Mr Atkinson’s comment:
Rehearsals are well underway for the Christmas performance! The lyrics and video links to some of the songs can be found on our Google Classroom to help learn at home. As mentioned in the homework guidance no more homework will be issued for this term and it will resume in January. Also some of the pupils in the class who have been attending recorder club performed at the assemblies – well done to them all!
Literacy and English
In our Writing lesson we discussed that you can write a formal and informal thank you letter depending on who you are sending it to. Afterwards, we wrote thank you letters to the Glasgow Science Centre and we focused on including connectives so that we could create more detailed sentences explaining what our highlights of the trip were.
We have been learning how to summarise paragraphs and texts by identifying what are the important parts that the reader needs to know and then reword the information in our summaries.
Numeracy and Maths
In Maths some of us have been investigating different multiplication and division links involving the 6, 7, 8 and 9 timetables. We have also been ordering numbers, learning about place value, answering questions based on bar graphs and organising daily events in to AM and PM.
Health and Wellbeing
In our fitness session we competed in group races – it was very tiring!
Outdoor Learning/STEM the Flow
Mr Atkinson has been teaching us about the damage litter does to marine and river life and showed us what the Great Pacific garbage patch is. We discovered animals including the fish that we catch and sell can sometimes eat plastic. In another lesson we researched different devices that collect litter in the ocean and rivers to help inspire us with creating our own ideas. Afterwards, we used Tinkercad, which a online 3D modelling programme, to help us design prototypes of methods to either collect or stop litter travelling along waterways. We also assessed the materials that we have brought to school to see which items would best help us to create our models.
IDL – Scotland and Japan
We all listened to the final group presentations as to why someone should visit Japan. Everyone worked very hard to create presentations using Google Slides and it was so interesting hearing about the different types of festivals, locations, foods and activities you can do in Japan.
