Hello everyone,
What a fabulous term it has been, I cannot believe that Term 2 is coming to an end. At the end of this post I’m going to share some pictures to look back at to remember a happy, fun and positive term 2.
Term 2 started very well as we won the Football Tournament and got lots of House Points, a trophy and medals in return!
In Maths, we have been learning about Money – understanding how to solve word problems using the 4 operations, adding and subtracting money to find the total and using this to calculate the correct change, calculating whether a profit or loss has been made and by how much, understanding what a budget is and learning about different ways of paying for items such as the use of credit and debit cards and the benefits and risks to using these.
Throughout Literacy this term, we have been learning to create a character of our own and have been planning this based on their appearance, personality, likes and dislikes, their environment and also their actions and speech. We put our characters into a story of our own and were remembering to use adjectives, adverbs, a variety of openers, conjunctions and punctuation. By using lots of adjectives, it gives the reader a detailed image of what they’ll look like and makes it much more interesting to read.
Learning about money proved to be extremely useful during our class trip to the Christmas Markets at St. Enoch’s last week. We had a great time eating churros, drinking hot chocolate and travelling via the Subway.
As well as going to the Christmas Markets, we also took a trip to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery Museum where we learned lots about endangered wildlife learning about the Albatros, the Leatherback Turtle and Polar Bears. We identified many animals which are now going extinct and had the opportunity to view animals which can be found in Scotland. We split into 4 groups spent some time learning about some endangered animals.
In Science, we had a great opportunity to work with a few student Science teachers who are originally from Oman. They worked with some of us in Arabic and were teaching us about renewable and non-renewable energy. We got to participate in many practical experiments some of which involved making a circuit using electrical wires, batteries and crocodile clips.
We have also been so lucky to work with Mr McCormack in Term 2 where we have been learning all about Podcasting. P6/7 have been learning how to set up a PA system using the required equipment and technical language needed for success. We have also been learning how to use the Tascam to record files and save them using this device. More recently, we’ve been learning about Foley Sound Effect Artists and have been experimenting with creating sounds from junk to re create real life sounds as backing tracks to videos. What a success it has been – Mr McCormack and I are so proud of you all and how well you have picked up such technical language, well done!
In addition, throughout Term 2 we have been lucky to have been given the opportunity to visit the Reindeer which came to the school – we got to pet them and spend some time with them and were able to ask questions too.
I am so excited for Term 3 and looking forward to lots more fun learning and hopefully some more exciting class trips! I hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing holiday, take this time to switch off from school and enjoy spending time with your family and friends.
See you in the new year!
Miss Quinn
