On Wednesday, we had a Science teacher from Eastwood and we made fruit batteries. We worked well with the equipment, and Dr Gibson was impressed with our understanding and how well we shared our ideas.

 

We have started our committees for the last term so that we have more control and input, rather than the teachers deciding everything. We’ll be working on our own activities and also helping with the school Celebration of Achievement, looking at different memories and the Expressive Arts showcase.

 

In Health and Wellbeing we have been talking about friendships and bullying.  We discussed online and offline friendships, and the need to be friendly, even if you’re not someone’s friend.

 

We started our SNSA on the Chromebooks (and Mrs Allan said we’ve been working very hard on them!)

On Monday we completed our Bikeability Level Two training.  We were really lucky with the weather (especially compared to P7b on Thursday!) We received our certificates, badges and Rider’s Guide on Friday. to recognise our hard work.

On Tuesday we finished off our term with Mrs Hutchison playing lots of different drama games.  We finished our reading books and shared all of our hard work on the Famous Mathematicians homework task.  Mrs Allan was very impressed with our explanations and the diversity of people that we had researched.

 

Wednesday was a busy day with several of our class out and about! We consolidated our maths skills together in different games and worked hard in PE.  In the afternoon, we discussed the establishment of the Scottish Parliament (and played a bit of Wordle too!)

 

We combined literacy and art on Thursday.  We created watercolour backgrounds, using spring flowers as the inspiration for our colour scheme.  After practice to refine our line skills, and decide on the shape and size of our flowers, we created detailed line drawings, and a cinqain poem.  Some used spring as inspiration, others April birthdays, flowers, or Ramadan.  They look so effective!

On Friday, some of our class shared their thoughts and experiences about Ramadan. We made a good deeds calendar,  since this is a special focus during the month of Ramadan.  our new digital leaders received their awards at assembly, and we received our Bikeability level two awards too.

 

Things to remember:

House Captain Easter Competition

Crookfur’s Got Talent

bring a clean, old tshirt for Earth Day on April 22nd.

Science Week

The theme of Science Week 2022 was “Growth”.  We watched two live lessons, one on Futuristic Farming and the other on being a Climate Change superhero. We were (almost) all surprised to learn that potatoes are the most thrown-out food and that if everyone stopped wasting food for one day, it would have the same effect as 2 million trees!

We made notes and wrote summaries about the recovery of the shipwreck Endeavour using underwater robots, tried precision farming techniques using peas and sweetcorn and designed our own robots to help farmers.  even our writing had a science theme as we tried our hand at sci-fi!

 

Drama

For drama we practised voice, and came up with a script for a telephone call in pairs which we will perform next week.

PE

In P.E we did another fitness test and compared our scores from before, the tests included: Skipproping, side-to-side jumps, shuttle runs, ladders, pushups, situps, bench climbing and star jumps.

Then for Thursday we didn’t do anything because of the weather however on friday we practised rugby.

 

 

Sharing our stories

This week, we shared the picture books that we have created with Primary 2.  We worked really hard to make them as engaging as possible.  many of our books covered diversity and friendship, with some in comic style, and others with different illustration styles.  Mrs Allan warned us P2 can be (very) honest and they gave our stories rave reviews.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

We learned to play the glockenspiel and about different notes on sheet music.

Drama

 We were pretending to be at court for the case of little red riding hood. The characters were: 

The big bad wolf, Little red riding hood, defence lawyer, the witnesses, 2 police people and  the judge.

On Wednesday we did a lot of fitness stuff, to name a few: skipproping, jumping over hurdles and side to side jumps

On Thursday we played rugby with Mr Wilson.

Literacy and English

We have been working on summarising. Grammarly has been summarising act one for their book about war called “Hitlers Canary”.

The editors are going to start reading a non-fiction book about spies.

The kung-fu writers have been reading “under bombers moon” a book about a collection of short stories about war

 

Writing

 

We have been writing and illustrating books for us to read to the P1s once we are finished.

