“On Tuesday we were doing kindness workshops. There were 5 different stations. PC Karen took one of them, she taught us about different crimes and relating them to bullying. We also had Aimee and Mhairi from I am me, they taught us about disabilities, safe spots and they showed us a video about what they do. They help people with disabilities feel safe.” Zakir, Myra, Olivia and Ava

“After our workshops we went round classes and told the younger pupils about kindness. We showed them a video and then handed out love hearts. We helped the other pupils write about who had been kind to them and how.” Daryn

“Becki, me (Haniya) and some other Crookfur pupils went to a badminton tournament on Thursday in Barrhead. We played against other schools and came 6^th.” Haniya

“On Thursday we designed Christmas cards. We used pictures on the board for inspiration. We were completing them for a competition.” Isla

“In writing this week we were editing one of our previous stories. WE did 5 different stations where we improved punctuation, vocabulary and spelling. We also read it over to check it made sense.” Rosie

“At the Woodland this week we found shapes, tried to estimate how many blades of grass there were and how high the tallest tree was.” –Ross J and Zakir

“In music with Mrs Hutchison, we listened to “The Carnival of the Animals” and tried to figure out how the music suited the animals. At the end of music we sung the song “Happy” ” –Lucy and Isla

“For Book Week we have been looking at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In writing we wrote described the setting of the Chocolate Room, we compared and discussed the different film versions. On Wednesday, completely coincidentally we got an email from Willy Wonka. He asked us to research the most popular flavour of chocolate and display it in bar graphs or pi charts. Then he asked us to design packaging for it. We used a 3d computer programme called Tinkercad. On Thursday he asked us to describe how the chocolate would taste, we even made up some Roald Dahl style words to add in. On Friday, we made posters and made chocolate bars. We melted chocolate and added in flavours.” Becki, Jenny, Rosie, Charlotte and Dawud

“In P.E we played numbers football. We all had a number, when it was called out it was our turn to play.” Helena

“Mrs McGuigan visited the class to hand out some certificates. Six people got them, but Mr Flood said it was a very hard decision. Well done to, me (Alfie), Charlotte, Kaitlyn, Jenny, Blake and Zara.” – Alfie

“For book week we also guessed the teachers’ favourite books and read to our buddies.” Zakir

“We took our topic out to the woodland this week. We had to find the best place to line up for the start of a clan battle. We made forts, made allies and acted out a bit of a battle. Some allies turned on their allies.” Charlotte

“In P.E we were practising football skills and we were trying to get the ball off out partner by tackling them.” Zakir

“In art we were using complimentary colours to concentric circles with oil pastels.” Emily

“We were learning how to use speech marks properly. So we rewrote a part of George’s Marvellous Medicine adding speech marks, commas and new paragraphs.” Rosie

“In maths some of us did problem solving. Some of it was very hard, it took us a whole page of working. In one problem we had to figure out fractions. It took us two days of thinking.” Alfie

“In music we listened to a part of some songs and had to guess the instruments in it. Some of the instruments were ones that people in the class played.” Isla

“In Health and Wellbeing we acted out if scenarios were bad luck, someone else’s fault or your fault. We acted out wee plays in groups. We drew a responsibility pi chart.” Jenny

“In writing we wrote descriptive stories about the Battle of Culloden. We were uses the 5 senses to add to our descriptions.” Jude

Have  a look at some of the things we’ve been up to this week!

In P.E we played football to develop fitness skills and worked more on our basketball skills.

In the Woodland this week we looked for and then made some 3D and 2D shapes using natural materials.

In maths some of us were dividing decimals, others were finding fractions of amounts.

In art with Mrs Hutchison we were using complimentary colours to create backgrounds for our spheres.

In writing we worked to create fantastic setting descriptions.

For topic we learnt all about the Battle of Culloden and how the Government defeated the Jacobites. We did some research on laptops to find out more. Some of the class looked up how big a long sword was and checked if it was taller than them (it was)!

We learnt about Diwali and then made some amazing rangoli patterns.

On Friday we had great fun breaking the rules, we had ponchos, onesies, a break the rules t-shirt, crazy hair and even cupcake hair! We raised lots of money for P.E equipment.

Enjoy your weekend!