Mr Atkinson’s comment:
As part of our STEM the Flow Engineering Challenge we would welcome any donations of cardboard or materials that can be cut safely to help the pupils to create their prototypes. In addition, next Friday the class will be walking to Capelrig Burn to survey the surrounding area and investigate how litter affects waterways. Please could pupils bring appropriate clothing and footwear to allow them to fully participate in this visit.
Literacy and English
This week was Book Week Scotland so for our Writing lesson we wrote informal letters between two of characters from our favourite novel. We are also becoming more confident with including and using some of the key features in letters.
We also enjoyed writing our spelling words in different colours and reading our new group books.
Numeracy and Maths
In our Maths lessons this week we have been learning how to accurately measure with a ruler, use our knowledge of converting centimetres and metres to find the answers to addition and subtraction calculations, solve word questions that involved multiplying and dividing with remainders, finding and identifying lines of symmetry, drawing symmetrical shapes, dividing shapes into fractions and completing number lines using halves and quarters.
Health and Wellbeing
This week our class and the school have been focusing on Anti-Bullying! First we watched the BBC Anti-Bullying Week 2023 Live Lesson which helped us to understand the difference between Banter and Bullying. Afterwards, we discussed what these might look like at school and then we worked in groups to create anti-bullying themed poems which we shared with the class.
In P.E. on Monday we all took part in the Bleep Test which was challenging, tiring but very fun!
IDL – Scotland and Japan
This week we have begun to research and plan our group presentations on Japan which we will be presenting to the class next week. We have been using all our knowledge, completed worksheets as well as information online to help us create and organise our slides.
Outdoor Learning
We explored the school grounds and went on a leaf survey to see how many different shapes we could find. This helped us to figure out what types of trees were in the Woodland and near to the playground.
We helped Mr Atkinson to decide which themes and activities we could do for our LEAF Action Plan which he is going to send to the organisation.
Spanish
With Miss Campbell we learned how to say different greetings in Spanish!
Expressive Art
We have now started our music topic and Miss Campbell helped us to create sounds using our bodies.
