We started our final term with a mini learning focus about religious milestones. The pupils understand the importance of a milestone in someone’s life and some religious milestones within Christianity and Judaism. Everyone chose an additional religion to investigate which religious milestones they celebrate. The pupils demonstrated excellent curiosity and respect during the lessons.
Primary six created personalised picture books for their P1 buddies. This afternoon we opened our buddy shop! The P6’s created money wallets and helped their buddies ‘pay’ for their books. The P1 buddies were extremely excited to receive their special books and P6 enjoyed the gifting experience. The P6’s truly embodied Crookfur’s value of kindness today!
This week we continued our learning journey which is related to British Science Week. We combined our knowledge of salt to conduct an experiment to investigate the impact of salt on watercolour. The pupils applied their creativity and curiosity to create a hypothesis then created very unique pieces of salt watercolour art.
This week was British Science Week. This week’s theme was curiosity. The class created scientific questions and created our hypotheses whilst conducting experiments related to our current learning journey.
We used curiosity as our focus throughout lessons, including our maths lessons which explored the equivalences between percentages, decimal numbers and fractions.
This week we celebrated World Book Day. We participated in a number of experiences including:
This term, we have been focusing on developing our musical skills, including learning to play the glockenspiel. Today we received our first music lesson from two S6 pupils from Eastwood High School. They taught us about orchestras, the instrument families and we even got a chance to try their musical instruments.
This week P6C welcomed their buddies to their PE lesson to share their learning. The learners have been learning about rhythm and they can combine several dance moves in a sequence. Miss McNeil and Mrs Docherty were very impressed with how well the learners danced the Gay Gordon’s and the Virginia Reel.
Primary 6’s current learning journey is focusing on engineering. The learners have created engineering firms and they are working towards building a new sporting venue for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Thank you to two of our amazing volunteers who have visited the school to speak to the learners about their careers in engineering, the meta skills they use within their work and the link between engineering and maths. It has helped the learners gain a better understanding of how their learning relates to the real world.
Next week is Safer Internet Day. In preparation for Tuesday, P6 invited their buddies to their classroom to discuss how to stay safe when researching online. They showed their buddies how to use Kiddle (a child friendly search engine) and helped them to find facts. The P1’s will use this to help them write a fact file about their favourite animal next week.
This week we applied our learning of finding the area and perimeter of 2D shapes through our new learning journey. The learners discussed the job that require strong knowledge of these math skills. Everyone worked well with their team to recreate the floor plan of our client’s new home then priced up different flooring options.
Miss McNeil
