Hi! It’s me, Ava G and I’m in charge of the class blog this week.

Maths – Shape. For maths, we have been working on 2D shapes and their properties and also angles and lines. We created 2D shape characters and played Blooket to practice our facts about different kinds of angles and types of line.

Homework projects – Mythical Creatures. It was lovely to see all the different homework projects that people had done.

Chocolate! For our Big Question this week, I interviewed Megan to find out what the class were learning about.  “So we were learning about Fair Trade, in particular ‘Chocolate! Fair trade means that farmers get paid more money for their cocoa beans and a fair price as they don’t always get a fair amount of money for what they grow.  We go to try chocolate that was fair trade and we had the choice between different flavours. We then made chocolate fair trade posters in pairs and design our own fair trade chocolate bars. ”

This or That – European fashion. For this or that, we got to sew clothes for dolls based on different European clothing styles.

Thank you all for reading the blog this week, I hope you enjoyed it

BYE!

S’up hommies! It’s Ava T here and I have the power of the blog this week.  Mwah, ha, ha, ha!

Maths – Simon Says. This week we played a new version of Simon Says invented by Mrs A. She gave instructions like ‘Simon says what is 5 x 8?’ Then we had to write the answer as fast as possible. The last one to write the answer or if you got it wrong, you were eliminated. I got put out because I wrote a very wonky, unidentifiable number 5!

We’ve also been practicing our Speedy Skills a lot this week with some of us getting very competitive with themselves.

Writing – Alexander Fleming. We did our writing stimulus about Alexander Fleming and he discovered Penicillin after taking a vacay. We wrote our own amazing discovery stories and scientific reports. We wrote the reports step by step with Mrs A which was really clear and helpful to guide us to know what to do for each part. We were given a topic and time to write about that specifically which helped to us all to keep on track. It was good and we want to do more lessons like that. Here are some samples of the writing from our class this week.

Big Question – The Power to Renew. We have been learning about non-renewable and renewable energy sources. Mrs A challenged us to make our own Sustainable cities by using scrap paper and junk modelling resources. My group decided to make Sydney, Australia and obviously, I had to make a solar-powered water slide. Each group created amazing cities.

This or That. Our Culture Crew task this week was to build a model of a European Monument. We decided to make the Eiffel Tower however, its leaning qualities made us realise it should be called ‘The Leaning Tower of Eiffel’! It is still surprisingly upright (although leaning against the window). Other groups worked with Kapla to make amazing monuments. Can you guess what the monuments are?

I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog,

Ava 😁

‘Haggis Watch’ – The P5/6/7 assembly. This week has been focused around our class assembly. We chose to theme this around the ‘Haggis’ and the class split into different groups to explore this. We had scientists, environmentalists, field reporters, historians and hosts. The class were amazing and all shining stars. Well done P5/6/7!

Sustainable Squad – Coding Fun. We’ve had a lot of fun this week practicing our coding skills using Micro:bits and using Scratch.

Hello, this is Eilidh Smith and I have the power of this blog.

Writing – Robert Burns. This week we have used Robert Burns as our focus in writing. His Scottish poems are very confusing but we used two of his poems as a writing prompts. We wrote adventure stories about a little mouse and then haggis fact files.

Big Question – The Choice to Act. The best class value is kindness. This week we have been looking at values in action. We agreed on our top 4 class values of fun, determination, kindness and creativity and then Mrs A set up ‘Value jars’ that we can add counters to when we see the value in action. We also drew big people and wrote key values on the inside and actions linked to these on the outside.

Haggis themed fun. We watched a mockumentary about the wild haggis of Scotland. We learned about the Irn bru haggis, the Mullet Haggis, the Woolly Haggis and many more. After we made fact files about a haggis of our choice. On Thursday we made clay sculptures of many different haggis. Mine is called “The long neck tiny face stubby legs haggis.”

I hope you will spend your weekend dreaming about Haggis and let us know what your favourite breed of Haggis is.

Thanks for reading,

Bye! 😊

Hello! I am Cheryl and I have the power of the blog!

Music – Scottish singing and dancing. We were singing Scottish songs like ‘Auld Lang Sine’ and then did some dances in music this week. It was lots of fun.

Big Question – The Choice to Balance. This week we have been learning about having balance in our lives and not too much of one thing or another. We looked at the story of Buddha and how he found a balance between compassion and greed. Mrs A then gave us a fun task. We had to build a tower that was 1 meter tall. Each group had different ideas – some collapsed and some stayed up for the time. It was very fun!

Just dance fun. In the morning when it was dull and raining, we couldn’t go out for daily mile. So instead we did just dance. We did ‘Hips don’t lie’ and ‘Rasputin’ and ‘Waka waka’. My fav is ‘Hips don’t lie’.

Art with Mrs Adamson and Mrs Johnson. This week Mrs A and Mrs N Johnson did art with us. We could pick anything we wanted to draw ! We could use how to draws on the laptop or just make it up freestyle but it was the best! Here is the artwork. We hope you like it.

Murder Mystery. Murder Mystery style games are really loved by the class after Mrs A made up two for our castles topic. On Friday afternoon, Emma-Lee and I ran our own one in the style of ‘The Traitors’. Everyone really enjoyed it although unfortunately the traitors won!

