Mr Atkinson’s comment:
Preparation for Christmas continues with the primary 5 pupils rehearsing with the rest of their stage for their upcoming performance. Please see Mrs McGuigan weekly round-up which contains information relating to the time and date of the performance. Speaking parts have been issued, accompanying song links have been posted on our Google Classroom and the lyric sheets will be sent home soon. We would appreciate encouraging and supporting your child with practicing their parts. The primary 5 pupils will also be going on a school trip next week.
Woodland dates are: November 28th and December 12th. Please bring appropriate clothing.
Literacy and English
Harley – This week in writing we continued to develop our understanding of how to create a newspaper. Having been inspired from reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last week as part of Book Week Scotland we decided to write a newspaper about the children discovering the golden tickets. First we recorded some quotes from the book for some of the main characters. This meant we could look back at these notes to help us with writing the newspaper.
Archie – Some of our success criteria included uses speech marks and commas correctly when interviewing and quoting people. Some of us challenged ourselves to use different words other than said.
John – We also learned about the differences between primary and secondary sources. Primary sources are usually written from someone who was there at the time of the event, an artifact or photo from the time period. A secondary source is like the books we read in school, they are written by someone after the event who may have used primary sources to help them write it. Using this knowledge we looked at different types of sources and decided whether they were secondary or primary. Finally we discussed what will be a primary source from our time period, such as a mobile phone or diary.
Numeracy and Maths
John – Our mental maths strategy this week involved multiplying 3 and 4 digit numbers by separating them into thousands, hundreds, tens and units and then adding them together.
Aarohi – Using our survey results last week we used Microsoft Excel to create pie charts, bar graphs and scatter plot. Mr Atkinson challenged us to add relevant pictures under our labels. We also had to check that we used the correct scales and labels in our graphs.
Ruairidh – In our functions machine topic we had to decided which rule and pattern was needed to complete the calculation.
Maya – My group was revising how to multiply 4 and 5 digit numbers with carrying.
Health and Wellbeing
Mehr – This week was Anti-Bullying Week. The P6 pupils were visited by the the campus police officer. The whole class learned more about what dyslexia is and how it can impact on people. However, we all agreed that regardless of our individual differences we should be respectful, kind, caring and supportive of one another. The P6 pupils also learned about epilepsy with Mrs Lamont.
Mehr – In gymnastics we got out the apparatus to help us with practicing our different types of jumps – it was so much fun!
Aarohi – In our Bounceback lesson we discussed different problems in life and decided if they were small, medium or large. We also spoke about who we can speak to if we feel overwhelmed.
Harley – With Mrs Lamont we created happiness hero badges!
RME
Sophie – After learning about the different types of Hindu gods we created our very own and wrote descriptions about them. We had to think about what there purpose was and how they helped people.
Expressive Arts
Sara – This week we finished our Christmas card for the Whitecraigs Care Home competition.
