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!
