Hi world! I’m Anthea B. Here are some things we have been doing this week in primary 5/6/7.

Maths Week Scotland.  This week is Maths Week Scotland which means we celebrate maths. We have played some games like BEWARE and RACE TO 30 to celebrate maths. We also have a Sumdog competition were we have to answer sums to get higher up the leaderboard within the whole of Scotland. The class with the highest score at the end of the week gets a prize.

Homework Presentations. On Monday we presented our homework projects about people In The Arts. People have been doing things about Peppa Pig, Ava Max, Maggie Adamson, Taylor Swift, Bruce Peebles, Chris Pratt, Ella Bright, Ariana Grande, Sir David Attenborough and Benson Boone. They were all very interesting.

Big Question. We have been learning about Scottish castles and key Scottish figures. On Wednesday we worked in groups of 2 or 3 to research famous people who lived back in that time like Mary Queen of Scots, Saint Margaret and William Wallace. There were presentations, plays, puppet shows, models and detailed pieces of artwork created.

Writing poetry. Last, we have written some poetry about the mini movie, Something Fishy. We wrote ‘Something Fishy’ adventures and acrostic poems. See below for the selection of poems that were written.

I hope you enjoyed it 🙂 🙂 Bye!

Hi its me Ava G and I’m in charge this week of the blog.

This week we have been doing lots of fun stuff.

Monday – silent maths. We played silent math games which was when we had to work in groups and find numbers from 1 – 100. We weren’t allowed to help each other but it was fun. Mrs. A pointed out how the puzzle worked and then it was a bit easier.

Tuesday – Floating and Sinking. We had to test 5 things in salt water and the same 5 things in fresh water and record if the things floated or sank. Some things floated in salt water but sank in fresh water.

Wednesday – Flying Turtle writing. We had to make a flying turtle fact files based on the short animation Once in a life time.

Thursday – This or That. In the afternoon, we had chance to work on our this or that stuff. This or that is where we have to complete tasks by Friday lunch time. Culture crew this week is to plan a party on a event or special day in South America. Sustainable squad is to find out about what education is like for children in different countries.

Friday – Boat testing. Our big question is how water is used to attack castles. So we made boats and tested to see how buoyant they were this morning. The boat ‘Pom-Pom Mania’ created by Eilidh S, Eilidh R and Ava T held the most marbles and everyone’s boats floated.

I’m Ava T and I’m writing the blog this week. I hope you enjoy it. 

CASE Shetland visit.  On Tuesday, CASE Shetland came in to run a workshop all about engineers and what they do. We first spoke about different skills that engineers use like communication, creativity and problem solving.  Then we all took part in a bridge building competition using Knex as our building material. We had an hour and a half to design, test and adapt our designs. Then we tested the bridges to see how much they could hold. The winning  team was Rebekah, Isaac, Alagna and Ava G.  Everyone did well but that team scored the best ration of bridge weight to how much it could hold! We all really enjoyed it and could see lots of different skills that we were using throughout the challenge.

Writing. Our stimulus for writing is Crab Phare which is basically a giant crab who collects ships. People have written horror stories ( me ), making friends with it, and lots more awesome story adventures. We have also created fact files about crabs and worked in groups to create persuasive presentations about protecting our oceans.

Big Question. Our big question is all about engineering and how people used different engineering skills to build and defend castles. Using what we had learned about defending castles and engineering skills, Mrs. A challenged us to create our own trebuchets and catapults. There were lots of super designs created and we definitely had fun trying to fire “cannonballs” with our designs.

Hello everyone. This week it is me, Emma-Lee, who will be updating you on what has been happening in P5/6/7.

Big Question. In Big Question we have been learning about different types of Scottish castles. We have been learning about Motte and Bailey castles, Stone keep castles and Concentric castles. Some of us have been also been learning about castles and palaces in Scotland.

Writing.  This week at writing we watched a clip called Embarked and then did some writing on it. We have written imaginative stories, ‘how to’ instructions and balanced arguments too. Also on Wednesday we got 100 percent in writing, so we are going to have a Starbucks day on Friday.

Morning Maths Madness. Morning Maths Maddness is just a maths exercise to get our brains ready for the rest of the day. This week we have been doing counting circles, and solve + do exercises.

Culture Crew.  For Culture Crew this week we have been doing about 3 geographic features of south America.

Sustainable squad.  For Sustainable squad we are doing all about zero hunger/fairtrade. Some people made posters and presentation, and even animations.

Tesco bookshelf. For the month of September, we are running the bookshelf at Tesco to raise funds for the school. If you are in Tesco, please feel free to browse the books.

Hello its Eilidh Smith here and I have the POWER of this blog this week.

This week we have been learning about castles. We all were split up in to groups and were told to make realistic castles. So, my group made a fairy princess mushroom fantasy castle.

Also we have been learning about Sustainable Development goal 1 – No Poverty.

We have been writing about Spy Fox who is a Fox that tries to defeat Dr Hammer. We have written stories about Spy Fox, created newspaper reports and also made made posters about new gadgets.

In maths, we did a maths really race with Mrs. A, P4/5 and Miss Mann. We were working on our times tables and this time focused on the 2x, 5x and 10x tables. It was fun because we didn’t do a times table that was hard.

Hello and welcome to our new class blog. Mrs A has given the kids the responsibility of the blog this year and we’ll be in charge of sharing information and photos about what we’ve been doing in class.  This week, Cheryl is going to share what has been happening.

First week back. It has been really exciting to be back and we’ve done a range of things.

On Wednesday, we were inventing trick shots and there were lots of crazy ideas. Some of them even worked!

On Thursday, we created posters about Scottish castles or created our own idea of a Scottish castle poster, model or other.

On Friday, in the morning we started off with STEM, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. We had to build a paper ping pong ball run. The winning group was the red group which was Me (Cheryl), Paige, Ava G and Campbell. We started to learn about the Sustainable Development goals too.

I hope you have enjoyed the blog,

by Cheryl.

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