October | 2017 | St Albert's P6 2017

We had a really really busy week but it was fun! We started our new topic which is about the issue of hunger. – Zarah.

On Monday, we started a new book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We have met lots of characters already and for homework, we visualised what Mr Dursley looks like from the description that JK Rowling gave us. – Fareed.

We had digital learning with Mr Stewart on Tuesday. On paper, we drew the front cover for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Then, we took a picture of it and put it into notes on an iPad. Then, we coloured it in on the iPad. It was fun! – Maha.

Some of us went on a trip to the graveyard with Mr Orr and Mr McCormack. We read poems and videoed it using iPads. Then we made a short film of us looking at graves and screaming before running away. We drew graves using charcoal and I ended up with charcoal all over my face. #LOL #HALLOWEENSPIRIT – Mujtaba.

On Wednesday morning, we had music with Mrs Pattie. We created a rhythm and beat and then added lyrics to it about our new topic, hunger. Every group played their new song to the rest of the class using instruments. #MUSICIANS4LYF – Mimi.

Miss McCue taught us a new method which will help us multiply big numbers. It is called The Grid Method and it helps us a lot. At the start, it was kind of hard but we got the hang of it. #LEARNINGNEWTHINGS

For PE this week, we were playing basketball on the pitch. We transferred the defending skills and passes we have learned about in previous weeks. My team lost, BOO! #MOVEOVERMICHAELJORDAN – Hussain.

We carried out a survey of the upper classes on how much food they waste at lunch and at dinner. Then we created a bar graph of the results during maths time. We don’t think that everyone in P7 were being honest because hardly any of them said they ever waste food. Maybe they thought they would get in trouble. – Rayan.

On Thursday afternoon, we researched world hunger. On the computers, we looked at a map of countries in Africa which told us how many people are suffering of starvation and why. Some people used iPads to search for solutions to end world hunger while other people made posters to display this information. I loved it. #STOPWORLDHUNGER – Zeenat.

We debated causes of world hunger on Friday morning with Louisa from the Debate League. You had to choose one side, either proposition or opposition. – Dilya.

In mental maths, we have been learning how to add and subtract near doubles – whole numbers a decimal numbers. – Zarah.

We expressed our emotions in an emotion wheel through art. – Fareed.

We have been planning an informative essay on alternative energy sources. – Hafsa.

Some of us were lucky enough to go to a music studio and sang songs and played the drums and the piano. Rishab’s singing was amazing!! Fareed was so good at rapping!! – Amina.

We learned about proper nouns and singular and plural nouns. – Eshaal.

On Wednesday morning, we had music with Mrs. Pattie. We worked in groups to compose a rhythm and we played instruments to this rhythm. – Aibak.

For PE, we learned defending skills and played against each other. We made it harder for ourselves by adding more defenders. – Emaan.

On Wednesday night, we had parents night. Some of us were scared for our reports but they were soooo good!! – Zeenat.

We are starting to learn about data analysis and we completed an assessment. Miss McCue said we will do the same assessment at the end of the topic so as we can see how much we have learned. – Maha.

We watched a clip from The Apprentice and learned what the apprentice is so as we can pretend we are in The Apprentice as part of our literacy topic. We found out about the Tesla car and how it works. We ate popcorn and sweets while we learned. #YUM

We brought Mrs Harker to our class and debated school uniform with her. We gave her reasons why we should not have to wear school uniform but she shot us down by giving us lots of reasons why we should wear school uniform. #wegotowned – Haidar.

IMG_8080 << Watch our video of us debating school uniforms with Mrs Harker.

On Friday, it was Miss Brook’s 50th birthday!! We surprised her with an amazing assembly. She was so shocked! We gave her cards, flowers, presents and cake. We sang happy birthday to her and read her an amazing story which was created by all of the classes in the school. The teachers made an archway and Miss Brooks and the Eco-Committee danced the Conga underneath it. Miss Brooks was so happy that she started crying! #SURPRISE #50 – Dilya.

First week back after the October week

P6 learning this week.