Literacy and English 

Rayan – For Big Writing we were writing flashbacks to represent a character’s fears.

Ismail – In Literacy we were answering questions about non-fiction texts. You got to choose which book you wanted to read.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

Alfie B – In Maths, The Number Ninjas and Mathletes have been learning about misleading data and trends in graphs.

Health and Wellbeing 

Aritri – In HWB, we were learning how to put someone in the recovery position with a partner. My partner was Ruby.

Healthier Minds

Eva L – On Monday Healthier Minds came again to talk to us more about anxiety and we got booklets out to fill in about anxiety.

PE

Alfie Y – In PE we were doing a rounders tournament at Eastwood. It was our last week of visiting.

RME

Gabby – This week in RME we were making paint out of eggs, pigment (chalk) and water. We created a famous painting to represent the Easter Story.

Outdoor Learning

Ruby – We were finishing off our Science posters for the science week competition. My group and I made one about animal population.

The Change Challenge 

Harry Fo – In The Change Challenge we are creating our pitch for our prototype. Next Tuesday we will present our pitch with a Google Slide.

 

Science Week 

Aritri – In Science Week, we made our own penguin nests called gentoos. We worked in groups.

Sophie – On Wednesday, we watched a Live Lesson about Climate Change.

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Literacy and English 

Ismail – In Writing, we were writing about a superhero with a flashback. How they got their superpower and we had to make up the rest of the story.

Hishaam – In Literacy, the entire class were looking at different reference texts. We were learning how to use the contents, glossary and index page and had to answer questions using all of them.

Outdoor Learning with Science Week 

Ruby – In Outdoor Learning, we were looking at traffic surveys and we had to work with our shoulder partners to see how many cars, vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists passed. We counted them all.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

Alfie B – In Numeracy and Mathematics, the Number Ninjas are learning about 4-digit subtraction. Miss Estlick taught us a trick with numbers with 3 0’s such as 6000 – 3456. We can take 1 off the top and bottom number and still get the same answer when we subtract them without exchanging.

Omar – In Numeracy and Mathematics, The Mathletes were learning about adding and subtracting different volumes. You had to convert litres to millilitres and add or subtract.

Health and Wellbeing 

Eva L – On Monday, we met people from Healthier Minds who were talking to us about anxiety and we talked about it and did different activities about it.

PE and Cross Country

Mehr – On Monday we went to Eastwood for Cross Country trials to see who would make the team. You had to run around the track 3 times. There was a girls race and a boys race.

Harry Fo – In PE, we went to Eastwood High School for our second last week.

The Change Challenge

Callum – In The Change Challenge we finished off our product prototypes. Our groups is a wardrobe that cleans clothes for the disabled, elderly and others.

Music Introduction

Olly – Today we went to the Science room and we met the music teacher and she introduced us to 3 new instruments from the woodwind section which were the clarinet, saxophone and flute.

Literacy and English 

Alfie Y – In Writing we were writing poems about our family/family member. I chose my brother Ashton.

Varda – We were also learning about different rhyming patterns and writing in stanzas.

Ruby – In Reading, we learned to summarise with a partner. We had to find the main idea and 3 supporting details then come up with a title for the text.

Numeracy and Mathematics 

Eva L – In Maths, The Mathletes were learning to read scales and we also tricky word problems. We had to convert Litres and Millilitres.

Aritri – In Maths, The Cool Calculators were learning the 9x tables. We got to solve some word problems and it was quite fun. Afterwards we played multiplication games that Mrs Lamont sent us on Google Classroom.

PE

Mehr – In PE we went to Eastwood and my group were learning to play rugby and we played a game called ladders then we had to pass the rugby ball to one another. After that we played cops and robbers.

Health and Wellbeing

Gabby – In Health and Wellbeing, we were looking through a first aid kit and then afterwards we used bandages, eye patches and plasters to help someone if they were hurt. We took turns practising how to help someone if they were bleeding. Varda and I got to perform. Some performances were really funny.

Outdoor Learning – Beat the Street

John – For Outdoor Learning, we went around Newton Mearns with Miss Estlick and Mrs Norman to collect Beat the Street points. We even went to St Cadoc’s Primary. Altogether we gained 2,400 points!

The Change Challenge 

Harry Fo – In the Design Challenge. On Thursday we made an annotated poster about our product and on Friday we started making our product prototypes. My group started making a robot to help NHS workers and people with disabilities.

World Book Day

Ruby – For World Book Day we did a book swap and we a did an escape room – escape the book worm challenge. We had to find 10 digits to escape the room using the different reading clues to solve. We also had a Book Cafe.

Literacy and English 

Gabby – In Writing, we were writing poems about a friend. I wrote about my friend Felicity from St Cadocs.

Numeracy and Mathematics

Mehr – In Maths, The Mathletes were learning about mental multiplication and we looked a little bit in to decimals.

Harry Fo – In Maths, The Number Ninjas were learning about length and yesterday was our final day and we were solving word problems.

Health and Wellbeing

Ismail – In HWB, we were learning how to heal/help someone with a burn or scald.

PE

Rayan – In PE, we were playing ladders and hockey in my group at Eastwood High School.

The Change Challenge

Olly – In The Change Challenge last week we designed our product and this week we were creating a company name, slogan and logo. We had 45 minutes to come up with this and when we were all done we got to come up in front of the class and present to everyone.

Outdoor Learning

Archie – In Outdoor Learning, we were writing poems about the weather – the rain, storms, snow, sleet, sun, hail, thunder and lightening. Ours was the best!

Pancakes! 

Hishaam – Today we had pancakes because of Pancake Day on Tuesday. The winner of the Bookworm Challenge got to pick their toppings first. We had jam, butter and maple syrup.

Show and Tell

Alfie B – This week some people brought in items from home for Show and Tell. People in the class got to ask questions about what was brought in.