Author: WLlisa.stanway@glow

Highlights of the Week!

Leavers’ Assembly

Anton – I enjoyed the leavers’ assembly. My favourite part was the time machine. I cried! This is because many of my friends are in P7!

Bella – I enjoyed the singing.

Emily – I enjoyed seeing the P7s dancing. I had never seen L.D. dance before. When they were spinning round in the 50s dance they looked very dizzy.

Debbie – I enjoyed singing along to the songs because I knew all of them!

Buddies

Jaxson – I enjoyed seeing my buddy. We played tig!

Hope – I enjoyed helping my buddy during their visit to the P1 classroom.

Lily-Elen – My buddy made me coffee out of sand!

Bella – I am excited because on Thursday we will be having a teddy bears’ picnic with our buddies!

Also, P6 buddies made books for their buddies.

P.E.

During P.E. we having been choosing what to do on the field and so have played lots of games.

Hide and Seek

Bella – Oscar and Anton walked right passed us!

Bailey – Fraser hid in the long grass and nobody could see him!

Oscar – Jaxson hid up a tree and I was hiding near him in the long grass.

Jaxson – I was trying not to make any noise and a big spider was on my face!!!!!!!

Emily – Hiding in the grass made my eyes sore (I have hay fever.)

Alexis – Bella walked past us 3 times when I was hiding!

Callum – I was hiding in a bush and Kaiden and Kyle walked past…I heard them say ‘All clear!’

Movie

Emily – I enjoyed watching Spiderman even though I cried. Everyone in the forgot who Peter Parker was!

Outdoor Learning

Emily – We went to the shop and put soil in the planters.

Music Appreciation

Emily – We were listening to the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack and also Kate Bush. We all knew the chorus!

 

Numeracy

We practised converting percentages into fractions and decimals.

Literacy

We wrote thank-you letters to the people who came to our careers fayre last week.

Science

Bailey – I enjoyed creating my life cycle PowerPoint about an eagle. I even put a video clip on.

Outdoor Learning

Jaxson -I enjoyed this. We made sure the plants were growing well in their containers.

Reading Ambassadors

Emily – We got to read to the younger children!

New Teacher

Hope – I enjoyed visiting my new teacher!

Bella – I enjoyed visiting Mrs Moyes. We were given a lolly pop and had to write something nice about another person on it.

Literacy

Group reading – We summarized what we had read so far with our partner and then read on. We discussed any unknown words using various reading strategies.

Writing – We read through an example of an information text (how to treat a snake bite.) Then we acted out the treatment on a willing victim! Next we designed our own procedural/instructional writing based on a topic of our choice. Some of us focused on gaming and others on making sandwiches and other recipes. When we had finished we read them aloud to the class to see if our instructions made sense. This was great fun!

Numeracy

We revised fractions of shapes – mixed numbers and improper fractions. We also practised finding fractions of amounts and revised equivalent fractions.

Coding

We wrote block code using 3 different elements and linked this in to the Queen’s Jubilee.

Health

P.E.

We practised our cricketing skills. There was some excellent bowling, batting and catching demonstrated!

We also played rounders in the hall on Wednesday.

Careers Day

On Thursday we were able to interview and talk to various people representing different professions. There were scientists, artists, teachers, joiners, theatre producers and a prison warden to name but a few. We had previously written questions we had wanted to ask and so were thoroughly prepared. It was a great success.

Changing Me

We talked about how a baby is made and how a baby develops in the womb.

Finally we found out who our new teacher is going to be next year. We are delighted that we are staying together as a class and our new teacher is Mrs Moyes. We are going to be wonderful P7s!

Numeracy 

We practised recalling division facts quickly and also formal written methods.

Bella – I got my numeracy all correct.

Literacy

We continued to complete our research about extinct and endangered animals and then wrote an information report about them.

Lily-E – I learnt about a Woolly Rhinoceros.

Joel – I learnt that in 2021 there were between 30-430 wildcats in Scotland.

Anton – In 2022 there are less than 100 wildcats.

Oscar – I learnt an arctic fox purrs like a cat.

Bailey – An arctic fox lives for 3/4 years.

Health

We discussed body image and the differences between our real self and our ideal self. We talked about how if people are constantly trying to be something they are not it can lead to mental illness. We know the importance of accepting our real self.

Joel – I enjoyed creating a self-esteem smoothie. We added ingredients such as ‘being positive.’

Bella – I enjoyed looking at different people’s smoothies.

PE

Bella – I enjoyed football rounders. It was fun.

Jaxson – I enjoyed dodgeball.

Anton – I liked football rounders.

Health 

This week we talked about cyber bullying and discussed strategies to help deal with this.

P.E.

