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This week we have continued out learning in the great outdoors- well, our beautiful playground!

On Monday we tested our skills of the eight points of the compass by writing our names on the MUGA. we had to describe each movement of the chalk with a compass direction. This was tricky at first but we were up for the challenge!

We continued our work on spooky videos. Each team has 2 sculptors, 2 camera  operators and a director. We finished filming our shots for the video on Monday. Please see the previous blog post for the final products!

We also completed our pictures inspired by Roshany’s artwork. We took inspiration from the eco garden

On Wednesday our sweet classmates Hanna, Aroush, Arisha, Aamna and Zaynab had organised a scavenger hunt for all of us. They hid clues all over the playground which eventually led to a hidden USB. On the USB were loads of old pictures of our class from primary one until now. It was amazing!

Thursday was our most exciting day! We worked together in teams to build dens. These shelter had to be weather resistant and large enough for all of us to chill in. We also learned how to build a fire. Using that fire, and inspired by our American themed guided reading this week, we made s’mores! They were delicious!

We have had so much fun and can’t believe that term 1 is over already!!

Let’s see what exciting adventures term 2 has in store for us!

During outdoor learning fortnight we worked in teams to create a story that was set in the outdoors. Here are the final products!

lost in the forest- by Fatimah, bissma, Farah, Arisha and Albie

Finding an exit- by Hamza, Zara, Ameer and kasim

the unusual day- by Hubaib, sufyaan, talhah, aamna, Antony  and amaya

lost in the woods- by Jalal,  Chantel, aroush, shayan and aariz

can you make it?- by muna, safa, roshany, Maryam and maria

a realistic horror story- by Ahmed, zohaib, Alisha, Hanna, aliyan and zaynab

Outdoor learning fortnight is here!

Here is some examples of the kinds of things we have been learning this week:
on Tuesday we worked together to create a bike to school week video to show get pupils how to travel safely to school on their bikes. You can see the completed video on our last blog post.

We have been studying the compass in maths. On Tuesday we answer questions about the 8 compass points. We learned that St. Andrews drive is North of the school and which positions lots of other objects are.

On Thursday we used our compass knowledge to create our own map of the upper playground.

On Wednesday we used our compass knowledge to complete some orienteering tasks

In literacy we have been learning about creative writing. We have taken our setting of in the woods and each written a short story about this. We used photo edit on our iPads to create spooky and mystical photos of the playground for this setting.

On Thursday we recorded different onomatopoeic sounds in the sensory garden that can be used in our story. We will be recording these and making videos next week.

In reading we have been learning about aboriginal culture in Australia. We learned about cave paintings and used natural elements to create our own.

In P.E. we learned a new and exciting game all about grabbing the cone before your partner

On Friday we took 6 of the stories that were written by Muna, Hamza, Hubaib, Ahmed, Fatimah and Jalal and started turning them into films. Each team had camera operators, a director and two sculptors to work with modelling clay. We will finish these next week.

We were so inspired by Roshany’s artwork she created for the Macmillan coffee morning we decided to create our own. We used the eco garden as our inspirational setting.

we can’t wait for more fun outdoors next week!