Month: May 2024

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

I hope everyone enjoys the upcoming long weekend!

Literacy and English

We have now started exploring a different genre of writing, imaginative! Mr Atkinson shared a video with us a story about a child and his robot but he only showed us the beginning and ending. We then had to write the climax and resolution of the plot to fill in the missing events. In our paragraphs we were encouraged to use skills we had learned about earlier in the year such as; similes, descriptive language related to the senses, connectives and correct punctuation.

Numeracy and Maths

Some of us have been learning how to recognise quarter to and quarter past on clock faces, exploring the process of multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, determining start and end times by using our knowledge of the bridging method, and converting cm and m which helped us with measuring objects.

Health and Wellbeing

In our Athletics lesson we have been honing our throwing skills by using the javelins. We have also been continuing to improve our shot put technique by aiming at targets which were worth a certain amount of points.

We have also been discussing who we can share and talk to if we have worries.

IDL – Olympics and Euros 2024

We have been listening to national anthems and watching video clips of Olympic medal ceremonies and opening international football matches. Feeling inspired we tried creating Flower of Scotland using GarageBand and then we developed our very own Crookfur Primary anthem! As a class we also successfully recreated a popular Harry Potter theme using the app.

Working in groups we researched and designed information posters with facts about how sports have changed due to technology and presented these to the class.

Outdoor Learning

The pupils had a fantastic time seeing some of their P2 buddies in the Woodland this week! The class also created their very own clay faces using natural materials and placed them on different trees to decorate the area.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

I have been very impressed with the dedication and enthusiasm the pupils have displayed in their role as Friday Prefects. They will be undertaking this job one more time before the end of term and it is a great opportunity to help prepare them for the additional responsibility when they go into primary 6!

Literacy and English

One of our recent favourite Writing lessons has definitely been writing a persuasive letter as the Head of the Scotland bidding team. We were challenged by Mr Atkinson to present compelling arguments as to why Scotland or Glasgow should host the future Euros or Olympics. To achieve this we created a detailed structure by inputting all of the information we had learned in our Euros/Olympics lessons into an online planning map. This helped us to organise our paragraphs and order our arguments logically. We also applied some of the persuasive techniques we have been focusing on including; persuasive sentences openers, facts and statistics, emotive language/WOW words and rhetorical questions. In our Writing lesson starter tasks we had to use some of these methods to sell Silverburn Shopping Centre, Flip Out Glasgow and a garden full of rubbish. We also listened to examples of real life toy descriptions and discussed if they were persuasive enough to appeal to children.

Our comprehension activities have also reinforced our understanding of persuasion as we have discussed how some texts that are written for a purpose and how they try to appeal to a targeted audience.

The group reading books have also been very useful as some have explored the Olympics, Paralympic Games and persuasive articles.

Numeracy and Maths

We have been learning about the importance of following the order of operations in calculations, how to add and subtract involving money, discussing why some data is not always accurate and how to improve bar graphs and building our confidence with dividing using remainders.

Health and Wellbeing

In P.E. we divided the MUGA into two sections. On one side we played a football match and on the other side we were trying to establish a rally in Tennis with Mr Atkinson. The purpose of both of these activities were to encourage us to apply all the skills we have been developing on the course of this year such as controlled dribbling, awareness of positioning on the pitch and the correct swings.

In our Athletic lessons we have been taking part in races, honing our shot put and long jump techniques.

IDL – Olympics and Euros 2024

Over the last two weeks we have been working very hard in our Euros and Olympics topic. In groups we have been discovering how Scotland and Glasgow would meet the criteria to host either of these sporting events. We created information booklets which contain our notes and drawings of popular modes of transport such Glasgow Airport or the Subway, iconic tourist attractions such as Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum or Edinburgh Castle and venues that could be used to host different types of sports such as Hampden Park or Glasgow National Hockey Centre. We plan to use this information in our bidding letters for our Writing lesson.

After looking at past Euros and Olympics logos we then constructed our own Scottish themed logos using Tinkercad.

Science and Outdoor Learning

After learning about food chains we have started exploring food webs are food chains that are linked. After discussing this we started to create some of our own on Jamboard!

 

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

We had a fantastic end to the week with the Colour Run! The pupils all had a great time and enjoyed cheering on the other classes as they passed by.

Literacy and English

In our Writing lesson we created a persuasive letter to the council discussing the issue of littering in our local community and what we can do to stop it. Some of the skills we used to make compelling arguments included;  persuasive sentence starters, facts and statistics to support our opinions.

Numeracy and Maths

Some of us had a great time using a variety of measuring jugs to help become more confident with reading scales and making estimations. We have also been learning how to multiply 3 digits numbers by a single digit, identify different coins and solve puzzles involving square and triangular numbers.

Health and Wellbeing

For our first athletics lesson we all took part in races!

This week we explored our feelings and identified which feelings are comfortable or make us feel uncomfortable. We shared how we react when we experience a certain emotion and we listed people who can help us cope with the more challenging feelings. Afterwards, we used some of the strategies that we had discussed to resolve scenarios.

IDL – Olympics and Euros 2024

We have been researching a venue of our choice that will be used either in the Olympics or Euros. We recorded some key information such as their design, what they will be used for and what they are made from. Then we constructed models of the venues with Kapla and applied our knowledge of the Microbits to programme floodlights to go inside our stadiums!

Science and Outdoor Learning

To help us further understand habitats and our surrounding environments we have been learning about food chains. We discovered that animals adapt to their environments and what carnivores, herbivores and omnivores, consumers and producers are. We then went out to the woodland area to see if we could identify a food chain that we could draw and label in class.