This week we finished off our Functional Writing topic on Instructions. We have been learning to logically organise steps and information and to use a variety of connectives to join them together. Today we tied our learning in Writing to Technologies where we developed our understanding of food preparation by using different resources to make Ice Lollies from fruit juices. After that we wrote a set of instructions based on what we had learned to do.
“They were delicious!” – Paige
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about celebrations in different religions. To do this we looked at weddings and the various aspects of these celebrations in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. We tied our learning in RME to other curricular areas e.g. Technologies where we designed and built window frames.
We also used Weddings as our topic for our work in Expressive Arts. As part of this, with Primary 2 we turned our frames into stained glass windows just like you might see in a cathedral.
We then learned the song ‘Love Story’ by Taylor Swift and prepared and performed a drama of a Christian Wedding at our learning and teaching assembly.
“It was really good fun and amazing!” – Emily
“I really enjoyed preparing and performing the drama of a Christian wedding.” – Lewis
This week we started looking at instructions as part of our writing. To do this we played board games in groups and wrote down a set of instructions explaining what resources we needed and how to play the game. Later we changed groups and used the instructions left for us to try and play the next game, then we left the group feedback on their instructions using our success criteria.
“I learned how to write instructions. It was really fun playing the games and writing instructions.” – Kenzie
Over the last few weeks we have been working to improve our ability to select ideas for a story and to organise them in a way that allows us to create an engaging story. As part of this we all entered the BBC’s ‘500 Words’ competition. Here we are with our certificates.
– Thomas
Today we were learning why different groups of people in society were important in the campaign to abolish the slave trade. To achieve this we split into groups and looked at information on our assigned group. Then we discussed, using our teamworking skills, which tactics we thought would be the most efffective for our group to use.
Today we were learning about the different people who were involved in trying to get the Slave Trade abolished and developing our ‘finding information’ skills. We achieved this by watching clips from the 2006 film ‘Amazing Grace’, making notes on the abolition movement, and the people involved.
As part of ‘National Poetry week’ we used what we learned about ‘Acrostic Poems’ to write our own: using interesting words and ordering our poem so that the first letter of each line spelt out our theme ‘Light and Dark’.
We have been learning about Christian baptisms. We watched a short video and took notes of the main points. Using our notes we wrote a paragraph explaining what happens at a Christian baptism.
We have been developing our knowledge of the water cycle and how water changes state. To achieve this we took part in a variety of activities and experiments, leading to us researching, preparing, and delivering a presentation to both Primary 5 classes.
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