What a week of learning it has been! Here is what we got up to this week:

Maths – Reading timetables and creating our own

For maths we have been learning how to read a timetable like a bus or train timetable and calculate durations. We were then given the task of planning a trip to the cinema in Renfrew Street from Newton Mearns by taking public transport. We were given a budget of £25 each to spend and had to plan what time to leave, which train to take and which movie to watch. This involved planning around timings. It was fun!

Civil Rights Movement

For IDL, we started learning about the civil rights movements. We looked at some of the laws that shocked us and looked at pictures that showed inequality between white and coloured people. It made us sad, angry and we were just very shocked. Then we created a diamond 9 for the laws and rules which we thought were the most severe, to the least severe. Every group had different opinions.

Science

With Mr Wilson, we looked at senses and we created an invention for our chosen sense.

Athletics and Bleep test

For P.E. we have been doing athletics and weekly bleep test. All of us have bet our initial scores and are doing really well.

Creating a story book

We started a storyboard for our books. Next week we are going to write our story before we assemble it into a book.

What a lovely week we have had with parents/adults visiting our classroom. We had the chance to share our learning and allowed them to take part too! Here is a little snippet of other things we have done this week.

Mr Wilson Science

With Mr Wilson we had a go at smelling different spices. This was fun!

Internet Safety Day

Jack and Myra delivered a lesson to the class about being safe online. We had some interesting conversations about what you should and shouldn’t do while online and spoke about cyber bullying.

Mental health week

For mental health week we discussed some questions about pupil voice and the choices we have. We did this is a discussion carousel which was interesting.

Suffrage around the world

As part of the open day we had to guess when different countries were given full suffrage. This was interesting as there was a few that surprised us. We then filled in our maps with labelled countries and year of full suffrage.

Wow, what a week!

Mr Wilson 

With Mr Wilson we made phones with cups and string. We were learning about sound vibrations and the ear. He even let us take them home.

Timelines

In IDL we were learning about defending democracy and the suffragettes so we made time lines of what happened and when.

Sarah Kwan Art

Sarah Kwan is a famous Chinese artist, she combines different things from different places since it is almost Chinese new year and it was Burns night we combined things from China and things from Scottland and made our own masterpieces.

Woodland

In woodland some people were making dens while others were creating things with nature.