{"id":475,"date":"2023-02-01T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/primary5b2223\/?p=475"},"modified":"2023-02-01T08:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:28:26","slug":"january-over-next-stop-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/primary5b2223\/2023\/02\/01\/january-over-next-stop-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"January over \u2013 next stop summer!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank goodness for that, not huge fans of January. February\u2019s a shorty as well, with a holiday in there, so before you know it we\u2019ll be in March! We\u2019re longing for longer days, the warmer climes, the hope of better things to come \u2026\u2026.. Been busy at school, as ever, just getting the head down and working hard. Couple of things hanging over from Christmas to tell you about though\u2026.<\/p>\n

We were pleased to send off the \u00a375 raised through our Missio Christmas Baubles, we\u2019ll be back on the fundraising path for SCIAF for Lent \u2013 it\u2019s not that far away. It was also cool to complete Sarah\u2019s Advent calendar over the course of December. Our Glee Club participants did us proud, we were delighted to see them all perform during the last week \u2013 they were super. We had some fun doing some Nativity Drama the first week back. We were supposed to take our performances to Outdoor Learning but the weather beat us \u2013 we headed over to the Learning Lodge instead. We all did very well with our World Cup project and congratulations to Umair Z who won \u2018the sweep\u2019. A few of us took part in a Maths Challenge, which we did well in too, something a wee bit different.<\/p>\n

The major thing of note in January has been this \u2018Learning Expedition\u2019 thing that you may have heard about. Basically all classes in the school have been given the topic, \u2018Life Beyond Land\u2019. A wide topic indeed with lots of different possibilities. The idea is that we, the pupils (in each class), decide where to take it, follow our own interests, our questions. At the same time, and presumably under the direction of him, show off different skills, different tasks, cover different areas of the curriculum. It\u2019s early days and the first time we\u2019ve done it but it\u2019s quite exciting. We\u2019ve come up with 4 Big Questions that we\u2019re going to investigate before Easter, the first one being: \u2018What are some of the traits \/ characteristics \/ workings \/ features of the living things found in our waters?\u2019 We then came up with about fifty little questions that we were going to answer in our small groups. These might lead to new questions and so on\u2026\u2026 At the same time we\u2019ve come up with all these different tasks, involving the different curricular areas, that we could complete to show the learning taking place. A new way of working at certain times during the week, but initial thoughts are that we like it.<\/p>\n

Not a huge amount else to report in the 3 weeks or so that we\u2019ve been back. We are currently in the middle of Languages Week where we\u2019ve tried out a French tongue twister (and Lily\u2019s mum and dad taught her a couple in Mandarin). We\u2019ve also been practising hard for this coming Friday\u2019s \u2018St Cadoc\u2019s does Eurovision\u2019 contest. Mr Burns wanted us to learn some sort of Gypsy Kings song, Bamboleo??? From 1988?!? We said no and opted for Un Poco Loco from Coco. We\u2019ve had a laugh, and should be a laugh on Friday, and tried hard so that\u2019s the main thing. We\u2019ve had an interesting few weeks during Writing where we did three Persuasive Letters \u2013 the first one was with Mr Burns \u2013 a letter to Andy Robertson to try and get him to come and coach us. The second one, Mr Burns was involved a bit, but we had homework research to do on the cost of living crisis and then write to Nicola Sturgeon to do something about it. We wrote most of that ourselves having been told what a persuasive letter should contain the previous time. Then the third letter was entirely our own choice \u2013 further practise at the persuasive skills learned. So, watch out mum and dad! Here I come for that puppy I want, fully armed with a host of persuasive techniques. Did you know that you are the best parents in the world and I love you dearly? We also took part in an online lesson, carrying on from our litter collection week, about an organisation based on picking up litter whilst out walking dogs. Quite a simple idea but an inspirational lady. We managed some raft building at Outdoor Learning and whilst, as you can see from the photo of the girls, we do P.E. in all weathers, we were confined to barracks once and got involved in some crazy dancing. That\u2019s about it for now, nice to catch up!<\/p>\n

P5B<\/p>\n