Ben and Beth have Stuart and Zoe to support them in their roles this year as they were elected to be Depute Head Boy and Depute Head Girl.  They will be busy with a number of different duties this year that will help to support the school to be the best it can be!

During Reflection Time Primary 6/7 identified some fantastic things that they had learned or achieved this week and thought of some targets to work on next week.

Achievements:

1.  Drama.  We worked as a team to pull together power-points for our countries adverts.  We talked to others in our group and made decisions together. We will put our adverts up when they are finished.

2.  Pre-topic Discussion: We bounced ideas off each other to come up with what we knew about The Highland Clearances and some questions we would like answered.

3.  Focusing on our work: We have been keeping our heads down and not stopped working.  This makes us feel happy so we can move onto other things.  We feel fantastic and enjoy the feeling of being finished.  We feel confident.

Targets:

1.  Get better/quieter when doing transitions between activities in class.

2.  Get better at finding information on the Internet when doing research.

We have started our topic about Mary Queen of Scots.  To give us some insight into what life was like when she was alive, we have been finding out about clothes, housing and transport in the 16th Century.

We did a Critical Skills Challenge in groups to build a 3D model of a Peasant’s house from the 16th Century.  We had to combine what we had been learning in our topic with the technology skills we had been learning about – strengthening techniques in model-making.

Here are our finished models:

By Katie, Matthew & Kieran

By Brooke, Madyson & Robbie G

By Robbie B, Sarah & Gabriela

By Kuba, Shayne & Natasha

By Brad, Erin & Leah

By Jessica, Leon & Alexandra

Mrs Loosemore has been reading “The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark” to us. We’ve been finding out lots about owls and  doing worksheets all about Plop (the frightened owl).

Our Topic this term is all about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. We have started our big book about them!