“Today at the woodland we were creating musical instruments  from things we could find in the woodland. Some of us hit sticks off big bits of wood. We even made mini bands. Some of us practised our Christmas songs.” Sophia, Harry, Mueez

“On Monday we did P.E with Mr McMillan, we worked on our fitness. There were 5 stations where we did different exercises. We were in groups. The stations were skipping, running, jumping hurdles, agility ladders and capture the flag. After that we did the bleep test. You had to run across the MUGA before the time ran out.” Sara and Harper

“In Writing this week we wrote a newspaper about Goldilocks and the three bears. We had to include paragraphs, a conclusion and what some people said.” Roslyn

“This week was anti-bullying week. We talked about differences that can’t be seen. We watched  a video about dyslexia where someone was being bullied for not doing things perfectly. We talked about how there might be things we don’t know that explain how someone is acting.” Hadia and Katie

“We learnt about primary and secondary sources. We looked at pictures to decide if they were primary or secondary sources. A secondary source is written by someone who didn’t do it or wasn’t there. Like a newspaper article. A primary source is someone or something that was actually there, like a news reporter who was there, a photo or something like a sword that was found.” Zak and Ross

“On Tuesday the Eco Committee went to the woodland and planted some new saplings.” Amelia

“On Wednesday in writing we wrote a Glasgow shipyard setting description. We had to use our 5 senses.” Josh

“We created something new for our literacy wall. We chose a word and then we used a thesaurus to find other words. Then we wrote them on paper to go on the wall.” Zak

“We went to the Woodland on Friday. We had time to build things.” Ross

“On Wednesday, we went to the science bus. We learned how to cure sheep and cows. We looked at some viruses and parasites.” Aiza

“On Thursday we did an experiment to find out how long ice would take to melt. We wrapped ice cubes in a towel, tin foil, bubble wrap, in water and in nothing to see which would take longest to melt. The best insulator was the towel.” Jad and Harper

“On Friday it was Remembrance Day, so we had a minute silence. We learnt some more about it at assembly.” Amelia and Harry

“We learned about friction. Then we did an experiment. We rolled cars over different things to see what created the most friction.” Mueez and Steven

“We learnt about area in maths. We got a sheet of paper with different shapes on, we filled the shape with lolly sticks, bottle caps and cubes. The cubes were best for measuring area because they were all the same size and they fitted closely together. Bottle caps were worst cause they left gaps and wouldn’t fit directly in the shape.” Lily

“In Art we made some art for Bonfire Night. We used chalk and crayon to make fireworks. Then we chose a famous building from Glasgow, for our topic. Then we had to trace the building to make a silhouette.” Hadia

“In Maths we learnt about symmetry. We decided in real life it was hard for something to be perfectly symmetrical because there might be a speck of dust on one side. We used mirrors and tracing paper to check if shapes had a line of symmetry.” Millie and Ben

“On Wednesday we wrote about settings in Writing. We had to describe what it was like there to make it spooky. We were really focusing on using great adjectives and other vocabulary.” Katie

“We created some front covers for our John Muir booklets where we are going to store all our John Muir stuff.” Sophia

“In P.E with Mr McMillan we did fitness. We had different stations that improved your fitness. You had a belt that you wore and the other team tried to pull your tag off.” Steven

“We got a letter from someone called James. He was asking us to tell him what school was like in 2022. He told us about school in 80s.” Jad

“Some of us have been to our first committee meeting this week.” Euan

“We worked in groups to make scribble sheets/graffiti walls all about our Glasgow topic. We had to write and draw about our Glasgow topics. Things like olden days fashion, ship yards and tenements and high rises.” Jennah and Harper

“Today at the Woodland we were gathering things like leaves, sticks, logs and stones to make a piece of art. You could work by yourselves, in twos or in groups. We also drew pictures and labelled of what we had made.” Mason and Harry

“This week in Maths the multipliers were learning about function machines. A number goes into a box and something happens to it. For example, if 5 goes in with add 10 in it, it comes out as 15.” Ben

“In Science we learnt about renewable energy and green transport.” Calvin

“In topic we were learning about fashion from the different decades. There were different dresses and necklaces. There were some types of suits. We drew an outfit from a decade and labelled it.” Ross and Lisa

“In Writing, we continued a short story about a fictional planet called Planet Delta.” Arnav

“In reading we read some of our books. We looked from evidence from the book to back up our ideas.” Euan

“We were working on collages in art. We had to cut or rip little bits of paper to make a picture of a tenement as part of our topic. We glued pictures of people in the windows.” Mason

“This week we were dividing and multiplying by ten, one hundred and one thousand.” Ben

“In Writing we went through our writing jotters and we had to find examples of writing with good examples of connectives, openers and vocabulary.” Erin

“In Reading, one group were reading “Cheat”. We had to make a prediction based on the story so far.” Roslyn

“We did some Philosophy. We read a story and we had to answer some questions. “What is the difference between interesting and boring?” and “What does it mean to do maths in your head?” Aiza

“We spent some time finishing off our infographic about John Muir. We wrote information and drew pictures.” Mason

