This week was a shorter one because of the In-Service day on Monday but we’ve still packed in a lot!

We’ve enjoyed learning about Volcanoes and have used them as a focus for our Learning in Writing, Science and Technology.  Mrs Little was especially impressed with our exploding volcano gifs. Our task was to create a moving image that showed some part of a volcanic eruption. We could use any app we liked and we certainly rose to the challenge. Here is just one of the fabulous efforts:

We’ve also managed to fit in some Spelling, Music, Gymnastics, Numeracy work on Decimals and some work on Resilience. Other highlights this week have been welcoming Mrs Strathearn on Tuesday and getting totally covered with snow on Thursday morning!

Time for reflection:

We want Mrs Strathearn to see what a fantastic school Kingsland is. What one thing/piece of work would you tell her about this week that shows the best version of you? (It could be something you did, said, made etc).

Welcome to the Kingsland toy shop!  We created a sales page with a variety of toys which were on offer and we used coins and notes up to £20 to buy toys from each other. We were revising how to write amounts of money correctly, how to add up amounts of money and listing coins to pay for items.

Well done to all the children in P5b who wore their uniforms for thinking day.  They looked very smart!

Members of P6 wearing their Cubs and Guides uniform for World Thinking Day!

Today marks the 12th Anniversary of our school building being opened.  As it is also the birthday of Robert Baden-Powell who founded the Scouting movement which is why today is known as Thinking Day or Founders Day.  Lots of pupils in the school wore their uniforms today to celebrate and remember – here are 3 from P7A looking very smart.

Maths

We have been practising adding decimals, and learning about metres and kilometres.

Writing

We wrote a cinquain poem, with 5 lines and a distinctive shape.

Here are some of our cinquain poems.

Art. For Valentine’s Day we drew geometric shapes inside a heart, by joining carefully placed dots. We painted them in warm, pastel shades.

Drumming

We are enjoying drumming with Mat the Hat and have been set the challenge of coming up with a band name.
The drummer of the week was Ruby, well done!

As part of our Building Resilience lessons on ‘respect yourself’ we listened to the story ‘Only one you’ by Linda Kranz.

We then added our own page to the book with a message to remind ourselves that we are unique and we should respect ourselves.

Here is our book. We hope you enjoy it. Best viewed on a tablet.

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This week we have really enjoyed learning about earthquakes and will be finishing our writing based on this after the holidays.

We have used oil pastels and water colours to create art based on seismographs, the instrument that measures earthquakes. We have included some pictures below.

We have worked very hard to improve our skills in division and some of us were introduced to algebra.

We are looking forward to exploring natural disasters further after the holidays.

Have a great holiday P6 and P6/7!
Mrs Brown and Mrs Smith

Our learning this week has included:

• Numeracy – Finding fractions of an amount & Revising all aspects of fractions
• Writing – Creating our own first draft of an Explanation text on Earthquakes
• Spelling – Hard ‘ck’ sound in various spelling patterns
• Health & Wellbeing – Analysing our skills and interests to find out what future careers we might be best suited for
• Science – Learning about Earthquakes: What causes them, how to prepare and survive them etc.
• A P7 Assembly
• Basketball with Mrs Edge
• Music with Mrs Inglis – competing our Scottish Song assignments
• Prefect Break
• Sports Leadership with Mr Murray – last session
• Fundraising ideas for Dalguise

Time for Reflection:

1. What went well this week?
2. What could have been better?
3. What are you most proud of this term so far?

Some great drumming today with Mat and a huge ‘Well done!’ to Sadie for being drummer of the week.