Month: June 2024

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Despite the weather I hope everyone enjoyed Sports Day for those who could attend! Next week I will sending home some work which you can keep at home. Thank you for the cardboard donation, we will be using it next week to help with constructing country landmarks. The pupils also had a great time taking part in the ‘Beat the Staff Goalie’ with 18 scoring goals into myself!

Literacy and English

We finished editing our P1 Buddies letters and we are planning to decorate them when Mr Atkinson prints them off.

We have started to plan for our final writing lesson which will be creating an imaginative story from the perspective of either a football player in the Euros or an athlete competing in the Olympics. To organise our ideas and notes we used mind maps and drew storyboards.

Numeracy and Maths

Some of us have been learning how to order fractions, find a fraction of a number and how to multiply by 2. We have also been revising adding and subtracting up to four digits using exchanging and carrying. We have also become more confident with converting times into both 12 and 24 hour time.

Health and Wellbeing & Sports Day

Even though it rained a little we had a great Sports Day and enjoyed watching the adult and class races! A basketball coach also visited our school and delivered a session to us that involved different ways of dribbling around cones.

In P.E. we worked in groups to plan our entries for the East Renfrewshire Active Schools Keepy Uppy Challenge! We had to be very creative and use our Growth Mindset when performing our ideas.

IDL – Olympics and Euros 2024

As part of Sports Week we have been taking part in Euro themed lessons with a focus on Italy as this is the country were were allocated! First we learned how to perform some traditional dances such as ceilidh dancing and the Italian Tarantella. We also tried speaking in Italian and we created rainbows and labelled them with colours written Italian. We also designed new Scotland football strips by looking at past examples and we researched information about Italy which we used to design bunting that has been placed around the school.

 

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

If possible can pupils please bring spare cardboard to class next week to allow them to construct a variety of tourist attractions from different cities as part of their Euros 2024 & Paris Olympic Games topic. I have also asked the children to get permission from adults at home for bringing in a small toy figurine to class that they can use in their Stop Motion activities. Please do not worry if they do not have one, we will accommodate this.  Pupils also had a great time on Friday at the Celebration of Achievement assembly in Eastwood High School. With Sports Week coming up please read the Weekly Round Up for information about uniform.

Literacy and English

Mrs Jamieson visited us this week and explained the role of the P1 Buddies and what to expect. We discussed about the importance of being a role model and showing the school values. Mr Jamieson also reassured us that sometimes our Buddies will want to play with their friends which is also okay. After her visit, we drafted and typed our P1 Buddies letter which had to include some information about ourselves, a description of Crookfur and a memory of our time in P1. Mr Atkinson also took our photograph and has uploaded it onto our Google Docs which he will print off.

In our Grammar lesson we discussed and learned how nouns can act as adjectives and what compound words are.

Numeracy and Maths

Some of us have been revising what fractions look like and how to simplify and make them equivalent. We have also been recording times to the nearest minute using to and past as well as writing numbers up to 10,000.

Health and Wellbeing

On Monday during P.E. we competed in our very own Olympics! We took part in a range of stations such as shot put, javelin and discus throwing as well as relay racing and jumping over hurdles.

In the MUGA some of the primary two pupils joined us. Our classed helped to familiarise the younger children with some of the potential Sports Day activities. We all had a brilliant time modelling and managing each station and hope to use these skills next year as a P1 Buddy!

IDL – Olympics and Euros 2024

We carefully looked at medals from previous Euros and and Olympics and then drew and coloured our own.

Science

With Mrs Scoular we had a fantastic time making volcanoes and then exploding them!

Outdoor Learning

Building on our knowledge of habitats, we researched how land is impacted by humans and climate. We then sketched how habitats change over time and listed the reasons as to why this can happen.

Mr Atkinson’s comment:

Next week we will be discussing the P1 buddy system so I have asked for the pupils to reflect on their early memories of Crookfur so that they can include these in the letters to their buddies.

Literacy and English

In our comprehension activities have been answering a range of questions on characters feelings and exploring stories from around the world.

In our Writing lesson we created a plot based on a dragon! This was challenging as were encouraged to write in first person and in the present tense. To help achieve this, we took breaks to read our stories to our partner to help us check that we had written the sentences in the correct tense.

Numeracy and Maths

Some of us have been using our knowledge of cm and m in calculations, revising how to subtract 3 digit numbers involving exchanging, applying our understanding of seconds when timing each other to complete tasks with stopwatches and learning new Mental Maths strategies by using factors.

Philosophy

In our philosophy lesson we discussed if stories can be wrong and if numbers in our heads are real, both questions led to interesting debates.

RME

We discussed several religious stories and then researched examples of individuals who have either performed miracles or good deeds using religious texts such as the Bible.

Science

With Mr Atkinson we have been investigating which animals are either extinct, endangered or thriving. We discovered that the red squirrel population in Scotland has been decreasing over the years and one of the reasons for this is that it is in competition for food sources with the grey squirrels.

With Mrs Scoular we have started learning about earthquakes and tsunamis.

Spanish 

Mrs Scoular has been teaching us about countries that speak Spanish and we also listened to some Spanish music.