We have had snow all week.  It’s been so much fun out playing in the snow.  We built a snowman and made lots of shapes in the snow.

Our topic this term is migration.  We worked in pairs to research migration from Pakistan to Scotland and made a fact file.  Did you know that the UK is home to the largest Pakistani community in Europe, with the population of British Pakistanis exceeding 1.17 million.

In maths, we have started learning about negative numbers.  It’s really hard!
We have also been learning fractions and decimals in maths.  This term is going to be soooooo hard for maths.

We practised skills in PE that will help us play cricket.  We’ve definitely got better at the activities and are still learning new skills.  We had so much fun taking part in all the different stations. 

Zain is amazing at everything to do with cricket.  Watch out Shahid Afridi.

We have read more of our novel, Divided City.  It is so interesting and has been quite funny.  We have also learned about the Irish Potato Famine which was between 1845 and 1849 and over one million Irish people died because the potatoes were infected by ‘the Blight’.

2018 has started off busy for us!

This term, we are reading Divided City as our class novel.  It is about the divide in Glasgow which is caused by the rivalry between Celtic and Rangers.  

#SECTARIANISM  #BIGOTRY  #PARKHEAD  #IBROX

Our focus for PE this term is cricket.  Some P7’s helped us set up stations to practise our throwing, batting and catching.  It’s tricky for some of us just now but we will be pros by Easter.  Watch this space …

We had our last Debate League session on Friday.  It was fun because we were teaching P6/7 what we had learned about debating because they are going to take part in The Debate League this term.  Sana and Fareed made us all laugh so much when they were debating. #FAMILY #DEBATING #OPPOSITION #PROPOSITION

For our art exhibition, we turned our classroom into a foodbank and shared  our learning with the rest of the school, our parents and a special judge, Jack.  We have collected food for The Trussel Trust and The City Mission.  These charities run foodbanks that hungry people can go to and collect food for free.  

Here’s Primary 1/2 learning about the different food items we collected.

Zainab’s mum, Mimi’s mum, Arhum’s mum, Mujtaba’s mum, Laiba’s mum, Zain’s mum and even Miss McCue’s mum came to see the amazing work we have been doing.

Mrs Connell, Mr McCormack, Miss Kelly and Mrs Harker came into see our work too.

 We also had visitors from The Tramway and Abeera in P6/7’s mum and sisters.

On Wednesday, we went to Webster’s Theatre to see Jackie and the Baked Beanstalk in panto.  It was HILARIOUS!!

The dame, Lola, loved Mr Orr.

On Friday, we all wore Christmas jumpers to get us into the Christmas spirit!!

Everyone looked so cosy and festive.

Miss McCue took some of us to a dance workshop at Holyrood on Tuesday.  It was so much fun being at the High School and being taught by pupils from the High School.  We were split up into groups and taught dances then at the end every group performed to the other groups.  It was scary because there were 8 schools there so over 150 children.

We worked in groups and used the iPads to search for different sources of information about Children’s Rights.  The different sources we found were newspapers, websites, government documents and policies, UNICEF and OXFAM.  We made a newer version of Our Class Charter based on the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.

On Friday, we had the Christmas Fayre so we made posters to advertise what we were selling.  We ran a Chocolate Tombola which made us so much money!! We sold Bubble Swords and sold Christmas pictures of us in frames with our friends.  We had a Guess the Teddies Name too.  John Junior in P3 won the Teddy.  Miss McCue had called it Pippin!  

We prepared all our chocolate bars by putting raffle tickets on them for our Chocolate Tombola!!  It took ages and we wanted to eat all of the chocolate!!!!

The Christmas Fayre was so much fun.  Our Class Raised just under £150!! WOW!!!! #MONEYMAKERS

Here’s Zeenat explaining how the Chocolate Tombola works to Mrs Harker. 

On Monday, we went on a trip to the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in town.  We got the subway into town and then walked to the GOMA. It was freezing!!  We looked at lots of cool contemporary art and got some ideas for our art exhibition.  

After lunch, we visited the Christmas Markets at St Enoch Square.  We got free pancakes!! #YUM

Some of us bought gifts and sweets.  It was so much fun.

On the way back to school, Miss McCue took us to the park to play for a while.  #PLAY

Fareed pushed us on the tyre swing.  He’s so strong.

Rayan and Emaan climbed straight to the top of the spider’s web. #FEARLESS

We started to learn our song for the Christmas Nativity.  We will be singing, ‘Only You’ by Yazoo.  Mr McCormack is playing the guitar while we sing along.  He is sooooo talented.  #MUSICMAN

On Wednesday, we went on another trip! We walked to Pollokshields library and had an information session with the librarian.  Then, we chose 3 books each and took them out at the desk. 

On the way back to school, Miss McCue let us play in Square Park for a while.  Sometimes you just have to laugh and play. 

  Zainab did a presentation about poverty and it was really good because it fits in with our topic of world hunger.  Zainab was so confident even though she was a little nervous. – Amina.

This week, we planned, wrote and practised our class assembly.  It was a lot to do in a week and we were soooooo busy!

We made banners for our class assembly to go along with our solutions part. – Arhum.

We filmed clips using the green screen and pretended we were starving people in countries all over the world. – Arhum.  #DIGITALLEARNING

We practised our assembly in the hall and made sure we all knew were we were to sit and stand. – Mimi.

We finished our art collage.  It looks amazing because it is colourful and made of all different materials. – Mujtaba.  #COLOURFULCOLLAGE

I made an iMovie for the assembly and it included images and clips of everything. – Zeenat.

