Today Pac-Man arrived to help us with identifying angles with Mr Taylor.
We talked about what a right angle was as well as angles that are smaller called acute and angles that are bigger called obtuse.
We went outside into the playground with our Pac-Man to find where right angles are.
We had great fun and can’t wait to learn more about angles this week.
Well done Abbey, Kayla and Cate, your retelling of the Chinese legend was brilliant!
Happy Chinese New Year
The pupils enjoyed a workshop with Rong Rong this week who refreshed our learning of the Lunar Calendar. Chinese New Year 2018 is the Year of the dog. People clean their homes to welcome the new year which begins with the new moon (that is why the date changes every year). Chinese people wear red and gold to bring good luck and put banners in their doorway so that guests will be blessed and also bring good fortune into their homes. We had a chance to write in Chinese, make some cards and listen and play the Pipa. Thank you Rong Rong.
Show Racism the Red Card
This week Primary 7 and Primary 6 took part in the ‘show racism the red card’ workshop with footballer Derek Ferguson. This workshop and the resource the teacher will carry on in school has been designed to help effectively challenge racism and promote equality amongst young people. Derek educated the pupils about the causes and consequences of racism. He increased the understanding of issues of equality and diversity. We looked at negative stereotypes, prejudice attitudes and racism. Pupils were reminded about respecting people regardless of skin colour, nationality, religion and culture.
On Wednesday, Rongrong came to visit us and told us all about Chinese New Year. We know that Chinese New Year is at a different time of the year to our New Year.
The Chinese Years have a different animal each year. 2018 is the year of the dog.
We made Chinese Lanterns and New Year cards. We did some Chinese writing.
The boys and girls who go to nurture shared their Chinese dragons with us and we danced to some Chinese music.
This morning we had to solve Spaceman Sids mystery. We had to add single digit numbers, work as part of a team and problem solve within our 20 minute deadline. We enjoyed it so much we continued it in our own time.
What a busy week we have had. Primary 7 have started looking at Macbeth in Drama with Mrs Loughton as part of our Horrible Scotland topic and will be learning more in our reading. We are learning about French Polynesia with Mrs Ewing as part of a West Lothian Langauge project, the pupils are having fun learning about language and different cultures.
Tuesday the 6th was Safer Internet day. We took part in the Police Scotland Glow meet, learning about how to use the internet and social media safely and who to talk to when something doesn’t feel right.
Your friends online … Know them offline – Jenna
Electronic interactions mean you miss out on things like tone of voice and reading people body language so messages can be misread. – Leah
cyber bullying is still bullying – watch out for things like pictures being posted without consent, hateful messages and leaving people out – Emma
Everyone is capable of becoming a bully and a victim – Arron
Anything you post becomes public property, it is in the terms and conditions. Even though your snap chat picture disappears it still ends up on a forum somewhere in the world. – Police Scotland
As long as we use the internet safely it can be great, it is changing the way we communicate.
We have started our reading challenge for the First Ministers Challenge. Everyone has a book to read at home and a record book to fill in.
This week has been Mental Health awareness week for children. We have spent the week having discussions with our peers about how we feel. We also completed a mental welling being workshop with Sheila Colthart. We talked about the effect bedtime can have on our mental health, energy drinks, what could be going on in people home lives, siblings and our emotions among other issues. We all agree to be a little kinder to each other as we never know what someone is going through at home.
Primary 7 are having lots of scary fun, listening to and writing thrillers for our topic Horrible Scotland.
Let me share Eeman’s story starter with you, prepare to be thrilled:
Drawing in a deep breath, Esme knocked on the door of the devil twins. Everyone called them that. She was going to be babysitting for Mr and Mrs Hope that dreadful night. Five minutes had passed and no one had answered the ominous looking door. Esme knocked repetitive times, still no answer. She ambled around to the back door, hating being alone this dark, horrible night. The darkness began to engulf her, she quickened her pace, she started to wish she had never answered her phone that day.
Also this week we have been completing our artwork inspired by Kim Anderson. We focused on unicorns to compliment our topic of Scotland as it’s our national animal. The pupils have put so much effort into them and it was quite challenging to use the special art foil. It was a messy and creative adventure.
Primary 7 have also created a new game at PE. We don’t have a name for it yet but we have loved exploring and amending the rules to make the game, fair and fun.
Primary 4/3 have been learning about Steven Brown and his work. Today, with the help of Leah, Aaron, Emma and Jayden from P7, they began working on their own Steven Brown paintings using watercolours.
Today we have been learning how to work in a group and write a group story.
First we chose our picture that we were going to write about. We used this to help us plan. We had to describe the picture using adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs. We also choose a title.
Then we wrote our starting sentence. It had to hook the reader in. We then each suggested a sentence to continue our story.
Today was our first draft and next week we are going to edit and fix our mistakes, we found that it didn’t always make sense.
Today, we met Miss Little’s baby girl, Isla!
