Our week started off really well when our parents visited us in our classrooms on Monday when we were doing Numeracy. We played games with one another and with the parents who came to visit us.

In our topic work we were researching the Battle of Stirling Bridge, where Wallace fought the English. Although there were more English soldiers, who were better trained that the Scottish ones, Wallace and his soldiers won the battle!!

Karen from NYCOS came on Thursday.  We played games and sang about Tony Chestnut! A song that we just can’t get out  out of our heads!!

Mary Queen of Scots traveled back to Scotland on a boat.  We carried out another Critical Skills Challenge to put our technology skills to the test.  We had to design a boat which met the following criteria:

• made from junk materials;
• between 20 & 30 cm long;
• able to float upright in the water without being held by anyone or anything, even when there are waves;
• able to hold 5 x 5g weights to represent Mary and her four friends while sailing.

We all tackled this well and none of our boats sank!!  Here are our finished models:

By Natasha, Roobie B & Shayne

By Katie, Madyson & Leon

By Brad, Jessica & Brooke

By Matthew, Sarah & Erin

By Gabriela, Leah, Kuba & Kieran

As part of topic on Mary Queen of Scots, we have been learning how to use atlases to locate places Mary visited.  We can now look up the Index to find the page number and grid reference and can use this to locate the town/city.  Have a look at some of us in action:

We’ve now learned how to tackle other players to gain possession of the ball, using a block tackle or a jab tackle.  Now we are combining all our skills to play some games against each other.

We had some fun doing our Mental Maths this week, we used our white boards and played games on the smart board. Our favourite one was ‘Spin to Win’, where we had to decide how to use the digits to make the biggest number.  We even had a boys versus girls competition.

On Thursday we had a visitor from NYCOS (National Youth Choir of Scotland). Karen will be with us every Thursday until Christmas, teaching us about singing and playing games with us, to help us understand beat and pitch.

We also chose which pupil voice groups we wanted to be on, its been a busy few days!!

Over the past week, we have been learning about length.  Some of us have been brushing up on our ruler skills by drawing accurate shapes of given sizes.  Others have been converting between different units of length e.g. cm and m, cm and mm, m and km, etc.  Here are some web links if you want to continue your learning at home, or if you just want to show off what you can do!

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/measurement/measurement_mania_metric.htm

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/measurement/MeasurementMeters.htm