Monday

On Monday morning we had Mr. Atkinson and we were finishing our front covers for our IDL jotters and working on our friendship and collaboration Meta skills. We had a task where we had to pretend that we were late for a meeting and work out what your team members were talking about.  For example, it might be about toothpaste, but no-one could say toothpaste, but they could talk about flavours of the product and so on. This helped our meta skills of communication, creativity, curiosity and collaboration.

After break we had Mrs. Allan and Mrs. Nasar to do maths in-between break and lunch. Then after lunch we did finished our RME calendars and then we went with Mr. Atkinson down to the learning lab and we finished our Meta skills by pretending our partners were lonely and we helped them.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did Maths in the morning then we went out for break. After break  in literacy we did comprehension on persuasive writing and then we did our spelling workbooks. Then after lunch we did Through the Decades topic on the 2000s. We had a choice to learn about The 2014 Commonwealth games, The Scottish smoking ban, The Scottish parliament and Falkirk wheel/the kelpies. We made notes on them.

Did you know…

• gymnastics was the most popular sport at the Commonwealth games?
• tobacco kills 13,000 people per year, which is why the smoking ban was introduced
• the Kelpies were created by Andy Scott
• the Scottish Parliament meant Scotland could make some of its own laws

Some of our class represented Crookfur at an East Renfrewshire football festival.

 

Wednesday

In the morning on Wednesday we did math we had Mrs. Allan and Mrs. Nasar and then we had PE where we practised our rolls in gymnastics. Then after break we did our persuasive writing that reading is the best hobby a child could have and then after lunch we made posters or leaflets using the notes we took yesterday.

Thursday

In the morning on Thursday we did we did some persuasive texts and adverts and then we went for break. After break we had people who came in to talk about their job and what meta skills they use. We had a lawyer called Kay Potter,  and after a short break a BBC news presenter called Laura Maclver visited.  After lunch we had a influencer called Craig Ferguson  who walked from Hampden Park in Scotland to Germany for the 2024 Euros then we had a artist in called Alan Potter in who made a statue in a park. Craig Ferguson raised £78,000 for men’s mental health.

All of our visitors talked about how they use collaboration, communication, creativity and curiosity in their jobs.