Football

This week we had our last football session.  We have enjoyed learning lots of new team games and new skill practises that helped us with our teamwork and football skills.  We enjoyed playing mini tournaments and full pitch matches.

Fitness

This was also our last week of fitness.  We have learnt how to check our pulse.  We have learnt that over the last few weeks we have been able to do more of the activities in the same length of time, and that our heart has gotten stronger as a result.

Art

We combined our knowledge of fractions and problem solving to create hearts.  We then used our knowledge of tinting to paint the background that our hearts would get  stuck onto.

Sustainability

With Mr Atkinson we have been working on designing a sustainable city.  We could only include renewable energy sources in our design such as water dams and wind turbines.  We worked in table groups to create the best design possible, with the challenge to be more creative than P5b.  Once we were finished, we shared our design with the rest of the class.

Harry Potter

Last week we worked in groups to use our chronological order skills to establish the order in which the Harry Potter books were published and when the films were released.  We even started creating a timeline of events in J.K Rowling’s life too.

When we were researching the movies or books, we had to take notes on when they were published or released. – Farouk

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Maths Problem Solving

Today we were finding out ways to create shapes on a peg board with a specific design criteria.  We had to create a table to see if we could find a pattern or relationship between the number of pegs and the area they covered.  It was really fun and tricky. – Michael

(Sorry, we forgot to take pictures!)

Harry Potter

This week we began making our magical schools or castles out of carboard using our Make Do kits.  We then programmed Micro-Bits to give our structure a name, logo or light up feature.

I liked learning how to use the screws and cut our the cardboard using the Make Do tools. – Anna O

We built our ‘Wings of Fire Academy’ using the different tools and and we worked as a team doing different jobs. – Isla

I loved using the Make Do kits because we got to shape the cardboard in lots of different ways. I’m happy with my final school. – Anna W

Renewable/Non- Renewable Energy Sources

It was fun doing the debate about renewable energy with Mr Atkinson this week.  We had to come up with arguments for and against renewable energy use.  – Theo

We were all given different energy sources and we had say why ours was the best as part of the debate. – Emily

With Mr Atkinson were given a template of Scotland and we put down four places where solar, wind or hydro power can be found. – Cameron

PE

In PE this week we played cups and saucers and the chain game as a warm up before practising our football skills.

This week in football, we were practising passing drills then we played a wee tournament with different teams.  – Ava

Fitness

This was week 4 of our fitness block.

I found the push ups and the hula hoop jumps hard this week. – Oliver

My favourite thing in fitness this week was the ladders. – Menaal

Maths Problem Solving

We looked at ‘Reasoning Logically’ in maths this week.  We had to find the total of either 5 or 7 sides of dice, calculating all the possible solutions and totals.

It was fun and challenging. – Michael

We found it quite difficult as we discovered there were more solutions when you turned the dice. – Farouk

Art 

We have been learning how to tint colour; add colour into white paint.  We created a background for our magical setting in our imaginative writing.  Then we cut out a silhouette in black paper.

It was really fun to do tinting. – Arwa

We did a practise strip first, then we painted our background. – Ava

I liked this art because we discovered how to make different colours we could use. – Anna

Symmetry

Today we were looking at symmetry.  Some of us were making symmetrical pictures, whilst some of us were finding lines of symmetry in a range of pictures and shapes.

Our computer activities we fun and loved playing all the different types of symmetry games. – Millie

Different Types of Joins

We investigated different types of cardboard joins which will help us construct our ‘Magical Schools’ or ‘Magical Castles’ next week.

Topics of Interest

It was interesting to hear about ‘Wings of Fire’ books.  Finlay and Annie sang us a ‘Wings of Fire’ song and showed us lots of books.  Noelle

It is really impressive that Lana and Millie have learnt how to sew a bag.  Connie

PE

We have been learning football skills for the last few weeks.  We were doing dribbling and passing skills this week.  We did the numbers games, high five passes and attacking and defending games.  The best bit is playing small games.  Jack J

Maths Problem Solving

We used lots of different kinds of maths problem solving strategies to find the answer to the problems.  Farouk

Sustainability

On Tuesday we were putting renewable energy sources into categories and discussing advantages and disadvantages of the different sources.  We then made fact files about all the different types of renewable energies.  I think it is quite interesting.  Emily

Technology   Design Brief

Yesterday we were designing magical schools or castles which we can build out of cardboard.  We were thinking about how we could use a Micro-bit to enhance our design within our group.   Isla