What an excellent week!

• We have been learning about the story of the Poppy and what Remembrance Day is all about. We created some beautiful poppy pictures and all took part in a one minute silence.
• We have been learning about animals that live on the forest floor and researched an animal of our choice. We wrote an information report on our chosen animal and then created a piece of art work based on one of these.
• In Maths we have finished our block on subtraction and have now moved on to multiplication. Remember you can practise the trickier times tables on Hit the Button. This will help you increase your recall speed and confidence with these.
• In Health and WellBeing we have been talking about reasons why people might take drugs or alcohol and their impact on peoples’ mood. We have continued to talk about relationships and how we form these.

What has been your highlight of the week and why?

This week has been another great week.

We all watched The Lorax Live on Tuesday and thoroughly enjoyed it. It explained climate change really well and made links to COP26.

We have been learning about plants in the rainforest and how they have adapted so that they can survive in the extreme climate. We then used this information to create an information report on rainforest plants.

Our classroom is starting to look like a real rainforest and we have all taken on different jobs to make items for it. Each week we will add to our display with our new learning.

In maths we are finishing our block on subtraction. Ask us to show you; the written method, number line method, missing number method or expanding numbers method. We have been working very hard on this.

In Health and Well-being we have been discussing relationships and how we are connected in different ways. We enjoying thinking about our connections with each other in class. We have also covered drugs education and have been learning about legal and illegal drugs and the impact they can have on someone.

What has been your highlight this week?

P6/7 had a super spooky day today.

We had dancing, dooking for apples, Kahoot! quizzes, super sour sweets, party games and food!

Mrs Smith was very impressed by all the efforts of the children in class.

Who can you spot in the photo below?

We were all super excited to meet our new stick insect family. We set up their starter enclosure and made sure they had food before we settled them in.

We then had the tricky job of naming our new ‘stickies’.

We have named them; Stickabelle, Lorax Jr, Ivy, Trixie and Twix.

Let us know what you think of our new arrivals…

How many can you find in the photo below? They are very good at camouflage!

This week P6/7 carried out some very important research to persuade Mrs Ward to allow us to have a class pet.

We had lots of things to find out to ensure that stick insects were the right pets for our classroom. After finding out the information we created PowerPoints and then shared them with Mrs Ward.

We were excited to receive a reply from Mrs Ward to let us know that we are allowed our class pets. Woohoo!

We will update you with some photos once we get our wee pals settled.

P6 and P6/7 want to say a huge thank-you to Mr Murray who came in this afternoon to teach us about the Paralympic sports; boccia and sitting volleyball. It was brilliant to learn some new games and also we realised how hard it is to carry out simple tasks when you can not move certain parts of your body. Here are some photos of our afternoon fun…

Here is an overview of what our highlights have been this week.

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Check out our word cloud below which has been added to by both P6 and P6/7. The larger the words the more popular they have been with us this week.

What has been your highlight this week and why?