On Tuesday this week, Uddingston Grammar (UGS) held the Newton Farm heats for the Numeracy Challenge transition event. Mrs Kennan (Head of Mathematics at UGS), along with some S6 helpers, led the challenge where each of the ten groups had to work as a team to answer seven clues. The first two teams to answer all the clues received a key that opened a treasure chest full of tasty treats to choose from! The winning teams will be attending the Numeracy Challenge final in December along with the finalists from each other UGS catchment school. More information on this event to come.

Here’s what some of our pupils had to say about the event:

“The teamwork part was very fun!” – Lennon

“I thought it was fun that we had to go in groups to discuss the answers and work out the challenges together.” – Jack

“It was fun getting to meet the S6 helpers and working with them.” – Emily

“It was really quite fun and I liked how the challenges were different. The decoding challenge was so much fun!” – Daisy

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This week we celebrated the whole class gaining a Star Citizen award for their respectful and inclusive attitudes towards others needing support around the school 🤩

We also had a rare old time celebrating Hallowe’en with a catwalk in the style of the game ‘Dress to Impress’ – check out our poses! We also played the ‘Mummies’ game, seeing which group could create the most effective looking Mummy that didn’t unravel when they were given tasks to do.

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In room 24 we have been learning how to read and plot coordinate points. We plotted coordinates that created the image of a helicopter, we solved a murder mystery by answering all the co-ordinates questions and then we got to complete a treasure hunt using grid references.

We also completed session 3 of our P7 sidekicks training this week with room 21 and Katy, our active schools coordinator. We had lots of fun learning how to support younger pupils when playing games using the N.E.D.S acronym:

N = Remember to tell them your names and also the name of your game

E = Explain the games and have your equipment you need

D = Demonstrate the games so they know how to play them

S = Start the game and support the children as they play it

Some of us will be supporting the P2s at their Monday after school club soon. We can’t wait!

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We have been powering ahead with our brilliant class novel, High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson, and have been playing detective, aiming to solve the ‘Whodunnit’ mystery before we find out in the book. We have slowly but surely been piecing together information and have now added our findings (so far!) to our display wall in class. This display will continue to grow and will no doubt be bursting with more questions, predictions, motives and alibi information in the coming weeks.

Linking with the ‘high rise’ theme, the class have taken a look at ‘perception’ as means of creating a piece of art where the viewer is looking from the ground up at some super tall skyscrapers. We think our artwork is now reaching new heights! 😉

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed what zones we’d like in our classroom so that we can participate in ‘Morning Clubs’ from 9-9.30am. This is where we are allowed to play and work on our skills using a variety of activities. We have the construction zone, creation station, reading nook, digital desk and gaming arena. Each week, we’ll be taking a look at what curricular areas and what skills have been developed at each station. Take a look through our photos to see what we’ve gotten up to!

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