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.