Yesterday, we had our first school visit to the church! It was quite a far walk, but our P6/7 buddies helped us get there safely.
Our buddies showed us how to sit smartly in a church – for some of us it was the first time we had ever been in a church!
We listened carefully to the P5/6 class assembly about harvest and stood up to join in with the songs. We then listened to the Minister talk about what harvest time is important.
We were very lucky to be given some juice and a biscuit at the end!
We continued learning and practising our debating skills today.
We learnt that we need to use appropriate language when we are talking to each other. We feel that those that spoke were very confident.
Next time we need to use a range of appropriate language to make the debate more interesting: I disagree with, I like your idea …., I don’t agree because.
This week we have been learning different ways to add money.
We have to learnt add using partitioning, a blank numberline and rounding.
With a blank numberline, we break up the smaller amount into easier chunks.
P2 worked with the P7 children to make dinosaurs using different skills. The P7 children gave us instructions on how to make the dinosaurs. We worked together, we followed instructions and we used good listening skills to make this a success.
Aaron said, ‘it was fun working with a buddy’. Max said, ‘I loved making dinosaurs with Harris and Matthew. Â Kimberley said, ‘I like using my cutting skills.’ MacKenzie said, ‘I liked cutting and sticking’. McKenzie said, ‘I like working with my buddy.’ Tyler said, ‘I liked gluing.’
Miss Tuke came into class and shared with us a stem activity with Fred the worm.
McKenzie Hilditch told us all about how he won a lot of medals for Taekwondo.
Well done McKenzie!
We are enjoying our daily mile.
We have enjoyed adding and subtracting numbers and skip counting in twos.
We made up our class charter for P2.
On Tuesday 4th October all pupils from P5-7 attended a Food Careers Event being held in Livingston. The event had lots of stalls from different food industries for the pupils to visit. Some stalls shared information about different companies and possible careers. Some stalls gave pupils the opportunity to try to identify foods, smell coffee beans or have a shot at some Silver Service. The favourite stalls were definitely the ones where pupils got to try some food. There was a stall that encouraged healthy eating by making smoothies but to blend the smoothie they had to pedal on a bike. Another stall showed them how to make some fancy white chocolate and a special jelly which all tasted lovely! The event was a great way for pupils to see the range of careers out there linked to the food industry from farmers, butchers, chemists (flavourings), nutritionists (humans and animals), web designers and so much more.
On Wednesday 5th October a team of seven P7 boys headed to Dechmont Law in Livingston. They were joining other pupils from across the council to compete in a cross-country event. The team consisted of Harris, Jason, Rafael, John, Noah, Scott and Adam. They had to run a 1.1km course that involved flat and hilly ground. The boys did the school proud and represented Greenrigg well.