We got a massive applause and everyone has said we were amazing.  We had a party today with crisps and chocolate to celebrate.

#SAVAGEAMINA

Maidah presented a PowerPoint to the class on Monday about image.  She taught us that we should not try to copy other people, be ourselves and love ourselves. – Laiba.  #LOVEYOURSELF

 In Mental Maths, we learned a new method called pictorial representation.  Pictorial representation is when you represent a number using pictures.  – Mimi. 

On Wednesday morning, we had music and we were practising for our assembly next week.  We are getting better at our performances. – Dilya.  #MUSICALPERFORMANCE

 We had visitors from Valencia and they gave us a maths challenge based on our novel study: Harry Potter.  We had to work out how much petrol Harry would need to travel from Earth to Mars and back.  It was super super hard and it took us ages to get the answer.  Even Miss McCue and Mr Stewart got it wrong a couple of times. – Zarah.  #LOL

Mrs Rooney is a volunteer for the charity,  Mary’s Meals.  We learned who Mary’s Meals are and how they help hungry people all over the world.  #ASIMPLESOLUTIONTOWORLDHUNGER 

In groups, we wrote a script for a role play for our assembly.  We are going to act out our scene infront of the green screen which will becaome a clip which we will show at our assembly.  It was hard at the start but then it was fun. – Arhum.  #DIGITALLEARNING  #LITERACY

Mimi presented a PowerPoint about Vets and Doctors.  She told us that vets help sick animals and doctors help sick humans.  Mimi said she wants to be a vet when she grows up because she loves animals and wants to make them better. – Aibak.  #CAREER

On Thursday afternoon, we were making a collage of different art pieces for our topic – World Hunger.  We used glitter, paint and different coloured materials.  It was fun and messy! – Maha.

On Thursday afternoon, some of us went to Square Park with Miss Kinloch to litter pick with children from the nursery.  The nursery children were so hyper but so cute.  I loved it. – Maidah.  #BUDDYING

We performed TED Talks for our Debate League this morning.  Zarah, Manahil, Fareed, Mimi, Aibak and Amina all spoke about different topics.  Amina spoke about her love for art and said, “When you get a pen and a piece of paper, you can get rid of your stress.” They were so interesting and then we asked them questions about their topic. After that, we debated as a class on the issue of Young Carers. – Zeenat. #INSPIRATIONAL

On Monday Morning, Hafsa presented a powerpoint to the rest of the class about hunger.  We learned that women are more hungry than men because they don’t go out to work therefore they don’t earn money so can’t buy food. – Laiba.

We used a tape measure to measure each other’s height then we drew a line graph on paper using this information.  We converted centimetres into feet and inches.  Then, we used the Numbers App on the iPad to make a line graph of this information. – Maha  #MATHS  #DIGITALMATHS

We read Chapter 5 of Harry Potter which is called Diagon Alley.  We discussed setting description and, for homework, Miss McCue asked us to use adjectives to describe a setting we know. – Zarah and Hussain.

On Tuesday, some of us went to The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to check out what type of facilities they have and find out what shows they are putting on.  The next show they are putting on is The Jungle Book.  We took part in a workshop and we made costumes then dressed up to show what art is like in Space. The lady working there said it is the best place to study arts in the UK. – Maidah  #ARTS

For PE on Wednesday, we took part in football drills to improve our passes and we learned how to dribble the ball. – Mujtaba.

Manahil presented a powerpoint to the class about young carers.  This was really interesting because a lot of the class had never heard of a young carer before so we learned new things. – Dilya.

For our Debate League, we debated on gender following on from Primary 7’s amazing assembly on Thursday.  We debated on why women should be in the army or not and also debated the pay gap between males and females.  We were either on the proposition side or the opposition side.  When we had a point to reply to someone, we said ‘point of information’ which would allow us to say our argument. – Eshaal.  #GENDEREQUALITY

This week was a very busy week.

On Monday, a guest called Jen came in from Live ‘n’ Learn and taught us about growth mindset.  She told us how to work in groups properly and we put together jigsaws. – Mimi.

Tuesday was Halloween and we all dressed up and had a parade in the hall.  After this, we had a party in the class with juice, crisps and chocolate. It was so much fun! – Eshaal  #SPOOKY

We had music on Wednesday morning with Mrs Pattie.  We were using coloured notes to create a melody to go along with our rhythm and lyrics of our hunger song.  – Aibak  #CREATIVEMUSIC

For PE, we have started football.  We learned different passes which were similar to the ones we learned in basketball.  It was really fun and I’m looking forward to playing an actual game of football. – Hafsa  #PATCHRONALDO

On Wednesday afternoon, we created a bar graph to display the results of our survey on how much food children in the upper classes waste at dinner time.  We found that our class had the most food waste but we think that the other classes weren’t being truthful. – Manahil.  #STOPWASTINGFOOD

Fareed created a powerpoint on stocks and money and presented it to the rest of the class on Thursday morning.  He explained why you should invest some of your money in companies so that you make a profit.  I enjoyed when Fareed was explaining the colours on a line graph and that you wouldn’t want to be in red because that means that you’re losing money and not making money. – Zarah.  #FAREEDTHEBUSINESSMAN

On Thursday afternoon, we learned how to use the Numbers App and made our own bar graphs on the iPads.  It is really cool because you can turn the graphs into 3D. – Maha.

We had a circle time to speak about the importance of including people.  I liked having the time for us all to sit and chat and want more circle times. – Dilya.

We went to the outdoor classroom to read our Harry Potter book.  It was nice because we got fresh air and it was peaceful. – Fareed.  #CHILLING