w/c 23rd January by Helena and Zara

On Monday we did our spelling in the morning and then went to the MUGA for P.E. We played dodgeball and running. After break we did persuasive writing about the school uniform and if we disagreed with it or not. After lunch. We did social studies on democracy and war for our new topic.

 

Tuesday we were off because teachers were striking.

 

On Wednesday we did indoor P.E. we did our own P7 Olympics, we all got into groups of 5 or 6. We did a long jump, javelin, shot put, and sprinting. Since we didn’t have proper items we used rings and foam javelins. After break we did our maths corrections and there was also a mental maths board task once you finished. After lunch we did Science about the bodies organs, skeleton, etc. At the end of the day, Harris played the chanter for us.  He played “Scots Wae Hae” for Burns day. 

 

Thursday morning, we read our class novel, ‘Remembrance’. After break we did mental maths and Mrs Hutchison came in to do Spanish with us. We learnt how to say different family members in Spanish. After lunch we finished off our Spanish vocabulary and then started to make different shapes with clay. We used pencils as a replacement for the item pottery makers usually use. 

 

Lastly on Friday, we did our war topic and made a timeline and then drew poppies or the war trenches. After break we did Flexible Friday where we finished off our spelling and mental maths, and then went to assembly. 

 

 

 

w/c 16th January 2023 by Olivia and Dawud

On Monday we wrote out our spelling words. For P.E we had to stay inside so we did a just dance and a roll the dice game there were six tasks and another six tasks and we rolled 2 dice then we would do them. For maths we did angles and an area dice game so you roll a dice and we had our whiteboard and used the squares on the back and then we would roll a dice and make a shape with that area. Then at the end we count them up at the end to see who had the most if you did you won.

 

On Tuesday in the morning we did literacy, in literacy we had a passage about horses,the passage had facts and fiction about horses. some of us worked on a text about aliens. In maths we did revision on area and learned a bit about compound shape.in the afternoon we had health and wellbeing and learned about sleep and how it is good for you. We also peer assessed our posters on advantages and disadvantages of exercise. 

On Wednesday we had P.E. there was six stations and two timers and we marked down on a bit of paper to see if we were faster the first or second time. We used a chromebook for our stopwatch.we did a finish off on our maths and started our topic about war but we started with democracy and about votes and how the laws worked in the past and the present and some of us wrote notes.

 

On Thursday we started a new class book called Remembrance.It is about a women that wants to help directly in the war as a nurse and is based in the year 1915 . We started with our predictions with the two front cover what were shown on the board then we made predictions and the blurb after that we started reading chapter one.in the afternoon we had Mrs Hutchison and we did art. We have been doing sculptures. We used paper stick hot glue and cards to try and make sculptures.

w/c 9th January by Mac and Edward

Monday:

We copied down our words for homework and learned our new spelling words. Then P.E we did running around the muga for 2 minutes and relay races. We did maths.

 

Tuesday: We were off for the strike.

 

Wednesday:  We did P.E in the morning. It was fitness and there were 8 different stations. There were situps,pushups,jumping jacks,bench climbers,jumping,ladder running, and sprinting. Then we did time in Maths. We worked on our goals on stars with Miss Sime in the afternoon. 

 

 

Thursday: we wrote letters to Miss Sime to get to know each other. Mrs Hutchinson did Spanish with us and we done art. We were making different shapes with paper for sculptures .

 

Friday: This morning we did maths. We looked at angles, decimals and algebra, time and isosceles triangles. in the afternoon, we researched the benefits of exercise in groups and started to create posters.