” This week in Maths we have been learning about division. We picked some people and Mr Flood shared marbles between them to help with division.” Steven and Millie

“We went out to the Woodland. We were discovering things for the John Muir award and thinking about how we are going to help nature.” Harry

“We played silent Simon says.” Jad

“We learnt about floating and sinking. Then we made ships that we put into water. We put marbles on to see if it would sink or float.” Ross

“We looked at photos taken by Oscar Marzaroli. The photos were from the 60s in Glasgow. we guessed what the pictures were, then we had to pick a picture to write about.” Calvin

“In Writing we wrote about famous Glaswegians. We researched information about them and then we wrote a fact file.” Aiza

“It was Maths Week. We learnt about how people use maths in their jobs. We also made optical illusions, making straight lines look curved. We also took part in a maths week quiz.” Calvin

“We applied for jobs building ships in Mr Flood’s ship yard. We had to write down why you would be good for the job and what skills you are good at. We interviewed each other about the other person’s application.” Jad

“We did spelling, we had to write our words and then write either a story or some silly sentences using our spelling words. Then we had to do another task, for example bubble writing or rainbow writing.” Hadia

“In RME we learnt more about Judaism. We learned about the synagogue. We also looked at some objects that are important to Jewish people, like a prayer shawl and kippah.” Ben

“In Writing we were writing about Edinburgh Castle. We made a fact file. We had to list all the facts about Edinburgh Castle.” Katie

“In assembly all the classes spoke about Maths Week. They spoke about what they had done. Me (Maira), Ben and Euan stood up and spoke about what we had done, the parabolic curves and job posters.” Maira

“As a maths starter we played Countdown. We had to make a big number using small numbers.” Harry

“In maths we learnt clockwise and anti-clockwise and then we played Simon says. We had to follow instructions like right angle turn clockwise or anti-clockwise.” Ross

“In maths we also made maps of place. Then we gave directions using clockwise and anti-clockwise.” Harry

“On Friday we went outside and we went into 3s. We had to draw a line with chalk. One person at a time closed their eyes and the other people had to direct them with instructions like, clockwise, anti-clockwise and right angle turn.” Amelia

“On Thursday, we learnt about jobs in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s in Glasgow. We watched a video about shipbuilding in Glasgow. Then we had to make a job advert for a 1960’s shipbuilder. It had to say when you go to work, how much you get paid and the skills you would need.” Mason and Mueez

“On Friday we did some mindful listening outside. We had to close our eyes and stay quiet to think of all the things we could hear around us.” Jad

“In literacy, we practised summarising. We used the ‘nutshell’ technique. We watched a video about giraffes diving into a pool. After watching it we used the information to write a summary.” Arnav

“In R.M.E we learnt about Judaism.  Their holy book is a scroll called the Torah. It’s the same as the first part of the Bible.” Euan

“We wrote poems called limericks. They were silly stories with an AABBA rhyme pattern.” Euan

“In Science we were in groups. We made gears last week. We attached them to a piece of paper. We turned one around to see which way the other one goes. We found out that no matter how many gears you have, the odd numbered ones go the same way as the first and the even ones go the  opposite way. Then we got a stop watch, one person turned the gear and one person counted how many times it span around. We discovered that the smaller the second gear, the faster it goes.” Aiza

“On Thursday we did Science. We had to make gears out of cardboard. We made a hole in the middle and then put the two gears together. We watched a video about renewable energy and answered some questions.” K and Millie

“We did some philosophy. We did some reading and then answered some questions with the talking stick. The questions were, “If you copy someone’s picture is it yours?” and “Can building be sad?” Mason

“On Monday we looked at a picture and tried to figure what was happening and what people were doing. We used these skills to help us predict.” Erin

“On Tuesday we looked at maps of Glasgow. We were looking for different buildings, rivers and places. We used North, South, East and West to help.” Harry

“On Thursday we looked at a page from “Where’s Wally?” and looked for different characters. We did this to practise scanning, then we read a text and scanned for words. The text we were reading about was about the rocket that was delayed.” Zak, K and Roslyn

“On Thursday we did some comprehension cards that we marked ourselves at the end.” Amelia

“On Tuesday we made some bunting and letters for our display about Children’s Rights.” Katie

“In our topic lessons we learnt about buildings around Glasgow. We learnt about tenements, high rises and suburbs.” Erin

“We learnt about rescue rats. They have been trained to save people from earth quakes, find land mines and sniff out diseases. We made presentations about them.” Millie

“We did a philosophy lesson. We sat in a big circle and we passed around the talking stick. We read a part of a story and after talked about where our thoughts were and are all things connected.” Maira

“We did a spelling test this week, with some long words, some short words and some common words.” Katie

“With Mrs Shaw we got to do mindful eating of a malteaser.” Aiza

“We did some revision of adding.” Steven

“We did P.E with Mr McMillan. We played hockey, we practised passing.” Sara

“We are learning about Glasgow in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. We talked about some similarities and differences. We did a matching activity where you had the date, name and a picture of different events. For example, the Glasgow Garden Festival and we had to guess the date. We also discussed things we wanted to find out.” Josh

“We learnt about chance and uncertainty. We played a game with a dice.” Harry