Mr Atkinson’s comment:
Thank you to all the pupils who have brought in Harry Potter themed items to class to show and present to their peers! Also well done to Lewis and Retal for participating in a local football festival.
Literacy and English
Chloe – In our writing lesson this week we pretended to write letters home to our families as actual Hogwarts students. As this was an informal letter we were challenged to use contractions and to have written address in the correct layout.
Mehr – Using our knowledge of the most recent Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone chapter we created our very own potions. We achieved this by using descriptive vocabulary, listing the ingredients, quantity need of each item and the effect they will have on someone. Finally, we designed a potion bottle by drawing and then colouring them in.
Harley – We have now started learning the 3rd and 4th joins in our handwriting lessons.
Ruairidh – This week in spelling we used dictionaries to help us to learn the definitions of some of the science related words we have been using with Mr Atkinson and Mrs Lamont.
Numeracy and Maths
Emma – My group have been challenged this week to use our knowledge of the timestables to solve 4 and 5 digit multiplication calculations. They got trickery over the week as some of them involved carrying.
Harley – My group has been adding 4 digits together involving carrying and then we used this knowledge to answer problem solving questions.
Alfie – My group has been learning about area. First we counted the full and half squares to find the area of shapes but later in the week we used the formula L x B which made it quicker.
Retal – We have also been using our mental maths skills to add in chunks.
Health and Wellbeing
Ruairidh – This week we have been testing our passing skills by aiming at hoops to complete bounce passes to our friends.
Isla – Some of us have been comparing phrases and vocabulary linked to Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset. We all agreed that Growth Mindset is about challenging ourselves and learning from mistakes.
French
Kyler – With Mr McMillan we were learning how to name and say kitchen items in French.
Outdoor Learning
Aarohi – We have started our journey towards earning our John Muir Award which we will be updating you about over the year. This week we learned about who John Muir was and his life story.
Expressive Art
John – In Music we listened to different orchestra performances and then learned about all the different instruments that are used to create the sounds. One of the follow-up tasks involved using our knowledge of the sounds to figure out which soundtrack matched the scenes from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
