We were delighted to get some new playground toys this week and this extra long skipping rope as been a big hit! Thank you Mrs Wilson!

So what else have we done this week?

• Multiplying and Dividing Decimals
• More long /o/ sounds in spelling
• Information Reports on Remembrance Day
• Fireworks banner
• Working on our calendar page collage
• Drug and alcohol awareness continued
• Be kind to others – thinking of ways we can brighten someone’s day and adding to our ‘Giving Tree’
• Scale drawings of more complex shapes

Questions to think about:

1. What did you try really hard with this week?
2. What would you do differently if you had a chance?
3. Can you think of a time this week when you have shown kindness to others?

We are in November already! This week has been jam packed. Here are some of the things we have done.

• November calendar page display
• Bullet points sorting task
• Healthy eating advice posters
• Good copies of our Remembrance Day reports
• Journey of sound to the ear/brain activities
• Spellavator Wars
• Angles and position assessments
• Following and learning about the US elections

1. What did you enjoy this week?
2. How can you connect something you have learnt to the Global Goals?
3. What gave you confidence in yourself this week?
4. What acts of kindness have you seen this week? – This could be something you have done or something you have seen.

Our writing focus this block is on information reports. We decided to write an information report on Remembrance Day so we could find out more about it before the 11th November this year. We came up with headings and researched information using our iPads. We used our skimming and scanning skills to help select key information and pick up the main information from a page. Using our notes, we wrote and redrafted our reports and we are very proud of the results. We also looked at some literature based on World War 1. We found out about the poem Flanders Field by John McCrae and read a story by Michael Morpurgo. We were inspired by the poem Flanders Field and created some art using the poem and image of red poppies.

This week the Nursery asked us to help them with a project that the whole school can enjoy. Each class has to decorate a banner with a Firework design and we can’t wait to see them all. Here is P7A’s banner 

P7B were asked to make a banner with a title for the whole project. Here is P7B’s banner.

Another busy week!  Here are some of the highlights:

• Walk to school week (including Shoesday)
• Wonder selfies
• elf yourself
• Decimals
• Animal Information Reports
• Note taking
• long /o/ spelling – we love our rhyming game
• Compassion & Kindness discussions
• Spooky art
• Halloween Kahoot

What was your favourite? What did you try really hard with?

Some of the highlights of this week –

• Shoesday
• Walk to School Week
• Remembrance Day information reports and art
• Halloween art and quiz
• Kindness Tree
• Coordinate maths
• Direction maths
• The Graveyard Book
• Secret kindness pen pals

1. What did you enjoy most this week?
2. What was completely new learning to you this week?
3. If you could go back to the start of the week, what would you tell yourself to make it better?

   

   

   

    

As part of ‘Walk to School Week’ we were given the choice to wear something funky on our feet today for ‘Shoesday Tuesday’.  Without discussing it, our teachers came in co-ordinating footwear – what a team!

Here we are in some of our favourite or funkiest footwear:

This week we have been learning about:

• Decimals – multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 and multiples of these
• Scale Drawing
• Spelling using other patterns to spell the long /i/ sound
• The different features of an Information Report
• Effective Note taking
• Building Resilience – Be kind to others (Skipper)
• Basketball in PE

We also had Music with Mrs Inglis for the first time this session.  We got to use the Garage Band app on our iPads.

It was lovely to welcome you all back after the October break. We have had a busy first week back with lots of new learning, a new class novel, an assembly, new guidance to keep ourselves safe, and a chance to catch up with our friends again.

Answer the questions below to review your learning experiences this week.

1. What three things did you enjoy doing the most?

2. What did you learn about yourself this week and what made you realise this?

3. What would you like to have more time on?

P7B have been working together in problem solving to use their reading and maths skills. They read a description and tried to create a shape that fitted the description. We used our iPads to help with our drawings and learnt how to use the ruler function to measure and draw straight lines.

We found it was interesting that we all interpreted the instructions differently and there wasn’t just one way of creating the shape.

Here are a few of the descriptions – see if you can create the shape (it was much harder than we first thought).

1.  A five-sided shape with one right angle and one pair of parallel sides.

2.   A four-sided shape with two pairs of parallel sides, four equal sides and no right angles.

3. A six-sided shape with no right angles and one pair of parallel sides.