Week before Easter holidays and what a busy week it has been!

We handed in our last homework ever in primary school! Then we wrote a balanced argument about whether homework should be banned. For science we planned a presentation to persuade people to use cleaner energy. A lot of persuasive writing.

We had the opportunity to go an see the P3 Willy Wonka showcase, which was out of this world!

We ended the week with break the rules day and came in wearing our choice of outfits.

We hope you all have a wonderful spring break!

We have had another amazing week. Our Neurodiversity ambassadors have been busy all week and deserve a big well done:

Aritri, Jamie, Sophie and Jack.

Neurodiversity week

The ambassadors came in and delivered a presentation about neurodiversity. We then took part in an art competition which ends next Tuesday.

Persuasive writing

We wrote our first persuasive text about the topic of AI and digital technology. We learned about the rule of 3, emotive language and rhetorical questions.

Fractions

Some of us are learning how to convert between improper fractions and mixed fractions. Next we will look at how to add fractions.

Black Lives Matter

We looked at the Black Lives Matter movement and did some research before adding it to a Padlet.

Another busy week. It was STEM week this week and we have been doing so much! Here is a little snippet of the week.

Easter Code

We went to the church on Monday to take part in Easter Code. Here we listened to the Easter story, took part in quizzes and challenges and even got a snack in between! This was fun.

Rotary Quiz

Myra, Luke and Hishaam took part in the rotary quiz this week against other schools in East Renfrewshire. Their team scored 105 points out of a possible 120 which was amazing! This quiz was held in Netherlee Primary school after school hours. Mrs Rasul and Mrs Allan met the teams there and were there to cheer them on.

Lord Provost Debate

On Thursday, 3 of the Primary 7s (Ethan 7A, Nicole 7B and David 7C) went to the lord provost debate. They were up against Kirkhill Primary, and were presenting arguments for the motion ‘Digital technology and AI are making our lives better.’ The rest of the us had the opportunity to watch and participate in the debate live as it was happening. Quality Improvement Officer, David Gordan, and the Lord Provost Montague, were both very impressed by the children. The feedback included that the children did themselves and the school proud. Provost Montague was highly impressed with how articulate and thoughtful our pupils were. They have been working on this for the last 2 weeks and we are all very proud of them!

STEM week

This week has been STEM week and we have been different things for it. With Mr Wilson we made windmills using recycled materials. With Mrs Rasul we learned about Pi on Thursday because it was world Pi day. We created Pi bracelets and Pi skylines.

Problem Solving

Mrs Slorach and Mrs Doig were invited into our class to watch us doing problem solving. We started this off with a maths relay race which was fun!

Another busy week but we have been doing lots of amazing things!

World Book Week

For World Book Week we finally finished our storybooks and had a chance to read them to p2C.  Everyone that has seen them have been so impressed. As well as writing and illustrating the books, we used iPads and iMovie to record videos of us telling our stories. We then created QR codes to attach to the back of our books so that people can scan them and watch or listen to the story being read.

As well as this we created digital front covers of the books using Canva. The process may have been long but the outcome is absolutely brilliant! We have attached some of the links for you to watch.

Manha and Sophia worked hard on writing a dual language book. Their story: Two Pandas and a Duck, was written in English, Urdu AND Cantonese! How impressive is that?

Debating

This week we took part in some debating. We discussed the motion ‘A school day should be less than 6 hours’ and split the class into for and against then presented our arguments. We will continue debating next week and will focus on different topics.

Maths

We have been learning how to draw angles using protractors. This was quite tricky to begin with but with some practice we got there in the end. We have also been working on word problems and different ways to work them out.

This week we have had parents evenings and want to first say a thanks to all of our helpers for those evenings. As well as that, it has been a super busy week in the classroom! Here are a few things we got up to:

Storybooks

For world book day next week, we are creating our own storybooks to read to the Primary 2s. We have been doing lots of work on them this week and they are coming together nicely.  Mrs Rasul is looking forward to seeing the end result and thinks the next Julia Donaldson or Michael Rosen could come from this class.

Martin Luther King Jr. 

This week we have been learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and exploring language from his famous speech ‘I have a dream’. First we did a comprehension about him, then we watched his speech and read some extracts before moving on to creating some art linked to the speech. Some of the key vocabulary and powerful lines we selected include:

• Let Freedom Rain
• We cannot walk alone
• One day this nation will rise up
• Sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Eastwood P.E. 

The Eastwood P.E. sessions have started again and this week we were split into 2 groups and had the chance to choose which activity we wanted to be a part of. The options were netball and football. We did mini tournaments and this will continue each week.

Problem Solving

For maths we have been working on the strategy of guess, check and improve and had to figure out the missing boxes in a 3 x 3 multiplication grid. At first this was a little tricky but with some perseverance we managed to get to the solution!