Over the past 2 week we have been focussing on decimals. To apply our knowledge and skills we were tasked with creating a class pizzeria. We allocated ourselves various roles from chef, waiter, customers and cashiers, where we had to add and subtract decimals, multiply and divide, calculate percentages, all while working collaboratively and developing our problem solving skills.

This week our classroom has been buzzing with builders, designers, and very determined problem-solvers! Pupils have been putting their maths skills of measure, length, perimeter, and area into action through a series of creative construction challenges.

They’ve worked in small groups to rescue Rudolph from a snowy field by designing mechanisms using K’Nex- turns out Santa’s reindeer are in very safe hands! They then followed a design brief to create their own rockets (all strictly between 30–60cm… NASA would be impressed with their accuracy!).

Applying their measuring skills, the class imagined and planned their own dream homes, using their knowledge of perimeter and area before bringing their ideas to life in 3D using LEGO.

Throughout all of this, they have shown fantastic collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

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Two highlights from our week have been the open afternoons, sharing our learning journey with family members. Continuing our learning journey of textiles in different cultures, we rotated around 6 different stations, applying our learning in different ways, including making Yurts from K’nex and fabrics, creating job adverts and designing our own textile products.

Thank you to everyone who visited our class this week, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Over the past few weeks, Primary 6 have been fortunate enough to have S6 language ambassadors from eastwood High School lead various interactive games, supporting their language development.

We are now more confident with numbers, weather, family members and colours in French. You should ask us to teach you at home.

On Tuesday we had a fantastic visit to Sky Up Academy Studios in Livingston, where we showcased our learning of AI while gaining experience and insight into working in tv production.

What a fantastic experience and a massive thank you to all of the staff at Sky Up Academy for their help and support.

We had our second BSL visit from Emma this week with the lesson focussing  on colours and days of the week. We also learned signs for Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening  and Good Night. We will practise these and try to implement them into our daily routines.

We are so lucky that for the next four Thursdays we have Emma McGowan from East Renfrewshire Council Sensory Service Support to teach us British Sign Language (BSL). This week we learned the alphabet and numbers 0-20. Why not ask your child at home if they can remember how to sign ‘Happy Halloween’?

We acknowledged the finale of our light learning journey, by sharing our learning with Primary 1. We demonstrated some of the experiments we undertook as well as performed our shadow puppet shows. The teachers were very impressed with our effective communication, kindness and the responsibility we demonstrated.

We have begun our new learning journey “How are textiles used in different cultures” which led us to research some materials from around the world and how cultures use the fabrics (tartan, african wax print, kimono, canvas and cotton to name a few) We even got to try some of them on.  

This week we have been developing the meta-skill of collaborating as we worked together in groups to design, create and solve problems during various lessons. Once complete, we nominated one person from each group to talk about our creations with the whole class.

Using a range of skills, we created a track with the K’Nex, working together to calculate monetary values while solving design problems.  We had to ensure we had clear communication as we delegated roles, shared our ideas and built the model.

While planning and designing a shadow puppet show, we shared our ideas with each other, discussing pros and cons and also had to reason and justify as we made decisions.

Linking our learning journey of light, to the theme of Wild Maths, we have taken our learning into the woodlands this week.

We collaborated in pairs and trios to identify symmetry and collected materials that could be used to create a piece of art, incorporating light – shadows and reflection, as well as symmetry.

Look at our amazing art, inspired by the artist Olafur Eliasson

This week we have been learning about  Isaac Newton and his theory of light. We discovered  white light is made out of 7 colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and indigo.

We used crystal prisms and torches to split white light into coloured wavelengths, seeing rainbows as we looked through, proving Newton’s theory correct.

Extending our learning and understanding further, we created Newton’s colour wheel. We learned how to use a compass to draw a circle and used our knowledge of fractions to create segments. We had fun experimenting with dispersion of white light.