Author: Mrs Simpson

We have moved on to the Campaigners pathway of Mearns Masters this week. The pupils voted and chose to campaign for kindness. We made a mind map to record all the things we could do to persuade and encourage people to show kindness towards others. Some of which included creating a kindness blog, making posters, writing poems, recording a podcast, making a kindness challenge and much more. Today the children developed their literacy skills through learning about interviewing techniques and questioning. They took part in role play to practise this and wrote questions for our podcast. Well done for all of your fabulous hard work boys and girls!  

Today we finished our wonderful dream catchers by following our design brief. This task helped with fine motor skills as well as inspiring our creativity! There were lots of a happy faces when we saw the finished product. More pictures of the complete dream catchers to follow!  

For Mearns Masters we are doing paper modelling. We learned different techniques to help us to make paper models. We also made innovation stations to use when we are at home! 

Today 2.8 designed their own classrooms. Some of the most popular themes included football, space and the rainforest. Over the next few weeks we will be busy transforming our classroom into a football stadium using skills in a variety of areas across the curriculum. 

As part of ‘Safer Internet Day’ we read some ‘Digiduck’ stories about where we use the internet in everyday life and how we can keep safe whilst using the internet. We took part in a ‘Discussion Disco’ and when the music stopped we had to work with a partner to discuss some of the questions on the board about the story.

Pupil A ‘You should always double check information you read on the internet’

Pupil B ‘Always be kind to your friends on the internet’

Pupil C ‘You can speak to an adult about anything which frightens you on the internet.’

Today we went on a symmetry hunt outdoors! We found lots of symmetrical shapes and counted how many lines of symmetry each of them had.
Marley ‘The car is symmetrical.’

Lauren ‘The bench is symmetrical.’
Luke ‘The bin has 1 line of symmetry.’

Last week 2.8 used their imagination to write stories about a magic potion! They were trying to include lots of WOW words and adjectives in their writing. 

Today there was lots of creativity going on through play. Some children were making dragons for Chinese New Year. Others were playing Nessy to support and develop their Literacy skills. We even had some children making up a pantomime and selling tickets for it! Great job everyone! 

Today the Cones were learning to identify angles smaller and bigger than a right angle. Well done boys and girls!