Great singing today at the Pancake Breakfast- your performance was super!

In our badminton coaching session, we were practising a forehand serve over the net and working in teams to hit the shuttlecock over the net and land in the hoops to earn points. It is quite hard, but we are making progress each week.

Thanks for bringing in your favourite book for World Book Day and explaining why you like your book so much.

We are looking forward to sharing our songs with you at the Pancake Breakfast 🥞 tomorrow morning. Looking forward to seeing you there, if you can make it.

Today we were using some non- fiction text features to find information about Viking jewellery. The Vikings were proud of their appearance and wore different types of jewellery made from different precious metals and beads.

We used clay to design our own pendants based on the shape of Thor’s hammer, or round like a brooch. We also used modelling tools to help us shape and add designs to our work. We now need to wait until the clay dries before we can move onto the next step!

Today we were learning how to tell the difference between fact and opinion using the best strategies. We know that facts can be proven but opinions are thoughts, feelings and hunches.

Today we were working with Mrs Keith on a new skill for learning- Problem Solving and Enquiry. We were thinking about all of the different thought processes that we might need in order to tackle the problem.

The problem set for us was to cover the desk using shapes.

Did the shapes tessellate?

Did we need to adapt and modify our ideas?

How would we plan and organise?

Were the resources we had working together to solve the problem?

We realised that we had to use different thought processes and think of other ways to help us solve the problems. In some cases, two groups had to combine to solve the problem!

Eco Day 2020

One of our activities was  thinking about the use of plastic bags- how often we use them and for which purposes. We agreed that we could all make an effort to either use a cotton re-usable bag instead, or we could help others by managing our own possessions. Hopefully, bedroom floors will be much cleaner and tidier.

As you can see, there were some great ideas and what great thoughts for our Eco Day. In RE we learnt that Christians might give up something for Lent or do something special.  The bags are an early Easter gift for the children to use to use less plastic or do something useful. They can earn Eco points next week as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Please look at the class blogs for Primary 4 and Primary 5 to see photos of other Eco activities that took place today. Have a great weekend, everyone. 😊

Yesterday we worked together to make Fairtrade Chocolate Brownies- all of the ingredients were Fairtrade, to link with Fairtrade Fortnight.  This is what the Brownie looked like……

……. before we ate it!

Everyone enjoyed the Brownie and thought it tasted delicious 😋 Well done, everyone – great teamwork!

As today is Mardi Gras, the last day before Lent, we made masks using the traditional colours of green- faith, purple- justice and gold- power. Today, Christians traditionally ate up meat, eggs, sugars and fats ready for Lent and so Pancake Day became a tradition.

Look at one of our classmates produced! She used a lid and wool to make a loom and she is now weaving a bracelet. We can’t wait to see the finished product!

In our PE lesson we were focusing on badminton skills.

We were making progress in being able to make clean shots over the net.

Today we were learning to make predictions using evidence from our text. We worked in small groups to find evidence in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory about: Charlie, Willy Wonka, Mr Bucket  and the chocolate factory and then we made predictions of what might happen based on the evidence that we found. We used the thinking routine of Chalk Talk to share our ideas , make comments and ask questions about our predictions.