The p6/5 classroom had a lovely Christmas spice aroma after making our Christmas callenigs this week. We found out about callenigs when opening our online advent calendar which shows Christmas traditions from different countries around the world. Callenigs are a traditional new year gift in Wales and P6/5 decided they wanted to try and make them. The base is an apple and you then use cocktail sticks to create legs and decorate with cloves and cinnamon. They look good and smell amazing!
P6/5 had a lot of fun and looked very Christmassy after making hats for Christmas lunch day. A lot of pupils and staff were wearing Christmas jumpers and they then designed and created their own hats to wear when the Christmas Elf came to conga them to lunch! The designs were very creative, including some beards and antlers!
*We loved going to the cinema yesterday.
*We liked starting learning about World War 1
!To have P.E. with Mrs Williamson
* The energy drinks challenge.
* Learning about long multiplication in maths
! To play corner football with Mrs Williamson
* Our first star is science when we were making electrical circuits and we managed to get 25 fans working at the same time.
* The second star is Challenge Friday where we had to pass polos only using straws in our mouths.
* Our wish is to do P.E. with Mrs Williamson
P6/5 have been really excited this week learning about electricity. We discussed the different kinds of energy and where it comes from and we created posters showing forms of energy. We then created basic electric circuits. Pupils were then set a challenge to build a potato clock. All groups were successfully able to get an electrical charge which turned the clock on, although there wasn’t enough charge to make them work. Some pupils persevered and experimented with digging out the potato to make it more ‘juicy’ and others tried to coat the copper in different ways. Others challenged themselves to create the largest circuit of fans they could. The whole class became involved and one group managed to create a circuit involving one switch, 5 batteries and 25 fans!
P6/5 have been practising the literacy circles roles before beginning their proper circles. This week each pupil was given the task of creative captain. This is a favourite task as all pupils have the opportunity to show their creativity. The homework produced this week included videos, models, drawings, youtube videos, powtoons and news reports. The standard was very high. Well done everyone
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We are thoroughly enjoying our Pirate theme. This week we have researched famous pirates including Blackbeard and Mary Read. We found out some interesting facts about them. Did you know Blackbeard put fuses at the end of his beard to scare people?
We also looked at pirate clothing and were challenged to be creative and design our own pirate costume.
