Happy New Year from P6c!
We have worked extremely hard throughout the month of January, developing skills and confidence across all curricular areas. Excitingly, we have begun developing our STEAM skills through block play. We are using Kapla (similar to Jenga blocks) and have begun working in cooperative learning groups to design and build different structures.
We have also been making the most of opportunities to use our numeracy and mathematical skills to make delicious traditional dishes. To kick off our learning about Ancient Greece (our learner-selected interdisciplinary context), we recreated a traditional dish called fasolatha, a nutritious soup made from tomatoes, carrots, onions and cannellini beans. That’s not all! Just this week, we baked traditional Scottish shortbread and tasted some delicious vegetarian haggis to celebrate Burns Day.
As we are a Rights Respecting School, rights are vital in everything we do! Through reading our class novel, ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’, we have begun considering what it would be like to leave your home and move to a completely different continent to flee war. We have explored some of the barriers that Ahmet (our main character) and other children in similar situations would face when arriving in a new place, including racism, a language barrier, anxiety and loneliness. In discussion, we have identified the importance of treating all people with respect and empathy, regardless of their race, cultural background and religious beliefs. We have begun creating pieces of drama to raise awareness of issues surrounding discrimination.
Just yesterday, we marked Holocaust Memorial Day by learning from our RRS Ambassadors about the genocide of millions of Jewish people during World War II. We continue to pray for peace and tolerance for everyone across the world.
In Numeracy and Mathematics, we have continued to develop lots of increasingly challenging skills. After successfully creating and solving lots of challenging algebraic equations, our Cubes have moved on to locating and plotting co-ordinate points on a grid. Miss O’Hara couldn’t believe how quickly we mastered these skills and cannot wait to provide further challenge for us next week! Our Pyramids have been working together to solve problems involving subtraction with exchange and division with remainders. The Spheres required focus and determination when learning to measure and draw acute, obtuse and reflex angles using a protractor. Through perseverance, we all developed confidence and accuracy when practising these skills. Now, we are moving on to identifying the value of each digit within increasingly challenging numerical values, including those with three digits after the decimal point!
Please feel free to discuss our learning with us in more detail at home.
Thank you for reading!
P6c and Miss O’Hara 🙂
