed weekly and handed in by Friday. Pupils should write each word 3 time and complete a multi sensory activity for each word. As with last term, this does not have to be written but  can be active such as creating spelling words with sticks, back writing or using shaving foam.

This terms topic will be Europe and the learners have designed their curriculum based on their interests. We are looking forward to learning all about other countries and cultures. If you have any European artefacts we would welcome your child sharing them with the class.

This week Kara brought in some lava that she had found in Lanzarote!

The children expressed their love of Star Wars and we used this in maths by completing some Baby Yoda algebra.

 

 

Music

P6a were learning all about musical notes and high/low tones today.

They worked as a group to practice using different instruments to follow sheet music.

P6a have been using their steam skills

P6a have been designing and creating windmills from next to a strict criteria. They had to plan out their design and then adapt this as they encountered problems  in creating their windmill.

Each windmill had to be:

3D

At least 30cm tall

have 3-6 blades

blades had to turn

independently support itself.

Children built upon skills and knowledge they had previously learned when looking at bridges and creating thir Ferris wheels.

 

Mathematic Investigations

P6a researched various aspects of Maths from the history to the influence of the Greeks & Egyptians to Chinas influence today.

They researched famous Mathematicians and discovered close relationships with the sciences and art and understood what STEM or indeed STEAM subjects are linked together.

They created posters of their findings and confidently presented these to the class.

Data handling

P6a carried out Christmas surveys, collated their results and displayed them in graphs.

They then used their ICT skills and Excel & Google sheets to create a spreadsheet and a digital graph of their results.