We attended the Scottish Country Dancing Festival today at Bellahouston Sports Centre and it was so much fun.

Before we set off,  we had to create rosettes and a banner to let everyone know we were from St Albert’s Primary.

We had an amazing time at the festival. It was so much fun and great exercise.

During Lent, we have been trying to raise money for Mary’s  Meals because  we know they help hungry children around the world by giving them a daily meal in their place of education. This work is amazing because it encourages the children to go to school which means they will receive a good education.

We organised a whole school pyjama day and asked for donations.

Everyone came in their jammies – including teachers!

We played cricket in our jammies and even spoke at assembly wearing them too!

We manged to raise £300 which means we can feed 21 children for a year through Mary’s Meals. #almsgiving #helpingothers

Max from Mary’s Meals came to our class to collect the cheque.  Mary’s Meals are now feeding 1,257,278 children across the world!! AMAZING.

#ASIMPLESOLUTIONTOWORLDHUNGER

We have been reading some short stories as part of our literacy work.

They are moral stories and each have a lesson to be learned in them.

Working with other Primary schools in Glasgow, we are trying to summarise the story in only 280 characters!! That’s not a lot by the way. Each letter, space and piece of punctuation counts as one character. It was so hard at first but we’ve gotten pretty good at it.

We used the ‘Talk for Writing’ method to summarise the story of Pandora’s box through illustrations and actions. This helps us remember the story and have fun at the same time.

We created our own astronaut helmets just like Auggie has in the book, Wonder.

We did this to show what it’s like to be so ashamed of your face that you want to cover and hide it every day.

We showed our helmets off at assembly and told the rest of the school about Wonder and why it is so important that we all treat each other kindly.

The main message of the book is CHOOSE KIND.

We are going live on Sunny Govan Radio tomorrow morning:

Saturday 24th March @ 10am.

Make sure you tune in to hear the radio programme we created about migration.

#migration #radio #digitalworld #live

Following on from our learning during Fairtrade Fortnight, we worked in groups to transfer our notes and create posters to display to journey of a Fairtrade football.

Emaan, Amina and Manahil made their poster look like a journey by drawing a road and including information on the road.

Haidar and Arhum included lots of information and made theirs into a mind map.

Laiba and Hafsa worked hard to cut and stick hexagons onto their poster to create a realistic football look.

Umar and Zain painted their poster and included the fair trade colours – blue, green and black.

We have been practising how to use a checklist to self assess our diary writing. This has helped us improve our writing but it’s hard to write a diary entry as another person.

Through reading the book Wonder, we have learned that we should treat everyone the same. Eshaal explains it perfectly ❤❤

To help with writing a diary entry from the perspective of Joe from Divided City, we hot seated the character. Fareed was so funny as Joe and managed to answer all the questions we asked him. It was so much fun!

Baldy Bame performed a play for us about bullying and abuse. We had to decide if we thought boys bully more than girls. Most people agreed but Amina disagreed and said she thought girls bully just as much as boys.

We were reminded never to stay silent about bullying. There are lots of people we can talk to.

On Friday, we walked to the Tramway to see our art which was displayed in an exhibition.

There was a room which was full of St Albert’s art which was amazing.  We felt proud to see our work displayed and felt like proper artists.

“I don’t really have a huge interest in art but when I looked at my work being displayed, I felt really proud of myself.” – Manahil.

After we looked at our art exhibition, we played in The Hidden Gardens.  It was so much fun playing in the sun with our friends.

We have been learning to use a checklist to self assess our writing.

We started reading the book ‘Wonder’ by R.J. Palacio as part of World Book Week. It is about a boy called August who has face deformities and he has been home schooled all his life.  His parents decide that he has to start school and August feels terrified because he has never been to a school before and he thinks he will be bullied and judged because of the way he looks.

So, we are all making astronaut helmets because August wears an astronaut helmet to hide his face because he is ashamed of it and he knows that people will stare at him.

It was a long process.  Firstly, we had to cut cardboard boxes into a helmet shape.  Then, we had to draw then carve out a rectangle shape at the eyes so as we can see when we wear them. 

When we finally all created our helmets, the painting and designing could begin!  This was the fun part. #PAINTGOALS  #GLITTERGOALS  #ARTISTS  #FUN

Hey P6!! Hope you’re all having fun in the snow ☃️💜

Miss McCue went to the park with her friend and her dogs today. The dogs had so much fun playing in the snow!! 

What are you all up to today? Post your replies and get on the St Albert’s twitter to see what your teachers and friends have been upto.