We practised our cricket skills outside on the pitch.  We can see an improvement in everyone’s bowling skills.

Migration Coffee Morning:

We hosted a coffee morning on Friday morning and we invited parents and visitors from the Milk Café and Awaz FM into school so that we could share our experiences of migration. The Milk Café work with migrants who have migrated from different countries. – Mimi.

Some pupils stood up and shared their thoughts on migration and showed pictures and ornaments from their culture. – Haidar.

Some of us went with Gouri from Awaz FM and interviewed the parents on their experience of migration. Then, Gouri interviewed us and she was asking us about our heritage and culture.  Our interviews are going to be aired on Awaz FM which is cool because we have never had this experience before. – Soha and Manahil.

It was very interesting getting to know differnyt people’s experiences and finding out their migration stories. – Hafsa.

Some pupils asked parents questions about where they came from and why they migrated. We found out how some parents feel about their migration journey. – Amina.

It was interesting to see how Mrs Brightman’s language has changed from moving from England to Glasgow. She has started using Glaswegian words and phrases thanks to help to the help of Miss McCue. – Zeenat.

Divided City:

When reading Divided City, we finally found out why Joe’s dad is depressed. It’s because Joe’s mum is dead.  Some of us predicted this a couple of weeks ago. – Saad.

Joe and Graham had an argument about both of their traditions and beliefs but, in the end, football brought their friendship back together. – Rayan.

We found it funny that Joe gave Graham the Catholic name of Gregory so that his family wouldn’t know Graham is a Protestant. – Maidah.

The focus of this week was ‘Storytelling’.  We had a storyteller in during assembly who told us a fairy-tale.  He was amazing because he used expressions and we were able to visualise the story in our head.  He spoke so clearly and he was very confident.  We know this is what a good storyteller sounds like.

We created profiles for our heritage.  We have lots of different heritages but most of us are Scottish Pakistani.  Hussain has Afghani and Dutch heritage, Amina has Portuguese and English heritage, Laiba has Malaysian, Maidah has Latvian and French, Mujtaba has Spanish and Dilya has Kurdish heritage.  Miss McCue has Scottish and Irish heritage.  We are all migrants.

On Monday, Scott from Sense Over Sectarianism came in to teach us about sectarianism.  We learned about the bigotry that exists in our city and we learned more about Protestants and Catholics.  Also, we learned that prejudice means that you judge someone before you get to know them, for example, all Muslims being terrorists.  We know this is not true.  This links to our class novel, Divided City.

Tuesday was Internet Safety Day.  We learned that we must not share our private information with anyone and we must not talk to strangers online.  Also, we learned that we must use social media in a responsible way.

On Friday, we went on a trip to Scotland Street School Museum and looked at an exhibition called GlaswegAsians.  We learned about the history of Asians coming to Glasgow.

“I learned that Bashir Maan was the first Muslim councillor in Glasgow and I loved the trip because finding out about the history of my culture was interesting.” – Zeenat.

“We interviewed each other and then told the rest of the class about our friend.  It was good because we got to know more about each other and languages that people in the class spoke.  We speak so many languages in Primary 6 like – English, Spanish, Punjabi, Urdu, French, Kashmiri, Portuguese, Kurdish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian.  How talented are we?” – Dilya.

After the exhibition, we had time to explore the rest of the museum.  We had a look at the Victorian classroom and the classroom from World War 2.  They look quite different to our classroom!!

We started to plan our writing for BBC’s 500 word competition.  We all have lots of different ideas from our world and some made up ideas from a fantasy world.
J K Rowling’s in the making!!

Happy birthday Maidah!! Have fun celebrating this weekend and thanks for the chocoate cake you brought in for everyone to share 😃 

On Monday, students from Langside College came in to teach us Athletics games.  We played games in teams and worked together.  It was a nice treat, we had fun!

We’ve read 20 chapters of Divided City now.  We read that Joe and Graham were at an Old Firm match and the fans were shouting abuse at each other.  The Rangers fans were throwing potatoes at the Celtic Fans.

“I think the Rangers fans were throwing potatoes at the Celtic fans because of the Potato Famine which happened in Ireland in 1849.” – Maidah

The primary 6’s from P6/7 joined us on Thursday afternoon.  We all worked together to come up with push and pull factors for migration.

Push factors are reasons why people leave a country.

Pull factors are reasons why people want to go live in a country.

Then, we debated with a partner.  One person was on the proposition side (they wanted to move to another country).  The other person was on the opposition side (they were arguing that they wanted to stay in their current country).