Here is a planning map of our intended learning for term 2.

Please remember to think of your inspirational woman for our Arts and Writing Project.

By Next Monday, you should know her name and have reasons why she is inspirational to you.  Can you bring in a photograph of her too please? We will photocopy this in school and give you your photograph back.  You could also email it to Miss McCue – gw17mccuecatherine@glow.ea.glasgow.sch.uk or bring it in on a USB stick and we can print it in school.

We are learning about shape for our new maths topic.  Following on from our learning in class on quadrilaterals, triangles and polygons, we took our learning outside and used the environment to identify shapes that we know. We also used natural materials to make our own 2D shapes. To challenge ourselves, we made 3D shapes too.

In our groups, we had different roles.  Some of us hunted for shapes, others noted the shapes in our jotted and others videoed us as we made short clips of what we have found.  We took turns of each role too.

All of us successfully worked together and achieved the success criteria for the lesson. Here’s one of the videos we made.

At the end of the lesson, we played a game against the other teams.  Miss McCue would shout out the name of a polygon and we had to work together and use our bodies to make the shape.  This was so much fun and much more difficult than it sounds. The winning team got 5 Dojo points each. 🥳🤩

Thank you to everyone who donated to our food bank. We managed to collect an amazing amount of non-perishable food items which we have passed along to Glasgow South East Food bank.  This food will help many people and we hope we can continue to support our local food banks in the future.

Our trip to the Science Centre was lots of fun.  First of all, we explored different  science experiments. We learned about magnets, floating heads and solved puzzles.

After this, we visited the iMax and saw a 3D film about space.  We looked so cool with our 3D glasses on 😎😎 This taught us about the preparation that goes into travelling to space, gravity, stars and planets.

Our final experience was a science show called Water Water Everywhere.  Our scientist taught us all about water and it’s 3 states, soaked us with a water gun!

Today was World Porridge Day and we celebrated by making our own porridge.  

First, we learned a bit about the work Mary’s Meals do to feed over 1.5 million children across the world.  Children in counties like Malawi receive a cup of porridge every day at school.  This encourages the children to go to school as they know they will get something to eat.  

We had 4 activities happening in our class.  The first group was converting grams into kilograms as we needed this knowledge when measuring out ingredients.

The next group were displaying different numbers using concrete materials. We used thousands, hundreds, tens and units. This helps us with our insider standing of place value and it is helpful to see a number represented by different materials, rather than just written down.

Another group were measuring oats and milk using scales and a jug.  We followed the measurements given on our recipe and we also chopped apples and bananas which we used as toppings on our porridge.

At the final station, we mixed our oats and milked in a pot.  We used a portable stove and cooked the porridge over a hot hob.  Here we learned what we could add to make the porridge thicker and thinner.  

We loved celebrating World Porridge Day and remembering the amazing work Mary’s Meals do.

We have been learning about social class.  We have learned what it is, what defines a social class and how people are split into different social classes.  We have also explored occupations which stereotypically go along with a social class and we are trying to stop this stereotype.

Today, we created our own riddles to do with social class.  Have a read through them and see if you agree with anything we have said.  

Tuesday –

We started our outdoor learning week with some reading activities in our upper playground.  Each group carried out different activities – using iPads to record videos of us using onomatopoeia, using a leaf catalogue to find different leaves in our playground, reading a text and answering comprehension questions and enjoying reading in a calm and peaceful outdoor space.

During our maths lesson, we became sustainable citizens and litter picked around our school grounds.  We used our data handling learning to record the amount of litter we picked using tally marks and then created a frequency table of our results.  We will turn these into graphs and charts in class later this week.

We finished our first day of outdoor learning week by playing basketball with Class 2 on the MUGA.  We recapped on all the skills we have learned over the past 6 weeks and used these skills to compete against each other in game situations. 

There were some serious skills on display during the games! Hector took amazing action shots of us too.

Wednesday –

On Wednesday, we went geocaching at Pollok Park with Primary 6 and Primary 7.

We followed directions on the map of the Geocaching app and hunted al over the park for the geocaches.  We raced against the other teams and ran as fast as we could to be the first team to find the Geocache.  We successfully found 2 geocaches!!

Please remember to bring any non-perishable food items into school this week as we are donating them to our local food bank. Here is a list of some things we desperately need:

• UHT milk
• tinned meat
• tinned fish
• tinned tomatoes
• tinned fruit
• diluting juice
• biscuits
• chocolate

Please donate any other items if you have them too – pasta, rice, tins of soup etc.

Thanks in advance 🤗🤗