Mr Atkinson’s comment:
Thank you to all the parents and guardians for providing a plastic container for the pupils to take home their sushi rolls that they made on Monday with the catering team as part of their Japan topic. I hope you got a chance to taste and enjoy them! Have a great October holiday everyone and I look forward to hearing how you spent it.
Literacy and English
This week we finished our Harry Potter class novel and created who, what, where, when, why and how questions for a friend to answer! We really enjoyed it and some of us are going to read the next book in the series called Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
We summarised the book by choosing main events that happened to help us retell the story in our own words.
On Wednesday we spent the morning researching more facts about our chosen Scottish inventor that we had been investigating at home as part of our Talk Homework. When we felt we had enough facts we then organised them into groups using different titles and headings. We then created a fact file about the inventors and drew pictures of their inventions.
Numeracy and Maths
This week in Maths we looked at the rules and strategies for making square and triangle numbers, finishing our work on the timetables and dividing and continuing to solve vertical calculations.
Mr Fleeson visited our class and told us how he uses Maths in his job. We got to see how a microscope works and were fascinated when he used it to explore some of our hair, shrimp eggs, a t-shirt and even Mr Atkinson’s beard!
Health and Wellbeing
This week in hockey we played matches and combined all the skills we have been learning this term such as passing, dribbling, shooting and our knowledge of the rules. In our next lesson we are going to evaluate our performances by discussing what we would like to improve and think about how we could use attacking and defensive strategies.
IDL – Scotland and Japan
We compared the life of a Japanese pupil with our own experiences of school in Scotland. First, we watched a video of a child going to a Japanese school and then we did some research on the Chromebooks and made some notes. Afterwards, we drew a table and separated sections into different time slots throughout the day. Then we wrote down what a Japanese student would be doing at those times and on the other side we wrote what we do.
Expressive Art
With Miss Campbell we finished designing, sketching and colouring our kimonos for our Japan topic. The shapes and lines on some of them are so interesting!
Outdoor Learning
This week Mr Atkinson had P5A and P4/5 in his class and he explained what we will be doing for outdoor learning this year. We were told that we are all going to be participating in the LEAF programme which stands for Learning About Forests. First we shared our experiences of the outdoors, then we took part in a survey about nature and we discussed some lessons ideas and activities we could do to improve nearby ecosystems and outdoor areas on the school grounds. Our P5 stage is going to be forming a forest committee and to become a member we had to present three reasons as to why we think we should be on it. We also have started to create an action plan for the year.
