Author: Miss McKay

Climate Ready Classrooms

Keep Scotland Beautiful organised a full day of events focusing on Climate Change.

We had a variety of activities to prompt discussion, make connections with our real life and develop our knowledge of the causes and effect of Climate Change. The workshops were led by experts through Teams Meeting and follow up activities and experiment was carried out in class.

 

Maths Week Scotland

Great fun creating our own memory transporters as part of our Stem Challenge. In teams, they created different routes, some different levels and some with obstacles using a range of strategies. Many developed paper attachment strategies to make their route sturdy. It was great to see how different children demonstrated leadership skills, whilst others were creating and explaining their process.

Pond Dipping!

Our first Make your Mark experience was Pond Dipping.
We set off to Darnley where we met the Ranger. Our first task was orienteering. We had to follow a map to find 10 different points. At each point we found a letter which we had to record.
This involved lots of responsibility as we set off in groups in different directions.





Most groups found every point but it was quite a challenge to spot them all.

Next stop was pond dipping. It was quite a challenge as to see the best invertebrates you needed to be quiet so they didn’t get scared.

Of course finding the insects was only the first step we then had to identify them using classification questions, photos and information sheets.

Celtic Christian Traditions

As part of our RE we’ve been learning about how Celtic communities worshipped God.

We’ve looked at Arthurlie Cross, a local monument from between 10th-11th Century.

We’ve heard prayers and blessings from the Carmina Gadelica in both Gaelic and English.

We’ve also looked at the beautiful illustrations and recreated some of our own.

Christianity in Scotland

It’s been a special week in P5. We have had Fr. Joe visit to hear Confessions. Then we were fortunate to celebrate Mass with Fr. Joe Balmer and we are looking forward to visit St. John’s Church on Friday.

As part of Religious Education this month, we are exploring the Celtic Traditions of Christian Blessings and Songs which celebrate Creation.

We have been learning about Celtic Crosses and discussed the local Arthurlie Stone which has been in Barrhead since 1000 – 1100ad.

We created our own Celtic Crosses.

 

Fairtrade

We learned from Mrs Byrne about Kenya.

She shared her own experiences of visiting Kenya.
We found out about the wet and dry seasons.

We identified similarities and differences in our homes and homes in Kenya.
We also found about the community Mrs Byrne spent time with and found out about school and church.

We looked at pictures of Kenyan banana and tea farms. We found about the jobs on the farm.

Then we acted out the process from worker to retail. Learning about the changed hands in money.

This led to a discussion about the importance of Fairtrade and getting a fair price for the farmers.

Homework

Primary 2 will be issued homework through Google Classroom.

All children will receive a copy of their passwords on Monday 30th August.

This week pupils should all login to the Google classroom.

The Google account ends with @er.glow.scot.

A Meet the Teacher video will be shared on the Google Classroom on Wednesday 1st Sept.