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‘In Outdoor Learning we  were given challenge cards and were allowed pick which ones to complete. My group decided to build a structure with outdoor materials.’ Harry

‘My group  made a sculpture that you can see from far away.’ Serena

 

‘In P.E. we were using basketballs and played games with them.’ Ben

‘We were focusing on basketball skills and fitness.’ Luca Franchi

‘We also played matball and warmed up by playing the ‘group game.’ Tia

 

 

 

‘In Art we drew faces with crazy hair and painted them using water colours.’ Beth

‘We used different types of lines for our self portrait.’ Bruce

 

 

‘In writing, we wrote stories including all the different elements from our recent lessons.’ Lexi

‘We had to make sure we included adjectives, similes, pathetic fallacy, ISPACE (openers) and metaphors.’ Bella

‘Power of three and VCOP are different techniques you can use to  make your writing better.’ Ayyan

 

‘Today in our Clan’s lesson we were labelling different parts of a soldier’s uniform.’ Eleanor

‘The soldier was from the era of the Scottish Wars of Independence. They didn’t have very much to protect them!’ James

‘When we compared a Scottish soldier’s uniform to an English soldier’s uniform, we noticed the English soldiers were more equipped for battle.’ Harry

Have a spooktacular Hallowe’en and see you next week!

 

Welcome back from the October week holiday!

We’ve had lots of fun this week doing Outdoor Learning, P.E. and more.

 

‘In Outdoor Learning we made tartan. We found lots of material to dye our fabric.’ Cara

‘The materials we used were berries, wet grass, petals, leaves and some mud as well.’ Bella

‘We put the tartan on our desks and walked around them all, like an art gallery. We picked our favourite ones and explained why.’ James

 

‘In P.E. we were working on fitness and we played a game called Chicken Fight were you had to dribble your basketball and also knock another person’s away.’ Lexi

‘We also played a game called Fox in the hole were there was 1 fox in the middle and the other 3 were in the corners and the fox had to try to get the ball.’ Hamiz

 

‘In Topic, we watched a video and took notes about how clans lived and what they like to do.’ Lexi

‘We learned a bit about what it would be like to live in a clan and that their houses were also called crofts.’ James

‘We learned about handfasting and we learned that people do this at weddings and it is a Celtic tradition.’ Isla

Some of us had a go at handfasting!

‘Handfasting is were you tie a knot, the clans used tartan for this.’ Heather

‘Sometimes handfasting was a trial to see if the man wanted to take the women as his legal wife and they would each have their own tartan (if they were from different clans) and they would pull it to ‘tie the knot’. This is were the phrase comes from!’ James

‘In French. Mrs Hobson out up pictures on the board of classroom objects and we had to write them down in French.’ Sophia

‘We were learning that French objects have genders, masculine and feminine. Female is une, masculine is in.’ Molly

‘In Maths, some of us had a competition (girls vs boys) to see who could order all the decimals first. The boys won but the girls did well!’ Ayyan

‘In writing, we were working on VCOP. At the end some of us shared our work and we gave PPs (positive points) and HHs (helpful hints).’ Lexi

‘Whilst writing, we tried to include lots of connectives and punctuation in our writing. We added to a story called The Monster.’ Evan

See you in our next blog and have a wonderful weekend!

Welcome back to our blog!

This week we have been learning more about Scottish clans.

‘We created a timeline of the history of Scotland.’ Hamiz

‘Robert the Bruce gifted lands to clans.’ Warren

‘During The Highland Clearances, English landowners tried to wipe out clans. People’s houses were burned down.’ Sam

Jessica brought some books to share with everyone about the Urquhart clan.

‘I also brought in a book that I showed to the class, about a boy called Rob who fights in the Jacobite army and his clan was clan MacDonald.’ James

‘In writing we up-leveled sentences using ISPACE at the start of the sentence.’ Hamiz

‘Some of us read our stories at the end and we shared positive points about our writing.’ Molly

 

‘In P.E. we started with warm up games, like Octopus Tig. Then we played Caterpillar catch, where you have to form zig zags and pass down the line. Then we played Kingball and Mat ball.’ Ayyan

‘Today we had 2 star players! Well done to Emilia and Sam!’ Molly

 

‘In outdoor learning we went to the woodland and found natural materials to dye fabric.’ Heather

‘After the holidays, we are going to pick colours that we made from the dye and make tartan.’ Eleanor

‘I think that it was really fun finding different types of berries to make different colours.’ Ayyan

 

‘In Maths we were trying to find out how many different shapes there were in classroom.’ Sam

‘We were also learning about angles in a triangle. The triangle were all sides are different is called a scalene.’  Lauren

‘If two sides of the triangle are the same, it’s called an isosceles and if they are all equal it is an equilateral triangle.’ Sam & Harry

‘We learned about 3D shapes and learned about faces, edges and vertices.’ Warren

 

Have a nice holiday and see you again in our next blog!  : )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello there! Today you will read all about what we have learned this week!

‘In P.E. we were learning about the bounce pass for getting the ball quickly to our team mates.’ Isla

‘We played Kingball and added in the rule about the golden snitch. If you catch the golden snitch you can choose 2 other people to join you on the bench.’ Leaah

‘I think adding the golden snitch rule made Kingball even more fun!’ Ayyan

‘This week we had 3 star players, instead of 2 because Mrs Hobson couldn’t decide between us! Me, Harry and Cara were selected, it was fun!’ Bruce

 

This week was special as it was Maths Week Scotland!

‘Every day we had a starter task related to Maths. For example we had to memorise and draw shapes, we also played Guess the Number and we created Maths questions.’ Heather

 

‘We also got to choose a job and we had to create a poster, including the Maths skills involved in that job.’ Bella

 

‘For example, the job that I chose was a photographer. The Maths skills involved that I wrote down were, using money, IT, directions and time skills-so that you are not late for photoshoots.’ Molly

 

 

‘The job I picked was a footballer and for that job you have to work out angles and speed as you need to know were you are going to score. You also need to be able to work out money to understand your salary. Also you’d have to work out timing so that you arrive at your match on time. Footballers also have to measure their fitness ability.’ Ayyan

‘My job was a Formula 1 driver. You would need to understand speed, time, angles and measure!’ Warren

 

‘This week in our Clans topic we have been making notes about important information and events in Sottish history.’ Lexi

‘We will be using the notes to make a timeline of important Scottish events.’ James

‘I found it interesting learning about how Robert the Bruce gifted lands to clans and in return they had to fight for him.’ Euan

‘I found it interesting researching how to make colours and dye fabric for tartan.’ Lauren

‘This week in writing we were learning about something called ISPACE. It’s an acronym standing for

I- ing words

S – similes

P – prepositions

A – adverbs

C – connectives

E – ed words’ Eleanor

‘We wrote sentences in our jotters, using ISPACE to learn more about how to start sentences in different ways.’ Harry

‘I enjoyed my writing lesson because I learned new things.’ Warren

 

Thank-you for reading our blog and see you next week!