Literacy and English

Alfie B – In writing we were using persuasive language. We had to create an imaginative story about a sloth who had to persuade the loggers to leave the Rain forest alone.

 

Numeracy and Mathematics

Alfie Y – In maths the number ninjas were doing BODMAS. We had to do calculations by using BODMAS.

Mehr – The mathletes were doing angles and on our worksheet there was different types of angles. We looked at complementary angle (90 degrees) and supplementary angles (180 degrees). We had to find different ways of making them.

Harry – In maths the cool calculators were tiling using shapes and dividing by 100.

IDL

Ismail – In topic we looked at fossil fuels. First we learned how coal and oil/gas were made. We then learned about their use and their environmental impact. We also learned about how to live in a more sustainable way.

Science

Harry Fo – In science we looked at the density of liquids. We had a sheet of paper with the liquids on it and we made a hypothesis of which liquid was the most dense and which was the least. We were then challenged to create a density ladder.

RME

Hishaam – In RME we were learning about the Jewish 10 commandments. We had to try and remember the 10 commandments as we ran to the poster and back to our group.

Health and Wellbeing / PE

Rayan – In dance we were looking at traditional Scottish dances. At first we did the Canadian barn dance which was really fun.

Tree of Knowledge

Olly – We did a live stream with other schools in Scotland. We looked at how we can be the best person we can be. We learned that there are somethings you might not like about yourself, but other people do.

Young Carers 

Eva L – Today a visitor came to class to talk about young carers and what they do. He also said about what his job was about and helping young carers. We spoke about what young carers were and how it can be hard for them so they need support.

Literacy and English 

Hishaam – In Writing, we were creating a conversation between characters in an imaginative story. It was about Adam and Ali. Someone was in danger and we got to end our story on an epic moment.

 

Numeracy and Mathematics 

Gabby – In Maths, The Number Ninjas have been learning about function machines.

Omar – In Maths, The Mathletes have started a new topic learning about compasses, directions and degrees. We learned about rotations. 1/2 = 180 egress and 1 full rotation is 360 degrees.

Ellie-Beth – In Maths, The Cool Calculators were learning about tiling. We had to say which shapes tile and do not tile. Shapes with curved edges cannot tile, most shapes with straight edges can tile.

IDL 

Harry Fo – In IDL we were learning about deforestation.

Science 

Varda – In Science, we were making submarines that could sink, float and hover. We used bottles, tubs and other materials. Then at the end we tested them and the winning group got a prize.

RME

Eva L – In RME, we have been learning about Judaism. Today we created a picture of inside the synagogue and we drew all the the things inside them that we have learned about and we had to label them.

Health and Wellbeing  (Circle Time and PE)

In Circle Time, first we had a vote to name our worry monster and “Blob” is his name. Then we read a book about worries then we talked about what we are looking forward to.

Expressive Arts 

Sophia – In Art, we were creating climate change pictures to encourage people to act for the climate. We had some inspirational pictures on the board and created our own pictures with colouring pencils and/or paint.

Pupil News 

Alfie B – On Tuesday I brought in my new Taekwondo belt that 2 1/2 months to get!

 

Literacy and English 

Varda – In Literacy, in Writing we were learning about direct speech, having a conversation with 2 or more characters. We used a speech sandwich to helps us. The bread was speech marks, the butter was capital letters, the meat was the sentence, the garnish was the punctuation. Then we had the bread again then the label which was who was speaking.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

Ismail – In Maths, The Number Ninjas moved on to data handling on the chromebooks and we had to make graphs and tables.

IDL

Omar – We started our new topic all about climate change. Climate change is caused because of extra greenhouse gases.

Health and Wellbeing (PE) – Dance) 

Zunairah – In Dance, we were learning different traditional Scottish dances. We learned the Canadian Barn Dance, Military Two Step, The Gay Gordons and The Cheeseburger. My  favourite was The Cheeseburger and The Gay Gordons!

Science

Gabby – In Science, we learned how things sink and float with Mr Allen. We learned about buoyancy and negative buoyancy and density. 2 people in each group had to pick an item to put in the water and see if it would float or sink. We had to make a hypothesis beforehand.

RME

Olly – In RME, we were learning about where Jewish people worship called a synagogue. We were looking at different things in the Synagogue. We had to write about one of the 6 objects and you had to draw a picture of it. The 6 objects are the eternal light, the ark, the tora, the memorial board, the siddur and bimah.

Art 

Alfie B – In Art, we were drawing leaves and painting them different colours. We were focusing on mixing colours. We added white to make the paint lighter and black to make it darker.

Outdoor Learning

Callum – In Outdoor Learning, we went outside to see what we had in our playground which was good for the environment. We finished off drawing out what we want the woodland to look like.

Class News

Sophia – We were thinking about moving our tables in to two rows. We wanted a worry monster. We also want a jar with pom poms in it and we can get pom poms for good behaviour. When the jar is full we get a class reward. At the front of the desk we have an activity area which we can use when we finish our jobs – today was to draw a picture of us in our dream job.