P7 were scaling recipes up  and down, weighing and measuring, converting measurements, working out costs of recipes and percentage profit. We called it Mocktails and Cookies and as the name suggests that’s exactly what we made!

P2 have been learning about lots of different types of patterns which can be found in the world, as well as in number. We looked at patterns in dance and music, and created our own colour patterns to create ‘pop-out’ hand art work, as well as a paper woven tartan.  We also looked at why some animals have patterned skins, before creating our own versions of them too. We all had great fun!

In the Forrest Room we were investigating Tessellation through the work of the Artist M.C. Escher.
We made tiles using shapes and printed patterns using in and stamps.

We found out that to be successful tessellations should have no gaps and that the shapes should not overlap.

In the Support for Learning classroom we were looking at telling the time.  Children were revising using o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.  We also had a look at five minute intervals.  We did lots of active learning, such as making our own telling the time clocks, playing ‘what time is it?’ bingo and playing some fun interactive time games on the SMART board.

In Primary 3B we looked at splitting different shapes into halves and quarters. We found out that there was more than one way of finding fractions of a shape. We had races in the gym hall and split our running track in half and then into quarters so we knew how far we had to run. We created a pizza with cones and played the role of different toppings to create the pizza Mr. Clark ordered on the phone. He ordered mushrooms on three quarters of his pizza. Yuck! Finally, we created our own pizzas back in the classroom. We chose our own toppings and wrote some fraction facts about our pizza underneath the pizza box lids!

Today, across the school we had maths masterclasses. In P3a, we spent the day being problem detectives. We were set lots of different challenges throughout the day. Some of the different strategies we used were:

– Drawing a picture or making a model
– Acting out the situation
– Having an idea and testing it out with examples
– Producing an organised list or a table
– Looking for a pattern
– Guessing, checking and improving

Here are some photographs of a few of the challenges we were set! We had a fantastic day.

This week underneath Mrs Turnbulls desk we found a rat! He had a letter with him. He was called Ramsay. The letter said that he was lost! We figured out that he was from a Scottish castle a long long time ago and that he has time travelled. Ramsay has asked us to find out some more information about Scottish castles. We are also decorating our classroom to look like a Great Hall to make him feel more at home.

By Rebecca