Month: January 2018

When Primary 5 and Miss Bull challenge you to beat their 79cm snowman…there’s only one thing for it; CHALLENGE ACCEPTED (cue dramatic action soundtrack)

A celebratory snowball fight was in order…look at the army Miss Cohen was up against, eek!;

Here’s the link to the short animation on the theme of ‘Migration’ I was trying to get working in class today.

Enjoy, and we will discuss it tomorrow!

Miss Cohen

We have been learning about equivalent fractions in Numeracy.

Muntaha; The rule that you apply to the numerator also applies to the denominator.

James; We did a fractions maze.

Aisha; We had a piece of paper which we had to fold into different fractions according to the lines.

Nabeeha; We played a fractions memory game where different fractions were represented in unusual ways.

As part of our Literacy work this week, we have been reading Divided City. This novel is set in Glasgow, and we have been introduced to Joe, Graham, Leanne and Kyoul so far in the story. We have been scanning a text about the Irish Potato famine, we have been researching different flags (Celtic, Rangers, Red hand of Ulster, The Irish Tricolour) and we have been summarising information about The Royal Orange Institution and Christian religions.

Our new topic is all about Migration. We’ve learned that different species can migrate, but also, human beings can migrate to different countries. We categorised reasons for leaving one’s country into push and pull factors.

We even designed new groups for each row that were based on migratory animals. Now in P7, we have the Fireflies, the Golden Jellyfish, The Flamingos, and the Monarch Butterflies.

We played a bingo game where some member of the class were characters that had migrated, and the other half of the class were interviewers who had to quiz them on why they left.

In French this week, Miss Cohen put on her best accent and we learned about different modes of transport. We played Battleships related to French transportation.

The Baldy Bane Theatre Company came to present a show called Ailsa’s Magic Amulet. Nabeeha now knows what an amulet is, hoorah!

Adam; In Science, we  learned about reflection and how different materials reflect the light.

In P.E. this week, we were practicing Athletics as we have a big competition looming in March. We ran relay races, threw some impressive javelin distances, and leaped over hurdles. We are excited to meet our Langside College coaches on Monday, who will hopefully be able to develop our skills further.

Miss Cohen told us who we would be sharing with for the Lockerbie Manor pods, yay! The countdown is officially ON  🙂

An eventful first full week back, looking forward to next!

Happy weekend everyone x