We’ve had a fun but busy week in P4a! In maths, we’ve been revising subtraction and learning how to subtract using exchanging. In literacy, we’ve been working on writing descriptive recounts, and we also created our own comics. The highlight of the week was definitely building our own castles out of cardboard. We used everything we’ve learned about castle features, worked as a team, and showed lots of creativity. We are so proud of our finished models!
This week in our playroom the children have been exploring our Developing the Young Workforce topic and experiencing a range of different jobs through exploration and role play. The children have engaged so well in all of the play experiences provided and have used their creativity and imagination to create new roles within their play.
We continue this learning within our writing lessons this week. The children were asked ‘What do you want to be when you grow up’. Everyone was able to say what they wanted to be and give a reason for this choice.
Well done P1C for another very successful week of learning!
P6B went to Pinkston Water Sports on Wednesday. We went into the local woodlands and learned all about appreciated our green spaces within Glasgow. We created art using leaves and sticks, went on a bug hunt, and completed some team challenges. We did especially well in the team challenges and our instructor was impressed with our teamwork!
Afterwards, we went canoeing in the man-made canal! We had to work together to make the large canoe move against the strong winds. At the end we all had a race in the canoes and got to jump in the canal!
It was a fantastic day and now we cannot wait for next week!
On Tuesday we had the first of our visits to Pinkston Basin to participate in activities for three awards: The NOLA (National Outdoor Learning Award), Glasgow Urban Adventure Award and a Watersports award. It was a bit of all four seasons in one day but that didn’t stop us from participating and having a great time. Half of the day was spent on the water in canoes and the other half was exploring the forest. We are looking forward to Days 2 and 3.
This has been a very busy week in P5b. From completing the data handling tasks to playing quick cricket in P.E. As usual the STEM activities were enjoyable for all!
I will post some photographs later today .
Mrs. Jodah
I liked writing about castles this week because we could be creative with how it was displayed. Bonnie
I enjoyed Drama because it was funny and I got to be energetic. Maisie
I liked learning about the parts of a castle. Charlie
We made an angle measurer from paper and learned how to measure acute angles, obtuse angles and right angles. Lily, Sara, Ya Ya
I learned that Edinburgh Castle has been attacked more than any other in Britain. Ruaridh R and Drew
This week P6 did their Rights and Respecting Showcase! They have been working extremely hard on their songs and we are so proud of them all! Thank you to everyone who came to see P6 and we hope you enjoyed the show!
This week was a busy one in P7b. Lots of us were off on our high school visits and we had end of year assessments to get done. With a very busy couple of weeks ahead, we are taking it all in our stride. Show rehearsals are taking over, and we can’t wait to show everyone what we have been working on.
This week we did maths I thought it was very fun! We did frequency. Then we went outside with chalk and we drew bar charts it was about favourite colours which include blue green purple red and pink. We did it with our working buddies. Next in writing we did explanation writing about plastic pollution and to reduce,reuse and recycle the plastic to help sea creatures so that they don’t choke on the plastic.
Afterwards we did reciprocal reading in groups we are reading islands of the Pacific Ocean the book is quite cool and the other group reads far from the city they say it is a great book! Then everyone gets a job for reading.There is a leader, clarifiers questioners, summarisers and predictors as well we do them after reading the book.
Jaishan & Lucy
Last week, we put our persuasive writing skills to the test by writing letters to the children of Wallacewell Primary, encouraging them to pick up their litter and help keep our playground clean. We also took action ourselves by joining the school litter pick, made even better by the glorious sunshine! In maths, we’ve been working with money, adding up totals and working out change from £10. We’ve also started our exciting new topic on castles! So far, we’ve been learning about the defensive features of famous Scottish castles and how they helped protect the people who lived in them.
P4a and Miss Maclennnan 
