Greetings from Blankenberge!

We have all arrived safely after our bus and ferry journey. The weather here just now is sunny but with a chilly wind. We’ve stopped off in Dunkirk and Oostende and are now busy unpacking before heading for a walk around the town before dinner.

This week we completed our Journey through the Nile topic. Our last activity was to design a travel leaflet about Egypt. We wrote facts about modern Egypt.

Here is some information we included:
– ladies wear long black dresses that cover their knees and shoulders and a veil to cover their face.
– traditional men wear long, cotton robes.
– the Egyptian flag is red, white and black
– in Egypt today you can visit the ancient pyramids
-Egyptian currency is Egyptian pounds.
-The population is 69 million.
-the weather is very hot!

Well- done to everyone who completed an Egyptian home project. They were all fantastic! Everyone revived a certificate for their efforts and Arran won the overall prize for working extremely hard to complete an information book with activities inside. Next week we will begin our new topic ‘Farm to fork’.

We also learned about similes. A simile is when an author uses the words ‘like’ and ‘as’ to compare two things. E.g. as slow as a snail and
up and down like a yo-yo. We worked in groups to read a passage and highlight the similes.

In writing, we wrote a recount of our Easter holiday. We had to include an introduction information about our favourite day (who, what, where, when), feelings and a concluding sentence.
We also had to write in the past tense. It was quite tricky but we did a great job!

Bye for now,
P3b

Article 28- We have the right to an education

We can’t believe we are into our final term in P6! Where has the time gone?

We came back and got straight on with our learning, starting with Area in Maths.

Jordan – I liked counting up in halves and quarters to find the area of different shapes.

Rachel – I liked learning how to find the area of a right-angled triangle using a formula.

Megan – I enjoyed learning about area – it was easier than I thought!

We also drew our Float Portraits –

Erin – I used all the skills I have been learning about tone and shade to do my portrait.

Eve – I learned about Frozen because I have never actually seen the film!

We  started our new science topic this week with the help of Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore wrote to us and we also came up with our very first spell!

Jamie – I used lots of verbs and adjectives and learned some scientific words for my spell.

Sophie – I liked naming our groups as the names we came up with are really cool.

We learned how to have a positive mental attitude and also had a debate on homelessness this morning as well!   Phew we are ready to relax this weekend!

Mrs Haddifon has been really pleased with how quickly we settled into our new term and how hard we all worked this week.

Have a great weekend!

This week we have been learning about the weather and seasons. We were in groups of 4 and worked together to discuss different types of weather at different times of the year.

FIRST, we were given questions such as “What time of year do the leaves fall?” and we had to stick them onto the right season. The answer is AUTUMN.

NEXT, we stuck pictures of things we do at certain times of year onto the right seasons too. We had pictures of things like Santa Claus (WINTER), lambs (SPRING), flowers (SPRING and SUMMER), etc.

We all worked very well in our groups and made sure to include everybody so that we all participated!

NEXT TIME we are going to be learning about the months of the year and putting them in order in our groups. We are then going to stick the months of the year onto the correct seasons to show our understanding.

We are also very excited that we have our very own Weather Forecast Station and we can do our own weather charts and talk about the different clothes we wear for the weather.

Home learning task: Can you watch a weather forecast at home and try to do your own?

Have a lovely weekend and we hope the weather is beautiful!
-Primary 1w & Miss Wilson

Article 28: The right to a good quality education

We’ve been bees in P1l!  Below are some comments from the children about what they have enjoyed about school this week or about school in gerneral.

I like doing Maths, we’ve been learning to take away (Rory).

I like doing Maths too, continuing a shape and colour pattern is fun (Ammie-Leigh).

I like phonics, we were learning the ‘sk’ sound in my group this week (Brandon).

I like the activities we do in phonics, like jumping into the hoops and saying the sound (Mia).

I like practising the letter shapes in phonics (Charlie).

I like working in school (Zara).

I enjoy P.E. with Mr Jeffries, I like playing tig (Liam).

I enjoy Drama with Mrs Innes (Keilija).

I like phonics and Maths (Jamie).

I like P.E the most (Ruby).

I like going outside for P.E. with Mrs Laidlaw (Cameron, Shelbi, Callum and Alistair).