I hope you enjoyed the blog.  Bye bye! 😊

Lanterns of Love. For our Big Question this week, we have been looking at the key values of love and compassion as seen in the Nativity story. After doing a character study of key people in the story, we made Lanterns of Love. We finished off our Big Question work by watching ‘Nativity’ (and P3/4 joined us too.)

Winter Wonderland.  For one of our This or That tasks this week, we had to research different groups of people who live in Winter Wonderlands. The children worked in groups to research and prepare something to share to teach the class about their given group. It was super to see all the creativity and fun throughout each presentation.

Game Time. On Thursday, Primary 3 joined us for some game fun. We played lots of different games and it was lovely to see all the interactions between everyone.

Christmas Sing-a-long. Trevor led the whole school in a Christmas sing song which was enjoyed by all.

The Last Day. We had a super last day of Big Play in the morning,  followed by a Christmas assembly at the United Free church and then finished the day with a movie.

Merry Christmas from P5/6/7! 

Welcome to our blog this week. Its me, Esther, who will be telling you all about a very Christmassy week in P5/6/7.

The 67th Day of School. On Monday, it was the 67th day of school so we celebrated it with 6-7 related tasks. We had maths, literacy and art activities and a very chilled afternoon after a busy morning of rehearsals.

Bethlehem Bake Off. At the Bethlehem Bake off, everyone worked really hard to present the play. Everyone did really well playing the piano, fiddle or the accordion too. We all enjoyed the performances and I hoped you enjoyed them too.

A Visit from the Polytunnel. Bev came in to visit us and she hid 9 angels around the room and we had to try and find them. Each angel had a letter to spell out something and the word was Bethlehem. After that, she told the Christmas story and then we got a spot the difference and a word search to do based on Bethlehem.

The Aa Fired Up Experience. As a result of all our amazing enterprise work, Miss Mann and Mrs A organised an ‘Aa Fired Up’ experience for both classes. We designed a tile with anything we wanted and then painted them. We also got to have a cake, a drink and a squishy cube. It was a nice surprise.

Christmas Lunch. The P7 pupils got to help set up the tables for lunch and then helped to serve the lunches. It was delicious and we all got to pull crackers too.

Christmas Party. We had a super afternoon playing games, eating snacks and dancing. Everyone loved it!

Thanks for reading my blog this week.

From Esther 😊

Hi, I’m Jess and it is my week to write the blog. Thank you for reading it.

Maths – Prodigy.  We had 15 extra minutes of Prodigy because of Naughty or Nice. Every morning, Mrs Adamson spins the Advent wheel of names and if it is you that it lands on, then you pick a slip of paper. Get a green slip of paper with writing, that means you got a Nice, but if it was red… you got a Naughty! For example, if you got a Naughty you would have to tidy the kindles for a week, or if you got a Nice you could choose a game to play!

Christmas Concert Practice. We have moved the tables so we have a mini stage to rehearse in our classroom. We have also started making and collecting props for our Bethlehem Bake-Off. Cheryl and Eilidh Smith is our prompts, the people to tell us our lines when we forget them (which we hope won’t happen).

This or That. This week, our Animal Adventures was all about birds. For Sustainable Squad, our SDG (sustainable development goal) is responsible consumption and production, so we had to make something creative out of a plastic bottle. Here are some of our finished projects.

Enterprise Shopping Night. Here are some photos of our stalls from the Shopping Night. Thanks to everyone who came along. We raised a lot of money because of everyone who bought our products.

Thank you for reading the blog. I hope you enjoyed it xx

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Hello! It’s Cheryl and Freya and this week we have the POWER of the blog!

Big Question – Enterprise and Business. This week has been a very busy week for us as we have been very focused on finishing off all of our products since our Christmas Shopping night is on Friday. We have also been designing and setting up our stall which was a lot of fun.

Maths – Money. For maths this week, some of it has been linked in with our Enterprise project. In our groups, we looked at costings of our products with Mrs A and then worked out how much we would need to sell things for. Cheryl also checked off all orders to make sure our accounts were in order. We also did an activity with P4/5 to think about how to fairly price our items. We had to think about how much time and effort went into our products as well as the cost of materials.

Literacy – Plays.  This week we have been continuing to do plays during reading time for us to be practicing for our Christmas concert. For group plays, Mrs A pulls out a group of people and we choose different roles for a play in a book, so we can practice characterisation, fluency and expression. We all love this and fight over who gets to take part. We have also been doing read throughs of the Christmas Concert too which we’re really enjoying.

This or That.  For this or that this week we have been researching Amphibians and we worked with Campbell and Rebekah to make and run a class quiz all about frogs. For the other one, we did the Sustainable Development Goal  11. We had to print off a map and decorate it with somewhere you wanted more stuff at and draw more stuff that you wanted like a park, pool, your friends houses. It was all about what we would do to improve the local area.

Speedy Skills. To practice our Speedy Skills this week, we got to play Blooket. We played a few games to work on our times tables, fractions and decimals. We LOVED it!

From Cheryl and Freya.💖✌️👌❤️😂