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Class Trip to Scotland Street. By Oliver Tomkins

On Wednesday we went on a class trip to Scotland Street School. When we arrived the first thing we did was get split up from the girls so the boys went right and then the girls went to the left. The next thing we had to do was go up the stairs and into an old fashioned changing room where we could hang up our coats and put on waistcoats and collars. After that a man told us about the safety procedures and then reminded us all that it was all acting. Finally we had to line up and the actress who was playing a Victorian teacher came out and told us in a very strict voice to be quiet and then told us where to sit and she said that we should always call her ma’am. The boys had to sit next to girls but some girls had to sit next to another girl because there was more girls than boys and I had to sit next to Pippa. The teacher then told us that we had to sit with our feet flat on the ground and our arms crossed under the table and to face the front.

 

The first lesson we did was Math. We had to recite our 2 to 5 times table like this: 2 nothings are nothing, 2 1s are 2, 2 2s are four etc and then she asked us individual multiplication questions. She drew a clock face on the black board and then wrote a number in the middle of it. We had to multiply the clock face number by the middle number. For example if 2 was in the middle of the clock and she pointed to 5, you would have to reply: 10 ma’am.

 

After that we did a quick test with Maths questions on a slate and most people only got 1 or 2 out of 5 because the questions were quite hard, 1 of the questions was: If I walk in a field and there is 10 humans , 1 horse and 1 dog how many legs were there in the field? I know you might think that is easy but the answer is actually 30 because you need to count your legs as well!

 

The next thing we did was handwriting and that was interesting because we got to use proper ink that we had to dip the pen in. What we had to do was write out the date in Victorian writing which is like script writing and it is all joined up then we had to write the alphabet using the Victorian style as well. Finally, we had to write out our name on the piece of paper in Victorian writing. When they had been handed in the teacher rang a bell and said that we were not in 1883 anymore, we were back in 2016!

 

She told us her name and then we discussed the similarities and differences between the Victorian class and a class in 2016. By the end of the day we had all learned something.

 

After the discussion the actress dressed up as a janitor of a school and were all of a sudden back in the Victorian times. The janitor did P.E with us and the P.E was very easy, all we had to do was touch our head then put our arms up in the air and then touch our shoulders and we had to repeat that several times. Once we had finished we got the chance to ask some questions.

 

We all really enjoyed the trip and I would definitely recommend going there!

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Kabbalat Shabbat. By Leah Neville

Shabbat is an amazing experience because we light candles and sing songs. Ema (mum) lights the candles and then says a prayer and Aba (dad) says the bracha for the wine. I personally like being Ema because you get to eat the most Challah! Even if you are not on the Shabbat table, Kabbalat Shabbat is a nice way to end the school week. Shabbat is a lot of fun!

 

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Burns Supper. By Hannah Oakley

Recently in Primary 6 we had a Burns Supper. Primary 6 and 7 hosted the Burns Supper together. The parents of the Primary 6 and 7 children were their too! Firstly Leah, Elyze, Zainab, Sergie and Ilya performed Robert Burn’s famous  poem ‘My love is like a Red Red Rose’. Secondly some primary 7’s read poems they had written and others recited famous poems that Robert Burns had written. Later, some of the primary 6 and 7 served juice and some food to the adults. Whilst they were eating, primary 6 performed the Scottish dance the Gay Gordons. It’s a very fun dance, you need to partner up, a boy and a girl and you go round in a circle. My dance partner was Abi! Finally, we got to go and see our family who were watching us. Then we went back up to our classes and I really enjoyed the afternoon.

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Burns Supper. By Daniel Sabba

Today at school we had a Burns Supper. It was so fun because Leah, Ilya, Sergei Elyze and Zainab did a play for the poem ‘My Love is Like a Red Red Rose’ they were so good. Then we had to serve the mums and dads Haggis Neeps and Tatties, all the mums and dads loved it. After that primary 6 performed a Scottish dance, it was called the ‘Gay Gordons’. Oliver and I were so scared but when we did it everything was fine! Miss Orchant loved it very much. After that we went and said hi to our mums and dads and they were so impressed. Our class then went upstairs to our classroom and we were all so HAPPY!!!!!!

That is the end of our Burns Supper. I can’t wait for next year!

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Gymnastics. By Pippa Ure

In P.E. we have been learning gymnastics.  Everyone in the class is at different levels and can do different things.

Daniel Sabba is the best, because he has been going to gymnastics for years and trains at least 4 times a week.

Mrs Kyle taught us the first lesson and most people in the class were very excited to be doing gymnastics.

So far we have had 3 lessons, and we have learned some new skills.

In our second lesson Mrs Kyle let us bring out the benches and work out routines in small groups.  I really enjoyed this task and in my group were, Hannah, Daniel Dotan, Elyze and Ilya.

We all made really good routines and Mrs Kyle was very pleased with our hard work and ability to work as a team.

