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!!