This week is Maths Week Scotland. P7B tried out the Edinburgh University School of Maths challenge this morning. We learnt about Richard, a video game programmer, who uses maths in his job every day. He set us a challenge to work out how many security cameras would be needed in rooms of different shapes. You can try the task by clicking on this link Security Camera Challenge.

There are so many more activities and tasks you can try out on the Maths Week Scotland website just click here and explore.

#MathsWeekScot

We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow for the start of our Dalguise at Home week. Remember to look at our overview each day to see what you will need to wear and bring.

Some highlights from this week include –

• air resistance science with flying planes
• floating and sinking testing of our sail boats
• super examples of different types of adjectives
• challenging multiples and factors in maths
• amazing firefighter pieces of description writing
• an actual fire drill!
• refugee and asylum seeker research to find out about characters in ‘The Divided City’

Comment below to answer these review of the week questions –

1. What did you do to make Kingsland a better place this week?
2. What were you successful at this week?
3. What did you need more help with this week?
4. Where could you have worked harder this week?
5. What are you most looking forward to for our Dalguise at Home week?

We’ve had a hardworking week this week and will all be glad of a rest this weekend!

Some of the highlights of our week have been –

• Fruit floating and sinking science
• Getting our prefect badges
• Using a £1000000 budget to become property developers
• Designing our Christmas cards

Comment below to summarise the week that you had. Explain what you did, what you enjoyed and what you found challenging.

We’ve been busy again this week. We’ve been learning about description writing, place value, and diversity linked to our novel study. We also wrote prefect application letters, danced our spelling sounds, tested floatation of homemade bugs, and played our first Kahoot quizzes.

What did you enjoy this week?

What made you have to really think this week?

What do you still want to know more about?

Here are some photos of when we used outdoor materials to represent numbers to 10,000. See if you can guess what the numbers are by counting the “digits” in each column.

You can also spot our bug making where we tested surface tension of water.

What were you proud of this week?

What did you use to support you with your learning this week?

What motivated you to learn this week?

Something I learned this week is….

Something I am still wondering about this week is….

Our next Skipper topic is ‘Look on the Bright Side’. Harvard University research on positive psychology shows that gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. People feel and express gratitude in multiple ways.

What are you grateful for and how could you show it?

We’re at the end of our second week back and it has been full of hard work. Reflect on the following questions to review your week.

1. When were you at your best this week?

2. What surprised you the most this week?

3. What can you do with what you learnt?

4. What suggestions do you have for next week?

It has been a busy, different and tiring first week back at Kingsland but it has been so lovely to see you all again. Answer the three questions and post your answers in the comments.

1. What have you enjoyed about your first week back?
2. What has been a challenging part of your first week back?
3. What could we do to make next week better than this week?