Our whole class are part of the new Cooking Club in school this term.  Alison from the canteen has been helping us think about the food we can make in line with ‘Food for Life’ guidelines.  We wrote letters to the local community champion based in Tesco, asking for their support, as we have no budget to buy ingredients.  We haven’t heard back from them yet but are hopeful that they may be able to donate something in the future.  In the meantime, the children decided to make healthy pizzas to share with their family.  Alison said that we could use ingredients from the canteen so that our cooking activity could go ahead.  We’ve had a busy day, preparing the ingredients in the morning and putting the pizzas together and cooking them this afternoon.  Thank you Alison!  We’ve had fun!  We’ve used our creative, critical thinking and communication meta skills.

As part of our Earth and Space topic this term, the children worked together on a STEM activity to make rockets from recycled materials and launched them using milk bottles.  Collaborative and creative meta skills were used.  It was a lot of fun!  

Miss McLean, student teacher in Primary 5 this term, organised ‘angles’ activities with the children.  We looked for angles in the school environment.  We used our collaborative and critical thinking meta skills.

We had a few changes to the equipment this week.  The wide box was a section higher, the narrow beam came after the wider benches and at the frame, the ropes were out.  When discussing the equipment set up, we spoke about changes of height, direction and width.

Here we are in action.

We have been busy in the gym doing gymnastics.  We started on the mats developing our floor skills, focusing mainly on rolls, handstands and cartwheels.  We have had one week of the equipment, where we explored all the different stations.

We learned why Remembrance is important and created our own poppy art using our creative meta-skills.   The art works, using oil pastels, are beautiful!

We are learning to explore core programming language concepts.   We created our own sequence of code and downloaded that onto micro-bits and created flashing hearts.  We used our curiosity and critical thinking meta skills. This was a popular activity and all the children succeeded in creating a code sequence.  We shall be re-visiting micro-bits soon.

As part of our Living Things topic work in Term 1, we planned a visit to a local burn to look for living creatures.  We enjoyed a ‘hock’ in  the burn today.  We found some creatures, including snails, caterpillars and tiny insects.  We found an eel on the banks of the burn, but couldn’t revive it, sadly.  We focused on our collaborating and curiosity meta skills.  We had fun!

Please click on the link below to access the Curriculum Information for Term 2.

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We welcomed the Glasgow Science Fair with their ‘Castles Rock’ activities.  We learned about life in a castle and did some C.S.I. as part of our groupwork.  We investigated various things including the identification of male and female skeletons, what the individuals ate, which weapons were used, what was their diet, where did they come from in the U.K as well as using our numeracy skills to calculate the height of the male and female we were investigating.  We focused on our collaborating, curiosity and sense-making meta skills.  We had a lot of fun! Thank you to Aileen and David for coming along to visit our school!