This week we were doing French naming  some countries and being recorded by the IPad, the teacher pointed to a country and we had to tell her the compass location from France, in French. We also had to tell her where the members of the Simpson family where in France. It was good fun.

Adam Preston and Carmen McSharry

Our whole class participated enthusiastically in our 1 mile run for Sports Relief, most of our class got involved by dressing in a crazy sports outfit, this was great fun. some pictures below.

This week we have been learning about angles during our maths lesson, we have been learning to identify and name angles, use a protractor to find the size of an angle and we have also learned to calculate the size of an angle.

In literacy we are continuing to work with our reading books in class, we are focusing on identifying descriptive languages and selecting the main ideas from the text.

During IDL time we are continuing to learn more about the Rainforests of the world. We have also been producing artwork around this theme.

In P.E. We have moved form dance to gymnastics.

This week our class Dojo winner is Callum Reddock.

Our four capacities certificate was awarded to Erin Gray for being a Confident Individual.

As part of our learning in dance we took a trip back to the 70’s to learn the Saturday Night Fever dance routine. It was great fun!

I really enjoyed P.E. this week because it was different and fun and everybody liked it and we were using sideway movements and forward movements and we danced to the beat.

Craig McNutt

This week we were learning about Rainforests and and why they are important. I especially enjoyed learning about the different layers of the rainforest I also found out that rainforests are home to about half of the worlds species.I liked this subject and would like to research further in the future.

Kirsty

This week in R.M.E. we sat in a circle and talked about our Divided City topic and Sectarianism. We wrote down the alphabet on Mrs Patrick’s whiteboard and thought of a word for each letter that would describe Sectarianism. We talked about different football club rivalries and what it causes, we also talked about racism and the outcome of what happens over it.

We thought his was a good way of learning and really enjoyed it.It also helped us understand the way people feel when this happens.

Andrew Murray And Christopher Patram

In P.E our learning was based on the  70s dancing using our learning of dance to create our own 70s dance and had to show the class our progress.  By Jacob Byrne and Erica Mcnutt

During R.M.E in class, our learning has been based on Sectarianism. Sectarianism is really fights and or arguments caused by religion. It is usually linked with Celtic and Rangers, Catholics and Protestants even though they share the common belief of Christianity.

-Here is a little Definition- Sectarianism

“Narrow minded beliefs that lead to prejudice, discrimination, malice and ill will towards members or presumed members of a religious denomination” -Nil By Mouth.                             By Max Hunter!

We have had a focus on literacy and reading this week to correspond with World Book Day. Along with this we have still managed to work hard in other subjects. In maths we have been learning about symmetry and have tackled drawing some very tricky symmetrical shapes.

In our Biodiversity topic we have been investigating the way in which humans make a negative impact on our planet and have begun to explore the consequences of these actions. All pupils have been asked to complete the WWF footprint calculator at home and return their results.

In art we have used a peer assessment model to improve our drawings in steps, with good results.

Our R.M.E. Continues to focus on sectarianism and discrimination using Divided City as a resource. Pupils are participating in the workshops enthusiastically and finding the subject very interesting.

In P.E. We have been learning about the elements of dance by deconstructing a dance we have learned and re shuffling the parts to create our own versions. We have had a go 70’s style and are using 70′ tunes, this is to link with our schools 40th anniversary.

Earlier in the week we had p.e and I got to hear 70’s music since it is the schools 40th anniversary ,we got put in groups and made a dance!I loved it my group was amazing!!

Sonya Macleod