Big Question – Science Fair

This week our big question was about planning and conducting a fair test.  The learners were split into groups and asked to plan a science experiment. They created a poster to show how they planned and carried out the experiment.  On Wednesday afternoon we held a science fair and P1/2 came to see what P4/5 had been doing.  It was great both to see the learners show and explain their experiments and to see the wonder in the faces of the P1/2 class.  Thank you Miss Hunter, Louise and P1/2 for coming to visit.

Maths Game – Suitable for Home Learning

Each day we start our maths lesson by doing a ‘Flashback Focus’ activity, this is an activity that revisits the learning from the previous week.  By repeatedly revisiting the learning we strengthen the neuro-pathways an encourage better recall of concepts and facts.  This week we were revisiting counting forwards and back in 10s and 100s.  The learners worked in groups.  Each group had a piece of paper with a number written on it and two dice, each learner had a different colour of pen.  The first person started writing the next numbers in the sequence while the others rolled the dice, whenever a double was rolled the piece of paper moved around the group.  At the end of the allocated time (in our case 7 mins) the learners counted up how many correct numbers they had added to the sequence. The winner was whoever had the most. It certainly brought out the competitive spirit of some learners! This is an ideal activity to use at home, with multiple children of different ages separate piece of paper could be used to work on different types of number sequences (for example 546, count on in 10s for a P4/5 pupil and 23 count on in 1s for a P2 pupil).