We have been enjoying the milder weather and sunshine in the playground this week. However, please remember to bring in a waterproof jacket as it is has drizzly on occasion! Our playground is also very muddy at the moment so please ensure that your child has indoor shoes as mud is being brought in from outside.

For spelling, we have focused on the ch and tch sound. The class have been  practising their dictionary skills, as well as completing question activities about our spelling words.

We have continued with Explanation texts in our writing and used one of our PM books to help us structure our work. The class helped to design a writing plan which they used to aid their writing on Tsunamis.

In reading, we have been looking at the different types of questions that we may have to answer in comprehension. We revised what each type of question was and we had to create our own literal, inferential and response questions for the class. Although some of these questions were challenging, we were all resilient in giving these a go. We will continue with this comprehension work throughout the year.

In our core maths we finished our percentages work and we have started revising function machines and basic algebra. In practical maths we are looking at 12 and 24 hour time as well as calculating short time intervals.

For our topic work, we have been continuing to learn about Tsunamis and the devastating effects they have on communities and the countries in which they occur. We have been recording our learning on Book Creator on our iPads,  carrying out research to create pages on each natural disaster. We will share our work with another class at the end of term.

In Health and Well-being we have been continuing to learn about the Reproductive System and pregnancy. The class have been very respectful and have been asking some really interesting questions. All of the resources that we use in class can be found on the following website: https://rshp.scot

We were also treated to our final Fairtrade treats on Monday. Adam very kindly spent some of his weekend baking some delicious chocolate muffins using Fairtrade cocoa powder and sugar.

We have also had a strange visitor in the classroom…can you guess what type of animal it is?! She moved around at each break time to  surprise the children. Thanks for visiting Snowy!

We looked at techniques used by artist Nick Rowland, namely chalk and oil pastels on black paper with layers of splashed or drizzled paint on top, and thought that this would make great volcano pictures.

We started by drawing labelled diagrams of a cross section of a volcano then used these ideas to make our pictures.
Can you spot any ash clouds? We also know that these are called ‘pyroclastic clouds’.

We enjoyed the sunny afternoon to flick the paint outside.

This week we continued to learn about money in maths, and how to give change using the shopkeeper’s method. A few shops are being set up in our spare time!

Our guided reading is non fiction texts, and we are learning to identify the purpose, structure and features of information reports in writing.

We had a whole school live assembly with Mrs Strathearn and are looking forward to the follow-up task; sharing who we are with her.

World Book Day on Thursday was great fun, don’t forget to spend your £1 token.

We painted some Spring flowers in art.

This week we really enjoyed taking part in World Book Day Activities. We tested out book knowledge in a number of quizzes and we were challenged to design the front cover of a secret book after hearing the story. We really enjoyed reading stories to P1 on Thursday. We practised reading aloud with expression and created puppets to help the P1s really understand the story. It was so much fun.

In art we looked at “The Great Wave” by Hokusai and created our own version using paints. We really enjoyed it and the results look fantastic.

P6/7 have had a super week this week. We have been finished off our work on tsunamis and produced some excellent pieces of writing to go alongside this. We have also finished our tsunami art work using a range of oil pastels to represent the ocean colours.

On Wednesday we teamed up with P1 and read them a story as part of World Book Day. We made characters for them to play with as we read and then we showed them how to animate a character they have drawn and bring it to life. Mrs Smith was very impressed with how enthusiastic and helpful we were when supporting the little ones.

On Thursday was it was World Book Day. We made some origami bookmarks and decorated them with our own theme. We then had a lovely assembly ran by Mrs Strathearn who told us a little about herself and then shared the 2022 World Book Day song. At the end of the assembly she set everyone a task to tell her something about each of us. We made a start on this on Friday. For the rest of World Book Day we took part in a corridor scavenger hunt looking for famous book characters around the school. The winning class will be announced next week and they will win a book of their choice for their class. We also created some gifs based on popular children’s books. Take a look and see if you can identify which books have been animated.

On Friday we made our Powerpoint pages for Mrs Strathearn and completed a comprehension passage about World Book Day.

John also took an excellent video of one of our stick insects eating their moult. They shed their skin so that they can grow bigger and then they eat it for the nutrients. It was a bit gross but interesting at the same time. Please see our Teams page for John’s video as unfortunately we are having upload difficulties.

What has been your highlight of the week?

Over the past two weeks, P7B have been learning about Fairtrade products and how this impacts our world. We watched videos, engaged in discussion and created artwork to represent our views.

The theme for this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight is ‘Choose the World You Want’ and tied in with our learning around COP26. Each child was given the task of creating something which represents what we want the world to look like in the future. Some of the children were confident in presenting their work to the class. We were all impressed with the wide variety of talent on show and the different messages the pupils were trying to portray. Which is your favourite?

The children have been given the opportunity to submit their work to be included in the 2022 Exhibition Wall on the Fairtrade Website. All of the details have been sent to the class on Teams and can be found below:

Get involved in the 2022 Fairtrade Youth Exhibition

This week we have…

Listened to a story by Shirley Hughes and drew a picture in the style of her illustrations. Her stories make us feel NOSTALGIC!

We have been learning about volcanoes and tied this into our writing. Our explanation writing also included a labelled diagram.

We have continued learning about Fairtrade Fortnight. We enjoyed some more Fairtrade goodies. Thank you Liberty and Eliana!

We created volcano pictures using oil pastels and splattered paint all over our work.

In maths, we have been continuing to learn about percentages and finished off our mini topic on area.

We had a live assembly with the whole school, in spite of the technical difficulties! We enjoyed learning more about our new headteacher and we all have a task to do so Mrs Strathearn can get to know us a little better.

We had our book character hunt for World Book Day. We worked with our team to find as many as we could.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning about the changes our bodies go through during puberty.

Written by P7B

Today we enjoyed activities around reading, book characters and favourite books.

We took part in a book character hunt organised by Mrs Smith. Hidden in the corridors were pictures of characters from popular children’s books. We searched high and low and had fun naming them and remembering when we read those books.

We learned about the adults’ favourite children’s books. It was good to see our old teachers and remember the books they read to us.

Our drumming band has a name!

’Out of this world’ was suggested by James and voted for by the class. Everyone gave a suggestion and voted, so now we are a real band!

Today we made our own drumsticks using bamboo. We use them to play games such as ‘Don’t drum this one back’ and ‘Stick ‘em up’.

We also sang a song ‘The Calabash Song’.

Alistair was drummer of the week, well done!