In class this week we have been learning about the symbols of Easter and writing about what we would have in our Easter baskets.

As part of our Dragon and Castles topic we made dragons and dragon masks to use in our learning.

We were introduced to another little dragon this week called Zog, and he helped us to write about a dragon escaping from the dungeons.

We continue to add to our classroom castle and we have now made blocks for the outside of our castle walls.

We had fun making playdo dragons and Komodo dragons with Miss Owens.

In our French work this week we learned the names of animals and we had fun playing some games.

In our maths work we were introduced to playing Bingo with our times tables, and we look forward to playing this again to help us get faster at getting the right answers.

Achievements this week

Well done to new step 4 people-Charlie, Evan, Lily, Jodie and Ruby.

New Golden Club members-Shelbi, Arran, Luke, Lucas, Cameron and Brooke

Well done to Murray-MVP for P.E

Murray took a yellow grading in Tae Kwon Do

Maisie and Tamsyn are looking forward to going to a golf tournament-we wish them good luck.

Jodie is going for her red belt grading in Tae Kwon Do

Ellis is now reading stage 6 books

Well done P2A

We are excited about our rehearsals moving to the Academy now and are gearing up for show time!  We can’t wait until the curtain comes up!

In maths we have been learning about Symmetry and mirroring each others shapes and actions – the only time we have been allowed to copy each other!

Hollywood came to 6B this week as we shot our movies.  We are having a Premiere before Easter where we will get to watch each others.

Hope you enjoy them…

Freya’s Blog Party

This week is going to be about Victorian toys 

(1.) Tiddlywinks It was played in the victorian era.

(2.) Ball in a cup was played. I think it so much fun.

(3.)  Poor people had to use a pigs bladder as a football.

(4.)  Families played knots & crosses.

(5.) Rocking horses were popular in the victorian times 👄👄💅

Jamie’s Football Facts

Paige’s Awesome Blog

Greig’s Amazing Info

Dyllan’s Blog Mayhem

We have been learning so much this week in P7.

In health & wellbeing we learned facts about the heart. Here is some of our learning- there are two sides (chambers) of the heart, one with rich (oxygenated) blood the other side has poor (deoxygenated) blood. The arteries carry oxygenated blood around the body whilst veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. Veins are not actually blue!
We also explored the function of the lungs and wrote an explanation text on this subject.
In drama we are learning slapstick and are really enjoying it!
By Jamie and Leon
Thank you for reading.

Pupil of the week- Dave
Class dojo winner- Kerry
Article 28- Right to an education
Article 24- Right to information to keep you well.

Aidan – We learned about Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the telephone and the metal detector. We had to take notes.
Kayleigh – We learned that Alexander Graham Bell taught in a deaf school and that he invented a metal jacket.
Evie – We learned about Alexander Graham Bell by watching a video, we read information, highlighted important facts, took notes and we then used our learning to make a fact book about him.

Leia – We learned some sign language. We learned how to say our names and other things that we asked. We learned this by asking and copying Mrs Paradies.

Dadirayi – In maths we have been revising adding and subtracting. We have been completing our workbook, playing games and working with the teacher.

Mya – In whole class maths we have been learning about Symmetry. Symmetry is when it is the same. We have been copying patterns and shapes in booklets, we created symmetrical art.

Aaron – In my maths group we have been revising our numbers to 10,000. We have been learning this by completing our workbook, games, iPad and have been working with Mrs Paradies and Miss Davidson.

Kayleigh – My maths group has been learning to multiply a two digit number by 2,3,4,5 timestable.

James – So say it was 3 x 45 you would do 3 x 40 which is 120 and then 3 x 5 is 15 and then you add them together so 120 and 15 is 135.

Grace – In my maths group we have been learning to take away three digit sums using upstairs downstairs sums.

Caitlin – We had to learn that we sometimes cant take away in our column so had to borrow.

Evan – We learned this by completing worksheets that didn’t have any words and then completed a trickier textbook page. We also played games and worked with the teacher doing examples on whiteboards and iPads.

Calvin – At the Hub we were going to have snack and we went through to the staffroom with Mrs White and we made a fruit boat. To make a fruit boat you get some melons, you cut it in half and then you cut wee pieces of it and then you get a wee stick to put fruit on it. To make the sail you get an orange, stick it through then you put it on the middle of the boat melon and put a grape at the top. It was very tasty! Me and Ben served it to other people at Hub and they all enjoyed it! Caidan ate it all and took another one!

We posted a blog last week yet it can’t be found so here is last weeks blog (again) followed by this weeks blog!

P5a

Last week-

Maths has been really tricky this week as we have been learning about the 24hr clock. We say that ‘am’ is after midnight and that ‘pm’ is past morning and it’s really helped us with the 24hr clock!

Lennox – the 24hr clock is different to the clock we normally use because it just shows numbers to twelve.

Jenny – you have to add twelve hours on to the pm time to make it 24hrs.

Yasmin – 8 o’clock in the morning is O800 hrs.

We have also been practicing our mental maths skills. We are getting much quicker adding nine to a number and we are all much faster when adding ten to any number.

Our writing this week has been about writing instructions. We made a Victorian theatre and we had to follow verbal instructions then write our instructions down after we made the theatre. We also used the theatres as a focus for writing a play working in pairs. We will finish our playwriting next week and let you know how it went.

Here are some pictures of our theatres-

This weeks blog!!

P5a BLOG

This week we have been learning about how to write a diary entry. We have been learning about the conventions of writing this way.

Lennox – write short notes.

Rowan- write in the past tense and in chronological order.

Cole – you can use bullet points for things.

Jennie – always have the date.

Maths this week has been building on what we have been learning about time. We have been learning to read journey timetables. We found it quite straight forward when we had to add or takeaway whole hours however it was very tricky when the time differences were more difficult. We had a fun time with rapid fire questions when Mrs D would say a time and then we would have to add or subtract 15mins, 30 mins, 45 mins etc. we all agree this helped us a lot !

We have also been learning how to measure an area in square centimetres. We really got the hang of this very quickly! We know it’ll get harder next week but we are really looking forward to more complicated measure work.

Learning about the lives of Victorian children has been great fun. This week we made peg dolls. They didn’t take long to make but we all had great fun finding different materials to use for clothing and arms etc.

Here are some pictures –

We did a really fun task on Thursday. We had to works in pairs  using one hand each to make a paper aeroplane. We had to really work together to be successful. Lots of instructions meant intense listening ! Here are some pictures-

Have a great weekend!!

As part of our Dungeons and Dragons topic we have been learning about the different jobs people used to have when they lived in a Castle.  We learned what Puff the dragon would get up to and we are hoping that he will come back to visit us.

We continued to learn more about symmetry and we made our own shields with symmetrical patterns.

The Spheres maths group have been continuing to practise the 4 times table and have been practising the 3 times table.  We are getting faster at our answers.

We continue to practise our songs and dances for the P2 show which we are looking forward to performing after the Easter holidays.

In RME work with Miss Owens we learned the stages in the Easter story.

Class Dojo winner this week-Mia

Pupil of the week-Mia

Achievements this week

Arran won a football trophy

Jodie is hoping to get a red tag at Tae Kwon Do

Kaycee won a Judo trophy

Mia has started new swimming lessons

Charlie won a baseball trophy

Tamsyn won a go-karting medal

Sophie continues to do well in swimming

Well done to Arran-step 5

Well done to Ruby, Charlie and Evan-step 4