Greetings fellow oxygen consumers,

Street Child

 

Recently we started reading a new novel called Street Child. It’s about a boy called Jim, his sisters and his mum. We have incorporated the book into our work by doing comprehension and drama about it.

       Science

 

We have started a new topic in science, Micro organisms. we learned about 5 different types of  micro organisms including bacteria, viruses, algae, protozoa and fungus. We made a fact file about these micro organisms.

R.E

 

In R.E we have been focusing on the Pope Francis Faith Award. So far we have learned about knowledge and piety. We have also made poster about the baptism of the Lord.

Swimming

 

We have started doing swimming lessons every Monday. We have been split into 3 groups and have been developing our swimming skills.

 

Victorians

We have started to learn about Victorians in class. We made a a KWL grid about the Victorians. We are looking forward to learning more about Victorians soon.

 

 

What we have been doing with Miss Gray

 

DIY Classroom

 

DIY classroom helps us be independent with our work and to manage our tasks well.

 

Music

 

We have been learning how to play a Glockenspiel and playing the harry potter theme tune. We have been learning about the orchestra and will be continuing learning about the orchestra next week.

 

K’Nex

 

With Miss Gray we have been practising for the K’Nex competition out of a lot of schools in the west of Scotland. This week we needed to design a baby buggy to fit in a teddy.

Health And Well being

 

In health and well being we started to learn about substance misuse and the dangers of drugs. We learned that you should only take prescribed medicines and that if you take too much drugs, it will have a bad effect on your body.

 

Other stuff that has been happening

 

            School show

 

Well done to a few of our classmates for getting into the school show.