As a school, we always want to celebrate our women. This year, we held a ladies lunch for our mums, grans, aunties and friends. Only ladies were allowed to come to the ladies lunch as it was an event to celebrate women and the amazing impact they have on our lives.

We had a quiz which was based on inspirational women like Malala and Mother Teresa, we played bingo, danced and we had fantastic speeches from guests who told us of their journey to becoming string, independent women. We enjoyed lots of nice food, drinks and cake.

We need to always celebrate the amazing women in our lives.

On Monday, we visited the Mitchell library and we met an author. Ross Mackenzie is an author from Glasgow who has written many stories.
5 of his stories have been published into books so far. 

Ross was telling us all about his new book called Evergreen.  He told us that he had lots of fun writing the book and loves the characters in the book. Ross said that the book is based on the Victorian times in London.
It was interesting to hear about the process he went through writing the book.
We look forward to reading more of his books.

Our school reclaimed World Book Day this year.

We said no to dressing up and each wore a white T-shirt to show we were all in agreement that World Book Day should just be a fancy dress party and it isn’t about spending money on a costume to wear, it’s about reading books.

We also took part in a book swap which meant we could swap a book that we’ve already read for someone else’s book. This is a good way to read new books without spending money because we just swap.

On Thursday, we showed off our learning at our class assembly.  We performed The song Lean on Me, we tested out our acting skills by pretending to be a teacher in the school and we used our descriptive language to describe characters from books.  Our digital learning skills were also on show as we played an animation we had made about characterisation. 
Well done everyone!! 🙌🏼😊

Homework WB 09.03.20

Monday –  Yesterday was International Women’s Day.  Think about women in your life who inspire you.  In your jotter, write a couple of paragraphs about this woman, saying who she is to you, why she is inspiring to you and tell me about the qualities she has.

Tuesday –  Complete the maths sheet on the sheet please.

Wednesday –  Use the video on our blog to learn the words to Wade in the Water.  Try learning one verse at a time and try to learn the words off by heart please.

Thursday –  Write a review of the workshop we attended today, ‘Gold Stars and Dragon Marks’.  What did you like/dislike about it? What did you learn? Etc.

As part of our enslavement topic, we have learned about music which has come from times of enslavement. The song we have been learning this week is Amazing Grace which was written by John Newman.  The songwriter based the lyrics on the theme of enslavement and his experience.

We’ve learned how to use Garage Band to play the tune to Amazing Grace. We played the tune on the keyboard on Garage Band and on the guitar on Garage Band.

Homework WB 02.03.20

Monday – Thursday is World Book Day. We are reclaiming World Book Day and making it about books and not costumes. In your jotter, write a book review of the last book you read. Make sure to give it a star rating out of 5!

Tuesday – Complete the maths sheet on the sheet please.

Wednesday – Can you make sure you know your words for our class assembly tomorrow please? Think about speaking confidently and pacing your speech.  Go over Lean on Me too please.

Thursday – Check out our learning from this week on the class blog. Leave a comment if you can please.