Last week we started to work on our Christmas play. Izzy came to help us with the script and we’ve started practising our songs. It’s looking good already!
Tag Archives: Interdisciplinary Learning
Kenyan Penpals
During the October holidays Ms Scanlan received an email from Lomayana school, full of wonderful messages and pictures for the class. It is always lovely to see the beautiful designs and drawings that they send and it’s great to hear back from them all and see how they are getting on.
Here is a photo of the class with their messages.
Famous scientists and their discoveries.
Primary 4/5 Try Out Our Rainforest Games
Primary 4/5 came through today to try out the rainforest games that we had made.
Everyone had a good time. After P4/5 went back to their class we spent time discussing any changes we could make to our games to improve them further. It was a really enjoyable and useful session.
Here are some comments from P4/5.
Emma: I really enjoyed playing all of the rainforest games and I learned lots and I really didn’t know that chimpanzees spent a lot of their time on the ground. You guys and girls have worked really hard.
Frankie: I think they were really good. Some were a bit short and I learned a lot.
Liam: I really liked playing your games. My favourite game was the Top Trumps. I learned a lot about animals like hummingbirds and the South African chimpanzee.
IIsaiah: I really liked them and I learned a lot. I really liked Michaela and Jemima’s game and learnt a lot.
I loved playing the games but I loved Cery’s game the most. I learned that cheetahs are the fastest animal in the whole world.
Tory: I thought it was very, very, very, good fun especially the Top Trumps because the leopard had 93 strength and I learnt a lot about rainforests. Thank you to all of P6/7.
Roman: They were very good, the best home-made games I have ever played. My favourite was AJ, Michael and Bertie’s Temple of Doom.
Abi: I really enjoyed all the games I played. I learnt a lot about rainforests and I can’t believe that in 2030 there might just be about 10% of rainforests left! I would love to try them all again.
Ellie: I really enjoyed playing the games, I want to go back! I learned that in 2030 there will be about 10% of our rainforests left! Thank you
Evie: I really did enjoy all the games I played and it would like to do some more. I would like to play Cerys’ game.
Hayden:I liked playing the games and my favourite one was the Top Trumps and I learned that a hummingbird’s speed was 91.
Isabel: I really enjoyed all of the games but I really enjoyed Michaela’s and Jemima’s and I learnt a lot about some different animals. Thank you.
Bella: I enjoyed all the games I got to play. In the first game I played I liked learning new facts. In the Top Trump game I liked how you learnt the speed, size, stealth and strength of different animals. In the last game with Emmy and Zara then whenever you landed on a certain space you got a card and it told you a fact and at the end of the fact it said either miss a go or have another go. That game was really long and we didn’t even get halfway to the middle.The last game we played was my favourite but I liked all the games I played. They were fun.
Rainforest Games
We had fun trying out the different rainforest games made by other groups in the class. We then gave each group constructive feedback to help them improve their design further before we take them to another class to play.
Rainforest Study
We have been learning all about rainforests this term. We’ve learnt lots of interesting information and facts about the rainforests and we’ve learnt that they give us medicines, foods and oxygen. We made posters about destroying the rainforest, and we also made board games about saving the rainforests to teach other people some facts about it. We looked at all the different animals in the rainforest and sorted them into which countries they came from. We loved learning about rainforests!
We also made posters about the indigenous people that live in a variety of rainforests across the world.
We were shocked to learn that rainforests are still being destroyed unnecessarily. In groups we chose to find out more about one of the reasons rainforests are still being destroyed. We made information posters to share our findings with the rest of the class.
Rainforest Games
In groups we designed and made Rainforest board games with lots of fun information and facts . We had lots of different ideas and can’t wait untill other classes play them!
Here we are with the games we made.
RSPB Wading Birds pop -Up gallery
In Art we have been working on detailed drawings of different wading birds which will be exhibited at a pop-up gallery in Quarff Hall on 12th May. This exhibition hopes to highlight the huge decline in some of the waders found across the whole of the UK.
We hope you will come along and see our work.
Here are some of our completed drawings ready to be displayed.
Primary 6/7 WWII Assembly
After several weeks of preparing and rehearsing, Wednesday the 14th finally came. We all loved the assembly and from what they said afterwards we think the audience thought it was AMAZING! We all went into different groups and we made all our own PowerPoints and props, and although we did most of it ourselves we had a little help from Mrs Hay and Mrs Wells. After all our presentations were finished, we did a play about evacuees which was really fun, we also got a few laughs from the audience! To finish our assembly the accordions (Fearghas, Michaela, Jacob), fiddles (Emily,Cerys,Jemima) and flute (Lauryn) played ‘The White Cliffs of Doverwith the rest of the class singing We even got a couple of tears. We all loved it!
The ‘Evacuees’ play
Written by Niamh and Carys
Christmas Performance
Primary 6/7 really enjoyed performing a selection of songs from Mary Poppins, and with direction from Mrs Smith, their own dance routine to ‘Step in Time’.
They hope you enjoyed their performance.
Terrific Scientific Forces
P6 have had a great day finding out about air resistance. We looked at videos of Olympic cyclists and saw how much air resistance affects their performances. We read about sports scientists and what they do in their jobs to help sports people achieve better speeds in their races.
In groups, we planned and carried out investigations into ways to change the speed at which objects drop and we watched a video about parachutes.
Today we planned and made things to wear to slow ourselves down, using air resistance. We each made a costume. We timed ourselves running a 50m race normally and then we did it with our costumes on to see how it affected our speed. It did, by between 1-4seconds! Here are some of the photos.
