This week we enjoyed our second visit from Miss Bell who is an Art teacher at Barrhead High. We were given newspaper and bandages to make donut sculptures for the P7 Transitions Café which will be held in June. This activity was rather messy but lots of fun!

On Monday we joined in a virtual lesson with the RME and Social Studies departments.  A former pupil from  Cross Arthurlie who is now in S1 joined the lesson too. She was telling us of her experience in Barrhead High so far which has been very positive.  She even took time to answer some of the questions we had. During the lesson we learned about a girl called Malala Yousafzai who is famous for standing up for  the rights of girls and fighting for all girls to have an education. It was very interesting to find out about Malala and to get an insight into the learning we might do in Social Studies in S1.

We have also been invited to join a Family Learning Numeracy Workshop organised by Barrhead High. This will take place on the evening of Thursday 4th November, 7pm-8pm, and is an online event.  We hope lots of families will be able to attend.

We have been busy creating artwork based on our topic of World War Two. We created our soldier art by using tissue paper in camouflage colours to create a collage. Then we did pencil studies of soldiers and added them to our collage.
We also created chalk pictures to represent buildings targeted during the Blitz and we were really pleased with our final pieces. Below is some examples of our work.

We’ve had a busy week participating in challenges to celebrate Maths Week Scotland. Each day we have been set a countdown Maths challenge by Barrhead High to reach a target number 🎯 in under three minutes. Well done to Nathan who was successful in Wednesday’s challenge! 🌟We’ve also enjoyed some musical starters 🎶 in our lessons which has involved us solving Maths problems performed by famous singers. On Tuesday we worked really hard in pairs to complete coding and cipher puzzles. Kyle H and Kaiden were first to successfully solve the puzzles.👏🏻  We’ve also completed a STEM challenge where we learned how to create Curves of Pursuit and achieved excellent results. Finally we finished the week with an Escape Room challenge where we used our Maths skills to solve a range of problems.

This term we have been enjoying our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. It tells the story of Michael who finds himself washed up on an island in the Pacific after travelling the world with his parents on their boat the Peggy Sue.  We are keen to discover how Michael will eventually leave the island. In the meantime we have busy responding to the story through writing and artwork.

Hello and welcome to our class blog where you will be able to keep up to date with our learning throughout the session.
Everyone has had a positive start to the year and we have all been working very hard so far.
Over the course of the week we have been learning long multiplication and we finished the week with an escape room challenge. Our winners were Kaiden and Kyle who were first to escape but thankfully we all managed to find our way out before lunch.

 

This week in Art we were learning about the artist Edvard Munch. He is most famous for his painting The Scream.  We created our own individual pictures based on this famous painting  but also collaborated to make a giant version to display in our classroom.

 

Keep up the great work Primary Seven!

Primary 6 had another good year at Cross Arthurlie and despite a period of learning from home, they’ve shown resilience and confidence by bouncing back.  We look forward to seeing everyone back in Primary 7 – for a final year at Cross Arthurlie.

Primary 6/1 have been learning about the life cycles of plants. Miss Turner’s spider plant (not a real spider) had lots of babies and everyone got their own baby spider to nurture and look after. We put the individual babies in a little water until we could see roots start to grow (after about 2 weeks). Then, we planted them in soil, firstly putting stones at the bottom of the pot for drainage.
They are now in the classroom beside the window as they need sunshine to grow and we water them regularly . Some of them have began to grow new babies…
Follow our blogs for regular ‘spider’ updates.

Both Primary 6 classes have been busy training and working towards achieving their Bikeability Level2 qualification. They have been learning about helmet and bike safety checks and can now independently check their own safety helmets and carry out an ‘M’ check on their bike. Ask them to show you how.

Today, as part of literacy and English, Primary 6/1 chose to read a playscript. They worked in collaborative groups to decide who would play each part, studied stage direction, characterisation and the expressions and actions of actors and about projecting voice. They explained that they found this very interesting and enjoyable. For Art we designed costumes and selected props so this afternoon the children were able to showcase their own performance of ‘Working Children’.
Bravo!

Primary 6/1 were able to compare and contrast Victorian society with our own and researched how children as young as 4 and 5 were sent to work in factories, down mines, up chimneys and to beg on the streets. We learned that children had no rights, unlike today, as children’s rights are protected under law. Check the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). We also learned about Victorian schools and that children were made to wear a ‘Dunce’ hat or smacked with a cane. There were very strict rules about hygiene and talking.
In the playground we played games like ‘hopscotch’ and ‘hoop trundling’ and learned clapping games and sang ‘In and Out Those Dusty Bluebells.’
We made Victorian wooden peg dolls too.
In art we learned about mosaic and re-created a beautiful Queen Victoria portrait.