I like my teachers (Ruby-Anne, Annie and Owen).

I like lunch time and play times the most (Charlotte).

Golden Time is my favourite (Kyle).

Doing aerobics in the classroom on a rainy day is fun (Brooke).

I like lunch time the most (Jackie).

I like home time (Lucas).

This week we did a sponsored event called Jump for Jumpers to raise money to pay for our 2015 p7 hoodies.

Antonia: “We had to do laps of a jumping circuit and it was easy at the start but then my legs started to hurt.”

Lauren U: “We had to do hopping, skipping, jumping through a hoop and bunny hops. I found it really hard.”

Paul: “I found the bunny hops the hardest part because you had to go really low down on your knees.”

Harry: “I found it really hard but I did it and I did 23 laps. I felt awesome!”

In maths this week we have been learning about area:

Kendal: “The area of a shape is the inside of it. The outside is called the perimeter.”

Jay: “To calculate the area you multiply the length and the breadth. So if you had a square which had 5cm sides, you would do 5 x 5 and the area would be 25cm2.”

This weekend, most of the class are heading off to Belgium. The rest of us are staying here and having an exciting week in school:

Flyn: “I’m excited about going to McDonalds next week and getting a hamburger and a Mcflurry and a Fanta and I’m also excited about going swimming.”

Kai: “I’m excited to be staying here because we’re going swimming and I can make my brother jealous!”

Emily: “I’m excited about going to the theme park and it’s going to be fun! I’m also excited about going to the beach.”

Paul: “I’m looking forward to learning about the history of Belgium.”

Jay: “I’m looking forward to staying here and doing the work experience day and seeing what the janitor does. Also the home economics.”

Lauren K: “I’m excited about going to the chocolate factory to see how they make all of the fancy chocolate creations.”

Isla: “I’m looking forward to the bus ride for some reason and also the theme park and the swimming.”

Antonia: “I’m going to Belgium and the bit I’m looking forward to is going to be the bus because I’m sitting with Olivia.”

Finlay: “I’m looking forward to the ferry journey and having bacon and sausages for breakfast.”

Callum:”I’m not going to Belgium and I’m looking forward to doing the work experience day and spending most of the week with Mrs Innes.”

Lauren C: “I’m looking forward to finding out who my roommates are in Belgium.”

Who has impressed?

Flyn: “Mr Welsh has impressed me because he is letting us go to McDonalds and also because he has quickly organised the work experience day for us at the last minute.”

Callum: “My buddy Kai impressed me by writing a good story and getting pupil of the week from Miss Holwill.”

Kendal: “The whole class has impressed me by doing so well with the Jump for Jumpers event.”

Declan: “Paul has impressed me by beating his Big Maths score by two points.”

Paul: “Harry impressed me by doing 23 laps in the Jump for Jumpers which was the most out of everyone.”

Jay: “Declan improved his score by 17 points in Big Maths and that impressed me!”

Lauren C: “Kendal impressed me because she worked her absolute hardest in the Jump for Jumpers even though she felt she was going to faint.”

Antonia: “Lauren K has impressed me with how well she is doing in music.”

Taylor: “Antonia has impressed me by getting high scores all the time in Big Maths.”

Mr Berginis: “I have been really impressed with how hard the class has worked this week in everything we have done and how settled and well behaved they have been. I also thought they all worked very, very hard in the Jump for Jumpers event.”

What a great week!

We had a lovely time on Monday sharing our stories about the holidays. We don’t often have the chance to share our news in-depth and we all really enjoyed it.

The great weather meant that we could take our learning outdoors and we all agree it really does feel good to work outside.

Zoe – It was so much more fun doing our anagrams challenge outside.

Valerija – I liked it when Mrs Drummond read the story to us as we sat in the sunshine.

LATC

We have begun our new topic for the term. We will be learning all about our wonderful world. Our topic begins with the two theories of how the world began – The Creation Story and the Big Bang Theory. Already we have some very challenging questions for the teacher !!!

David – I really like learning about the Creation Story and can’t wait to learn about the Big Bang theory.

Evie – I learned that in the Creation Story God created the world in 7 days.

Jamie – I like finding out about both theories and I know that the Big Bang theory is a scientific theory.

Have a great weekend !