Dance – This week we continued to practise our Hip Hop dancing skills.

Rounders – We practised throwing and catching skills first then we practised our batting skills. We worked as a team to build up points then we played competitive matches.

Literacy

In group reading we read our novels and then practised our prediction skills.

Numeracy

We practised using various mental strategies to efficiently divide a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.

In addition we also practised dividing numbers by 10, 100 or 1000. This meant some of our answers were decimals.

Topic/ Literacy

We researched extinct and endangered living organisms from Scotland.

Katie – I found out otters hold hands when they sleep.

Emily – I enjoyed finding out about the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros even though they were extinct a long time ago.

Outdoor Learning

Katie – We put soil in plant pots and moved the planters.

Alexis – We moved the pallets and we are making them into fake cars for the younger children.

Coding

This week we learnt how to write block code which increased/ decreased the speed of an object.

 

Skin Surprise

Jaxson bought in the skin from his pet snake. The snake had out grown it and shedded it. You could even make out where the eyes had been!

Jaxson – I liked bringing my snake skin in.

 

Dance – Hip Hop

We watched a video in the hall and copied the moves. Some of us really excelled at this. Afterwards we had time to choreograph our own Hip Hop dance routine in groups and we could perform this to the whole class if we were brave enough!

Judo

We had a judo taster session – it was great fun! We played some fabulous warm up games and then learnt how to throw people. Finally, we practised pinning people on the mat!

G- The warm up games were fun!

Hope – I liked throwing people to the ground.

Kyle – When I was pinning other people to the ground no-one could get up!

Leo – I liked getting thrown!

Bella – When I was pinning Bailey he escaped! I liked throwing people across the mat.

Cameron – Piotr was good at pinning people.

Topic

We applied what we had learnt about vertebrates in a fun game of 4 in a row. Then we carried on researching life-cycles of various creatures.

Writing

We continued our information reports about natural disasters.

Reading

In group reading we read a section of our books and then practised asking open-ended questions about what we had read.

Numeracy

We practised using mental and formal methods when multiplying decimals.

We also practised dividing with and without remainders.

E – I liked learning about division.

Health

During our visit from Mark, from Headspace, we talked about change. Mrs Stewart sat in as well!

Joel – We had to sit in different seats, wear some clothes inside out – including our shoes. This was in order to experiment with our ‘normal.’

 

 

 

Today (Friday) we went out to deposit our painted rocks around Deans in order to make the local community smile.

We hid them in lots of different places!

Hope – It was soaking but I enjoyed it!

We went into the Post Office to deposit the money we raised for Ukraine when we did the quiet day in school but the lady behind the counter didn’t know what to do with the money so we brought it back to school and Tom, the janitor, is going to take it back another day.

Emily – It would have been more fun if it wasn’t raining but the concept was fun!

Bella – I enjoyed it-I like walking in the rain!

 

Numeracy

We practised using informal and formal methods to multiply 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers by 1 digit. In addition we continued to practise recalling our table facts as quickly as possible. We do this in various ways including singing and dance with this link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4

Literacy

We combined our new topic (Natural Disasters) with literacy. We researched various disasters using the internet and non-fiction books and made notes with a partner. Then we created an information report based on our findings and included pictures too.

P.E.

This week we practised our badminton skills.

 

Health

This week we continued thinking about loss. We had various situations such as moving house, falling out with a friend or a pet dying and we had to order them according to which would be the most difficult to deal with. Then we wrote down words to describe how we might feel if we were going through these scenarios. Finally, we talked about the different stages people go through before acceptance of these situations.

Coding

This week we designed and wrote an app that had a loop and a variable.

 

Here we are checking on the trees we have planted!

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Literacy

We continued to read our group novels and practised visualization skills – drawing a key moment from the text.

We chose an animal and researched using non-fiction books and the internet. We practised taking notes with a partner. Later we wrote an information report about the creature, shared with our class-mates and self-assessed our work using the West Lothian targets.

Bailey – I enjoyed writing the report. We wrote about sharks and I found out that the Whaleshark is the biggest shark.

Jaxson – I liked researching snakes. I found out that snakes use their tongues to smell and their scales help them breathe under water.

Bella – I enjoyed writing about Red Pandas and Pandas – they are very interesting.

PE

In P.E. we continued to practise our gymnastics and tennis skills.

Anton – In tennis I hit the ball to Emily 4 times in a row!

Health

We talked about loss and bereavement and strategies to help us deal with these situations. This was difficult but lots of good ideas were suggested to help us cope.

Numeracy

We have been practising our mental multiplication facts. We have applied this knowledge in order to solve problems and multiply by multiples of 10. In addition we have reinforced how to mentally multiply a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.

Science

We continued to learn about the life cycles of different creatures.