Numeracy and Maths

The mathletes and the subtraction samurai’s have been working in ratio, scale and converting millimetres into centimetres and vice versa. The division Doctors have been working on area.

 

Social studies

We learned about democracy this week. We had cards that has different topics on them and we sorted them into devolved to Scotland and reserved to UK.

 

International Mother Tongue Week

We learned German and we learned a The Beatles’ song “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. Some of our class sung the song at assembly and Affan and Nicolas made the video that the whole school watched.

We dressed in the colours of the German flag too.

Snow Fun

On Thursday we used teamwork skills to build a huge, rainbow-coloured snowman as part of a school competition.  There is some debate over its name… We also had to make a shelter for wooden dolls. The shelter had to be stable, safe, free-standing and look good.  You can see our efforts in the photographs below.

 

World of Work

We started our World of Work research on Friday.  First we talked about why jobs are important and why people might have the jobs they do, and the balance of money and happiness.

We completed a quiz that described us animals and then suggested jobs based on our personalities.  Over the next week, we will research the suggested jobs and make a Google Slide.

 

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been learned about multiplying and dividing decimals, negative numbers and how they work and fractions.

 

Literacy and English

We made an early start on World Book Day by writing to characters from our favourite books.  We started by playing a Who am I? game with famous book characters.

 

 

We have our folders of work home this weekend – please remember to return your jotters on <onday!

After our Food and Drink warm up, In gymnastics, we were creating more group balances and we also completed an obstacle course with beams, mats and a vault and crash mat.  our group balances included 5 or 6 people and we had to be creative to include everyone.  afterwards, we got feedback on what we did well and a small thing to improve.

 

On Thursday we debated “video games and apps have educational benefits”.  The against side were more persuasive. If you were in the audience, rather than on one of the sides, you created a question to ask both teams and then helped to decide who was most persuasive.

 

Today, we talked about internet safety and the answers to different scenarios.  We covered lots: streaming services, social media, You Tube and gaming.

 

Monday

After break we had Mrs Nasar for heart stone and we learned about someone called  Steven Lawrence and what happened to him.

 

Tuesday 

We had Mrs Hutchison first thing in the morning and we did music. We learned how to read music.We also did drama and learned how to mime.

We had Mrs Allan for numeracy.

 

Wednesday

On Wednesday we did P.E and we did gymnastics. We learned shoulder stands,headstands,handstands,bridges, jumping and balancing. Leo was our photographer.  We’re really improving our balancing and jumping skills.                       

              

 

Thursday

We had MUGA athletics in P.E.We also had outdoor learning and we had to search for stick people, based on an image called “Nature Dancing”

Friday

 

We did numeracy in the morning .  some of use created cuboids with certain volumes using the centimetre cubes.

After break we did ethical trading is about unfair jobs and how to try to be more sustainable. And we did flexible Friday – here are the stick people recreating the photograph. We are going to use this as the base to write a coding algorithm for a dance. 

Class blog by Jamie and Menahil 

10th January 

 

Monday

 

We did heart stone odyssey with Mrs Nasar and we learnt about designing Indian dancing clothes and read some of the heartstone book. We learned about pie charts in maths.

 

Tuesday

 

Today we were doing art music and drama with Mrs Hutchinson. We were learning about mimes and SPECS which stands for slow precise exaggerated clear simple.

We watched a video about a mime and mimed out scenes. Some of us even did a ukulele club with Mrs Hutchison.

 

Wednesday

 

On Wednesday we did PE and we learned gymnastics. We had 4 stations: 1 for handstands,1 for headstands,1 for shoulder stands,1 for bridges and 1 for doing bunny hops over the benches.

Thursday

 

On Thursday we did writing about dialogues and learning about speech. We learnt Spanish,about the culture so we watched the Encanto in English then in Spanish then in Spanish in subtitles.In maths we learnt about computer algorithms outside by pretending one of us as the computer by hopscotch and programing to go to number 10.  then we added a bigger area in the playground and added angles to.

