St Albert's Class 2

Yesterday all the Primary 7 children went on their P7 trip with Miss Hewitt, Mrs Bennett, Miss Cohen and Miss Newall to Hollywood Bowl at the Quay. The children walked down to the Quay and had lunch there before enjoying some bowling and then investigating the different games in the arcade. When they returned to school there was a party in the hall with music, dancing and snacks. Everyone had a great afternoon!

P7 arrived at Hollywood Bowl

Lunch time!

Bowling and arcade fun 🙂

Conga at the party back at school

Last week we started  learning karate with David. We will  be learning  this for 5 weeks.

He taught  us how to kick and punch.

He showed us the pressure points to hurt someone. We are only allowed to use this if we are in danger!

I’m really really happy about David coming again today. 🙂

We made recycled paper this week on our visit to Linn Park.

Step 1 – We collected petals to add  to the paper mix.

Step 2 – The paper mix was old ripped up paper mixed with water. When the petals were added to the paper mix we chose which one we would like to make (they were different colours).

Step 3 – We had to put a wooden frame into the paper mix.

Step 4 – We lifted it out and pressed it onto a towel and then used a sponge to take out the extra water so the paper could dry.

Step 5 – We had to lift the frame off to finish the paper and leave it to dry.

We can collect our dry paper next week 🙂

We had inspectors in our school this week and 2 of them, Mrs Jay and Mrs Clark, visited our class to see our work. Some of us went for meetings with the inspectors because they wanted to speak to us about our school, what we like about it, how safe it is, the jobs the eco committee and the I-club do and our learning in literacy.

In maths we have been learning –

Lana – “I learned about the different coins and finding the total.”

Tylor – ” I have been learning how to total money, and make totals with the fewest coins.”

Aiden – ” I did a survey on the colours of cars and we made a graph.”

Ordering coins from lowest to highest value

Counting in 2s and 10s outside to help us when we are totaling coins

On Monday we had lots of maps –  a world map, a map of Europe, our continent and a map of the United Kingdom, our country. We highlighted the UK and Spain on the different maps and looked at the neighbours of Spain – they are Portugal and France.

We were looking for bugs on the ground in the wooded area and on the walls and fences. We did a survey of the different bugs and used tally marks to record how many bugs we found.

Looking for bugs and recording our results for the scientists

Next week there is a holiday on Monday and Thursday for the boys and girls which we are all looking forward to 🙂 Have a great weekend!

Last term of the year already, wow!

Everyone was happy to be back to school on Tuesday to see their friends again, and most children were happy to get back to work! 🙂 We have been busy with our learning already….

We were learning about money in maths. We have been learning about the value of the coins and ordering them and adding up coins to find a total.

We started our new topic for the term which is Spain. Here is a mind-map of our ideas with things we already know about to do with Spain.

We evaluated our goals from last term, individually and in pairs, before sharing with the whole class. We then thought about what we want to work on this term to write our new ones.

Today is a special day in the school as our friends in Primary 6, James and Ellie, had their confirmation at mass in school. We are going to have a party with them this afternoon to celebrate 🙂

This week we were completing our learning on Clans and Castles learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence. We learned about William Wallace and how he fought for the freedom of Scotland after King Alexander III died and the King of England, Edward I was trying to take over. We discussed our ideas for what should have happened when King Alexander died.

Our mind-map

We have also been finishing off our learning about 3D shapes and their properties. We can describe them talking about faces, edges and corners.

Investigating and describing 3D shapes

This week was Islamic Awareness week. We learned about the five pillars of Islam and what each of these mean to Muslim people. Today we had a celebration day and some of us wore Islamic dress. There was a celebration in the hall in the afternoon with music and food.

Sorting facts about the five pillars of Islam

Celebrating Islamic Awareness Week

Have a lovely holiday and see you in Term 4 🙂

Tonight I was a very proud teacher 🙂

Bridging the Gap is a secondary school transition programme that some of the Primary 7 pupils have been taking part in, including Gabriel from Class 2.

We were shown videos of the children from the programme sharing their comments about the experience –

“It changed my life” Gabriel

Gabriel attended tonight, with his dad and sister, to receive his certificate for completing the programme. He also received great praise as being the very best dressed on the night out of all the pupils attending! He looked very smart indeed 🙂

Well done to Gabriel and all the P7 pupils who completed the programme!

You may remember we learned some Scottish Gaelic with P5 as part of our Scottish Clans and Castles topic this term, which we showcased when singing a Gaelic song for the Burns Assembly.

As part of our learning we were lucky enough to welcome some visitors from Glendale Gaelic School to St Albert’s today. Miss MacRuary brought her P5/6 class to do some work with our class and P5. We were both being great audiences.

They spoke to us about learning Gaelic and why it is important to them. They also talked about different Gaelic culture and things they do outwith school linked to Gaelic such as playing shinty, going to ceilidhs and the Mod and watching BBC Alba.

Then we sang them our song ‘Fuar Fuar’ and they understood our super Gaelic accents!

They sang us 2 different Gaelic songs and then we went to the hall where they taught us 2 different games in Gaelic.

We had a great afternoon and hope to go and visit Glendale Gaelic School next term!

We have been working with Barrowland Ballet again this term learning a new dance.

On Friday 17th, we went to the Tramway for a dress rehearsal and our first time on a real stage with proper lighting and music. It was really fun!

This new dance routine that we have been practising for the last month was the build up to some of us performing on stage at the Tramway as the opening act for the ‘Wolves’ show, on Saturday 18th March.

Our teachers were so proud to see such a professional performance from us all. Here we are in our first performance for a paying audience 🙂

This week we visited Stirling Castle as part of our Scottish Clans and Castles topic.

We visited 4 areas of the castle and completed our work booklet.

• Palace –  we saw the Queen’s bed,  a lady in waiting and food for the queen like fish.
• Great Hall and Kitchens – we sat in the thrones of the king and queen and we saw the different foods – pigs, chickens, ducks, bread
• Castle exhibition and Elphinstone Tower – we saw cannons and archways, we went to where the constable stayed when the king and queen were away
• Vaults – we could dress up in Medieval Times clothes and we saw the jester telling jokes