Our whole school trip to Edinburgh Zoo was so much fun!!!!

We saw lots of animals and made memories with our friends and families.  Being together on trips like this is very funny and we had lots of laughs.

We visited the pandas, the hippos, the penguins, the monkeys and lots more animals.  The animals were eating, playing or sleeping, and some of them were quite smelly!

There were smiles all round …

After a long day of having fun, it was all too much for Zack 😴😴

Miss Cohen does lots of work in the school on social enterprise and she arranged an event for us on Wednesday.  7 social enterprises came in to our school and set up a station which told us all about who they are and what they do.  The social enterprises who came along were The Piano Project, Milk Cafe, VoiceOver Interpreting Govan, Pollokshields Trust, Galgael, Kaleyard, Music Broth and Nutrition Scotland.

We split up into groups and visited each station.  We asked them questions about their social enterprise and found out more about what each social enterprise does and why.  It was good to find out who benefits from each social enterprise as this is a main reason why lots of social enterprises start up.

As well as hearing all about each social enterprise and finding out more about what they do, we also got to sample food, play instruments and take part in fun activities.  These hands-on experiences helped us understand the enterprises more and were lots of fun.

We took the subway to the Glasgow Film Theatre and watched 6 short films.  The films were based on different world issues like gender equality and climate change.  We have been talking about these issues in class which made the films make a lot of sense.  It was good to get the chance to speak about each film after it and give feedback.  We are getting better at this.

We visited Urban Roots at the Victoria Gardens as part of our inter-disciplinary learning.  Victoria Gardens are allotments in Pollokshields which have lots of fruits, vegetables, plants and flowers growing in them.

We were allowed to go into some of the allotments and see what was growing.  We even got to eat some of the apples if they had fallen from the trees.

We also did an activity and had to identify different vegetables.  This was fun and Stewart was shocked at how much we knew already.

What a fun trip and this taught us lots more about how food is grown and buying locally.  We were allowed to take some rhubarb to sample too!!

We went on a trip to The Hidden Gardens as part of our inter-disciplinary learning.

Rhona taught us about food miles and where different fruits and vegetables come from.  It was interesting to find out which countries produce which food.

Rhona also taught us about eating seasonally.  This means that you only eat fruit and vegetables that are grown in your country at that time.  An example of this would be people in Scotland only eating strawberries during our summer as that is the only time they are grown in our country.  Eating seasonally is a good way to reduce food miles and be more sustainable.

We had so much fun learning how to dribble the ball and shoot into the hoop during PE this week.  

The hoops are so tall so it was hard to get the ball  in.  We worked on our accuracy skills and added in a dribble on the way up to the hoop.  We also practiced bounce passing and chest passing which are skills we have learned in PE lessons in previous week.

Some people are just so photogenic 😯😍

Today we learned about perishable and non-perishable foods as part of our IDL work.  We Are learning about this as we need to know what food is good to donate to a food bank.

We worked in groups to decide if food items were perishable or non-perishable and then we sorted the foods into the correct side.  We worked together to discuss, decide and then create a poster of our findings.

After this, each group presented their work to the rest of the class.  We are trying to include public speaking into lots of our lessons as we know the more we do it, the better we will become at speaking in front of people.

The audience had to give each group feedback on their work and on their presentations.  We are getting better at giving feedback and know that constructive feedback is good as it allows the person to improve for next time.  

A special well done to Zack, Zaynab and Laiyba who were fantastic at giving feedback to their classmates.

We had lots of fun taking part in a mini sports day on the MUGA.  The sun was shining and we were in groups with our friends from the P6 class and the P7 class.

There were 5 stations and we worked our way round and tried all the different activities.  This was a good way for us to see what we enjoyed doing the most.

We are learning about debating through our talking and listening learning during literacy time.

We decided to debate on the importance of food banks and if they should exist.  

We know that there is a proposing side and an opposing side.  The proposing side are for the motion and the opposing side are against the motion.  The chairperson (Rosemary and Israa) introduced the debate and told us the rules.  Each side has 3 speakers and they make a case for their side.  The rest of us were members of the audience and we asked questions which the speakers had to answer.  We also had timekeepers who made sure everyone kept to time.

It was lots of fun and we learned that debating is like a giant game of ping pong because the discussion goes back and forward from one side to another, just like the ball does in a ping pong game.

We did very well and know we will improve our debating skills as we take part in more debates this year.