Our class had fun exploring the human body with the visitors from The Glasgow Science Centre today. In the morning we were given the chance to play with different interactive exhibits relating to different parts of the body.
Later on we took part in a Disgusting Digestion interactive show.
It was great fun and we learned about the journey of food throughout our bodies.
Somehow, we also managed to squeeze in a session with a local musician today! We were treated to some dialect singing and fiddle playing by Claire White. She planned a busy session looking at some interesting local stories and how she managed to turn these into songs for people to remember.
Then we split into groups to write our own stories and eventually turn these into songs. Some groups chose their own local stories to develop. These included the St Ninian’s Isle treasure, The Queen opening our school in 1969 and the Braer Disaster. It was a lot to do in the short space of time, so we didn’t quite manage to finish this today. Next term we are looking at local history, so we will save what we have achieved for now and build on these again at a later date. I look forward to seeing what we can produce!
It’s been a very busy week in the Draatsi class! We’ve even managed a photo and interview with the local media so keep your eyes peeled in the Shetland Times for news of our AI work with the Children’s Parliament!
Here are some of the activities we’ve been involved in…
Language
We have moved on to Target 2 in our Writing Challenge. With Mrs Henderson the pupils started a longer story which they will build on over the coming weeks. They need to try to include carefully punctuated sentences with interesting openers. Today saw us looking in more detail at openers that begin with -ing words. The pupils were given a sentence ending for them to decide on suitable beginnings. We also looked again at using speech marks. There’s so much to remember!
Maths
Various Maths topics have been worked on this week. These include addition and subtraction methods, multiplication, fractions and work on area. They have been working hard and developing the skill of explaining their answers in words.
HealthandWell–being
Class PE is always really popular so we took advantage of the fine weather on Thursday to go outside and play some of our class favourites! We love Capture The Flag and Rock, Paper, Scissors!
Last week, we watched the Oscar nominated animation, ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.’ This week we created our own charcoal drawings in the style of Charlie Mackesy and wrote quotes that mean something to us. Some examples are below…
Wednesday saw our class taken over by the Children’s Parliament. We were joined by Gregory and Sophia who have visited before but were also joined by Cathy who is the founder of the Children’s Parliament in Scotland and Rona who is Head of Projects. They were so impressed by the knowledge of the pupils and how they can articulate themselves. 😌
They helped us with our next Mission. Each group was given a case study which used a different aspect of AI. The children had to read these through and decide on how the AI was being used in a positive or negative way.
The next task was to illustrate how these pros and cons could be shown using plasticine! This was a hard task but we were all amazed at the imagination each group showed. Each plasticine model had a detailed story behind it.
The culmination of the day was creating a news report with each person taking on a different role…Presenters, Interviewers and Editors. The pupils had to write a report about their case study and ask questions about the type of AI used in their story. Joining us live, online, was Mhairi from The Alan Turing Institute. She was able to answer all our questions while the editors quickly noted down her responses. The children ALL rose spectacularly to the challenge and were not put off by the bright lights or Gregory’s dictaphone!
It was a fantastic day of learning and team work. Thursday saw each pupil being interviewed by Gregory to tell him what they understand of AI and how they are finding being involved in this two year project.
Hello everyone! I hope you have managed to enjoy the gorgeous snowy weather. Have you been sledging? Built a snowman? Snuggled up and watched a film? Read from your book?
As we have been working on our 5 sentences with correct punctuation in class, can you write down what you have been doing with your days at home? Remember…5 sentences with capital letters and full stops/exclamation marks/question marks.
If you are not venturing outside today, I have set some Sumdog tasks online.
This week in Maths we are starting to look at Multiplication and Division, so the following websites could be used for practice. We are looking at the 3x and 6x tables first, so this would be a good thing to work on at home.
We were planning to look at the next part of Mission 3 for The Children’s Parliament this week, so you could start thinking about this at home, in preparation for returning to school tomorrow. Please note down your ideas to bring into school.
The recent snowy day closures have meant less time to work on our concert and Christmas crafts this past week. However, please look out for these gorgeous Christmas cards coming home next week and rescue them from the bottom of bags!
We talked about how lino cut paintings are created and then designed a simple picture that we could draw into polystyrene before using ink and rollers to create our prints. We hope they help spread some Christmas joy! 🎄
Mrs Henderson and I have been given the chance to take part in an Improving Writing Course run by CYPIC – The Children’s and Young People Improvement Collaborative. We gathered views on writing from the class at the start of the project and used a piece of written work to help us assess where our writers need most support initially. We aim to write three times a week and our focus just now is on improving our understanding and use of punctuation. The class write for just a short 15-20 minute slot before having time to edit and improve their work. The pupils also help each other in this process too. 😊 Their writing jotters are filling up fast with a variety of writing topics across the curriculum! Most recently, we have linked our writing to work going on throughout the class and school. Some examples are…
Write your top tips to cope with bullying during Anti-bullying Week
How do you use AI in your daily life?
Describe the ‘den’ in our class novel
Persuade Santa to put you back on the good list OR employ you as his elf for this Christmas season OR keep his beard…don’t shave it off!
We contine to share the success of the class with the pupils and they are keen to see the progress they are making. We hope to reach our target set in the new year before moving on to the next element of ‘Tools for Writing’ to be improved.
We have one JRSO pupil within our P4/5/6 class, who has been working with the other P6 pupils in Mrs Scanlan’s class next door, to help promote road safety in our school. These pupils worked so hard to compile and deliver a special assembly following Road Safety Week. They also invited the older classes to create a road scene picture which highlighted some of the road safety dangers they addressed in their assembly. These pictures are displayed in the main foyer. Time has also been spent with some of the younger P2 pupils playing a board game that reinforces road safety. The JRSO pupils also plan to visit the ELC pupils to share ‘Ziggy’ stories in the future. Well done to all the JRSOs!
We had our class prize today! When our peg jar was approaching the finish line, we all voted for what we would like as our prize. There was no clear winning idea, so we have enjoyed laptop time and crafts. It has been a lovely, relaxed afternoon full of creativity and fun!
Yesterday, the Draatsi class watched a video all about ‘The Poppy Story’ and they took notes as they watched to help them recall details for their writing today, on Remembrance Day. Note taking is a really tricky skill but they all persevered and tried hard to just write down the main points! Please see the photographs below of some of the completed pieces of writing. Perhaps you’ll learn something about how the poppy became a symbol of remembrance.
We also spent time looking at John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ which was written as he looked out over the poppy fields in Ypres, Belgium. We took his very famous poem and blacked out some of the words to create a new piece of writing by choosing words we felt were important. It was amazing how many different versions were created using this technique! Some are still to be completed but please see some of the finished examples below.
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