This week we have started our solo talks and they have been so interesting! Everyone has prepared their talks very well and have even brought in things from home to share with the class. We have had the chance to hear about:
It has been lovely to get to know each other on a more personal level and the confidence, communication and passion during the talks has been excellent!
Before the holidays we went out for an ‘egg hunt’ but we soon realised this was an April Fools trick by Mrs Rasul. For our culture day we all wore clothes to represent our own cultures and celebrated this at school.
Since we have been back, we have been enjoying problem solving in maths using concrete materials and starting our budget topic too! We calculated how much it would cost for a meal from Nando’s and realised it is not as cheap as we thought.
For World Book day we took part in a ‘Scene in a Snap’ school challenge and we WON!
Each class had to submit a scene from a popular children’s book captured in a photo. We submitted 2 different scenes. One was from Matilda and the other was from ‘The Boy in the Dress’.
We had lots of fun recreating the 2 scenes and are pleased to be the Upper School winners!
This week we had a chance to round up our RME topic and shared our completed story books and posters with the Primary 2s. We read to them and prepared questions for them to answer.
We also completed our final block of Badminton with a fun and friendly class tournament.
Lastly, today we sent our Crookfur team to the Lord Provost debate. All 3 of our members performed very well. We are proud of our debating team!
Over the last few weeks we have thoroughly enjoyed learning stories from world religions including: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. We have explored the moral of the different stories and trying to link them to life lessons.
We have looked at similarities and differences between these stories across the religions and have been very surprised at how similar things really are. Such as the morals and values.
We have explored:
Adam and Eve (Hawa)
Noah (Nuh pbuh) and the great flood
David and Goliath (Dawud and Jalut)
We have also been extremely lucky to have 2 visitors that have kindly came in to share the story of Abraham. Reverend Lazonby came in to teach us about the story of Abraham while Ibrahim’s dad came in to teach us about the story of prophet Ibrahim (pbuh).
This week we started our learning journey about stories from Bible. We started with reading the story of Adam and Eve and compared it to the version in Islam.
We took part in a mock trial which included a defense and persecution team for Adam, Eve and the serpent.
Here are a few pictures from this week and our team building task from last week.
This week we have working on Team Building skills and how to work better in a team.
We have explored the importance of roles, communication, collaboration, time management and problem solving. Here are a few of the tasks we had to complete.
Name Line in silence – We had to work together to form a line in alphabetical order but silently!
Paper chain – In teams of 5, we were given one piece of A4 paper, 2 scissors and 1 glue stick and we had to create the longest paper chain within 10 minutes! The time pressure was challenging.
Boat challenge – In teams of 5, we had to solve a problem. We needed to use recycled materials to create a boat that would hold toy animals without sinking!
What a wonderful first term! Ending it with lots of festive activities and joy! See you all next year!
Last week we had the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Rural Life! We had a chance to see the farm animals and even met a baby calf!
This week for writing, we have started looking at instructional writing.
We explored features of recipes by looking for vocabulary used in Mr Flood’s cook books.
We created our own word bank, then wrote our own recipes for an onion soup!