In Miss Orchant’s lesson we focused on tumbling and some people were better than others as a few people in the class go to gymnastics classes at night.  We learned how to do forward and backward rolls. I was working with Abi and Lana and we worked well as a team.  The more advanced gymnasts helped their less confident classmates.

Overall, I am really enjoying these lessons and cant wait to learn more.

 

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My Week. By Daniel Dotan

This week in school we learned a lot but I am going to tell you about two things I found particularly interesting.

First of all we have written 2 diary entries from the point of view of Oliver Twist. The first diary entry was from when Oliver got kicked out the orphanage and sold to a cruel family and then ran away. Part of our Success Criteria was to include feelings and emotions like ‘saddened’ ‘depressed’ ‘nervous’ and ‘shocked’. The second diary entry was about Oliver arriving in London and meeting the Artful Dodger who then took him to meet a man called Fagin.

Although we were to include feelings and emotions in our diary entry, our Success Criteria was to clearly describe a setting. To do this we were to use our five senses.

The other things I am going to tell you about is that we had a lesson about drugs. We learned that not all drugs are things sold illegally like cannabis, heroin and ecstasy. Caffeine is a drug so Coca Cola and coffee are drugs too!

Alcohol is a drug too but some drinks have more alcohol in them than others like Vodka and Raki. Both have more alcohol in them than wine.  Alcohol slows down your reactions and makes you forget things. Drugs can be extremely addictive and so can smoking. If you go into a pharmacy all the medicines are also drugs but these are good for you as long as they are not misused.

Also, since everybody is different, it is not guaranteed that everyone will have the same reaction to drugs. Drugs have different effects on different people, so if somebody survives after taking drugs it is not certain that somebody else will survive.

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Weekly Fun. By Zainab Ahmed

This week we have been drawing silhouettes, looking at the timeline of Queen Victoria and even tricking each other with a disappearing coin trick. Silhouettes are pictures or drawings only taken of the side of a person’s face.

As you can see this girl’s fringe, lips, lashes, ponytail and her hair on top of her head all stick out, but you can’t see the features of her face.

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We have also started our Victorians topic and we learned that Queen Victoria was the first person to get her picture taken by French photographer Alexander Bassano. Queen Victoria was also the first one to actually use the telephone, to be put to sleep with an anaesthetic, to have her voice recorded and she was the first person to be filmed.  Queen Victoria was Queen on 1837 and she was born on 24th of May 1819 and died in 1901.

Our comprehension passage was called ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. To make this you get 2 pieces of the same coloured card. Cut a hole in one and stick it onto a clear cup then get the other piece of card and place it upside down on the other piece of card. Place a coin underneath and see your audience get amused when covering the coin with the cup!

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Disappearing Coin Trick. By Aisha Qayyum

In class with Mrs Kyle we did a comprehension passage. The title was ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. We all thought we weren’t going to get to do the trick, but at the end Mrs Kyle surprised us and said we could make the trick!

The things you will need: 

Card,

A plastic cup,

Scissors,

Glue,

Napkin

A penny.

The first thing you do is draw around the cup and cut out the circle. The second thing you do is glue the circle on to the part of the cup you drink from.

This is how the trick works:

You put the cup on the card. Place the penny right beside it. After that get your napkin and cover the cup with the napkin. Now, you pick up the glass and put it over the penny.

Time for the MAGIC!!!!!!!!! ABRACADABRAH!!!! Now take the napkin off and the coin is gone.

Finally, pick up the glass and the coin is reappeared.

 

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Ken Macintosh visit. By Rachel McGhie

On Monday 21st of December to finish our E.U topic, Miss Orchant asked our M.S.P Ken Macintosh to come and talk to our class about politics. At the end of the talk Miss Orchant asked us if we liked the conversation we had with Mr Macintosh and everyone said they loved it! I really liked that Mr Macintosh gave everyone a fair say and everyone got the chance to ask him questions.

Mr Macintosh made a joke and said that Elyze and Izzy could run for M.S.P and that they could decide which organisations to give lots of money to. They said if they were given a million pounds and had to choose between cancer research and education, they would split the money and give half to each organisation.  Mr Macintosh said he would do the exact same thing.

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The BFG. By Sergei De Rosa-Cairns

In class we have been reading an extract from Roald Dahl’s The BFG. When we did comprehension work on it I completed most of the questions. I need to do is finish a drawing showing all of the dreams he has caught. The skills I was developing were ‘finding and using information’ and developing my ‘understanding of literary devices’. I enjoyed re-reading part of the story again because I really liked reading the novel.

 We also wrote about a dream or memory that we have on a piece of paper and rolled it up. Then we put it in a glass milk bottle and decorated the bottle using acrylic paints. Miss Orchant told us to ‘bottle our dream forever’ so we shut it tight with a lid just like the dreams that the BFG caught.

 

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