Mr Atkinson’s comment:
Well done to the primary 6 pupils for a fantastic performance in their Broons Guide to Scotland show, I hope parents and guardians enjoyed watching it
If anyone has spare or unwanted flower bulbs we would welcome the donation as the class will be helping to create a Crookfur garden over the coming weeks.
On Monday we will be releasing the trout’s that the pupils have worked hard to care for. Please can pupils come to school with their outdoor clothing to allow them to full participate in this activity.
Please could the Reading Buddies bring along one of their favourite books to read to their buddy on Thursday. The Reading Buddies can also select a book from the class library that they enjoy if they cannot bring one from home.
Literacy and English
Retal – For comprehension the primary 5 pupils answered a range of questions on our group novel Stormbreaker and the primary 6 pupils completed tasks related to a Broons text.
Lewis and John – This was our final week of persuasive writing. On Friday we wrote a persuasive letter to the council requesting for more Fairtrade products to be used in schools such as footballs, chocolate and bananas. We were challenged to use all of our skills such as rhetorical questions, exaggeration, WOW words and persuasive vocabulary to create an impactful letter.
Numeracy and Maths
Emma – We started a new topic which involved writing in both the word and number format numbers to 10,000. Afterwards we ordered and put numbers into different sequences.
Kyler – In our Data Handling topic we first created tally charts to record information and then we used the results to make bar graphs. We discussed the importance of choosing an appropriate scale when drawing our graphs.
John and Mehr – We have been using timetables to calculate durations, start and finish times. After we were confident with this we then started converting minutes into seconds.
Sara – The primary 6 pupils have also explored calendars by discussing leap years and answering questions involving dates. Afterwards, we were challenged to add our own events to calendars.
Clyde in the Classroom
Ruairidh – The class wrote lyrics and created a theme song for Clyde in the Classroom this week! With Miss Ross we painted a river and learned about the different parts and features, for example; source, mouth and a tributary.
Expressive Arts
Aarohi – We have started exploring different artists and techniques. This week using our knowledge of the colour wheel we created abstract landscape paintings.
Broons Guide to Scotland Show
Sophia and Alfie – On Thursday morning we had our dress rehearsal with some of the primary 5 pupils and then in the afternoon we performed to our families! The next day we went along to both assemblies and sang all our songs to everyone in the school!
