Our kids made the most of the white stuff!!! They don’t see proper snow in Fisherton and Dunure very often so we made sure we got out to play. 
Our new friend Jeff, the snowman, was a source of much fun.
Snow Weather – Snow Problem
Category Archives: P5-7 ‘THE BIG CLASS’
New Year New Start
Well done to those who won awards at today’s assembly.
All of the Big Class received certificates from the Scottish Book Trust for participating in their shared reading project.
Oliver won class Dojo Champ for last week.
Well Done everyone.
Festival and Celebrations Topic
We have started 2018 with an exciting ‘Festivals & Celebrations’ topic.
During this first week we have been researching the Harbin Ice festival in China.
Our @CISSStrathclyde scholar partner Calum, of @Carrick_Academy, is there right now!! We can’t wait to hear all about his experience.
The pupils are also busy planning what other festivals and celebrations we can investigate and explore this term.
Dojo Champ
Well done to Christopher who received the most Dojos in the big class last week.
Panto Project – 2017
This week P5-7 have been busy researching …
What is a pantomime?
The story of the Gaiety in Ayr.
and
The story of Cinderella
This resulted in some wonderful presentations!!!!
Oh yes they did!
The materials provided by the Gaiety in Ayr had activities at CfE 1st, 2nd and 3rd levels.
The activities covered the curricular areas of Literacy, Numeracy, English, Social Studies, Expressive Arts and Health and Wellbeing.
Can’t wait to go and see Cinderella at the Gaiety next week.
One Special Christmas – 2017
This week’s High Flyers
Well done to this weeks achievers.
Stephen and Mia were our Dojo Champs.
Mia also got a literacy award for super descriptive writing and Harvey was rewarded for super presentation and spelling.
Finally, a big congratulations also to Elsi who passed her music exam with flying colours. We look forward to hearing her play at our Christmas Service.
Celebrating Success
Well done to our award winners this week.
Tegwen undertook additional roles of responsibility last week and this was recognised through an achievement award.
Brigham and Matthew both received certificates for their technical drawing in class.
And Nathan won Class Dojo in the big class.
Congrats to all our winners.
Scottish Dancing
Pupils have learned a number of traditional Scottish dances. They can put sequences of steps together to perform these dances and were encouraged to find fun in the experiences.
Whooping and clapping was essential!!
Words the pupils associate with this learning experience:
Scotland – tradition – fun – ceilidh – awesome – sweating – skipping – active – partners – waltz – patterns – energy – clapping – great
Science investigation 2 – Taste
| Type of Taster | Number in class |
| Non-Taster | 2 |
| Taster | 10 |
| Supertaster | 5 |
The pupils said:
The food colouring tasted disgusting.
This investigation was quicker and easier than last week.
I thought the bumps were single taste buds but now I know they are groups of taste buds.
I learned new words while investigating taste.
You had to be careful with the food colouring.
We needed to be hygienic all the time.
Tongues have more to them than I thought.