 

Friday

We did mental maths with Mrs Norman. We learnt about humanism and what it is about,also we did some Flexible Friday. Some of the options were to self access your work and make a calendar out of our Aurora Borealis pastel pictures.

   

Nicolas and Adam taught us about the history of fast food.  They said that the first fast food diner was called “White Castle” in North America. They also talked about the effects of having too much fast food.

Humza taught us about Pakistan.  They have the 10th biggest army in the world and they are part of the “Iron Brothers” with China. Pakistan has the best cricket team in the world. and that the Prime Minster is Imran Khan, who used to be captain of the team. Imran Khan built a hospital after his mum died from cancer.

Charlotte taught us how to draw anime. the character had a big head and large eyes. We used guidelines first to place the noise, eyes and mouth correctly.  We have added some examples to our mini lesson wall display.

Noor, Hibba and Zainab taught us about the history of art and talked about different famous artists and the tools you would use to create art. They told us about Leonardo di Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.  There was a quiz at the end to test what we had learned.

Hirah and Abbie taught us about musicals and how they began.  The talked about famous musical and how much money they had made. Hirah’s favourite musical is “Mamma Mia!” because the songs are by ABBA. The Lion King is the most popular musical in the world, making over £1 billion (and 24p).

Elise, Ruby and Eilidh taught us some British Sign Language.  They told us letters, days of the week and useful words (like good luck and my name is…) (which most of us can still remember). We learned how to spell our names using BSL and we can still remember how, four days later.

Thomas and Viraj taught us about the history of gaming and the different types of consoles.  We had a quiz at the end to check what we had learned, such as how many consoles were sold.

 

We used a program called Tinkercad which is a 3D shape website.  We had to make a sleigh that was

a more sustainable version

aesthetically pleasing

aerodynamic

 

It was fun and easy to use.  As well as being able to add and combine shapes, you could add figures too.

 

We had our party on Monday.  We played musical bumps, corners, pass the parcel and a balloon/snowball race.

 

We made Christmas craft on Friday.  We used scrabble letters to make a Christmassy word or a name.  First we cut the ribbon to the size of the word and then we used hot glue guns to stick the letters to the ribbon and then attached string, a bell and a decoration of our choice.  It can be a bookmark or a decoration.

 

This week we have started to present our mini-lessons. “It was a bit difficult to set up but it was good once I got going” (LMcD).

Leon taught us about Edinburgh; the attractions and Mary King’s Close.  This is where people had the plague and they were blocked off and forgotten about.  It was built over and then found it 30 years ago.

Ailsa taught us about the accordion.  There are 4 main parts: the keyboard, the grill, the chords and the bellows. She then played some songs: You Cannae Shove your Granny Aff the Bus and Ruldoph the red-nosed reindeer.

Affan, Muhammad and Aaron taught us about Mr Beast, his restaurant and his most popular videos on You Tube. His real name is Jimmy Donaldson and he has made two campaigns called “Team Trees” and “Team Sea”.

Adam taught us about chocolate – what you need to make it and how it is made. to make chocolate, the beans are delivered to the factory, they are cleaned, heated, shells removed, roasted and then ground and mixed with other ingredients.

Jamie and Leo taught us about taekwondo.  They described the belts and grading  and demonstrated chunje they performed for their yellow belts. We learned how to punch (including the noise to make).

Julia and Eilidh taught us about origami. They talked about a man who made over 50,000 different origami and then they taught us how to make an origami swan and a heart.

Owen taught us about different types of music and different bands that he likes to listen to. His favourite band is Lovejoy who make indie/rock/pop music. He also included the Beatles, one of the most famous bands in the world who were popular in the 1960s, Queen and Oasis. All the bands apart from Lovejoy have split up.

Harry, Ben and Sabre taught us about animated films. They included Lilo and Stitch, Coraline, Spiderman: into the Spiderverse Minions, Dora and the Lost City of Gold.  They also told us about animated films that are coming soon.