On Friday the 19th of November, our school took part in Children in Need’s Pudsey Day. We wore yellow or Pudsey themed clothes to school, had a toy and book sale and played games and sports. We raised lots of money to donate to Children in Need. The Children in Need charity aims to help ensure every child in the UK is safe, happy, secure and has the opportunities they need to reach their potential. ⭐️🐻💛
This week we worked in groups to complete different STEM challenges. We discussed the importance of team work, communication, problem solving and creativity before completing each activity.
Challenge 1: What is the strongest boat you can make using kitchen foil and no other materials? We enjoyed testing how many marbles our boats could hold before they sank. ⛵️
Challenge 2: Using a water dropper, how many drops of water can you fit on different coins? 🪙
Challenge 3: What is the tallest tower you can make with one pack of cards? 🃏♣️This was definitely the most challenging of them all!
Challenge 4: How long can you make a paper chain using only one sheet of paper, scissors and glue? 📄🖇
On Friday we were invited to attend a Judo session organised by Sporting Judo Barrhead at the Barrhead Foundry. We weren’t too sure what to expect as most of us had never taken part in judo before but we absolutely loved it! We enjoyed watching the instructors demonstrate some judo movements and then carrying them out with our partners. We also learned the Japanese terms for start, go and stop. We are looking forward to session two later on this week.🥋
After learning about COP 26 and the events which took place in Glasgow around climate change, we discussed the changes we could make to our day to day lives to reduce our carbon footprint. We each decided on three changes we would make and wrote these as promises to our planet. Click on the video links to listen to some of our promises. 🌍💚
To celebrate Guy Fawkes night in school, we read the story of Guy Fawkes and discussed why we have bonfire night celebrations in the UK. Next we listened to the sounds of fireworks and looked at pictures of firework displays from around the world. We used this to help us write a descriptive poem about fireworks. In our poems we used similes, onomatopoeia and alliteration. We also used multicoloured oil pastels to create fireworks art. 🎇🧨🎆
We worked in pairs to complete a Halloween STEM challenge. Our challenge was to use the resources provided to make a bone bridge that was strong enough to carry a spider (a toy spider of course!)
We used straws, lollipop sticks, string, pipe cleaners, cotton buds and sellotape. First we designed and drew a picture of our bridge on paper. Next we used the materials to build our bridge. This was challenging! After that we presented our bone bridge to the class and discussed our strategies.
Well done to Alesha and Kayla who managed to make a bridge strong enough to hold the spider. Check out some pictures of our stem challenge below. 🕷🌉
We enjoyed bringing in our favourite books from home to share with our classmates. We designed a new front cover for our book and wrote information about the characters, plot and favourite parts of the story. 📖
We had a fun week filled with lots of Halloween themed lessons and activities👻🎃
We discussed Pablo Picasso and his style of art, particularly his portraits. We used different coloured paper to cut out and make Picasso monsters. 👹😈
We wrote descriptive spooky stories and enjoyed reading these aloud to the class with the lights switched off and some spooky background sounds. 📚😱
On the afternoon of our Halloween party we changed into fabulous costumes and loved posing for pictures. 👯
We played Boo’ling, designed a scratch mask, watched a spooky movie with snacks and had a mummy toilet roll competition.🎳🎭
Now that we have full photo consent we can share our photographs from the first day of school in August. 📸🤩
Every morning we practise our spelling words using different strategies. This week lots of our learning has been Halloween themed so of course our spelling activity had to be too!
We wrote each of our words in white crayon and then coloured over the words in a marker pen to reveal them. 🧙🏻♀️🪄✨
