Writing and IDL – For our topic (IDL), we’re studying World War 2. We learnt about how the war started and then we started thinking about the parts of the war we were most interested in. Individually, we researched facts and put these into information reports during writing. Some of our classmates have been bringing in war memorabilia which has been cool to look at! Charlie brought in medals and photos, Chloe brought in photos and a WW1 ‘death penny’ medal, Amelia brought in a soldier’s helmet and canteen (metal water bottle) and Jude brought in his dad’s army uniform for us to compare against the WW2 uniform he brought in last week. We even got to try on his gas mask! This week we learned about the evacuation at Dunkirk and worked in groups of land, sea and air rescue teams. We had to consider what would be the most important things to consider while trying to rescue the 400,000 soldiers stranded on the beach.

Safer Internet Day – We watched along with the BBC live event about AI chatbots. It talked about what information you shouldn’t give to a chatbot and that sometimes the information it gives isn’t always correct.

Art – A few weeks ago, we were given a homework task to take a photo of some objects that represent us as individual people, we didn’t know what for though! We could arrange the items in any way we wanted and then had to send them to our teacher. We found out this week that it’s for still life drawings in class! Miss Napier printed our photos out over a grid layout and we’re trying to draw the photos square by square to create realistic drawings. Fingers crossed!

Maths – Lately, we’ve been studying angles, perimeter, area and volume. We drew lots of rectangles to create robots and then calculated the area of them, used lots of rectangles and then calculated  the area, we made robots by doing this. We have also been doing volume which is the amount of space inside a 3D object. We measured the length, width and height of objects around the class to work out their volume.

Crazy Hair Day – Today we had crazy hair day and everyone came in with crazy hairstyles. We saw that someone had even attached a huge balloon in their head! Well done to Lily in our class for her Easter treat themed hair!

Drama – For drama we wrote diary entries on certain scenarios that would have happened to children during WWII.

Curling – We were inspired by the Winter Olympics and tried a new sport in PE this week… Curling! We changed the rules a bit and did boys v girls teams. The girls won!

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Last Week:

On Tuesday afternoon we had Mrs Reilly do drama/health and wellbeing with us. We got into groups and had to choose ‘What Would You Do?’ scenarios to act out from cards in a pile. These scenarios were about online safety, and were things that the police have had to deal with in the past. Things like someone you don’t know chatting to you online and asking you to meet up with them after school, or receiving a threatening message asking you to do something ‘or else.’ We talked about these after each group acted them out and discussed what we should do if it ever happens.

Ms Ryan & Ms White came from Uddingston Grammar to do a lesson with us about our dream high school. We had to write a story about what we would like in our dream high school, and who the teachers would be, what subjects there would be and who would be our friends.

Miss Thom came to visit us on Thursday. She’ll be coming in over the next few Thursdays and then will be in every day from the start of March, until the end of May.

On Friday Jude brought in some World War II memorabilia for our topic. His Great Grandpa fought in the War and we got to look at his medals, his uniform and his soldiers service and pay book! Jude also had a German soldier’s armband to show us, along with some German medals, some photos of German soldiers and a 1941 German copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ book! It was so cool to see all these things!

This Week:

We mixed together art and maths twice this week! We made Symmetry Monsters by writing our names normally and  them writing them symmetrically on the other side of the paper. We then turned our names into monsters and aliens, trying hard to keep everything symmetrical! We were also using compasses and learning to draw circles with different radii and diameters. We used our skills to create a piece of repeated circles artwork. Most of us are still finishing the colouring in bit so we’ve only got a couple of photos to show so far.

We did more drama but with Miss O’Brien. We had to act out what parts of World War 2 would have been like, like if a bomb had dropped nearby. We got to show the rest of the class once we’d practised.

With Miss Napier, we made posters about how World War 2 started. We had to add information about the leaders of each country, who the allied and axis powers were and write a short paragraph explaining what led to the war starting.

In P.E, Miss Napier taught us a new game called ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors, Jump.’ Lots of us hadn’t played it before and it was so fun! The time went by really quickly because the next thing we knew, we had to go back inside for lunch!

By Oliver, Alexander, Eva & Chloe

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Art – We drew our own portraits but with a twist… We Grinched ourselves! They look great outside our classroom!

Christmas Games & Movie Day – As our end of term treat from Miss Napier, we got into groups and took part in a Christmas Games Day! We played different rounds called: Snow Shovel, Hungry Reindeer, Santa Stack, Candy Cane Fishing and Switch on the Lights. We also had a tricky quiz round and an unusual game of Pass the Parcel, where we had to wear oven mitts to try and open each layer on the presents! We had to finish with a tie-breaker round the next day between two groups: the Sigma Santas and Biggie Boyz Utd. The tie breaker challenge? To create the class teacher using a balloon within 10 minutes! In the end, the winning team were the Sigma Santas!

(Miss Napier took lots of photos and will put them all on Room 24’s Google Classroom!)

STEM challenge: We finally finished our gingerbread houses and have had them on display outside our class. Pupils from across the school have been voting for their favourites. The final winning gingerbread house was made by Evie, Nina, Aaron & Max C. Well done!

P5-7 Christmas Quiz – Today, we took part in the infamous Christmas Quiz run by Mrs Webber. We were part of Team Snowmen and… WE WON! WOOHOO!

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Room 24 have had a very busy week indeed!

• Our Christmas performance with room 23 on Monday was a great success – our pupils sure know how to dance!
• Speaking of dancing, we’ve been practising our Scottish country dancing over the past few weeks too, and whisked each other round the hall during our Christmas party on Thursday.
• Math learning this week has been Christmas themed with some festive fractions, percentages and coordinates tasks.
• We’ve also been taking part in a STEM challenge to create a gingerbread house out of junk modelling materials. We’ll be continuing with these next week! Take a look at the photos to see our progress!

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